In fact, don't say it's them, even Wang Laoshi himself is a little incredulous.

Master Zhang scooped a tube of goose feather pen and wrote a few strokes on the account book, and said, "Liu San, go, invite the village of this little Wang Village." ”

"Yes, sir!" That Liu San glared at Wang Laoshi, and secretly scolded this old thing for not having any eyesight, and he had to bother himself to run this trip.

After a while, the village of Xiaowang Village was invited, this is an old man in his fifties, wearing a slightly neat green jacket, he looks like he has some identity, but he is also honest, and at a glance, he knows that he is from a village family that is shaving food in the field. Seeing Lord Zhang's busy bow, he smiled and said, "When did Lord Zhang come over?" Why don't you say a word? I'm going to prepare a meal and a good life to entertain you! ”

The adult waved his hand and said with a smile: "Lao Wang, don't harm me, the current harvest of grain, the top is just staring at the nearest time, and has sent people down to inspect everywhere, a pound of food, a meal of wine and food, all corruption!" At this time, you have good wine and good food to entertain me, don't you want me to leave a handle for others? ”

The old king of this village looks rude, but in fact, this kind of country official is the most slippery, and he has a kind of cunning like a small peasant, he smiled in a low voice, pouted and said: "A meal of wine and food, can it be regarded as a bribe?" Before Wu Yijun came, which of those big men was not greedy for gold and silver? We don't have any other thoughts, at that time, when the grain was divided and the house was supposed to be built, Lord Zhang, you have been staring at us here, how much effort have you made? We are not without conscience, even when we see the big man above, we also have something to say! ”

"Come on. Lao Wang, I understand your intentions. Wang Cunzheng's words made Mr. Zhang very useful.

Master Zhang's name is Zhang Maogong, and he is a Han from Suli Hewei, and he is a member of the Yamen of the General Office of Political Affairs of the Wuyi Army from among the scholars, gentry, and literate and literate sons from all over the country. At the beginning, Wu Yijun fought in the south and the north and pacified this huge territory, but found that it was in the vast land that he had just taken over. Their ruling power is surprisingly weak, especially in the ranks of the bureaucracy. Therefore, under the auspices of Hong Chaojiao, such a group of young people were selected from all over the country. The total number is about three hundred, and then it is concentrated in the general office of Zhenyuan Mansion for intensive training.

These young people are full of vigor and dare to try boldly. It is easy to accept new things quickly, and it is easier to understand, and more importantly, they had nothing before, and it was Wu Yijun and Lian Zining who gave them everything, so they are extremely identified with the group of Wu Yijun, although they are not soldiers, they also regard themselves as one of them.

During the months of training, these 300 young people began to come into contact with the way of being an official and learn how to handle political affairs. How to deal with the people at the bottom and other skills, of course, the most indispensable of which is the brainwashing education named by Lian Zining himself. Instill in them the idea that Wu Yijun and Uncle Wu Yi are bigger than everything, everything you are now. are all rooted in this, so they must be extremely loyal to Wu Yijun and Uncle Wu Yi, and must not betray Yunyun.

All in all, it's roughly the same as copying something from a red country in the later generations.

A few months later, these young people who had been successfully brainwashed were assigned to various positions in the following counties to which Wu Yijun belonged. Their top priority. It's dealing with farmers, to put it bluntly, that's growing corn.

In fact, although this person is young, because he has received political teachings for a long time, his ability to deal with government affairs is much better than those dignified civil officials and lords who were born in the field of science and can only study to death. They want to put this in the guan, which is called an official, not an official, but Lian Zi would rather not care about these, as long as he does a good job, he will be promoted. …,

Thinking of this stubble, Zhang Maogong's mind suddenly became eager, it is said that this time the letter was revealed, after the autumn harvest, there is a big evaluation, and the highest evaluation may even be appointed as the magistrate!

This is a dignified Qipinzhi County! You don't need a ten-year cold window, you don't need to go up and down, you have the opportunity to get, as soon as I think of this, let these young people do things with twelve points of strength!

"Your Excellency?" Liu San'er saw that the adult's eyes were a little stunned, and he was distracted, so he hurriedly whispered.

"Oh?" Zhang Maogong immediately turned around, he shook his head, and drove out those thoughts of fame and fortune, at this time, let's do what is in front of you!

He said to the village: "Lao Wang, there are a total of 170 households in your village, 537 men, 440 women, 110 cattle, and 65,900 acres of land. I just looked, the terrain is almost the same, one acre of land here can produce so much, I'm afraid that other lands are also very bad, well, this will go back to the Ming lord, Xiaowang Village will be levied according to the amount of one acre of land, how about it? ”

Wang Cun calculated and nodded busily.

Zhang Maogong smiled and said, "Well, in that case, my errand here is over." Come, you know each other. ”

He pointed to the officer behind him and said, "This is Liu Quan and Liu Zongqi, haven't you seen it yet?" ”

What kind of official is the general flag, this Wang Cunzheng also knows, knowing that it is a person in the army, his heart jumped, and he quickly knelt on the ground a few times and knocked down, and said respectfully: "Xiaomin has seen the master of the general flag." ”

Because Liu Quan's troops belonged to the defending troops and did not exert much effort in the later period, the general merits were average, so the Jurchens they killed in the first siege battle became a commendable credit. After the war, Liu Quan's qualifications were enough, so he raised the general flag. There is almost no damage to speak of in their guards, and they are all about to find faults, where do they still need to rest? Just when Qiu received it, Lian Zining assigned them according to the basic establishment, and sent the overseer here to help by the way, and Liu Quan was also among them.

He is just a mere general flag, the second-to-last officer in the army, how could he ever think of such a title as the eldest lord on weekdays? I was in a good mood at the moment, and a round fat face showed a smiling expression, and I snorted. Said: "Wang Cunzheng doesn't have to be polite, your village is under the control of our general banner, and within three days, all the subscribed grain straw will be collected." ”

He pointed to the carriages parked on the side of the road, most of the soldiers were resting on them, and he led people to supervise: "Master, I will inspect them one by one." If we have all harvested early, we will leave early. ”

"Three days?" Wang Cunzheng pondered for a while, and the days were still very rich.

He looked at the sky. smiled: "Master Zongqi has worked hard, it's time for lunch, so I'll go back and prepare the meal." Treat all the military masters! ”

"Hey, don't!" Liu Quan hurriedly shook his hand: "We talked before we came, this time out, we should prepare our own military rations, you can't eat a grain of rice from the people, and those who violate military law will do it, and you can always boil some hot water for someone." By the way, don't let a woman send it! ”

Wang Cunzheng hurriedly responded, but he was very curious in his heart, and said secretly: "Is there really a cat in the world that doesn't stick to meat?" Is the sun coming out of the west today? Why don't you want to be an official or a soldier? ”

Wang Laoshi looked at the endless fields. The food in that tuntun was almost full of tears, and he sounded his brother who didn't know life and death. said silently in his heart: "Brother, my brother is now living a better life, and he will never go hungry again." If you're still thinking about it, come back quickly! ”…,

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Zhenyuan Mansion, in a small courtyard next to the General's Mansion.

This yard is not big, only about two or three hundred square meters, and there is only one entry, but the house is not old or young. Five north rooms. There are four partial rooms on the left and right sides, and the south side has opened the door, and there is a slip of the south room.

About twenty or thirty men dressed as scribes in green robes were standing in the courtyard, in groups of three or five, talking about something.

The clothes on their bodies have formed a landscape in Zhenyuan Mansion and the counties under its jurisdiction, and people with a little insight know their identity when they see it - this is the uniform specification of the Yamen of the General Office of Government Affairs, which is the style often worn by scribes, representing their literati status, but at the same time they are a little different, the sleeves are shortened, the cuffs are also closed and shrunk inward, and the hem is also shorter, and it looks very capable when worn, which is somewhat similar to Hufu.

This design is simpler and more convenient to do.

In order to run the general office yamen well, Hong Chaojiao can be said to have taken great pains, and he did not let go of small details, and it was precisely because of this that he could stay in this critical position and win the trust of Lian Zining.

These people are obviously all members of the general yamen, among them there are old and young, the young ones are only in their twenties, and the old ones have gray beards and hair, but no matter how old or young, they have one thing in common, that is, their eyes are a little slippery, and they all leave three points for talking to each other.

In their words, they are all trying to see if others know the purpose of being concentrated here.

They were originally all clerks of the general office yamen, but they received a notice that they were to wait in this courtyard, and there were big people who wanted to see them, so they were all busy coming, and they came here to take a look, drink, and there were still a lot of people!

They are all slippery, and they all have a good relationship in the yamen, and naturally they are well-informed, but when they inquired into each other, they found that everyone was at a loss, and they didn't know why they were summoned here.

Everyone is speculating, but naturally they will not say their thoughts.

The largest group of about ten people was talking around an old man, who was in his fifties, with a half-gray goatee and a shrewd and cunning light in his eyes.

This person's name is Wang Chunxian, and he is also an old senior in the yamen of the General Office of Political Affairs. He was originally a teacher in the Kaolang Wuwei County Ya, who had worked in it for twenty or thirty years, with very deep qualifications, and the most rare thing was that he knew the local area very well, and he was even more familiar with handling government affairs. Therefore, when Lian Zining instructed Hong Chaojiao to set up the Yamen of the General Office of Political Affairs, Hong Chaojiao personally went to Kaolang Wuwei and recruited him as his right and left hand. For Hong Chaojiao, Wang Chunxian helped a lot, especially in the early days, Hong Chaojiao was originally a military man, although he was a warlord for a period of time, but where did he have any experience?

Therefore, at that time, basically Wang Chunxian was helping him do a lot of government affairs, and he handled them in an orderly manner, which can be said to have made great contributions.

But Wang Chunxian's shortcomings are that he is too slippery, and something has happened. The first thing I think about is to protect myself instead of doing things - in short, I am too timid, too many eyes, and too many thoughts. So after a long time, Hong Chaojiao also has some opinions on him, and now the Yamen of the General Administration Office is full of talents, and there is no shortage of those who can take the helm. can do things, so I thought about kicking Wang Chunxian out......

But if it's that direct, it's hard to get over it after all. And this time the Propaganda Department was established, Hong Chaojiao immediately found that it was an opportunity, and he immediately thought of Wang Chunxian. …,

To be said. This Wang Chunxian is also unlucky enough, he just made the scene bigger and cheapened others, but this is also a helpless thing, a problem with his personality, this is a hard injury.

But to say that Hong Chaojiao treated him badly, it is not necessarily true, after all, although the Yamen of the General Office of Political Affairs is in the land of the Songhua River and all the local affairs of the Prime Minister, it can be said to be powerful, but after all, it is a shady yamen set up by Lian Zining, and it is not recognized by the imperial court at all. Therefore, the officials among them only have specific positions, no grades, and even Hong Chaojiao is no exception. This is as if in later generations, a secretary of the municipal party committee has power, but he is not a department-level cadre.

And this Ministry of Propaganda. It is attached to the name of the pro-military battalion of the Wu Yi Army, which is the establishment of the first level of Weiyi, and once he becomes the head of this propaganda department, it is the level of a thousand households. Not to mention anything else, all aspects of treatment, salary. All of them are greatly improved. So Hong Chaojiao told Wang Chunxian, but Wang Chunxian was still quite willing.

Because of his relationship with Hong Chaojiao, Wang Chunxian naturally knew the news a long time ago, and these people around him also knew that his identity was different, and they also came to inquire, but he was smooth and careful, so naturally he didn't leak anything at all, but he just said that he didn't know.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded outside, getting closer and closer, Wang Chunxian coughed: "Everyone, I'm afraid that a noble person is coming, let's be quiet and quiet!" ”

He was the highest among them, and as soon as he spoke, everyone fell silent and stood in a neat queue to greet him.

The sound of horses' hooves stopped outside the courtyard, and then the sound of armor crashing? However, a group of guards surrounded Lian Zining and Hong Chaojiao and strode in.

Lian Zining had just finished lunch and was eating in the barracks. In the past few days, except for the dinner home and amber to eat together, all the other meals have been solved in the barracks, and in the past few days, from the first guard to the thirteenth guard, he has almost walked once. When it was time to eat, I ate with the soldiers in the big cafeteria.

With his current status and status, even a discerning person knows that this is a gesture, but he is also very moved. Everywhere Lian Zining went, the soldiers were very excited and loved, and it can be said that the behavior of the past few days has greatly strengthened the cohesion of the Wu Yi Army, and also made those soldiers who later joined the Wu Yi Army feel a lot more at ease.

Today's lunch is eaten at Dong Laohu's place, although this horse thief-born commander was born in the countryside, but he talks wittily, and he will come to things, flattering people without traces, so that Lian Zining is very useful, and he eats very comfortably.

Hearing Hong Chaojiao say that the team of the Propaganda Department had been built, he came over to take a look.

Seeing that it was Lian Zining coming, everyone was shocked, and they all quickly knelt down in unison, and said in unison: "Xiaguan, I've seen my uncle!" ”

Lian Zining snorted and said, "Get up!" ”

Everyone got up, Lian Zining's eyes swept over their faces, and there was some dislike in his heart - who would like a slippery person?

But he also knows that to do propaganda, you have to be shameless! In this way, you can leave your body to lie and deceive.

Lian Zining coughed, and said in a manly voice: "The reason why I called you here today, did Lao Hong tell you?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and finally Wang Chunxian reluctantly stood up and said, "So that the uncle will know, the lower officials and the others are stupid and don't know." ”

It can be seen from this remark that it is sleek, not that Hong Chaojiao didn't tell him, but only that he and others are stupid, and this kind of achievement is the wisdom of Shangguan, and what goes wrong is that the people below implement problematic methods, but the old oilman of officialdom is very good at playing tricks.

Lian Zining glanced at them with satisfaction and said, "Then I'll tell you that I called you here today to form a yamen called the Propaganda Department!" ”…,

"Propaganda Department?" There was some commotion below, and I didn't know what kind of yamen this was.

"The so-called Propaganda Department is a yamen that is in charge of announcements, notices, and letting people below know about it." Lian Zining took two steps, changed his words, and said in a deep voice: "I know, you people. It's all oil! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was sneering, but they were thick-skinned enough that not a single one blushed.

Lian Zining was even more satisfied when he saw it, smiled faintly, and said, "But the Propaganda Department just needs you oil." can dance and ink, but he is thick-skinned enough! The Propaganda Department has two responsibilities. One is internal, the other is external, internal. It is necessary to hype up the heroic model of our Wuyi army and unite the morale of the army. Externally, let everyone in the world know the heroism and strength of our Wu Yi Army, let all the people in the world know that our Wu Yi Army is the strongest army in the world, and let all the soldiers want to come to our Wu Yi Army to do things! Well, I say that, do you understand? ”

Lian Zining has already said it so bluntly, how can everyone not understand?

They all suddenly realized - no wonder the uncle said that he wanted us? It's easy! Isn't it just to say that what is white is black? Do you say bad is good? Only say good things, don't say bad things, fool people, what a simple thing!

At this moment, they understood the real role of the Propaganda Department.

Lian Zining saw their expressions. nodded with satisfaction, fortunately I got them here, if I got a group of serious readers, I am afraid that I will already quarrel with myself at this time.

"It's done, now that you understand, let's disperse! There is a counselor in this propaganda department. The level is the same as that of thousands of households, and Wang Chunxian will temporarily replace him. ”

Although he had already received the news, Wang Chunxian was still overjoyed and hurried out to thank him.

"I'm going to give you a day off today, and I'm here to report on time tonight. Here, from now on, it is where your yamen is, and the Propaganda Department is subordinate to the new barracks, and from now on, you are also half a soldier. ”

The slippery heads suddenly said: "Understood! ”

"That's right!" Hong Chaojiao added contemplatively on the side: "These words said by an uncle today will rot in your hearts, don't let me know who leaked it." ”

His threat was direct and effective, and everyone was horrified.

Everyone dispersed, and Wang Chunxian also wanted to follow, but was stopped by Lian Zining, and stayed in a worried mood.

Lian Zining paced in front of him, looked at him carefully, under his sharp gaze, Wang Chunxian intuitively felt that his whole body was stripped naked, everything was seen through, he lowered his head, and cold sweat was already trickling down.

"I remember you! Wang Chunxian! Lian Zining suddenly stopped his pace, looked at him and said loudly: "In the fifty-first year of Zhengde, you entered the yamen of the general government affairs office, and I happened to be discussing with Lao Hong in the yamen that day, and I saw you come in, wearing a black jacket, and the hairpin on your head is ebony, right?" ”

Wang Chunxian was flattered, hurriedly snorted, and said with a smile: "Uncle has a really good memory, what he said is not wrong." ”

Lian Zining patted him on the shoulder and laughed: "At that time, I glanced at you, and I told Lao Hong, this person is too cunning, he is an old oilman, and he can't take on a heavy responsibility!" Haha, I was really right at the time, you are a person, greedy for power, bent on climbing up, and at the same time greedy for flowers and lustful, you are fifty-nine years old this year, and next year will be the year of the sixtieth year, and you are still on duty in the yard and raising a foreign house? I said, "Aren't you afraid of dying in bed one day?" ”

Wang Chunxian didn't expect Lian Zining to say such a thing, Rao is he is exquisite, and he was stunned at the moment, embarrassed and speechless. …,

Lian Zining suddenly changed his words, and said with a smile: "But, Wang Chunxian, I'm not afraid that you will be greedy for official positions, nor will you be greedy for flowers, as long as you do my errand for me, I will give you high-ranking officials, I will give you alcoholic women, these, you can have as much as you want!" ”

Smart people like Wang Chunxian immediately understood what Lian Zining meant, and immediately fell to his knees and kowtowed heavily: "Xiaguan, I am willing to die for my lord!" ”

"What am I asking you to die for?" Lian Zining pulled him up with a smile and said with a smile: "As long as you do the two errands I ordered, it's done." ”

Wang Chunxian blessed his heart: "The lower officials must do it well!" ”

"Hmm!" Lian Zining nodded: "The first thing is internal propaganda. A while ago, you know about Liang Jialie, right? ”

Wang Chunxian nodded: "The lower officials admire General Wang very much. ”

"That's it. You have set up a charter to publicize Liang Jialie's deeds and convey them to the whole army, so that the entire Wu Yi Army and the entire Songhuajiang general area will know about it, praise this spirit, and encourage everyone to study and practice it. Got it? ”

Wang Chunxian chewed carefully for a while, nodded and said, "Xiaguan understands what the adults mean." ”

Lian Zining continued: "The second thing, and the more important thing, is the external world, which means that you send a large number of people to the Guannai to publicize our Wu Yi Army in various ways, and strive to let the people of the whole world know the prestige of our Wu Yi Army. ”

This difficulty is not small, but under the temptation of Lian Zining's huge benefits, Wang Chunxian quickly agreed.

Lian Zining said: "It's not enough to just agree, let me ask you, tell me, what should I do about this errand?" ”

Wang Chunxian thought for a moment and said cautiously: "This, if you go back to your uncle, according to the idea of the lower official, you should do this, but there are a few of them that require the permission of adults." ”

Lian Zining said with interest: "You say." ”

"First, you have to have money, and you can't do it without money. Second, it is necessary to have an identity that can withstand the inspection of the government, such as road guidance. ”

Lian Zining nodded and said, "No problem." ”

Wang Chunxian breathed a sigh of relief and said: "That sentence is much easier to do, according to the official's idea, he will first send people to carry a large amount of funds into the Guannai, pretend to be a businessman, and settle down in the capital, Nanjing and other big cities." Then it was time to start acquiring the following types of properties. ”

"Which ones?" Lian Zining asked anxiously.

"First, the teahouse! Second, the troupe! Thirdly, the Book Club! Wang Chunxian wanted to continue, but he was already interrupted by Lian Zining, he said with a smile: "Okay, Wang Chunxian, you don't need to say it, this idea is very good, from now on, you immediately start to do it, money, people, it's not a problem, give what you want, just remember one thing, do this errand well!" ”

Lian Zining deeply felt that he had found the right person this time, and it turned out that Wang Chunxian's thoughts coincided with him.

In the Ming Dynasty, the city was developed, the market culture was prosperous, and capitalism sprouted, the citizen class was a very important class, and the most important place for the citizen class to exchange information was the teahouse. The citizen class of the Ming Dynasty learned the information through this channel, and the teahouse was aimed at the city.

The troupe is aimed at villages and towns.

With the literacy level of the peasants in this era, how many people in the village have really read history books and know history? Their impression of history and even the outside world mostly comes from those opera troupes who often go to the countryside to sing operas, and they believe whatever the troupe says, so that in later generations, they still think that Cao Cao is a traitor, the emperor's uncle is good, and Taoyuan is loyal and unparalleled.

The so-called foolish people, but that's it.

This is for the peasants.

The book club is aimed at those scholars and scholars, including those who are better in the courtyard of the deep house, and do not know the hardships of other people, these people also belong to the city, but they don't go to places such as teahouses, relatively speaking, their level is higher, and there are even officials and gentry and even their families. These people are the recipients of the books in the book club. For example, Lian Zining and Cheng Yu back then, and even Yu Qinglan, etc., a large part of the information came from the book club.

It is conceivable that after acquiring a large number of these three inconspicuous industries, we will be able to grasp the weapon of public opinion, which is equivalent to the future generations mastering broadcasting and newspapers, and we will be able to guide the trend of public opinion among the people. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )