At the turn of the summer and autumn of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the war-torn Shu is about to usher in a calm harvest season. m.

This calm is neither a calm after madness, nor a continuation of a past time. It was a passion in repression, a vitality in bondage, an explosive that was violently expanding in the center wrapped in a thick iron shell.

The local tyrant who had ravaged Shu for many years suddenly disappeared and disappeared without a trace in the vast Ba Mountain; The scholars who stood tall in the sky also disappeared, silently hiding in the vast sea of people.

All the things that people were familiar with in the past are out of the way, and new crazy things take up all the windows of information. There are only two things that can be seen, heard, tasted, and smelled by eyes, ears, mouth, and nose:

The above, or official, is the outer iron shell, which protects the country and the people, and the peace of the world, ruthlessly suppresses the rebels and local tyrants and inferior gentry, and is the great adjustment and integration of the official institutions in Shu.

Below, or folk, is the explosives wrapped in an iron shell, the silver banknotes flying in the sky, and the upcoming Shu exam.

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In the summer of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu who had just exterminated the tyrants of Bashan, with the support of the army, peasants, some old and new bureaucratic clans and the emerging industrial and commercial gentry, with the help of the prestige accumulated in the battle to suppress bandits, carried out a merciless cleansing of Shu.

Those clan relatives and nobles who planned the coup d'état, officials and scholars who opposed the New Deal, and local tyrants and gentry who committed the most heinous crimes were smashed to pieces in an instant by the iron fist of the dictatorship that had been prepared for a long time.

A few months have passed in the blink of an eye, and the Shu land, which has undergone the internal and external washing of the Great Town Counter-Movement, has been very different from the past. In a word, it is called "a great change in the atmosphere".

The most obvious area of social feeling as a whole is one of the focal points of the movement: the public opinion circle.

The public opinion circles in Shu can be roughly divided into mainstream media or official media, non-governmental media, and ubiquitous street talk.

At present, the mainstream media in Shu is mainly composed of three newspapers. Of course, the Fuxing Newspaper with the oldest qualifications ranked first in circulation, followed by the small current affairs journal "Da Ming Zheng Lun", which had just been launched, and the third was the mouthpiece of the industrial and commercial circles, "Shudu Business Daily".

The non-official media are mostly published by the private bookstores, including current literature, poetry, travelogues, wild histories, romances, strange stories, monographs, postings, calligraphy and paintings, etc., in various forms and with a wide range of audiences.

Due to the small number of mainstream media, the control is tight. The street talk is like Zhu Pingjian's online comments in his previous life, all kinds of colorful and colorful, which is neither manageable nor stoppery, so the non-governmental media in the anti-town movement have been prominently rectified.

The method of rectifying the non-governmental media, in the words of Zhu Pingjin, the actual leader, is called the "Three Ones" project, that is:

A red line that indicates what to do and what not to do. Those who do not listen to the greeting will be beaten when they come out;

One direction, pointing out several principles of the ruler's propaganda of public opinion. If you like to sing the opposite, you will slap your mouth if you grab it;

A path that maps out the only channel for the publication of public opinion products, that is, it must pass the publication review. Newspapers send samples, books and periodicals report samples. If there is disrespect, illegality and inappropriateness, all the skylights will be deleted.

Under the bloody coercion of arresting and killing people, the non-governmental media, which had always been unruly, immediately became honest. Even if it is talked about in the streets, it is not an air-raid shelter or a bomb shelter. If you can't control it, you have to manage it, and if you can't stop it, you have to block it, because this is the responsibility of the government.

Sichuan tea lovers, Chengdu has more than 350 large and small teahouses, all over the streets and alleys of the city.

Where there is a teahouse, there is a teahouse culture.

Middle-to-high-end teahouses often hire storytellers, commentators and other programs to perform back and forth, and thus form different competitive characteristics among teahouses.

The newly established Office for Comprehensive Management of Public Opinion, referred to as the Office for Comprehensive Management of Public Opinion, has not let go of those storytellers and singing girls. The red lines, directions, and paths drawn by Shu Shizi are equally applicable to these street performers who have a huge influence among the people.

After the Duanlimen Rebellion, a well-known storyteller known as "Li Tiezui" who was popular in Chengdu Prefecture was quickly arrested, and soon appeared on the second batch of prisoners.

The reason for this is that Li Tiezui received rewards and sponsorship from some rebels, and on the three-foot stage under his control, he used his own unfortunate background and the general sympathy of the tea guests to carry out vicious personal attacks on Shuzi and his fiancée. His iron mouth was enjoyable, but unexpectedly, there were secret agents of the Public Opinion Comprehensive Management Office among the tea guests in the audience.

After temporarily clearing out the hostile forces, we must use our own forces to occupy the ideological high ground in a timely manner.

In light of recent hot spots, the Office of Comprehensive Management of Public Opinion has promoted several special topics, which have aroused heated discussions in society.

The first is Shu Shizi's important exposition on the people's "food and clothing".

Written experts continue to elaborate on their interpretations of this from various aspects, while ordinary people struggling on the poverty line have expressed their ardent hope for food and clothing to be achieved as soon as possible through interviews with state media.

In response to the surging public opinion, a ridiculous article by a non-authoritative figure has set a specific goal for universal "food and clothing":

Within three years, in Shudi, adults have initially achieved 40 catties of grain per month, a chicken and duck, and 5 catties of meat. A pound of wine for a man, and a five-foot cloth for a woman. Children over the age of seven have books to read, and the elderly over seventy years old have a doctor.

As soon as this news came out, it quickly set off huge waves among the vulnerable groups in Shudi.

"Work hard and work hard to achieve universal food and clothing as soon as possible!" It immediately became one of the most visible slogans in black on a red background on the streets of Chengdu.

Second, the capital market is integrated with the great development of industry and commerce.

Commercial trade, especially the border trade of tea and horses, is the first treasure of the Shu economy to quickly get rid of the mess left by the five beetle movement in the early 14th year of Chongzhen, which is the basic consensus of Shu industry and commerce.

The subsequent war with the local tyrants, the huge demand for equipment and agricultural product processing, and a number of star enterprises such as the Firearms Bureau, the Machinery Bureau, the Iron and Steel Bureau, the Textile Bureau, the Shunfeng Dart Bureau, and the Yazhou Enterprise Group made a prominent appearance. These enterprises have provided a large amount of war equipment for the armed forces and a large amount of production equipment for urban and rural areas, and have also greatly enriched the consumer goods market.

Later, the opening of Huitong Money Village completely ended the chaotic situation of the currency system in Shudi.

The issuance of silver banknotes made the financial efficiency and industrial and commercial efficiency of Shu greatly ahead of the Ming provinces; The accurate quantification and rapid flow of wealth have turned the sleeping wealth of Shu into the main factor capital of the market. the consolidation of the financial industry marked by the establishment of Huitong Bank; The new monetary policy marked by the issuance of silver banknotes and the spontaneous formation of the Longwang Miaoye stock market have become the third wave of industrial and commercial development in Shudi.

However, when it comes to something like the stock market, which is millions of dollars per minute, people are like gambling, instinctively excited and afraid.

The people of Shu saw the opportunity to get rich overnight in the stock market, but they mourned in the stock market crash; Businessmen saw the benefits of raising money in the stock market to become bigger and stronger, but they were forced to liquidate their stocks during the stock market crash and became part-time workers in the money bank.

The loudest opposition is still among the scholars.

Scholars have seen people's "sexual evil" and "indecency" in the stock market, but they cannot find the slightest trace of "sexual goodness" and "etiquette". Scholars have seen the enormous power of the stock market unleashed uncontrollably, and of course they are terrified of the violent impact of this power on the established social system.

Therefore, on the occasion of the reopening of the stock exchange at the new site in the south of the city, the "Shudu Business Daily" launched the topic of the combination of the capital market and the great development of industry and commerce, which immediately attracted the attention of the whole of Shu.

Some scholars have violently criticized the deteriorating effect of the stock market on educating the people, but they have been drowned out by the tide of public opinion.

Scholars cheered for the victims of the stock market crash, but the beneficiaries and victims of the stock market cursed in unison that although the beneficiaries had to defend their vested interests, the victims also needed the market to turn the tide.

Without this market, the losers lose forever.

Officials are also on the opposite side of the scholars, because the one-thousandth stock transaction tax has long been finalized, just waiting for the official opening of the Seongnam Stock Exchange!

The third is the grand establishment of the first Sichuan Senate of "Protecting the Country, Protecting the People, and Maintaining Peace in the World".

"Protect the country, the people, and the world is peaceful" Senate Council, referred to as the Taiping Senate. Senator, also known as Justice of the Peace. Each term is five years and may be re-elected for two consecutive terms.

Zhang Fakong, the first chairman of the Taiping Senate and a highly respected leftist envoy of the Sichuan government, published a signed article on the front page of the Fuxing Daily, giving a meaningful and thought-provoking interpretation of the great significance of the Taiping Senate.

Zhang Fakong wrote that through the establishment of the Taiping Senate, and then the realization of the world for the public, the emperor and the gentry and the common people to govern and share, this is the revolutionary return of China's advanced political civilization since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, is the unattainable ideal of the sages and sages of the past dynasties such as Confucius, is the specific implementation of the Ming Dynasty's benevolence as the national policy, and is the great historical achievement of Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu, who will shine for thousands of years and forever in history.

The Peace Senate was established at the provincial, governmental, prefecture, and county levels, and extensively absorbed representatives from all walks of life in Sichuan, including officials, gentry, landlords, merchants, soldiers, ordinary people, peasants, tenants, and even outstanding people among the barbarians, all of whom could become "Justice of the Peace" representing the will of the people.

In this way, the interests and demands of all localities and all walks of life will be concentrated, and talents from all localities and all walks of life will be recruited to participate in and discuss politics together, and jointly contribute to "protecting the country, securing the people, and bringing peace to the world." This is the only way to realize "the world is for the public."

The formal establishment of the Sichuan Taiping Senate Council, although the actual effect has yet to be tested by history. But it at least shows that Sichuan, under the wise leadership of Zhu Pingjin, the son of Shu, has taken the most crucial first step towards the Datong world of "the world is for the public".

The formal establishment of the Sichuan Taiping Senate also shows that Shu has left the rest of the Ming Dynasty far behind in terms of "governing the country with benevolence".

At the end of the article, Zhang Fakong's words are not shocking:

From then on, "the authenticity of China is in me, and the origin of Confucianism is also in me." The world regards me as a kingdom, and I regard the world as a barbarian! ”

"The world regards me as the kingdom of God, and I regard the world as a barbarian!" As soon as Zhang Fakong's astonishing assertion came out, it immediately triggered an eight-magnitude earthquake in the political and academic circles in Sichuan.

The Office for Comprehensive Management of Public Opinion immediately discovered this hot spot and began to systematically organize pros and cons debates in the less official political journal "Da Ming Zhenglun".

What "cultural self-confidence, institutional self-confidence" and other positive theories, what "Xiyi borderlands, Yelang arrogant" counter-arguments, on the "Ming Zheng Theory" fierce confrontation, attracted countless eyeballs.

But regardless of whether the pros and cons win or lose, one fact has been confirmed, that is, the Taiping Senate has become the focus of attention in Sichuan.

Some of the gentry with a keen sense of smell saw the opportunity and began to try to show their influence on a new political platform, to fight for or defend their own interests, and to realize their personal ambitions of governing the country and the world!