Yang Yibi understands that public opinion is a kind of bayonet that kills people without seeing blood, but he can't say that if words tell anyone in Daguang that a certain emperor (president) is stepping down because of public opinion, he will be treated as a madman or a criminal in this strict feudal society.

However, Yang Yi is not going to create that kind of thinking of an advanced democratic society now, even if he understands that in a certain period in the future, history will definitely take that step, but it is definitely not now. Yang Yi can consider planting a seed of democracy at a certain and opportune time, let it take root and sprout slowly, and it may grow into a towering tree in a few hundred years, but it must not be rushed.

At present, Yang Yi's purpose in establishing a newspaper is very simple, just to give full play to the newspaper's beneficial side to the people's livelihood and to those in power, and it is the only official newspaper that cannot be copied.

Yang Yi looked at Wen Jihuai, nodded the brush in his hand and said, "You seem to have forgotten that what you write with a pen is not just poetry and songs." I prefer something to use rather than express emotion. “

Wen Jihuai was puzzled: "What does Your Highness mean?" ”

"Write your experience in water control for many years, I will publish it in newspapers and periodicals, and then promote it in the whole Shu, and even the entire Daguang in the future, so that it can benefit all the people, and whether it can become a truly practical classic, it depends on you."

Wen Jihuai's eyes lit up, there is no literati who does not want his works to be remembered by future generations, whether it is a landed student like Liu Wenzheng or a literati like Wen Jihuai who voluntarily gave up his career, an opportunity to leave a name in history is always more tempting than money and power.

Wen Jihuai nodded cautiously and said, "Your Highness, rest assured, I will definitely write down all my experience in water control for the world's reference." ”

Yang Yi nodded and said, "Don't worry, write slowly, there is time." As soon as the conversation changed, Yang Yi looked at Wen Jihuai again and smiled: "You have been having a good time recently?" The red face is full of red light, I heard the monkey tip say, the person who proposes to you is about to kick through the threshold."

Wen Jihuai looked a little embarrassed and aggrieved: "Don't mention it, Your Highness, you have hurt me." ”

"Why bother?"

"I'm used to being alone."

Yang Yi thought for a while and said: "That's your personal life, I don't want to ask, but the family and the country are all over the world, and there is a family before there is a country." I don't want others to think that all my officials are old bachelors, who would dare to help me? ”

Wen Jihuai smiled awkwardly, and could only be noncommittal. After some homely chatter, it is natural to get down to business.

Yang Yi knew what Wen Jihuai came to him for, so he took out a few pieces of paper full of pictures from a pile of copywriting, handed them to Wen Jihuai and said: "This is the drawing of the Jianyuwan weir and some details I know, you take it back and take a closer look first, and then come to me to discuss if you don't understand anything." ”

Wen Jihuai's hands trembled a little when he took the drawings, and his expression was no different from seeing his beloved girl, and asked, "Your Highness, the matter of opening mountains and digging waterways..."

Yang Yi said: "Don't worry about that for now, I've already sent someone to do this, and I can't rush for a while." ”

Gunpowder is not troublesome, but it is not so easy to make explosives.

After Wen Jihuai left, Yang Yi sat on the chair, leaned back his neck, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep for a while.

Recently, there are too many things that need to be dealt with by Yang Yi, military, economic, people's livelihood, official transfers, many things need to be handled by Yang Yi personally, and he has begun to feel that his brain is completely insufficient.

Sometimes, though, trouble is like locusts, and it always comes with you.

In the evening, Monkey Jian'er came to Yang Yi in a hurry, saying that Hong Zhi had passed the news of bean bags from Jianchong Pass, which was very urgent.

Some time ago, the Northern Army entered Shu, and Doubao stayed in the Central Plains with some of the soldiers of the Northern Army, and inquired about the news many times in the name of Shu merchants.

Yang Yi looked at the crooked handwriting of the bean bag, this child only learned to write in the past two years, and the font was very unfamiliar, but the meaning expressed in the letter was very clear.

"Yang Jie, if you don't kill me, I'm unwilling." Yang Yi put down the letter in his hand and smiled helplessly.

Monkey Jian'er was puzzled: "What's the matter, Your Highness?" ”

Yang Yi pointed his finger at the letter on the table, and said with a smile: "Yang Jie issued an edict and ordered all the princes to commit my Shuzhong, he wanted everyone in the world to come and make me an enemy." ”

Although Yang Yi said it easily, Monkey Jian'er still heard the worry in his words, and wanted to come up with an idea, but found that his Monkey Brain Sutra was not easy to use at this time.

Yang Yi thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow, all the senior officials and generals in the Chengzhou Mansion will be summoned to come to discuss the matter." ”

Yang Yi knew very well that if he wanted to truly become the king of Shu, and if Shuzhong wanted to truly gain a foothold in Daguang, he had to survive these catastrophes.

But it's not that simple.

After three consecutive days of meetings, Yang Yi did not find a fundamental solution, so he could only order Hong Zhi, who was in Jianchongguan, to strictly defend himself, and at the same time transfer Yue Jing to Mianzhou, which borders Qiongzhou, as a commander to prevent Qiongzhou from happening.

Shama Naigu's anti-bandit operation went very smoothly, and in January, three consecutive successes were reported, and the entire Shudao bandits gave Shama Naigu a head to fight, and there was nowhere to hide, and there was no power to fight back.

For many years, the bandits have taken refuge in the mountains, believing that as long as there are clusters of mountains, outsiders can be helpless. And now, the Zhen people, who are more familiar with the mountains than the bandits, have come, and the mountains have become their nightmare.

The bandits like to scatter and hide, and Shamanaigu sent the elite of the Zhen tribe to sneak into the jungle to fight them alone. In the words of Shama Naigu, the people of the Zhen tribe who grew up in the mountains since they were children can live for ten or eight years without bringing a grain of grain into the mountains.

In just one month, Shamanaigu killed nearly 2,000 bandits, and more than 4,000 were taken prisoner and escorted back to the Chengzhou capital.

But even so, Yang Yi had to write a letter urging Shama Naigu to complete the purge as soon as possible, and the princes outside Shu began to move, but Yang Yi couldn't find a better way to deal with it.

"Fengzhou Thorn Shi Konghong transferred 20,000 troops and stationed them two hundred miles south of Shudaokou, and the movement was abnormal. Xie Chonggong of Xingyuan City in the name of suppressing bandits, the power expanded to the west of seven counties, and now it is only a three-day march from the end of Shubei, if it is a forced march, I am afraid that it will be able to reach the end of the pass in two days. "The commander of the Chengzhou Army, Ma You, reported to Yang Yi the changes of the princes from all walks of life outside the Shu Road.

Yang Yi frowned, and with his toes, he knew that these princes' military movements were inclined to the southwest, and the target was himself.