After the joint fleet left the dock with the First Brigade of the Guard Division, the civil and military officials who came to see him off disperse one after another. Huang Zunsu, who is currently the secretary of the Jiangnan Town Guard, was affectionately called the "Grand Secret" by Eunuch Wei, was left alone. Another person who was left alone was Tu Yizhen, a native of Changzhou, with a fame and reputation as a juren. He is now 25 years old, one year younger than Huang Zunsu.

Huang and Tu have one thing in common, that is, they are both backbones of Donglin who are listed in the General Record. Huang Zunsu is one of the eight fat cavalry of the Sky Star's vanguard of the Horse Army; Tu is the judge of the Earth Slave Star, and rewards the leaders of the Military and Political Department.

In addition, the two were also activists in the Donglin study class. Huang was the leader of the second group and Tu was the leader of the fifth group. Song Sibao, who was responsible for the reform of the study class that day, reported the best student candidates. Finally, Eunuch Wei ordered Huang Zunsu as the best student because Huang Zunsu's theoretical foundation is very good.

When Huang Zunsu studied the "Collected Works of Wei" and a series of speeches of Eunuch Wei, he often learned from one example and understood what the central idea that Eunuch Wei wanted to express faster than other students. Huang Zunsu also wrote very well on the thought reports that students must present every week, so Eunuch Wei ordered him instead of Tu Yizhen, who had a poor theoretical foundation.

After graduating from the study class, Huang Zunshi and Tu Yizhen actively responded to the call of Eunuch Wei and chose to intern in the garrison office. Both of them will also participate in the examination the year after.

In this regard, Eunuch Wei supported and encouraged him. As he said to the comrades in the study class, every comrade should be a good official of the people in the future.

How to be an official and a good official depends on whether they apply the knowledge they learned in the study class, the experience and life insights they gained through their own labor, and to be an official. Only when they do this, they will inevitably become good officials.

Now, Huang Zunsu serves as the secretary of the Jiangnan Town Guarding Yamen, directly responsible for helping Eunuch Wei draft various manuscripts. Tu Yizhen is responsible for the propaganda affairs of the janitoring Yamen. For example, he is responsible for the propaganda slogans and the planning of various activities in the streets and alleys of the Special Administrative Region. Both of them are very impressive. Like Sun Bixian, they have received attention and cultivation from Eunuch Wei.

Huang Zunsu and Tu Yizhen naturally knew that Eunuch Wei had left him alone and must have something to explain, so they stood by respectfully.

"Hey, why are you so restrained? Our family is not a human-eating tiger."

Eunuch Wei smiled and told Huang and Tu that they should not be so nervous. He also asked someone to bring a stool for them to sit. After they sat down, the father-in-law said, "I asked you to stay. There is really something wrong with us in our family to do."

"I wonder what my father-in-law has to send me to the two of you?" Huang Zunsu asked.

"Well, since we went south, we have been dedicated to serving the emperor and benefiting the people. We really want to do this maritime business well, so we will definitely offend many vested interests. These people have no choice but to deal with our family on the surface, but behind our backs, they are trying to harm us."

Speaking of this, Eunuch Wei picked up the tea bowl and drank it, and continued, "Our family has some relationship with the factory guards, and he also serves as the eunuch of the temporary official school in the East Factory. Therefore, although our family is in this special zone, we are smart. As for us, we heard that the Jiangnan area and Beijing have spread rumors that are unfavorable to our family. Those rumors make our family mess up, and they are simply lawless. It is a hatred for our family!"

"Don't be angry, the rumors stop at the wise." Tu Yizhen quickly comforted.

Huang Zunsu also said that rumors will be self-defeating over time. Eunuch Wei must not take them in his heart. How can people who do things not offend others?

Eunuch Wei waved his hand and smiled bitterly: "We understand what you said, and we believe that Your Majesty will not believe those rumors, but our family has not been by Your Majesty for a long time. If those who are interested continue to slander our family around Your Majesty, over time, even if Your Majesty still believes us, it is terrible that we will not let go of the story of Eunuch Wang Zhi during the Chenghua period. You two should know clearly."

Upon hearing this, Huang Zunsu and Tu Yizhen looked at each other, both of whom understood what Eunuch Wei was worried about. It was said that Eunuch Wei and Wang Zhi were also somewhat similar. They were favored by the emperor and jumped to a high position, so that they could leave Beijing to do major events. But Wang Zhi was just because he was left Beijing for too long and was overwhelmed by ginseng, so he ended up growing vegetables in Nandu. It would be fine if he didn't think about this kind of thing. If he thought about it, Eunuch Wei would inevitably become the second Wang Zhi.

"If our family ends up like a Wang Zhi, then this booming special zone will be like a water moon in the mirror, and this maritime cause will definitely not be able to continue."

Eunuch Wei showed distress. In fact, there are rumors that are unfavorable to him now, especially the Zhao Ping'an case judged in the previous episode, which made him the focus of public opinion. It would be fine if this person is low-key, but once the high-profile old and dirty things were exposed, it would be possible to affect the joint forces of the three provinces. This is also why Eunuch Wei did not go south directly with the joint fleet. He had to deal with this matter well. On the side of the emperor, it is not enough to just make money, and he must not make him feel troublesome.

Tu Yizhen said without thinking that he should immediately send someone to investigate the rumors, and he should suppress those who spread rumors, so that results can be achieved.

"How to suppress such things like rumors? They can be suppressed on the surface, but the undercurrent is irrepressible. And the more you suppress, the more ruthless the rumor is. Even if it is effective for a while, it will treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Moreover, this tough rumor will easily make the world misunderstand our family more, and will have a negative effect."

Eunuch Wei rejected Tu Yizhen's tough suppression method. This method is effective locally, but it is ineffective in all aspects. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and involves too wide a range of issues. Eunuch Wei really wants to use factory guards to investigate in the two capitals. I want to come to Kedao to impeach him and take people randomly.

"It's also my fault. I offended too many people to do things. Since ancient times, it's so difficult to do things." Eunuch Wei settled and looked at Huang and Tu, "Tell me, who hates our family the most now?"

"this"

Huang Zunsu and Tu Yizhen hesitated for a while.

"It's okay to say boldly." Eunuch Wei waved his hand.

"It must be the nobles of Nandu! Especially the Duke of Wei!" Tu Yizhen said boldly, "The father-in-law's reclaiming the Liyang iron ore has caused a lot of losses to his Xu family's property. How could the Duke of Wei and those nobles not hate his father-in-law? His subordinates thought that these rumors were created by the nobles, and their purpose was to drive his father-in-law back to Beijing."

Eunuch Wei nodded first, then shook his head and said, "It has something to do with them, but it is not them who hate us the most."

"Who is that?" Tu Yizhen was confused.

"It's our teachers and students in the past." Huang Zunsu spoke.

"Donglin Party?"

Tu Yizhen was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, the one who hates her father-in-law the most is indeed the Donglin Party."

"The people of the Donglin Party are mostly censors. These people are good at playing with pens, writing and writing, and writing is wrong. They can cause three layers of waves even if they have nothing to do. The people are ignorant, but when they listen to what scholars say, they believe it, so they are very susceptible to be deceived. And the rumors are passed down from person to person, and those who do not know the truth deliberately fabricated by Donglin literati, who do not know the truth are more likely to be deceived." Huang Zunsu analyzed that he was originally a member of the Donglin Party and was not clear about these tricks of the Donglin Party.

Eunuch Wei casts admiration for Huang Zunsu. In history, this person and Wang Wenyan are known as the two major think tanks of Donglin, and are naturally very smart.

"I'm good at writing, writing, and making introverted black and white, but the people listen to them. The reason is that the people have no other channels to know the truth."

Eunuch Wei stood up with his hands, "Our family has been thinking about it. If we want to break the rumors spread by the Donglin Party and those who hate our family, we must do our best to do it. So, our family wants you to have a newspaper for our family, and to recruit some scholars or supervisors who are not deceived by Donglin to clarify our innocence. We will publish the affairs of our special zone, the affairs of our imperial army, the affairs of our family, and the things we do. The subject matter is not limited, and we can record, short comments, and essays.

In short, we need to use this newspaper to let the world know what kind of person our family is, what things our family has done, whether these things are good or bad, and let the people in the world take a look. After the newspaper is completed, we also need to distribute the newspaper to the people for free, and recruit special newspaper readers from all over the country so that the people in the country can know the truth, instead of believing rumors, thinking that our family is really a bad eunuch in the mouths of those people with ulterior motives!"

"This is a great strategy for my father-in-law!"

Tu Yizhen felt that the method of reporting this mansion was really good. The reason why the people believed the rumors was because they did not know the truth. If there was a special newspaper to let them know the truth, then no matter whether it was the Donglin Party or the Nandu nobles who had suffered the interests, they would not be able to do anything.

Huang Zunsu also believed that this method was good. This strategy was equivalent to tit-for-tat, but it was a literary fight rather than a military fight. It could create an image for Eunuch Wei, but it was not possible to use Dibao directly, because Dibao was specially issued by Tongzheng Department. It is impossible to use it here in the Special Administrative Region, but it is better to use other names.

Eunuch Wei had already responded, and he said, "We have thought of the name of this residence, so let's call it "Huangming Daily". In the future, we will strive to make this "Huangming Daily" enter thousands of households, so that everyone in our imperial people can read and know the major affairs of the country."

Speaking of this, Eunuch Wei said with emotion, "Our family was poor since childhood. My father worked hard to support me in social studies, so that we could learn words and understand the great principles. But our family is lucky, but the people in our imperial Ming are more unlucky. Many people who are poor cannot afford to study for their children. Just our hometown, it is sad to think about it. Not only do they not know the major national affairs, but they don't even know the big words. After our family has a little success, they have been investing in supporting the poor children in their hometown, but hope that they can study and understand the truth."
Chapter completed!