"Your Majesty, you and the Emperor Taishang are the most honorable, so naturally you should sit in the middle!"

"Su Qing, you are standing here, you are the first assistant now, remember to change your temper!"

"Uncle, you are the same as Su Qing, next to the emperor."

……

Xu Jie didn't expect that both the Emperor Taishang and the Emperor agreed to his request to take a photo with the high-ranking officials of the court outside the Fengtian Gate.

Even, Emperor Zhu Houzhao asked him to arrange it himself, and did not let Chen Yiqin, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, arrange it.

Of course, Chen Yiqin didn't know how to arrange it, and this kind of group photo ceremony had never been before.

After a while, after Xu Jie arranged everyone's positions, he stood behind Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Zailei: "Master, you can start!" ”

Thereupon.

It didn't take long for it to bang, the magnesium powder exploded, and after the white smoke rose, dozens of people on the top floor of Daming were frozen on a photo.

Emperor Zhu Houzhao allowed Xu Jie to take a photo with the emperor and other officials alone, but he no longer took a photo with Xu Jie, but only sat in the middle of the color shed and watched, watching these officials take photos with Xu Jie one after another.

Zhu Hou watched these officials walk around in twos and threes, standing or sitting, but it was also very interesting to see that they were all serious, but in general, these scholars and doctors quickly accepted this new thing.

Xu Jie left the capital by car again, this time he took a whole box of photos, as if he had taken all his memories in the capital.

But Xu Jie still regretted that even if he returned to Beijing again and met with everyone, he couldn't have an in-depth conversation with the Emperor Taishang.

In fact, he has always wanted to tell Zhu Houzhao why he resigned as the first assistant to the cabinet.

However, the non-governmental press answered this question for him, saying that Xu Jie, who was not good at being the first assistant of the cabinet, as an official who started by building railways, was not suitable to be the first assistant of the cabinet, because Xu Jie's was not suitable for governing the ever-changing empire.

Xu Jie couldn't help but smile dumbly after seeing it himself: "That's right, it's true that old decay is only suitable for building railways." ”

When Xu Jie said this, he was naturally a little unconvinced in his heart, he didn't think that he was stupider than Zhang Xuan, Xia Yan, Yan Song, etc., but he just found that this era does not mean that he can govern well if he can use power.

"Sir, the editor of "Jiangnan Evening News" wants to see you and wants to make an appointment with you to talk about the reasons for your application for resignation, this is a post, saying that he is waiting for your reply."

After the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion handed Xu Jie's post about the media's application for an interview with Xu Jie, Xu Jie became enlightened for a moment and said with a smile: "It's the official who is confused!" In this world, this official does not need to explain to His Majesty, he does not need to explain to the Emperor, but he needs to explain to the people of the world! ”

A month later, Zhu Houzhao saw the content of Xu Jie's interview from the newspaper, and what interested him was not the content of Xu Jie's interview, but a photo of Xu Jie.

"Newspapers, after all, don't just publish words and drawings, in the future, people all over the world will know who the people who run this empire are, what they look like, and also know that they are not three-headed and six-armed, so the distance between the people and the officials is closer," Zhu Houzhao sighed.

"So this is the Emperor!"

"So this is the emperor!"

"It turns out that this is Xu Jie, I'm phew! It's this guy who embezzled Mintian! And because of this, he has 400,000 acres of land at once! ”

When the common people saw the photographs of the top figures of the empire published in the newspapers, they commented with novelty.

The carriers of information are becoming more and more abundant, and the cost of communication is getting lower and lower, which also leads to more and more things that can be amplified, so that more and more things that were previously limited by geographical isolation and violate moral laws are put in front of the whole world to be criticized.

For Xu Jie, he didn't expect that his family's embezzlement of people's land would also become a household name.

"Elder Xu Ge, thank you very much for your answer, but as you said, the Ming Dynasty has changed now, so many times we have to be more disciplined ourselves, and next, what the contemptible people want to ask is, I don't know what you think about your family's embezzlement of people's land?"

"Elder Xu Ge, we did a survey, a survey on how the market views you, and we found that the praise of you is because of your outstanding achievements in railway construction, and the criticism of you is about your connivance with your family to embezzle people's land, I wonder what you think of the results of this investigation?"

"Elder Xu Ge, we want to ask you for the people of Huating County, has your Xu family completely returned the encroached land, and in addition, what do you think about the violation of law and discipline by the relatives of officials?"

……

Xu Jie never thought that this matter would be so magnified, and it seemed that everyone in the world knew that his Xu family had embezzled Mintian.

This made Xu Jie feel terrible, he knew that Hai Rui would rectify his Xu family if he was sent to Yingtianfu back then, but he never thought that this rectification would cause serious consequences, so serious that his Xu family seemed to be completely labeled as an evil force.

……

"Father, there is bad news, Xu Jie died violently three months after leaving Beijing! According to the secret report of the West Factory, it was actually swallowed gold and passed away! ”

Zhu Houzhao was also quite shocked when he learned the news from Zhu Zailei, and looked at the pile of newspapers and periodicals collected on his desk about judging the Xu family's embezzlement of people's land:

"Unexpectedly, he didn't withstand the pressure of public opinion, but this is not an order of magnitude compared to the Internet era in later generations!"

These days, the matter of the Xu family's embezzlement of people's land has become the hottest topic just like the hot search in later generations, so Zhu Houzhao is also paying attention, but he didn't expect that he hadn't eaten this melon for long, and Xu Jie suddenly died.

Zhu Houzhao didn't have much friendship with Xu Jie, but he also knew that Xu Jie's had done a lot of practical things for this empire, so even if he sent Hai Rui to Yingtianfu to deal with the Xu family, he didn't let Zhu Zailei directly treat Xu Jie, and even let Xu Jie's cabinet chief assistant.

But now that Xu Jie's reputation was suddenly stinked because of the embezzlement of people's land, and even finally he couldn't stand the pressure and committed suicide, Zhu Houzhao felt a little guilty and felt a little regretful, and he couldn't help but secretly wonder if it was right for him to let Hai Rui go to Yingtianfu.

And at this time.

In a dark room, a servant was saying to a person dressed in a first-class official's regular uniform: "Master, Songjiang has sent a telegram, Xu Jie is gone!" ”

The man turned his back and sighed: "It is completely impossible for Xu Jie's comeback, and Hai Rui is afraid that he should also be promoted!" After all, the former cabinet chief assistant was forced to commit suicide, can the officials from Jiangnan still tolerate him staying in Yingtianfu? ”

……

"Has Xichang recently found out that some high-ranking officials of the imperial court secretly instructed major newspapers and periodicals to bombard Xu Jie?" Zhu Houzhao asked Zhu Zailei.

"Li Fang didn't mention it, but his son also felt strange that the recent news about the Xu family's encroachment on Mintian suddenly blew like a gust of wind, and now it has suddenly disappeared," Zhu Zailei replied.

Zhu Houzhao also nodded after listening: "With radio, a hot event can quickly spread throughout the country within a day, and a person's good and bad things will also be quickly amplified, but people's memories are instantaneous, and they can forget quickly, which is also normal, maybe there is no human operation, or there may be, but even if there is, it is taking advantage of the situation, but this is a higher test and requirement for people, you are the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the focus of the world, if you do a thing badly, you will definitely get greater attention than Xu Jie, and when the time comes, there is no need to be afraid, Drag him for four or five days! Don't learn from Xu Jie, choose to end your own life, it makes no sense! ”

Xu Jie's violent death passed quickly like a gust of wind, and in the blink of an eye, it was the spring of the second year.

The news of Oda Nobunaga's capture alive was transmitted back to Kyoshi in the spring of that year, marking the end of the war to exterminate the Japanese.

And this once again proves the strong military strength of the Ming Central Empire.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu Zailei confidently told the people of the whole country during the Spring Festival that he would completely wipe out all the Japanese in this year, and the Ming Dynasty would never eliminate the Japanese plague in the past two hundred years.

The application of radio technology made it possible for the whole world to know this gratifying news in a very short time.

And this once again made the whole empire seem more prosperous.

Zhu Houzhao was also a lot relieved, after all, in this time and space, the country that had brought great disasters to China in the original world finally no longer had any threat.

That's why.

Zhu Houzhao was very rare to attend the first court meeting after the opening of the Ming Empire.

What is different from the past is that the new cabinet chief assistant Gao Gong invited the media from all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty to attend, and it seems that from now on, the content of the top court meeting in the empire will be informed to the people of the world.

"In the next five years, the imperial court will strive to achieve the success of the southwest land reform and return to the river within half a year, completely eliminate the Tartars from the northwest within two years, and extend the railway line to the area west of Hamiwei!"

"In the next five years, the imperial court will achieve the most thorough medical insurance policy, and it will cover remote rural areas!"

"In the next five years, the imperial court will spend four trillion silver dollars to fund infrastructure construction and agricultural production in the north to combat the gradually worsening Xiaoice climate!"

……

Because of this, Gao Gong's speech at the court meeting also attracted the applause of many media people, and even spread to the whole country in a short time.

Zhu Hou looked at the high arch that was painting the blueprint, and couldn't help but turn his head to his emperor son and said, "The new cabinet chief assistant you appointed is very high-profile!" ”

"Father, don't you also agree to let him take Xu Jie's class, however, my son didn't expect that, in addition to your support, the big chaebols who reformed the Ming Dynasty with you back then were surprisingly unanimous in supporting him, and the son thought that the north really needed to be governed well over the years, so he agreed, Xu Jie is a southern official, and when he was in the position of the first assistant to the cabinet, to be honest, the attention to the north was indeed not as high!"

Zhu Zailei replied.

"Of course, they support Gao Gong, and the mining industry in the north of the country is also sixty percent in the hands of these big chaebols, and now that the climate of the Xiaoice River is becoming more and more severe, they naturally hope that the cabinet will spend more effort in the north in order to protect their industry."

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile, and then continued to look at Gao Gong's speech in the bursts of explosion of magnesium powder smoke, he found that in fact, Gao Gong was more able to adapt to the changes of this era than Xu Jie, and thought to himself that it was no wonder that this northern Han was able to make such creative good governance as Longqing Switch and I Answer Fenggong in the original history.

But Zhu Houzhao was worried about whether his emperor's son's limelight was going to be robbed by this high arch, but when he saw his son's indifferent smile, he didn't know what to say for a while.

The next few days.

The whole Ming Dynasty seems to be the news of Gao Gong, Gao Gong went to the Sanatorium, Gao Gong appeared on the tram, Gao Gong inspected the agricultural market and so on.

Zhu Houzhao was also a little tired of seeing it, so he simply stopped reading the newspaper and continued to compare which of the Japanese girls sent back by Qi Jiguang from the Japanese country was more fierce, and now he has such a vulgar hobby, because he is also influenced by the high arch in the newspaper and periodicals more and more towards Wei Guangzheng.

Oda Nobunaga was escorted back to Kyoshi.

Zhu Houzhao saw this Japanese masterpiece for the first time, and he also got Oda Nobunaga's Japanese sword, so he couldn't help but pull it out and gestured to Oda Nobunaga: "Eight Ga Ya Road!" ”

Oda Nobunaga had a feeling of looking at the strange old man looking at Zhu Houzhao, who was interested in unifying the Japanese country, he never thought that his life's career would be destroyed by the old man in front of him who shouted at him, he was very angry and helpless, but what made him even more unbearable was that he had to accept the trial of the court from this country, and he had to accept his abuse.

Click!

Click!

Click!

Batch after batch of pirate leaders were killed.

Zhu Houzhao had already read the list and knew that there were Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu in it, and because of this, Zhu Houzhao was really pleased, because he cut off the entire Wa Kingdom in the future.

After Qi Jiguang returned to China, he brought back the nominally most noble group of the Japanese state, and Zhu Houzhao did not hesitate to order Ling Chi to be executed.

So far.

The Wa Kingdom was completely wiped out.

And this land was officially renamed Dongying.

This land will completely become the largest Fengyue place in the Ming Dynasty, and the countless widows left behind will become its most sufficient reserve resources.

Of course, this land is not only the first place of the Ming Dynasty, but also a precedent for the Ming Dynasty to open the establishment of the government by the people themselves, or a pilot for the Ming Dynasty to expand local autonomy again.

There are only three types of people in Dongying now, one is the Dongying woman, the other is the person who comes to Dongying to engage in the sound gambling industry or enjoy this kind of experience, and the other is the Ming army stationed here.

The Ming army belonged to the central court and did not participate in the election, so only these prostitutes, bustards, turtle princesses, and Dongying women participated.

Most of the prostitutes were scholars, or pioneers of the democracy movement who had fled the imperial court in pursuit of liberalism.

Therefore, they also actively took advantage of the autonomy given to them by the imperial court, and began to actively give speeches to the bustards, turtle princes, prostitutes, and gamblers, co-opting them, bribing them, and winning these people to elect themselves as governors of Dongying or officials in other systems.

"The whole Dongying is now in chaos, and various associations are fighting each other, assassinating, slaughtering, bribing, and colluding; All kinds of means are available, several governorship candidates have been killed one after another, and Chen Shangshu's son has also been assassinated, but because Dongying does not have a complete legal system now, or even the **** of the **** meeting has not been fully elected, and the three **** elected are also quarreling over the establishment of some decrees, there is no unified opinion, and even recently, a **** who has just been elected for three months has been assassinated! Therefore, the case of Chen Gongzi's murder has not been solved so far! If this is on the mainland, the murderers will be punished! ”

Emperor Zhu Zailei told Emperor Zhu Houzhao about the pilot situation of Dongying, Zhu Houzhao nodded, thinking that it was good that he didn't do this directly in Daming from the beginning, otherwise the whole Daming would be messed up.