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Chapter 86 Propaganda Offensive

Zhu Wuliu is fifteen years old this year and lives in Zhujia Village, Taiping County, Qingzhou.

As long as he can remember, his father was a tenant of the Wang family, a wealthy family in Qingzhou. The annual harvest was given to the Wang family 70% of the harvest.

He had two older brothers, one named Zhu Yier and the other named Zhu Sansi. They were both herding cattle for the Wang family. When he was nine years old, he was not allowed to go like his older brothers, just to have a black steamed bun every day.

Zhu Wuliu doesn’t like black steamed buns because they are steamed from wheat bran mixed with moldy wheat, which makes it difficult to swallow.

But he had to eat it. The remaining 30% of the food in the family was not enough for the seven people in their family because they had a sister.

Zhu Wuliu is hungry every day. Only during festivals will parents be willing to sell the wheat at home for a few kilograms of white flour steamed bread and steamed buns.

In his memory, these were his happiest moments.

However, this year is different from previous years. My father, who originally rented the Wang family's farmland, suddenly called all the three brothers home, and the family of seven went to both sides of the river ditches outside the village to reclaim wasteland.

According to parents, His Highness King of Qi issued a military farming order, and whoever family will be from whom the farming will be from now on, and will be inherited from generation to generation.

Later, the village was about to arrive at his house again and asked their house to join the production team.

He remembered that his parents were so happy that their blind dates near the cultivated land he had reclaimed were all classified as a production team, and oxen soon came from the county and the ploughing tools were assigned to each production team.

After spring, the villagers will be able to farm the fields together, and the government will not collect any taxes in the next three years.

According to the military farming method, the number of acres of land he could cultivate was thirty acres, but he couldn't do it alone.

However, my parents said that when the harvest this year is sold, they will prepare a betrothal gift for him so that they can farm together. Zhu Wuliu blushed when he thought of it. What does a woman feel like?

He was watching the rotational torque in the field. At this time, his second brother Zhu Sansi ran over and said to him: "Five and six, Qingzhou City has come to the newspaper boy, and everyone in the village is going to the threshing farm at the east end of the village."

"What is a newspaper boy?" Zhu Wuliu said in confusion.

"What do you care about newspaper boys? Just go back."

Zhu Sansi pulled Zhu Wuliu to the threshing farm. At this time, most of the people in the village arrived.

In the middle of the threshing farm, a father-in-law was holding something like a notice. In the inner court, Zhujia Village, Zhu Ziyou, who was respectful and respectful, was standing behind his father-in-law and accompanied him very carefully.

This person was Fan Zeng, who had gone to the countryside for the first time. He held the newspaper and asked Zhu Ziyou: "Have all the people in the village arrived?"

"This Zhu Wuliu is here, and he is here." Zhu Ziyou said.

Fan Zeng nodded. Whether it is prefectures, counties and villages in the Great Yu Kingdom, the people gathered together, and the village was surrounded by a wall of earth. This is to prevent jackals, tigers and leopards. It is precisely because of this that the people are together and it is easy to gather.

He said at this time: "First of all, I will talk about what a newspaper boy 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 an official authoritative information.

After some explanation, the people understood almost everything. At this time, Fan Zeng began to read it, and the content was naturally the content in the newspaper.

This is the first edition of the newspaper in the Great Yu Kingdom, which says important things that happened when Qingzhou came in.

The first one is to clarify the number of land that each person has in the military farm order to prevent wealthy families from taking up too much food.

The second article is the information on recruitment, which encourages young and middle-aged people to join the army, and it is clear that joining the army can get an additional amount of land and a certain monthly salary. At the end of the year, the government will also subsidize grain and meat to those who join the army.

The third article is to restore horse government and encourage animal husbandry. The fourth article encourages commercial trade, handicrafts, and corrects the low status of merchants and craftsmen. Foreigners can enter the city to work, and obtain local household registration for three years and enjoy all the conveniences of the fief.

Because the newspaper page is limited, the policies are only a few of them for the time being, and the rest are several major cases of the fiefdom, one is the Cangzhou incident and the other is the Dengzhou incident.

"Bah, the Wang family and the Qin family are really different." After reading the newspaper, a commoner cursed.

"No, especially the Wang family, who actually killed a family of 72 for their own benefit, should be killed by a thousand swords." Another said.

"This local tycoon is a disaster. We are exhausted and we have to give them 70% of the harvest every year. They have occupied a lot of land."

“…”

When we came to the new policy, the people were cheering, but when it came to local wealthy families, the people were all gritting their teeth.

Fan Zeng carefully observed the reactions of the people. After going back to the evening, he still needed to report the specific situation to the Qi Palace.

Zhu Wuliu was also listening, especially when the Captain Lu swung his sword to kill the two evils in Cangzhou, and the Qingzhou army took the governor of Dengzhou. This made him excited. He vaguely felt that His Highness of the King of Qi was aimed at the people.

"His Highness of the King of Qi cares about the people and is a rare wise king. All of them are for the people. Everyone should be grateful to the King of Qi's good policies." Fan Zeng said.

Not only was he as simple as reading newspapers, he also wanted to establish the image of the King of Qi and the government in the hearts of the people, so that the people could believe in him and the government.

Fan Zeng said the words, and the people whispered, and many people nodded secretly. The people's eyes were bright and they could tell the difference between the good and the bad.

However, they still lack orderly guidance. Now, Xiao Ming uses the name of newspapers to promote the people 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 families are deeply rooted, Fan Zeng still saw the fear in their eyes when talking about the wealthy families.

After venting their anger in their hearts, they still surrendered to the shadow of the rich.

Fan Zeng secretly recorded the reactions of the people and handed the newspaper to Zhu Ziyou. He had another village to go, so he took a break and left again.

Newspapers were a very new thing for the people. Fan Zeng left and the people dispersed, but they still talked about the news in the newspaper excitedly on the way.

Zhu Ziyou, the Lizheng, looked at the departing villagers and his expression gradually became gloomy.

He glanced at the newspaper and said, "The official must know that this newspaper has ruined the Wang family very much."

While Zhu Ziwen was thinking, Xiao Ming was thinking about the problem of his opponent at this stage.
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