"Sir, our newspaper is currently only distributed internally. Can it also expand its audience and become popular across the country like the Soviet Union newspaper?" Xiao Niangpi asked.
After Yang Fan laid out the Soviet Newspaper, he also founded the New Newspaper in Xincheng, which published one issue a day.
However, this newspaper is not as large as the Soviet Union and is a trial run. The editor-in-chief is Yan Xiaoyi, the first military reporter in the past.
After completing her primary education, she changed her major to journalism.
However, the new newspaper is only published internally within Yang Fan's system and is not released to the outside world. It is also confidential. Only factories, schools, various industry management agencies, the military, security departments, scientific research institutions, village and town management agencies, and city governments at all levels under the Yang Mansion.
The intelligence system must wait to subscribe.
But the circulation is not low, exceeding 10,000 copies.
Yang Fan smiled and said: "Don't worry, now is not the time. I launched Zhang Tianru and Su Bao just to stir up the storm. Let's not rush to the end. Our newspaper should not be involved in the court battles. We just need to maintain its original news media properties.
OK. Let them charge into battle first."
Xiao Niangpi nodded, the master is experienced in planning for the country, so don't put yourself first, as this will give you room for change.
"Master, you see, Zhang Tianru has now established a firm foothold. After the Soviet Union has a circulation of more than 20,000, he is starting to show his fangs." Xiao Niangpi pointed to an overseas page and said: "You see, it is used here.
A whole page is devoted to the situation of England’s Magna Carta in the land of the West.”
Ancient Chinese people were not very clear about world geography. The West was generally considered to be in the west of Thailand. It was referred to as the Taixi region. Taixi is an ancient word, and its meaning is that it refers to Western countries in general. The etymology comes from Fang Yizhi's "Dongxijun" in the late Ming Dynasty.
so".
It means the far west. In the old days, it generally referred to Western countries, generally referring to European and American countries.
"Oh! Is Zhang Tianru so awesome? It seems that he is going to cause trouble. Hahaha," Yang Fan said happily. Before, he saw Zhang Tianru being a reporter and thought he had died down.
Unexpectedly, he was reading the Soviet Union newspaper and didn't realize it, so he didn't dare to make any big move.
The current circulation of Su Bao is 20,000 copies in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and 8,000 copies in other provinces and regions. It has been widely accepted by the gentry in the southeast. Now any gentry who has not subscribed to Su Bao is embarrassed to say hello to others when going out.
This year, Su Bao has entered a fast lane of development. It is estimated that the number of subscribers to Su Bao will reach 50,000 next year.
Many people subscribed for the whole year, and these people were all cultural people. They were also the richest and most powerful group of people in the south of the Ming Dynasty.
They monopolized industry and commerce, monopolized cultural discourse, monopolized overseas trade, monopolized the salt industry and sales channels, monopolized half of the imperial examinations, and occupied more than 80% of the land in Jiangnan.
Now that these people are all loyal readers of the Soviet Union, Zhang Tianru feels that his wings have become stronger and he is starting to cause trouble.
Using a full page to introduce "Magna Carta" this time is an ice-breaking test, which marks the beginning of the Soviet Union's transformation from a newspaper to a political publication.
The Magna Carta, also known as the "Magna Carta of Liberty", is one of the important constitutional documents of the British feudal period.
On June 15, 1215, King John of the Plantagenet Dynasty (reigned 1199-1216) was forced to sign a constitutional document under the joint pressure of the great feudal lords, priests, knights and city citizens.
For the first time in human history, this document restricted royal power under the law. It was the beginning of human legal system. It also established the principle that private property and personal freedom cannot be violated at will.
Now, in the second half of the Ming Dynasty, due to tax issues, there were sharp conflicts between the emperor and the gentry, civil servant groups, and industrial and commercial owners.
In the early days, the focus of the struggle between Zhu Di, Zhu Zhanji and the Jiangnan gentry and industrial and commercial capital groups was mainly on the issue of whether the interests of overseas trade should belong to the imperial court or to the local gentry and industrial and commercial owners.
The result of the struggle was that all three emperors, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji, died suddenly.
All the hydrology, routes, geographical conditions and other data on Zheng He's voyages to the West were burned by Liu Daxia, Minister of Industry.
The shipyard was dismantled, and the boatmen, craftsmen, and Tongyi were dismissed.
The government prohibited shipyards along the coast from manufacturing large ships with more than 1,000 materials. Private trade on the sea was prohibited.
The reason was that the voyages to the West wasted people and money, and the emperor was so happy about his achievements that it caused a financial burden.
In fact, the ban on the sea was only part-time for the people to trade on the sea. Civil servants and local powerful people used the government to prevent the people from trading on the sea, which resulted in the fact that they monopolized overseas trade.
After Zhu Qizhen came to power, faced with financial constraints, he tried to take a two-pronged approach, taking back maritime trade while also investigating corruption issues, sorting out government treasuries and grain depots across the country, and cleaning up assets.
He planned to reduce the number of troops and increase efficiency, and sort out various expenditures that were used by the army to pay empty wages and the civilian officials to make a name for themselves.
Increase revenue and reduce expenditure to improve the decline of the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, he went to Shanxi to check the actual number of frontier troops, treasury, and assets, and the Tumubao Incident happened on his way.
The direct consequence of this incident was that the entire Xungui Group was wiped out.
From then on, the civil servant family became the dominant one.
Due to their obstruction, no one can check the assets of local government treasury. It has become a small treasury for local officials.
Whoever checks who gets into trouble? If they check that warehouse, it will catch fire. Warehouses and assets in various places in the country can no longer be checked.
After the Tumu Fortress, the Beijing inspection every three years became a tool for formality and political struggle to punish people.
Anti-corruption, anti-corruption, and cleaning up unqualified civil servants have basically come to a halt.
No one is in charge of how much taxes, donations, and bribes local officials collect under their rule, and no one checks them. Even if the court investigates, it is also the civil servants who check the civil servants. It is equivalent to checking themselves.
Unless there is a factional fight that requires people to be punished, nothing can be found out.
After taxation was in a mess, commercial taxes also gradually shrank.
The reason is very simple. After the civil servants became dominant, they not only collected taxes indiscriminately but also exploited the people as if they were breaking their bones and sucking out their marrow. Profitable local businesses were gradually absorbed by the families and agents of the civil servants.
After they took control of industry and commerce, they were not satisfied with existing profits and began to find ways to exempt themselves from taxes and reduce taxes.
The salt tax shrank from thirteen million taels per year in the Taizu period to several hundred thousand taels in Chongzhen.
The country's major tax bases, such as land tax, salt tax, foreign trade, industry and commerce, poll tax, mineral tax, fines, etc., are all shrinking. The emperors are becoming more and more embarrassed every generation. They are anxious to get married.
The emperor and the gentry became two opposing parties.
The emperor continued to collect taxes to maintain the operation of the court. In the Ming Dynasty, most profitable businesses were monopolized by civil servants and their families. To collect taxes was to collect taxes from them. Naturally, they refused. They owned 80% of the world's wealth.
, but are unwilling to pay even 10% of the tax burden.
However, the common people who own less than 20% of the world's wealth have to bear more than 90% of the tax burden.