"I... still don't understand." Dong Wencong was even more confused.
"When the day comes when the Xiangzhou patriots who support Jingguo are labeled as Xiangzhou thieves, when the whole world laughs at Xiangzhou for having Xiangzhou thieves, it means that many people will pin the crime of looting and smashing on all... remember, all the people who support Jingguo. Those people who should have stood up to support Jingguo will step back, shut up, and become the silent majority. At the same time, more people will continue to laugh at the Xiangzhou thieves, and laugh at those Xiangzhou people who support Jingguo with practical actions, until all Xiangzhou people rebel against Jingguo. Oh, I forgot that you officials never care about the people, even if they are called Xiangzhou thieves by Qingguo's spies for defending Jingguo. It's harmless, you have more important things to do."
Fang Yun said this coldly, then turned and left.
Dong Wencong looked at Fang Yun's back with an anxious face. He didn't care about the people of Xiangzhou or the thieves in Xiangzhou, but he felt a deep disappointment in Fang Yun's tone, which made him feel as if his heart was blocked by a huge stone.
Fang Yun returned to Quan Garden through the Moon Gate, and his body changed from a moonlight body back to his original body.
"You must summon all officials of the seventh rank or above in Xiangzhou to go to Baling Prefecture. Today I will go to Baling Prefecture to serve as the governor of the two prefectures!"
"I obey your command." Dong Wencong said.
The Moon Gate is closed.
"Someone come here." Fang Yun said.
The servant of Quanyuan came running over quickly, and Fang Yun picked up the pen to write. After a few breaths, he finished writing a letter. He blew the ink with his mouth as usual, folded it and put it in an envelope.
"Send this letter to the palace and give it to Her Majesty the Queen Mother, and tell her that I will teach the young prince to read after I return from Xiangzhou." Fang Yun said.
"I understand."
Fang Yun ordered his private soldiers to go to Baling Prefecture on their own, and then sent some letters to some of his good friends in the capital, saying that he was going to Xiangzhou, and then put some necessary things into the Tunhaibei, and set off on a journey to Xiangzhou at an extremely fast speed.
Jiang Hechuan and others who received the letter were stunned. They didn't expect Fang Yun to leave as soon as he said he would.
During the flight, Fang Yun was doing two things at once, keeping alert while thinking about the affairs of Xiangzhou. Afterwards, he directly retrieved the Xiangzhou reports for the past fifty years from the Holy Academy.
The so-called "di" was the place where officials stationed in the capital lived. These people had to record the important events in the capital and send them back to their respective prefectures, so there was a dibao. Later, when the power of the imperial temple was perfected, dibao was the official publication of the court to the officials, recording the events of a country or a place.
Jing State only had one national gazette, while big countries like Qing State, Shu State, and Qi State had a large population and dense population, so one national gazette could not cover all aspects. In order to let officials from all regions better understand the local situation, there were also state gazettes.
Fang Yun first took a look at last month's official bulletin and saw an extremely ridiculous piece of news.
The news began with: "Xiangzhou lost Qingjiang Trading Company's position as the second largest market in Shengyuan Continent, and Xizhou returned to second place." Then, the article discussed how bad Xiangzhou was and how Xizhou was getting better.
Qingjiang Trading Company is a well-known large trading company in Qing State, dealing in all kinds of scholarly supplies, including books, four treasures of the study, swords, antiques, and cultural treasures. The head manager of Qingjiang Trading Company is not from a noble family. Although he has a background, his family background is only third-rate in Qing State.
Among the top ten trading companies in Qing State, eight are led by aristocratic families and one belongs to the royal family of Qing State. Qingjiang Trading Company has only been established for fifty years, but it can be ranked among them. Even if many of its actual industries do not belong to the nominal head shopkeeper of Qingjiang Trading Company, it is enough to show its strength.
The head manager of Qingjiang Commercial Bank is known as Ge Baiwan. As a scholar, he interacted with the upper class of Qing State and established a huge business. He is one of the most legendary figures in the human race.
Fang Yun specially read his biography. Although this man's main means of getting rich was collusion between officials and businessmen, he had to admit that he was very capable, far beyond ordinary people, and was an extremely powerful figure.
Fang Yun stared with wide eyes and read it several times. He could not imagine that this official report was written by a Jing person.
The beginning of this news seems insignificant at first glance, but if we restate it in simple terms: Qingjiang Trading Company cannot compete with other trading companies in Xiangzhou and Jingguo, and its revenue in Xiangzhou has dropped significantly, causing Qingjiang Trading Company's revenue in Xiangzhou to rank third among all states, second only to Xizhou in Qingguo.
In this official report from Xiangzhou of Jingguo, Qingjiang Trading Company has become a flawless great trading company. It is not that Qingguo Trading Company is not good, but that Xiangzhou and its people are incompetent, resulting in fewer buyers of this trading company's goods, so it lags behind Xizhou.
Fang Yun looked at the person who wrote this message, nodded and praised: "He is very good at licking ass cracks. I didn't expect that there is such a talent in my Xiangzhou. I must meet him if I have the chance to see how a person can be so cheap."
However, Fang Yun's expression was very serious.
The fact that news that belittled Xiangzhou but praised foreign trading companies appeared in Xiangzhou's official newspaper was an extremely serious problem, because many officials or powerful people in Xiangzhou would read this report, and if they read it too much and were not careful, they would be influenced by this news.
If they knew the true event, normal people would feel sad that Qingjiang Commercial Bank was no longer viable. However, after reading this news, most people, if they did not think carefully, would certainly feel that Xiangzhou was no longer viable and was not as good as Xizhou.
Fang Yun knew very well that the person who wrote the message would certainly not be so mean, but was deliberately attacking Jing State. Therefore, even if he encountered something unfavorable to Qing State, he could use the style of the Spring and Autumn Period to write it in a way that was beneficial to Qing State.
The Holy Temple sent the court bulletin in the form of a letter to Fang Yun's official seal. Fang Yun then sent the letter inside to the Wen Palace, and then let the strange book world absorb it and condense it into a series of books called "Xiangzhou Court Bulletin".
Each copy of the Xiangzhou official bulletin had tens of thousands of words, one was published every five days. Fang Yun selected fifty years of official bulletins, a total of more than 3,600 copies. Fang Yun read through them quickly in just a quarter of an hour. After comparison, he discovered many interesting things.
Whenever a disaster struck Jing, Xiangzhou's official newspaper would say it was **, the wrath of the saints, and something that could only happen in a sinful land. But whenever a disaster struck Qing, Xiangzhou's official newspaper would immediately pray for the victims of Qing as if their parents had died, without mentioning ** or the wrath of the saints.
When Jing was weak and was bullied by Qing, Xiangzhou's newspaper mocked the people of Jing for being lazy and not working hard. When Jing developed rapidly in recent years and tried hard to catch up with the powerful countries, Xiangzhou's newspaper continued to mock, saying that the people of Jing only cared about money and only knew how to pursue becoming stronger but forgot to wait for their conscience. Xiangzhou's newspaper never said that no matter whether it was Jing or those powerful countries, they could only become stronger by paying a big enough price, and there would never be perfection in the world.
In the past, the literati of Jing State were not strong, and the Xiangzhou Gazette ridiculed the literati of Jing State as incompetent and useless. They deserved to have their territory annexed and to be bullied by other countries or monsters. Now Jing State has produced Fang Yun, who continues to demonstrate his powerful strength. The Xiangzhou Gazette is saying sourly that no matter how powerful Jing State is, it cannot counterattack the monster world anyway, and will instead make other countries feel threatened and surprise friendly countries. It is better to return to the era that made his people feel at ease.
The Xiangzhou official newspaper never said that it was because of Fang Yun's existence that more people of Jing were promoted to civil positions and more people of Jing lived a stable life.
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