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March 12th, early morning, Yuanzhou City...

The weather in March is full of spring, and the early sun is reflected on the faces of pedestrians who are rushing to the market, which is particularly comfortable and comfortable, dispelling the chill brought by winter.

"Bang bang bang bang bang~"

A sudden sound of a gong came from the bustling streets, attracting the eyes of pedestrians.

But a team of officials from the Governor's Office ran to a huge notice wall at the entrance of the street with sticks in hand. Seeing this, pedestrians on the road made way for them to make it easier for them to pass.

When he arrived at the signboard, a yamen runner took a brush and dipped some paint paste he carried with him. He brushed it on the signboard, then took out a light yellow roll of paper from the backpack on the other side and spread it on the board. After saying a word, he immediately turned around and left, and rushed to the next signboard to post it.

After the yamen runners left, the pedestrians quickly surrounded them and looked at the lines of densely packed small words written on the huge notice, and couldn't help but feel curious.

"Who knows how to read? What is written on it for us?"

Since most pedestrians are ignorant of their eyes and cannot understand what is written on it, and everyone is used to listening to people chanting newspapers in teahouses and restaurants, they naturally instinctively want to let people read it.

As soon as he finished speaking, a scholar in a light Confucian uniform squeezed away the crowd, came to the notice and looked carefully, and then began to read aloud.

"From the notice posted today, all people in the Far East, without any scholars and common people, must strictly abide by the new laws promulgated by the Governor's Office. If there are any violations, they will be severely punished!"

After reading this, the scholar frowned and continued to read.

"Due to the chaos in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the new Governor Jiang Ze has hereby promulgated a new Far East bill to protect the safety of the people in the Far East, as follows:

1. All provinces and governments in the Far East immediately stopped night markets and resumed curfews. Before the beginning of the Youth hour, they were not allowed to stay on the street without permission, so as not to take advantage of the scoundrels to get into the city and cause chaos in public security. Violators will be punished as spies.

2. From now on, the Far East Times will completely prohibit the dissemination of various parts of the Far East. No one is allowed to deliberately collect and read it. Anyone who discovers it will be sentenced to severe punishment.

3. Women and children are not allowed to stay alone in the street market. Once discovered, they will be detained and handed over to the yamen for interrogation to restore the bright atmosphere.

4. From now on, ordinary people are not allowed to privately store books of unknown origin at home. People from all households are asked to destroy them immediately or hand them over to the government for filing. It will take one month to complete, and the consequences will be borne by one.

5. Students are strictly prohibited from studying institutions other than the Governor's Office. The government will take regular and severe measures to completely ban these schools that mislead children.

6. The people are not allowed to discuss political affairs in any place. Once discovered, they will be sent to the yamen for conviction.

7. Do not leave the registered area where you are located without permission. If you want to travel far, please report to the Governor's Office three months in advance. You can pass by until a pass notice is issued. Those who violate the order shall be punished for communicating with the enemy.

eight……"

The scholar read the contents of the notice word by word, and the people around him were stunned and could not believe that the Governor's Office would promulgate such harsh regulations.

Let’s talk about the night market first. Now the entire Far East has truly implemented the twelve-hour market. There are only two places in Yong'an and Hanling. Although Yuanzhou City has not yet been implemented, Jiang Xun has already planned to open night. Now that the night market can reach the hour of the Hai, it greatly enriches the spare time of the people in Yuanzhou City. Now, Jiang Ze’s order is to re-implement a curfew? This makes it difficult for many people to understand.

Secondly, newspaper propaganda is prohibited? This makes it even more incomprehensible for those people who are used to listening to new things in the winery and teahouse after dinner.

Newspapers have become an indispensable part of the lives of the people in the Far East. It broadened the horizons of countless people and brought a lot of business to teahouses and restaurants everywhere. Wouldn't Jiang Ze do this to make the people return to that ignorant situation again?

As for the third point, women and children are not allowed to stay alone, but they have their own opinions. Some applaud and some complain, but the women in the crowd must be extremely uncomfortable.

The influence of Liu Ce in Jizhou and Liu Ce has affected their lives. Although it has not yet caused a huge change, being able to wander in the bustling street market is particularly satisfying for these women who were deeply influenced by the Three Obediences and Four Virtues before, but now all this is going to be knocked back to the prototype? They feel extremely confused.

As for private collection of books, the onlookers did not care. After all, printing technology was only popular under Liu Ce's rule. Basically, those who could print books were rich and related people, and had nothing to do with them. What really made the people speechless was the ban on the school.

What is misleading people's children is purely nonsense. You should know that the schools under the rule of Hanling Hou are basically free for five years for children to enter primary schools. Although secondary schools have not yet started, Jizhou has already made a news that if any admitted students have difficulty in family conditions, they can study with interest-free loans and then pay them slowly after graduation.

If such preferential conditions are considered to be misleading to children, how many people in the world can do it? Then the so-called academic institutions instructed by the Governor's Office are basically those schools controlled by the great families. The knowledge taught in them is not only boring, but also expensive.

Ordinary people cannot afford high tuition fees at all, which is equivalent to cutting off the opportunity for poor children to change their destiny. Those who benefit from the pedantic mediocre mentors and children of aristocratic families who were beaten by Liu Ce...

However, it seems that many children from aristocratic families who have lost their families are almost unable to afford the cost of a school like Master Lu. The high tuition fee of 15 taels per month is like a scramble...

Finally, the people are not allowed to discuss political affairs or travel far away to report three months in advance, which is simply an unbelievable law.

The former is equivalent to banning people's verbal conversations, and what is the difference between the latter and the quarantine? Many people in the crowd intend to go to Jizhou to pass the official examination and change the current difficult situation of life, and it is probably going to be ruined...

"What the hell is the Governor wanting to do? Why did these laws be enacted?"

There were many doubts in the crowd, and many of these people were opposed to Liu Ce, but when the moment they were about to be defeated back to their original form, they realized that they had already become accustomed to the new things at present and could not live without such a life.

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"Newspapers are contraband and cannot be sold. All are confiscated now!"

In a teahouse, a team of soldiers surrounded a child selling newspapers. After a military officer in charge scolded him, he rudely snatched all the newspapers in his hand.

The six or seven-year-old child looked at the scene in front of him timidly, tears rolling in his eyes, trying hard not to let it fall. After wiping his face, he walked out of the teahouse in great depression.

The officer snorted coldly at the child, handed the captured newspaper to the soldiers behind him, and shouted loudly to the guests in the teahouse: "The Governor's Office has issued a new bill, and newspapers must not appear anywhere from now on,

Those who know the truth quickly hand over the newspaper in your hands. Jun Ye, I can forgive you for your past. If you search for it later, hum, don’t blame me for being ruthless!"

Faced with the intimidation of the officers, the guests sitting at the table drinking tea all lowered their heads. Many people and their companions used their eyes to communicate, as if they were hesitating whether to hand over the newspaper.

Seeing that no one answered, the officer spat and said loudly: "I count to three. After three sounds, if you still don't realize it, once you find out that there is a newspaper on you, you can consider the consequences yourself! 1..."

A "one" made everyone's heartbeat hit the throat, and many people even started to tremble because of panic.

"two……"

"I'll hand..."

"I'll hand it over, stop shouting..."

After the officers reported the "second" coldly, many people in the hall surrendered, stood up and handed the newspaper in their hands to the soldiers, and then left the teahouse in shame...

He glanced at the newly handed newspaper in the hands of the soldiers beside him, and the officer continued to ask to the teahouse lobby: "Is there any? If there is one, hand it over quickly!"

However, there was no other noise in the teahouse. Several scholars wearing blue shirts and Confucian robe looked at each other and stood up and walked out of the teahouse.

"Slowly, where are you going?"

Just as the Confucian scholars were about to step out of the teahouse gate, the officer reached out to block their way and asked coldly.

A scholar raised his hand and waved his sleeves, bowed to the officer and said, "Of course I'm going home. Could it be that Jun Ye wants to stop us from leaving the teahouse?"

When the officer heard this, he curled his lips and stared at him coldly with round eyes, but saw the scholar looking at the officer leisurely and unchanged, and the atmosphere was very awkward.

When you were young, the officer said, "If you want to leave, no one will stop you, but you have to leave the newspaper on you..."

The scholar replied proudly: "Mr. Jun is too worried. He doesn't have the newspaper you want..."

"Is that?" the officer said in confusion, then waved his hand and shouted in a deep voice, "Search it for me!"

In an instant, the soldiers behind the officer were ordered to rush up and pressed all the scholars who wanted to leave the teahouse to the ground. Regardless of their yelling and obstruction, they began to search for them roughly.

After a while, a soldier held two copies of the Far East Times and presented them to the officer.

The officer took the newspaper and looked at the scholar who had stared at him before, and his eyes became colder: "Didn't you say you don't have newspapers on you? Then what is this?"

Unexpectedly, the scholar stared at the officer angrily and said loudly: "What's wrong with our students learning some new knowledge? Why don't we let us read newspapers? What's the difference between you like robbers? Is there any king's law?"

"Smack ~"

Upon hearing this, the officer slapped the scholar's face with a series of slaps. The scholar's mouth was bleeding, and his face was covered with red and swollen five finger marks. The guests in the teahouse were trembling with fear.

The officer waved his wrist and said to the scholar with his eyes, "Look at you, you are also a scholar. Since you are a scholar, you should read more of the Four Books and Five Classics. You will not do your job well all day long. What is the use of reading these messy newspapers for you?

What did you say just now? Wang Fa? Jun Ye, what I am doing now is Wang Fa! This time, if there is a punishment for me, if I hear you say this next time, I will not tear your mouth apart!"

After saying that, the officer waved his hand and asked the soldier to let go of the scholar and threw him on the ground, turned around and walked out of the teahouse.

Unexpectedly, the scholar stubbornly got up from the ground and said word by word to the officer: "Kong said Chengren, Meng said to be righteous. Can you give in to me if you act like this? Don't think about it~"

Upon hearing this, the officer stopped immediately, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, suddenly turned around and rushed to the scholar with a quick punch and punched him in the lower abdomen.

The scholar immediately bent down in pain, and before he could take a breath, he felt the back of his neck suddenly being lifted.

The officer almost pressed against the scholar's face and said viciously: "Cultivation is right? Is it right to pursue righteousness? Okay, I will fulfill my wish. Let you go to the yamen to taste the great punishment. I hope you can still be so stubborn and take it away!"

The scholar was taken away by the soldiers. The guests in the teahouse looked at this scene and couldn't help but sigh, sighing, sighing that they might not have a good life in the future.

"It seems that this newly appointed Governor is not easy to get along with..."

I saw a table in the corner of the hall. Xu Wenjing watched the scene in the restaurant and couldn't help but shake her head gently. There was a plainclothes soldier next to him drinking tea quietly.
Chapter completed!