Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 415 Donglin Party

Except that the emperor and prince introduced Zhang Qingfeng as their own.

In fact, among the people, Zhang Qingfeng's reputation is also very high.

Thanks to the publicity of Da Ming Daily, many people realized what kind of person Zhang Qingfeng was.

In the folk, as soon as scholars mentioned eunuchs, they would look disgusted, and all kinds of eunuchs, eunuchs and other bad words blurted out.

But Zhang Qingfeng was different, Zhang Qingfeng was forced to enter the palace, and after entering the palace, he made achievements that countless people had to admire.

Not to mention his ability to make money, but to say that his Royal Fleet defeated Japan and expanded the territory of the Ming Dynasty is enough to make many people shut up.

Next, his Royal Musketeers defeated Lin Dan Khan, deterred all the nomads, and made the nomads obediently come to see the Son of Heaven, which made many scholars feel embarrassed.

Later, the Royal Fleet defeated the European colonists, making Southeast Asia the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Qingfeng's achievements were naturally known by many people under the propaganda of Daming Daily.

Although he was promoted incidentally while promoting Emperor Wanli, under such public opinion propaganda, he can be said to have "zero" stains.

First of all, in the eyes of everyone, the eunuch Zhou Qingfeng is not corrupt. After all, he is the one who makes money. When a person can easily earn tens of billions, would you believe that he would embezzle millions?

Furthermore, he is not monopolistic, he has never held the greatest power of Daming from the beginning to the end.

If Zhang Qingfeng were a civil servant, he would definitely become a model for all scholars.

Although Zhang Qingfeng was an eunuch, he still became the object of worship of many scholars.

In fact, it's not that no one wants to discredit Zhang Qingfeng, after all, what Zhang Qingfeng did also harmed the interests of some people.

But in the situation where almost all newspapers in Daming are controlled by Zhang Qingfeng, it is more difficult to discredit him than going to heaven.

The newspaper Da Ming Daily alone has a circulation of 50 copies per issue, and there are branches of Da Ming Daily in every city.

In addition to Daming Daily, there are also Daming Royal Daily, Daming Business Daily, Daming Weekly, Daming Royal Journal, and other periodicals and newspapers, all of which were secretly supported by Zhang Qingfeng.

Some newspapers seem to be in a "hostile" relationship, and they often "attack" each other in the newspapers, but no one knows that they are the same boss.

In order to control public opinion, Zhang Qingfeng strictly controlled the technology of movable type printing. The Donglin Party and other parties in North Korea and China realized the horror of newspapers. They wanted to obtain the technology of movable type printing and run their own newspapers, but they failed. .

However, if it is just printing technology, many people can use other means to replace it.

Apart from printing technology, the biggest problem that restricts the running of newspapers is the cost of running newspapers.

You must know that Zhang Qingfeng ran a newspaper at a loss for several years at the beginning. It was not until he continued to develop industries that the cost of papermaking became lower and lower, and after he established a mature newspaper distribution network, the newspaper was barely able to make a profit.

If you want to run a newspaper covering the entire Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is the distribution network.

The distribution network established by Zhang Qingfeng is not just for the distribution of newspapers, but a series of businesses such as commercial trade, banking services, mail sending and receiving, information transmission, etc., which finally allow this hairstyle network to survive.

If someone wants to run a newspaper, they must not bypass the distribution network set up by Zhang Qingfeng.

Whether it is newspapers such as Daming Daily or Royal Daily, their distribution network is the same. It is impossible for others to use this network without Zhang Qingfeng's consent.

And the existence of this distribution network is the most important link for Zhang Qingfeng to control the public opinion of Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Qingfeng used various newspapers to make his reputation very good among the people. Even if other people reported newspapers, they were just local tabloids.

Even if such a newspaper spends a lot of money to discredit Zhang Qingfeng, as long as Zhang Qingfeng spreads it casually in major newspapers such as Da Ming Daily, it will make those who discredit him futile.

Moreover, if Zhang Qingfeng wants to discredit a person, he only needs to publish the dirty things the other party has done in the newspaper, and he will be spurned by everyone.

Of course, Zhang Qingfeng dare not use newspapers to do this now, because it would cause too much hatred. If you knocked down an opponent today, everyone will try their best to kill you under the threat of death. .

Zhang Qingfeng plans to wait until he starts to use the destructive effect of the newspaper. If anyone blocks his reform at that time, he will use public opinion to discredit him and become the object of everyone's disdain.

In this life, despite the presence of Zhang Qingfeng, a time traveler, the Donglin Party still appeared on the stage of history.

When various shortcomings were exposed in the late Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party members stood up. They demanded that the court be honest and upright, revitalize the administration of officials, open up the channels of speech, eliminate the accumulated abuses of the government and the public, and oppose the corruption and perversion of the law by the powerful.

The emergence of the Donglin Party is like a clear stream in a muddy river, attracting many honest scholars and officials to join.

However, the emergence of the Donglin Party and their propositions will inevitably damage the interests of all other officials, so party disputes inevitably emerged.

The Donglin party members want to use political means to reform and exclude all those who oppose them, which also makes the party struggle more intense.

In history, the Donglin Party has three specific propositions—opening up the way of speech, opposing eunuchs to interfere in politics, and opposing mining taxes.

Among them, Zhang Qingfeng, who opposed the mining tax, had already helped them solve it. After Zhang Qingfeng was able to help Emperor Wanli make a lot of money every year, Emperor Wanli took the initiative to cancel the mine supervision.

The main reason for opposing eunuchs to interfere in politics is that after Wei Zhongxian came to power, Wei Zhongxian continued to suppress the Donglin Party out of self-interest, which made the Donglin Party hate the eunuchs.

As for opening up the way of speaking, the Donglin Party members have done it in history. They have mastered the public opinion of the world.

But now the public opinion of the world is in the hands of the eunuch Zhang Qingfeng.

Fortunately, Zhang Qingfeng did not join the party struggle, but instead became the target of various forces.

Historically, during the Wanli Dynasty, the Donglin Party members did nothing and were always suppressed by various parties.

Only in the Chongzhen period did the Donglin Party really dominate the stage of history.

However, the Donglin Party members on the stage of history are not as powerful as they themselves advertised. Many of them are idealists, full of ideals but no ability to practice.

Coupled with the fact that the previous party disputes had plunged the Ming Dynasty into a serious crisis, many Donglin party members could only have more than enough energy, and watched Ming Dynasty slide into the abyss of history.

Moreover, not all members of the Donglin Party are good people. As the saying goes, there are all kinds of birds in the forest, and many people joined the Donglin Party only after seeing the popularity of the Donglin Party.

They are not as pure as the Donglin Party members at the beginning. They are extremely selfish. After decades of party struggle, they have gained power, and the Donglin Party has changed its original intention.

After the Donglin Party really entered the political stage, they let the stupid Emperor Chongzhen exempt all tax burdens that benefited them, such as commercial tax and industrial tax, so that the tax burden of the Ming Dynasty became more uniform, and all the burdens were weighed down. On the peasants, it led to continuous peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty.

The decline and fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party members bear the inescapable responsibility.

Zhang Qingfeng admired the Donglin Party in the Wanli period very much, but also hated the Donglin Party in the Chongzhen period.

Therefore, after he takes power, he will still suppress the Donglin Party like Wei Zhongxian did. The Donglin Party is only suitable for shouting slogans and putting some pressure on the court, as for hard work, forget it.

However, if someone in the Donglin Party is indeed very talented, he will not be stingy about promoting and reusing them.

(End of this chapter)