Fujian, Fuzhou Mansion, Li Yan Mansion.

Li Yan rubbed his eyebrows vigorously, and scolded heavily in his heart, damn, as the head of Jinyiwei in Fujian, a few years ago, he was idle every day, and he had a deep feeling of being idle, and the whole person was dull.

Over the years, since following Wang Xuan, he has been busy, in fact, it has been okay in the past few years, the direction of intelligence collection is some key figures, and there are not too many things that can be recorded, but now it is good......

A few days ago, Wang Xuan ordered a newspaper in Guangdong...... Originally, this matter needed a printing house and some people who wrote articles, and it had nothing to do with them anyway.

But what's more, in order to make a big enough reputation, and the task of collecting intelligence from various prefectures and counties has always been the responsibility of Jinyiwei, so there are no professional reporters for the time being, so Wang Xuan threw the task on Jinyiwei......

The mysterious Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei who talks about it all day, the dark and violent organization Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei who persecutes the loyal and harms the people, and suddenly degenerates into a reporter!

This is reasonable!

Actually, if you fall, you will fall, and you will be given an extra salary anyway, but he Li Yan also has a new job, and he has to screen some top-secret information suitable for decryption from a lot of top-secret information in previous years, and use it to be exposed in the newspaper one after another.

People like to explore the secrets, gossip, everyone has it, especially many secret events about the once big people, which can arouse people's interest, otherwise, there will not be many people who write memoirs to make a profit.

Wang Xuan is very familiar with this kind of psychology, after all, he was also a bigwig in the newspaper industry in Heri Island back then.

Many things, people in this era are not clear, but he has operational experience, in order to make the newspaper better promoted, Wang Xuan is definitely still in Fujian now, by the way, look at the newspaper in modern society after cloning to ancient times, what needs to be improved.

Of course, the more reason is that Fujian has a good mass foundation, and the literacy rate is much higher than that of other provinces in the Ming Dynasty, thanks to Wang Xuan's investment in Mongolian education over the years.

When everything was ready, on a day worthy of posterity, the first newspaper of the Ming Dynasty, Newsweek, issued its first issue.

Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Xinghua, and the entire nine prefectures of Fujian Province all have printing factories in full operation, relying on the convenient transportation of cement roads, within one day, newspapers can be delivered to every county in Fujian, and within two days, they can be delivered to every village.

In the morning, not long after the rush hour of work, all kinds of shops on the street began to open, thanks to the development of the economy, the whole Fuzhou Mansion and the new city, pubs, teahouses, green buildings and other places are everywhere.

Sitting here with three or five friends when you have nothing to do, a pot of wine or a pot of tea, two plates of melons and fruits or side dishes, chatting about the world is not comfortable.

Storytellers and song-singing craftsmen are also very popular, and whenever they come out, they always cause a burst of cheers, after all, this thing is still an integral part of the entertainment industry hundreds of years later.

Shan Ye is a very famous storyteller, now is different from the past, in the early years, although his book is good, but the income is really average, that is, it is better than food and clothing, but these years, the economy is better, there are more rich people, the tavern and teahouse business is good, under the competition with each other, he said that the salary of the book is also rising again and again, plus the silver money rewarded by the guests, and now, it is also a rich family who has married a three-room concubine.

Yesterday, he received a notice from the government that starting tomorrow, before telling a story, he would first talk about the newspaper and select some content to read to the guests, and then he could start telling the story.

The government rarely interferes in the lives of these people, but once it is ordered, it cannot be disobeyed, but what is this newspaper? This made him worry all night.

The next morning, someone brought the newspaper, and when he took it, he had a deep curiosity, this newspaper was very large, four times the size of ordinary books, but the handwriting was relatively small, dense, piece by piece, obviously written a lot of things.

Since the government requires that the newspaper must be read before the storytelling, and it can be screened, then he must take a good look and choose something attractive to read to everyone, but he can't smash his signboard.

When he was having breakfast, he picked up the newspaper and read it, and the first news on the front page made him can't help but put down his chopsticks and read them seriously under the surprised eyes of his wife and the concubine in the third room.

The headline of the news is "Ping'an South - Remembering Mr. Wuzhou Wang Xuan swept Annan, Weijia Overseas"

The beginning of the history of Annan, starting from the Han Dynasty to open up here, until the failure of the Yuan Dynasty's conquest, to the Ming Dynasty's Hongwu year's non-conquest of the country, to the Zhu Di period during the occupation of the twenty years of rebellion, the Ming Dynasty fell into the quagmire, to Xuande "abandoned Jiaozhi", Li Li accepted the Ming Dynasty canonization, Annan has been disturbing the border since then, until now.

"Bang!" Shan Ye looked at it, and suddenly slapped the table fiercely, shaking the dishes and plates, and scolded in his mouth: "Xiaoguo, dare to offend me Huaxia!" Kill, kill! ”

It turned out that in the paragraph just now, it fully explained the harm of Annan, how many villages were slaughtered in Guangxi and Guangdong, how many people were killed and injured, and how much silver money was lost every year.

Talking about the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin every day, let Shan Ye kill him very much, and he couldn't listen to this kind of thing the most, so he couldn't help but be furious at the moment, and he was so frightened that a few women and children didn't dare to say anything, and they all looked at him in horror.

"Sir." The eldest lady in the main room followed him from poverty, and had the highest status in the family, so she asked aloud at this moment: "What's the matter, master, why are you so angry." ”

"Hmph." Shan Ye shook the newspaper in his hand, pointed to the headline on the front page and said: "After reading this news, I know that a small country like Annan actually despises my Celestial Empire so much, but Mr. Wuzhou has already set off with his troops, and he will definitely be able to pacify Annan in one fell swoop." ”

"The old man is in his hand Di Bao? Annan? Is it a small country over Guangxi? The eldest woman put down her chopsticks and turned her head and asked.

"No, it's called a newspaper, go back and tell your subordinates to buy another copy and come back, let people read it to you, okay, I won't eat it, I'm going to take a good look at it, and I'm going to talk about this thing today." After speaking, Shan Ye got up and left, in fact, he was already attracted to this newspaper, such a large one, a full five pages, he wanted to take a good look.

It wasn't until someone came to tell him that he had gone to the teahouse that he came to his senses and looked at the wall clock, which had been watching for a full hour.

The teahouse is full of people, and at this time of day it is the time for Shan Ye to comment on books, and these people come here on time almost every day to listen to books, if they don't listen for a day, they feel like something is missing.

Shan Ye walked up to the stage and hugged his fists to everyone, but he did not start speaking immediately as usual, but said after arching his hand: "Between today's lectures and commentaries, let's talk about something else first." ”

The unexpected words immediately attracted everyone's attention, and everyone looked at him curiously, and then listened to Shan Ye say: "The government has issued a newspaper here, called "Newsweek", to put it bluntly, it is similar to the nature of the Di newspaper, but it is issued once a week, it is sold publicly, the price is cheap, and all kinds of news are recorded in it, so if you are interested, you can buy it and take a look." ”

"Today, I'm going to tell you about the latest first message."

"Anyway, Annan ......"

In the first issue of the newspaper, there was not much news about Annan, and it was basically written that the dispatch of troops to the mouth of the Red River would be over.

The mystery should be revealed in the second issue, so as to maintain enough attractiveness, but also stimulate the reader's desire to explore and stimulate a sense of anticipation, Wang Xuan affectionately called this technique 'broken chapter'.

This newspaper became popular throughout the province as soon as it was issued, and thanks to the literacy rate, it was easy for everyone to find people who could understand the news, not to mention that there were special people reading newspapers in places such as taverns and teahouses, and even in the villages, there were teachers who learned from Mengxue, so reading the newspaper itself was not a problem.

More importantly, there are all kinds of information recorded in it, including about the expedition to Annam, about the people's livelihood, and about the declassification of previous major events, which can basically meet the needs of people from all walks of life.

What is particularly important is that all articles use the vernacular style, completely abandoning the ambiguous style of biting and chewing words, so that the news will never be misinterpreted, so as to ensure accuracy and authority, and completely break the monopoly of information by the big families.

At the same time, Wang Xuan also accelerated the deployment of slaves from Annam to open mines in Guangdong, open cement factories and steel factories, rebuild roads, and popularize Mongolian education.

After everything was on the right track, Wang Xuan sent the goal to Guangxi, during this time, news came one after another, and large households from all over Guangxi paid money to work out of the army, with sufficient food and salary, and the army was also meeting little by little, and began to assemble towards the front line little by little, in this process, it was still training.

Under the auspices of Li Liangbi, the soldiers of each guard began to be reclassified, the old, weak, sick and disabled were distinguished, and they were assembled little by little, but when they arrived at Siming Mansion on the front line, the 30,000 army was divided into two parts, although there were only more than 14,000 soldiers left in the main station, everyone could see that the combat effectiveness was rising unabated.

On the other hand, Li Liangbi also persuaded the representatives of the four major parties to contact the various Tusi in Guangxi, hoping to send some troops out and join the army together.

The local Tusi force in Guangxi is still very strong, if they can gather together, it will not be a problem to make up more than 10,000 soldiers, not to mention, he knows that there is another force in Guangxi that can play a great role in the war, and that is the 'Five Poisons Sect'.

The ability to use the five poisons will inevitably play a decisive role at the critical moment of war.

At present, Guangxi's behavior has been reversed, and after Li Liangbi integrated his forces with the help of the strength of the four parties, there is more and more anti-guest posture, and the people of the four parties have already taken Li Liangbi's appearance and deeds as the standard in many things.