Chapter Eighty-Six: Propaganda Offensive
Zhu Wuliu is 15 years old this year and lives in Zhujia Village, Taiping County, Qingzhou. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
For as long as he can remember, his father was a tenant of the Wang family of the wealthy family in Qingzhou, and seventy percent of the annual harvest was handed over to the Wang family.
He has two elder brothers, one named Zhu Yier and the other Zhu Sansi, both of whom are herding cattle for the Wang family, and he was not allowed to go with his brothers when he was nine years old, just for a black steamed bun every day.
Zhu Wuliu doesn't like black steamed buns, because this kind of steamed buns are steamed with wheat bran mixed with moldy wheat, which is difficult to swallow.
But he couldn't stop eating, and the remaining thirty percent of the food in the family was not enough for their family of seven to eat, because there was a younger sister.
Several families are hungry every day, and only during the New Year's holidays, my father and mother will be willing to sell the wheat at home in exchange for a few catties of white flour steamed bread and steamed buns.
In his memory, these were all his happiest moments.
However, this year is different from previous years, and his father, who originally rented the Wang family's farmland, suddenly called all three brothers home, and the family of seven all went to reclaim wasteland on both sides of the ditch outside the village.
According to his father's statement, His Royal Highness King Qi promulgated the Tuntian Order, whoever owns Tuntian, the acres of land will be his/her family from now on, and it will be inherited from generation to generation.
Later, the village Lizheng came to his house again and asked them to join the production team.
He remembered that his father and mother were very happy, because the blind dates near the cultivated land reclaimed by his family were divided into a production team, and the ploughing cattle came from the county soon, and the ploughing tools were distributed to each production team.
After the beginning of spring, the people of the village will be able to work together in the fields, and the government will not collect any taxes for the next three years.
According to the Tuntian Law, the number of acres of land he can cultivate is 30 acres, but he can't do it alone.
However, my father and mother said that when this year's harvest is sold, I will prepare a dowry for him and find a daughter-in-law, so that we can farm together.
He was looking at the spinning torsion overturn in the field, when his second brother Zhu Sansi ran over and said to him: "Five or six, His Royal Highness's newsboy has come to Qingzhou City, and Li is asking everyone in the village to go to the threshing floor in the east of the village. ”
"What's a newsboy?" Zhu Wuliu wondered.
"You don't care what a newsboy, just go back."
Zhu Sansi took Zhu Wuliu and went to the threshing floor, and at this time the whole village basically arrived.
In the middle of the threshing floor, an old man was holding something like a notice, and Zhu Ziyou, who was in Zhujia Village, was standing behind the old man, very carefully accompanied.
This person was Fan Zeng, who went to the countryside for the first time, he took the newspaper and asked Zhu Ziyou: "Have all the people in the village arrived?" ”
"This Zhu Wuliu is also here, and he has arrived." Zhu Ziyou said.
Fan Zeng nodded, whether it is a prefecture, county or village in Dayu Country, the people gather together, and the village is surrounded by an earthen wall, which is to prevent jackals, tigers and leopards, and it is precisely because of this that the people are all together, and it is easy to gather.
At this time, he said: "First of all, let's talk about what a newsboy is......
Then Fan Zeng popularized the concept of newspapers, which was one of the tasks assigned by King Qi, to popularize newspapers and make newspapers official and authoritative information.
After some explanation, the people understood almost everything, and then Fan Zeng began to read it, and the content was naturally the content of the newspaper.
This is the first edition of the newspaper in Dayu, and it is written about the important things that happened in Qingzhou.
The first of these is to clarify the number of acres of land allocated to each person in the Tuntian Order, so as to prevent the wealthy from eating too much.
The second is the information on conscription, encouraging young and middle-aged people to join the army, and making it clear that those who join the army can get an additional number of acres of land and receive a certain salary per month, and at the end of the year, the government will also subsidize the families who join the army with food and meat.
The third is to restore the horse administration and encourage animal husbandry, and the fourth is to encourage commercial trade and handicrafts, and to correct the low status of merchants and craftsmen.
Because of the limited space of the newspaper, the policy is limited to these few things for the time being, and the rest are several major cases in the fiefdom, one is the Cangzhou incident and the other is the Dengzhou incident.
"Phew, this Wang family and the Qin family are really not the same thing." After reading the newspaper, one of the people scolded.
"But no, especially this Wang family, for personal gain, killed a family of seventy-two people, it really deserves a thousand cuts." Someone else said.
"This local wealthy clan is a scourge, we are tired and tired, and we have to give them seventy percent of the annual harvest, and how much land they occupy us."
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When the new policy was read earlier, the people all cheered, but when it came to the local wealthy families, the people gritted their teeth one by one.
Fan Zeng was carefully observing the reactions of the people, and after returning at night, he also needed to report the specific situation to the Qi Palace.
Zhu Wuliu was also listening, especially when he said that Captain Lu waved his knife to cut the two evils of Cangzhou, and the Qingzhou army won the history of Dengzhou's assassination, which made his blood boil, and he faintly felt that His Royal Highness the King of Qi was towards the people.
"His Royal Highness the King of Qi cares about the people, he is a rare virtuous king, many policies are all for the sake of the people, everyone should be grateful for the good government of King Qi." Fan Zeng said.
He is not only as simple as reading the newspaper, but also to establish the image of King Qi and the government in the hearts of the people, so that the people can believe in him and the government.
Fan Zeng's words came out, and the people whispered, and many people nodded secretly, and the eyes of the people were bright, and they could tell the difference between good and bad.
It's just that they still lack orderly guidance, and now Xiao Ming is using the name of the newspaper to carry out propaganda in order to raise his arms in the future, and the people can stand on his side.
However, this is not easy, because the local wealthy clan is deeply rooted, and Fan Zeng still saw the fear in the eyes of the people when they talked about the wealthy clan.
After venting the resentment in their hearts, they still succumbed to the shadow of the wealthy family.
Fan Zeng secretly noted the reaction of the people, handed the newspaper to Zhu Ziyou, he still had the next village to go, and left after a short rest.
The newspaper is a very new thing to the people, Fan Zeng left, and the people dispersed, but they still talked excitedly about the news in the newspaper on the road.
Li Zheng Zhu Ziyou looked at the departing villagers, and his expression gradually became gloomy.
He glanced at the newspaper and said, "This matter has to be known to outsiders, this newspaper can spoil the Wang family a lot." ”
While Zhu Ziwen was thinking, Xiao Ming was thinking about the problem of the opponent at this stage.
Through the recent reaction of several counties, he found that he had overlooked a key point on the question of who was the real opponent, that is, the village wang who was attached to the local wealthy clan, although they did not belong to the wealthy clan or the big clan, but they depended on the wealthy clan to get fine clothes and food.