Chapter 131: The War of Public Opinion

Yang Feng didn't care much about Cixi's posthumous title to Wang Xifan, in his opinion, this kind of pure old lady's sprinkling performance is useless, in the final analysis, this world is playing with strength, she is the dead king is also dead, no one will take his life for a few hundred taels of silver a year, after all, whether it is fame or profit, it is necessary to have a life to enjoy.

However, the facts proved him wrong, for this kind of false name there are still many people full of longing, soon a large wave of green worms jumped out, began to criticize his brutal rule in various ways, published articles in newspapers, posted big-character posters on the street, and even scattered leaflets, in short, tried his best to let Lafayette in Beijing see his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, and even a guy in Fuzhou City publicly gathered to pay tribute to Wang Xifan and the righteous people, and shouted that the people were not afraid of death, why should they be afraid of death, made Yang Feng want to fulfill his wish.

He really doesn't know what to do with these people, he has always played the role of freedom of speech, in fact, speech at this time is indeed very free, as long as it is not openly discussed and rebelled, no one is looking for trouble, the vast majority of those who dare to run newspapers are related to foreigners, and many are directly in the concession, those local officials avoid it, isn't it just scolding in the newspaper, and it's not a big deal.

If Governor Yang interfered in this kind of thing, it would undoubtedly feel like he was smashing his own feet, so after some research, he decided to also turn over those things about Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds, what Yangzhou Ten Days, Jiading Three Massacres, Guangzhou Tusha, Chaozhou Tusha... Anyway, there are such materials. Tomorrow's Daily even opened a column once a day, not only in the newspaper, but also set up a high-power radio station in Fuzhou, and then found a guy with a strong voice to be an announcer, and at the same time installed tweeters in all urban centers in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and played them synchronously through the radio, this set of things is now the most profitable product of General Electric. Radio stations began to appear in all European countries, but this was the first time in China.

"Playing public opinion war with me, that's really self-defeating, Lao Tzu can dye you black if it's white, not to mention that it's already black and shiny!" Yang Feng said with a sneer.

"Your move is so ruthless, the Queen Mother doesn't know what it looks like to be angry!" Xue Fucheng said with a smile.

"I'm here to make her have a long memory, and if she wants to live a few days of peace, then it's best not to mess with me." Yang Feng said.

This product is not only broadcast in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, but also in all cities with concessions, the content of each issue of tomorrow's daily newspaper. All of them were broadcast repeatedly for an hour, which made the governors of these places bigger.

The effect is absolutely good, and there are a few people who can understand what the green worms write, and how many people can afford to buy newspapers? But this thing is different, as soon as the radio is turned on, the power can be heard within a few kilometers, and the people who hear it are passed on by word of mouth, and after the distance has been rendered, it has been magnified countless times, and even to the end of the day, there are people who have made a special trip to listen. At the same time, JY began to distribute small radios in large quantities among the gentry, in addition to the contents of these newspapers. It also broadcasts some news, opera, Western music, and finds a few people from Beijing to talk about cross talk. All of a sudden, China entered the era of radio stations.

Cixi in Beijing made him stunned at this time, she never thought that Yang Feng still had this kind of weapon, and in a fit of anger, this old lady strictly ordered the governors of all places to ban those illegal loudspeakers by strong means. But these things are in the concession, and those foreigners are not interested in offending Yang Feng to help her, and diplomatic negotiations are good. Spending money to buy it, in a word, they have no right to interfere with the freedom of broadcasting.

At this time, Cixi had no choice but to order the governors of various places to supervise some residential areas close to the concession, and those who did not live there were forbidden to go over, and it was strictly forbidden to spread these rumors that slandered the imperial court outside the concession, of course, those magistrates would definitely not carry out such orders, even the magistrates of the banner would not carry out them. The foreign concessions are surrounded by prosperous commercial areas, and it is a trivial matter to provoke a popular unrest in this way, and more importantly, no one can bear the economic losses, at most, it is to prohibit the circulation of tomorrow's daily newspapers in the jurisdiction, and if they encounter ordinary people who dare to openly discuss these contents, they will be directly arrested and beaten by the yamen. But these measures certainly did not have much significance, in short, Yang Feng's loudspeakers broadcast day after day the accumulated crimes of the Qing army when they entered the customs amid the inaction of officials in various places, and made all parts of the south in an uproar.

Although it has been more than 200 years, the people still have the impression that now it is so large-scale, and it is turned out in such an arrogant form, and the impact is huge, and for a time the anti-Manchurian voices in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces have risen one after another, and even those green worms dare not come out at this time, and at this time they must let people smash rotten eggs to death.

And at this time, the counterinsurgency army that conquered Longyan has begun to kill Liancheng, Dezhi has now run to Tingzhou, and has taken it as his base camp, this guy is not a fool, hiding in Changting is a little bad can run to Jiangxi, Yang Feng's people can't go to other people's territory to find trouble for themselves, right? Besides, at this time, the governor of Jiangxi is Deshou, everyone can't write two full words in one stroke, and he is following the secret order of the queen mother to eliminate traitors for the country, so he can't sit idly by.

In fact, he guessed very right, immediately after occupying Changting, he received a steady stream of arms support from Jiangxi, and even Deshou himself came over to encourage him, and then gave him a battalion of his own subordinates to train the army, and for a time the strength of the Yang army skyrocketed, of course, these are not public, after all, if he gives him public support, it is easy to give Yang Feng a mouthful, and it will not be good for him to send troops to Beijing again.

To put it bluntly, her current strategy is to make trouble for Yang Feng, keep making trouble, so that he can never develop, so that she can buy time for the expansion of the imperial court, not only the army but also the navy, Cixi has gritted her teeth and ordered three 4,000-ton armored cruisers from the United Kingdom, and bypassed the Beiyang Naval Division, and engaged in the establishment of a new army naval division, the strategy is good, and she is indeed working hard, but unfortunately her opponent is not at all powerful than she can imagine.

The flag army that left Longyan was in good spirits one by one, they made the city so bad that the people's resentment boiled, what robbery, murder and arson and other evil deeds made them find the feeling of their ancestors, if it wasn't for Yang Feng's people who threatened with bayonets later, they really didn't want to leave. However, what they don't understand is that these guys, who are said to have scraped three feet of ground in Japan, are so civilized that they can't be more civilized in Longyan, not only stopping their sabotage, but also engaging in the ridiculous behavior of helping the old lady carry water and picking fruits for children, which makes a group of ordinary people grateful.

"Brother Yuting, why don't you rob it?" Hangzhou garrison flag army, Mongolian Zhengbai Banner Lieutenant Sanduoge asked Zhang Zuolin, the battalion commander of the first division of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who he had just met, and Zhang Dashuai, who served Song Qing in the northeast, because he saved Jiang Guidi, who was almost killed by poison gas in Pyongyang, so he has been following him as a personal soldier, and when the new army was reorganized, he got a battalion commander because of Jiang Guidi's face.

"Look at what kind of rags you're robbing? It's not uncommon for me to ask for these things, you see what this is?" Zhang Zuolin said and took out a gold-plated pocket watch with gems and continued quite proudly: "This is from a gentleman's family in Japan, at least worth five thousand taels of silver, you ask our old brothers who have been to Japan, who is not worth a few thousand taels of silver?" Who is rare of you?"

Sandogo's eyes widened in surprise, and he said with infinite longing: "When can we have such a day?"

"Follow Lord Yang, sooner or later." Zhang Zuolin said very casually, but he was secretly thinking in his heart: You can survive tonight!

As Jiang Guidi's closest confidant, he knows what will happen tonight, in fact, his battalion is mixed with the flag army for tonight's mission.

This area of western Fujian can be said to be flat without three miles, except for the mountains are mountains, coupled with the humid and hot summer, the speed of the brigade is very slow, and it is not easy to find a small village at night, after a burst of chickens and dogs, those flag troops drove all the residents out of the city and then began to camp, they are not worried that they will be attacked, because they are too slow, the second brigade of the same company has exceeded the front, so it is equivalent to the two brigades of the first division of the flag army sandwiched in the middle, very safe.

The battalion led by Zhang Zuolin was used as a liaison to act with the flag army, so there was no distinction between the two armies, all the camp tents were mixed, and they drank wine and ate meat together at night to study women, especially to listen to those veterans of the Japanese army who studied the characteristics of Japanese women.

When Zhang Zuolin led his subordinate soldiers, he slipped out of the tent one by one, then held a glass bottle to hold his breath, touched the residence of the flag army and quickly poured the liquid inside, and then took the guns they put outside and withdrew from the small village.

Then he took out his flashlight and swung it three times in circles into the darkness in the distance, and soon a large number of heavily armed soldiers appeared outside the village with the sound of hurried footsteps.

"My lord, everything is done, this thing is really easy to use." Zhang Zuolin took the bottle containing Yi Mi, walked up to Jiang Guidi, and said with a cruel smile.

"Well done, all the summons are bayonets, and not a single one is left alive!" Jiang Guidi said viciously. (To be continued......)