After Sony brought the newspaper to the court, Oboi and others also felt that it was necessary to buy these things. They still remember that decades ago, Nurhaci and Huang Taiji carefully collected the Ming court's newspapers to obtain information in the early stage. However, later, the Ming court became more and more defensive in the war, and finally got beaten completely passively. As for the boasting of thousands and tens of thousands of Qing troops in the defensive battle, Huang Taiji was no longer interested in reading it. After Dorgon entered the pass, the Southern Ming court's newspaper system completely collapsed. The Qing court, which had already stopped collecting newspapers, had the upper hand, so naturally he had to pick up the old habit again.

Although Deng Ming was not the first to resume offensive on the battlefield, the Ming army's strategic counter-offensive situation has been maintained in his hands for several years, and Deng Ming seems to be still rebuilding the newspaper system. Therefore, Oboi almost immediately came to the conclusion of Sony, that is, to try to order Deng Ming's newspapers and send them to the court for research. For those like Oboi and Sony who have been through the Nurhaci era, the twenty years of entering the pass certainly made them feel that the court face was, but it was much more pragmatic than Deng Ming's last Qing Dynasty in his previous life. Once he felt that the situation had changed, he immediately thought of using Nurhaci and Huang Taiji's experience.

"Is this thing useful?" Suksaha is much less experienced than Sony and Oboi. He has never encountered a strategic initiative when the Ming army has the power to take the initiative, so he seemed even more at a loss when he encountered Deng Ming's counterattack: "This kind of thing in the newspaper is not casually Deng Ming said, he might take the opportunity to use this thing to frame our officials or brag about it."

"This is why there is no need to read Longwu and Yongli's official newspaper. There is no need to read the official newspaper after the eighth year of Chongzhen." Oboi immediately explained to this colleague who was not experienced enough: "But the official newspaper of Tianqi is to read. Deng Ming's newspaper is similar to the official newspaper - Chengdu is launching an attack, and it is full of confidence and needs to use newspapers to brag about martial arts to the people and allies under his jurisdiction. Because they are in an offensive, there is no need to deny defeat as victory. Even if there are occasional minor setbacks, they often admit that this is because Chengdu has confidence. Also because they are full of confidence, the things on the official newspaper are often very accurate, because this newspaper has to be sent to Wuchang and Jiangning to intimidate our officials, so they cannot speak nonsense."

Speaking of this, Suksaha also understood that if all the things about Wuchang in the newspaper were fabricated, then the Wuchang officials would not believe the other narratives in the newspaper while sneering. When defending, they could brag unscrupulously to stabilize the hearts of the people in the territory. Anyway, they would not expect the enemy to believe it. However, since Deng Ming's newspaper is a weapon for offense, it would be completely different to destroy the morale of the Qing court and attack the weak factions within the Qing court.

However, neither Sony nor Oboi, they realized the difference between private newspapers and official newspapers. Although the content of these newspapers made both of them feel very confusing, they still naturally regarded them as more complicated newspapers. Oboi was still analyzing according to old habits: "The things Deng Ming got may not be true, but he personally did it and almost always followed the army on the front line; therefore, the military affairs would be less deceiving, and the rear would definitely hide it. It took only a few months and half a year to return to Chengdu; Liu Jinge, who was left behind, had a great power, and there was not even a censor-in-law like the censor, and there must be a huge warehouse. We mainly look at his newspaper's claims to the front line. As for the internal affairs of Chengdu, he must not know the real situation, and we don't have to take it too seriously."

Regarding the issue of sending troops, since the three left-behind ministers and the front-line commander and the military supervisors' ministers were unanimous, they soon received the approval of the Empress Dowager. This time, the Qing court will once again mobilize northern troops to Shaanxi on a large scale, and Guangyuan will launch a siege against Chengdu through Hanzhong. It is expected that more than 200,000 troops will be mobilized, and the military expenditure of this operation alone will be invested at least 6 million taels.

The additional military expenses for this operation must be paid in canal silver, and the taxes of several northern provinces will be used along the way. The northern provinces, which were difficult to balance income and expenditure, still need Beijing's financial subsidies. Therefore, although there will be tens of millions of tael silver, Beijing will continue to overdraw the savings of the treasury. The Qing treasury, which had five years of money and grain savings, is expected to be reduced to less than three years before the start of the canal transportation next year. In other words, if the canal transportation is suddenly cut off, the Qing court will not be able to continue to claim that it is a huge territory in the north for more than three years.

While sending troops this time, the Qing court decided to continue to beg for West Mongolia in order to safely take some time from the generals of Hexi from the garrison for use in Sichuan and Shaanxi. In addition to military attacks, Nalan Mingzhu, who had twice had contact with Deng Ming, would also rush to Prince Kang's army. His duty was to force Deng Ming to negotiate peace with the Qing court when the Qing army overcame the Ming army's resistance and approached the city of Chengdu. Nalan Mingzhu received a very broad authorization and could still agree to allocate a large area of ​​land in the south to Deng Ming, as long as the other party publicly announced the conclusion of the collegial agreement and guaranteed to the whole world to comply with the contract. As for the Ming army's resistance forces who were unwilling to participate in this contract, such as Zhang Huangyan and others, if Deng Ming was willing to do it himself, the Qing court would remain neutral and agree to Deng Ming to accept Zhoushan and overseas islands later; if Deng Ming was distant, the Qing court would be as long as Deng Ming remained neutral in the subsequent conflict.

Now the Qing court is raising food and grass, and issuing orders to local officials along the way to repair roads and organize post stations, while waiting for the results of Zheng Jing's recruitment negotiations. If Zheng Jing is willing to withdraw from the war, then the Qing court can consider using force to shock the governors of Jiangnan while facing Sichuan, so that they can give up their fantasy and hand over power. It is just shocking. Unless it is absolutely necessary, the Qing court will not be willing to enter the southeast of the vassal kings, even the loyal lackeys of the Dongjiang clan.

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November, Xuzhou.

Gong Sheyue of Xuzhou Newspaper had already received a notice from the prefectural office, saying that officials would come to the Sichuan Governor's yamen led by Gong Yong in the past two days. Speaking of which, the Sichuan Governor's yamen is also a scene in the empire. The official position of its person in charge is the Minister of the Dashun Li Government. It is said that the reason was that General Wen refused to grant Gong Yong the position of Governor, so the latter was furious and entitled his Dashun official position in the Sichuan Governor's yamen in the Ming Dynasty.

However, the people in western Sichuan responded unpredictably. This time, when Deng Ming returned with the title of the Admiral of the Qing Dynasty and the Destroyed Ming Army, everyone basically said "Oh". The Sichuan Admiral had done too much of absurd things, and compared with the Duke of Baoguo, he urgently followed the power of all kinds of things. Is this the Minister of the Dashun Li Government responsible for the Sichuan Governor of the Ming Dynasty? Many fellow scholars were thinking that this true Dashun Secretary was condemned to be the responsibilities of the Ming Dynasty as the Minister of the Ming Dynasty. If we counted, our Ming Dynasty made a profit, right? At least we suppressed the thief Dashun.

"Is editor-in-chief Gong? I am Liu Xuzhi." After entering the door, the officials of the governor's politely extended their hand to Gong Sheyue. This kind of etiquette is very popular among the Sichuan army and is now spreading to society. Many powers who have just immigrated to Sichuan are imitating like scholars.

Gong Sheyue shook hands with the other party skillfully. His skillful movements made Liu Xuzhi's smile even stronger: "When did Editor-in-Chief Gong join the army?"

"The fifteenth day of Yongli." Last year, Gong Sheyue was discharged from the army as a first-class soldier.

"I served in the 16th year of Yongli. I just retired from the army and found an errand with Gong Shangshu." I heard that the other party was a first-class soldier, Liu Xuzhi even gave a military salute: "I am also a first-class soldier."

After a while of getting in love with his comrades, Liu Xuzhi became interested. Not long ago, Gong Yong had just formulated some newspaper management measures, which had been discussed and authorized in the Imperial Parliament, and announced to the newspaper in Chengdu. This time, Liu Xuzhi was ordered to come to Xuzhou to inform the Xuzhou newspaper, the prefect of the Xuzhou prefect and the Execution Office, and asked them to pay attention to the news confidentiality.

Originally, Deng Ming was worried that the newspapers in Chengdu would be resistant to such news control behavior, and even prepared to personally persuade them if necessary, but things went much smoother than Deng Ming imagined. The newspapers in Chengdu immediately expressed their unconditional obedience to the confidentiality requirements of the governor's yamen to ensure that the Qing court could not obtain various military secrets.

Hearing that it was related to military secrets and further related to the victory or defeat of the Sichuan Army and the safety of the soldiers, veteran Gong Sheyue immediately took it seriously and immediately summoned all editors to listen to Liu Xuzhi's remarks on the confidentiality regulations.

After meeting a large number of editors and reporters, Liu Xuzhi first congratulated them on the official change of the newspaper of the Xuzhou newspaper to a weekly newspaper, and then talked about the purpose of the confidentiality regulations: "The Empire Government hopes that the current affairs news should be as true as possible so that the fellow scholars know how the government uses their taxes, including taxes and military service blood taxes. Therefore, the Empire Government will not only not believing that defeat is victory, but also hopes that you will expose this behavior - if you find out, this is also the purpose of the Empire Government providing subsidies. But after all, we are in war. If our newspapers help the Qing court understand the real situation of the war, it means that the soldiers will shed more blood."

While everyone nodded, Liu Xuzhi distributed the control rules to everyone and waited for their questions.

"If it is not a decisive victory, we should postpone the battle for two days." One editor asked: "How do we know if it is a decisive victory?"

"If it is a major victory without concealment, Gong Shangshu will ask the Governor's Office to inform you; otherwise, I hope you will postpone it for a few days after you learn the news." In addition to this, there are many regulations on reporting the Ming army, such as the number of needs to be 50% to twice the number, and the war damage should be true, but it is best not to inquire about the location of the garrison and the route of the marching. Even if you know it unintentionally, don't report it.

Compared with these regulations on the Ming army, more detailed are the confidentiality rules of the Qing army. Even after the decisive victory, the Qing army commanders were not allowed to report the number of losses and the number of captured people on their own, but had to wait for the notice from the governor's yamen.

"The number of Qing troops, weapons status, and morale, equipment, and strength of the troops stationed in various places are all the military secrets of the Qing army, right?" A reporter asked: "Isn't the imperial military interested in these information?"

"Of course I'm interested. We've been doing this kind of intelligence work. But if you try to find out, you are welcome to inform the yamen or the military, and there may be something we don't know. But it's best not to write it in the newspaper first. For the Qing court, these are military secrets they urgently need."

Since the strength of the local Qing army is a military secret that Chengdu knows but the Qing court does not know, the reporters certainly have no objection to keeping the secret, but they still have questions: "What about the central Qing army's troops? Their food, fodder, military pay, and military strength are also our military secrets?"

Chengdu has heard that the Qing court is preparing for an unprecedented offensive. Sichuan people are very interested in knowing more about this offensive, so the newspaper has been working hard to collect relevant news. They are also preparing to attach maps to the report, so that the situation of the battle with the scholars can be clearly seen at a glance, and they know at any time that they are under close protection of the Imperial Army, while the Qing army is blocked from the defense line of the Imperial Army.

"Before the central Qing government's troops left Beijing, this was not a military secret that needed to be kept secret from the Qing government, but as they got closer and closer to us, they were getting farther and farther away from Beijing, yes, this was our military secret."

"I have another question." Another reporter raised his hand and asked: "This is said that the Qing army generals and the stationed location must be kept confidential. Even if the number is unknown, does the Qing court know who its generals are? Do you know which strongholds it has? This is also a military secret? Ours?"
Chapter completed!