ps：

Today's two more,One more delivered,Ask for a subscription to support genuine

After Song Xiaofei announced the permanent ban on the FDP, some radical newspapers in China advocated a "second armed uprising," and the newspapers controlled by the FDP seized the opportunity to slander Song Xiaofei for undermining the freedom of association in the Constitution, "the government kills people," and said that Song Xiaofei was "the only man of the people." Some Japanese-funded newspapers also attacked Song Xiaofei's private life, such as an article on the front page of Beijing's China Daily, "We want a president with lofty moral ideals, but President Song Xiaofei's private life is a disgrace to national morality, he himself is a son of a partial house, he has five wives, and he does not feel that there is anything wrong with this moral system." ”

In the office of the Presidential Palace, when Ruan Zhongshu, Deputy Secretary-General of the Secretariat of the Presidential Palace, reported to Song Xiaofei with a stack of such newspapers, Song Xiaofei smiled and said: "Eating and talking is the power that you are born with. ”

Nguyen Trung Shu said, "If it were a simple literati complaining, I would not bother the president." During these days, some radical remarks appeared in newspapers everywhere, wantonly slandering the marriage between the president and the Xi family as a collusion between politics and business, appointing Xi Jiadong as vice minister of finance is a bribe from the Xi family, saying that most of China's loans to Taixi countries have fallen into your private pockets, so our government is a government of all evils. ”

Song Xiaofei listened and asked, "Isn't the news about reporting the truth?" ”

Ruan Zhongshu said: "Most of these scholars only have a conscience, how can there be the truth? At present, there are more than 1,000 newspapers in the country, and most of them are hearsay. Fabricate news, rumors are flying all over the sky, and whatever attracts attention is written. There are a lot of newspapers that advocate the unscrupulous. To confuse observation and listening is to deliberately incite people's minds and obstruct order, and the law is in place, and it is difficult to tolerate it. ”

Song Xiaofei listened to Ruan Zhongshu's words and fell into deep thought. He is also well aware of the benefits of free speech, and Rong Rong brought back the book from Tessie, which contains the theory of "free market of ideas". Milton proposed it in 1644 in On the Liberty of the Press. Milton believed that truth is obtained through free debate and competition between various opinions and opinions, not given by power, and that all kinds of ideas, speeches, and values must be allowed to flourish freely in society, just like a free market, so that people can know the truth through comparison and discernment. English philosopher John. In On Liberty, Mill states: "We can never be convinced that the opinion we seek to suffocate is a false opinion, if we are convinced. It is still a fallacy to suffocate it."

But Song Xiaofei also realized that in countries with freedom of speech, democracy is also very likely to be fragile, with frequent cabinet changes and fists in parliament, if such "freedom of speech" is not restricted in accordance with the law. Happening in China, which has a population of 40,000, and in a country where there are 30,000 peasants, most of whom still don't have enough to eat, is really disrupting the overall situation. The failure of Li Hongzhang's constitutional monarchy was, to a large extent, due to the connivance of the freedom of speech of the newspapers, and as a result, many people mistakenly believed that Li Hongzhang wanted to become emperor, and what China needed most now was to stabilize politics and develop the economy. For a country where 90% of the population is still illiterate. It is clear that people's livelihood is more important than democracy. Now in 1895, the next twenty years will be extremely important for China's rejuvenation, and if we lose these precious twenty years of economic development, we will wait until Japan is strong. In World War I and World War II, the Chinese people will become slaves of the country.

Song Xiaofei remembered what Li Hongzhang said to him before he died: "A generation has a generation's mission", so he decided to "do it knowing that it cannot be done", even if future generations will misunderstand and find faults, Song Xiaofei still decided to centralize power and develop the economy without hesitation! Moreover, as the great cause of the founding of the People's Republic of China is about to begin, and the formulation of a new constitution is also in full swing, Beijing is the capital of a country, and some newspapers cannot be allowed to talk nonsense. As a result, Song Xiaofei issued a presidential decree to Ruan Zhongshu, asking him to go to Duan Qirui and ask him to send troops, and all newspapers that advocated the "second armed insurrection", "protecting the anti-party and restoring the people", and "inciting the people" were all closed down and stopped, and the editors-in-chief and reporters of the relevant newspapers were all sent to the rural areas in various places, lived in cattle sheds, and worked with poor peasants, experienced life, and reformed their minds.

In the following 10 days, Ruan Zhongshu and Duan Qirui began to seal down newspapers in Beijing, and more than 40 newspapers were banned for advocating the "second armed uprising," "favoring the anti-party and restoring the people," and "inciting the people." Among them, the central government directly ordered the implementation of the following newspapers: Beijing's "Daily News", "Minguo Bao", "Democracy Daily", "Yadong News", "Central News", "Zhengzong Patriotic Daily", "Beijing Dialect Daily", "Hua Bao", "Guobao", "Chaoran Bao", Jilin's "New Jilin Daily", Fujian's "Minbao", "Qunbao", More than 1,000 reporters and editors were sent to rural areas in various localities to live in cowsheds and experience peasant life. Although this is only a minority for the more than 1,000 newspapers in the country, it has set an example for the whole country, and all of a sudden, public opinion across the country has converged a lot.

On that day, Song Xiaofei went to visit Duan Qirui in the Alcohol Palace, Taiping, Xicheng, and he wanted Duan Qirui to serve as the chief of the army, so he went to test his attitude first.

After he arrived in Beijing, he never bought a house, nor did he buy a piece of land, and he has been renting a house with his younger brothers and sisters, and there are many families, so Song Xiaofei gave this house to their family to live in. Duan Qirui was afraid that others would gossip, so he pushed it three times but didn't want it, until Song Xiaofei lowered his face and said, "Zhiquan, no matter how polite you are, I'm going to turn my face!" Duan Qirui's family moved in.

For so many years, Duan Qirui has been serious and stereotyped, not smiling, and has always insisted on "not smoking, not drinking, not prostituting, not gambling, not greedy, not occupying", but his only hobby is to play Go, and he has a great addiction to chess. ”

Song Xiaofei saw that Duan Qirui was very interested, so he agreed, and the two of them set up a table and a chessboard under an old locust tree in the back garden of the Alcohol Palace, ready to have a good competition.

Song Xiaofei held the sunspot, Duan Qirui held the sunspot, the two were in high spirits, a girl in a western skirt rushed over with a newspaper in a menacing manner, threw the newspaper on the chessboard, disrupted the chess game, apricot eyes widened, and said angrily: "You have done a good thing, and you still have the heart to play chess here!" ”

Duan Qirui usually hated his chess game being disturbed the most, so he stood up angrily and said, "Miss Rong, if you have something to say, my eldest brother finally played a game of Go with me, why did you want to ruin our fun?" ”

The person who came was Rong Rong, the daughter of the secretary general of the presidential office and the editor-in-chief of "Qiangguo Daily".