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94. New Directions for Secular Media

Shake the foundation of the country!

Even Tokugawa Idai's eyes changed even if he was not in charge of things. No matter how slow or relaxed he was, once things touched the Tokugawa shogunate's rule over Japan, Tokugawa Idai, as the ruler, would also have a twelve-point spirit.

"you mean?"

"My brother thinks that the people should know the key to the founding of the country. It is not that the shogunate dares to expel the barbarians, but that they cannot expel the barbarians for the time being."

We have to let everyone know that the shogunate was determined to expel the barbarians, and the founding of the country was purely helpless. At present, only the Edo people who had experienced the war knew that foreign guns and cannons were indeed powerful, so they did not think there was any problem with the founding of the shogunate. However, those who had never seen foreign guns and cannons only thought that the shogunate was cowardly and incompetent.

Combining their own ambitions and the theory of honoring the king and expelling the barbarians that happened to be circulating everywhere, isn’t this matter beginning to worsen?

"What's the use of foolish men and women knowing that many?" Ii Naoki looked straight.

He was the old-style feudal ruler. He believed that as long as the people complete their jobs, farmers would farm at home with peace of mind, craftsmen would make textiles day and night, and merchants would transfer transportation everywhere, each with their own division of labor. It would be better for them to know too much, and it would be best for them to do illiterate words and do not know one.

If you learn too much and know too much, it will not be beneficial to the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate. After all, if you know too much, people will have broader knowledge and may not have any thoughts of being ruthless.

But his idea was wrong. What we said before was that the so-called anti-scene movement had nothing to do with more than 30 million ordinary Japanese farmers. If you insist on getting it related, it was that the farmers in the Meiji era were not as good as those in the Shogunate era.

In the entire so-called anti-curve movement, there are actually only groups of samurai, samurai, samurai merchants with no more than two million people, and most of the samurai are concentrated in middle and lower-level samurai, while samurai merchants are mainly those who cannot obtain monopoly or franchise rights in commodity.

To put it bluntly, they hope to gain power!

When did anyone care about the feelings of the people? Tadaoemon is not talking about the people. He is talking about these two million people who are generally reading and literate, but under the shogun system, it is almost impossible to share power with people.

These people already have their own ideas and will make their own judgments, but they are ordinary people and are easily biased by public opinion.

Just like those "little cuties" who are ignorant of the world in later generations, they are called "Happy" when they are not hit by the iron fist. They are both moving forward and winning at the retreat. They always feel that they are very powerful. Only after they are really taught to be a human being and repeatedly ravaged by the iron fist can they understand many things.

It is completely impossible to expect them to have a height or think about problems from the perspective of the shogunate. They are easily confused by propaganda and then stubborn, walking to death until they die, not hitting the wall or looking back.

To a certain extent, it is not as good as the old farmers who know nothing. At least if the old farmers know less, they will have less thinking. If they don’t think too much, the society will be peaceful.

"The public opinion of the world is here, and we still need to take care of it!" Tadaoemon quickly explained his thoughts, and everyone should pay attention to it quickly.

"They ronin have a lot of rebellious hearts in their hearts and may not be willing to obey the shogunate." Matsuhira Qishin shook his head.

After Tadaoemon gave a little explanation, he understood that because the people here had been at the center of power for too long, they had already confused this part of the "people" with more than 30 million farmers who were not even "people". In their opinion, all living beings are ants, and there is no difference.

Now, we can understand that after more than two hundred years of rule, the contradictions between the upper and lower classes have reached a stage that cannot be reconciled. This contradiction is becoming increasingly intensified.

"If you don't want everyone to be loyal to the shogunate, you only need most of them." Tadaemon's words were very direct.

If we try to influence or grasp public opinion now, we will definitely not be able to promote the entire Japan as the founding faction of the Sakamakura. Those ambitionists who respect the elements do not care about the bullshit at all. They just hope to gain power and take themselves to the next level.

What we need to strive for now are those who are still "ignorant" or neutral. They neither clearly support the Tokugawa shogunate nor shout about respecting the king and expelling the barbarians. This type of person is the vast majority of ordinary people, and can be used to use public opinion to conquer, influence and change.

As long as this part of the middle sect can be pulled to the side of the shogunate, even if the theoretical and action factions of the sect and the sect are combined, there will be only a few people, and the massive sect and sect will not be able to perform.

"I understand, those games, singing and dancing are useless, and they are all destroyed, just in time to guide Qingyuan." Ii Naoki also fully understood.

It means promoting the idea of ​​adhering to the shogunate and describing the need for the founding of the country. At the same time, it makes all the media that attack and slander the shogunate shut up and send them to Karata Island one by one to grow potatoes.

"It's not this, it's not this!" Tadaoemon waved his hand quickly. Why do people like Naochi Ii like to be a one-size-fits-all person? They are really lazy.

The same was true when Tadahiro Mizuno was in power. Many people in society criticized the shogunate's reform measures. He felt very unhappy, so he immediately ordered a major rectification of the stage industry practitioners in Edo and Osaka. Those who attacked the shogunate would be arrested or imprisoned.

For those creators of literary works, they also have a strong blow. Without reporting and approval from the shogunate, publishing of any literary works is prohibited. If the content has been published publicly, if there is any ban on content, it will also be destroyed. This is a strict literary censorship system and restrain speeches.

Tadaoemon's idea is to ascend as possible to the authors of literary works such as novels, Kabuki, Mantasy, etc., and to ask for money, fame or beauty. The shogunate can try to satisfy them and cooperate with the shogunate. Inviting and cheering for the shogunate.

Those who are unwilling to cooperate with the shogunate will use the iron fist that Ii Naosuke usually likes to use. Please relax their muscles and bones and learn about the love of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Similar to the shogunate secretly reversing the political tendencies of popular media or shaping qualified political tendencies. Without fighting, killing and prisoning, body movements change worldly sentiments and public opinion.

"In addition, there is another thing that is also necessary." Tadaoemon thought about it, and a two-pronged approach was taken.

"how?"
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