"The latest news, Liu Shizeng, the imperial historian and the envoy of the Southern Zhili Inspectorate, refused to implement the resolution passed by Hai Rui, the governor of the Heavenly Patrol, to dismiss the merits of the students of the various schools who had abandoned their studies because of entering Beijing, and was dismissed at the request of Hai Rui, the governor of the Heavenly Patrol, and has now been approved by His Majesty to dismiss him!"

"The latest news, Tan Song, the general manager of Qilifang, Tongxiang County, Jiaxing Prefecture, and others asked for wages from the county's silk reeling factory, and was taken to prison by Huang Ping, the county magistrate, for treason, and killed four residents.

"The latest news, Chen Yiqin's family, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is suspected of embezzling 60,000 acres of land and was recovered by Ying Tianfu."

……

In the early morning, many newsboys came to various platforms to shout when the tram started, and now that radio technology has been applied, news from all over the country can be transmitted to the capital overnight, so the major newspapers and periodicals have begun to make news for the whole country.

During this time, the most news, in addition to the progress of the Ming Dynasty's extermination, was the news from Nanzhili.

After all, the troubles made by the students of Nanzhili go to Beijing and the series of measures taken by Hai Rui, the governor of Yingtian, made the people of Daming extremely concerned about the news of Nanzhili.

But because of this, even if the gentry in Jiangnan can buy and control the newspapers and periodicals in the local areas of Jiangnan, they cannot buy and control the newspapers and periodicals in the whole country, so the reputation of Hai Rui, the governor of Yingtian, has not become stinky because of the slander of these Nanzhili students who have entered Beijing, but has received more and more popular support.

"What a sea governor, Jiangnan should be managed by an official like him!"

"That is, you see, this is an article in the "Jingshi Morning Post", which says that the Governor of the Sea executed the student surnamed Lu, but in fact it was the student surnamed Lu who killed the villagers! He deserved it, and it wasn't that they said the Coast Guard was abusing torture! ”

"This news is interesting, dare to love or our great Emperor Taishang knows people and is good at duty, you will never guess that the reason why Governor Hai Ruihai, who dares to seek justice for the poor, can be entrusted by the imperial court with the important task of responding to the heavens, according to the "Ming Spring and Autumn Period", this is the emperor's suggestion to His Majesty the Emperor!"

The common people, students, and officials in the capital gradually became more and more aware of the real Jiangnan and the real Hai Rui through this kind of newspaper and periodical, which began to broadcast national news because of radio technology, and also understood and respected the emperor who was still at the helm of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, no one wanted to believe their words for the Nanzhili members who were still guarding outside the Daming Gate to slander Hai Rui and call on the imperial court to remove Hai Rui.

Even when these Nanzhili students began to speak, some people even threw away the rotten vegetable leaves in their hands: "Get out of the way!" Don't get in the way and influence us to do business! ”

"Whew! What kind of blood! Why did Hai Jui torture indiscriminately and kill students, it was all nonsense, the newspapers have made it clear, people Hai are acting impartially, you people who study are not good at school, you only know how to tell right and wrong, do you really think that we people are stupid, let you fool casually? ! ”

Some scholars studying in Beijing were also very angry and accused these members of the Nanzhili students.

"I thought you were really asking for the people's lives, but I never thought that you just regarded the people as fools, but felt that you were geniuses, as if the court and the people should listen to you!"

Even some of the scholars who were originally southerners were disappointed.

These members of the Nanzhi Lisheng did not expect that they would become the target of the public, sitting in front of the city gate and going on a hunger strike without being sympathized with by the people, and they were actually ridiculed and even scolded, and even if they wanted to get these people to agree with their ideas through speeches, they did not expect to be directly refuted, and even refuted to the point that they could not explain it.

"Brother Jin, are we still going on a hunger strike?"

Zheng Renxiu, a member of Nanzhili, took off the eggshell on his head, just now he was given an egg because he influenced the people who sold goods to do business, so that now he even thinks that the raw egg whites that flow from his hair into his mouth are delicious, and seeing that he has not forced the court to do anything about such a hunger strike, so he asked.

"It's endless! Such a court is stubborn, and there are a group of stubborn people who really believe in their court! Fools can't wake up! Now that the fame of the students has been deprived, Jin has no intention of staying in this court that only advocates letting the common people not let the gentry go! Sooner or later, such a court will be wiped out! ”

The student surnamed Jin said and left the place.

Zheng Renxiu also stood up: "Brother Jin, that's right, we can't stop eating this food, since these fools don't need freedom, then why should we die for them!" ”

"I'm not going to stop either!"

"It's endless!"

One after another, these students stood up against the wall one after another, and looked at the majestic Daming Gate, all with a look of resentment.

……

"Father, these students have really been withdrawn", Zhu Zailei couldn't help but hurriedly tell Zhu Houzhao after learning that these Nanzhili students had returned.

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "Fortunately, the current Ming Dynasty is not a civilian official, otherwise there may really be a big man in the DPRK and China who will take advantage of the situation to remove Hai Rui, but this time it is not our credit to force these students to leave, it is the credit of the people, and it is the people of my Ming Dynasty who can finally no longer understand the world through the tongue of the gentry!" ”

"What my father said is very true, the world is now much easier to govern than before, and without the violence of the court, the anger of the people will make these self-interested people retreat!

It's just that Xichang reported to his son that the current situation has caused many scholars from the gentry class to begin to change from dissatisfaction with the imperial court to dissatisfaction with the entire Chinese Han people, thinking that they are foolish people and ignorant people who have been bewitched by the imperial court. ”

Emperor Zhu Zailei said.

Zhu Houzhao stood up and pointed to the girl who was walking on the street outside the palace wall: "If the Ming Dynasty that I have transformed does not treat people as people, can these girls walk on the street, can they be so confident?!" I'm just pulling the freedom of people from all walks of life to the same level, is it possible, do they really like that kind of time when I, the supreme ruler, is the most free, even free enough to kill anyone at will?! ”

"Father doesn't have to be angry, these people just want to continue to be noble people, now the Ming Changguo at the eastern end of the ocean has become quite rich, they are now thousands of miles away to be officials there, it is said that some people would rather go there to be a magistrate than be a squire in the Ming Central Empire."

Emperor Zhu Zailei said.

"It's going to rain and the mother is going to get married, and the feet are on them, since they don't like it here, they can go wherever they want, but my Ming Central Empire can't just become a blessed land for a few people!"

After Zhu Houzhao patted the railing and said, he only looked at the tall buildings in the distance, looking at the tall buildings that gradually shimmered in the night, he knew that he had set a lot of rules for the world, and also given many people restrictions on indulgence, but he only knew the importance of rules in this position today.

Emperor Zhu Zailei naturally understood his father's thoughts, but the people are more and more pursuing individuality, advocating independence, and pursuing more and more ideas of freedom, and he feels that sometimes the people are too tightly controlled, and it may not be good, after all, things must be opposed, and people do have two sides, on the one hand, they want to be a moral gentleman, and on the other hand, they want to do something exciting and rebellious.

"Father, you see, do we set aside a special area around the Central Empire, allow the local Han people to decide their own governors and other officials, allow them to establish their own laws, and the Central Empire will give them a lenient management policy, and only control the military in the hands of the Central Empire, and do this as a pilot!"

Zhu Zailei suggested.

"After the destruction of the Wa Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom will be changed to Dongying District, isn't there a lot of imperial historians who ask the imperial court to prohibit this kind of behavior on the basis of the fact that Fengyue places and gambling halls are mostly the source of bad morals, and it is said that it is quite harmful, and even caused many families to die, in this case, the Ming Central Empire will gradually ban this kind of unsightly business, and Dongying District can be allowed!"

Zhu Houzhao said and remembered that although the Japanese Kingdom would become the territory of the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty in the future, who knew whether geographical factors would lead to the fact that this region would still backfire on the mainland in the future, so he said: "Dongying District will only focus on the development of cultural industries in the future, and there is no need to develop industry, and a rule must be established that those under the age of 18 are not allowed to enter Dongying District." ”

Zhu Zailei said yes.

However, Zhu Zailei did not directly request that all localities should no longer open Fengyue establishments and gambling establishments by decree of the Central Emperor, but let the governors of each province decide separately according to the economic situation of their own jurisdictions.

Coincidentally, Governor Ying Tian's Hai Rui was a moral gentleman, and what he didn't like the most was that the scholars and doctors played with men and women and did not know how to make progress, so he first began to prohibit excessive sound and sensual entertainment in the territory of Nanzhili, and directly dispatched tens of thousands of officers and soldiers.

For a while, the entire Qinhuai River lost a lot of fat powder, and the literati doctor who could have had fun in the women's pile couldn't help but hate Hai Rui even more, and even affected the business of the local medical center, but it did increase the marriage rate of the low-level civilians in Nanzhili a lot, and the number of newborns increased a lot, and the disappearance of the gambling house also allowed many families to avoid bankruptcy, especially the low-level civilian families.

And some Fengyue establishments and gambling halls have begun to move eastward.

The Wa Kingdom at this time.

In the west, the Kyushu lands that had been occupied by the Ming Dynasty began to raise high-rise buildings and sprinkle grease powder, while in Kansai and other areas that the Ming Dynasty had not yet occupied, there were still gunshots.

The fall of Kyushu shook both the daimyo in China and Kansai, and many daimyo began to realize that the Ming army was not just trying to claim wealth, but to exterminate them completely.

As a result, some daimyo began to decide to unite against the Ming Dynasty.

But there are still some daimyo who are reluctant to unite with their enemies.

At this time, because the Wa Kingdom was still in the Warring States Period, the civilian class had not yet grown, and neither the shogunate nor the locusts could command the Ming Dynasty who held real power in various places.

Although Oda Nobunaga, the powerful minister who controlled the shogunate, intended to unify the Wa Kingdom, integrate forces, and resist the Ming Dynasty, the daimyo who was his enemy was unwilling to abandon his old suspicions with him, and even continued to attack him, so that he had to settle inside first and then fight outside.

The Ming army led by Qi Jiguang made great progress in the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the superiority of weapons and more advanced military thinking, so a few Ming troops were able to occupy a county in the Ming Dynasty, and they could even directly carry out the work of clearing the Japanese invaders.

Naturally, this made a lot of Japanese women appear in the Wa Kingdom at this time, and some Fengyue places that had just come to Dongying District grew rapidly, and began to have the names of twelve golden hairpins, seventy-two fairies, and thousands of beauties.

Zhu Houzhao has not decided to go to Dongying at this time, at this time he is still concerned about the scientific and technological development of the empire, the camera invented by using magnesium powder has finally come out, Zhu Houzhao looked at his first black and white photo and couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "Hundreds of years later, people can finally know what Emperor Zhengde looks like!" ”

"Emperor Taishang, I just got the news that Xu Jie, the first assistant of the cabinet, submitted his resignation to His Majesty the Emperor", at this time, Chen Hong came in and told Zhu Houzhao the latest news.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be stunned for a moment: "Xu Jie? Resigned?! Call him! ”

Half an hour later, when Xu Jie knew that the Emperor Taishang wanted to see him, Xu Jie couldn't help but wonder for a while: "The Emperor, why do you want to see the old man?" ”

"Our family really doesn't know this, Xu Ge will know it when he gets old", Chen Hong replied.

Xu Jie couldn't help but wonder if the emperor still valued himself a lot, and didn't want him to resign as the head of the cabinet, but to keep himself? And there is also an intention for the Ming Dynasty to re-establish a society in which Confucianism is orthodox? If so, should I persuade the emperor again?

Xu Jie was thinking all the way, and for a while it seemed that he had a lot of words to say to the Emperor.

After another half an hour, Xu Jie's came to Zhu Houzhao's place and said, "Chen Xu Jie's has seen the Emperor!" He was going to have a dialogue with Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

"Xu Jie, come here, sit here, this background is good! Don't be too serious, just smile. ”

Zhu Houzhao is now playful, and after fiddling with Xu Jie like a puppet for a while, he shouted: "Master, you can start, this is my cabinet chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, take a photo and save it, it is very commemorative, all officials will have to take a photo in the future!" ”

Xu Jie didn't know what photography was, only that there was a newspaper mentioning what photography technology had been invented by the Academy of Sciences.

Suddenly, the magnesium powder exploded, Xu Jie was almost not frightened, and after a while, he realized that he didn't seem to have any loss, and suddenly made up his mind, and said with a smile: "Dare to ask the Emperor, I don't know what it is?" ”

"This is a photo, don't get up first, I will take a picture with you, and now you want to go home, and it can be regarded as a memorial for each other!"

Zhu Houzhao said and sat on the top of the Xu steps, and asked the master to take a photo for a while.

A few days later, when Xu Jie left the capital, he still remembered the time when he took pictures with Emperor Zhu Houzhao, and he couldn't help but glance back at the streets of the capital where cars and trams were already passing, and then sighed: "Maybe the times have really changed, even the monarchs and ministers are no longer talking to the emperor and leaving words, but sitting together and taking pictures." ”

Xu Jie couldn't help but look at the photo in his hand as he spoke, smiled slightly, and said busily: "No, the old man hasn't taken pictures with the emperor yet, and Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, and Tan Lun are them!" And ......"