"That's what you guys wrote? Who exactly do you plan to show this text to? Huang Taiji grabbed a stack of manuscript papers in his hand, and asked the officials of the three inner courts in front of him with a blue face.

A month before the Chongde reform, Huang Taiji changed the Wenguan to three inner courts, an internal history academy, an internal secretary academy, and an internal Hongwen academy", and specified in detail the duties and appointees responsible officials, which was in fact the prototype of the cabinet of the Qing Dynasty.

It should be said that with the establishment of the Six Ministries and the Inner Three Courts, the Later Jin Zheng gradually became a feudal centralized state, and this change is also being cheered by those Han officials. After all, in the slave tribal system of the former and former Jin, they were just slaves attached to a certain clan leader, not a serious minister of state.

And in this tribal republican system, these Han Chinese officials could not find their place at all, and only when the system of the country became closer to the kind of bureaucracy they were familiar with, they could rely on the strength of the system to confront the tribal leaders who had force in their hands. It should be said that the experience of the Central Plains Dynasty in the past hundreds of years with civil and imperial military forces is enough to give these Han officials the confidence to change the future political pattern of the Qing Dynasty.

Just as these Han officials were surrounding the holy lord in their minds and wanted to transform the Houjin into their ideal Qing Dynasty, they might as well be slapped in the face by the Ming newspapers. Since the Ming Emperor personally wrote articles criticizing Houjin for deceiving himself and others, and faking auspiciousness to deceive his own people, many articles ridiculing Houjin appeared in the Daming Times and other newspapers and periodicals.

Although the Han officials of the Inner Third Court had expected that the Ming court would be dissatisfied with Heilong Xiangrui, they had analyzed that the biggest reaction of the Ming State was only to send troops to attack Houjin, or send people to Shenyang to ask for the guilt.

As far as the former is concerned, although the Houjin can't beat the defense line set by the Ming Dynasty now, the same Houjin is not afraid of the attack of the Ming Dynasty, and even they welcome the attack of the Ming Dynasty and defeat the other party on the battlefield that they are familiar with and advantageous. As far as the latter is concerned, Da Ming's questioning is not painful at all.

However, neither the Han nor Huang Taiji himself expected that the Ming would choose the third way. chose to wage war on Houjin in public opinion, and in a despicable way.

Even though Huang Taiji ordered the officials of the Wenguan to set up their own newspapers and periodicals modeled after the Ming Times, these Han officials still regarded the newspapers as a place for scholars to learn about national events and sing peace with each other. Unlike the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty, which pursued easy-to-understand vernacular writing, in order to prove that the Later Jin Dynasty was not a barbarian country, the Later Jin newspapers still tried to write in literary language.

Naturally, such a newspaper could not win the love of the people at the bottom of the Houjin Dynasty, so the sales volume of the Houjin Times has not been large, and its influence in China only exists among Han officials and scholars, and even many Manchu and Mongolian officials disdain this newspaper, thinking that the articles above are simply bullshit.

But for those newspapers that came from the Ming Kingdom, the articles on them were not only easy to understand, but also had a lot of strange anecdotes, which were simply the best entertainment to pass the time in such an era. Even Huang Taiji's repeated bans failed to completely ban newspapers from the Ming Dynasty in China. What's more, some people see that it is profitable, so they simply copy the interesting articles in the Daming newspaper and then print them privately, which makes it even more difficult for the government to intercept such circulation.

Since the creation of the Ming Times in the first year of Chongzhen, the types of newspapers and periodicals in the Ming Dynasty have been growing, which is not only due to the development of the industrial and commercial economy of the Ming Dynasty, but also due to the implementation of primary education, the literacy rate of the middle and lower classes of the people has risen, and the people need more and more to understand the country's policies or get some entertainment from the newspaper.

As a result, among these constant newspapers and periodicals, it is inevitable that there will be tabloids that only publish bizarre theories and frivolous news, although such tabloids are vulgar and glamorous because they attract too much attention, but they have a huge audience among the small citizens, which directly hits some bookshops that rely on printed record books for maintenance. As a result, some literati who used to write public cases and * also changed careers and joined the newspaper industry, which brought about the prosperity of the tabloid industry.

These tabloids also paid great attention to the main points of the news, after the Ming Times published the emperor's refutation of Hou Jin Xiangrui, which attracted the attention of public opinion in the Ming Dynasty. Many tabloids soon began to interview the former Jurchen soldiers of the Eight Banners of Zhongyi, and fabricated an inside story of the Eight Banners with Houjin as the background.

These inside stories were nothing more than the earlier struggle between Nurhachi and his younger brother, and then the struggle between Nurhachi's many sons, and these articles describing the political struggle were three parts true and seven parts fictional, but they quickly aroused the interest of the Ming people, and these tabloids were out of stock for a time.

As a result, more tabloids threw themselves into the craze of exposing Houjin's insiders, and some people even wrote "The Last Twenty Days of Nurhachi's Life", "Huang Taiji's Love Turns into Hate for Abahai", "The Abnormal Love between Concubine Abahai and the Great Beyler Daishan", "The Story of Abahai and the Four Great Beylers", etc.

These articles were not only very popular with the people of the Ming Dynasty, but also quickly spread to Shenyang, and even because of the strict prohibition of these articles and newspapers in the Later Jin, many of the people of the Later Jin Dynasty spread these stories as real secrets. Whether it is Huang Taiji or the Aixin Jueluo family, they have all suffered great reputational damage in this war of public opinion.

What makes Huang Taiji even more angry is that the people of Houjin may still be suspicious of the love story between Abahai and the four major Baylors, but they have already recognized the fact that he killed the eldest concubine Abahai with his own hands. Because these articles contain the testimony of Dudu and Erbel Amin, it is really impossible for these low-level people not to believe it.

Huang Taiji used the auspicious aura of the black dragon to add to himself, and most of it was stripped away by those nonsense rumors in the market. And some people have begun to take advantage of this trend of public opinion to slander him, and in private to overturn the case for Mang Gurtai, believing that most of the charges on Sanbeile are false, but they were imposed on him by Huang Taiji in order to seize power, and Sanbeile rebelled because he was forced to do nothing.

Although Huang Taiji squeezed out the other three Baylors and established a centralized government that moved closer to the feudal dynasty, the Houjin was not a country with a mature bureaucracy like the Ming Dynasty after all. Huang Taiji was able to regain power in the hands of the Manchu and Mongolian nobles, but it had not yet reached the point where he forbade the speech of the common people.

In the face of this kind of public opinion warfare that he has never encountered, although Huang Taiji does not know how to deal with it correctly, he also knows that force alone cannot eliminate rumors that are unfavorable to him. Therefore, he had to ask the talented people of the Third Inner Academy to write articles to refute the rumors, but the talented people in his eyes obviously have not experienced such public opinion propaganda, and the articles they write are completely bull's head and wrong mouth.

In Huang Taiji's view, these articles, which used to seem to be ornate and quoted from the classics, are now obviously like an old lady's footcloth, smelly and long, and he still doesn't know why those simple-minded people can still understand their own hardships and intentions from these articles.

After scolding the civil officials who wrote these articles, Huang Taiji, who had slightly vented some of the depression in his chest, only then did he have some reminiscences, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty ignored the advice of these bird civil officials and insisted on writing official documents in the vernacular, which was really a wise thing.

Although the use of vernacular to write official documents made the proclamations of the imperial court look much less imposing, it also greatly weakened the discourse power of the scholars, allowing more low-level people to understand the content of the proclamations on their own, thus forcing these civil officials to follow the instructions issued by the imperial court.

Although it is difficult to say how much effect such measures can achieve, the fact that the tide of public opinion from the Ming State can exert influence on the people of Shenyang obviously shows that the promotion of vernacular Chinese by the Ming Dynasty is not a joke.

Touching his forehead with his hand and looking at the officials kneeling on the ground below, Huang Taiji had already sobered up, and wanted to count on them to fight a dispute with the newspapers of the Ming Kingdom, but I am afraid that it will not have any effect, but it will be suspected of becoming more and more black. The revelation of Amin, Du Du, and Erli, the former members of the Aixin Jueluo family, really caters to the curiosity of the people in the market. This is the same as his secret matter of insulting Mang Gurtai in public for killing his mother and inviting favors, making it difficult for the parties to argue their innocence.

For the sake of today's plan, it is obvious that only by diverting the attention of the people of Houjin can this turmoil be calmed down. Thinking of this, Huang Taiji waved his hand to let everyone retreat, leaving only Xifu and Fan Wencheng.

Although Huang Taiji was frightened when he was angry, Huang Taiji, who was calm, made Xifu and Fan Wencheng, who knew him, feel even more pressured, and the two of them respectfully bent down to obey Huang Taiji's instructions, lest they miss a word.

Huang Taiji cleared his throat, looked at the two of them with a frown, and said: "The matter has come to this point, if you want to let you argue with those shameless literati in the Ming Kingdom in the newspaper, it is obvious that you can't calm the rumors in the market."

Anyway, the so-called: those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid. I don't compete with the Emperor Ming for the short and long of this time. Isn't Fan Yongdou preparing to open a stock exchange? The two of you go to check on him, and if there is no major problem, let him open it with great fanfare, so as to divert the attention of the people in the city. ”

Xifu and Fan Wencheng immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly replied: "The servants and others obey the order, and they must make the stock exchange do it beautifully, attracting the attention of the people in the city..."

Huang Taiji nodded, and then said the second thing, "How is the contact with the Chahar Department?" ”

Xifu glanced at Fan Wencheng beside him, and then replied: "Dong Daiqing of the Weng Niu Special Department has already made contact with Gunchuktaiji, who is stationed in Chahanhot, and Gunchuktaiji's tone seems to have loosened a little.

After the Ming Emperor annexed the Chahar Ministry, he did not let the Gunchuktaiji continue to hold the real power of the Chahar Ministry, but instead used the Mongolian local council and the setting of the Banner Self-Defense Army to thin their control over the people, which made the Gunchuktaiji and other Chahar leaders quite dissatisfied.

The minions thought it was time to make direct contact with Gonchuktaiji. As long as the king of the Khan promised to make him the lord of the Chahar tribe, the minions thought that the chances of Gonchuktaiji rebelling from the Ming kingdom were not small. ”

Huang Taiji pressed his thumb to his temple and thought for a long time before he nodded to Xifu and said, "You and Dong Daiqing have a trip, as long as Gunchuk can raise the banner of betraying the Ming Kingdom, any conditions can be discussed." As long as the Mongol tribes can shake their loyalty to the Ming Kingdom, it will be worth the price..."