Nanjing City, the old shop of the Cao family.

Since last time he had a duck at the old Cao family shop, Zhu Yicheng would come every few days. Over time, he has become the old owner of this place.

The reason why I came to the old Cao family shop to eat ducks is that the ducks and ducks from the old Cao family are indeed good, and the imperial chefs in the palace can't make this taste at all. Secondly, after a meal last time, Zhu Yicheng felt that he should go out for a walk, so no matter how busy he was, he always took a few hours to come here every few days, not only to eat ducks, but also to intuitively understand the real situation outside and the people's views on the changes in the Ming Dynasty through this method.

Because Zhu Yicheng changed his clothes every time he came, and with only two or three personal guards, he seemed very low-key, and no one knew his identity at all. Except for Zhang Ran of the Jinyiwei and the personal guards and several close eunuchs in the palace, the rest of the people knew about this, and even the queen Li Juaner did not tell her to avoid her worry.

When he came to the old shop of Cao's family to investigate the people's livelihood, understand the situation, and enjoy the food. Zhu Yicheng didn't want to make this a common thing known. Once more people know, these people would inevitably dissuade him from leaving the palace or make some lip service to him.

Today, Zhu Yicheng ordered a duck like before, added some ducks, and made some rice wine made by Lao Cao's family, and savored it leisurely. The two guards sat on both sides of him one by one. Because they had come too much, and Zhu Yicheng's special instructions, they were not restrained, just like ordinary people, but their eyes were kept paying attention to everyone in the store to avoid accidents. As for another guard outside the store, the man pretended to be an ordinary Lifu and squatted not far from the store to serve as a warning.

The store is still as lively as before. Several old owners and some passers-by were eating and chatting. The topics they talked about were nothing more than some things that have happened recently. The Ming Dynasty did not restrict the remarks of civilians. Of course, the premise was that remarks that could not harm the Ming Dynasty. If it was to publicly promote the good of the Qing court and attack the Ming Dynasty with remarks, then let alone the Jinyiwei hidden everywhere, even the people in Nanjing would attack them in groups.

With the stability of the Ming Dynasty's regime and the implementation of a series of policies, the changes in the people of Jiangnan were obvious. Whether it was rich or ordinary people, scholars or rural businessmen, the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty had gained many benefits. Living under the Ming Dynasty was much better than during the Qing Dynasty. In this case, it was said that the Ming Dynasty was not as good as the Qing court, and even caring about the Qing Dynasty was full of Qing Dynasty, which was simply a matter of conscience and nonsense.

Furthermore, the "Qing Palace Secrets" compiled by Wang Jingqi has spread all over the country, and the effect of smearing the Qing court was extremely significant. When the people talked about the contents of it, discussing dirty secret matters such as the seemingly upright and openness of the Qing emperor, but behind his back, he was robbing his wife, stripping off his nephew, marrying his nephew, and marrying his relationship with each other, everyone instantly became abnormally gossiped. After discussing, his self-confidence and cohesion as Han people naturally began to rise, and the awe of the Qing Dynasty disappeared, and replaced by disdain and contempt.

The "Qing Palace Secrets" compiled by Wang Jingqi was hit in one shot, and its effect was significant. Then Wang Jingqi and his people tinkered with several other secrets, which also spread throughout the world. Now, the person Kangxi hated the most in Beijing was not Zhu Yicheng, nor Zhu Jiancai or Wang Zhiqing, but Wang Jingqi, because Wang Jingqi directly used his pen as a knife to peel off the ugly side of the Qing royal family, and exposed these things to the world for everyone in the world to know, which made the Qing court lose all its face from top to bottom, but he had no choice but to do anything to him.

The more Kangxi hated, the more Zhu Yicheng appreciated him. After the "Qing Palace Secret News" spread throughout the world, Zhu Yicheng directly promoted Wang Jingqi from the agency Propaganda Department to the position of Minister of the Propaganda Department, and was given the third rank. After receiving such praise and attention, Wang Jingqi was excited and excited. You must know that he has always been proud of his talent but has never been successful. Now he can finally be a day of favor. This is given by Zhu Yicheng. The so-called scholar who died as a confidant, Wang Jingqi has always regarded himself as a national scholar. Now he has to try his wishes and repay him with strength on the same day.

Afterwards, Wang Jingqi devoted more and more to this great and meaningful publicity work. Under Zhu Yicheng's care and guidance, Wang Jingqi also established two newspapers, one of which was the Daming Daily and the other of which was Shenzhou News. The former focused on politics, while the latter favored business. Wang Jingqi personally copied the knife and made these two newspapers very popular. It was published on the first day of the first day of the year. Now its influence not only covers Jiangnan, Fujian's three provinces and one place, but also spreads to other places through business roads and folks. Even the Qing court secretly looked for these two newspapers.

Just like today, there are a few people in the store who are flirting with an article from Daming Daily not long ago. The main content of this article is to tell the world and geography, and to describe the customs and customs of Western countries and how the Age of Discovery began.

As Chinese, the concept of the Celestial Empire in the world was deeply rooted in the concept of the Celestial Empire. During the Song Dynasty, with the development of the navigation industry during the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty could be said to be the most frequent contact with the outside world. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou was also called the most port in the world. Some people even went to Quanzhou to see the ships from all directions as if they were covered with the sea. There were countless merchants from all over the world who couldn't help but sigh that Quanzhou accounts for more than half of the wealth in the world.

I won’t talk about the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty relied on barbarism, force, and the destroyers of civilization. After the Yuan Dynasty, Zheng He’s feat of voyage to the West can be said to have unveiled the curtain of the era of great navigation. It was also because of the pioneering and enterprising Zheng He’s fleet that led to Western countries trying to open the waterway to the Far East on their own, which led to the subsequent exploring of the ocean.

Unfortunately, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty stopped exploring the outside world. During the Qing Dynasty, it directly adopted the national policy of sealing off the sea and closing the country, completely abolishing its own martial arts, which eventually led to China being surpassed by Western countries and losing the last glimmer of hope to maintain its advanced position during the Great Discovery Period.

In fact, in the late Ming Dynasty, although the official control over the ocean was not strong, the civilian marine power was extremely powerful. Not to mention the others, it was just Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong, the fleet they owned directly controlled the Far East and was a well-deserved overlord.

Unfortunately, as a barbarian, the Qing court was short-sighted, and because it was a foreign race who entered the Central Plains and was worried about the subversion of the regime, the Qing court vigorously advocated benevolent politics and Neo-Confucianism, so that it would use this method to make the people of the world lose their ambitions and thus make their regime last forever.
Chapter completed!