Zhu Youzhen knew that the arrival of this Manchu envoy would definitely cause a sensation in the government and the opposition.

Officials in the south will inevitably support the move to negotiate peace on various grounds, so as to achieve the goal of safeguarding their own interests in the south and preventing the military attachés from progressing and expanding their military attachés and their collectives.

Even from the perspective of seizing the throne, not many officials hoped that King Ding's power would be strengthened through the Northern Expedition.

However, these opponents can only oppose indirectly on various grounds, and they cannot directly say that they cannot go on a northern expedition, nor can they say that they will permanently favor the southern country once peace is negotiated.

After all, the recovery of the northern capital is the ideological consensus of the Ming Empire, and it is also the core concept of imperial rule.

As long as Zhu Youzhen vetoes the peace resolution, there will naturally be no more opposition within the ruling class.

But now, Zhu Youzhen needs to understand the public opinion of the common people in the south, and understand the opinions of these grassroots members of society on the Northern Expedition.

With his current imperial power, he can not respect the opinions of the ruling group, but he cannot disrespect the opinions of the people at the grassroots level of society.

Although the opinions of the grassroots level of society are fundamentally related to whether they are in line with their interests, they are more dependent on the propaganda and guidance of public opinion.

The revenue from the national treasury can fully support the Northern Expedition, and Zhu Youzhen will not levy any more taxes on the people, so it will not have much impact on the quality of life of the people.

Even if the Northern Expedition was launched, the supply of a large amount of human resources was needed and agricultural production was affected, but Zhu Youzhen had now further liberated the productive forces of many common people by cutting the feudal domain, coupled with the encouragement of reclamation, from the 21st year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the number of yeoman farmers managed by the Ming Emperor Zhuang and the household department also increased significantly, so it would not cause too much burden on the agricultural production of the Ming Dynasty.

"Do you say that the recovery of the northern capital and the fight against the Tartars, I said Gongzi, what does this have to do with us little people, that is a matter decided by the emperor, and we little people only care about the harvest of our own fields."

"I fled from the north, if the Tartars are hateful, they are naturally hateful, my family members have been killed by them, and I also want the officers and soldiers to fight back to the north to avenge us, but now that I have a home here, that hatred is almost fading, if the court does not fight back to the north, we little people will naturally have no choice."

"Who doesn't want Wang Shi to set the Central Plains in the north, but now who really takes this seriously, the government is busy collecting taxes everywhere, the people are busy looking for work everywhere, everyone says that the world is peaceful, and they are rushing to the girls of the Qinhuai River to throw silver on them, you look at this person coming and going, such a cold day and snow, it is still such a lively and extraordinary scene, and it is even more prosperous than this in the past."

Out of Zhengyangmen, along the way to the Qinhuai River, Zhu Youzhen, who had a private interview with Weifu, asked many people, and finally knew that these ordinary people in Nanjing City were not only indifferent to the belief in national unification, but also hoped for national reunification but were helpless, and there were also many immigrants from the north back then.

These people still have the obsession to regain their homeland, but Zhu Youzhen doesn't know if it will be diluted by the trivialities of life if it takes another ten years.

But I have to admit that many people are actually disgusted by the ruling class's reluctance and stealing peace, and seem to feel that after the court collects taxes, these high-ranking officials and nobles use their silver for pleasure.

If it weren't for the fact that these ordinary people felt that their quality of life had also improved, I am afraid that Zhu Youzhen would have felt that his series of reforms had increased class contradictions.

"It seems that the people are very disappointed in us!"

Zhu Youzhen sighed, then looked at the Qinhuai River in front of him, waving his sleeves like clouds and rubbing shoulders one after another to describe the scene in front of him.

"Let's go, go to the Guanghua Daily newspaper office, and come to see me with Ma Jixiang!" Zhu Youzhen said and turned to leave.

After four years of development, the Guanghua Daily at this time has a large scale, the printing equipment has also been improved to a hand-cranked gear rotary printing machine, the printing efficiency and quality have also been greatly improved, the entire Guanghua Daily newspaper organization has occupied a whole street in Nanjing, and the staff engaged in the work of the newspaper has reached tens of thousands.

Not only that, Guanghua Daily has its own media school, which specially recruits some poor teenagers for professional training to supplement the manpower needs of the newspaper.

In addition, Guanghua Daily also has its own base for the development of printing equipment.

The whole newspaper has become a comprehensive media base integrating newspapers, media schools, and scientific research like the Daming Ordnance Institute, and has its own set of processes from news collection, editing, dissemination, writing, receiving, reviewing, correcting, and disseminating.

This naturally has the credit of Li Xiangjun, Liu Jingting, Chen Hongshou, etc., and it is also related to the era when the newspaper industry began to rise, and of course it has a great relationship with the improvement of the Ming machinery manufacturing industry, and Zhu Youzhen has also exerted a lot of influence on this, after all, this Guanghua Daily is still a royal capital enterprise.

Li Xiangjun is now a media tycoon in the Ming Dynasty, as if she is a huge rich, and her bearing is naturally extraordinary, the outside world only knows that she has a lot to do with the bigwigs in the inner court, but the real backer behind her is Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of Chongzhen.

However, she has not seen Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen for almost three years now, and all she can remember now is the time when His Majesty the Emperor and herself were in Yangzhou City after Chongzhen's victory in Yangzhou in the eighteenth year.

Sometimes in the dead of night, Li Xiangjun will often miss Zhu Youzhen's wildness, even now Kou Baimen comes to worship, she is also excited after learning about her majesty Zhu Youzhen in Henan from Kou Baimen.

"Yes, Your Majesty actually said that if you lose, I will take you into the Forbidden City!"

Li Xiangjun couldn't help but point at Kou Baimen and cover his mouth and smile after Kou Baimen said: "But it's you who lost the bet, so you can only watch the Forbidden City and can't enter now, and even let go to Huguang to be a fourth-grade medical officer in the war zone and don't run back to Nanjing, you don't really think that Your Majesty will think of you." ”

"It doesn't matter if I can't remember, I'm Kou Baimen who has acted all my life and doesn't care what others say, so naturally I want to come and go, I heard that you and Liu Jun are now making this newspaper and publication or something, and even the high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China dare not offend, I also want to see and see."

Kou Baimen said and picked up a new newspaper: "Jianyu seeks peace - today's Ming Dynasty wants to be the Southern Song Dynasty of the past?" No wonder your newspaper has good sales, and you dare to resort to the newspaper for comments on such court affairs, and you are not afraid of being arrested by the factory guards! ”

"It doesn't matter what about the talents of Dongchang, the compilation of our writers is filed in Dongchang, just like the officials in the court, we can speak casually, as long as we don't maliciously slander, it's fine", Li Xiangjun was saying, and he heard laughter outside: "If you want to be partial to Daming, you also have to do your part, this editorial topic is very well written." ”

"Your Majesty, you won't tell me in advance when you come", Li Xiangjun smiled and welcomed Zhu Youzhen and his party into the base of the headquarters of Guanghua Daily, Zhu Youzhen saw that she was still as charming as ever, delicate as jade, and suddenly felt a lot more comfortable: "This time I came here is not an idle talk, I have to let you assist Dongchang to do something now." ”

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