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"Level 4 hangs for 10 days, and rewards 100 flintlock guns (including ammunition), 3,000 Rumi guns (including ammunition). 10 biochemical soldiers. Ten large glass mirrors, and 100,000 pieces of white paper (4-open size) .10 pairs of homing pigeons.
Homing Pigeon: Effective information transmission distance is 3,000 kilometers.
The daily flight distance is 1,000 kilometers.
Note: Homing pigeons can only carry a maximum of 100g.
"What is really missing?" Zhu Youjian couldn't help but sigh.
As Zhu Youjian's grasp of the Ming Dynasty continued to deepen, he increasingly felt the importance of information transmission.
Throughout ancient and modern times, local disasters often lead to civil unrest?
In addition to corrupt officials not caring about the lives of the people and limited transportation capacity, another important reason is the lag in news.
Under normal circumstances, after a disaster occurs, the local state capital will write a memorial to the court to report the situation.
Normally, the imperial court would directly provide disaster relief and at the same time send imperial envoys to check on the situation.
But how long does it take for this to come and go?
Even if it is 800 miles from the disaster area to the imperial court, it will take a day at the fastest. If it is far, and the road is not easy to travel, it will often take ten days and a half to report the disaster memorial to the imperial court. thing.
The precious disaster relief time was wasted.
What’s even more detestable is that throughout Chinese history, reporting good news rather than bad news has always been the way officials behave. After a disaster occurs, the first reaction of local officials is often not to open warehouses for disaster relief or to report the situation to the court. Instead, they will try to prevent the news from getting out.
It was not reported until it could no longer be suppressed. By then, how much more manpower and material resources would the court have to spend to solve the problem?
If a civil uprising was triggered, it would definitely have a fatal impact on the court.
What's even more despicable is that even if the court distributes disaster relief materials, after layers of interceptions by these corrupt officials, less than one out of ten can be implemented in the end.
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The reason why those dog officials dared to reach out for the relief materials was not only because the knife used to kill corrupt officials in court was rusty, but also the more important reason was the transmission of news.
"What's wrong with not having enough to eat? What's wrong with the bottom of the porridge? The imperial court only distributes this small amount of food. If you have the ability, can you ask the imperial court to distribute more food?"
Due to the lack of information in ancient times, coupled with the fact that most of the people did not know a few Chinese characters. The people will only vent their grievances on the court.
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There will be no shortage of natural disasters in the future of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to avoid man-made disasters and trigger large-scale civil unrest, the delivery of messages is particularly important.
It can be said that these ten pairs of homing pigeons came at the right time.
One hundred thousand pieces of blank paper also had a great effect on Zhu Youjian. It was not that Zhu Youjian had never thought about opening a newspaper to influence the public opinion of the people.
But in addition to the insufficient paper production in the Ming Dynasty, another important reason is that the people do not trust the Ming government.
But now, after so many years of development, Qiming Merchants has a good reputation among people everywhere. Especially in the last public opinion war, Qiming Chamber of Commerce played a crucial role.
It also made Zhu Youjian see the importance of public opinion.
With the carrier pigeon and the white paper in his hand, Zhu Youjian had a bold plan in mind.
However, pigeon resources are currently in short supply, and the situation around Daming is still dangerous. Zhu Youjian decided to put the first batch of pigeons into the hands of Jiubian and Zhu Dinghai.
One hundred thousand pieces of white paper were planned to be distributed to the locations of the chief envoys and yamen of the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.
That is, Nanjing, Beijing, Jinan, Shandong, and Taiyuan, Shanxi today. Kaifeng, Henan, Xi'an, Shaanxi. Chengdu, Sichuan. Nanchang, Jiangxi.
Wuchang, Huguang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Fuzhou, Fujian. Guangzhou, Guangdong. Guilin. Yunnan, (Government in Yunnan) Guiyang, Guizhou.
After that, newspapers will be printed with these 15 prefectures as the center, and then radiate to all parts of the country.
Any place where the Qiming Chamber of Commerce can be involved will be captured by Zhu Youjian's public opinion department.
Even if it cannot control public opinion, it can at least ensure that public opinion in Ming Dynasty, especially in Jiangnan and other places, is no longer controlled solely by the Donglin Party.
People in Donglin satirized the government and commented on officials. They demanded integrity, revitalized officialdom, opened up channels of speech, eradicated the accumulated abuses of the government and the public, and opposed the corruption and perversion of the law by the powerful.
These propositions criticizing current politics sound good, but what about the reality?
The ends justify the means, and the interests of the people and the country are not considered at all.
The reason why the Liaodong Jiannu were able to rise is inseparable from the Donglin Party’s divine assistance.
After his eldest brother took the throne, under the planning of the Donglin Party, Yuan Yingtai took over Xiong Tingbi's position. What was the result?
In less than a year of the first year of Tianqi (1621), Shenyang, the important town in Liaodong, and Liaoyang, the capital of Liaodong, fell one after another. Yuan Yingtai committed suicide in fear of crime, and everything east of the Liaohe River fell to the Hou Jin Dynasty.
The Donglin Party still refused to give up. Just after Xiong Tingbi stabilized the situation, Wang Huazhen was sent to seize power, and eventually lost thousands of miles of ground again.
As for being honest and honest, it is a joke. Apart from the six gentlemen of the Donglin Party, how many other people can do it?
Where did Donglin Party member Qian Qianyi's family get the 10,000 acres of fertile land?
Romance, romance, nostalgia, where does the money come from?
How could a bureaucratic class political group dominated by Jiangnan scholar-officials take into account the interests of the people?
They opposed the imperial court's tax collection from industrial and commercial businesses.
But the court needs money to operate.
What to do if you have no money? We can only collect money from farmers.
How much money do ordinary people have?
Isn’t this forcing people to die?
This is really breaking the foundation of the country.
The rich enjoy the benefits brought by the country but do not want to shoulder their own obligations. How can this be allowed?
My eldest brother initially used the Donglin Party, and later Wei Zhongxian. He hid in the palace, but he still saw clearly the face of the Donglin Party.
Historically, Emperor Chongzhen believed in the Donglin Party. What was the result?
In the fifth year of Yuan Chonghuan's pacification of Liao Dynasty, Hou Jin was brought to the edge of the capital.
The common people were also forced to rebel continuously.
In the end, Zhu Youjian had to commit suicide.
Now Zhu Youjian doesn't dare to make the same mistake again.
However, public opinion is indeed controlled by the Donglin Party, and Zhu Youjian has to treat it carefully.
When Emperor Tianqi was here, in order to keep a low profile as much as possible, and the government's impression in the eyes of the people was really not very good. Zhu Youjian did not open a newspaper.
After he ascended the throne, he had too many things to do, and he wanted to take back military power.
After taking back military power, we found that money was being spent everywhere. I also gave up the idea of starting a newspaper.
Now that the military power has been taken back, and the families of many corrupt officials have been investigated, although the calculations have not been made clearly, the money and food will be enough in a short time.
Coupled with the blank paper given by the system, Zhu Youjian planned to open a small newspaper.
That's right, Zhu Youjian did not plan to open a large newspaper agency, but planned to open a small newspaper agency, with the Qiming Chamber of Commerce as the center, and then transmit the news that the court needed to convey to all parts of the Ming Dynasty.
