After a while, he realized his gaffe, Ding Yuntong coughed lightly and said, "A daughter like you, now you can't go back to the barracks, what are your plans?" ＂

Wang Xuehui bowed her head and was silent, maybe she didn't know what to do.

Ding Yuntong said again: "You are already homeless, so let's do it, I will make you a guard in front of the palace, be my entourage, and at the same time slowly look for your brother, it is better than looking for a needle in a haystack by yourself, what do you think?" ＂

Wang Xuehui hesitated for a moment, thinking about it, and finally said: "Thank you for the emperor's grace, Xuehui obeys the order." ＂

Ding Yuntong was very satisfied, and today he accepted a fierce general as the commander of the garrison, and found a beautiful sharpshooter as a personal bodyguard, and the harvest was not small.

It was almost 1882, and by the beginning of next year, according to Jihua, the propaganda work would reach a climax, and of course the cult of personality would have to be persistent, and it would take some time to see the effect. However, the hukou management work will progress rapidly, because China's grassroots level, at this time, is mainly a small-scale peasant economy, self-sufficient, and not very mobile, as long as there is no famine, who wants to leave their own one-third of an acre?

On the other hand, as soon as the reorganization of the Guards was completed, the land would begin to be delivered, and loyalty would inevitably increase significantly, and at the same time, the Eight Banners would also be abolished on a large scale, and there was nothing to be done about any dissatisfaction.

As soon as these things are done, large-scale industrialization will be launched, but now we can first carry out some propaganda in public opinion, and Ding Yuntong is ready to write an editorial himself, as a programmatic document for future industrialization, he has to think about it.

On December 11, 1881, a new department, the Ministry of the Interior, was created.

Ding Yuntong's positioning of this ministry is a combination of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the secret police. The first minister was Zhao Bingjun, and the reason why Ding Yuntong chose this person is because when Yuan Shikai was in power in history, Zhao Bingjun was specifically responsible for the work of the police and civil affairs, and was the first chief of internal affairs. And this person only knows how to act on orders, has a strong sense of loyalty, and has a strong ability to work, "wise by nature, strong and careful", he is a very capable minion, or Yuan Shikai would not have let him replace Tang Shaoyi as the prime minister of the cabinet in his previous life.

Another point is that Zhao Bingjun was brave and tenacious in the battle to recover Xinjiang, brave and tenacious, and made great contributions, but he was also seriously injured and basically lost his function as a man, which also made him very depressed. In the years that followed, he appeared ruthless, cruel, and reckless, including the assassination of Song Jiaoren.

Such a loyal and fierce man was the most suitable minister for the post.

After more than two months of implementation, the new household registration management system began to be fully implemented in urban and rural areas, and its basic process is to check the household registration, then count it in the file, demarcate the jurisdiction, and divide the management. And four important supporting measures are also promoted at the same time under Ding Yuntong's planning, that is, the "new four major inventions" that Ding Yuntong is proud of: household registration book, food book, transfer list, and pass.

The hukou is a population file, which registers the population file of each household in detail. On this basis, if you want to move to a fixed area with a strictly restricted population, you need a permit issued by the Ministry of the Interior to move to a different place.

Food, that is, the relationship between food. The hukou relationship determines the grain relationship. The people take food as the sky, and if they seize this day, the people will have nowhere to run. Those with household registration in urban areas have an urban grain relationship, and those with a household registration in rural areas have an agricultural and food relationship. If you go out to do anything, you have to bring food stamps, which are accessories of the food relationship, and without food stamps, you will have to go hungry, and if you have money, you will have nowhere to buy them.

The transfer order is the control of the job transfer, a person leaves the unit and wants to work elsewhere, and a transfer letter issued by the Ministry of the Interior is required. With this transfer list, it is possible to transfer the household registration and grain relationship. In this way, no one can resign if they want to, and they must be approved before they can be released.

Passes, like ancient roads. This is a type of communication issued by the Ministry of the Interior. For travel between cities, business trips, and visits to relatives and friends, you must have a pass, otherwise you can't stay in a hotel or inn. This measure also protects against espionage, and without a pass from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the movement of foreign spies is greatly restricted.

In addition to these four, there is actually a secret measure, called the political examination form, which is aimed at state officials, including some intellectuals, and is specifically used for political censorship: what are the political tendencies, what have been done in the past, whether it is possible to be a spy, whether it supports the imperial power, etc., in fact, it is a political file.

With this "five-finger mountain" to grasp, the political control over the entire country will be greatly strengthened, and the centralization of power will be possible.

At the same time, the Propaganda Department is also vigorously promoting the continuation of various tasks and the imminent industrialization that will begin.

In Ding Yuntong's thinking, if a backward country wants to develop rapidly and catch up with developed countries, centralization is the inevitable choice, and dictatorship is the only shortcut. Only by ensuring centralization and dictatorship can we achieve industrialization and quickly catch up with the developed countries.

With the advancement of various systems, the opinions of some intellectual groups have become more and more public, and some voices of doubt about state policies have appeared in the press and in the imperial court.

The so-called wind comes and the sand rises, and the water falls and the reef comes out. Those bureaucrats and intellectuals with very different ideologies jumped out one after another at this time. Some advocate freedom, others are conservative.

Liberals, such as Rong Hong who returned from the United States, Yan Fu, Wu Tingfang, Guo Songshou and others who returned from Britain, have advocated a clear definition of the country, a constitutional monarchy, and Western democracy. It is believed that the current measures are becoming more and more stringent and not in line with the trend of shijie.

Conservatives, such as Weng Tongyong, Li Bingheng, and university scholar Encheng, as well as Xu Tong and Liu Xihong, who had been transferred out of the central government, wrote their own letters, saying that these measures, especially the so-called industrialization, were completely inconsistent with Confucian tradition and violated the ancestral system.

In short, neither liberals nor conservatives agree with Ding Yuntong's ideas.

In response, on January 2, 1882, the published the full text of a commentary article written by Ding Yuntong himself, entitled This article sets out the core ideas of China's national policy and what the way forward should be.

The article first raises such a serious problem, that is, the industrialization of the West has been initially completed, and China has lagged behind by 150 to 200 years, and there is a huge gap in economic, military, and scientific and technological aspects. It is impossible to catch up with developed countries by following the normal path, so what should China do?

The article believes that the only solution is to "take a shortcut", and the order of industrialization in the West is to first light industry, textile industry, food industry, paper industry, and so on, and gradually transition to heavy industry, and the development of uniform and balanced results is good.

The center of industrialization, the basis of industrialization, is the development of heavy industry (fuels, metals, etc.), in the final analysis, is the development of the production of means of production, the development of the country's machine manufacturing industry.

Therefore, China must give priority to the development of heavy industry and complete the road that the West has taken more than 100 years to complete in a relatively short time. The word "run" is very important, China must sprint, "either we can catch up, or we will be trampled under our feet forever." ＂

The article sternly refuted those conservatives, who were rigid in their thinking, stubborn in their minds, and insisted on leaving the country in a backward state and unable to extricate themselves, which in fact helped the enemy in disguise, dragged down the country's development, and became the sinners of the nation.

At the same time, he also criticized those liberals, arguing that in a country like China, which is poor and white, poor and weak, if it wants to concentrate human, material, and financial resources on heavy industry, it must rely on state authority, and centralization of power is the only way. The article reviews the Meiji Restoration in Japan and the establishment of the German Empire, all of which were centralized powers, relying on the state, and implementing policies in a purposeful and step-by-step manner. Therefore, at this critical moment in history, advocating liberalization, no matter what the starting point, is a serious mistake.

Development determines everything, and development overrides everything, and this is the greatest patriotism at this stage.

Obedience and faithful implementation of the emperor's plans for the development of the country is the greatest patriotism at this stage.

In other words, loyalty to the monarch is the greatest patriotism.

Only by being loyal to the monarch and strictly obeying the orders of the emperor can all liliang be twisted into a rope and the country can develop.

The article ends with one sentence: backwardness is bound to be beaten.

This editorial has softened public opinion to a great extent, because most people have begun to seriously think about the reasoning.

At the same time, the cult of personality has begun to flourish.

In all the cities and villages, myths about emperors began to spread widely;

Any printed text, where the emperor is mentioned, must be in bold;

A series of songs and ballads promoting the emperor's kindness also began to circulate;

Any public official must wear the emperor's coat of arms;

The portrait of the emperor must be hung in any public place, even in all colored households;

The newspapers were full of how the emperor's kindness had created miracles on earth, and the seriously ill and dying patients heard the emperor's instructions and were immediately cured. As soon as the hungry warriors heard the emperor's edict, they immediately became energetic and vigorous.

And in the disaster areas of successive droughts, after bowing down to the emperor's portrait a thousand times, heavy rain will immediately pour down, and so on.

And the school is the main battlefield of propaganda, because the education of young children has the potential to imprint a lifetime. Every primary school, regardless of its level, size, or remoteness, has a set of rules and regulations for must conscientiously organize students to learn etiquette to the emperor. Every elementary school student had to stop and bow down when they saw the portrait of the emperor. Over time, these rigid rules of etiquette became a part of students' lives, and eventually influenced their thinking.

The portrait of the emperor is even more sacrosanct, in case of any unexpected disaster, the safety of the portrait is more important than life.

In the school's curriculum education, the consciousness of loyalty and patriotism is emphasized, such as the first text in middle school of entering the city, which requires students to memorize the whole text. It writes in the voice of a mother: "My dear child, the fall of Tokin in Vietnam, you should also go into the city with you, even though you are crushed, and there will be no more sounds." Your body is filled with flames, blood stains the earth red, and you are still shouting 'Long live the Emperor'. Dear child, you have not left us, you have entered the city with you, and your life will be immortalized in the martyrs' shrine in Tiananmen Square. ＂

One after another cult of personality is spreading everywhere on the land of China, intensifying.

Ding Yuntong is well aware of the personality of the Chinese, lacking ego, insecurity, worshipping heroes, superstitious authority, and looking up to masters. The people need idols, the people need role models, and the liliang of role models is endless, weishenme? Because the people don't have liliang, they don't believe they have liliang.

They need someone to save, they need someone to guide, they need the Holy Son, they need the blue sky, they need the great leader, the sea sails by the helmsman, and the leader needs to constantly point out the direction

Ding Yuntong will fill in the void and satisfy their empty souls.