Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 448 Visiting Guanghua Daily Newspaper Office
Zhu Youjian knew that the arrival of the Manchu Qing envoy would definitely cause a sensation in the government and the public.

Southern officials must support the peace negotiation for various reasons, in order to achieve the purpose of safeguarding their own southern interests and avoiding the advancement of military attaches and the expansion of honorary collectives.

Even from the perspective of seizing the throne, not many officials hoped that King Ding would use the Northern Expedition to strengthen his power.

But these opponents can only object indirectly with various reasons. They cannot directly say that the Northern Expedition cannot be made, nor can they say that once a peace is negotiated, they will permanently favor the southern country.

After all, recovering the northern capital is the ideological consensus of the Ming Empire, and it is also the core concept of imperial rule.

As long as Zhu Youjian vetoes the peace, naturally there will be no objections within the ruling class to the peace.

But now, Zhu Youjian needs to understand the public opinion of the common people in the south, and understand their opinions on the Northern Expedition.

With his current imperial power, he can disrespect the opinions of the ruling group, but he cannot disrespect the opinions of the people at the grassroots level.

Although the opinions of the grassroots are fundamentally related to whether they are in line with their interests, they are more about the propaganda and guidance of public opinion.

The income from the treasury can fully support the Northern Expedition, and Zhu Youjian will not levy more taxes on the people, so it does not have much impact on the quality of life of the people.

Even though the Northern Expedition was launched, which required a large supply of human resources and affected agricultural production, Zhu Youjian has now further liberated the productivity of many common people by reducing the feudal vassal. Coupled with the encouragement of land reclamation, since the 21st year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty The number of self-cultivating farmers managed by Huangzhuang and the Ministry of Households has also increased significantly, so it will not cause too much burden on Daming's agricultural production.

"Are you talking about the recovery of the northern capital and the fight against the Tartars? My son, what does this have to do with us little people? That is a matter for the emperor to decide. We little people only care about the harvest of our own fields."

"I came here as a refugee from the north. If the Tartars are hateful, of course they are. My family members were killed by them. I also want the officers and soldiers to fight back to the north to avenge us. But now I have a home here, and the hatred is also gone. It's about to fade away, if the imperial court doesn't fight back to the north, we ordinary people can't do anything about it."

"Who doesn't want Wang Shibei to set the Central Plains, but now who really takes this seriously? The government is busy collecting taxes everywhere, and the people are busy looking for jobs everywhere. Everyone says that the world is peaceful, and they are rushing to the Qinhuai River. Those girls are throwing money at them, look at the people coming and going, it’s still such a bustling scene in such a cold and snowy day, it’s even more prosperous than this in the past.”

After leaving the Zhengyang Gate, along the road to the Qinhuai River, Zhu You, who visited privately in micro-service, interrogated many people, and finally found out that these common people in Nanjing City not only have indifferent belief in national unity, but also hope that the country Unified but very helpless, and there are quite a few people who were immigrants from the north.

These people still have the obsession with regaining their homes, but Zhu Youjian doesn't know if they will be diluted by the trivialities of life if they live another ten years or so.

But what I have to admit is that many people are actually disgusted with the carelessness of the ruling class. They seem to feel that after the court collects taxes, these dignitaries spend their money on pleasure.

If it weren't for these ordinary people who felt that their quality of life had also improved, I'm afraid Zhu Youjian would have felt that his series of reforms had increased class conflicts.

"It seems that the people are very disappointed in us!"

Zhu Youjian sighed, and looked at the Qinhuai River in front of him. The words waving his sleeves like clouds and rubbing shoulders are perfect to describe the scene in front of him.

"Let's go, go to the Guanghua Daily newspaper office, and let Ma Jixiang come to see me!" Zhu Youjian said, then turned and left.

After four years of development, Guanghua Daily has grown to a large scale at this time, and the printing equipment has also been improved to a hand-operated gear-rotating printing machine. The printing efficiency and quality have also been greatly improved. The entire Guanghua Daily newspaper organization has occupied An entire street in Nanjing City, and tens of thousands of employees are engaged in the work of the newspaper office.

Not only that, Guanghua Daily has its own media school, which specially recruits some impoverished teenagers for professional training to supplement the manpower needs of the newspaper.

In addition, Guanghua Daily also has its own base specializing in the development of printing equipment.

Like the Daming Ordnance Institute, the entire newspaper office is a comprehensive media base integrating newspaper office, media school, and scientific research. It has its own set of procedures from news collection, editing, dissemination, and manuscript writing to receiving, reviewing, correcting, and publishing.

Naturally, there are credits of Li Xiangjun, Liu Jingting, Chen Hongshou, etc., and it is also related to this era when the newspaper industry began to rise. A lot of influence, after all, the Guanghua Daily is still considered a royal capital enterprise.

Li Xiangjun is now the media tycoon of Ming Dynasty, she seems to be a wealthy party, and she is naturally extraordinary. The outside world only knows that she has a lot of relationship with the inner court bosses, but the real backer behind her is Zhu Youjian, Emperor Chongzhen.

However, she has not seen Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian for almost three years now, and all she can remember now is the happy time between His Majesty the Emperor and herself in Yangzhou City after Chongzhen's victory in Yangzhou in 18 years.

Sometimes in the dead of night, Li Xiangjun would often miss Zhu Youjian's wildness. Even now that Kou Baimen came to worship, she learned from Kou Bai's door that her majesty Zhu Youjian was in Henan. Excited.

"Really, His Majesty actually said that if you lose, you will be taken into the Forbidden City!"

After Kou Baimen said, Li Xiangjun couldn't help pointing at Kou Baimen, covering his mouth and smiling: "But you lost the bet, so now you can only watch as you can't enter the Forbidden City, and even go to Huguang to be a fourth-rank medical officer in the war zone." Don't run back to Nanjing, you don't really think that His Majesty will miss you."

"It doesn't matter if I don't remember. I, Kou Baimen, don't care what others say about my life. Naturally, I come and go when I want. I heard that you and Liu Jun and the others are doing this newspaper and publications. None of them dare to offend, but I also want to see and see."

As Kou Baimen said, he picked up a new newspaper: "Jianlu seeks peace--does the Ming Dynasty want to be like the Southern Song Dynasty in the past? No wonder your newspaper is selling well, and you dare to resort to newspapers for such political affairs. Post comments, and you won’t be afraid of being caught by the factory guards!”

"It doesn't matter what the talents in Dongchang are. Our editors and writers are all registered in Dongchang. Just like the officials in the court, we can say whatever we want, as long as we don't maliciously slander, it's fine." Li Xiangjun was talking, Then I heard laughter coming from outside: "If Daming wants to stay safe, you have to do your part. The title of this editorial is well written."

"Your Majesty, don't let me know in advance when you come." Li Xiangjun smiled and welcomed Zhu Youjian and his party into the Guanghua Daily Headquarters base. Zhu Youjian saw that she was still as charming and exquisite as jade, and immediately felt a lot more comfortable: " This time I'm not here to chat, I have to ask you to help Dongchang with something."

(End of this chapter)