"Call the note, take a photo and publish it in the newspaper tomorrow." Li Xiao thought for a moment and ordered.

"Commander...!" At this moment, Ai Husheng couldn't help but be a little surprised, and even Sun Yuanhua was a little surprised.

How could such a thing be published in the newspaper!

In the past, no matter how corrupt officials were caught, newspapers would definitely not publish it. After all, it was an internal conflict among court officials, so how could ordinary people talk about it?

But today, Li Xiao actually wants to reveal such a big thing. Isn’t the public opinion going to be turned upside down?

"Commander, you need to think twice about this matter. This public opinion...!" Ai Husheng was a little anxious. In terms of relationship, he and Yin Jishan were pretty good.

Ai Husheng once asked Yin Jishan to do something! If it were published, he might drink a pot.

"What are you thinking about? Now that we've reached this point, you still want the meat to rot in the pot, covered with a lid?

Can the people's mouths be silenced by not making it public? Then rumors will spread all over the sky, and the court's face will become even more ugly.

Simply, the imperial court opened the lid on its own. What official status! What official prestige! How can you give such a person any face?

Tomorrow, all major newspapers in the capital will make headlines on their front pages. Newspapers in other places will also follow suit. I will strip Yin Jishan naked and display it in front of all the people of Ming Dynasty."

Li Xiao glanced at Yin Jishan with disgust, who was lying on the ground like mud. A high-ranking official in the imperial court was not only greedy, but also had no sense of responsibility.

Not as good as those gangsters on the Autumn Jue Law Field!

"Promise!" Seeing Li Xiao really furious, everyone hurriedly bowed and said promise.

"I saw it with my own eyes yesterday. A huge golden Buddha was carried out from Yin's house. It was three feet tall. It was only carried away by an oxcart pulled by more than a hundred cows." A guy with a mustache spat.

Hefei narrated his "personal experience" to the onlookers around him.

"The three-foot-tall Golden Buddha, oh my God. It must weigh over a thousand pounds!" A young man's jaw almost dropped to the ground as he was trying to calculate how much the three-foot-tall Golden Buddha weighed.

"A thousand catties? Tell me, don't be scared. One hundred thousand catties!" The mustache continued to spit.

"Wow...!" All the onlookers exclaimed in surprise.

One hundred thousand catties, this is definitely an imaginary thing. They have never seen anything weighing one hundred thousand catties in real life!

The imagination of the broad masses of the people is infinite. When something is beyond their cognitive scope, they will substitute their own fantasies into it and then render it like this.

Naturally, the 100,000-jin golden Buddha appeared majestically in their mouths.

In the world of mustaches, one hundred thousand pounds is the ultimate.

In the capital, various rumors began to spread wildly. This joke about the 100,000-jin golden Buddha has already found eight hundred beauties. Yin Jishan's superb skills in taming dozens of women at night have also won the favor of many men in the capital.

There were sounds of envy and admiration.

"Stop talking nonsense! The newspapers have written about how many silver dollars, how many gold coins, and how many diamonds and jewelry were taken from the Yin family. These are all listed!

Yin Jishan doesn’t have the ability to control dozens of women at night, and his total number of wives and concubines is only four.”

A young student held a newspaper in his hand and reprimanded the mustache with righteous words.

"What do children know? Everything in the newspaper is true? Officials protect each other, and a newspaper run by the government is not a cover-up for the government?" the mustache said unconvinced.

"Haha! If you keep talking nonsense, I will arrest you for spreading rumors.

Dear neighbors, here is not only a list. There are also photos. Everything is taken.

Illiterate people can always see this photo. Look, these are clearly taken.

This is the treasury of Yin Jishan's family. These are the jewelry and curios of Yin Jishan's family. These are Yin Jishan's wives and concubines. This is the living room of his family.

This is the Golden Buddha on the Amyrlin Seat, only one foot tall.

For a hundred thousand kilograms, there really is a solid golden Buddha three feet high. It crushed the cart directly, and eight hundred cows couldn't pull it. What do you know?" The young student pointed at the photo and explained one by one to the people around him.

The people were illiterate, but they could still see the pictures clearly.

Soon, the direction of public opinion changed from those gold and silver to Yin Jishan's wives and concubines.

Public opinion is divided again here. The men are appreciating the beauty of the wives and concubines, while the women are commenting on the ladies’ clothes, gold and silver jewelry!

"Commander, after the details were published in the newspapers, there were indeed fewer rumors, and there was no major turmoil on the ground in the capital.

"Students from various schools played a big role in this." Sun Yuanhua now admires Li Xiao even more. In terms of understanding people's hearts, Li Xiao is considered a master in various schools.

No wonder that all the way from Liaodong, Li Xiao stood on the commanding heights of public opinion.

"Some things should just be put on the table. The more suppressed they are, the more counterproductive they will be.

From now on, we will make more use of newspapers to publicize government decrees. If this is done well, it will have the effect of reaching the people directly.

At the same time, it also allows newspapers to report more on people's lives, which plays a role in directly communicating public opinion to God!

As a medium, newspapers play a huge role." Li Xiao knew very well how fierce the public opinion war would be in later generations.

It's just that in the Ming Dynasty, there were still very few people who realized the power of public opinion.

"No! I will arrange this matter properly. There is one more thing!" Sun Yuanhua hesitated to speak.

"Tell me!" Li Xiao looked at Sun Yuanhua and asked.

"Yin Jishan has been serving as the governor of Shuntian Prefecture for eight years. He has a lot of disciples and former officials. The officials he has promoted can be found in almost every yamen in the capital.

Now that he has been arrested, all the officials are feeling uneasy. People in various government offices have almost no time to do their work.

The Song San you met when you went to Shuntian Mansion yesterday was found to have committed suicide at home this morning because of excessive stress."

Once a person of Yin Jishan's level is killed, it will not be pulling out a carrot to bring out the mud, but pulling out a towering tree.

There are so many flowers and plants brought there. There are countless officials who have been promoted by Yin Jishan, favored by Yin Jishan, and instructed by Yin Jishan.

Almost everyone believed that Song Laosan's demand for bribes was the trigger for this incident. There were even rumors that Song Laosan blackmailed a mysterious figure around Li Xiao, which was why he suffered such vicious revenge from the commander-in-chief.

Many people said that the people in Shuntian Mansion were crazy about making money, and they actually got the handsome man's head.

More officials are afraid that they will be implicated by Yin Jishan. After all, officialdom is a place where people are divided into teams.

At the beginning of the scientific examination in the early years, who your teacher is and who you are in the same year has already determined the brand behind you.

And whoever promoted you will be the mark on your back.

Now that Yin Jishan has fallen, those he promoted are in danger of being implicated.

They had no intention of doing business at all, and spent the whole day going from one yamen to the next to inquire about things. Every rumor about Yin Jishan affected their nerves.

What's even more terrible is that no one knows where Yin Jishan is being held or who will interrogate him.

Even Zhang Huangyan, who was always well-informed, couldn't figure out where Yin Jishan was being held.

It's not a good phenomenon for everyone to be in suspense. How could an old man like Sun Yuanhua fail to notice this kind of horror that everyone is in danger?

When everyone is in the most frightened time, out of fear of the future, if someone stands up and shouts, the consequences are really unpredictable.

The death of Song Laosan was the result of the fear in the hearts of all the officials. The anger of so many officials had no place to vent their anger, and in the end this poor officer could only be used as a punching bag.

Suicide may be the best way out for him, but if he is targeted by these officials, it will be a real life worse than death.

How can a petty official withstand the pressure of a huge bureaucracy?

"If you die, you will die. For the bastard who harmed the people, death is also a warning." For the death of a small servant, Li Xiao didn't think it was a big deal.

It's just a little moth anyway, and if it dies, it's just dead. It's not a big deal.

"The commander is wrong!" Sun Yuanhua sighed helplessly when he saw what Li Xiao said.

"What? Didn't you say you didn't see the way he asked for a bribe?" Li Xiao was a little confused. Sun Yuanhua was the person involved.

Why did you sigh when you heard about the death of this little moth?

"I saw it! I saw it all. But Commander, do you think he has any other ideas? To put it bluntly, if there are more subordinate officials like him in the yamen, the people may suffer less.

Exploitation.”

"Oh! How do you say this?" Li Xiao felt a little strange, but this Sun Yuanhua really climbed up from the bottom bit by bit. He should have his own reasons!

"Commander, think about it!

Song Laosan and his colleagues are making money, and his superiors are also making money. Everyone around him is trying every means to make money.

You said, he is a small servant, the lowest subordinate in the yamen.

What can he do?

In any case, we spend less money to do things, and we get things done after all. In these days, those who can do things for money in the yamen are considered good people.

You still don’t know that those villains who try their best to deceive you have really deceived you and left you with nowhere to redress your grievances." Sun Yuanhua shook his head helplessly, although Li Xiao started from a humble background.

However, I have never worked as a clerk in a yamen. If I mentioned this matter to Mr. Ao, the answer would be different.

Li Xiao was a little speechless. He didn't expect that a subordinate official like Song Laosan could still be considered a good person.

"Then Mr. Sun, what do you mean...!" What Sun Yuanhua said made sense, and Li Xiao could only pinch his nose and admit it.

"I feel that in order to shock people's minds, officials like Yin Jishan need to be arrested and dealt with severely to serve as a warning to the monkeys!

However, for those who are implicated, as long as their evildoing is not too big, they can be let go if they are given some punishment. This is called using thunderbolt means and having a Bodhisattva heart.

We must use thunderbolt measures to deal with those high-ranking officials and those whose evil deeds are serious. To those who have no choice but to participate, we must still have a Bodhisattva heart.

Dealing with these corrupt officials was like scraping the bones of the imperial court to cure the poison. Guan Yunchang scraped the bones to cure the poison, not a broken arm to cure the poison.
To be continued...