"You continue to accuse me and I will continue to interrogate you. After the interrogation is over, I will continue to skin you..."

After Zhao Huan finished speaking, both the onlookers and the officials such as Gu Kecheng who were sitting not far from Zhao Huan were stunned by Zhao Huan's extremely shameless attitude.

No one would have imagined that an official would issue such an almost naked threat. Especially the people who were watching——

One second I was immersed in Guan Jia's powerful and touching speech, and the next second I saw Wei Guangzheng's official family changing his appearance. How can I describe the feeling in my heart with just one word?

However, Zhao Huan didn't care at all about the reactions of the officials and people present. He just looked at Guan Jin and the other ten officials who collapsed on the ground and sneered: "Since we don't cry out for injustice, let's continue with the execution."

Skinning and making straw is a big project - first, the human skin of the prisoner must be completely peeled off, and then the human skin must be filled with straw to make a real scarecrow. After that, the official must be sent back to where he was an official when he was arrested.

place, hung in the lobby for people to visit.

Every step in this process must be carried out carefully. If there is a slight mistake, the scarecrow will be destroyed.

As the torture experts of the Imperial City Department slowly skinned the ten prisoners, Zhao Huan, who ran to the stage and personally served as the executioner, felt better. After all, he had seen such scenes countless times in his previous life, and at most

I just didn't want to eat meat for a few days. But for the officials and scholars in the audience who were called to watch the execution, the scene in front of them was too terrifying.

It's terrifying, and it's even more terrifying when you have to watch it.

The article published in the "Da Song Royal News" published the next day further promoted Zhao Huan's murderous and heart-breaking gameplay.

"Shocked! You know you're going to be skinned, but you can't scare these people"

"Shocked! The daily meals of the official family are so simple!"

"When the barbarians saw this thing, they were afraid..."

"Taxation - What is a tax? What is a tax?"

"Where have all the taxes you paid gone?"

"Legislation is strict, usage is forgiving, is it right or wrong?"

"The law must be followed! Violators must be prosecuted!"

"How to deal with corrupt officials?"

"Why are officials who serve the country and the people being smeared as tyrants?"

"..."

As we all know, the newspapers affiliated to the Imperial City have a group of writers. This group of writers, headed by Duan Xiaorong, does not have to do anything else every day. They only need to produce a large number of articles based on the topics explained above, and at the same time select other writers.

Articles submitted by writers.

To put it simply, you have to be both a writer and an editor. It is typical that in order to please the organizer, you will do whatever it takes, even if you have to leave the game in person, you still have to ensure that the "Da Song Royal News" does not make any mistakes.

After all, after each copy of the "Da Song Royal News" is printed, dozens of copies must be sent to the palace. If something goes wrong, it is estimated that everyone from the newspaper's leader Duan Xiaorong to the lowest editors will be in trouble.

Therefore, when Zhao Huan was about to launch a public opinion offensive against the original interest groups and old ideas of the entire Song Dynasty, Duan Xiaorong and the others began to work hard to concoct various articles, firstly so that Zhao Huan could better kill people and punish people, and secondly, for

Zhao Huan bought people's hearts.

Then the entire Song Dynasty officialdom and scholars discovered something was wrong.

Newspapers are very cheap, so cheap that they can have several pages or even dozens of pages. A newspaper with dozens of pages can be bought for only five cents! And it is full of court news, the latest policies and various local news.

news.

In the beginning, it was fine. The officials and scholars could just buy it and read it themselves. Few ordinary people were willing to spend money to buy this thing because they couldn't understand it even if they bought it.

However, with the little promotion of the two major projects of sociology and literacy classes, more and more people in the Song Dynasty became literate? Newspapers are full of vernacular, or are they the kind with added sentences?

This means that even those who only roughly know some words can read it almost.

Moreover, those literacy gentlemen especially like to use "Da Song Royal News" as literacy materials? This leads to the fact that even the illiterate people can understand it.

What's even more terrible is that Zhao Huan also specially asked the Imperial City Division to secretly recruit a group of old boys who had failed in the imperial examination. Seeing that there was no hope for the imperial examination, they usually copied letters for people on the streets to earn a living, and let these old boys go to various places.

Let's talk and read newspapers in teahouses and restaurants.

Are these old boys willing to be the lecturers? After all, there is a formal establishment? From now on, they can be regarded as eating royal food.

When these old boys were first assigned to various teahouses, the teahouse owners were quite reluctant. It was just because of the evil reputation of the Imperial City Division. They had to pinch their noses and admit it. It only took two days? These

The teahouse owners changed their previous attitude and started to welcome these old boys——

Teahouses and restaurants used to have some ancient storytellers telling stories about the past, telling stories in storybooks, etc., and letting the teagoers solve the problem. But after listening to the teahouses for a long time, the teagoers got tired of listening.

Now that there are these old boys talking about reading newspapers, the tea guests and drinkers are also happy to hear something new, so in the afternoon, these old boys appear in teahouses and restaurants, spread out the newspapers in their hands, and talk about the important events of the imperial court one by one.

Come out and let the tea drinkers listen.

And the tea patrons also like to listen - this is their rare time to relax? How can they brag in the teahouse? Give advice on current affairs, it doesn't matter.

As long as you don't openly declare rebellion or insult the current officials, you can talk about the rest as you like. Even if you accuse the current Dazai and the six ministers of being stupid, there is no problem. No one will care about it anyway.

Later, some brothels even specially invited people to give lectures and read newspapers.

Therefore, when the scholars and gentry wanted to discredit Zhao Huan by controlling public opinion, they found that what could have been done easily turned out to be extremely difficult -

On the one hand, they said that it was too cruel for officials to use people's heads to build Beijing temples. In history, we have never seen such a wise king. On the other hand, some people took newspapers to refute, saying that the officials built Beijing temples to better protect the people. If

If we don't build a capital, we won't be able to scare away the barbarians who are hostile to the Song Dynasty.

The first one said that officials' behavior of stripping people to death at every turn was too harsh. The wise kings in history always ruled from the top down. But the other side was holding newspapers and said that these corrupt officials who were skinned and stripped were more than worthy of their death. This is the so-called "ruling from the top".

If corrupt officials are allowed to be corrupt, then they do not take the people seriously, and the so-called wise king is not worthy of being called a wise king.

Even if some people want to attack Zhao Huan for establishing a social school and forcing children to enter school, and doubling taxes on anyone who refuses to send their children to school, the common people think this is good governance - the officials have said that this is for the common people.

A chance to get ahead, why would a fool not let his child go to school!

Then the scholars and gentry of the Song Dynasty became completely desperate.

To be clear, no one is sure that they can defeat the murderous Imperial Army.

To play dirty tricks, the officials hold in their hands the Imperial City Division, the Palace Division, and the Dongji Office, which are now notorious institutions.
Chapter completed!