Chapter 9: Da Ming Pao
On this day, Chongzhen went to Jinyi and the army to command the envoy to take a look, and Bailiye was arranged in an orderly manner, and he was in a very good mood.
But when he returned to the palace and saw Wei Chunrou sullen, he remembered that Wei Zaode had been imprisoned for almost a month.
Wei Zaode, the most immoral, incompetent and brazen champion in history, contributed his own daughter to the thief in order to save his life. Wei Zaode went from being the top student in high school to serving as the first assistant of the cabinet, and it only took four years for Wei Zaode to be promoted, which shows how much Chongzhen uses this person, and it can be seen how sick Chongzhen is to go to the doctor. But being reused by Chongzhen is enough to show that this person is very good at talking.
Treating Wei Zaode, Chongzhen originally wanted him to be like Zhang Jinyan, and go directly to see Lord Yan. can see Chu Chu moving Wei Chunrou, she is reluctant to touch her father, alas, she has been a dick for too long in her previous life, and she can't move her legs when she sees a poor little beauty.
But fortunately, Wei Zaode was not killed, he will be a very important chess piece in the whole plan - "Daming Daily"!
Now, it's time to talk to Wezaod.
"Kick, kick, kick."
"Your Majesty, the sinner is wrong, and the sinner repents that he should not do his best for the Lord"
"Kick, kick, kick."
"Your Majesty, the sinner is wrong, and the sinner repents that he should not do his best for the Lord"
Chongzhen walked over to take a look, and it turned out to be Wei Zaode who said while kneeling and kowtowing.
This kowtow is really loud, the last time I came to see Wei Zaode with Wei Chunrou, he also kowtowed gently, because he was afraid of pain. After being locked up for a month and stumbling so hard, are you honest or crazy?
Chongzhen asked the accompanying Jinyi Wei to arrange for Wei Zaode to wash and change his clothes, and then take him to the Qianqing Palace.
As soon as Wei Zaode arrived at the Qianqing Palace, he immediately knelt down and did not dare to raise his head
"Wei Zaode, are you guilty?"
"Death to the sinner!"
"There is no need to die, I want to create "Daming Daily", and you are in charge"
Wei Zaode was really ashamed at the moment, he thought that he was also a champion and could be reused by Li Zicheng, but he didn't want to humiliate himself. This Chongzhen, what method can he fool than himself, and let Li Zicheng give up the throne in his hands!
But this Chongzhen in front of him is too unfamiliar, Wei Zaode can't forget Chen Xinjia, Chen Xinjia is because Chongzhen's draft of the peace proposal was mistakenly sent down by the scholar, causing the news of the peace to be exposed, Chongzhen saw that the government and the opposition were talking about it, this peace was too embarrassing, and then cut Chen Xinjia. According to such an example, Wei Zaode is really going to be Ling Chi like Yuan Chonghuan!
Chongzhen in front of him, not only did he not execute himself, but also put himself in charge of what Daming Bao?
Eh, what is this Da Ming Bao for?
Wei Zaode was dumbfounded, too, there is already a Di newspaper, and the Di newspaper of the Ming Dynasty is very perfect, comparable to the current self-media!
"Daming Daily" is the imperial court for the public to issue, a week, the content is for the world students to solicit the way to govern the country, the article is published after the imperial court review, as well as the latest policies of the imperial court, crack down on corrupt officials and punish bullies news, Daming Daily is responsible for guiding domestic public opinion, so that I promote the new policy, there will be public opinion support, the content of the first issue is mainly the great Chongzhen Emperor accepted Li Zicheng's return to obedience, since then the world is peaceful, the court is free of two acres of land tax per person. In terms of public opinion, some suggestions were written suggesting that the state should levy taxes on the tax-exempt class who own more than 1,000 acres of land, and the news reported that Zhang Jinyan and other corrupt officials were corrupt. ”
"If you discuss the government in vain, you will hand it over to Jinyiwei, and it will be published only if it is beneficial to the court, and all articles will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver after they are published. It's up to you to do that," Chongzhen continued
As soon as Wei Zaode heard Chongzhen say this, he understood that what the emperor did before had to take into account how the people of the world talked about him, and the emperor is now implementing the Daming Daily to take back the power of public opinion. What the emperor does in the future, it's all right, you don't believe it, you look at Daming Daily, there is a group of people there who say that the emperor did the right thing!
If he is still working against the imperial court, then use the way of the literati - Da Ming Bao - to make him infamous!
Then the brocade guards wait!
The emperor is not the emperor who was easy to be fooled before. Such an emperor, let's listen to him obediently.
The Ming Dynasty's Di Bao is mostly to transmit the emperor's edicts, the promotion and dismissal of officials, the financial revenue and expenditure of various departments of the imperial court, military reports and current affairs commentary, the Ming Dynasty's Di Bao is very developed self-media, but because the Ming Dynasty's Di Bao is too free, free enough to criticize the emperor, there are Ma Jinglun criticizing the Wanli Emperor for 'five crimes', Yu Yuren criticizing the Wanli Emperor for indulgence, lust, greed for money, Shangqi, and so on. Chongzhen is also in such a public opinion environment, looking ahead and backward, and being controlled by others. Public opinion says that this official is not good, he should be killed, so let's kill it
These people who write the Di newspaper are mostly some officials who have obtained fame but have a bumpy road to the dismissal of officials, who are ambitious and talented, and think that they are good ministers who govern the world, and their literature is whiter than Zhuge Wusai, but such literati can only sacrifice their wives and daughters to avoid suffering from their flesh and skin, and when they meet the Qing army, they will only kneel down and say that they will shave their heads.
These people, who accept the benefits of landlords and businessmen, speak for landlords and businessmen, are unwilling to pay a penny of taxes and silver, and scold the court for harsh government everywhere, but they don't know how to protect their families and defend the country if the soldiers in front of them lack food and clothing?
For these literati, it would be good if they were given some silver to speak for the court, but if they were still doing it, then don't speak!
The most odious thing is that the readers of Di Bao are all from this group.
This is equivalent to Messi going to Ronaldo's brain-dead fan group, or Ronaldo going to Messi's brain-dead fan, watching himself being devalued by brain-dead fans, what should he play.
Chongzhen in history is like this, the power of public opinion is controlled and his hands are tied. The Donglin Party said that the imperial court should not collect commercial and mining taxes, and did not compete with the people for profit, so Chongzhen canceled the commercial and mining taxes. The war was unfavorable, and the Donglin Party said that whoever was responsible should be killed, so there were various ministers and various ways to die during the Chongzhen period.
The front-line generals had no money to fight, and the Donglin Party accused them of improper command, ineffective combat, and embezzlement of military salaries. The Ming Dynasty's little money, if you are not greedy, you can only eat meat twice a year like Hai Rui. Do you think that these literati who keep saying that they are righteous men and gentlemen are not greedy?
No, these people are even more insatiable! For example, Xu Jie, the Xu family covers an area of as much as 240,000 mu, Xu Jie's 30,000 taels of gold bribed Dai Fengxiang, so much land and so much money, where did not the greed come from?
This is the reason why Chongzhen created "Daming Daily", because the public opinion of the Ming Dynasty has been controlled by the Donglin Party, and these people are both bitches and monuments.
And Chongzhen has Daming Bao, and public opinion returns to the hands of the emperor. Daming Bao then cooperates with the intelligence of Shangjin Yiwei and looks at the reactions of officials in various places to Daming Daily's public opinion, and we can know the attitude of officials towards the new policy.
I have to say that the first assistant of the cabinet is the first assistant of the cabinet, and as soon as his protégés heard that Wei Zaode came out and was reused by the emperor, many people immediately went to visit, and Wei Zaode also took this opportunity to recruit many students, and the Daming Newspaper Division soon began to operate.
Chongzhen looked at the article in the first issue, and the headline was to praise the emperor for breaking into the enemy camp alone to persuade Li Zicheng to relieve the siege of Beijing, and also wrote that the emperor cleaned up the mess in Beijing cleanly and neatly It is really the chosen son, and I looked at the student editorial, and it is a good policy for the emperor to reduce and reduce the peasants of Shaotian to appease the people; speech on taxation of feudal officials; A commercial tax was imposed on the sea to prohibit speech.
Chongzhen also saw a very good place, a news in Daming Daily that Liu Fang, Xie Wen, and Han Jing were detained and confessed by Jinyiwei in vain discussing the government, and on the side was the remuneration table for the acceptance of the article.
Not bad, good, rewards and punishments are clear, what kind of article to write, what kind of article to write, what kind of article to write, what kind of article to write is clear at a glance.
Wei Zaode is very shrewd and knows my thoughts.