Valley Emperor

Zhou Yiran was already a senior official in the frontier when the Tang Dynasty first unified China, and then basically changed places in three or four years, and now he is the governor of Guangdong.

In terms of qualifications, he was actually able to transfer back to Gyeonggi very early to serve. He was at least a right servant when he was transferred back to Gyeonggi. After a few years, he was a left servant, and then he was promoted to minister in the normal way.

But for so many years, he has been serving in the local area. This is not because he is lacking in ability, but because his ability is too strong.

This person, if you want to talk about developing the economy and people's livelihood, in fact, the means are ordinary, but Li Xuan is not valued for this, but this person is very good at maintaining stability and rectifying official governance.

In the past ten years, Li Xuan basically had a problem somewhere, and he would be transferred to put out the fire.

He has just done this method of rectifying local officials. In the past few years, he has impeached over a hundred officials from the fourth rank and above who lost their official hats.

For this reason, he won a very interesting nickname, known as the 'state official'.

This nickname is very interesting. On the one hand, his surname is Zhou, and on the other hand, and most importantly, this person is the kind of person who only allows the state officials to set fires and does not allow the common people to light lamps.

As the saying goes, only the state officials are allowed to fire, and the people are not allowed to light up the lights.

If Li Xuan had not personally protected him, he would have been killed by the Inspectorate.

But he himself is not a gentleman, but he asks others to be gentle, especially his subordinate officials, whoever dares to be corrupt, he will kill anyone.

It has provoked many people in the official circles to hate him so much!

If he himself has nothing to do, outsiders will not say anything, but he himself is not such a person.

Coupled with his surname Zhou, over time, the title of 'state official' was put on by others.

This person has only served as the governor of Guangdong for three years, and personally impeached more than 300 officials. Those officials impeached by him, including his predecessor, the previous governor of Guangdong, naturally did not end well there.

The previous governor of Guangdong had already been transferred to Zhejiang to serve as governor. After being impeached by him, he quickly led to an investigation by the Central Inspectorate. What happened to this man: beheading and abandoning the city.

In Guangdong officialdom, two-thirds of the prefects or prefects were replaced, and more than half of the county magistrates!

Basically, it was a big purge, and the effect of the purge was quite good. In the past few years, the atmosphere had been corrupted, and even the people were very resentful in Guangdong officialdom, and the atmosphere suddenly improved.

The official atmosphere is better, and the economic development of the people's livelihood will be faster.

Last year, the output value of primary industries such as agriculture, forestry, and fishing in Guangdong increased by at least 5 percentage points. Don’t think that these 5 percentage points are very small. The largest share of agriculture here is agriculture. Agriculture is limited by the amount of land and wants to increase. That is very difficult.

As for the secondary and tertiary industries such as industry and commerce, the growth hinterland has reached 37%.

The growth is so terrifying, although it has a huge relationship with the application of high-pressure steam engines in industrial manufacturing and transportation in recent years, but it is also inseparable from local efforts.

Three years ago, Guangdong's economic aggregate ranked fourth among the provinces and roads in the entire Datang Empire, after Jiangnan Road, Zhejiang Province, and South Anhui Road.

But today, three years later, its economic aggregate has surpassed Zhejiang and South Anhui, ranking second in the country.

All of this can generally be regarded as Zhou Yiran's credit.

Well, although he doesn't quite understand how to develop the people's livelihood economy, he does know how to create a good environment for the development of the people's livelihood economy!

Such a person naturally has always been valued by Li Xuan, even if he is not a good bird himself, he has been impeached by the Inspectorate several times, but Li Xuan still protects him.

How to say it, I am not afraid that you are greedy, I am afraid that you will not do things, and I am even more afraid that you will be greedy with others.

Zhou Yiran was like this, he was a little greedy, but he did not allow others to be greedy, and Li Xuan could still accept it.

Zhou Yiran was originally staying in Guangdong, but he returned to Jinling City before the Lantern Festival to conduct a regular work report. This happened to coincide with the death of Ma Wei. Naturally, this person did not dare to be left behind and reported to the Holy Spirit. At the time, he also hinted through various words, saying that although serving outside is also allegiance to the Son of Heaven, but he wants to be loyal to the Son of Heaven even more.

Afterwards, he also wrote a paper of more than 20,000 words, discussing various issues in detail. In terms of education, he basically agreed not to make large-scale changes, but to develop with the development of the economy. Changes in the imperial examinations, He only mentioned it slightly.

But more space is devoted to propaganda. He analyzes and studies public opinion issues, and even extends it to public opinion propaganda.

It is said that the mouth of defending the people is better than defending the river.

Therefore, the issue of public opinion is to be blocked and sparse.

He pointed out that the current Datang Chaobao still has great deficiencies in channeling public opinion, and there is a lot of room for improvement. For example, the articles of the Datang Chaobao have always maintained a serious official tone, although there is seriousness here. , but the Datang Chaobao mainly focuses on various political articles, with occasional literary works and popular science works, as well as a few commercial advertisements.

Such newspapers are undoubtedly a must-read for officials all over the world and the local upper class, but ordinary people do not like to read such newspapers.

In the past few years, there have been many cases of privately-run newspapers in the local area. Every time they appear, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of News are facing a formidable enemy, and Han Tong is also very nervous. This privately-run newspaper, It has always been a taboo in the Tang Dynasty, whoever touches it will die.

But even so, there are still many people trying to get around it. For example, if it is not possible to run a newspaper directly, then they will use the method of publishing a book, print the content into a book, and then sell it openly and cheaply, and issue an issue every two weeks or a month. .

This has also forced Datang to strengthen the monitoring of the publication of books. In the past, there was no need for approval for publishing books, but now, if you want to publish a book, you must first be reviewed and approved before it can be printed on a large scale and publicly sold. .

And some people simply set up a printing press in private, and then print only one sheet of paper, two sheets of paper, which are not called maintenance, but are called flyers or the like, which publish all kinds of popular stories and jokes. some type of.

Of course, this kind of thing is also found to be hit together.

But it can't go on like this forever.

The Tang Dynasty newspaper started, and the demand for newspapers among the people was very strong, so the matter of running a newspaper privately was repeated.

In response to this situation, Zhou Yiran proposed to set up a number of newspapers that are biased towards civilians in addition to the Datang Chaobao. On the one hand, it is to meet the needs of the general public to read newspapers, and on the other hand, it can let the voice of the Tang government. Through these civilian newspapers, better coverage to every corner of the empire.

This proposal made Li Xuan very interested.

The problems he mentioned do exist. Because of its particularity, Datang Chaobao must maintain seriousness in its articles, and even the commercial advertisements published are serious.

Therefore, people who read Datang Chaobao are generally officials and local upper class.

Ordinary people are not the main reader group of Datang Chaobao.

But the general public also needs to read newspapers.

Even people in the upper class, although they read Datang Chaobao, it does not mean that they do not read popular newspapers.

Otherwise, why are there always cases of private newspapers appearing in these years?

When the market has demand and profits, naturally some people take risks to do it.

Now Zhou Yiran's proposal is exactly in line with Li Xuan's idea. It doesn't matter whether it is a serious political newspaper, a popular science and business newspaper that is more practical, or simply publishing all kinds of bizarre stories and gossip news. Newspapers are required.

And they must be sponsored by the government and included in the supervision of the government.

Dai Yugang and Zhou Yiran both made Li Xuan interested, and both of them were not bad in terms of qualifications and abilities, enough to enter the imperial study.

So after careful consideration for a few days, Li Xuan identified the candidates on these two people, and then successively summoned these two people for interviews.

This kind of interview is much more than what is said in the booklet. Li Xuan will judge the merits of the two people's policy plans from many aspects.

Not to judge their abilities, but to judge their policies.

Because in terms of ability alone, officials who can climb to this level will not be so bad. The only difference is generally the difference in political philosophy.

The news of Li Xuan's interviews with these two people is naturally insufficient, or he did not hide it at all.

So ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the news that the Son of Heaven had summoned Zhou Yiran and Dai Yugang successively, the whole Jinling City was spread all over the sky in an instant, and the current Jiangnan Railway and the railway from Jinling City to Kaifeng in Henan have already taken shape. All kinds of letters can be spread all over the Jiangnan Railway and along the Jingkai Line within a day or two through the railway.

It didn't take a few days, basically, many people in most of China knew that the Son of Heaven had summoned Zhou Yiran and Dai Yugang successively.

At such a sensitive moment, the Son of Heaven did not see anyone, but he summoned the two of them alone, and during the summoning, they talked for several hours. If you can't guess what this means, then the political sensitivity Also too bad.

You don't have to guess to know that the courtier who succeeded Ma Wei and entered the imperial study will be born between these two people.

And this result made many officials sigh!

Especially those senior officials who are preparing to compete for this position, many people are disappointed, they missed this opportunity, and they don't know when they will have the next opportunity.

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