An article supporting horse racing betting published by the pseudonym Xin Zhongping was published on the front page of Xinmin Daily, stirring up public opinion that had been gradually quiet. But newspapers are public opinion, and the censors and ministers have no reason to write memorials to the emperor on this issue - they can only get angry. The stupid ones screamed at home, while the quick-thinking ones wrote refuting articles one after another and submitted them to the "Jingshi Daily".
At this time, Zhu Yijun's foresight in setting up two newspapers in the capital was revealed. If these opposing voices could not be expressed, newspapers would not only lose credibility, but also easily form an information cocoon, resulting in a two-tiered divide between private public opinion and newspaper public opinion. Skin.
Zhu Yijun's design was perfect, and Zhang Yuangong and his two brothers wanted to cry without tears. After the death of the British Duke, Zhang Yuangong inherited the position of the second-class Duke and served as the palace minister. His position was above Chen Ju - the British Duke's royal family remained outstanding.
Of course, this holy family is not free, and his younger brother Zhang Yuande became the emperor's knife to control public opinion. Because Zhang Yuande was the proprietor of "Jingshi Daily", the Zhang family couldn't help it - Zhang Yuangong was scolded by King Zhou these days when he met him, which was the price.
Because the public opinion positioning of the two newspapers is different, "Jingshi Daily" claims to be neutral but leaning toward conservative, and "Xinmin Daily" also claims to be impartial but leaning toward innovation. At a time when the reform is in full swing and conservatives are being driven out of the court one after another, "Jingshi Daily" Daily Daily wanders on the edge of political incorrectness every day, and brothers Zhang Yuangong and Zhang Yuande both want to die.
Because the emperor's manipulation of public opinion was a high-end secret operation, Zhu Yijun usually dictated the key points to Zhang Yuangong, and even the confidants in the attendant's room and the cabinet ministers did not write anything on this matter. If later generations of historians look at the history of this period, they will definitely have a beautiful misunderstanding, thinking that conservative forces were still very strong in the Ming Dynasty until the twelfth year of Wanli - the articles in the "Jingshi Daily" are clear evidence.
In fact, when the imperial power is supreme and Zhu Yijun has consolidated his power, "If I don't speak first when spring comes, which autumn insect dares to speak" is the normal state of the government and the public. But as a result, the British public is in a very strange state.
In the court, everyone was afraid to avoid him; when they returned home, those opposition figures who had a similar stance to the "Jingshi Daily" came to ask for help - making Zhang Yuangong and Zhang Yuande almost schizophrenic.
However, the car door had been welded shut by the emperor, and the two of them could not get out of the car, so they could only grit their teeth and hold on. Now faced with the influx of submissions, Zhang Yuande took it home to discuss with his brother - should we post it or post it?
This matter has long been heard by Datian. Zhang Yuangong has already received the decree in Yangxin Hall. At this time, he gritted his teeth and said: "Pick those who speak fiercely--fa! I'll just stay away from King Zhou these days."
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The birth of the Jockey Club is just a microcosm of the great changes that have taken place in the capital and the world, and the fierce controversy it has triggered is just a small splash in the current disputes in public opinion. The common people in the capital could use these contents as a source of conversation after dinner, but if they left the capital for a hundred miles, the information would decline sharply and would only be circulated among the scholars and the upper class. As for the people, who has the time to care about how much the Jockey Club's gambling tickets can be sold for?
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In the twelfth year of Wanli, Ming Dynasty encountered its first productivity improvement crisis after the reform. Fortunately, more than ten years of hard work has brought a lot of money and food, coupled with the huge size of the Ming Dynasty itself and the expansion of Northeast China and Myanmar, including the infrastructure investment brought by the Huanghuai Water Conservancy Project - brought enough wealth to the Ming Dynasty. Amount of redundancy.
A large number of immigrants from the south were sent to Burma in an organized manner. With the full opening of the markets in Japan, North Korea, Burma and Goa, the intense pain of the reform also subsided. The Ming Empire was like a butterfly emerging, undergoing a painful transformation.
While King Zhou jumped at home and scolded Zhang Yuande, King Yixiu, the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture, smiled bitterly at the person in front of him and said: "Brother Maoquan, now we are both doomed - you are stupid!"
This Wang Yixiu was the prefect of Songjiang at that time. After the Xu family was settled, this guy Zhanguang was on the plan for three consecutive years. Soon he jumped from the fourth rank to the third rank and became the Minister of Rites in Nanjing.
However, official circles have memories - it was his request for support from the imperial court that revived Hai Qingtian, who had returned to Hainan. People in the official circles wanted to slap him in the face with big noses. When he was the leader in Songjiang, no one could punish him. After arriving in Nanjing, Wang Yixiu's good luck came to an end.
In addition, this guy's official fighting ability is not outstanding - if Hai Rui hadn't reminded him back then, he would have been installed as a slave by Xu Jie, which is proof of this. After he reached the high position of minister, he was given small shoes to wear from top to bottom, left and right, which led to continuous mistakes in official affairs.
Originally, it didn't matter if something went wrong in Nanjing, especially for a government office like the Ministry of Rites that had nothing to do with people's livelihood. But he couldn't stand people staring at him. He was impeached one after another and was beaten back to his original form. Finally, he was moved to Shuntian Mansion and became the Prime Minister.
Shuntian Mansion, like Yingtian Mansion, both have high-ranking officials. Fu Yin is in the third rank, but Fu Cheng is in the fourth rank. Wang Yixiu worked hard for seven or eight years and returned to before liberation overnight. Now he is worse off than he was in Songjiang.
After returning to the fourth rank, Wang Yixiu learned from the pain and made an unforgettable summary of the lessons he had learned from being tricked continuously in Nanjing. This official was so smooth that no one could find any reason for it.
But when it comes to the most dangerous positions in the officialdom, the two officials of Shuntian Fu Yin and Fu Cheng are among the top three - otherwise it would not be Wang Yixiu's turn: he will do all the work and take all the blame. When the pot is too big, Fu Yin will also be unlucky.
Fortunately, Wang Tingzhan, the prefect who took office last year, was born in the attendant's room, has a solid waist, and is a decent person, so Wang Yixiu's life was saved. However, his teammates were too scumbag. Wang Yixiu had been cautious for more than two years in office, but he still encountered a big crisis this time - a big thunder broke out in Miyun County under his jurisdiction.
Miyun originally belonged to Wanping, but due to Zhu Yijun's steel development, the imperial government discovered iron ore in Miyun, which happened to be able to form a coal and steel complex with the Mentougou Coal Mine in the western suburbs. The imperial court removed Miyun Iron Mine and Mentougou from Wanping County. After drawing it out, we found some flat land between the two places on the side of Mentougou, built a city and promoted it to the county seat.
The second magistrate of Miyun County was Wei Yunzhong, who was a top three Jinshi in the eighth year of Wanli. He was 40 years old and had the courtesy name Maoquan. He was smart at a young age and was famous for his literature as a young man. Together with his elder brother Wei Yunzhen and younger brother Wei Yunfu, he was known as the "Three Wei Dynasties of Nanle", and he was the most talented for a while. choice.
Wei Yunzhong once passed the provincial examination to understand the Yuan Dynasty, and his literary reputation was not inferior to that of Tu Long and Hu Yinglin. But like these "talented scholars" with high literary reputations, they are not very adaptable to the gradual changes in the imperial examinations - the proportion of scores such as multiple-choice questions, reading comprehension, and essays is getting higher and higher. In the eighth year of Wanli's reign, Wei Yunzhong took part in the general examination and only came first among the top three, and was elected as the magistrate of Miyun County.
Wei Yunzhong prided himself on being a talented person but failed to get an official position in the capital. He only got the rule of Baili, and his mood was inevitably a little fluctuating. In Wanli's eleventh year, his performance was average--after remaining in office, he became even more dissolute. He only cared about poetry and singing every day, leaving all practical matters to the county magistrate and chief registrar.
This kind of management problem is not a big one. On the one hand, the county magistrate and the chief registrar are old grassroots and have rich experience; on the other hand, Miyun County is a county town built on the basis of coal mines and iron mines, and more than half of them are workers of Miyun Iron and Steel Trading Co., Ltd. And his family members, the trading company manager speaks better than him here. Therefore, the county magistrate's choice did not affect the operation of the county government.
But before the Spring Festival in the 11th year of Wanli, Miyun Iron and Steel Trading Co., Ltd. sent people to the county to report the case, saying that someone was secretly digging coal mines for profit, and hoped that Miyun County would investigate and deal with it. By the end of the year, Wei Yunzhong was drunk every day - he threw the case directly to the magistrate Ma Bin.
Ma Bin is also a veteran policeman, and the case is not complicated: he has all the people from all walks of life around Miyun County who rely on trading companies to make a living. After the Spring Festival, he solved the case and handed over a guy named Hu Yong to the county magistrate. The files showed that this man secretly dug coal mines with some idlers and sold them to the Jingshi Coal Company for three hundred taels of silver.
There was no need to be punished. Hu Yong and his gang confessed their crimes and were sentenced to compensate the trading company for its losses, and were sentenced to caning and exile. The case was reported to Shuntian Mansion from Miyun, and reviewed and approved by Tong Juan and Wang Yixiu in accordance with the law.
More than a year ago, on the Double Ninth Festival of the twelfth year of Wanli, a safety accident occurred in Mentougou. A sudden collapse of a coal mine killed more than a dozen miners. After half a month, the scene was cleared, and the cause of the accident was found out - holes were stolen behind the accident mine, and nearly 500 acres of coal seams in the mining area had been mined out!
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