The editor-in-chief of the newspaper must be talented and cunning enough, and at the same time he must be loyal enough to the cause of eunuchs.

Wei Zhongxian and his group of eunuchs, as well as the warriors of Dongchang Jinyiwei, are destined to not be able to do this delicate work.

So Zhu Youxiao picked and chosen, but let him pick a very suitable candidate.

This person is none other than the minister of the eunuch party, the Hanlin Yuan reviewed Sun Zhiqi.

After thinking about it, Zhu Youxiao really didn't have a more suitable candidate than Sun Zhiqi.

First of all, Sun Zhiqi's literary achievements cannot be said to be very high, but there must be talent.

Otherwise, Sun Zhiqi will definitely not be able to be reviewed by the Hanlin Academy.

At the same time, in history, the "Three Dynasties Classics" compiled by the eunuch party for the purpose of excluding and killing dissidents was also edited by Sun Zhiqi.

So Zhu Youxiao asked him to be the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, and that was definitely not a problem.

The most important thing is that Sun Zhiqi is really loyal enough to the cause of the eunuch party.

Even in Zhu Youxiao's eunuch party, there is no minister who is more loyal to the eunuch cause than Sun Zhiqi.

In history, after the fall of Wei Zhongxian, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty ordered the destruction of the "Three Dynasties Essentials" written by the eunuchs for the purpose of excluding and killing dissidents.

Sun Zhiqi once hugged the "Three Dynasties Classics" to the Taimiao and cried bitterly, which was despised by Shilin.

In August of this year, the imperial court "cut Sun Zhiqi's registration" and let him return to his hometown to live.

In these respects, Sun Zhiqi's loyalty to the eunuchs is even stronger than that of the universities in the cabinet.

Don't look at the few scholars in the cabinet, although they are all eunuchs, but as eunuchs, they don't do eunuch business.

They shouted in support of Wei Zhongxian in the open, but in fact, they were a wall-riding faction behind the scenes.

With that cabinet head Huang Liji as the head. One counts as one, and all of them are like that.

In this case, Sun Zhiqi's loyalty to the eunuch party is even more valuable.

In particular, after Sun Zhiqi has been trained by Zhu Youxiao, he already knows very well what he should do when he runs this newspaper.

He stood respectfully in front of Zhu Youxiao, and said to Zhu Youxiao flatteringly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, as long as you hand over this matter to Weichen, Weichen will definitely handle it properly for you." ”

Of course, Zhu Youxiao believes that as long as this Sun Zhiqi is given the opportunity to climb up, there is nothing he will not dare to do.

It can be said that this Sun Zhiqi has no shame.

After all, this is in history, and Sun Zhiqi is also a big traitor.

His most famous event was the shaving of his hair in the Qing Dynasty.

On April 22, the first year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1644), on the first day when the Qing army defeated Li Zicheng and entered Shanhaiguan, he ordered the people of the Ming Dynasty to shave their heads in the way of the Qing Dynasty.

On the first day of the first month of May, the regent Dolgon led the Qing army through Tongzhou, and Zhizhou surrendered, and Dolgon "ordered to shave his hair".

On the second day of the first month, Dolgon entered the Shuntian Mansion, and the next day Dolgon issued orders to the military department and the officials and people of the former Ming Dynasty, ordering the military department to send people to various places to appease them, requiring "the officials and soldiers and civilians of the surrender to Cheng should wear shaved hair and dress in accordance with the system of this dynasty."

This is the Qing Dynasty after entering the Shuntian Mansion, officially issued a decree to shave hair and change clothes.

In order to win the favor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Sun Zhiqi has the heart to "show his relatives by standardizing differences". One day, when he went to court, he became "refreshed", not only shaved his hair and kept braids, but also changed to wear the clothes of Manchu officials.

At that time, the courtiers were divided into two classes, Manchu and Han, and when he went to the court, the ministers of the Manchu class said that he was Han and did not allow him to enter the class;

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The minister of Hanban said that he was dressed as a man, and he didn't want him.

Sun Zhiqi, who was hovering between the two classes, couldn't advance or retreat, and was embarrassed.

So Sun Zhiqi was furious and proposed to speed up the implementation of the shaving order issued by the imperial court before.

Shu Yan: "Your Majesty has pacified China, everything is new, and the system of dressing and bundling is the only one that exists in the old, this is Your Majesty from China, not China from Your Majesty." ”

Dolgon accepted this proposal, and in June of the second year of Shunzhi (1645 AD), he ordered the "shaving order" to be issued again, stipulating: "The officials and people of the whole country, the capital and the outside are limited to ten days, and the Zhili and the provinces and localities are also limited to ten days to the day with cloth text, and all hair is shaved." ”

What does that mean?

This means that Sun Zhiji, since his eunuch career was completely ruined, and later the fall of the Ming Dynasty directly took refuge in the Qing Dynasty's court.

Sun Zhiqi also proposed to Dolgon to speed up the pace of the head shaving order, and it is even said that he first put forward the bastard suggestion of "keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head".

If Sun Zhiqi reaches that level, Zhu Youxiao will definitely cut this grandson with a thousand knives, otherwise it will be difficult to understand the hatred in his heart.

But now this Sun Zhiqi. is still a shameless young official who wants to emasculate the cause of the party and spill his blood.

It was because of his various advantages that Zhu Youxiao took a fancy to him, and directly appointed him as the editor-in-chief of these new newspapers.

Zhu Youxiao also allocated him 100,000 taels of silver as start-up capital.

Sure enough, since Sun Zhiqi became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, he has clearly investigated the bullshit things that the Donglin Party ministers have done in the past few years.

As well as Zhu Youxiao's killing of Zhou Kui, Yan Mingtai, and so on, Sun Zhiqi planned to get them out in batches in these newspapers.

He hired a special writer and gave these things a lot of storytelling, and the writing was colorful.

Moreover, Sun Zhiqi knew very well that Zhu Youxiao's positioning of this newspaper was for the general public and ordinary landlords and businessmen.

These people have a common characteristic, that is, their literary accomplishment is not very high.

If you let them read ordinary vernacular texts, it is not a big problem, and if you let them read rather esoteric texts, then their interest is not high.

In order to avoid these problems in his newspaper, Sun Zhiqi also invited some storytellers to come over to read the content of their newspaper and give a guiding improvement plan.

After this kind of improvement, the storytelling and coolness in it even made many online writers in later generations feel ashamed.

When he went through a lot of hardships, he finally showed the first edition of the Shuntianfu Daily to Zhu Youxiao.

He saw Zhu Youxiao flipping through the newspaper, as if he was a little dissatisfied with the newspaper.

Sun Zhiqi was also a little panicked when he saw Zhu Youxiao's expression, and he was still waiting to borrow this newspaper to curry favor with Zhu Youxiao!

"Your Majesty, but Weichen's newspaper is not doing well?"

Zhu Youxiao shook his head and said, "Your newspaper is good, but there are many things that you haven't mastered yet." ”

When Sun Zhiqi listened to this thing, he also felt a little depressed, and he was a little unconvinced.

He had to pluck up the courage to ask Zhu Youxiao again, "Your Majesty forgives me, Weichen doesn't understand, and I ask Your Majesty to teach me!" ”

Zhu Youxiao looked at the Sun Zhiqi in front of him, and suddenly showed a subtle expression.

"Wait, I'm going to teach you what the Shock Department is! Title Party! ”