Chapter 772 Official Mouthpiece

However, the tableware on Li Nai's table was not replaced by Haihan glass products like some Guangdong nouveau riche, but blue and white porcelain produced in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, which is common on the market. This is also influenced by the Haihan people, because the gang everywhere The favorite tableware of the Haihan people who pay attention to the quality of life is blue and white porcelain, especially the ones produced in the Yongle, Xuande, and Chenghua years, and they must be made from official kilns.

Li Nai didn't quite understand why these Haihan people, who often criticized the various shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty, were particularly fond of blue and white porcelain whose use value was far less than that of Haihan glassware. However, he could see that the Haihan people had a great interest in researching porcelain, because Both Ning Qi and Tao Donglai discussed with him more than once the shape, decoration, glaze, style identification and other aspects of Ming Dynasty porcelain. The classification was detailed enough to be used in writing a book. Their knowledge of porcelain must have gone far beyond that. Far more than most Ming people.

Since the Haihan people insisted that blue and white porcelain was a good thing, Li Nai, who had always believed in the Haihan people's vision, followed suit and listed blue and white porcelain as his first choice. The creamy white porcelain paired with shiny silver knives and forks, in Li Nai's opinion It seems that it does have the "strong character" claimed by the Haihan people, and the beef in your mouth seems to be more delicious because of it.

After dinner, Li Nai returned to the study on the second floor. The servants had put nearly half a month's worth of newspapers on the desk for him to browse. Although Li Nai rarely comes to Sanya now, he still publishes local newspapers and publications. He would ask his servants to buy two copies of each issue, one to stay at his house in Sanya, and one to be sent back to Guangzhou by ship. Ning Qi once called the newspaper "the mouthpiece of the Executive Committee," but Li Nai always kept these words in mind. In mind, Haihan's new trends and future plans can often be interpreted from the content published in these newspapers. Li Nai was able to accurately guess Haihan's plan to colonize Taiwan Island. Part of the information came from the news content disclosed by Haihan's official media. interpretation.

There are currently two official newspapers published by Haihan. One is the "Haihan Reference" published for specific targets such as Haihan management, naturalized civilian cadres, external partners, etc. The content is mainly about the laws and regulations recently issued by the government. , development plans, economic policies and other aspects of news, which is what Ning Qi calls the official mouthpiece. "Haihan Reference" is published for half a month, on the first and fifteenth day of each month. It is not publicly available on the market, only Deliver it to pre-order users. Of course, ordinary people will definitely not spend five yuan a month to subscribe to this kind of official newspaper. What they will be interested in is another newspaper sold to the general public.

"Haihan Express" is published every ten days, and each issue is priced at only 2 cents. The unit price is more than ten times cheaper than "Haihan Reference". People with income can afford it. And "Express" The content of the newspaper is mainly about various folk gossips and interesting things about the mountains and wild places, plus many promotional advertisements. The reason why the newspaper is so cheap is that the various advertisements published on it dilute the distribution cost. Even if you are illiterate, Farmers and laborers would also go to the teahouse after work on the day when the "Express" was published, spend a few cents to buy a cup of the cheapest oolong tea, and listen to the newspaper reader resident in the teahouse read out the contents of the newspaper.

Both newspapers are organized, edited and published by the Haihan Propaganda Department, but each has its own targeted distribution target and readership group, so the market competition is not fierce. However, people like Li Nai who have spare money are generally happy to spend a few extra bucks.

Order two newspapers together, and in addition to studying official policies, you can also read various trends among Hai and Han people.

Li Nai followed his own habit and picked up the latest issue of "Haihan Reference" first, which was published seven days ago. However, when this issue of the newspaper arrived in Guangzhou, he was probably already on his way south, and he happened to not see the headline news on the front page.

It is "Penghu immigrants enthusiastically join the army and train hard to advance on land and sea." Li Nai briefly read the content. It tells the story of the new immigrants from the north who arrived at the immigration base in Penghu. Many young and strong men wanted to repay Haihan for saving his life.

En Er chose to sign up to join the militia, and there were militia groups stationed in the local area, including the navy and the army, so each of them recruited a part of the new recruits for training.

There is neither a clear number of recruits nor the specific content of training in the article. It is basically official writing, superficial and does not highlight the key points. After reading it, most people will probably only accept some things that have little effect.

Information, such as northern immigrants are moving into Penghu, there are militia troops stationed there, etc.

But Li Nai noticed two pieces of information hidden in the article. First, the scale of immigrants from the north is estimated to be quite large. If it is just a small effort to recruit dozens of soldiers, this kind of news will definitely not be significant enough.

It made the front page of the official media; secondly, the local garrison trained new recruits on the spot instead of sending them back to the militia military training base in Victory Port for training. This shows that the local garrison has great authority, or there is a relatively large manpower gap that needs to be dispatched as soon as possible.

To fill in, Li Nai personally thinks it may be the latter situation - if the Haihan people want to colonize Taiwan, they naturally need to allocate part of their troops to garrison the new colonial point. If they can mobilize troops nearby, it will obviously be more efficient than mobilizing troops all the way from Sanya.

Convenient and hassle-free.

Under this press release, there was also a short commentator's article signed "Tianshan Strange Stones". Li Nai knew that this was Ning Qi's pen name in the official media, so he continued to read it. The main content of the article was

He described the important role that the Haihan immigration policy played in saving refugees from the Ming Dynasty war. While cheering for the benevolent actions of the Haihan Executive Committee, he also expressed concern about the current situation of continuous wars at home and abroad in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Nai noticed that the author mentioned at the end that "the current predicament that the Ming Dynasty is encountering is not just the result of simultaneous chaos caused by external enemies and internal troubles. It is actually a natural malady of the current political system and there is no cure. Although Haihan's assistance can alleviate its temporary pain

, but the root cause of the disease cannot be cured. The chaos in the north cannot yet be predicted to end. The only paradise in the world is the land under the rule of Haihan."

The comment in this article can be described as "treason and unethical". However, with Haihan's influence in the south today, even if he adds ten times more treason and unethical behavior, the government will just ignore it. Haihan people regard Hainan as

The island has been transformed into a country within a country. Can the officials in Fuzhou and Guangzhou really not see it? Of course not, everyone turns a blind eye to this because everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty can no longer shake the sea.

Han, if you rashly provoke Haihan, you will cause trouble for yourself. And in today's official circles of Fuzhou and Guangzhou, how many people in official uniforms dare to swear that they have no interest at all with Haihan? Offending Haihan is tantamount to

If you have trouble with yourself, trouble with your money, and trouble with your colleagues around you, who would be willing to make such a splash?

Only the Haihan people dared to promote such anti-Ming arguments so blatantly. If they had changed places or roles, they would have been convicted and thrown into prison long ago. Li Nai has become accustomed to this. After all, Ning Qi said, "The Ming Dynasty is worse than Haihan."

The person who said this for more than three hundred years has published articles with similar arguments more than once in the "Haihan Reference" published in the past. For him to write an article praising the Ming Dynasty, it is probably several times harder than climbing to heaven.

point.

Li Nai continued to browse the contents of other pages, but there was no other big news. What occupied the most space was the news that the latest Haihan grassroots cadre training class had successfully completed. This press release not only listed the participation in the training class

The list of students and their affiliated units, as well as congratulatory messages from many Haihan institutions, collaborating units and partners. The list of congratulations in the newspaper was several times longer than the list of students. This scene was also breathtaking. Of course, Li Nai soon

I found the name of my own firm in the list below, and it is ranked first in the list of partners, second is "Qiong Lianfa", and third is the Fujian Chamber of Commerce, which shows the special status of "Fu Ruifeng".

However, what Li Nai is more concerned about is not the ranking of this list, but the changes in Haihan society reflected in this incident. People outside may not know very well what the "Haihan grassroots cadres" are, but Li Nai

But he knew the secret. Haihan relied on the bureaucratic team he cultivated to gradually evacuate the Ming Dynasty local government in the areas under his control, and these Haihan grassroots cadres also gradually replaced the officials who were originally responsible for the government.

Functions such as property, security, taxation, public security, and sanitation reorganized the Haihan-style social structure.

Li Nai couldn't actually explain what advantages the Haihan people had over the Ming dynasty in the bureaucracy, but it was obvious that the Haihan official institutions were much more efficient in operating things like paving roads and bridges, constructing water conservancy projects, and reclaiming wasteland.

In terms of affairs, the Haihan people can often complete the work that the local officials of the Ming Dynasty took one or two years to complete in a very short time. The grassroots cadres trained by Haihan are definitely not as good as the Ming Dynasty officials who were scholars, but in practice

The ability to operate and handle affairs is much stronger.

Li Nai sighed, hastily flipped through the rest of the page, then put the "Haihan Reference" aside and picked up the "Haihan Express". Perhaps because of the price, the paper quality and printing of the "Express"

The quality is slightly lower than that of "Reference", but the layout is more compact. After all, a lot of space is used to place various advertisements, and every inch of paper is worth money.

Of course, because this newspaper targets a different group of readers, the style of the articles it publishes is also very different from that of Reference. For example, the headline article on the front page of this issue is very sensational - New immigrants form gangs.

When will the wind stop?

Li Nai read the content of the article, and the general idea was that due to the rapid increase in the immigrant population in recent years, the current population structure of Hainan Island has become increasingly complex, and a large number of new immigrants from other places are accustomed to staying together for warmth, and some even want to stay together for a while.

For the interests of the group, they are unwilling to submit to the management of the civil affairs department and accept unified resettlement and distribution. There are also some who try to violently resist the law.

The article cites an example. A group of immigrants from the north of the Ming Dynasty who were assigned to Lingshui County last month had a dispute with the local Li village over water sources, and later injured a civil affairs cadre who went to mediate. Among them

The story of the incident was written vividly and vividly, making it quite graphic. Of course, the perpetrators also paid a heavy price. A total of 36 people from 17 households were involved in the incident, and all of them were sentenced to hard labor with varying sentences. The person who took the lead in making trouble paid a heavy price.

The person was directly sentenced to ten years, and given the conditions of the hard labor camp, he probably would not be able to make it out alive.

Starting from regional cultural differences, the article analyzes the multiple reasons for this situation. However, in the end, the article changes its tone and believes that the root cause is still the lack of education of new immigrants. It may be a little late to teach these adults, but at least it is still possible.

There is no time to teach children to obey the law. If children do not go to school and learn the rules they should abide by, they will most likely end up breaking the law and being sent to a hard labor camp when they grow up.

Combined with the report just now in "Reference" about the executive committee's decision to increase the popularity of Dahai education institutions, Li Nai believes that this article should use the civil conflict as an example of official education policy changes, so that the public can

Be better prepared to accept this change.

Although Haihan's educational institutions have various policy preferences for naturalized people, there are still many new immigrants who firmly believe that "study is useless" and hope that their children can engage in jobs within their capabilities as early as possible to make money to support their families. In the past two years, Haihan has

They are striving to build new schools and colleges and spend money to hire many scholars to provide basic literacy education to school-age children. In order to further increase the education rate among naturalized citizens, the Haihan Executive Committee has prepared to introduce semi-compulsory education.

The system means that school-age children must enroll in school. If parents do not cooperate or obstruct, some semi-coercive measures may be taken, such as temporarily canceling the parents' custody rights. In serious cases, they may even be sentenced for this.

Although the writing style of this report is quite gossipy, Li Nai still believes that this is also a propaganda method. The Haihan people need to use this to make the naturalized people with low education level aware of the urgency and necessity of their children's enrollment in school, and at the same time also

By the way, I will follow the troubles caused by the new immigrants to publicize the importance of obeying the law and obeying the arrangements, so as to deter those new immigrants who have some unrealistic ideas.

The article deliberately did not make a judgment on the right or wrong of this case. Li Nai can roughly imagine the heated discussion this article will arouse among the people. After all, the conflicts between old and new immigrants are actually a commonplace issue, and Baotuan is a common problem.

It is unlikely that this phenomenon will be completely banned. But no matter how the public discusses it, supporting reading will probably be the common opinion of most people. After all, in the areas under Haihan rule, people who can read and write have a very good chance of getting ahead. Unlike

Like the Ming Dynasty, one had to obtain a certain level of fame before being able to get the chance to become an official.

If his identity wasn't so sensitive, Li Nai would have already thought about joining Haihan as a cadre. Even if he couldn't become a local official, he thought it would be okay for him to assist Schneider in managing several commercial firms.
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