Following the official of the Great Honglu official, Xia Yi came to the official residence of the Prime Minister, the real power center of the Han Dynasty. Compared with the old year, the scale of the Han Prime Minister's Mansion has expanded by five times!

The official office alone has a three or four miles of continuous operation and has more than 30 institutions of different sizes, respectively, which are in charge of the local civil affairs of the Han Empire, the central government's direct jurisdiction, the state-owned economy, the vassal states, academy education, taxation and labor services and other affairs.

Each institution has dozens of officials and hundreds of officials according to its size and power.

As soon as he entered the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Xia Yi seemed to have arrived at the Imperial Academy Market five times a month.

Countless voices poured into my ears from all directions, officials with accents from all over the world, shuttled back and forth through the huge corridors and corridors of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

From time to time, you can see Cao Guan, who has nine ministers and officials, quarrel with Ling Cheng from a competent department of the Prime Minister's Office.

In the courtyard, scholars with nylon crowns gathered together, sitting in groups of three or five, under trees or in pavilions.

Among them, many are famous all over the world.

Xia Yi knew several.

"Why are so many famous people gathering today?" He whispered to the official leading the way.

"Oh..." The official replied with a smile: "The Prime Minister promulgated the "Civil Report Law" a few days ago, and ordered the reports issued by the local county magistrates to be reviewed and approved by the local county magistrates before they can be published. Otherwise, the editor, editor-in-chief, and even the persons involved in the joint position..."

"The students are naturally dissatisfied..."

"Now, I'm here to petition the Prime Minister..."

Xia Yi nodded. He also heard about this.

The product of newspapers is a very fresh product.

The first time it appeared in people's sight was the "Tianxia Times" jointly published by the Prime Minister of Yongshi in the second year of Yongshi.

This newspaper is a newspaper that was born from the past government, but it is more open in terms of content and has no limitations.

What are the situations in the world, the situation in the Western Regions, the folk customs of various places, and even the strange stories written by novelists are published.

Once released, it became popular all over the world.

Not only the people and scholars of Chang'an subscribed, but also the merchants of counties and states and literati and officials purchased on behalf of the people.

The main reason is that the "Tianxia Times" was ordered by the Prime Minister to jointly publish it with the Shaofu and the Shangshutai.

Among them, various news reports from states and counties in the world are published, such as disasters in a certain place, harvests in a certain place, rebellions in a certain place, and the price fluctuations of commodities in various places.

In addition, the various strange stories and stories contained on it are also quite interesting.

Therefore, it was soon loved by scholars and merchants all over the world.

As a result, various places followed suit, and local academicians began to publish their own newspapers.

Then, there were a bunch of demons dancing.

The struggles between various university schools and schools were reflected in the newspapers.

As we fought, we became angry, from literary fight to military fight, and from military fight to lower three ways.

For example, in Chang'an City, in addition to the official World Times, there are often anonymous articles in other private "Chang'an Times", "Imperial Capital Monthly" and "Shenjing Xinbao", which specializes in black history and write about some scandals that others have done in their early years.

Some are reasonable and well-founded, but many are simply rumors.

This is true in Chang'an, and it is even more amazing in the local area!

Especially when it comes to disputes between Taoism and school schools, rumors are really flying everywhere, making it difficult to tell the truth.

Like last year, Xu Changjing, the mountain captain of Simeng Academy in Luoyang, committed suicide because a small newspaper in Luoyang published the stories he had to tell with his stepmother in his early years.

This incident caused a lot of controversy, and Xu Changjing became even more infamous and despised by the world.

But after his death, the facts were clarified that he had no stepmother at all. This revivalist of the Si Meng School, who died of both his parents in his early years, was raised by a clan of the same clan!

As a result, public opinion suddenly reversed, and people all over the world sympathized with and regretted Xu Changjing.

It spread throughout the world in an instant with his articles and works during his lifetime.

Even the Prime Minister felt very regretful when he saw it. After mourning for a long time, he ordered someone to send the elegy.

Therefore, the Prime Minister decided to legislate to restrict various local newspapers and magazines and prepare to establish a news review system.

Last month, this law was passed in the Xuanshi Hall and issued to the Tingwei. Only after the Tingwei review was completed, it was officially promulgated.

This is a hornet's nest.

Suddenly, all scholars from all over the world, regardless of school or philosophy, were united.

The Confucian, Mohist, Legal, and famous scholars from the Huang-Lao School stood up one after another and vigorously stated that this matter was absolutely impossible!

Unfortunately, the Prime Minister and the rulings have made up their minds and must implement this law regardless of obstruction.

Scholars all over the world naturally refused to sit and waited for death, and drove to Beijing to lobby.

"Can they succeed?" Xia Yi looked at the famous scholars and asked in a low voice.

"No!"

"Who can stop what the Prime Minister wants to do?"

This made Xia Yi listen, but unfortunately, he shook his head and said, "Ah, the newspaper is actually quite fun..."

For him, it was a wonderful thing to get up every morning, buy a few newspapers, then sit in the yard, warm a pot of wine, and then carefully look at the fights between the parties.

But the official who led the way didn't see that. He gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "What's fun about it?"

"They speak nonsense and often interfere in politics with words. From local prefectures to central governments, they are very annoying!"

"That is, the Prime Minister and all the rulings are broad-minded. If it were Emperor Xiaoming, they would have to lose their heads!"

New things like newspapers are something that all officials hate, even more hated by officials than the Censor and the Jinyiwei!

The reason is very simple. The censor and the Jinyiwei are within the system, while the literati who writes newspaper articles are free guys.

Moreover, in order to attract people's hearts, these guys often focus on some of the government's handles.

For example, the Jingzhaoyi corruption case in March this year was continuously tracked and reported by seven newspapers in Chang'an City for a whole month. Almost all the officials involved were completely exposed.

As a result, two 2,000 quarrels, three marquises and more than 400 related officials were imprisoned, held accountable, and removed from office.

After this battle, the main pen of the seven newspapers became famous and became the "national conscience" and "the people of the country" in the hearts of the people of the world.

Some people have even been hired as special advisors of the Prime Minister's Office and can directly hand over their articles to the Prime Minister and the ruling people!

在地方上,这种情况尤为剧烈因为很多地方报纸都是当地州郡的学苑所办,里面愣头青一大把,最喜欢做那种和官府对着干的事情,尤其爱追究官府的把柄和错漏.

Of course, no one in the entire bureaucratic group has a good impression of newspapers, and even wants to ban them all immediately.

That is, the prime minister and the rulings cherish their feathers and are unwilling to do this.

While speaking, Xia Yi was taken to the side hall of the prime minister's official residence.

The official pushed open the door, invited Xia Yi in and sat down, and said, "Doctor wait, go and report to the Prime Minister..."
Chapter completed!