"Xuan!"
After the processing was almost done, Yao Ji returned to the palace and took some time to write some bound books. It was time for dinner, but the ministers around him were all looking for reasons to stay away, making it clear that they wanted to lick The old face is enjoying the royal meal in the palace.
A chamberlain came to report that Princess Le'an and the consort Gong Yonggu wanted to see each other. Yao Ji thought about it with his heels and knew that the newspaper should be ready. After so many days, there was enough time for writing, typesetting, and printing. .
Sure enough, Gong Yonggu came in with a stack of newspapers in his arms. Since the number was not large, it was only about ten by visual inspection, so although the journey was long, it was not too tiring, and the distance was relatively long.
Normal civil servants and generals who come to have an audience must wait at the Meridian Gate or the Donghua Gate on the southeast side of the palace city. As relatives of the emperor, this couple does not need to wait so far away and only needs to wait outside the East Palace. Just stand and wait for the eunuch to say hello.
"minister……"
"Consort, princess, no need to be polite, just give me a seat!"
While waiting for dinner, the food-loving ministers had nothing to do and were all looking at the pile of things in the hand of the Prince Consort. They had no experience with the novelty of newspapers.
"Your Highness, the princess and my ministers have summoned several scribes in accordance with your highness's instructions and orders. After many days of preparation, it has taken initial shape. Now a small amount of the draft version has been printed. Your highness is kindly requested to read it. If there are any deficiencies, I will repair them immediately. Ichiban, for publication and sale.”
For the Capital Daily, Princess Le'an and Gong Yonggu were very enthusiastic, because it involved an annual income of thousands of taels, so they had to take it seriously.
After many communications, the prince also revealed a top-secret news that was still unknown to the public, that is, the imperial court would no longer allocate funds to support the clan in the future.
Not only the vassal kings from various places or the married princesses, those who have connections will use their connections, and those who have no connections will find connections. In short, regardless of their level, each family will be self-reliant.
This move will save the Ministry of Household Affairs millions of taels of silver every year. It can be said to be a timely help for the current stretched income and huge expenses.
Gong Yonggu's family was not too wealthy. Fortunately, when Princess Le'an came out of the cabinet, the royal family gave her a lot of dowry. If she didn't spend too much money, she could have enough food and clothing.
Princess Le'an is best friends with her beautiful biological mother and the emperor's sister-in-law Zhang Yan. Even if she is short of money, she can just go to the palace and ask for some, but this is still not as practical as making money by herself, and there is no need to look at other people's faces.
"Very good! My dear friends, you might as well take a look at it. This is a newspaper. I will improve the newspaper so that it can become the mouthpiece of the imperial court and serve as a tool to spread the word and implement administrative decrees!"
As soon as a certain prince waved his hand, Yang Jinchao understood and presented one copy to the young master, and then gave one copy to each of the ministers present.
In terms of paper size and layout, the Jingshi Daily is not much different from the newspapers of later generations.
The only awkward part is the layout. Because it is vertical, it looks very laborious, but the ministers enjoy it.
This newspaper stimulates them too much. Throughout the ages, there has never been a publication that contains a large amount of information for officials and people to read.
There is a message on the front page that the emperor travels to immortality and the prince oversees the country!
What was stated was the content of the imperial edict that was read out in public on the first day of the court meeting, so that the world would know what was going on. Do not rely on hearsay and make assumptions. The information must be based on the information released by the court. The number of words will not be much higher than that of street leaflets.
There is no need to continue to hide the fact that the blame dumper has turned into a vegetative state, because the ministers already know it, and it will soon spread throughout the country. It is easier to take the initiative in public opinion by publicly announcing that he is traveling like a crane.
In this way, the rogue bandits will also know, but as long as "Big Zongzi" has placed an informant in the capital, he must have already heard the relevant content, and will have sent a fast horse to send the news to his home base in Gucheng, Huguang.
However, only Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting knew about the military campaign to suppress the invaders in the south. As long as they did not leak the news, no one else would know, unless Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others decided to launch a rebellion in advance.
Most of the officials and people in the capital already knew about the prince's supervision of the country, but they were only anxious for a few days, and soon returned to their original state. They ate what they should eat, drank what they should drink, and those who deserved to die continued to die... …
The title of the second page is "The Complete Suppression of the Rebellion in the Beijing Camp", which was added temporarily. Originally, this position was supposed to announce the exemption of all taxes in the northern region and the cancellation of the prince's edict of three wages.
However, the nature of the rebellion in the Beijing camp was too bad and its impact was extremely serious. The people in the outer city were brutally tortured. Even though the scumbags had been beaten to death, it still made people panic. It had to be confirmed in the form of an announcement to calm Min's heart.
All bad things must be thrown to this group of damn scum. In view of their many evil deeds, they must bear the blame this time. As for the families of the innocent people who were killed and plundered by the rebels, they will believe whatever the newspapers say. of.
Especially if all six lieutenants of the three major battalions have been captured and the news of Liu Liangzuo's escape is known to the public, firstly, it can win people's hearts, and secondly, it can also give Hong Chengchou and his troops a good excuse to go south to pursue the remnants.
The third page is about the imperial edict exempting the country from three taxes and the northern taxes.
The direct causes of the endless changes in various places are natural disasters and corruption. The natural disasters are naturally the drought at the end of the Little Glacier, and the disasters are attributed to the three-payer plan and the increasingly serious land annexation in the late Ming Dynasty.
Due to successive years of drought, there has been no rainfall in many places in Shaanxi for several years, and crops have been harvested. Farmers are unable to pay taxes and are still hungry. However, if taxes are exempted from the disaster-stricken areas in a timely manner and relief is provided in a timely manner, this can still be avoided. Min changed.
However, the arrears of pay in the northwest were the fuse of the conflict. The person who created this fuse was the strategizing Governor Yuan. The imperial court sent most of the military pay to Liaodong, which would inevitably lead to the problem of arrears of pay in some areas.
A large number of unemployed people, especially tens of thousands of military-trained officers and soldiers, were finally gathered together and turned into a protracted rebellion.
The soldiers who were in arrears had no money to collect, the landless farmers had no land to farm, and the unemployed postmen had nothing to do. Correspondingly, local officials were exploiting and profiting from it privately under clever names, which aroused even more dissatisfaction and anger.
The initiator of this was the scapegoat. After listening to someone's advice, he used the west wall to patch up the east wall. As a result, before the east wall was patched up, the house suddenly had two walls that were leaking, and the wind began to blow from both sides.
What followed was the turbulent Minbian rebellion in various places. Not only were the bandits repeatedly suppressed, but more and more of them were suppressed, making it difficult for everyone in the court to sleep and eat. Taicang in the household department was already exhausted.
The scapegoat had to collect three wages to maintain the wages of the suppressing bandit army and the Liaodong army, and then intensified the civil war. The solution itself was the problem. This was the most typical vicious circle.
If the collection of three wages is not stopped, the Great Rebellion Dynasty will have to repeat the same mistakes and be tortured to death by the incompetent Guizhou donkey father.
As the second generation of the emperor, a certain prince looked down upon the poor man's money. He would ask for it from anyone who had money.
Therefore, the fourth edition will let everyone see how they play the role of the prince to severely punish the country's worms!
Since moths can create clever names and line their own pockets, then a certain prince can definitely copy them.
For example...what did Aiqing eat last night?
The person who dared to answer that he ate fried soybeans has now been impoverished by factory guards!
The officials of the Great Rebellion Dynasty, if you don’t check them, they all seem to be honest officials. If you check them, they all seem to be officials of the Qing Dynasty!
Faced with such a difficult financial situation, a certain prince thought of a famous song. When you have no money, who do you think of?
Dare to openly deceive the king and confiscate the house!
Dare to resist the order and not respect the house confiscation!
Dare to disobey the prince and confiscate your home!
Dare to violate the law and confiscate your home!
So far, the wealth of all the moths whose homes have been confiscated has not been less than 5,000 taels, which is very worthy of the results of their previous efforts.
Hanlin officials like Chen Zhilin can earn thousands of taels of silver a year, not to mention others. Taking advantage of the imperial examination fraud case, they can just wipe out the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial College.
A certain prince was secretly calculating that if the nearly a thousand people captured in this batch were all worth this much, they would be able to recharge the household department with five million taels of silver at a time, which would definitely make Li Shiwen, who admired the concept of living within his means, overjoyed.
If he is not so optimistic, he can at least have one or two million taels of silver. When all the antiques, calligraphy, paintings and jewelry he has accumulated are sold, doubling the total amount should not be a problem.
What should I do if I can’t reach five million taels? Then let’s continue catching bugs!
After arresting them in the capital, they can be arrested in the Jifu area. You can also arrest them in Tianjin and Baoding. They must meet the expectations of a certain prince.
Next came the news about the appointment and dismissal of court officials. Some people were unlucky enough to be arrested, and their homes were ransacked. Naturally, some people wanted to reinstate the official or be promoted to fill the vacancy.
The list of cabinet members and the six Ministers and Ministers must be announced. Furthermore, the medical department must be established to widely publicize the yamen's responsibility to save lives and heal the wounded. It must also take advantage of the trend to recruit doctors for the hospital under construction.
Doctors need to submit personal household registration information, which will be checked by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Jinyiwei. They will then go through interviews, written tests, and clinical assessments before they can be hired and then go on duty to make medical appointments. If there is a problem with any of the items, they will have to be re-examined.
Hu Shi'an, who had just been appointed as the right minister of the medical department, was offered to Chen Zhilin. Although he had already taken up his new post, the money had already been accepted, so a certain prince asked Liu Lishun, the number one candidate in the seventh year of Chongzhen's imperial examination, to fill the vacancy.
Liu Zhengzong, the president of the Hanlin Academy who was bitten out, will most likely be executed by questioning, and will be replaced by Wang Wei, who supports the prince's new policy. It is hoped that he can clean up the troubled Hanlin Academy.
Wu Di, as the second assistant, was nominally elected by the court meeting. This is the practice of fighting against the court, and Yao Ji did not deliberately break it. Anyway, if it is really serious, then we will vote and guarantee that some people will burst into tears. until.
It doesn't matter if there are only two people in the cabinet. The vacant seats can be temporarily shelved and no one can say anything. If they want to fill up, they can be filled in at any time. No matter who enters, they will consciously side with a certain prince.
There is no need to publish the salary increase for officials. After all, the outer city has just been looted and many people have not yet settled down. If it is announced at this time, it will easily stimulate everyone's fragile nerves.
Yaoji felt that the previously proposed 30% commercial tax was a bit high, so he lowered it to 20%, so that the merchants could bear it and the court would benefit.
It doesn't matter if they can't bear it. They can go down to the underworld to find the King of Hell and move his troops. If they feel they can bear it, then just obediently pay the money.
If there are people who continue to keep two accounts, all whistleblowers, once the situation is verified, can get 10% of the property of the person being reported. Let’s see if you dare to continue to take risks.
Using reporting rewards can make most merchants surrender directly. As long as the housekeeper or accountant betrays them, their wealth accumulated over generations will be wiped out in an instant.
Under such a huge temptation, many people will choose to come over and hug the "big chicken legs of pure gold". If you report once, you can enjoy a lifetime of happiness. Money, a house, and a girl. These three major things are all available in one step. Who wouldn't be tempted? ah?
Not to mention the housekeeper, as long as the neglected concubine or some of the children at home steal the ledger and hand it over to the factory guard, their dream of turning a corner can be realized.
As long as you take one risk, you can pocket tens of thousands of taels of silver. This business is definitely worth it. It will be a huge profit no matter what, even if you hire someone to do it.
Seeing the contents of the sixth page, the hearts of the merchants are probably going to freeze. If a certain prince does not take action, it will be fatal. If he does, it will be fatal with one blow, making the enemy's life worse than death, and he will have to kneel down and beg for mercy.
If you really want to avoid paying any tax at all, then become a "royal dung beetle". This business is completely tax-free, as long as you can tolerate the stench.
The seventh page calls on the people to eat locusts vigorously. They are rich in nutrients and taste good after being fried. The officials in the imperial court have tasted them and said they are good. Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, used the magic weapon of the fairy world to catch them personally in the outer court!
From now on, everyone no longer needs to have obstacles and doubts about this kind of bugs. They can eat them to their heart's content. It doesn't matter if you can't eat them. The official is also responsible for purchasing them. One pound can be exchanged for five copper coins, and there is no limit to the amount.
In order to enhance credibility, special purchase locations were specifically stated on it. They were set up outside the city gates in the east, west, north and south. The price was clearly marked, cash was paid, and officials from Shuntian Prefecture weighed the items on the spot.
One hundred thousand taels of silver can buy 20 million kilograms of locusts. It is estimated that in order to make a fortune, the people will be very enthusiastic to catch locusts. If so many are caught, it is estimated that the locusts in the entire Kifu area will be extinct.
Everyone automatically ignored this page, because when they thought of eating locusts, they thought of the horrifying scene a few days ago. The bowl was filled with a lot of dark, densely packed disgusting things, and they suddenly lost their appetite.
Hong Chengchou had never seen the grand occasion at that time, so he was still interested in reading this edition. He thought that the knowledge introduced in it was very meaningful and opened his eyes. He planned to try this when he went back and taste the taste of this thing. In case the prince It's good to get a response when asked.
What made everyone even more off-putting was the content that followed. A certain prince wanted to use the claws of the "Imperial Dung Beetle" to build large-scale public toilets in the capital to make it easier for everyone to go out and have sex, so as not to just find a corner and start having sex. ".
In order to show their loyalty, the "Queen Dung Beetles" also wanted to spend money to advertise, but Yaoji temporarily put it on hold.
Businessmen in other industries can be forgiven for advertising. Don’t you know what you do?
Is it necessary to advertise this to encourage the general public to defecate actively?
