Chapter 596: Manipulating Public Opinion
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The pace of time does not stop, and the days fly by. The flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, and the New Year is not in a few days.
But recently, the city of Nanjing has been as noisy and lively as the Chinese New Year. Those gossip people who dare to talk about everything have already started the New Year's Festival as early as the beginning of the lunar month.
The old and new factions continued to tear each other apart, exposing each other's shortcomings and exposing each other's ugly things from the past and present, and hundreds of people were so unhappy. Then there was good news from the Northwest Battlefield, which made Nanjing City lively and jubilant. The Russians punched hard, rushed to the iron plate in the area of Lake Balkhash, broke their fingers, and countless newspapers and periodicals preached the valor of the army of the country.
Then there is the new release of the reward system for whistleblowing.
The introduction of this policy caused an uproar in the government and the opposition, and many people stood up to express their opposition. Among them are the highly respected Confucians, as well as the important members of the country, as well as the tide makers in the economic tide. But it is useless, but it is considered by countless people to be a weak heart. The previous newspaper revealed that the mutual exposure of the old and new Confucian children not only made the Bagua Party addicted, but also greatly ruined their image and status in the eyes of the people.
Now that the unity of Confucianism and businessmen has come forward to lead public opinion, it is no longer enough. Confucianism is not unaware that the emergence of newspapers has divided their power to guide public opinion, but this is the first time that they have experienced this harm so clearly.
Chen Han has been in power for three years, and from Nanjing and Beijing to ordinary small counties, there are newspapers being bought and sold, and teahouses named by the Department of Education and Education are preaching 'policies'. Three years is a very short time for history, for a country, for a nation. But for a person's habit formation, it is very long. In the past three years, I don't know how many Chinese have developed the habit of reading and listening to newspapers.
Not only in the city, but also in the countryside. Because Chen Chao has the east and east of the township officials, and there is a rural work team.
Chen Ming didn't know if the Confucian disciples and those scholars had discovered that their right to speak in public opinion had been invisibly reduced a lot in the past three years. But the truth and the tide are irreversible. Newspapers have taken the lead in the battle for the right to speak with readers in a faster, more popular, and more attractive image. Although the former has not yet completely taken away the right to speak, and they are also running their own newspapers and periodicals, it is inevitable that the entire class will fall behind and tend to be inferior in the competition with the latter.
The influence of newspapers and the role of newspapers have been fully brought into play in the process of "promulgating" this policy. And without the guiding power of public opinion that covers the sky with one hand, the status of readers is already in the process of collapsing little by little.
And Chen Ming also has a back hand to prepare. Two days after the policy was promulgated, some people in Nanjing immediately stood up and reported their superiors, their colleagues, and their bosses with great fanfare, embezzlement and bribery, perversion of the law for bribes, damage to public and private interests, and tax evasion.
After receiving the report, the tax authorities and the judicial authorities immediately got involved and quickly grasped their respective evidence. The accuracy of the report's 100% accuracy was like a huge palm, and it was slammed down on the faces of all the oppositionists.
In just five days, 23 cases were closed, and 15 officials were investigated and punished, of whom five were dismissed from their posts, 10 were dismissed from their posts and sentenced, the most serious two of them were beheaded, one was sentenced to life, and one was sentenced to 12 years in prison. A total of 2.1 million yuan of stolen money was recovered; Six of the eight factory owners were sentenced, the heaviest of whom was sentenced to five years in prison, and a total of 4.3 million yuan in taxes and fines were recovered. Four of the eight businessmen were fined for bankruptcy.
A bloody example really proves the effectiveness of the "whistleblowing reward system", although it is not that no one sees the trick, but what can it be? In the following days, 55 large and small enterprises in Jiangnan alone took the initiative to pay back taxes. There is no way, these people are scared of the previous 'dead chicken'.
It's horrible.
The imperial court made this policy too ruthless. After being caught, not only do you have to pay back taxes, but also have a high fine, which is really a rhythm that makes people bankrupt. And the rate of imprisonment is very high, it doesn't mean that if you pay back taxes and pay enough fines, you will be fine, you still have to go to jail. This makes Chinese businessmen creepy!
Some businessmen who are consciously not strong enough or are timid have chosen to take the initiative to pay taxes.
In just a few days, the tax department has received millions of back taxes.
In addition to these businessmen, a group of officials voluntarily surrendered and confessed their crimes. This number is no less than the number of enterprise companies, and they are all in the south of the Yangtze River. More than half of them were dismissed, and the rest were either demoted or had major demerits recorded. Eleven were sentenced and five were held at home, but there was no death penalty. The heaviest one was also sentenced to only ten years!
Moreover, the number of officials and businessmen involved in their criminal acts is more than five times that number. Accepting bribes is a crime, and so is bribery. In a short period of time, it has created more than 30 million benefits for the country, and has pulled out hundreds of moths who have gone one step further through interest associations.
These stories quickly became popular through the newspapers. It has become an ironclad proof of the effectiveness of the "Whistleblowing Reward System". At this point, the "Whistleblowing Reward System" has been sealed and can no longer be shaken.
Countless newspapers and gossip parties began to dig up the stories behind those cases, and also began to pay attention to the profits of the whistleblowers in those cases. When the "Law Daily" revealed that the person who received the most rewards had received a full 15,000 yuan, it was like a scoop of hot oil poured on the fire.
Such a happy day is simply a paradise for those gossip parties in Nanjing, all kinds of rumors and stories make them more happy, and some guys even started to write, wrote some related metaphorical stories, and earned manuscript fees in the big newspapers and tabloids.
Gossip is not about status, not about the amount of money in the bean, it is a kind of human nature. Although there is a certain risk in this, because China is still a traditional imperial rule, the common people do not have any right to freedom of speech, even if the newspaper says the wrong thing, it will be repaired, the minister will be punished if he says the wrong thing, and some gossip parties, if they are caught, they will lose their heads. It's just that the best people in the gossip party are interested, but few of them will think about losing their heads, their brains are hot, and they dare to talk about the scandals in the palace......
It's just that, in the next few days, the wind changed.
It wasn't for the anger of the imperial court, the secret agents of the national security police came out everywhere, inspecting and chasing those gossip parties who talked about the palace scandal without concealment. Instead, something more eye-catching appeared. Seeing that the Chinese New Year was approaching, the First Bureau of Offshore Exploration suddenly reported that they had discovered a super gold mine in the west of Xiangzhou.
The imperial court has never seen the admit, but someone broke the news in the newspaper that the Beihai Company has just changed its name to the Beihai Group, and there is an additional Xiangzhou Mining Development Company in its subordinate branches, and it is now secretly offering shares among the noble and wealthy people in Nanjing.
In a house in an alley in Nanjing, several big men were hiding in their rooms and drinking, two braziers were steaming, and several big men with red faces and red ears who were drinking were half-undressed and their chests were open.
Recently, the wind in Nanjing City has been a little tight, although this wind is not aimed at them who are playful, but these people also choose to be honest very obediently. It's already the Chinese New Year, and they don't want to be in prison at this time. If you're unlucky, you'll be sent to the frontier wilderness before you have time to come out next year, and you'll be killed.
Chen Han has been sitting in Nanjing for a few years, and the city of Nanjing was swept away, and now the flies and dogs are all resurrected, but these people have also touched the veins of this new dynasty. Don't make trouble during the New Year's holidays, unlike the previous pseudo-Qing Dynasty, although the New Dynasty ruled the New Year's Festival is also a period of high consumption, it is also a period of severe crackdown by the imperial court. If you catch it, you have to clean it up, and the unlucky people have changed from the people of the Son of Heaven at the foot of the imperial city to the forced immigrants outside the frontier.
What's more, in the past few days, the national security and the police have been like crazy, going around, and they are still honestly shrinking up.
It just so happens that these days they themselves are idle.
On the table are salted fish and dried beans, cold vegetables and roasted chicken and pig's head, and in the middle is a pot full of stewed mutton, in which dried bamboo shoots, radish, and meatballs are served. The aroma of meat fills the room.
There was a jar rolling under the table. Now the price of alcohol in China is also falling, and the obvious reason is that there is a bumper grain harvest. Moreover, the emerging sugarcane wine and fruit wine have also stolen a number of liquor and rice wine businesses, as well as potato wine and sweet potato wine, as well as rice wine, which the emperor loves to drink.
The wine jar on the wine table of this group of people is branded with the name of **, which proves that this group of people still has a certain economic strength.
It's also strange to say. When the government was strict about the brewing of liquor, the more prosperous the liquor trade became when it stipulated that a distillery was allowed to consume only a certain amount of grain in a year.
No matter how strict the imperial court is, it can't stop the distillery from privately adding wine and privately raising grain for food.
But now that China's grain prices are declining steadily, the government has long ignored how much wine you brew a year, because the grain at home and abroad has already met the consumption of the domestic population, but the business of the brewing industry is far less than before.
Many small distilleries have either been acquired or merged, and some have closed down and gone bankrupt.
In the past, there were three or five breweries in a county, and there were more than a dozen breweries, but now there are fewer and fewer. People have to sigh the power of the market economy and the power of capital.
Of course, the reduction in the number of wineries does not mean that the production of wine in China has decreased, and it does not mean that the Chinese alcohol consumption market has decreased. The Chinese's love for wine will never fade.
In previous lives, some people said that the wine that Chinese drank in a year was comparable to a West Lake. It's really fake and don't say it, but as far as the big men in front of them are concerned, they are obviously people who don't drink or have fun.
Between the cups and the cups, there were only empty jars left in the three jars and two catties of ** wine, and only a piece of leftovers was left on the table, and there was a pile of bones.
After burping contentedly, one of the yellow-faced men slapped the table with the strength of the wine, drawing everyone's eyes to him, and he said, "Brothers, have you all heard?" ”
"What did you hear?"
"Heard of what? I heard about the gold mines in Xiangzhou. The yellow-faced man's eyes were full of greedy golden light, and he patted the table with excitement, and he didn't feel that his hands hurt.
"I tell you, it's true, it's more real than real gold."
The spirit of the other big men was all for a while, and even the misty wine instantly turned into sweat on their foreheads. "How big is the gold mine? How much gold is there? ”
"Gold mines?" The yellow-faced man sneered, "Let me tell you, it's not a gold mine or a gold mountain, it's a sea of gold." The First Overseas Exploration Bureau discovered a sea of gold in Xiangzhou. I can't even see the ......."
"One of the bars of the eldest son-in-law of the eldest son-in-law of the third uncle of my old neighbor Liu Si is the person of the internal guard. He happened to be on duty in the palace that day, and according to him, the gold discovery in Xiangzhou by the First Overseas Exploration Bureau was extraordinary. Do you know how big the doghead gold they brought back was? ”
"How old?" As soon as they heard the dog's head gold, the spirits of the big men were eager.
"Ninety-nine eighty-one pounds. It is one pound shorter than Guan Erye's cold and beautiful saw. ”
"My good boy, eighty-one pounds?" Everyone was stunned, and countless circles appeared in their eyes.
"Eighty-one catties, a catty of gold is sixteen taels, one tael of gold can be exchanged for fifteen taels of silver, one tael of silver can be exchanged for a piece of five silver dollars, can be exchanged for fifteen yuan, one tael of gold is more than two hundred yuan, one catty of gold is more than three thousand, eighty-one catties is two or three hundred thousand?"
There was a more conceptual spinner on the table, the most brainy one among their group, and he groaned and said the number he had calculated, which immediately caused all the big men's eyes to be bloodshot and red.
How much money can their brother earn in a month of 'running around and working rain or shine'? How many years does it take for two or three hundred thousand to earn?
The yellow-faced man drank the leftover wine from the wine bowl in front of him, and the wine bowl fell to the ground with a snap.
"Do you know how this piece of ko's head gold was found?"
"There is a golden river in Xiangzhou."
"The grandsons of the First Gulf Exploration Bureau were ordered by the emperor to go inland to explore the road, and that day they went to a river and set up camp. A hairy boy carried a kettle to the river to fetch water, but before he reached the river, his eyes were opened by a golden light. The bottom of the whole river is full of golden sand......"
"In that place, you just swim naked in the river, and after you go ashore, you can also drop a penny of golden sand."
"The First Overseas Exploration Bureau then explored the entire river, as well as the hills on both sides of the river, all of which were gold mines, and the whole thing was a sea of gold that could not be seen......
The sound of swallowing and foaming in the throat sounded clearly in the room. With the description of the yellow-faced man, the eyes of the people present were completely filled with gold.
"Brothers, I can't hide it, after the New Year, my brothers will no longer mix in Nanjing. I'm going to Xiangzhou to dig for gold. ”
If it weren't for the description of the yellow-faced man just now, such words would definitely be laughed at by everyone on the table, but now that the yellow-faced man said this, it would be much more logical.
Hearing the yellow-faced man say this, the atmosphere at the wine table was even more turbulent. But as soon as these pimpies opened their mouths, their blood was interrupted by a wave of hesitation.
The ghost place in Xiangzhou is colder than the outer northeast, and it is separated by tens of thousands of miles......
"It's just a little too far." Someone muttered.
"Will it be your turn to be in the near future? The imperial court had already eaten it in one bite. The yellow-faced man rolled his eyes, took out a red sign from his arms and threw it on the table. Do you see it? That's the credentials. Lao Tzu has already reported his name. After the first trip of the year, I went with the boat. ”
"Nanjing City is a good place. But I can't be like this all my life, right? The children have grown up, and I, as a father, always have to leave something for the children. ”
"No matter how hard it is? As long as you can make money, it's worth it. ”
"Besides, what is there with money? There will also be girls in Xiangzhou, if you don't want to go, just keep your eyes open. "Although the yellow-faced man is a small grasshopper on the national security line, although these words are his 'mission', the discovery of gold in Xiangzhou is by no means fake, and he is really ready to dig for gold. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.