My father is Chongzhen? Then I have no choice but to rebel.

Chapter 32: The Donglin Party begins to stab us in the back! (Please read on!)

In addition, he also needs 10,000 Guanning cavalry!
Fortunately, mobilizing troops is not difficult. He has the tiger talisman and seal needed for mobilization. He just needs to go to the Ministry of War to go through the procedures.

The Ministry of War did not dare to disapprove because the previous incidents of nobles drawing empty salaries and rebelling also involved the Ministry of War, and several civil servants serving in the Ministry of War were also beheaded by Zhu Cilang.

disagree?
Then I had no choice but to cut a few more.

Well, it seems that there is a guy named Xia Chengde in Liaodong. The reason why Songshan City was breached was because he surrendered to the enemy?
Just kill him!

This destabilizing factor must be eliminated!

We also have to ask the Duke of Ying to bring two million taels of silver to make up for the unpaid wages in Liaodong over the years.

Two million is definitely more, and the rest can be regarded as a reward. Anyway, he is not short of money for the time being.

Fortunately, the silver requested by the Ministry of Revenue had not yet been allocated, so the two million taels were just deducted first.

In this way, after thinking back and forth for a long time, Zhu Cilang finally decided on the content of the imperial edict.

Then he asked the Imperial Household Department to make a new copy and send it to the Ministry of War the next morning.

By the time I finished all this, it was almost dark.

After eating something casually, just when Zhu Cilang was about to return to the East Palace to rest, Luo Yangxing came again.

When Zhu Cilang saw Luo Yangxing, he knew that something must have happened again.
"What happened?"

Without waiting for Luo Yangxing to salute, Zhu Cilang asked directly.

Luo Yangxing hesitated for a moment, but soon reacted.

"Your Highness, this afternoon the Imperial Guards heard many rumors against the imperial court in many crowded places, such as teahouses, restaurants, and theaters."

"After I learned of this incident, I immediately arrested and interrogated the individuals involved, but they acted too secretly, and I haven't been able to find any useful information yet!"

Zhu Cilang tapped the tabletop thoughtfully with his fingers, then continued:

"What rumors?"

Luo Yangxing was a little hesitant at first, but still said:

"Rumor has it that His Majesty is incompetent and has neglected all the loyal ministers in the court, preferring to favor eunuchs and imperial guards."

"They also said that eunuchs and imperial guards would only bring disaster to the country and the people. If this continues, there will inevitably be another eunuch party like Wei Zhongxian."

After hearing this, Zhu Cilang just felt funny in his heart.

Needless to say, this was definitely the work of the Donglin Party.

The Donglin Party has already started stabbing us in the back!

Seeing that he could not win the argument in the court, he wanted to use public opinion to put pressure on the emperor, so that the emperor would give up the idea of re-establishing the Censorate.

This was one of the Donglin Party's usual tactics, which was to confuse ordinary people by controlling grassroots speech and inciting emotions, and then force the emperor to compromise.

If the emperor compromises, then you are a good emperor and a sage monarch praised by everyone.

But if the emperor does not compromise, he will be a complete tyrant.

If it was Chongzhen sitting here now, the Donglin Party would definitely get what they want, because Chongzhen was an emperor without his own opinions.

What he feared most was being regarded as a tyrant.

But unfortunately, the person sitting here is not Chongzhen, but Zhu Cilang!

He is not afraid of the Donglin Party playing this trick!

You want to control public opinion, right?

Then I'll play with you guys!

Thinking of this, Zhu Cilang already had an idea in his mind.

Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly realized something and changed his words:
"Luo Yangxing, is there a Jinyiwei named Li Ruolian among the Jinyiwei?"

Li Ruolian, a military scholar in the first year of Chongzhen's reign, was one of the few Jinyiwei who died for his country.

After learning that Chongzhen had hanged himself, Li Ruolian, who was far away at home, committed suicide to sacrifice his life for his country. It would be unjust if he was not given a high position as the top military scholar and a loyal minister who died for his country.

Moreover, he is already the deputy commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and the next step is the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, which is just right for him to replace Luo Yangxing in the future.

There was no way. Luo Yangxing had been recorded in history as a traitor to his country. Even if this had not happened yet, Zhu Cilang was still not at ease.

If Li Ruolian gets some more merit, he can be promoted to the position of commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

As for what to do with Luo Yangxing.

Let’s talk about it later!

Anyway, it's not the time to deal with him yet.

Luo Yangxing didn't know what he was about to face, so when Zhu Cilang asked him, he quickly replied:
"Your Highness, there is indeed this person in the Jinyiwei. He was the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei at the time. He was away on official business and just returned yesterday afternoon."

Zhu Cilang nodded.

"Go and fetch Li Ruolian and Xue Guoguan."

"As for the rumors, let's ignore them for now. Those who were arrested have been released."

"If you hear rumors like this again, just pretend you didn't hear anything. I have my own way to deal with it!"

Luo Yangxing was confused. He didn't know why Zhu Cilang wanted to find Li Ruolian and Xue Guoguan, nor did he know how Zhu Cilang was going to resolve the rumors.

But despite his doubts, he still hurriedly bowed and said:
"I obey!"

Then he left.

After Luo Yangxing left, Zhu Cilang casually grabbed a piece of rice paper, picked up a brush, and wrote four large characters on the top of the paper:

Daming Daily!

That’s right, he is going to create his own Daming Daily!

The reason why the Donglin Party dared to do this was simply because they relied on their great power and could easily control speech at the grassroots level.

Once the Donglin Party and the emperor disagreed, they would use this method to spread rumors in order to control speech and thought at the grassroots level.

This eventually led the emperor to mistakenly believe that this was really what the grassroots people were thinking, and he was forced to compromise.

Coupled with the Donglin Party's wanton smear campaign, the common people would resent the court and the emperor.

Over time, people will no longer trust the emperor or the court, and the world will become even more corrupt.
If it were any other emperor, there might be nothing they could do to him.

But as a five-good youth from the 20th century, Zhu Cilang said that this trick is really useless to him.

It also gives you the opportunity to control your speech!

After all, in an era without telephones or mobile phones, nothing was more suitable for controlling speech than newspapers.

Newspapers actually existed in ancient times, but they were not called newspapers in ancient times, but court reports.

Official reports originated in the Tang Dynasty, were popular in the Song Dynasty, but began to decline after the Yuan Dynasty. After all, the Mongols did not value this thing very much.

Later in the Ming Dynasty, official gazetteers became popular again.

However, the Dibao was mainly distributed among the bureaucratic class and was an official newspaper that ordinary people had no access to at all.

There was also something similar to a newspaper among the people, called Jingbao.

Jingbao is a kind of folk newspaper, usually funded by merchants in the capital, printed and published regularly, and sold openly to the public, mainly for the purpose of profit.

However, the information recorded in these newspapers was too scarce, and they would occasionally offend the authority of the imperial court, so they would be confiscated if something went wrong.

In addition, the price was high and ordinary people could not afford it. It was only popular among the rich, so it ultimately did not reach any scale.

But it doesn’t matter, because the Ming Daily is coming soon!

Not long after, Li Ruolian and Xue Guoguan arrived in front of Zhu Cilang one after another.

(End of this chapter)