1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 772 Official Mouthpiece
However, the tableware on Li Nai's table was not replaced by Haihan glass products like some upstarts in Guangdong, but the blue and white porcelain produced in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, which is common on the market.This is somewhat influenced by the Haihan people, because the favorite tableware of the Haihan people who pay attention to the quality of life is blue and white porcelain, especially those produced in Yongle, Xuande, and Chenghua years, and they must be from official kilns.

Li Nai doesn't quite understand why these Haihan people who often criticize the various shortcomings of Ming Dynasty are so fond of blue and white porcelain, which is far less useful than Haihan glassware.However, he could see that the Haihan people had a great research interest in porcelain, because Ning Qi and Tao Donglai had discussed with him more than once about the shape, decoration, glaze, and inscription of Daming porcelain, and classified them into different categories. The degree of detail is enough to write a book, and their knowledge of porcelain must have far surpassed most Ming people.

Since the people of Haihan insisted that blue and white porcelain is a good thing, Li Nai, who has always believed in the vision of the people of Haihan, followed suit and listed blue and white porcelain as the first choice.The fat-like milky white porcelain paired with shiny silver knives and forks, in Li Nai's opinion, it does seem to have what the Haihan people claim is "exquisite", and the beef in his mouth seems to become more delicious because of it .

After dinner, Li Nai went back to the study on the second floor, where the servants put nearly half a month's worth of newspapers on the desk for him to read.Although Li Nai seldom comes to Sanya now, he still asks his servants to buy two copies of each issue of the local newspapers and publications, one to stay in Sanya's house, and the other to be sent back to Guangzhou by boat.Ning Qi once referred to the newspaper as "the mouthpiece of the executive committee", but Li Nai has always kept this in mind, and from the content published in these newspapers, Haihan's new trends and future plans can often be interpreted.Li Nai was able to accurately infer Haihan's plan to colonize Taiwan Island, and part of the information came from the interpretation of the news disclosed by Haihan's official media.

At present, Haihan publishes two official newspapers. One is "Haihan Reference", which is issued for specific targets such as Haihan management, naturalized cadres, and external partners. The content is mainly the latest laws and regulations issued by the government. News about development plans, economic policies, etc. are what Ning Qi said about the official mouthpiece. The publication period of "Haihan Reference" is half a month, published on the first and fifteenth day of each month. It is not sold publicly on the market, and it is only delivered to subscribers.Of course, ordinary people will definitely not spend five yuan a month to subscribe to this official newspaper. What they will be interested in is another newspaper that is sold to the general public.

"Haihan Express" is published every ten days, and the price of each issue is only [-] cents. The unit price is more than ten times cheaper than "Haihan Reference", and anyone with income can afford it.The content of "Express" is mainly all kinds of folk gossip, mountain and wild anecdotes, plus a lot of advertisements - the newspaper's distribution price is so cheap, more than half of the reason is that the various advertisements published on it have diluted the distribution cost.Even illiterate farmers and laborers will go to the teahouse after work on the day when the "Express" is published, spend a few cents to buy a cup of the cheapest oolong tea, and listen to the resident newspaper reader in the teahouse read the contents of the newspaper .

These two newspapers are edited and published by the Haihan Propaganda Department, but each has its target audience and reader groups, and the market competition is not fierce.However, people with spare money like Li Nai are usually willing to pay a little more to subscribe to the two newspapers together. In addition to studying official policies, they also look at the various trends of Haihan people.

According to his own habit, Li Nai first picked up the latest issue of "Haihan Reference", which was published seven days ago, but when this issue arrived in Guangzhou, he was probably already on his way south, so he happened to miss it.The headline news on the front page was "Penghu Immigrants Enthusiastically Join the Army, Train Hardly to Advance Both Land and Sea". Li Nai briefly glanced at the content. Because of Han's life-saving grace, he chose to sign up to join the militia, and there are militias stationed locally from both the navy and army, so they each recruited some recruits for training.

Neither the number of recruits nor the specific content of the training is written in the article. It is basically official writing, which is superficial and does not highlight the key points.After the average person reads it, they will probably only receive some information that is not very useful, such as immigrants from the north are moving to Penghu, there are militia troops stationed there, and so on.

However, Li Nai noticed two pieces of information hidden in the article. One is that the scale of immigrants from the north is estimated to be quite large. If it is just a small effort to recruit dozens of soldiers, the weight of this kind of news must not be enough. On the front page of the official media; second, the local garrison trains recruits on the spot instead of sending them back to the militia military training base in Victory Port for training. This shows that the local garrison has great authority, or there is a relatively large gap in troops that needs to be sent as soon as possible To fill in, Li Nai personally thinks that it may be the latter situation - if the Haihan people want to colonize Taiwan, they will naturally need to allocate a part of their troops to garrison the new colony. Convenient and easy.

Under this press release, there was also a short commentator's article signed "Tianshan Strange Stone". Li Nai knew that this was Ning Qi's pseudonym on the official media, so he continued to read it.The article mainly talks about the important role of the Haihan immigration policy in saving the war refugees of the Ming Dynasty. While applauding the benevolent actions of the Haihan Executive Committee, it also expresses concern about the current situation of continuous internal and external wars in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Nai noticed that the author mentioned at the end that "the current predicament of the Ming Dynasty is not just the result of foreign enemies and internal troubles at the same time. It is actually a natural problem of the administrative system, and there is no cure. Haihan's assistance can relieve the pain for a while. , but the root cause of the disease cannot be cured. The chaos in the north cannot be expected to end. The paradise under heaven is only in the land under the rule of Haihan."

The comments in this article can be described as "rebellion and injustice", but with Haihan's influence in the south today, even if it is ten times more rebellious, the government will just ignore it.The Haihan people have managed Hainan Island into a country within a country. Could it be that the officials in Fuzhou and Guangzhou really can't see it?Of course not, everyone turned a blind eye to this, because everyone knew that with the brand of Daming, Hai Han could no longer be shaken, and provoking Hai Han rashly would only make him annoyed.Moreover, in the official circles of Fuguang and Guangxi provinces today, how many people in official uniforms dare to swear that they have nothing to do with Haihan?Offending the Haihan people is tantamount to making trouble with oneself, with Yinzi, and with colleagues around. Who would want to make such a mistake?
Only the people of Haihan dared to so blatantly promote this kind of anti-Ming argument, and if they changed places and changed roles, they would have been convicted and sent to jail long ago.Li Nai is already used to this. After all, Ning Qi is the one who said that "Da Ming is more than 300 years behind Hai Han". To get him to write an article praising Daming, it is probably a bit more difficult than reaching the sky.

Li Nai continued to look through the content of other pages, but there was no other big news. The most occupied page was the news of the successful completion of the latest Haihan grassroots cadre training class.This press release not only lists the list of students participating in the training class and their affiliations, but also congratulatory messages from many Haihan institutions, cooperative units and partners. The congratulatory list in the newspaper is several times longer than the list of students. The sight is also breathtaking.Of course, Li Nai quickly found the name of his firm in the list below, and it ranked first in the list of partners, the second was "Qiong Lianfa", and the third was the Fujian Chamber of Commerce. "Ruifeng" has a special status.

However, what Li Nai cares more about is not the ranking of this list, but the changes in Haihan society reflected by this incident.People outside may not be very clear about the establishment of "Haihan grassroots cadres", but Li Nai knows the way of it.Relying on the bureaucratic team he cultivated, Haihan gradually emptied the local government of Daming in the areas under his rule, and these grassroots cadres of Haihan also gradually replaced the land property, Baojia, taxation, Public security, sanitation and other functions have reorganized the Haihan-style social structure.

In fact, Li Nai can't tell what advantages the bureaucratic system manipulated by the Haihan people has over Ming Dynasty, but it is clear that Haihan's official institutions operate much more efficiently, such as paving roads and bridges, building water conservancy, and reclamation. In terms of affairs, the Haihan people can often complete the work that the local government of the Ming Dynasty takes a year or two to complete in only a short period of time.The grassroots cadres trained by Haihan are certainly not as culturally advanced as the officials of the Ming Dynasty who were educated, but their practical ability to operate and handle affairs is much stronger.

Li Nai sighed, hastily flipped through the rest of the page, then put the "Haihan Reference" aside, and picked up the "Haihan Express".Perhaps because of the willingness of the price, the paper quality and printing quality of this "Express" are slightly inferior to those of "Reference", but the typesetting is more compact. After all, many pages are used to place various advertisements. Every inch It's all money on paper.

Of course, since this newspaper targets a different readership, the style of its articles is also quite different from that of Reference.For example, in the headline article on the front page of this issue, the headline of the news is very sensational——When will the gang formation of new immigrants stop.

Li Nai read the content of the article, and the general idea is that due to the sharp increase in the number of immigrants in recent years, the current population structure of Hainan Island is becoming more and more complicated, and a large number of new immigrants from other places are used to keeping warm in groups. The interests of the group are unwilling to submit to the management of the civil affairs department, unwilling to accept the unified resettlement distribution, and there are also some people who try to violently resist the law.

The article cited an example. A group of immigrants from northern Daming who were assigned to Lingshui County last month had a dispute with the local Li people's village over the water source problem, and later injured the civil affairs cadres who went to mediate.The passage in which is written vividly and vividly, and it is quite picturesque to read.Of course, the perpetrators also paid a heavy price for this. A total of 36 people from [-] households were involved in the incident, and all were sentenced to hard labor with varying terms of imprisonment.The person who took the lead in making trouble was directly sentenced to ten years of heavy sentence. Given the conditions of the hard labor camp, it is estimated that there is no way for him to come out alive.

The article analyzes the multiple reasons for this situation from the perspective of regional and cultural differences, but at the end of the writing, it is believed that the root cause is that the new immigrants are not educated enough. It may be a little late to teach these adults, but at least now Time to teach children to obey the law.If children do not go to school and learn the rules they should abide by, they will most likely end up breaking the law and sent to a hard labor camp when they grow up.

Combined with the report on the "Reference" just now that the executive committee decided to increase the scale of Haihan educational institutions, Li Nai believes that this article should use the civil conflict as an official education policy change, so that the public can Better accept this change.

Although Haihan's educational institutions have various policies for naturalized immigrants, there are still many new immigrants who firmly believe in the theory that "study is useless" and hope that their children can work as early as they can and earn money to support their families.In the past two years, Haihan has been holding back his energy to build a new school and academy, and spent money to hire many scholars to provide basic literacy education for school-age children.In order to further increase the education rate among the naturalized people, the Haihan Executive Committee has prepared to introduce a semi-compulsory education system, that is, school-age children must go to school. If parents do not cooperate or obstruct, then they may take measures Some semi-coercive measures, such as temporarily revoking the guardianship of parents, may even result in a prison sentence.

Although the style of this report is quite gossip, Li Nai still believes that this is also a propaganda method. By the way, let’s publicize the importance of obeying the law and obeying the arrangements following the incidents of the new immigrants, and deter those new immigrants who have some unrealistic ideas in their hearts.

The article deliberately did not make a right or wrong judgment on this case. Li Nai can roughly imagine the heated discussions this article will cause among the people. It is also unlikely that this phenomenon will be completely banned.But no matter how the public discusses it, it is probably the common opinion of most people to support reading. After all, in the area under the Haihan rule, people who can read and write have a very high chance of getting ahead, unlike Daming who have to obtain a certain degree of fame Only after that can you get the opportunity to become an official.

If it wasn't for his identity sensitivity, Li Nai would have thought of joining Haihan as a cadre a long time ago.Even if he can't be a magistrate, he thinks it should be fine for him to assist Schneider in managing several commercial firms.

(End of this chapter)