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If Tang Tong told his soldiers that traitors betrayed our country and nation and were extremely hateful, I am afraid that few people would hate the traitors, because without personal experience, there is naturally no way to talk about any hatred. But when Tang Tong used some tricks to make these soldiers equate traitors with bullies, those who had been bullied by bullies would naturally realize that traitors and bullies are the same bad people, and then they would really deserve to die.

The story of "The White Snake" itself is actually a story about a bully that was everywhere in the old days, and it has nothing to do with traitors. However, Tang Tong put the blame on the traitor Li Yongfang in the plot, so these soldiers from poor backgrounds understood that traitors are also hateful, and they and the bullies are all people who deserve to be killed.

Tang Tong jumped onto the stage and saw the soldiers below were excited. He felt both happy and sad. He was happy that these soldiers finally understood how hateful traitors were. He was sad that these soldiers still didn't know what traitors were.

Tang Tong waved his hands at the crowd on the stage and shouted, "Tell me, is this traitorous dog Li Yongfang hateful?"

"Sir, this guy is so hateful. We must kill this traitor."

"Li Yongfang, I'm going to fuck your ancestors for eight generations. You're not a fucking human being."

"Sir, my family was destroyed by guys like Li Yongfang. My father died tragically. I want revenge. I want to kill all the bad guys like Li Yongfang in the world."

"Down with Li Yongfang, down with the traitor, down with these sons of bitches!"

There was a chaotic clamor from the audience as everyone stood up one after another. Even those who were not emotionally excited were gradually infected by the atmosphere and started shouting randomly.

"Brothers, calm down and listen to me. Tell me, why were you poor in the past?" Tang Tong waved his hand again and asked loudly.

"Sir, needless to say, it's all because of the exorbitant taxes and levies imposed by those corrupt officials." This time everyone's answers were more in unison, and they accidentally scolded Sir Tang as well.

"No, you're completely wrong. You were poor before, wasn't it because of the heavy taxes imposed by the court? Let me calculate for you. Do you know how much arable land our country has? I tell you, 7.8 million mu. Do you know what this means? If the court taxed 10% of the land, it would have collected tens of millions of taels of silver in taxes. But in reality, the court's annual tax revenue is only a few million taels. This means that the court did not collect any extra taxes from you. Yet, even these millions of taels of silver were consumed in resisting the hateful Jian Nu, leaving our great treasury empty."

Tang Tong paused and continued, "Why were you poor in the past? There are two reasons. One is the backwardness of productivity, which made your fields produce very little. When faced with natural disasters and man-made disasters, the fields were even barren. The other reason is those corrupt officials and landlords. They ignored the crisis our country was in and wantonly plundered your income. It was these people and the invasion of the Jiannu that not only made you poor, but also made our country impoverished. You must know that our current emperor is a rare monarch. He has devoted all his energy to this country. He is an emperor, but what he eats and uses is not as good as that of a landlord living next to you. To be disrespectful, compared to you, my Lord, our emperor's life is far worse. Now, tell me, are you willing to let all the people in the world live a good life like you do now?"

Tang Tong did not want to rebel yet, so he tried his best to downplay the hatred of the court. In fact, Chongzhen was not a bad emperor. In Tang Tong's eyes, even those corrupt officials were nothing. Tang Tong only hated the Jiannu. If there had been no Jiannu, there would not have been a century of shame in later generations. Think about the so-called Kangxi and Qianlong prosperous eras, when the national GDP accounted for only a little over 30% of the world's GDP. However, during the Wanli period of the Tang Dynasty, under the leadership of a so-called incompetent emperor like Wanli, the national GDP accounted for more than 40% of the world's GDP. Which is better and which is worse, any fool can see it except traitors.

"Sir, please tell us what to do. We can do anything you ask us to do."

"Yes, sir, please give the order, and we will resolutely carry it out."

Everyone expressed their determination to Tang Tong. Tang Tong glanced at them, then smiled and said, "Okay, I'll tell you now. I have two goals. One is to open many factories so that all the poor people can have jobs and earn money. The other goal is to train you to kill the enemy and protect our factories and people, so that those corrupt officials dare not lay hands on us and plunder our money. I also need you to kill all the Jian slaves so that they can't capture our brothers and sisters as slaves. Tell me, are you willing to be a good soldier who defends the country and protects the people?"

"I am willing! Your kindness to us is as great as a mountain. Anyone who doesn't obey your words is worse than pigs and dogs."

"We will do whatever the master says. If the master tells us to kill all the Jiannu, we will kill them all..."

"Down with corrupt officials, kill all the slaves, defend the country, and protect the people!"...

The crowd started out in chaos, but later on became more united, shouting slogans that echoed throughout the theater. Tang Tong looked at the soldiers under him and realized that he still had a long way to go if he wanted to truly unite these people. An idea suddenly came to his mind: to publish a newspaper to gradually guide these people ideologically.

After Tang Tong finished speaking, he asked the actors to continue performing. However, many people were no longer paying attention to the performance. After the performance, many people were still discussing what Tang Tong had said.

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With Tang Tong's current financial resources, he quickly set up a newspaper and printing factory. Tang Tong named the newspaper "The Shout", which had four pages and was published once a week.

The contents of the first issue of the newspaper were all written by Tang Tong. The speech he delivered in the theater was revised to remove those contents that were suspected of rebellion and was published on the front page. There were four other main contents: one was the paper "Science and Technology are the Primary Productive Forces", one was the serial "Naval Development in the Contemporary World", and another was the serial "Records of the Evil Deeds of the Jiannu". The largest part was "Industrial Development and Colonial Movement in the West".

Two thousand copies of this issue of "The Shout" were printed and distributed free of charge to Tang Tong's soldiers, factory workers and school students. After these newspapers were distributed, they did not cause much response, which made Tang Tong a little disappointed. After reading the newspaper, except for Song Yingxing and his students, almost no one cared about the paper "Science and Technology is the Primary Productive Force" and few people cared about "Naval Development in the Contemporary World". Most people were only interested in "The Evil Deeds of the Jiannu". A small number of people were very interested in the Western colonial activities. These people were mainly non-staff rogue military teams who appreciated the looting activities.

The content published by Tang Tong in "Calling Newspaper" was a bit too advanced for people of that era, and it was understandable that people did not understand it. In the second issue of "Calling Newspaper", Tang Tong increased the number of pages to eight. In addition to the previous serialized content, Tang Tong added four more contents, "Dream of Red Mansions", "Selected Patriotic Poems", "Records of National Heroes" and "List of Traitors in History". The serialization of these four contents attracted more people who were interested, especially those scholars outside the Weizhen Office. They were very interested in these four contents, which made the second issue of "Calling Newspaper" circulated outside in large quantities. Fortunately, there was no content of rebellion in "Calling Newspaper". Seeing that this newspaper had a certain market value, Tang Tong simply set up a newspaper selling group to sell "Calling Newspaper". Tang Tong believed that as more people read it, people's concepts would naturally change slowly.

Tang Tong also organized newspaper reading and discussion groups in the army, schools, and factories. The army used small flags as units, the schools used classes as units, and the factories were more relaxed, with each factory as a unit. These people were organized together for study and discussion. Every week, there was a speech contest on the learning experience of "The Shout". The groups and individuals who won the prizes were rewarded with three to one taels of silver to increase their enthusiasm for reading newspapers.

Tang Tong's methods soon achieved great results. Those who did not understand why "Science and Technology are the Primary Productive Forces" began to understand a little. For example, in the first speech contest, Tang Tong awarded the first place prize of three taels of silver to the person who gave the speech "Science and Technology are the Primary Productive Forces". Although this person's speech was very poor, Tang Tong still gave him warm applause. This made everyone curious and dissatisfied, and they all read the article "Science and Technology are the Primary Productive Forces" carefully to find out why Tang Tong awarded the first place in the speech to that person.

With Tang Tong's approach, the habit of reading "The Shout" gradually spread from Tang Tong's Weizhen to the whole Changzhou. Later, people who did not talk about the content of "The Shout" were simply not considered Changzhou people.

Afterwards, Tang Tong launched a series of heavy attacks in "The Shout".

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