My Daming New Empire

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The Internal Supervision Department and the Ministry of Industry are now the two major departments of the imperial court that receive money, and the products they produce are sold throughout the country.It can be said that advertisements do not need to find customers at all, and their own product advertisements can feed the newspaper.

Zhu Zhanji originally wanted to directly set up the Propaganda Department, but after thinking about it, he only set up a residence newspaper department, which belongs to the head of the royal family.

Because he is not the real emperor now, it is easy to do things if he wants to carry out governance reforms, but if he wants to reform the system, his name will not be justified.

What's more, a newspaper office has been able to temporarily meet Zhu Zhanji's needs. As for the name, it doesn't matter much.

Zhu Youdun served as the doctor of the Dibao Department, and Zhu Zhanji assigned some publishing powers of the Ministry of Rites to this new department.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Xie Jin, Hu Yan and other cabinet scholars. Any pages in the newspaper except advertisements need their consent to be published.

Under the auspices of Jin Kuo, the chief eunuch of Yinshoujian, the internal eunuchs were established in Yingtian Mansion, Beiping, Hangzhou Mansion, Fuzhou Mansion, Xi'an Mansion, Yizhou Mansion, Luoyang Mansion, Wuchang Mansion, Nanchang Mansion, Changsha Mansion, and Zhaoqing Mansion. Eleven printing workshops were established.

After the layout of Yingtianfu's newspapers is determined, these printing workshops will get the same typesetting as quickly as possible through the post station system of the Secretary of General Administration, and then publish it.

At the beginning, Zhu Zhanji did not intend to make a daily newspaper, but a bimonthly magazine, that is, a newspaper is printed every half month.

As for the timeliness, let's not think about it for the time being. With the current speed of communication, even if the imperial court vigorously promotes it, it will be fast for some remote counties to get the latest newspaper a month after Ying Tianfu publishes it.

Newspapers mainly publish news about government orders, and they are not afraid of losing their timeliness. People in remote areas may not be able to read newspapers.

Zhu Zhanji's emphasis on newspapers has also caught the attention of many people during the preparation time of nearly half a year.

Don't underestimate the wisdom of people in this era, public opinion propaganda is the most important thing at any time.It's just that, in the past, no one was willing to spend such a large cost to carry out public opinion propaganda.

For one newspaper, so many departments unite to form a new institution.After that, each issue of the newspaper required a lot of manpower and material resources to go to and from the takeaway, and the money lost was not a small amount.

Within ten years, Zhu Zhanji never thought of making money, except that places like Yingtianfu and Ningbo might be slightly profitable.But selling a newspaper to a remote area may lose the cost of several newspapers.

For this reason, Zhu Zhanji is not worried that someone will follow suit and start a newspaper, because no one can afford to lose money except him.

What's more, Zhu Zhanji would not allow newspapers to follow suit, even if six wanted to run newspapers.

After getting the "Country and Nation" written by the Kong family, Zhu Zhanji had already considered it. The first issue of the newspaper will be published nationwide on the [-]th day of the first lunar month. The main content is to excerpt some of the contents of this book.

From the first issue of the newspaper, it is necessary to establish the concept of country and nation in the hearts of the people.

It is not only necessary to let the people understand that the country and the family share weal and woe, and the relationship of interests is cold.It is even more necessary for the common people to understand that apart from interests, there is a deeper collective honor and blood relationship.

Of course, this is not an easy task, but this is a long-term job, and it will take decades, even hundreds of years, and several generations to cultivate it.

There is another important link here, and that is Daming's global colonization plan.

Even if all the ships in the future are steam ships, it will take more than a month to go to Dongzhou and Xizhou.

With such a long distance and no land connection, no matter whether it is a feudal vassal or a garrison, different interest groups will be formed.

While he was alive, he believed he could keep the situation under control.

But what about later?Now these clans dare not rebel, and his sons will not be independent after they are divided.

But what if Zhu Qizhen came to power, or after his grandchildren?

The familial relationship has weakened, and the means of profit are also uncontrollable due to the limited ability of the emperor, so independence of various regions may become a trend.

Although there is a Confucian idea of ​​great unification, but even Zhu Di wants to compete with his nephew for the world, who can guarantee that the future vassal kings will be honest and obedient.

Strengthening the cultivation of national sentiment now can also make the independence of various places lose popular support as much as possible. Even if the country is independent, national sentiment can still connect all places.

At such a time, it is impossible for any country, or any nation, to shake the dominance of the Chinese nation in the world.

After the time entered December, the atmosphere of the year in Yingtianfu became stronger and stronger.

But on the distant Persian plateau, the war fell into its fiercest confrontation.

Although Daming occupied the granary in Tairabat, because the autumn harvest had already begun before the arrival of the army, the food obtained was mainly obtained from the city of Tairabat.

This food is not much, relatively speaking, hundreds of thousands of sheep are more reassuring food.

But sheep also need to eat grass, and it is a troublesome thing to get enough grass for these sheep in the snowy season.

In short, although Da Ming has an absolute advantage on the battlefield, there are still many troublesome things.

Zhu Di has already fully recognized Huang Yuan's ability. This 30-year-old young man's coordination ability has far exceeded his expectations.

Enough flocks can also allow 10,000+ Ming soldiers and tens of thousands of Indian soldiers to live a good year.

Before the Spring Festival, Zhu Di was no longer ready to go to war.It was difficult for Daming's soldiers to be mobilized, and he was unwilling to take the lives of his soldiers to head-on a fortified city.

All kinds of artillery and trebuchets were set up outside the city of Herat, and Daming would launch a thunderous strike only after the Chinese New Year.

It was at this time that they finally got in touch with the North Route Army. Knowing that Zheng Heng had set off several months earlier and was already preparing for the battle in Suiye City, his confidence was even stronger.

Zheng Heng arrived in Suiye City at the end of November. While actively communicating with the surrounding tribes, he sent a cavalry team of more than 2000 people to march southward with difficulty along the mountainous area in the east of the Hezhong area to establish a complete communication channel.

The central and western parts of the Hezhong region were occupied by the original West Chahatai Khanate and now the Timur Kingdom.

Only the mountainous areas in the east belong to the territory of the Eastern Chahatai Khanate.The two big countries that originally belonged to the same khanate, at this time, are real mortal enemies because of the struggle for belief and power.

Two years ago, with the support of the East Chahatai Khanate, that is, Yilibali, Ming Dynasty established some strongholds in their territory.

But the high mountains and dangerous roads in the east, especially the Pamirs, are simply insurmountable dead ends in this era.

Whether it's the ancient Silk Road or Tang Sanzang's Buddhist scriptures, they all avoided this area.

Even though Daming sent more than [-] students who graduated from Habayashi School of Health here one after another, trying to find a passage for the army to pass through, they have never been successful.

The problem of water source and supply made it impossible for the army to pass through, but the stretch of mountain roads could not stop the passage of the detailed workers with rich materials.

As long as there are not many people and enough supplies are brought, some places can still pass.

It took two years to finally find a safe passage in the vast no-man's land.

Zhang Xin who was stationed here was very pleasantly surprised when the North Route Army's secret work came from the high mountains to Peshawar.

This means that although it is difficult, the South Route Army and the North Route Army can finally get in touch.

In Peshawar, Zhang Xin and Mu Xin still have [-] cavalry under their command, and they have been recuperating here for more than half a month.

And in order to cover this passage, they can come in handy.

The South Route Army has suspended its offensive and is preparing for the new year. Zheng Heng of the North Route Army is still trying to attract more tribes to join him, but Zhang Xin sent a cavalry guard headed by Chang Fuliang to pass through the Khyber Pass and start a new campaign. harassment tactics.

Afghanistan in later generations is a barren land in everyone's heart.

But in this era, because the land has not been desertified, it is a famous pasture and granary in Central Asia.

The Timurid Kingdom has always attached great importance to the rule of Afghanistan. The northern capital Samarkand, the southern capital Herat, and the eastern trading capital Kabul. This triangle is the essence of the entire Timurid Kingdom.