The chief of the Procuratorate is the censor of the left and right, who is responsible for supervising officials. It is generally held by civil servants, and occasionally there are exceptions and special recruits. It mainly works with the cabinet and the Ministry of Punishment, and can also bypass the cabinet and be directly responsible to the emperor.
The chief of the National Security Council is also the censor of the left and right. Internally, he is responsible for postal stations, supervising the powerful, and externally responsible for inquiring about the military situation, planting spies, and so on. It mainly communicates with the cabinet, the Ministry of War and the Inspectorate, and can also bypass the cabinet and be directly responsible to the emperor.
As the domestic situation stabilized, the spies that Xu Ying recruited at the beginning, due to the quality of the spies, kept appearing messy problems.
For example, extortion, fish and meat people!
They used to be called Black Clothes Guards, and some of them used their status to act recklessly, and local officials dared not interfere at all. Even the Inspector of Integrity did not dare to take action directly, so he could only make a small report to the emperor after returning to Beijing.
There are more and more such things, Zhao Hancai decided to formalize the black guards.
Not only did the Black Yiwei change its name to the National Security Council, but it also put all the postal system across the country under the jurisdiction of the National Security Council. A large number of low-level spies were transformed into postmen at the post station. High-level spies, transformed into Yicheng, or simply transferred to the Inspectorate as a clean government official. Therefore, in the post stations all over the country, those postmen are basically part-time spies, and the postmen will sort out the information collected by the postmen every day.
In each important border area, the National Security Council will set up a branch to be responsible for inquiring about intelligence and placing spies abroad. The headquarters of the National Security Council is responsible for analyzing the intelligence sent by the whole country.
After losing its arrest power, the National Security Council was completely reduced to an intelligence organization and a postal unit.
The person who took over Xu Ying's control of the National Security Institute was the inn waiter in Huangjia Town. The guy who could only write his own name and only recognize the names of dishes, now not only can read thousands of words, but also asked his husband to change his name - Huang Zundu.
Just like that Mr. Huang, he is of the generation of "Zun".
"Have you ever found out who paid for "Scholarly Picking Up Fun"?" Zhao Han asked.
Huang Zundu said: "The Scholars Shiqu has six major shareholders, three of which contributed the most. One is the Li family in Nanjing, the other is the Zhang family in Jiaxing, and the third is the Zhai family in Qingzhou."
Zhao Han felt very strange: "It is quite reasonable for the gentry in the capital and the south of the Yangtze River to run newspapers. Why are people from Shandong also coming to Nanjing to invest in newspapers?"
Huang Zundu explained: "The Zhai family's ancestral home is Anhui. In the early Ming Dynasty, a large number of immigrants first came to Zaoqiang, Hebei, and then were distributed to Qingzhou to settle down. During the Tianshun period, they moved to Xihe Village and multiplied into a large clan, known as 'Xihe Zhai'. During the Wanli period, Zhai Fengchong became a Jinshi, joined the Donglin Party, and was demoted and dismissed by the Eunuch Party. Chongzhen came back in the second year and became the right servant of the Ministry of War. He was promoted to the left servant of the Ministry of War. Taking pictures of schools, governor of Tianjin and other places. The front line was defeated, and Zhai Fengchong was dismissed and returned to his hometown."
Zhao Han sneered: "It turns out that I have supervised the Liao pay, no wonder I have money to go south to run newspapers."
Huang Zundu continued: "The person who went south to run the newspaper was called Zhai Wenben, who was the nephew of Zhai Fengchong. Zhai Wenben was elected during the reign of Chongzhen, but he did not go to Beijing for the test due to military disasters and plagues. After our dynasty recovered Shandong, Zhai Wenben volunteered to serve, but he only became an ordinary official. It is estimated that he felt that the official was hardworking and shameless, so he resigned and returned to his hometown to study. He was over six years old in the imperial examination three years ago, so he could not apply for the Shandong Provincial Examination. There was a riot in the provincial capital, and I was arrested and locked up in a cell for three days. After that, I went to Nanjing to hang out, participated in literary conferences, made friends, and co-authored "Scholars Picking Up Fun."
"This is resentment! Looking at the whole country, this generation knows nothing about it." Zhao Han said with emotion.
Zhai Wenben was purely self-destructive. The Datong Army recovered Shandong quite early, and he was already an official at that time. If you can work hard and have a diploma from the Ming Dynasty Juren, you may have been promoted to the county magistrate by now.
However, he disdained being an official and resigned voluntarily to go home. After finally looking forward to the imperial examination, who knows that the imperial court is stuck on the age limit, and now they can only run newspapers and take sour water.
Even if the age of the imperial examination is not stuck, even if Zhai Wenben succeeds in the examination, his official position will not be higher than if he was honestly promoted at the beginning.
Zhao Han asked again: "Who is that Cang Xuzi who wrote the article?"
Huang Zundu replied: "Zhang Tianzhi, from Xiushui, Jiaxing, has also passed the imperial examination period, and in the first imperial examination, his age was only over three years old. Since then, this person has been annoyed everywhere, writing articles complaining about the imperial court's imperial examination system .Because some articles were written too far, no newspapers were willing to publish them, so he partnered with Zhai Wenben and others to run his own newspaper.¡±
"Very good, you go down." Zhao Han approved of the intelligence work of the National Security Council.
In fact, this information can be obtained without leaving Nanjing at all, because Zhai Wenben and Zhang Tianzhi are too high-profile.
After Huang Zundu left, Zhao Han opened "The Scholars" again.
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? If you are frightened by the public opinion in the newspaper, you will be frightened halfway back. Some female examinees left Nanjing ahead of schedule without even receiving their admission tickets, for fear of being stabbed in the back by others.
The pen stick on the newspaper can't be typed at all.
There are indeed women's publications, but they are only circulated on a small scale. Famous talented women can be famous far and wide, but also rely on talents to fuel the flames.
In this situation, very few talented people are willing to speak up.
The woman wrote an article to refute it, but she couldn't find a newspaper to publish it. Some newspapers are willing to publish it, but they are all tabloids with insufficient circulation.
Zhao Han's original intention was to let the people debate for themselves.
The current situation made Zhao Han very disappointed. But it is impossible for him and the "Datong Monthly" to end in person.
What should I do?
Zhao Han called Huang Zundu: "Hand down, it is said that the emperor was influenced by the newspaper's public opinion and felt that women really should not show their faces. From now on, even textile factories are not allowed to hire women as weavers."
This news will make the capitalists explode directly.