A century-old family that runs through the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 364 Bookshop

"In this battle, our soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the newly occupied city also needs troops to guard. The strength of the troops is obviously insufficient. You should immediately arrange a large-scale recruitment, at least 40,000 troops. The wounded in this battle have recovered. After that, you don’t have to return and you can form a new division with new recruits.”

"Over at Luzon, I will transfer another army to assist in the battle."

Yan Ling gave instructions to the military minister.

The minister of the military department left in a hurry, and then the minister of the civil affairs department came over to report on the cabinet candidates jointly recommended by the ministers of each department.

Yes, after comprehensive consideration, Yan Ling decided to continue to adopt the Ming Dynasty's cabinet system, instead of generally using the prime minister system like other anti-kings today.

After all, it will be convenient to transform in the future.

Yan Ling turned his attention to the list of cabinet members.

The first one is Yan Hongliang. Of course, there is no need to mention this. He has always acted as Yan Ling's secretary before and is quite familiar with various government affairs. It is logical for him to enter the cabinet.

The latter two are also officials who have made great contributions to the government, so they are completely suitable.

He nodded and signed his name on the document.

Although the various measures of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang military governments made the landlords and gentry everywhere very dissatisfied, fortunately, the other party's regulations and policies were still within the scope of their tolerance, including light corvee and low taxes, population census, and the establishment of a town and village administrative system. , although the landlords felt unhappy, they still held their noses and admitted it.

"Okay, let the military department arrange for soldiers to follow and spread various policies in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas widely."

This list has been double confirmed by the Ministry of Personnel and the Intelligence Department. It is an official with relatively outstanding administrative performance in the past period. They will be transferred to the newly occupied prefectures and counties, and their official ranks will also be promoted.

Allowing Yan Quan to review these documents will play a great role in helping him become familiar with government affairs.

"It's ready." The Minister of Personnel nodded and presented another list, but this time Yan Ling only glanced at it and signed his name.

"Are the officials who are going to be sent to various prefectures and counties ready?"

However, in order to prevent some money-obsessed guys from taking risks, the army still needs to help suppress them.

Qianlong has now surfaced. At least the top officials of the government are aware of the existence of such an agency. It has been officially renamed the Intelligence Department and has become an official agency. It is nominally directly responsible to the King of Yue, but in fact it is still controlled by him.

Who makes the Ming army really weak and unable to stop the opponent?

When it comes to training younger generations, after so many years, Ming Dynasty dares to say that he is the first, and absolutely no one dares to say that he is second.

"As ordered!"

However, that's not all. Next, it has to be handed over to King Yanquan of Yue. After getting his signature and seal, this document will be officially effective. Although it is just a procedure, it must be followed.

In troubled times, force speaks for itself after all.

This is not enough to cause them to rebel in groups. Some of them have even begun to inquire about the topics and content of the last official examination and are preparing to take the assessment.

Then he asked:

The Minister of Personnel promised.

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In the following period of the 21st year of Wuxing, the military government in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was very calm. They first began to implement the central government's policies in several other counties, and with the help of the army, everything went smoothly.

These policies guaranteed the interests of tenant farmers, completely decentralized rule to towns and villages, wrested power from the hands of landlords and scholar-bureaucrats, and guaranteed the rights and interests of the people.

However, even though the burden on the people has been greatly reduced, natural disasters are still raging across the land at this time, and food cannot be harvested. Fortunately, Yan Ling immediately ordered food to be transported from the treasury in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to provide timely relief to the victims. , the people will naturally not embark on the wandering road as in the past. Even though they have suffered from disasters, at least they still have hope of survival.

All of a sudden, people in the countryside could hear voices praising the king of Yue for his benevolence and righteousness and his wise leadership.

Although Changle Bookstore had been completely expelled from various provincial capitals due to the owner's uprising at this time, the news still spread like wildfire.

In this troubled world, being able to have enough to eat and not be affected by war is already like a paradise.

Although these news were suppressed by various gentry, and regarded as a "treasonous invitation to buy people's hearts", this kind of thing could not be banned at all, and even the people talked about it, chatting in private, and often talked about exciting things. explode

"It would be nice if they came quickly."

Statements like that.

Naturally, the court and the gentry did not want to see all this. With Wang Er and others "bejeweled", 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 had already removed all printing supplies and staff before the incident, leaving them with no choice but to start from scratch.

Although they can imitate some utensils and even make the appearance of Shi Lun exactly the same, they cannot learn any of the later propaganda methods used by Changle Bookstore.

For example, even if Changle Bookstore reports some biased content, it maintains an appearance of fairness as much as possible, but only adds some private information secretly, allowing readers to read and understand it themselves.

They are different. They openly slander and say that the military government of Jiangsu and Zhejiang "has abolished rituals and music, how is it different from the barbarians", and even "disrespects the teachings of Confucius" and uses some "heterodox" to recruit scholars and "fish and gentry", and sooner or later they will " self-destruction."

Anyone who sees this kind of thing will think it has zero credibility.

If you smear someone too much, it will arouse a rebellious mentality.

More importantly, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang military governments propagated by popular opinion really match the popular impression.

The propaganda that started as early as the early Ming Dynasty had already taken root in the hearts of the people.

The other bookstores in the Ming Dynasty were too disparate. It would have been fine if they could actually do it, but they were completely contrary to the facts. This caused them to quickly lose everyone's trust. The people would rather listen to the rumors in the market than to I am willing to read the current affairs in the bookshop again.

In the end, only the ministers and eunuchs were still buying the "Da Ming Book Shop" opened by the emperor in order to please the emperor. The rest of the "Da Ming Book Shop" opened by the emperor was only supported by a group of landlords and squires.

Even the scholars of the Ming Dynasty did not want to waste money.

Instead, they worked hard to smear him, causing everything that happened in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Military Governments to spread throughout the Ming Dynasty. The reputation of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Military Governments became even more prosperous, and for a while, there were signs of being "coveted by the whole world".

As the rumors spread more and more, they were also noticed by some anti-kings.

(End of this chapter)