The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 283 The Richest Man in Ming Dynasty, Chen Yuanyuan

It can be said that of the eight ministries in the Nanjing cabinet today, except for the Ministry of War, the other seven ministries are all departments with real power, and none of them is for nothing.

In the seven southern provinces, each province’s administrative offices and directly subordinate state capitals have seven departments directly under the government office, coupled with the rapid transmission of official documents from the postal supervisor, the supervision of the Dongchang branches in various places, and the newspapers that promote the supervisor, so that The administrative system of the entire south has reached an unprecedented height.

The government orders are smooth, the officials are clear, the commerce is prosperous, the prices are stable, the bandits and bandits have disappeared, and the beggars and refugees have disappeared. Such a prosperous age has far surpassed the peaceful and prosperous times of all dynasties in ancient and modern times.

The most astonishing thing is that such a glorious and prosperous age was actually created by the emperor acting as the shopkeeper and asking his aunt to help watch it.

Although everyone knows that the seven southern provinces can have today's prosperity and glory, it is inseparable from Emperor Zhu's wisdom and martial arts, but the role of the Queen Mother cannot be ignored.

Obviously, this Empress Dowager Yi'an is more suitable for guarding the country than the second-generation rulers of previous dynasties. This made everyone even think that the emperor would never come to the south of the Yangtze River. It's good to be an unknown female emperor in Nanjing.

It is no wonder that the literati in the seven southern provinces would have such thoughts. It is true that the south today is too close to the Datong world that all literati have been pursuing. No one wants to see such a beautiful picture of the country being destroyed.

Because everyone knows that once Emperor Xiaozhu comes to Nanjing again, he will definitely implement more extreme land and business policies, and it is very likely that such a peaceful and prosperous age will no longer exist.

In particular, the gentry, landlords and businessmen in the Jiangnan area have become accustomed to the current comfortable life, and they have also changed from repelling and resisting the payment of land tax and commercial tax every year to accepting the habit now.

In the past, no matter how peaceful and prosperous the world was, no matter how clean the officials were, every year there would always be some gentry and landlords whose families were ruined by those powerful families or corrupt officials. As for other human tragedies, there were countless of them among ordinary people.

But in the past two years, there have been no landlords and gentry whose families have been ruined, and no one dared to bully others on the surface, and did things like bullying men and women.

Whether it is ordinary people, gentry, or merchants, there is a sense of solidity in their hearts.

Ordinary people don't have to worry, if they accidentally offend the gentry and landlords, their families will be ruined.

The gentry and businessmen don't have to worry about accidentally provoking the coveted eyes of high-ranking officials and dignitaries, resulting in being suppressed and exploited, or even ransacked.

Because everyone knows that there is a compassionate empress dowager in the city of Nanjing. Once any injustice is exposed, even in a small county town in a corner, Jin Yiwei will definitely report it to her in the end, and then wait for Dong The factory and the criminal department came to investigate thoroughly.

This kind of thing has happened countless times in the past two years. This undoubtedly made everyone fearful. It reached Zhang Yan's ears and attracted her attention.

There is no way, Jin Yiwei's spies are really pervasive, and they can't hide anything from the propaganda supervisor. Maybe one day some scandalous things done by the family will be published in the royal newspaper and everyone will know.

It can be said that compared to Jin Yiwei's spies, the Propaganda Supervisor is more fearful and disgusting. After all, the Jin Yiwei only pays attention to some major events, but the Propaganda Supervisor does not distinguish between big and small, ugly is good, and sometimes even exaggerated.

This made Li Xiangjun and Dong Xiaowan, who were in charge of propaganda supervisors, from the famous prostitutes who were sought after by literati in the south of the Yangtze River, to today's street rats.

But they didn't know that the real culprits were not the two, but Chen Yuanyuan and her Fengyue Division, because most of the materials for the propaganda supervisor were provided by Fengyue Division.

The brothels under the name of Fengyue Division have now spread all over the south, and there are brothels run by Fengyue Division in slightly larger cities. The scale is so large that it is rare in the world.

Many things were unknowingly disclosed to those prostitutes by those literati, inkmen, merchants and merchants. Once the prostitutes were interested, they would dig deeper, and finally organize them into materials and send them to the publicity supervisor for money.

It can be said that due to the relationship between Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Xiaowan and Li Xiangjun, Fengyue Division and Propaganda Supervisor are almost becoming strategic partner departments.

The two departments are mutually beneficial. The Department of Fengyue provides news materials for the Propaganda Supervisor, and the Propaganda Supervisor uses the huge reputation of the Royal Newspaper to promote those famous prostitutes with both talents and looks. A beautiful woman's story.

For this reason, the Propaganda Supervisor also specially added a version of Fengyue to each issue of the newspaper. It is said to be Fengyue, but it is actually some euphemistic and poignant love stories. In addition, some poems that fit the scene appear in the stories from time to time, attracting Power is not insignificant.

Especially for those deep boudoir ladies who don’t leave the door, they must buy almost every issue of the royal newspaper. Naturally, these ladies sell newspapers not to care about those military and state affairs, but to read those love stories. Propaganda Supervisor Contribution.

It can be said that a newspaper published by the Propaganda Supervisor has made the Jiangnan literary world, which used to be lifeless, very active now.

The main reason for this is that the Propaganda Supervisor and Fengyue Division are basically unattended. Beijing’s inner court offices are too far away to manage them. Zhang Yan has no time to manage them, and she doesn’t want to. At most, let the Propaganda Supervisor publicize them when there is something to do. As for Fengyue, Si Zhan doesn't want to get involved.

Originally, Princess Kunxing and Chen Yuanyuan were still very close. It is not too much to say that they are best friends, and they are also very concerned about Fengyuesi, and they completely regard it as their own property. However, after being beaten and warned by Zhang Yan, they also had to alienate Chen Yuanyuan. Then intervene in Fengyue Division's affairs.

And Chen Yuanyuan's title as the vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry has also become nameless, and he was squeezed out by businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, so he put his energy back on the development of Fengyue Division.

In addition, Chen Yuanyuan, Li Xiangjun, Dong Xiaowan and the emperor have identities that have no clear relationship, no matter how much the powerful people in Jiangnan hate the three women, no one will dare to touch them.

This allowed the three girls to completely let themselves go, and run the Fengyue Division and the Propaganda Supervisor completely according to their own wishes, because the three girls didn't want to ask for instructions, on the contrary, the three girls wanted to ask for instructions on everything, but the Queen Mother never saw them, and the princess also started Alienated, and His Majesty is far away in the capital, even if he wants to ask for instructions, he doesn't know who to turn to.

In the beginning, the three women were still hesitant, especially Chen Yuanyuan, because Fengyuesi only had a name in the inner court and did not make it public at all. Daming is indeed the richest man, so she is worried all day long. Fortunately, Zhu Cihong made a promise to her at the beginning, so she has a little spiritual support, and she has a spiritual development.

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