CH 159

The local newspaper in Changshan County is called Changshan County Sun, which is a small newspaper under the County Government News Agency. It has been unknown for years, and even the locals don't know about it. But today seems to be different. People can be seen everywhere on the streets of Huai Town holding newspapers and reading them with great interest. The newspaper, which has never been displayed on the book stall before, unexpectedly occupies a whole page.

A quick look at "pawread dot com" will leave you more fulfilled.

Even the newspaper boy, who has never been seen before, is now carrying a stack of newspapers and shouting:

"Fresh Sun newspaper! Come and buy it before it's gone!"

Fortunately, Lin Wen is not in the habit of reading newspapers and has always ignored such things. Otherwise, he would have vomited on the spot. Today's Changshan County Sun is different from before. It is full of dazzling gold. The headline of the front page is printed on this golden background, saying: "Universal Celebration! The great King Wansheng led the invincible Dragon Group and completely annihilated the thousands of bandits who invaded Changshan County!"

Subtitle: What is the King Wansheng

Subtitle 2: Big Revelation! Sheriff Lin's secret organization, the unknown Dragon Group.

Each word on it is as big as font size 90. The whole page of the newspaper is filled with this headline. When you turn to the second page, it becomes even more disgusting. It is completely third-rate stall literature. Titles like "Imperial Exploding Tiger," "Imperial Destroying Dragon," "Imperial Roaring Lion," "Imperial Giant Lobster," and various other ridiculous names are pressed onto the heads of non-existent Dragon Group members. The descriptions inside are quite specific, down to the moves used by the Imperial Destroying Dragon to eliminate bandits, such as when the Destroying Dragon sensed danger, frowned, shook its tiger body, unexpectedly launched a lightning-fast punch that hit the bandit's right rib 11.31 centimeters below. It's all made-up stories.

Of course, the Changshan County Sun, which used to be a subordinate of Changshan County, was not so disgusting. It was just an ordinary newspaper. The reason for such a big change is that some ambitious and politically opportunistic people recruited by Lin Wen finally came up with a way to save Changshan County. That is: propaganda. They believe that as long as they do a good job of propaganda, fully spread Sheriff Lin's glorious deeds and Changshan County's super development, they can cover up the fact that Sheriff Lin has been killing and capturing recklessly in the local area. So they elected four temporary leaders: Cao Yuan, Xu Ziqiang, Cheng Qingqing, and Cheng Jianxing. These four people represent 38 staff members and secretaries, who told Lin Wen their opinions.

When Lin Wen heard this, he also thought it was reasonable, so he immediately instructed the Personnel Department and the Organization Department to prepare for the establishment of a new department: Changshan County Propaganda Department.

The Empire does not have such a department. There are only departments like the Publicity Bureau and the News Agency, which are responsible for managing publications, broadcasting, television, and other media. Lin Wen specifically placed the Propaganda Department above these departments, elevating it to a department at the prefecture level, higher than the town mayor and lower than the deputy sheriff. This is the maximum authority of jurisdiction. Then he stuffed all these people into it and let them take charge of all propaganda affairs. Because Lin Wen didn't understand the government structure, his arrangement made the Propaganda Department the supervisory department with the power to manage subordinate departments. In other words, this newly established Propaganda Department, in addition to being responsible for all propaganda affairs, also has the power to manage all information media, publications, broadcasting, television, and even the internet.

This is equivalent to the merger of the Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Public Security, and the three departments in the original world, forming a super monster department. After carefully studying the functional table of the Propaganda Department in the original world, the political opportunists and ambitious people immediately realized that this department has unimaginable power. They believe that this is Lin Wen's recognition of them and the success of their political gambling. Although this power currently only covers Changshan County, which has relatively backward information media, it appears relatively weak. But as long as Changshan County can develop, their actual power will rapidly increase.

Therefore, they once again reached a unanimous opinion: they must do their best to help Changshan County develop. Only in this way can the power they have finally obtained not become invalid. Therefore, they immediately started working in their own ways according to their expertise.

Some of them are active everywhere, collecting all favorable information about Changshan County. Some of them are writing vigorously, trying to write a masterpiece to boast Sheriff Lin's achievements. Some are networking, showcasing the existence of the newly established Propaganda Department. Some quickly went to subordinate departments, declaring sovereignty and implementing the expansion of power.

This is the basic skill of politicians. Politicians without power are like tigers without minions, only their skin can intimidate people. Therefore, the Propaganda Department quickly became popular in the County Government, and everyone knew that a high-level new department had been established in the County Government. Of course, they still couldn't have a deep understanding of this department. Just from the name, the Propaganda Department is far less intimidating than the Changshan County Security Bureau and the Sheriff's Guard Department, the latter of which has become a place that makes the County Government tremble. The black-clothed crow with a large hat is the most ominous symbol in everyone's mind, and the people taken away by them have never come back.The newly established Propaganda Department was certainly not going to overlook the powerful Changshan County Security Bureau during its initial rounds of networking. As the department was personally established by Lin Wen, Qin Luoshuang showed a certain level of respect and agreed to their request for promotional materials, sharing the news of Lin Wen leading the Dragon Group to eliminate bandits. Upon learning such a legendary piece of information, the entire Propaganda Department was electrified. They believed this represented their rapid approach to the power center of Changshan County. The fact that Sheriff Lin would share such top-secret information that ordinary people could never know, was seen as a test of their performance.

If they didn't give it their all at this point, would they be worthy of their ambitious reputation?

Thus, the entire Propaganda Department was mobilized. Although the material provided by Qin Luoshuang was just a simple sentence: Lin Wen led the Dragon Group to eliminate a group of bandits who invaded Changshan County.

But the charm of literature lies in its infinite expansibility. Like Archimedes, given a fulcrum in the form of a sentence, it could overturn the Pacific Ocean.

The story thus began, with countless people biting their pens, unleashing their imagination, colliding their inspirations, and letting their souls sparkle with the sparks of wisdom.

Thus, a mysterious and powerful organization was formed under their pens, and agents full of flesh and blood, righteousness, high skills, proficient in business, and charming were born.

They were the Empire's Explosive Tigers, the Empire's Destructive Dragons, the Empire's Roaring Lions, the Empire's Giant Lobsters, and many more names that they didn't have time to create.

They pondered over every word, every sentence, every plot with the attitude of writing world-class literature, striving to achieve perfection.

They revised the layout again and again, constantly comparing and correcting, just to ensure that the layout and text matched perfectly.

They sent people to supervise all the work of the newspaper agency and the Broadcasting Bureau, striving to avoid any mistakes.

Thus, a newspaper that Lin Wen would only use to wipe his butt was born, and incidentally became the only source of news for the Supreme Council.

If they took this newspaper seriously and regarded the Empire's Explosive Tiger as a real enemy, it would be too pitiful.

Fortunately, the efforts of the Propaganda Department's cadres were not in vain.

As soon as the newspaper was released, the local newspaper of Changshan County, which was originally unattended and had almost no sales except for subscriptions from various township government departments, suddenly became a hot commodity.

The initial print run of 10,000 copies sold out in one morning, and the emergency reprint of 10,000 copies also sold out instantly. In the end, the entire Propaganda Department went all out, using both carrot and stick tactics, personally operating, and snatched all the shares of the printing factory, crazily reprinted 30,000 copies, which also sold out within a day.

Everyone was extremely excited, the great victory of the first battle was too important to them.

But they didn't get carried away. They, who were proficient in power operation, personnel management, and interpersonal relationships, immediately distributed the profits from selling newspapers, as well as a part of the Propaganda Department's own propaganda funds, to all those who had contributed.

Qin Luoshuang of the Security Bureau naturally received the largest share. In their eyes, this unremarkable female bureau chief was their most important partner and the object that needed to be flattered first.

The newspaper agency received the second largest share, the Broadcasting Bureau received the third share, and the remaining shares were given to other departments and personnel who had helped them. They didn't take a penny for themselves.

Of course, this was not noble, but for the sake of gaining greater benefits.

Sure enough, this behavior earned them widespread praise. Even the front-line workers and the printing women of the printing factory greeted them with smiles.

The profit distribution this time was quite fair. The front-line workers received nearly half a month's wages in one day, so it's no wonder they were all smiles.

The Propaganda Department also became a well-spoken good department in their eyes.

Thus, in a very short period of time, the Propaganda Department became the hottest department in the county government office, and many staff members began to inquire about how to enter this department.

Even more fortunately, the Propaganda Department rejected the suggestion to send the newspaper to Sheriff Lin for personal review at an internal meeting, believing that this would seem like they were seeking credit and might lower Sheriff Lin's positive impression of them.

Otherwise, they would face the tragedy of being laid off just three days after taking office.

Now, the 38 core cadres in the Propaganda Department have formed a tight group. They will continue to play a bigger role, write better serialized stories, and add luster to the local newspaper business in Changshan County.

Meanwhile, Lin Wen has been busy studying the issue of killing and has no time to care about these matters.

It wasn't until now that he realized that the evaluation standard of "Observing Qi and Judging People" was very strict. Some of the death row inmates in custody had a very low proportion of black qi.

Death row inmates who killed out of malice did not have black qi exceeding 50%.

Those who killed out of impulse, hatred, disputes, cuckoldry, and other issues even had black qi less than 10%.

However, in the eyes of the law, they were already death row inmates who were bound to be shot.