The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

What decisions are made are all arbitrary.

(Crowd:...Your sister! You don't read newspapers, what the hell are we talking about?)

In any case, in the middle and late stages of Jiajing’s reign, under Yan Song’s secret and intentional promotion, Ming’s newspapers, magazines, and cultural circles prospered unprecedentedly. A hundred schools of thought contended and debates continued, and there were also many celebrities who became famous by criticizing government policies.

Jiajing deliberately gave the people seven days to allow various opinions to be fully expressed.

Yan Song nodded.

He understood that if he could not severely refute the outdated conservative views at the court meeting seven days later, it would be impossible for him to obtain Jiajing's approval to complete this great cause of helping Ming to survive the natural disaster, which will benefit the present and benefit the future .

This matter quickly spread throughout the capital.

"Have you heard? There have been severe natural disasters recently, and there have been frequent snowstorms. Yan Ge always wants to colonize my Ming Dynasty by a million, and go to some new California in North America."

"Tomorrow, the emperor will hold a court meeting to discuss this matter."

"Hey, it's snowing in June in my Ming Dynasty, thousands of miles are frozen, and the snow is drifting for thousands of miles. Seeing that there is no food supply. If you can immigrate overseas and exchange for the people's livelihood, it is also a good government."

"What kind of good governance? In the past, our Ming Dynasty suffered countless natural disasters, but didn't we all overcome them? Yan Song, a treacherous minister, insisted on moving our Ming people abroad to foreign countries. I don't know what his intentions are?"

"As the saying goes, the more you argue, the clearer you are. Above the court, you must make a clear argument."

In the capital, there are those who support overseas immigration and those who oppose immigration. There are different opinions and no consensus.

But relatively speaking, the folk customs in the north tend to be conservative, and the rural concept is more important.

In the south, the situation is better than in the north. After all, the civilization in the south is a little newer.

Since Daming opened the national postal service at this time, it was expedited through [-] miles, and it was used as a postal channel to communicate with the north and the south. Early the next morning, the south received Jiajing’s order, and the cabinet Yan Songzuo invited Daming to emigrate overseas on a large scale. , Memorials against natural disasters.All provinces in the south have been published in the Di Bao.

The faster news is that the major newspapers in the south published the imperial decree and the cabinet post on the headlines of the second and third days, announcing the news to the whole province.

Impatient southerners can't wait.

Especially those provinces with a lot of people and little land, where there is a serious shortage of food, such as Anhui, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong.

These provinces originally had a large number of people and little land, and the population was seriously overpopulated, which is why Huizhou merchants went to the world and Fujian merchants went to Nanyang.

Now, after receiving the news of Yan Song's request for large-scale emigration overseas, people of insight in these provinces responded one after another.

"It should have been like this a long time ago! We Hu Jian people have already gone to Taiwan and Nanyang..."

"The adventurous spirit of the Cantonese is not bad. We go to Nanyang a lot."

"Old Yan Ge is right! There are too many people and too little land, and there is not enough food to eat. If you stay in your hometown, will you all starve to death?"

·······

"Resolutely support!"

But there are also landlords who curse.

"Severe thieves harming the country! It's pure chaos!"

On the front pages of major newspapers in the southeast [Ming Pao], [Shanghai Daily], [Nanjing Daily], etc., they set up columns one after another, inviting representatives of public opinion from both sides to discuss whether the Ming Dynasty should have a large-scale plan in the year of the Little Glacier disaster. Immigrate overseas, solicit pros and cons.

Famous scholars from all walks of life appeared on the stage one after another.

"Although Liang Yuan is good, it is not his hometown! ——Interrogate Yan Ge's old ten questions."

This is sensational with the hometown feeling.

"My parents are here, so I won't travel far! Let alone immigrants?"

This is a criticism of Yan Song based on filial piety.

...............

"Little Ice Age? It didn't exist at all! It's a false proposition to deceive people into leaving their homes!"

This is to criticize the existence of disasters in the small glacier, and it is determined that it is only Yan Song's conspiracy.

Of course, there are still a large number of insightful people who support Yan Song in newspapers.

"The people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least!"

This is a quote from Tang Taizong's famous saying, persuading the people to protect the people and supporting Yan Song's immigration.

"If people live and emigrate, all people and land will survive, if the land keeps people, all people and land will perish!"

This is a painful statement of interests and a wake-up call to the world.

"The landlord doesn't allow immigrants, why? The land price! It's just the rental price!"

This is a stab at the heart, exposing the conspiracy theory of vested interest groups of the landlord class.

Although these folk discussions were very lively, it was the important ministers who participated in the court discussions who really decided the policy of the DPRK and China.

In the imperial court, those who opposed Yan Song were mainly some Qingliu direct ministers, as well as conservative parties such as the Donglin Party of the Zhejiang Party.

These people heard that the emperor ordered a court meeting to discuss this matter, and they all gathered together for a meeting.

In a top-secret stronghold of the Donglin Party, there is a group of people who are secretly plotting.

These people all come from different backgrounds.

Li Sancai, the leader of the Donglin Party, is well-known as Yushi Wang Yongji and Yushi Lin Run.