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A large number of people of Baling City had gathered in front of Guan Yi's cage. Even the soldiers who were maintaining order had been squeezed around the cage, looking helpless.
In Dong Wencong's words, at first glance, one would think that all the people of Jingguo were there.
In front of Guan Yi's cage, there was a temporary notice board that was protected by many bailiffs who tried their best to prevent it from collapsing.
The notice on the notice board stated that Guan Yi was willing to accept this punishment and pointed out that Guan Yi had clamored to be sent out of the country. In the end, Fang Yun gave him a space of three feet.
The notice at the back listed the loot of Guan Yi's family, which was valued at more than 10 million taels of silver, far exceeding the net worth of an ordinary Jinshi. Excluding the treasures, the wealth of many Jinshi families was only about three million taels of silver.
According to Dong Wencong's instructions, the scribe specially noted the source of some of Guan Yi's family's wealth, which was mostly related to the Qingjiang Business Company, the royal family of Gyeongo, and the high officials of Gyeongo.
Hence, there was no need for the state government to spread the news. All sorts of rumors spread and soon, everyone in Baling City and even all of Xiang Zhou knew that Guan Yi was using Gyeongo's money to do things.
Afterwards, scholars from all over the country stood up and began to burn the supplements of the Xiang Zhou Court Gazette. Many people also took the initiative to burn the supplements for fear of getting into trouble.
The influence that Guan Yi had previously caused in Xiang Zhou silently dissipated.
Most people in Xiang Zhou did not care about the ownership of Xiang Zhou and only cared about their own lives. However, even the most neutral people would not stoop to supporting people like Guan Yi.
Hua Qingniang and Guan Yi were originally the backbone of the Anti-Scenery Movement. Due to the previous inaction of the government, many people were bitterly disappointed. Now that the two of them had been severely punished, the people of Xiang Zhou were in high spirits and there were discussions in the teahouses and taverns all over the place. All of them praised Fang Yun for being wise.
The matter of Fang Yun imprisoning the Jinshi caused a continuous war on the rankings, and all the scholars of the Ten Nations were involved.
Some scholars from other countries thought that Fang Yun had gone too far and shouldn't have treated Guan Yi this way. He should have left Guan Yi some face. After all, they were all scholars.
However, there were also people who thought that if Guan Yi had only committed a small crime, Fang Yun's punishment would have been too much. However, as an official of Jingguo, he had publicly announced that he would give up his land for free, which was tantamount to betraying his country. The fact that he was not beaten to death proved that the people of Xiangzhou were too kind.
There were various battlefields on the discussion board. Some of the articles discussed whether "traitorous comments are justified", some discussed whether "publicly supporting the gifting of important territory is considered traitorous", and some discussed whether "Fang Xusheng's punishment was excessive".
The situation in Elephant Province was complicated.
The common people had been oppressed by the Gyeongo people for so many years, and then they were taught a lesson by Hua Qing Niang and Guan Yi, these Gyeongo lackeys. It was not easy for them to encounter such a satisfying event, so they began to celebrate, making tonight like a festival.
This was especially true for the scholars who had participated in the imperial examinations after coming from Jingguo. Their futures were firmly tied to Jingguo's, so they supported Fang Yun with all their might.
On the surface, all the officials in Elephant Province seemed to have given up on opposing Fang Yun. However, they all submitted memorials to the cabinet and the Notre-Dame to impeach or report Fang Yun.
Ever since Fang Yun became Xusheng, the cabinet had not received so many letters of impeachment for a long time.
With these letters of impeachment, the Left Minister's party launched an attack on Fang Yun the next day. However, the Governor punishing the Right Bureau Chief, the Grand Scholar punishing the Jinshi, and Xusheng punishing the fifth rank official of Elephant Province could not be considered a mistake in the Saint Origin World. After all, Fang Yun stood on the side of justice.
Therefore, no matter how aggressive the Left Minister's party was, in the end, they were unable to cause any harm to Fang Yun. They could not even force Fang Yun to submit a letter of apology.
Fang Yun knew that a large number of officials were going to impeach him, so he completely ignored them. Instead, after discussing with some of the officials in Elephant Province, he handed over the management of Min Pao to the Fang Family Library. A review team was formed by the provincial government and various departments to be stationed at the office of Min Pao. They would review the content and prevent any content that should not appear.
Fang Yun personally designed the format of Min Pao. He completely abandoned the format of books and used the format of newspapers in the future.
On the front page of Min Pao, important news of the human race and Jingguo would be placed. Then, it would be divided into different sections, such as Elephant Province News, Jingguo Current Politics, Human Race Policy, Notre-Dame Trends, Imperial Examination Guidance, Interesting News from all walks of life, etc.
After the officials who worked with Fang Yun to create Min Pao saw the sample report, they were full of admiration. Dong Wencong was the most excited because he was certain that Min Pao had far surpassed Wen Pao in all aspects. If it was published to the entire human race, it would probably be able to compete with Wen Pao in ten years' time.
Dong Wencong thought it over and over again. For the first time in his life, he put down his pride and begged Fang Yun to give him the position of editor and reviewer. He also promised that he would personally take care of the 'People's Daily' and do his best to protect the 'People's Daily'.
Fang Yun had always been generous to his own people. Not only did he give Dong Wencong the position of editor, he also put Dong Wencong in charge of the Imperial Examination Guidance section. He also hired Dong Wencong as a column teacher for the Imperial Examination section, specializing in writing articles and giving pointers to the Imperial Examination students.
Dong Wencong was wild with joy when he received the appointment and repeatedly thanked Fang Yun. When he left Fang Yun's study, he was so excited that he accidentally knocked his shoe off, causing the people in the governor's office to laugh. The anecdote of the governor's shoe being thrown quickly spread among the officials of Xiang Province.
Dong Wencong didn't care about making a fool of himself. After picking up his shoe and putting it on, he quickly left to prepare for the first issue of Min Pao.
Dong Wencong knew very well that in Min Pao, the people cared most about current politics and local news, but the section with the highest value and status was definitely the section on Imperial Examination Guidance.
Of the Imperial Examination, the Xiucai Examination, the Juren Examination, and the Jinshi Examination, the most difficult section was naturally the Jinshi Examination guidance. Some genius Juren's understanding of the Jinshi Examination even surpassed those old Hanlin Scholars. If they were the slightest bit careless, the instructors could damage their Literary Name. If they weren't a Grand Scholar, they wouldn't dare to guide the Jinshi Examination.
The Imperial Examination was the simplest of the four sections. It didn't seem to have as much status as the Jinshi Examination, but in reality, the Imperial Examination was targeted at more people. It could even be said that if Min Pao could be distributed to the entire human race, the Imperial Examination section would be targeted at half of the male population of the human race. It would be a position to educate millions and millions of students.
From then on, those young people who read Dong Wencong's articles would have to obediently call him Teacher Dong, regardless of their status in the future, even if they became a Half-saint.
The merit of educating millions and millions of people was no less than the great Confucian conquering the world.
Among the three immortals of merit, speech, and virtue, Dong Wencong had already obtained the shortcut to "merit".
No matter how excited he was, Dong Wencong kept his mouth shut. This was because Fang Yun had ordered all officials to keep all details of Min Pao strictly confidential, otherwise they would be punished for treason.
The preparation of Min Pao was done quietly.
On the first day of August, the Notre-Dame of the Human Race published Holy Road and Wen Pao as usual.
On the second day of August, the first real private newspaper in the history of the human race, Min Pao, was officially published. Min Pao didn't have any publicity at all. It was just placed in the bookstores of the Wen Pao of Xiangzhou in the early morning. Even the booksellers didn't know about it.
The headline on the front page of Min Pao was "My First Letter of Challenge". The author was Fang Yun.
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