Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 254 248. Cao Cao's Personal Morality
Feng Xi's public opinion offensive is naturally aimed at Jiangdong and Cao Wei. The current newspapers are divided into two pages: the "Dahan Daily" with positive content and the "Secret News" which is full of special attacks on the lower three routes and is full of plots that the people love to hear, but none of the protagonists are related to the Dahan people.

This is a classic example of praising one and criticizing the other. Even in the later Internet age, it is very effective if used properly. How much more so in this simple era with backward information?

The Dahan Daily had been published for a period of time, and there were countless articles of various sizes in it, such as "The Three Heroes of Peach Garden", "A Thousand Miles Alone", and "Meeting in the Ancient City", which promoted the character of Lao Liu and Dahan officials. These articles subtly raised the people's respect and love for Dahan officials to an unknown level.

At the same time, these positive energy stories can be regarded as a benchmark. Not everyone takes these stories as examples, but there is always a conversion rate. At least the moral standards of the people have indeed improved significantly.

The Dahan Daily no longer needed Feng Xi to worry about it. At most, he would provide two medium-length or long-length ideas and dictate them to the editors, who would then polish them and publish them. After all, eulogizing and truthfully recording were relatively simple things and did not require much instruction.

But Feng Xi had to write "Secret Stories" himself. The choice of words and even certain words were very important. Although Feng Xi was not a top student majoring in journalism, but just an ordinary fireman, in the era of information explosion in the future, who had not read "O Lin", "O Zhe", "Unsolved Mysteries of the World" and the like?

Even if Feng Xi learns a little bit of the basics, it will be a dimensionality reduction blow to this simple era.

Feng Xi naturally paid attention to the dynamics of both parties, and the developments in Jiangdong were still within Feng Xi's expectations. After all, his unfounded opinions had a great influence on Sun Quan, so it was reasonable that they were banned.

However, these were already among the actions that Sun Quan might take that Feng Xi had considered, so Feng Xi just smiled, and several new issues of "Secret News" and "Han Daily" stories came out.

These issues of the newspaper still had a clear division of labor. The "Dahan Daily" recorded how Liu Bei listened to advice in the past, and how high-ranking officials in Jingzhou such as Feng Xi and Huang Quan were also willing to accept advice, and even occasionally visited the people and personally inquired about their conditions, making Ji Han seem like a people-friendly person.

"Secret Observations" describes in detail how Sun Quan, the King of Wu in the Wei Dynasty, launched a literary inquisition and killed innocent people at will for a single word. At the same time, it secretly ridiculed Sun Quan, saying that King Zhou of Shang and King Jie of Xia were no more than him.

As expected, after the new newspaper was published and spread to Jiangdong, it immediately resonated with many people. Jiangdong had some complaints about Sun Quan's brutal behavior after the defense was broken, and now that they saw that every sentence in the newspaper hit the point, many Jiangdong people couldn't help but start to "reflect".

Of course, it is impossible to overthrow Sun Quan with a few pieces of waste paper, but it is possible to plant the seeds of fire. These soft powers will naturally take root and sprout when the real Jiangdong is conquered in the future.

As the old saying goes, it is not the lack of wealth that is worrying, but the inequality of wealth. Feng Xi naturally did not favor one over the other and forgot about Cao Wei. Compared with Cao Cao and Cao Pi, it seems that Sun Quan has no black spots.

After all, although there are some signs of Sun Quan's tyranny and bloodlust now, the main focus is on his old age. Now Sun Quan still looks like a wise ruler. As for the coveting of his sister-in-law, it is really just nonsense that specializes in attacking the lower three roads.

But does Cao Cao still need to be blackened? Many things are repeated with guiding emotions, and the effect is extraordinary.

While gossip was flying all over Jiangdong, some not-so-good rumors began to spread among the people in Nanyang.

The news that "Cao Cao failed to hire a prostitute, so he asked his nephew Cao Anmin to force Zhang Ji's widow Zou to serve him, and finally killed his eldest son Cao Ang, General Dian Wei and countless Cao soldiers" instantly became a hot topic in Nanyang.

Originally, Nanyang was the place where the incident occurred. Even many middle-aged people have memories of the Wancheng Rebellion at that time, let alone the elderly.

However, because the people were all civilians, although they knew that Zhang Xiu rebelled and betrayed Cao Cao again, they did not know why. Now, because of a newspaper disclosure, everyone learned the truth of more than ten years ago, and there was an uproar for a while. Although no one dared to say it openly, they all despised Cao Cao in their hearts.

Because he couldn't control his own private parts, he killed his eldest son; he bullied widows and forced others to serve him. Either of these two things would be despicable in this world, let alone two of them combined into one?

For a time, the people of Nanyang County despised Cao Cao's character, and they inevitably began to doubt the character of the Cao family.

Then there are more exciting topics to follow.

After Cao Cao assassinated Dong Zhuo, he accidentally killed Lü Bushe's family, shouted "I would rather let the world betray me than let the world betray me", massacred the city of Xuzhou, and killed the warehouse official Wang Hu due to lack of food during the siege of Shouchun, and openly told Wang Hu "I will take care of your wife and children."

These behaviors were published in "Secret News" one after another, constantly refreshing people's cognition.

In addition, the previous article implied that Cao Cao liked to molest other people's wives and daughters, which made the killing of Wang Hu seem a little distorted. It was hard not to suspect that Cao Cao had taken a fancy to Wang Hu's wife.

Of course, Feng Xi meant this, but not all of it, but there are still many people who believe this. After all, sometimes the people really care about those dirty topics.

Even the nickname "Married Woman Cao" came out from nowhere.

The generals guarding Nanyang are of course Cao Ren and Cao Zixiao, who are no longer as powerful as they used to be, but are still like an old lion.

There is no need to say much about the relationship between Cao Ren and Cao Cao. As one of Cao Cao's most trusted generals, the fact that he was able to lead a side on his own is the best proof of this.

"They are no longer ordinary people. We must strike hard!"

When Cao Ren learned that the people dared to humiliate Meng De in this way, he naturally could not tolerate it, and immediately arrested several typical examples to punish them.

However, both Cao Ren and Sun Quan overlooked one point, that is, when it comes to public opinion, it is better to channel it than to block it, and blindly suppressing it will only make them seem like they have something to hide.

Sun Quan's story was not so bad, after all, most of it was just rumors, and could be covered up. But Cao Wei's story was a big problem, Feng Xi didn't even need to make up stories, he just needed to repeat what Cao Cao had done, and it was already amazing.

Rumors are afraid of being verified, but facts are not. There are countless witnesses to the massacre in Xuzhou, and the story of Wang Hu is also true. The story of Lü Bushe and the death of Chen Gong can also be verified indirectly...

This means that these secrets that were originally unknown were deliberately brought to the surface by Feng Xi and put under the spotlight.

(End of this chapter)