When Jia Rong came back, she rushed back here as soon as possible to visit Qin Keqing, who had a big belly and could only lie down to prepare for childbirth.
He was not a native, so his attitude towards women was naturally very different, which moved Qin Keqing very much.
The second master of the Xifu government is the best proof. When Mrs. Wang was pregnant with Jia Baoyu for less than three months, Aunt Zhao became pregnant with Tanchun.
When Aunt Zhao gave birth to Tanchun, it was the time when Mrs. Wang was recuperating, and she became pregnant with Jia Huan within two months.
It's just a slap in the face one after another. It's surprising that Mrs. Wang is in a better mood.
If it weren't for the name of praying for Baoyu, given Mrs. Wang's temperament, she might really do something cruel.
For this reason, Mr. Zheng Er has a pretty good reputation as a family-oriented person.
Ahem, thinking about the deep meaning behind these words, it makes people shudder. I can only sigh that the status of women is not generally low.
For such a loving couple as Lin Ruhai and Jia Min, there are also many aunts and maidservants among them.
It can only be said that Daqian society spends most of its resources on cultivating the elite, which is a waste of money and very unfair to women.
If you really want to say it, Jia Rong is an outlier in the Daqian Dynasty.
After marrying Qin Keqing, there was no aunt or maidservant around him.
It's not that Qin Keqing doesn't allow it, but that Jia Rong has no such intention.
In other words, after being married for several years, there is no other woman around Jia Rong, which makes Qin Keqing very envious and jealous of the ladies in the circle.
Unlike Lian Er, who has a fierce wife, Jia Rong doesn't have much need for women. He has a career that he is more interested in.
In short, Qin Keqing's attitude towards Jia Rong is quite close, and it is not the so-called respect between couples from a big family.
Both Jia Rong and Qin Keqing would never say anything about some things that the couple could discuss, and they gradually formed a habit.
Like this time, Qin Keqing was a little worried: "Master, are you taking a bit of a risk? After all, it is something that offends people!"
"Adventure, how can you take risks?"
Jia Rong shook his head and chuckled, and said leisurely: "Don't worry, there is no risk at all. At least this pilot will be successful!"
Seeing Qin Keqing's face full of curiosity, he chuckled and explained: "Where are Jinmen and Tongzhou? In my opinion, they are towns that have prospered due to trade!"
"A town like this has the characteristic of attracting a large number of migrant workers, and the flow of people and goods is quite frequent!"
"To put it bluntly, the main force in these two places is businessmen, not landlords and wealthy people. Most of the resources are invested in commercial logistics!"
"Look at Tongzhou. There are many farms with different names around. Who owns them? Do they need to pay taxes and grain?"
"The rest of the fields are in the hands of local clan villages, and only a few people have land rights!"
"To implement a whipping method in Tongzhou, we only need to deal with the clan elders, as well as those cunning officials in the yamen!"
"What if we encounter someone who is short-sighted and directly starts the recruitment mode and recruits all the tenants and sharecroppers in his fields as workers?"
Qin Keqing was dumbfounded. How could he still do this?
At the same time, I felt relieved. Jia Rong was not the type to make lies. Since he said that it was very simple and easy to implement a whipping method in Tongzhou, that should be the case.
"As for the Jinmen side, it's even simpler!"
Jia Rong said with a smile: "Before, there was the world of Caoyun Yamen, Daotai Yamen and Caobang Yamen!"
"Those who are no longer interested in buying property and are willing to buy land there are either petty officials or officials in the yamen or the elite of the Caogang branch!"
"There aren't even many clan villages in Jinmen!"
"If you want to implement a whipping method in a place like this, if it doesn't succeed, Wang Ziteng will not be involved in the officialdom in the future!"
Qin Keqing's beautiful eyes twinkled when he heard this, and he chuckled: "Listen to what the master said, why did you let the master take over such an easy and simple task?"
"Some people don't know what they are thinking."
Jia Rong shook his head and said: "A whip method is definitely a good method that can help reduce the burden and pressure on the people and restrain local officials from acting recklessly!"
"For the real powerful gentry, the impact is not that great. It may have some impact on their control of the lowest common people!"
"But even so, they are still not willing to relax their efforts to exploit the people, and they are not willing to leave any gaps!"
That is to say, the financial pressure of the Daqian Empire at this time was not unsustainable, otherwise he would have to let the so-called gentry and powerful people know the wonderful taste of "officials and gentry receiving food from one body".
Qin Keqing was completely relieved, with a peaceful smile on her beautiful face. Suddenly a wave of tiredness came over her, and she fell into a deep sleep soon.
As for the filthiness of the court officials, she had no intention of understanding it, nor did she want to delve too deeply into it, as there were too many filthy things in it.
After finally breaking out of the deposed prince's party, she didn't want to continue jumping into the quagmire, otherwise she would cry to death.
In fact, there are definitely many smart people in the court.
Maybe at the beginning, I was caught off guard by the pilots from the four major families in Jinling, and before I knew it, the matter was settled.
Once you regain your senses and think about it slowly, you will soon notice something unusual about Tongzhou and Jinmen.
The key thing is that at this time, the officialdom of Jinmen and Tongzhou has been firmly controlled by the four major Jinling families, and it is not easy for outsiders to reach out.
The cabinet bosses will not spend a lot of resources to intervene forcefully just to figure something out. The other forces do not have such strong strength.
Jia Rong is so cunning at such a young age!
After clarifying their thoughts and logic, the court officials couldn't help but look at Jia Rong, the head of the Ning Mansion, the leader of the four major families in Jinling, with admiration.
To say that what happened this time was not what Jia Rong said deliberately, even if they were beaten to death, they would not believe it.
In fact, now I have already understood in my heart, I just need a good start, otherwise it will not be easy for Jia Rong to achieve his goal.
Among them, the leaks from Xiang Daiquan in the Daming Palace were naturally indispensable.
If this guy hadn't fully informed Jia Rong of his current state of mind, he would have been able to seize the opportunity directly, otherwise things would definitely have had twists and turns.
I have long wanted to try a whipping method to see if it can increase the government's fiscal revenue. As for the scale of implementation, I don't have many requirements.
In fact, after Wang Ziteng took over the task of implementing the one-whip method in Jinmen and Tongzhou, he was a little scared at first.
But he soon realized that there were very few people to be careful about.
In this case, if he still can't do it well, it won't be justified.
Soon, the publicity about the One Whip Method was forcibly implemented through the yamen of the two places, with the aim of reaching every household in the clan villages.
If you want to achieve this, it will naturally be quite difficult if you follow old traditions and old methods.
How could a being who could read and understand everything posted at the gate of the government office be a commoner at the bottom who did not enter the city all year round?
By that time, the content of the notice has changed hands several times, and we don’t know what it will be like. It is very likely that it will be completely different from the original meaning.
Then, the people involved in this matter have another way to exploit the people. It's so exaggerated.
Fortunately, Wang Ziteng's staff also accepted some outstanding students from Jia Family School, and the best among them even had internship experience at "Flattery Review", the largest newspaper in Beijing.
Ahem, the imperial court and the civil service group will never allow private operations on things like newspapers. Once they find something wrong, they will immediately kill it and they will never be merciless.
In the era of feudal ethics, people were very sensitive to ideology and public opinion propaganda, and it was impossible to relax restrictions.
In some novels, the pig's feet play tricks and create influential newspapers, which is causing trouble for themselves.
Not to mention whether it is possible for the royal family to kill donkeys and pick peaches, but for the sake of stabilizing its own voice, the civil service group will never allow pigs' feet to continue to live.
Think about it, if Pigfoot is a one-minded thing, and after he has mastered the public opinion propaganda position of the dynasty by founding a newspaper, will he become obsessed with questioning Confucian classics and the negative impact of Confucianism on society?
Don’t doubt it, once a war of words breaks out, you can say anything.
Coupled with the critical environment of Confucianism in modern society, if Pig's Knuckle is affected and starts to vent, it will be self-destruction.
It can only be said that Jia Rong is very clever in binding "Polo Review" with the polo league, so that readers' first reaction is to regard it as an entertainment newspaper.
In fact, the trend of newspapers has long been developed among the people, but they are just side projects and gossip news.
In essence, "Polo Review" is almost the same, rarely mentioning court affairs or hot social events.
The comments that really have a certain social influence are the readers' comments of the supplement.
Without further ado, Wang Ziteng decided to adopt a new publicity model at the suggestion of outstanding students from the Jia Family School, and he must publicize the one-whip policy to the lowest level.
Instead of being similar to the past, just a formality, and finally saying "Imperial power will not go to the countryside", it is a very hypocritical way to cover up the past.
That's just the most lazy way for a dynasty to rule.
If local officials really have the ability to spread their authority to the countryside, will the emperor be happy or unhappy?
So soon, many salesmen walking among the villages in Tianjin and Tongzhou became the first wave of propaganda.
These salesmen traveling in the countryside are absolutely willing to work hard in order to beg for food.
They are articulate and familiar in the villages where they often travel, and can gain some trust from the local people.
The government only needs to gather these salesmen for simple training, and then use monetary rewards to motivate them to take action. The effect is really just right.
However, in just half a month, the envoys sent by Lian Er, the magistrate of Tongzhou, returned news that satisfied him.
In several villages visited by the envoys, the lowest-level villagers all knew the name of a whipping method, and knew that this was the latest good governance promulgated by the court in order to reduce their burden and was quite friendly to them.
But that’s it!
After all, those salesmen were summoned at short notice and only received a very simple training. They did not know much about whipping techniques.
If you really ask them to tell you why, you are making things difficult for them.
Of course, just from the name, it is easy to explain the whip method. In fact, it has almost the same meaning as itself.
However, in order to prevent the salesmen from making any jokes and making trouble when they became the main force of propaganda for the first time, no such opening was given to them.
In addition, the Caifeng envoy also made it very clear that the local clan elders quickly reacted and sent gifts out of the village to those with a good temper, while those with a bad temper immediately kicked them out, which was not polite at all.
The salesmen didn't explain it very clearly, but the local elders definitely knew it.
The notice board at the entrance of Tongzhou Yamen has the details of a whipping method.
As long as there are connections and information channels in the city, it is impossible not to know these.
Now that they know it and want to drive people away, it is obvious that a whipping method violates their own interests. It's as simple as that.
However, in the absence of powerful gentry and powerful organizations in the local area, how could ordinary landlords, wealthy people, and village elders be opponents in the face of the yamen's careful arrangements? Isn't that nonsense?
Immediately afterwards, the yamen in the two places organized official storyteller propaganda teams.
A propaganda team formed by trained storytellers and several large officers and soldiers served as the backbone, supplemented by some officials and local capable people, and headed directly into the village.
The routine is also very simple. After arriving at the village, directly call the village chief and gather all the villagers to listen to the story.
This is the slack time for farming, so there is no need to worry that doing so will delay the farming season.
Regardless of whether the village chief and elders are happy or not, at least the villagers are very happy.
They are unlikely to participate in any decent entertainment activities throughout the year. Being able to listen to the storytelling by the storyteller is also an excellent pastime.
Then, the storyteller clicked his castanet and immediately began to fluently tell stories that he had never heard before.
Naturally, they couldn't have heard that these little stories were all created by Jia Rong himself and filled in by a group of ethnic studies students.
In fact, it is very simple. After the whipping law was implemented, the villagers in a certain village had not heard of it, and the official officials who came down did not tell the truth. They also asked the villagers to provide additional miscellaneous taxes related to it.
There was a young man in the village, but he felt something was not right.
Because he had a relative in the town who vaguely mentioned this when walking around before, as if praising it as a good act of the court.
How can such a good dharma actually require the villagers to pay more taxes? Isn't that a joke?
However, the official who came down to read out the policy spoke so fiercely that the village chief and clan elders all believed it. Although the young villagers were suspicious, they did not dare to express it...
What the hell, my throat isn’t itchy and I don’t feel any discomfort. I just keep coughing, almost making it hard to breathe.