"The minister wants to talk to the emperor about the guidance of public opinion." Liu Hongjian also put down his chopsticks and said solemnly.

Liu Hongjian had not been aware of this problem before, entirely because he felt that the transmission of information was too slow in those years, and it took two months for a holy decree to be issued from the capital, and it would take two months to reach Liangguang and Yunnan.

Some of the more remote places are even a year old, and the people there don't know what's going on outside.

In the later era of entertainment to death and public opinion was king, the speed of information transmission and the wide range of dissemination were countless times that of the Ming Dynasty, but this also had considerable reference significance for the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the rebellion of the bureaucratic class and scholars triggered by the reform of the imperial examination system is obviously in the hands of this group of people, and those illiterate people are just trying to fill their stomachs.

Regarding the news from the imperial court, that is, what you see is what you see, due to the preconceived ideas of Confucian culture, the people naturally feel that what the scholars say is right.

As a result, the officials and even the sons of the court are more unscrupulous to confront the imperial court, and the imperial court is also bound by the desire of the people, and cannot make the decree more efficient to be promoted.

Public opinion is an extremely important force both in the future and in the present.

Without the suppression of public opinion, lawbreakers can turn big things into small things and small things by virtue of their relationships, without the influence of public opinion, officials have less worries about doing illegal things, not to mention others, how many shameless people in later generations have been brought to justice by netizens.

If he and Xiao Zhu can control the public opinion guidance of the Ming Dynasty, why dare the officials do anything with them?

"Well...... Brother Liu is reasonable, but what does Brother Liu think should be controlled...... What about public opinion orientation? Zhu Cihong was confused when he heard it, and said very seriously.

After all, he is not a descendant, and according to what Zhu Cihong has learned, he can't understand the importance of public opinion guidance at all.

Moreover, the imperial court also has a special agency responsible for issuing holy decrees, but these holy decrees are often only transmitted to specific officials, or at most delegated to the county, not to mention the low efficiency, the people everywhere can't look at it at all, after all, how many people can live in the county?

"According to the minister's opinion, it is better to set up an internal investigation factory, which is responsible for transmitting the imperial court decrees to the north and south of the river, and the speed should be fast, at least it should be decentralized to villages and towns, and someone should be specially explained." Liu Hong gradually frowned and said what he thought in his heart.

Construction of the new official road running through the north and south has been intensified, and the section north of the Yangtze River can be completed as early as the second half of this year, and the south will be passable by the middle of next year.

If special post stations are set up on both sides of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and other major rivers, and ferries and war horses are prepared, the transmission of news will inevitably be several times faster than before.

After the main road is repaired, Liu Hongjian does not plan to disband this mature engineering team, if you want to get rich, first build the road, but the main road will inevitably not enter Liu Hongji's eyes, there are north and south in the world, and there are more things and things, and the road still has to continue to be repaired.

The reason why the organization was set up specifically instead of restructuring the original one was first of all because of the problems of the old bureaucratic system, and Liu Hong gradually did not want this new institution to be polluted.

Moreover, there are eighteen of the Ming Dynasty only at the provincial level, and there will inevitably be more in the future, and there are too many of them, such as prefectures, prefectures, counties, forts, and villages, and if you want the people everywhere to understand the policies of the imperial court, you must recruit more people.

This is a big project, and in an era when the literacy rate is less than 5 percent, only this stupid method can control the direction of public opinion, and it will take at least 10 years for the popularization of basic education to see some results.

"Internal Investigation Factory...... But Brother Liu, do you know how many villages and towns and how many counties I have in Daming? Liu Hongji's explanation made Zhu Cihong understand a little, but if this was the case, he was worried that his money bag would not be able to support it.

Just to build the new official road, he used more than 30% of the silver in the treasury, and now Brother Liu not only has to set up an internal investigation factory, but also continues to build roads...... Oh, my God!

"This ...... I didn't count. Liu Hongjian really didn't think about this question, but he was not ashamed at all, and asked directly.

"Now that Daming has added the newly included Northeast Province, Menggu Province, North Korea Province, and Beihai Province, there are always 947 people at the county level, and there are at least 360,000 people at the village level!" Zhu Cihong explained.

As the Son of Heaven, if you don't even know how many administrative units there are under your rule, it would be a bit too much.

"Well...... There will be more in the future, but this matter has to be done, the new official road has to be repaired, and the internal investigation factory has to be formed. Liu Hong gradually thought about it.

Since he is the regent, he naturally has to exercise some of his power, even if Zhu Cihong doesn't understand it now, he will definitely understand it in the future.

Not to mention anything else, in later generations, when he was young, he often saw all kinds of slogans written everywhere in the nearby villages when he went out to play.

From the overthrow of Japanese imperialism to the long live liberation of the Chinese nation, from sweeping away all cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods to developing a market economy with economic construction as the center, from a couple having only one child to governing the country according to law and rejuvenating the country through science and education.

These well-known slogans have almost witnessed the whole process of the rise of the nation, and in the changes of history, these slogans have imperceptibly influenced the people.

Don't underestimate these things, this is a good trick that can influence the people the most when information transmission is not developed, even now, there are always one or two literate people in a village, and this is enough.

As long as the slogan is well posted, why worry about the people not following the party, oh no, follow Xiao Zhu?

Remember that slogan? There are no gifts for the holidays this year, what are the only gifts?

Brainwashing, even if you haven't used this thing, if you get a box to send to relatives, most of the relatives will laugh at it, for the countrymen, you give them LV bags don't necessarily give them a box of brain platinum to make them happy, why, because they only know this thing on TV.

That's what this slogan means, this trick of the government of later generations must have proved its effect through countless practices, why can't the Ming Dynasty?

"The emperor is worried about the silver, hehe." Liu Hong gradually saw that Zhu Cihong's face was twisted into a bitter gourd, and chuckled.

Zhu Cihong smiled awkwardly but politely.

"Does the emperor know how much tariff has been levied by the Maritime Yamen in the four months of this year?" Liu Hong gradually said mysteriously.

It's also embarrassing for Xiao Zhu, such a big country, silver is needed everywhere, where is like him, eating and sleeping every day to beat Doudou.

"Oh? How many? Zhu Cihong said straight with his eyes in his eyes.

The maritime yamen is a place that Zhu Cihong and Liu Hongjian are very concerned about, the former because Liu Hongjian said that he swears to be true, and the latter because he knows the importance of maritime affairs.

"Huang Daozhou came to report that a total of 8.4 million taels of import and export taxes had been collected in more than three months this year, and the minister only got the news last night."