Zhou Yiran was already a feudal official when the Tang Dynasty first unified China, and then basically changed places in three or four years, and now serves as the governor of Guangdong.
In terms of seniority, he was actually able to be transferred back to Gyeonggi Province very early to take up a post. When he was transferred back to Gyeonggi Province, he would at least be a right minister. After a few years, he would be a left minister, and then he would be promoted to minister in the normal way.
But for so many years, he has been serving in local governments. This is not because he lacks ability, but because he is too capable.
If you want to talk about developing the economy and people's livelihood, this person's methods are actually average. However, what Li Xuan values is not this, but that this person is very good at maintaining stability and rectifying officialdom.
In the past ten years or so, Li Xuan would always transfer him to put out the fire whenever there was a problem.
This method of rectifying the local government was new to him. In the past few years, he has impeached and thrown out of office officials from the fourth rank and above, at least hundreds of them.
For this reason, he earned an interesting nickname, known as "State Official".
This nickname is very interesting. On the one hand, his surname is Zhou, and on the other hand, and most importantly, this person is the kind of person who only allows state officials to set fires, but does not allow the people to light lamps.
As the saying goes, only the state officials are allowed to be angry, but the people are not allowed to light up their lamps. Zhou Yiran himself is definitely not a good person. Even though there is no large-scale corruption, there are many small problems, and he will be impeached from time to time.
If Li Xuan hadn't personally protected him, he would have been killed by the Inspectorate.
However, he himself is not a clean-minded person, but he requires others to be clear-minded, especially his subordinate officials. He will kill anyone who dares to be corrupt.
It made many people in the official circles hate him with itch!
If he himself was relieved, outsiders wouldn't say anything, but he himself is not such a person.
In addition, his surname was Zhou, and over time, the title "state official" became attached to him.
This man had only served as governor of Guangdong for three years, and he personally impeached more than 300 officials. The officials he impeached, including his predecessor, the previous governor of Guangdong, naturally ended up no better.
The previous governor of Guangdong had already been transferred to Zhejiang to serve as governor. After he was impeached, an investigation by the Central Supervisory Office was quickly triggered. The fate of this man was: beheading and abandoning the market.
In Guangdong's officialdom, two-thirds of the prefects or prefects and more than half of the county magistrates have been replaced!
It was basically a major purge, and the effect of the purge was quite good. The atmosphere in Guangdong's officialdom, which had deteriorated a few years ago, and even the people were extremely resentful, suddenly improved.
When the atmosphere in the officialdom improves, the people's livelihood economy will develop even faster.
Last year, the output value of primary industries such as agriculture, forestry, and fishery in Guangdong increased by at least five percentage points. Don’t think that these five percentage points are small. Agriculture accounts for the majority here. Agriculture is limited by the amount of land. If you want to increase
That is extremely difficult.
The growth hinterland of secondary and tertiary industries such as industry and commerce has reached 37 percentage points.
Such a terrifying growth is certainly due to the application of high-pressure steam engines in industrial manufacturing and transportation in recent years, but it is also inseparable from local efforts.
Three years ago, Guangdong's total economic output ranked fourth among the provinces in the entire Tang Empire, behind Jiangnan Province, Zhejiang Province, and South Anhui Province.
But today, three years later, its economic aggregate has surpassed Zhejiang and South Anhui Province, ranking second in the country.
All of this can be generally attributed to Zhou Yiran.
Well, although he himself does not know much about how to develop the people's livelihood economy, he does know how to create a good environment for the development of the people's livelihood economy!
Such a person has naturally always been valued by Li Xuan. Even though he himself is not a good person and has been impeached several times by the Supervisory Council, Li Xuan still protects him.
What can I say? I am not afraid that you will be greedy, but I am afraid that you will not do things, and even more afraid that you will lead others to be greedy.
Zhou Yiran is like this. He is a little greedy, but he doesn't allow others to be greedy, and he can still get things done. Li Xuan can still accept it.
Zhou Yiran originally stayed in Guangdong, but before the Lantern Festival, he returned to Jinling City for a regular work report. This happened to coincide with Ma Wei's death from illness. Naturally, this person did not dare to lag behind others and report his work in front of the saint.
At that time, he also hinted through various words, saying that although he was loyal to the Holy Emperor while serving outside, he wanted to be loyal to the Holy Emperor more.
Later, he also wrote a book of more than 20,000 words, discussing various issues in detail. In terms of education, he basically agreed not to make large-scale changes and to develop with the development of the economy. The changes in the imperial examination,
He only mentioned it slightly.
But more of the space was spent on publicity. He analyzed and researched the issue of public opinion, and even extended it to the aspect of public opinion propaganda.
It is better to talk about protecting the people than to protect the river.
Therefore, the issue of public opinion requires both blocking and sparing.
He pointed out that the current Datang Chaobao still has great deficiencies in channeling public opinion and has a lot of room for improvement. For example, the articles in Datang Chaobao have always maintained a serious official tone. There is certainly seriousness in them.
, but the Tang Dynasty newspaper mainly contained various political articles, occasionally some literary works and popular science works, and a smaller number of commercial advertisements.
There is no doubt that such newspapers must be read by officials all over the world and the local upper classes, but ordinary people do not like to read such newspapers.
In the past few years, there have been many cases of privately run newspapers in the local area. Each time they appeared, the Ministry of Rites and the Newspaper Department were faced with a formidable enemy, and Hantong was also very nervous. This privately run newspaper,
It has always been a taboo in the Tang Dynasty, whoever touches it will die.
But even so, there are still many people trying to get around it. For example, if running a newspaper directly is not possible, then they will publish a book, print all the content into a book, and then sell it to the public at a low price, and publish an issue every half a month or a month.
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This also gradually forced Datang to strengthen its monitoring of book publishing. In the past, publishing books did not require any approval, but now, if you want to publish a book, you must first pass the review and approval before you can print it on a large scale and sell it to the public.
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And some people simply set up a printing press privately, and then print only one piece of paper or two pieces of paper. They don't call it maintenance, but call it leaflets, which publish all kinds of popular stories and jokes.
some type of.
Of course, this kind of thing is also discovered and attacked together.
But we can't keep going like this.
When the Tang Dynasty Newspaper started, the demand for newspapers among the people was very strong, so the private newspapers were banned again and again.
In response to this situation, Zhou Yiran proposed that in addition to the Tang Dynasty newspaper, a number of newspapers that were biased toward civilians should be established. On the one hand, they would meet the needs of the general public for reading newspapers, and on the other hand, they would allow the voices of the Tang government to be heard.
Through these civilian newspapers, every corner of the empire was better covered.
Li Xuan was very interested in this proposal.
The problems he mentioned do exist. Because of the special nature of the Tang Dynasty Newspaper, articles must be serious, and even the commercial advertisements published must be serious.
Therefore, the people who read the Tang Dynasty newspapers were generally officials and the local upper class.
Ordinary people are not the main reader group of Datang Chao Bao.
But the general public also has a need to read newspapers.
Even people from the upper class read the Tang Dynasty Newspaper, but that doesn't mean they don't read popular newspapers.
Otherwise, why would there always be cases of private newspapers appearing in recent years?
When there is demand in the market and there are profits, people will naturally take risks to do it.
Now Zhou Yiran's proposal is just in line with Li Xuan's idea. This newspaper, regardless of whether it is a serious political newspaper, a practical science popularization newspaper, a business newspaper, or simply a vulgar newspaper that publishes all kinds of bizarre stories and gossip news
Newspapers are all required.
And all must be sponsored by the government and brought under the supervision of the government.
Dai Yugang and Zhou Yiran both attracted Li Xuan's interest, and both of them were not bad in terms of qualifications and abilities, enough to enter the imperial study room.
So after careful consideration for a few days, Li Xuan narrowed down the candidates to these two people, and then summoned these two people for interviews one after another.
This kind of interview involves much more than what is mentioned in the brochure. Li Xuan will judge the pros and cons of these two people's policy plans from many aspects.
Not to judge their abilities, but to judge their policy plans.
Because in terms of ability alone, officials who can climb to this level will not be that bad. The only difference is generally the difference in political philosophy.
The news that Li Xuan had interviews with these two people was naturally insufficient, or it was not concealed at all1
As a result, the news that the Holy Emperor summoned Zhou Yiran and Dai Yugang successively spread all over Jinling City in an instant, and the current Jiangnan Railway and the railway from Jinling City to Kaifeng, Henan have already taken shape. Various letters pass through the railway.
It can be spread all along the Jiangnan Railway and the Beijing-Kaifeng Line within a day or two.
In just a few days, basically many people in most of China knew that the Holy Emperor had summoned Zhou Yiran and Dai Yugang one after another.
At such a sensitive moment, Emperor Sheng didn't see anyone, but he summoned the two of them alone, and during the summons, they talked for several hours. If you haven't guessed what the meaning behind this is, then the political sensitivity
It's also too bad.
You don't need to guess to know that the minister who will succeed Ma Wei and enter the royal study will be between these two people.
And this result also made many officials sigh!
Especially those high-ranking officials who are preparing to compete for this position, many of them are disappointed. They missed this opportunity, and they don't know when they will get the next opportunity.