On September 5, 1881, more than half a month after the >signing of the < Tseng-Po Agreement, it was seen that the French had fully fulfilled the agreement and all the soldiers had withdrawn to Cochinchina. The Chinese army also began to withdraw one after another, but according to the emperor's order, the Wu Zhaoyou brigade of the second division was still left. Tang Jingsong, minister stationed in Vietnam, will use this brigade as the backing to exercise comprehensive supervision over Vietnam's government affairs.

A few days after Emperor Side returned to the palace, his buttocks didn't sit firmly, so he was led into the palace by Tang Jingsong and scolded him angrily. He was condemned for four major sins:

First. As a vassal state, he dared to call himself the emperor in the country, without a king and a father, and was mad.

Second. Without the consent of the central government, a treaty was signed with the French without authorization.

Third. Favored traitorous ministers, mediocre and incompetent, there are many government decrees in the harem, and public resentment is boiling.

Fourth. The central government submitted documents, dared to use the "edict", and had the heart of not seeking rebellion.

He should have been put to death for these four crimes, but he was able to escape from Hue during the war, and his conscience was still intact, so he was temporarily exempted from the death penalty and placed under house arrest in another hospital, and he was not free for the rest of his life.

All children will be sent to Beijing, and after their death, the central government will choose one person to inherit the throne.

After hearing this, Emperor Side fainted on the spot, and when he was escorted to house arrest, he shook his head and sighed while crying: "Huang Zuoyan misunderstood me, Huang Zuoyan misunderstood me!" It was Huang Zuoyan who persuaded him to escape from Hue in the first place.

As for the original puppet court personnel, they were all executed for treason. Including the old ministers Ruan Wenxiang, Ruan Xie, Li Fu, Li Boshen, etc., they were all beheaded for public display, and the concubines and the pseudo-Emperor Jianfu were all hanged with white silk.

At the same time, all the officials in the imperial court were replaced by pro-Chinese factions, and these people had basically been granted official positions in China, and those who did not want to accept them had been purged.

Vietnam's armed forces were massively reduced, leaving only some of them for policing.

With the exception of French Cochinchina, the entire Vietnam's resources, agriculture, forestry, mining and fishery, will be subject to the unified arrangement of the central government. Vietnam is not allowed to accept any foreign investment without the approval of the imperial court.

On behalf of the central government, Tang Jingsong has the right to intervene in all government affairs, and his power is higher than that of the Vietnamese imperial court, and he is only responsible to Beijing. is the de facto king of Vietnam.

Ding Yuntong sat in front of the imperial case, thinking about the future arrangements. There were a lot of things going on, but he had to try to figure it out. Things have to be done one by one.

First of all, the army, this is the top priority, this is not good, everything else is nonsense. Not only to continue to expand, but also to control tightly.

The second is the economy, without money, no matter how strong the army is, it will not be able to sustain it. Ding Yuntong was already determined to carry out "industrialization" on a large scale, and a large number of people might die in the process, but he did not care about it. It may be a tragedy to die a person, but a million people are just a statistic. But before the "industrialization", a number of measures were already in place, such as a massive cult of personality, a strict household registration system, a strict ban on the movement of people, and a purge of intellectuals

Zuihou is about to fight an ideological war, which is not the same as purging intellectuals, the latter is only about destroying the old system, and the former is more focused on building a new one. Eliminate all heresies, do not change our banners, and do not take the wrong path. On the one hand, it is necessary to crack down on the privileges of the Manchus and gradually realize the idea of cutting braids and changing clothes, and on the other hand, it is necessary to crack down on the idea of liberalization, and all ideas that advocate the election of a constitutional democratic assembly in the West must be severely suppressed, and loyalty to the monarch and patriotism is the only way out.

Fear must be made a common sentiment among intellectuals.

All these three aspects have been accomplished, and the concentration of military and financial power, coupled with ideological authority, has initially achieved the goal of centralizing power.

In October 1881, the autumn breeze was cool, and the large railway that traversed China's east, west, north and south finally "met the division" in Zhengzhou, and it would not take long for the whole line to be opened to traffic.

On this day, all the media were reporting on this great prosperous era, and the was a full-page full report, focusing on how the emperor strategized and finally completed this "unprecedented feat below a thousand years", and ranked it alongside the Sino-French War, calling it the emperor's "cultural and martial arts".

In the midst of this hustle and bustle, on October 17, a new department, the Central Propaganda Department, was quietly established. The establishment is not large, but the status is extremely high, and it is on a par with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Organization Department, etc. At present, the powers and responsibilities are only the propaganda caliber in charge of official public opinion. Ding Yuntong's jihua is, in one to two years, to make it a cultural police officer who censors all intellectuals.

The first head of the Propaganda Department was named Chen Kuilong, a figure carefully selected by Ding Yuntong.

Chen Kuilong, also known as Chen Kuilong, was born in 1857, a native of Guizhu (that is, Guiyang), Guizhou, born in poverty, born in the imperial examination, and was the first place in the examination in 1875. The life is also very long, and he lived until 1948 in his previous life.

The reason why Ding Yuntong chose this person was after a long period of consideration. The so-called propaganda minister is a thug, an executioner, and even a butcher in the ideological field of the future.

Then the person must be extremely loyal, and secondly, he must be very capable and able to grasp his intentions quickly.

The most important thing is that he can't have his own political opinions, he must follow the emperor's train of thought closely, and he can't have his own set. To put it simply, it is a tool for killing, and the tool itself naturally cannot have thoughts.

In his previous life, until the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), he actually feasted guests on the 60th anniversary of his examination to show that he did not forget the "royal grace".

Secondly, he is extremely smart and witty, very well-behaved, and has the reputation of "clever eunuch".

In particular, this person does not have his own political views, and his attitude is: I fully support what the central authorities advocate, and I oppose all those criticized by the central authorities. has been scolding the reform of the law as a chaotic party, but when the imperial court announced that it would prepare for the constitution, it immediately changed itself and urged his hometown to study the constitution, the sooner the better. is very similar to the oldest representative of the National People's Congress of the Celestial Empire in the previous life, proudly claiming that he had not voted against it in 55 years.

Two days later, Chen Kuilong, who had taken office as a new official, came to thank him. Originally, he was just a petty official in charge, but he was suddenly promoted to a senior official of the ministry in one fell swoop, so he was naturally grateful to Dade, lying on the ground and grateful, eager to take out his heart to show his loyalty.

After some careful preparations, the Propaganda Department arranged that at the beginning of November 1881, all the newspapers, books, and some imperial literati in China began to publicize the great achievements of Emperor Bixia on a large scale. No, not all, Shanghai's because of the background of foreign investment, but the policy is not fully implemented. This also made Chen Kuilong, who was the new official who had three fires, deeply annoyed.

At the same time, a series of regulations are gradually being introduced. All government agencies, schools, hospitals, shops, inns, restaurants, bookstores, large and small venues and clubs must hang portraits of the emperor, and those who refuse will be dealt with as the crime of rebellion.

Huge statues of the emperor were erected in every city, and it was stipulated that everyone must go to the statue on the 26th day of the sixth lunar month as an official holiday, and everyone must go to the statue to swear allegiance.

No newspaper, book, or individual may have any "slanderous and disrespectful" remarks against the emperor, otherwise he will be punished for the crime of rebellion.

In all schools, whether they are new-style schools or old-style academies, all teachers and students must recite aloud the oath of loyalty before class every day, and the content of the oath is specially reviewed and compiled by the Propaganda Department. The political ideology course is specially set up as a key subject for the examination, and "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism" is the core axis of the course content.

Students are required to have one month of military training every year, receive regular military drills, and experience the life of the barracks.

All students, as well as all public and military personnel of the state, must recite the oath of loyalty fluently, and the Propaganda Department will send personnel to conduct random inspections from time to time, and if it is found that there is a poor recitation, they will be punished

The introduction of various measures in an orderly manner should focus on implementation, and it is absolutely forbidden to have countermeasures at the top of the policy and under the bottom, and each and every one of them must be strictly implemented. For this reason, the establishment of the Propaganda Department has also rapidly expanded, from several hundred when it was first established to several thousand, and dozens of secret inspection teams have been specially dispatched to inspect the implementation of the propaganda.

At the same time, another major measure was also implemented, that is, the household registration management system carefully prepared by Ding Yuntong.

Hukou management is only an excuse, the key is its supporting measures: without an organized letter of introduction, without a special pass, people cannot leave their place of residence and travel freely elsewhere. That's the key.

China's thousand-year-old peasant uprising was an important part of the overthrow of the feudal dynasty. weishenme, because the peasants were able to flee the famine, they were able to move. In the process of flow, information is exchanged, talent is pooled, and elites are able to gradually understand the situation in the country. At the same time, the increase in the number of people has strengthened the courage, and like-minded people have gradually formed an organization.

And when the organization is formed, the program is formed, and zuihou rises to the level of theory. At this time, a revolutionary rebellion was not far off.

What is called a spark that can start a prairie fire, that's what it means.

In the previous life, the Celestial Empire also relied on this to win the world, and conscientiously summed up the lessons of history. Measures were taken to strictly restrict the movement of people, so that the grassroots people of the entire country would be divided into independent units, and the whole would become a piece of scattered sand. Even if millions of people starved to death in three years of famine, the peasants would not revolt, because they were not allowed to flee the famine, information could not be exchanged, courage could not be gathered, and organizations would not have appeared.

Without an organization, there will be no overthrow, without a program, there will be no banner, and the rebellious Liliang will not be able to rally. No matter how much you criticize and abuse the government, the other party will not bother to deal with you at all, and the rule is very stable.

This set was learned by the Jin dynasty in the east, and it is a living model.

Weishenme Celestial Empire hates the wheel so much, because the wheel has already sprouted tissue. Weishenme fears the constitution in this way, because the constitution itself is a program.

Ding Yuntong knows that the root of all this is the wonderful use of the household registration system to restrict mobility.

No flow, no rebellion!

An iron cage will be slowly lowered.