Chapter 675: The Founding Emperor of Great Qi
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Jingshi, Chang'an.
Li Yi got up early in the morning, rode a horse and fencing for half an hour, and after bathing under the service of Wang Meiren, he came to the imperial study early to deal with political affairs.
Because he is clever and can speak, and is very smart, he does not blindly flatter the emperor, so Li Yi now values him very much and lets him accompany him every day. As soon as he entered the imperial study, Shi Yebo had already placed today's newspapers neatly on the imperial case. In addition to the newspapers of the day issued by the Beijing Division, there were even newspapers in Luoyang, Dengzhou, Yangzhou, Taiyuan and other places, but although the emperor sent special people in various places to collect and send them quickly, these newspapers from other places were generally old news a few days ago. But even so, the emperor made a special decree and asked for a complete collection of newspapers from all towns in the world to be delivered.
The emperor sat down, and Shi Yebo immediately delivered a cup of hot ginseng tea, and handed him a copy of the royal news on the top.
Since Li Jing reformed papermaking and printing technology in Dengzhou a few years ago, and then opened a newspaper, newspapers have spread rapidly throughout the Tang Dynasty. At first, it was only opened in a few prefectures, but now, although more than 300 prefectures in Datang do not say that all have newspapers, at least more than 50 feudal towns have newspapers in all towns.
The scholars and people of the Tang Dynasty have long been accustomed to subscribing, buying and listening to newspapers, and they can hear the sound of reading newspapers when they walk into the streets and alleys.
The central court did not care about this newspaper at first, and after the leak of Qin Bao later, some people also proposed to ban the newspaper. After all. After the newspaper appeared. The people are also enthusiastic about the current affairs of the world. Everyone can talk about state affairs, and many people even say some big things in the newspapers, and often leak the secrets of the imperial court. However, the ban lasted less than a month, and the ban was lifted after the eventual release.
The biggest reason, of course, is that although the emperor ordered the ban, not many of the feudal towns complied with it. In many feudal towns, the newspaper was run by the commander of the feudal town, or the military leader who commanded the army, or even the big family. Running a newspaper is not only profitable. And also has a mouthpiece in his hands, can control public opinion, who is willing to give up such an excellent report to expand his influence. As a result, the newspaper was banned in Beijing after the most scandal, but the newspapers in other parts of the world remained the same, and the newspaper had to die after the ban.
However, the imperial court also came up with several remedies, and since it could not be banned, it tried to participate and control it.
It is in this situation that the royal news in Chang'an, the Tokyo Daily in Luoyang, and the important news in the north of Taiyuan. Chengdu's Shu Daily, Fengxiang's Jingxi Times. The five capitals of the Tang Dynasty all opened big newspapers directly created by the imperial court.
Since it was a newspaper run by the imperial court, it was also the most authoritative newspaper, and many new decrees of the imperial court were published on it as soon as possible. Because of this, these five newspapers are very prosperous, especially the Royal News, which has now become the largest newspaper in Guanzhong, with more than 50,000 copies sold in Chang'an every day, and the sales volume in Guanzhong and Shannan, Hedong, Henan, Sanchuan and other places is also extremely high, and the sales of each issue of the Royal News can reach the 100,000 mark.
The net profit of each newspaper is as high as one penny, 100,000 copies is 1,000 yuan, and the Royal News also advertises, and the advertising fee is higher, and now the Royal News can bring 5,000 yuan to the newspaper's owner Li Yi almost every issue. It is nearly 2 million guan a year, which is almost equal to the income of a salt pond in Xie County, Hedong. Although the Royal News can achieve such a high sales, in fact, a large part of the reason is that this is a newspaper run by the emperor, with a strong royal background, and all the states and counties, schools, and the army are all subscribed, plus the merchants are also semi-forced to subscribe and other reasons, but it is also a fact that this newspaper has become the most influential newspaper in the western part of the Tang Dynasty.
After taking a sip of warm ginseng tea, Li Yi spread out the royal news, and the front page was the news that Li Ke of the Shatuo tribe had arrived in Datong with 50,000 generations of northern cavalry and entered Ulzhou. There is also an interview with the foreign reporter of the royal news in Daibei, writing that he personally saw the peak lineup and fierce fighting spirit of the Shatuo army in Daibei. Li Keyong also in the interview, sincerely confessed to the emperor for the mistakes made by the young and frivolous, and then thanked the emperor for his pardon and gave the Shatuo clan a chance to atone for their sins. He said that this time the Shatuo people will never fail Jun's grace, and the Shatuo soldiers will use the knives and guns in their hands and the iron hooves of their horses to trample the rebels in Hebei into mud one by one!
Seeing this news, Li Yi showed a slight smile on his face, this Li Keyong finally had a good attitude.
50,000 generations of Beihu cavalry, this black crow is really strong, when almost the entire clan was wiped out by the imperial court, in just a few years, it has gathered such a force. As long as he is truly faithful to himself, he does not mind forgiving him for the sins he committed in the first place.
Thinking of this, Li Yi turned his head and glanced at the big clock next to him, a three-foot gold bell, inlaid with gold and jade, just the jade carving of the horse stepping on the top of the bell is worth ten thousand yuan, and the twelve numbers carved from gemstones.
This bell is said to be a new timekeeping treasure produced in Dengzhou, which rings every quarter of an hour, called half an hour, and an hour is equivalent to two hours. The end is magical, although people can't adapt to it for a while, but this kind of self-striking bell still makes the Son of Heaven overjoyed.
It is said that this bell is extremely expensive, and Dengzhou auctioned ten of them, all of which were extremely luxurious, and each of them was auctioned for a high price of one million. Li Keyong sent someone to take a picture of one, and then immediately escorted Chang'an and paid tribute to himself.
Receiving Li Keyong's tribute, Li Yi was indeed very happy. However, I was a little disappointed in my heart, this bell was produced in Dengzhou, and it was obvious that it must be Li Jing's industry again. In the past, Li Jing made glass, perfume and other things, and would always pay tribute to himself as soon as possible. But this time, Li Jing didn't send anyone to send it at all, and even since the Hebei rebellion, Li Jing has completely cut off his dedication, and even the four million a year tax plus salt and tea tax that he said last year has stopped offering.
Thinking of this, Li Yi's face darkened again.
For Li Jing, I really love him, and now I hate it more and more.
As Taizong said, the wind knows the strength of the grass, and the board sees the loyal ministers. Now when the country needs to use him Li Jing, Li Jing behaves like this, which really makes Li Yi heartbroken. But in the current situation, he can't say a word of reprimand to Li Jing.
Although Li Keyong betrayed the court before, after all, he is now loyal to the king. On the contrary, this Li Jing, who looked loyal at the beginning, was reused by Bo and I, and was repeatedly promoted to the rank of knight, but now that he is in power, he has begun to support the army and respect himself, which really disappoints me very much. People's hearts are unpredictable, people's hearts are unpredictable! Li Yi dropped the newspaper in his hand and sighed.
It took a long time for Li Yi to calm down his rapid breathing and pick up another newspaper to read.
This one, but it is a famous newspaper.
Seeing this masthead, Li Yi was a little stunned and turned his gaze to the stone wild boar.
The Daimyo Newspaper is a newspaper run by the Hebei rebel Wei Bozhen, and the name of the Daimyo is that Tian Yue claimed to be the Queen of Wei and changed Weizhou to the Daimyo Mansion. Among the newspapers that Li Yi usually reads, there are no famous newspapers of the rebels. However, Shi Yeboar is very clever in handling things, and never makes mistakes, and it is impossible to bring the rebel newspapers because of negligence, there must be some reason.
Li Yi looked down, and a string of bold black letters on the front page of the headline came into his eyes, which suddenly made Li Yi's eyes dark, and he almost tore the newspaper in his hand.
The headlines in the daimyo newspapers were extremely impactful.
Because the news above is a joint statement of the four traitors Han Jian, Wang Jingchong, Liu Yue, and Li Quanzhong.
In the newspaper, the four anti-kings of Hebei announced that they would respect Li Jing as the founding emperor of the Great Qi with immediate effect, and the soldiers of the four towns of Hebei swore allegiance to Li Jing from now on. From today onwards, the four towns of Hebei are all owned by Daqi.
As soon as it changed, the four towns of Hebei in the Tang Dynasty became the four towns of Hebei in Daqi, and the four anti-kings became the four founding kings of Daqi, and they still served as the envoys of the four towns of Hebei.
Li Yi threw the newspaper to the ground and stood up, his eyes spitting fire.
In anger, he even smashed the beloved jade unicorn paperweight on the court pillar and smashed it.
Half an hour later, when the bell rang on one side, it struck seven times in a row, indicating the arrival of seven o'clock in the morning.
Li Yi came to his senses at the sound of the bell, sat back on the throne, turned his head to the pale stone boar whose face was a little frightened, and said, "Pick up the newspaper!" ”
After taking the newspaper, Li Yi read it again.
On the front page of the daimyo newspaper, Han Jian also announced later that they had asked the best embroiderers to make the six crowns of the Son of Heaven and presented them to His Majesty, the founding emperor of the Great Qi Dynasty. Moreover, Han Jian also said in the article that the four towns made a statement to the Emperor of Great Qi that Liaodong City would be changed to Liaoyang City and establish the capital of Great Qi. There are also a lot of words behind it, all of which are about the 'Great Qi' Empire and so on.
Although this newspaper is only one-sided, there is no news that Li Jing really accepted the persuasion of the Four Anti-Kings and rebelled against the Tang Dynasty.
But this still made Li Yi angry in his heart, and after the anger gradually subsided, fear followed.
The four anti-kings of Hebei suddenly want to respect Li Jing as the emperor, although this may be just a divisive plan, but what if Li Jing's heart is moved?
If Li Jing really has a heart of disobedience, with Li Jing's territory and soldiers and horses, plus the soldiers and horses of the Four Anti-Kings, it is already half of the northeast and half of the country is not guaranteed, if you count the grass thieves who have just entered Henan, half of the Tang Dynasty will be unprotected.
"Immediately Xuanzheng Shitang, Zhuxiangguo, the Privy Council, the Xuanhui Yuan, and the left and right Shence Lieutenant Yanying Hall are discussing!" Li Yi's face was extremely pale, and his voice was a little trembling.
"Invite all the officials of the six departments into the palace!" Li Yi added another sentence after the most reluctance.
lowered his head and his eyes fell on the famous newspaper again, and every word on it was like a knife and arrow, stabbing him all over his body! (To be continued......)