At noon on August 23, the 15th year of Zhengde, the cross street in the center of Hangzhou was crowded with people, and many people were lying on the windows of nearby restaurants or people's houses, just to watch the upcoming beheading drama.

Cutting off the heads of hundreds of people at the same time, isn't it a big show? After a night of interrogation, many people could not bear the hardships and confessed, and also confessed to the crimes of their accomplices, Shi Bin, Jiang Jun, and Hong Bang had already escorted the prisoners to the cross street before noon, and the three of them took turns to take the roll call, escorted the prisoners to a temporary platform to read out their charges, and then escorted them to the side to kneel to be beheaded, a total of 583 criminals, just reading their charges took more than an hour, the people near heard the excitement, and the people in the distance could not hear the voice, but some waited impatiently.

Duan Fei dressed up as a scholar and watched from the periphery, and heard an old grandmother next to her asking her grandson: "Child, what are the adults on the stage reading?" ”

Her grandson said: "It seems to be reading the accusations of those people, but unfortunately the distance is too far away, I can't hear a word, I don't know if the announcement will be posted, otherwise I have to listen to others what is going on." ”

Duan Fei's heart moved, it just so happened that there was nothing to do recently, it was better to use Jinyiwei as the background to run a few newspapers, and if you want to control public opinion in the future, you don't need to send people everywhere to say it, so you can't help but have limited effect, and it is easy to be seen through, newspapers are different, especially official newspapers, the people still agree with them, with newspapers, not only does it enhance public opinion supervision, but also public opinion is easier to reach the heavens, this newspaper really has to be run immediately!

Duan Fei became excited, and immediately left the cross street, and returned to Qinchaxingyuan, where he found Shao Shijie, the prefect of Hangzhou, and explained to him his idea of running a few newspapers.

In fact, something similar to a newspaper has long appeared, "Di Bao" was originally copied by the imperial court, and then posted in the palace gate, and copied publicly, so it is also called "Gong Gate Copy" "Di Bao" can be called the world's earliest newspaper, the Han Dynasty has been, but Shao Shijie, a newspaper published by a non-governmental organization and freely traded, is still the first time to hear of it, he pondered for a while, and replied: "My lord, it sounds like it is feasible to run a newspaper, I don't know how to implement the supervision that adults say?" ”

Duan Fei explained to him several regulatory strategies, and the people who came back from the twenty-first century can be said to be easy on the methods of regulating public opinion, and they said a few casually to Shao Shijie's amazement, and immediately had no doubts, and discussed the specific details with Duan Fei.

Just when Duan Fei was enthusiastic about running the newspaper, there was a tragedy in Liangzhuang at the foot of Dushan Mountain near Jinshanwei, and some witnesses said that two suspicious people sneaked into the deceased's house, and soon there were screams in the house, and the two fled to the beach covered in blood, hijacked a boat and ran away, according to the people's description, Duan Fei confirmed that the two people were the Zong and Mochizuki Saburo who had slipped through the net, and the search for the Zong set was finally over.

In addition to having enough typesetting personnel, there must be many sources of information, Jinyiwei is naturally blessed, and soon the first newspaper for the general public will be freshly baked, its name is 'Daily News', originally Duan Fei remembered to be called Daming Daily, but after thinking about it, he gave up, the newspaper is still a new thing, and the convergence point is better.

The front page headline of the "Daily News" is to sing the praises of Jinyiwei, which is like an exquisite novel, depicting the courage of Jinyiwei and the process of fighting wits between Qin Cha Duan Fei and the Japanese Kou.

The first edition of the "Daily News" had a total of eight pages, four of which published the crimes of those who had been killed a few days ago, and the other four pages had a lot of news about Hangzhou in addition to the front page, which looked like Hangzhou Daily......

The first edition of the "Daily News" took a total of five days to typeset, mainly because it took a lot of time to engrave the small movable type requested by Duan Fei, and if it was printed with ready-made movable type, I was afraid that 80 editions would not be enough.

The first edition of the "Daily News" printed 5,000 copies, all of which were distributed free of charge to the wealthier people in Hangzhou, Duan Fei intercepted ten copies by himself, one of which was sent to the capital to Zhengde by horse, and the rest were carefully stored.

When the "Daily News" newspaper under the jurisdiction of Jinyiwei was working overtime to arrange the second issue, the Suzhou government also launched its own daily newspaper, with only two pages, all of which were announcements, which were published at the expense of the Suzhou government, and then posted free of charge at various intersections, city gates and other eye-catching places for the people to read.

After the government published two newspapers, the first issue of Hangzhou Business Daily, which was collectively organized by Hangzhou businessmen, was also published, and everyone was busy running newspapers for a while, and reading newspapers became the most popular thing for Hangzhou people.

Under Duan Fei's instructions, local editions of the "Daily News" appeared one after another, and the sales were good, Duan Fei estimated that he would be able to break even after half a year, and when everyone developed the habit of reading newspapers, they could start selling advertisements to make a lot of money.

After the newspaper gradually got on the right track, Duan Fei didn't pay attention to it anymore, and there were still many things to do, because Zong Shi fled, Duan Fei used this as an excuse to stay in Jiangnan and continue to supervise the prevention and suppression of Japanese people.

The secret department sent back the news, and the old turtle immediately organized his armed escort ships to go to the Great and Small Yangshan Mountains after receiving the order, but only to find a mess of abandoned nests, and the Japanese had already left.

From the time when Zong set up a murder in Liangzhuang and fled into the sea to the old turtle who brought people to Xiaoyangshan, several days have passed here, and the slow action of the old turtle made Duan Fei secretly shake his head, it seems that the old turtle still has reservations, and it is unlikely that he wants to use civil power to clear out the Japanese bandits, so it is better to wait for his own fleet to build it quickly.

Duan Fei was extremely dissatisfied with the combat effectiveness of the guards, he came to Hangzhou Wei's military camp to inspect in the name of patrol this day, and the commander of Hangzhou Wei greeted Han Kong warmly, but Han Kong had just welcomed Duan Fei into the big tent, and after Duan Fei sat down, he suddenly turned his face and shouted: "Take Han Kong!" ”

The golden bull guards beside Duan Fei rushed up, twisted Han Kong's arm rope to his neck, and tied it directly, the generals of the tent guard were all dumbfounded, and Han Kong shouted in horror: "Lord Duan, I don't know what crime you have committed in your humble duties?" ”

Duan Fei sneered, "What crime did you commit?" You still have the face to ask! You privately enlisted your subordinates to make profits for you, and those people outside were not soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they were clearly domestic slaves in military uniforms! They plough the fields and build the house for you every day, make cattle and horses, and how many days of the year do they practice normally? A soldier like a domestic slave, why should he defend his family and the country! ”

Occupation of labor is a serious problem in the army, the officers regard their soldiers as free labor, and they do not think about training in ordinary times, but enslave the soldiers to do this and that, and even rent them out to others for slavery, so that the soldiers have no training all year round, and how can the soldiers who are called back and forth every day have any dignity and morale? When there was a real battle, they were completely confused, what else could they do but escape?