Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Bookstore
"In this battle, our soldiers suffered heavy losses, and the newly occupied city also needs to be defended by the army, and the strength is obviously insufficient, you immediately arrange a large-scale conscription, at least more than 40,000 soldiers, after the wounded in this battle recover, they do not have to return, and they can form a new division with the recruits."
"Over there in Luzon, I will send another army over to assist in the battle."
Yan Ling instructed the minister of the military department.
The minister of the military department left in a hurry, and then the minister of the ministry came over again to report on the cabinet candidates jointly nominated by the ministers.
Yes, after comprehensive consideration, Yan Ling decided to continue to adopt the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, rather than the general use of the prime minister system like other anti-kings today.
After all, it is also convenient to transform in the future.
Yan Ling shifted his gaze to the list of cabinet members.
The first one is Yan Hongliang, this naturally has nothing to say, he has always been Yan Ling's secretary before, and he is quite familiar with various government affairs, and it is justifiable to enter the cabinet.
The latter two are also officials who have made great contributions to the government, which is completely suitable.
He nodded and signed his name on the paper.
However, this is not enough, the next thing is to be handed over to Yue Wang Yanquan, and after getting his signature and seal, this document will be officially effective, although it is only a procedure, but it must be taken.
When it comes to training juniors, after so many years, Daming dares to say first, and absolutely no one dares to say second.
Letting Yan Quan look at these documents can play a great role in helping him become familiar with government affairs.
Then he asked:
"Are the officials who are going to be sent to the prefectures and counties already prepared?"
"It's ready." The minister nodded and presented another list, but this one Yan Ling only glanced at and signed his name.
This list has been confirmed by both the Ministry of Officials and the Intelligence Department, and it is the officials who have achieved better administrative results in the past period of time, and they will be transferred to the newly occupied prefectures and counties, and their official ranks will also be promoted.
Qianlong has now surfaced, at least the top of the government knows that there is such an agency, it has officially changed its name to the Intelligence Department, and has become an official agency, nominally directly responsible to King Yue, but in fact it is still controlled by him.
"Okay, let the military department arrange for soldiers to follow, and widely expand the various policies in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in various places."
Although the various measures taken by the military governments of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province made the landlords and gentry in various localities very dissatisfied, fortunately, these regulations and policies of the other party were still within their bearings.
Who made the Ming army really weak and couldn't stop the other party?
These have not yet made them revolt, and some people have even begun to inquire about the topics and contents of the last official examination and are ready to take the examination.
In troubled times, after all, it is still force to speak.
However, in order to prevent some money-obsessed guys from taking risks, the army still needs to help suppress it.
"Yes!"
The Minister of Ministers promised to say.
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For the rest of the 21st year of Wuxing, the military governments of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were very calm.
They first began to implement the central policy in several other counties, and with the help of the army, everything went quite smoothly.
These policies ensured the interests of the tenants, and even completely delegated the rule to the towns and villages, wrested power from the hands of the landlords and scholars, and ensured the rights and interests of the common people.
However, even though the burden of the people has been greatly reduced, but at this time the natural disasters are still crisscrossing the land, and the grain should not be harvested or not, but fortunately, Yan Ling immediately ordered the transportation of grain from the treasury of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and provided timely relief to the victims, and the people will naturally not embark on the road of wandering as before.
All of a sudden, the countryside heard the praise of the benevolence and righteousness of the king of Yue, and the voice of the first assistant and the wise.
Although at this time, Changle Bookstore has been completely expelled in various provincial capitals due to the incident of the owner, but these news still spread.
In this troubled era, being able to eat enough and not be affected by war is already like a paradise.
Although these news were banned by the gentry as a "disobedient invitation to buy people's hearts", this kind of thing could not be banned at all, and even the people still talked about it, chatting in private, and when it came to the excitement, someone often broke out
"If only they came soon"
and so on.
The court and the gentry naturally did not want to see all this, with Wang Er and others "in front", they did not dare to underestimate the power of the people as before.
They soon followed the example of the former Changle Bookstore and founded some newspapers in an attempt to control public opinion.
However, Changle Bookstore was too alert, and long before the incident, all kinds of printed supplies and staff had been withdrawn, resulting in them having to start from scratch.
Although some utensils can be imitated, and even the surface of the current theory is exactly the same, but some of the propaganda methods used by Changle Bookstore in later generations, they can't learn it anyway.
For example, even if Changle Bookstore reports some biased content, it maintains a fair appearance as much as possible, but secretly adds some private goods, which are read and understood by the readers themselves.
They are different, openly smearing, saying that the military governments of Jiangsu and Zhejiang "abolished etiquette and music, how different from the barbarians", and even more "disrespected the teachings of Confucius", and used some "sideways and left-handed ways" to win scholars, "fish and meat gentry", and sooner or later "bring about their own destruction".
This kind of thing, everyone who sees it will feel that the credibility is zero.
If the smear is too much, it will arouse the psychology of rebellion.
More importantly, the military government of Jiangsu and Zhejiang propagated by public opinion is too compatible with the public's impression.
The propaganda that began as early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people by this time.
And the other bookstores in the Ming Dynasty are engaged in too big a gap, if they can be hammered, forget it, but it is contrary to the facts, which leads to them quickly losing everyone's trust, and the people would rather listen to the rumors in the market than read the current affairs in the bookstore.
In the end, only the ministers and eunuchs were still buying the "Daming Bookstore" opened by the emperor in order to curry favor with the emperor, and the rest of the scholars and doctors opened only a group of landlords and squires were supporting.
Even the scholars of the Ming Dynasty didn't want to waste money.
On the contrary, it was their hard work to smear them, which led to all kinds of things that happened in the military government of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, and the reputation of the military government of Jiangsu and Zhejiang became even more prosperous.
And as the rumors spread more and more, they were also noticed by some anti-kings.
(End of chapter)