Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 264 The Fermentation of Public Opinion

Recently, the Daming Daily suddenly published an article that seemed very outrageous. The title of the article was very straightforward, that is, "Strange Talks in the World: Military Pay and Food Are Not Competitive to the Rations of Heaven and Nobles".

The content of the article is very sharp, directly pointing out the burden that the current vassals have brought to Daming, and some vassals even gave birth to hundreds of heirs, causing family gatherings to appear as if they don’t know their sons or brothers are strangers Condition.

In addition, the article also made statistics on the vassal kings above the general of Fengguo and above from the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty to the Tianqi period, and found that by the seventh year of the apocalypse, the number of vassal kings in various places had increased to thousands of times, and the clan population was nearly 70!The occupation of land and Lumi has far exceeded the amount of land occupied by the common people, and the salary is also far greater than the expenditure of the treasury and military pay!

No one would have understood that such an article with strong political meaning, and one that dared to bombard the royal family in the world, would be published in the Da Ming Daily!
Moreover, it is still the headlines on the front page!
Readers of the Daming Daily have to admire the power of the Daming Daily. Whether it is the religious struggle in Europe, the tribal struggle outside the Great Wall, or the confidential important news inside the imperial court, it can be boldly and realistically disclosed. The magical powers of the Great Ming Daily.

Regardless of why the Da Ming Daily is so magical and courageous, it dares to pick out the vassal king's problem that everyone wants to say but dare not to say, and it also uses data and logic to explain the facts so clearly, but this content has already made the entire Ming Dynasty It started to boil.

Whether it's on the teahouse or on the stone steps under the pagoda tree, as soon as someone mentions the latest news, they will definitely mention the issue of the vassal king raised by the Da Ming Daily.

Many people in Beizhili, Qinjin and other places are used to going to work in factories in the city early in the morning, and then leaving get off work, and returning to the countryside to rest after sunset.

However, during this period, they would rest in the horse rest pavilion outside the city wall, or spend a few pennies to listen to the storytellers, or just stand in the pavilion and read the newspapers posted on the newspaper column by the Shuntian government office.

These are newspapers and periodicals from various places in the last month. Generally, standing here for half an hour can clearly understand the Ming Dynasty in the last month.

"Hey, our Dahuangzhuang is also implementing the contract responsibility system in the south of the Yangtze River!" said the head of a certain Huangzhuang who had attended a private school for several years, could read some characters, and could barely read newspapers.

"Hey, it turns out that these princes are so rich and have eaten so much of our hard-earned money. In this way, it is not the corrupt officials who are really hateful in my Ming Dynasty, but these princes and grandchildren."

The director here couldn't help but sigh when he saw the latest issue of Da Ming Daily.

And an old man who was also reading the newspaper and speaking with a Henan accent replied: "Isn't it? In Kaifeng in my hometown, the good fields and land in the entire Kaifeng mansion are almost all owned by King Fu. The flood flooded the city of Kaifeng, and the whole city wanted to flee the city, and the Fuwang family hired 0 peasants just to transport the food in the mansion!"

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Also in Nanjing City of Southern Zhili, people also forgot about the parade and the imperial court's suppression, and began to comment on the matter of the vassal king recently mentioned in the newspaper.

The emergence of Daming Daily promoted the improvement of the printing technology of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the improvement of printing technology gave birth to more newspaper offices.

The number of newspapers increased, and the exchange of information became faster and easier in the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, current affairs and politics began to enter the homes of ordinary people, so that up to now, it is not only scholar-bureaucrats who talk about family affairs, but traffickers and pawns. They will also express their ideas through newspapers and periodicals.

However, politics is still a sensitive topic in many cases, especially in the Ming Dynasty where the imperial power still occupies an absolute dominant position.

Therefore, the Daming Daily, which is the nature of the central newspaper, has become a political wind vane, and whatever the Daming Daily reports is the most correct political wind direction.

Therefore, after the Da Ming Daily raised the issue of the vassal king, the major newspapers were not far behind, and began to further expose and criticize the view and phenomenon that the vassal king was a parasite and dragged down Daming's burden.

For example, the "Tianfu Daily" in the Shu area put forward the radical point of view of "using the power of the whole country to support hundreds of thousands of incompetent people, so the world is the Zhu family's world or the world is the private property of the Zhu family!".

The Jingchu Weekly, which is best-selling in Huguang, directly throws out the view that "if the prince is rich, the world will be poor, and if the prince is poor, the world will be rich".

When the public opinion on the vassal kings is getting hotter and hotter, the vassal kings from all over the country have no way to resist these verbal criticisms, and they are now leaving the fief to go to Nanjing under the order, but they should stick to the ancestral system and call it a disease. Because he stayed in the fief and refused to obey orders, he was in a hurry.

However, some vassal kings who traveled far or didn’t care about it refused to come to Nanjing to visit the Xiaoling Mausoleum on the grounds that the ancestral system stipulated that the vassal kings were not allowed to leave the fief, and secretly laughed at the vassal kings who rushed into Nanjing city to die.

Some vassal princes who traveled relatively short distances or had forgotten the ancestral system and took His Majesty Zhu Youxiao's imperial decree seriously immediately rushed to Nanjing City at full speed.

It is really not easy for these princes and princes who are used to being pampered and pampered to go out of their fiefs. In addition, the weather is very hot now, which makes it very difficult for many feudal princes to catch up on this journey.

For example, the King Gui of Guangxi and the King of Shu of Sichuan, who decided to come, had to climb tens of miles of mountain roads overnight, sleep for less than three hours a day, and rush all the way down. The obese bodies weighing hundreds of catties lost weight. Dozens of catties.

Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu who also chose to come to Nanjing, wiped the sweat from his forehead and spat, then continued to run wildly. The one who ran straight was exhaling like thunder, and then stopped, cursing: "Is this what a human being can do? If you rush to Jinling City within a few days, you will die alone, what is Your Majesty doing by doing this!"

"Your Majesty be careful, if people from Dongchang know about it, it will be bad if you add fuel and vinegar in front of Your Majesty." You Changshi Ming Changxin has always been an honest and cautious person, so he hastily persuaded him, but unexpectedly, Chu Wang backhanded with a slap: "It's not your turn to remind Gu, Gu just said that, what's the matter, Zhu Youxiao dared to kill Gu, Gu Zai can be regarded as his great-grandfather!"

Although Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, was the descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang's sixth son, King Chu Zhao, and had a very estranged relationship with Zhu Youxiao's branch, he was indeed several generations older than Zhu Youxiao in terms of seniority.

And Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, couldn't help but feel a little complacent about it, and his restless heart calmed down a bit, so he asked Zuo Chang Shi Luo Xingneng: "Where is the boundary ahead, and how far is it from Jinling City?"

"Go back to your lord, you will arrive at the boundary of Jiujiang, and you will take a boat to Nanjing later, and you will arrive in Nanjing in a few days." After Lu Xingneng said that, Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, ordered: "In that case, let's go to Jiujiang City to rest. One day, I have been traveling all the way for a long time, and I am really tired."

In this way, Zhu Huakui, King of Chu, and his party entered Jiujiang City, but as soon as Zhu Huakui entered the gate of Jiujiang City, a man in Taoist robes suddenly stopped him: "Is this His Royal Highness the King of Chu?"

(End of this chapter)