Chapter 190 I have never been good at writing

April th.

Heroes Building.

Zhou Tieyi pointed at the dish 'Searching for Bears in the Snow' in front of him and said with a smile, "This bear paw comes from the paws of the sixth-grade exotic beast 'Mountain Shaking Bear', and is cooked by the sixth-grade 'Pao Ding' of the gourmet family. It is very nutritious. I heard that eating it can help you appreciate the majestic mountains. I wonder if it is true."

After saying that, Zhou Tieyi took the lead in picking up the white jade chopsticks, pushed away the thick and condensed power of the earth veins lingering in the plate, picked up a piece of bear paw meat and put it in his mouth.

The soft and glutinous meat tendons are full of the aroma of rich fat, but also have the delicate texture of ice cream. Eating it in this hot early summer is not only not greasy, but also refreshing.

What is even more amazing is that after this tendon enters the body, a wisp of mountain and earth energy nourishes the body continuously, which is of great benefit to the sixth-grade Condensation Qi practitioner.

And this is just one of the dishes, and it’s not even the most expensive one.

Seeing Zhou Tieyi picking up his chopsticks, He Qigong also started eating with a smile. After taking a bite, he exclaimed, "It is indeed the taste that can only be found in Tianjing."

The five people sitting with Ah Da also started eating. As they were enjoying their meal, Ah Da suddenly thought of a problem. Although his young master was generous, he was not a wasteful person...

After eating and drinking, Zhou Tieyi was ready to pay the bill, but the manager of Yingxiong Building smiled and said, "Young Master Zhou, the bill has been paid."

Zhou Tieyi asked knowingly, "Oh, who paid the bill?"

The manager looked at He Qigong with a smile. He Qigong had just come over quietly to pay the bill under the pretext of going to the toilet.

Zhou Tieyi stroked the back of his head and said to He Qigong with a smile, "I really shouldn't have done that. It's obviously my treat, how could I let you spend the money?"

He Qigong said confidently, "It's just a banquet, nothing to worry about."

Hearing He Qigong's answer, Zhou Tieyi laughed even more happily.

That's good, that's good.

When it comes to eating, drinking and having fun, I have some experience.

On April 28th, Wangluo Garden.

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said to He Qigong, "I'm sorry to have cost you money again."

He Qigong said respectfully, "I have quite a bit of family wealth."

April 29th, Tianbao Tower.

Zhou Tieyi looked at He Qigong and smiled without saying anything.

He Qigong said with a stiff upper lip, "I still have some family assets."

April 30th, Wanchun Garden.

Zhou Tieyi looked at He Qigong again.

He Qigong: …

At night, inside Zhou’s mansion.

When he heard the servant come in and report that the second young master would invite him tomorrow, even He Qigong, who was very cunning, felt a headache. He first sent the servant away, saying that he would be there on time, then looked at the servant and asked with difficulty, "How much silver do you have left?"

The servant boy calculated the expenses of the past few days in his mind and answered carefully, "Master, we only have less than 10,000 taels of silver."

Ten thousand taels is an astronomical figure that is difficult for ordinary people to earn in a lifetime, but now it seems like a drop in the bucket.

But he knew that before coming, in order to help He Qigong to establish connections, in addition to treasures, he brought a total of 100,000 taels of silver notes!

And these one hundred thousand taels of silver notes were barely enough for food and entertainment for a few days!
He Qigong sat in front of the window and couldn't help but sigh softly. Before coming to Tianjing, the worst outcome he had thought of was that the Zhou family would not let him in at all and would not accept his expensive gifts.

But the fact is just the opposite.

Zhou Tieyi was much easier to talk to than imagined, and he was even more extravagant than rumored, so much so that his family was destitute just from spending money on food. Moreover, he had not yet figured out Zhou Tieyi's lifeblood and was not truly accepted by him.

Should he confront Zhou Tieyi directly? Send him a generous gift? Would it make him seem too eager?
While He Qigong was struggling, Zhou Tieyi heard the report from his servant and chuckled.

He Qigong came here, he must want to give gifts.

However, there is a process for gift-giving. Giving gifts directly at someone's door is too low-level. The people above are afraid of leaving a handle, and the people below are afraid that the people above will not accept them.

Zhou Tieyi and He Qigong are facing this problem now.

The easiest way for both sides to test each other is to eat and drink a lot.

In feudal society, there was no way to effectively curb bribery involving food and drink.

Although the "Daxia Tianxian" clearly defined the three meals a day standards for officials when they were on duty, it did not specify the three meals a day standards for officials when they were on leave.

Even the standards for three meals a day during official business are not strict standards in most cases, but just suggestions.

Therefore, it is difficult to define bribery in this era just by eating and drinking lavishly.

Even in a modern society ruled by law, it takes a lot of effort to punish people who eat and drink on public funds, but there are still ways to get around it.

Now that the money has been spent, it is to make He Qigong feel at ease.

But we also need to make He Qigong understand that in a place like Tianjing, if you really want to spend money, your He family is not qualified and can't even afford the food money. You'd better not bring out those expensive gifts to embarrass yourself.

Zhou Tieyi did not let his servants urge He Qigong. Compared to this chess piece that could be thrown away after use, there was something more important at hand!

Zhou Tieyi looked at the desk and read the Tianjing News.

The final issue has finally been finalized.

He read it carefully, took out a pen and drew a circle on it.

On May 1st, summer cicadas break out of the soil and chirp incessantly.

When the sky was just getting light, the three thousand people in the Printing Bureau of the Imperial Household Department had already been working hard for half the night.

"Be careful! If anything happens to these newspapers, watch out for your heads!"

The eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department spoke in shrill voices and watched every step.

Everyone kept quiet and tried to do their best.

Because what the overseeing eunuchs said about losing heads is real, and no one will be spared!

Feng Zikuan and Zhou Tieyi sat in the main hall, staring at the busy printing office.

Feng Zikuan's expression was even more serious than Zhou Tieyi's.

Because this first edition of the newspaper was extremely important, the Printing Bureau had suspended other work three days ago and put all its energy into preparing 300,000 copies of the newspaper.

"Go, get two printed newspapers. General Zhou and I need to review them."

Feng Zikuan instructed his godson.

Soon the newspapers were brought over. The young eunuch wanted to hand one to Feng Zikuan first, but he heard Feng Zikuan snort coldly, "It's been so long and you still can't do anything. We are just supervising!"

The young eunuch quickly confessed his crime and handed a newspaper to Zhou Tieyi. Zhou Tieyi smiled silently and picked up the "Tianjing News" which he had read several times.

Compared to the manuscript delivered to me, the printed newspaper paper is slightly yellowed, thinner, and has a pungent smell of ink. This is to reduce costs. Apart from that, the content is naturally exactly the same as the manuscript, and the printed font is neat and clear.

Feng Zikuan also took a newspaper from the young eunuch, but his eyes were always on Zhou Tieyi.

"good."

Zhou Tieyi nodded and made the decision.

Feng Zikuan smiled and said, "If they can satisfy General Zhou, then their work these days will not be in vain."

Zhou Tieyi smiled. This was to win credit for the people below him. However, he did not dislike this matter. Instead, he talked about another matter, "I heard that Confucianism and Legalism also published a newspaper?"

There is no wall that is impenetrable, especially when it comes to running a newspaper, which requires manpower.

The smile on Feng Zikuan's face faded. He was of course dissatisfied with the Confucianists and Legalists following the Tianjing News in publishing a newspaper.

However, the Ministry of Education already had the power to review and publish books, and now that the Minister of Education Tang Anshi was a Confucian, it was reasonable for them to publish their own newspaper. After all, the "Daxia Tianxian" did not stipulate that the publication rights of all newspapers could only be carried out through the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The novelist's "World Affairs" was published before the "Tianjing Daily".

Feng Zikuan thought about it, and suddenly asked with a smile, "Since General Zhou Qi already knows about it, he must have prepared a response strategy."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "What kind of response strategy can I have? This newspaper is meant to open up the channels for people to express their opinions. In my opinion, it is a good thing that the Confucianists and Legalists want to publish one. If the Mohists, the Agriculturalists... and even all the other schools of thought publish newspapers in the future, that would be a great thing."

Feng Zikuan kept his eyes on Zhou Tieyi's expression. He thought he had the ability to judge people and could at least tell whether the other person was telling the truth or a lie in person.

But he was really confused by what Zhou Tieyi said.

If all the philosophers wanted to publish newspapers, how many copies would they need?
Can people in the world understand this?

Isn’t Zhou Tieyi afraid that the power of speech that he has tried so hard to seize will be divided away by the various schools of thought?
Or does he have some other plan that I don't know about?

Confusions arose in Feng Zikuan's mind. He looked at Zhou Tieyi's expression again and again. The only thing he could tell was that Zhou Tieyi was not lying when he said this.

A traitor appears loyal.

Feng Zikuan sighed in his heart.

Horse-drawn carriages loaded with newspapers drove out of the printing house and headed for the mountains and four cities of Tianjing. They then passed through thirty-six novelist storytelling houses and hundreds of large shops, and were sold to tens of millions of people.

At the same time, several large bookstores in Suzaku City were also busy.

Dong Xiu De took a printed newspaper from the servant.

The name of this newspaper is also very simple.

"Awakening Newspaper".

Originally, Dong Xiu De was planning to name the newspaper "Confucian Legalist Newspaper".

Confucianism comes before law, but this name was strongly opposed by Qingkong Ming.

After much discussion, the name "Xingshi Bao" was finally decided.

Dong Xiu De carefully read the "Xing Shi Bao" again. Every article in it was written by great figures of Confucianism and Legalism, and every word was precious.

If it were printed as an ordinary book, it would have to sell for at least ten taels of silver.

However, for the sake of the greater good, these masters of Confucianism and Legalism did not ask for any commission this time. They can be regarded as moral role models and deserve the title of awakening the world.

After reading his own newspaper, Dong Xiu De smiled confidently at Qing Kong Ming and said, "Such a moral article cannot be compared with the words of those merchants. If people in the world have eyes, they will naturally be able to tell the difference!"

Zhou Tieyi's newspaper has multiple pages, but before it is published, the only one Dong Xiu De can be sure of is the "Business" page, because this page requires communication with the Chamber of Commerce and filling in real-time buying and selling demand information, which cannot be hidden from others.

And how can businessmen be compared with Confucianists and Legalists in terms of writing!

Horse-drawn carriages also carried newspapers to various places in Tianjing.

The sun rises, and the golden sunlight shines through the glazed tiles.

As usual, all the officials handed the memorials to the eunuchs, and then waited for the three courts to review them before submitting them.

Today Cheng'en Hall is quieter than usual.

The three officials all seemed to have something on their minds and were busy reviewing memorials. They did not chat as usual, which greatly sped up the process. Before the hour of Chen was over, the three officials had already finished reviewing today's memorials.

After a moment of silence, Dong Xingshu took the lead and said to the palace servants, "Go outside and buy three copies of Tianjing Newspaper and three copies of Awakening Newspaper and bring them in."

After a cup of tea, the palace maid came in with six newspapers.

Although he knew that Yuchi Pojun had been won over by Zhou Tieyi on the newspaper matter.

But winning them over doesn’t mean that we can’t win them back.

As long as the "Xingshi Newspaper" can surpass the "Tianjing Newspaper", or even tie them, Dong Xingshu will have a way to win over Yuchi Pojun, so he did not give Yuchi Pojun a cold shoulder and handed two newspapers, one copy each, to Yuchi Pojun to let him see their quality.

Dong Xingshu and Qing Konggui had already passed the manuscript of "Awakening News" through their son, and they acquiesced.

And now, taking another look at it, it was just to confirm the printing effect. Except for the paper and ink, which were slightly worse, everything else was good. Qingkong Gui and Dong Xingshu looked up at the same time, looked at each other, and nodded slightly.

Then they picked up the copy of Tianjing News. The paper and ink used to print this copy were obviously worse, which made Si Min and Si Lu, who were used to using good paper and ink, feel a little uncomfortable.

But what made them even more uncomfortable was the entire newspaper's writing style!

The first thing they saw was the first edition of "Oracle", the first article "Experiences in Growing Flowers".

Although there was no name on it, both of them knew it was written by the Queen.

They are still very cautious about the articles written by the Queen.

But when Qingkong Gui and Dong Xingshu read the entire article word by word and looked up at each other, they saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

Was this written by the Queen?

They read it again carefully, just like the emperor had read Zhou Tieyi's poem before.

But after reading it, instead of being amazed or surprised, I felt puzzled and even a little contemptuous.

This article is not even as good as that of an eight-year-old child.

They both commented in their minds at the same time.

There is no allusion in the whole text, and the straightforward writing style is even worse than that of a novelist's novel...

"Could it be that the Queen hired someone to write for her?"

Qingkong Gui said this subconsciously in a low voice, but after he finished speaking, he shook his head to deny it. With the Queen's ability, even if she found someone to write it for her, the article should not be written like this.

Then there is only one reason left, Zhou Tieyi and the Queen did it on purpose!

With some confusion, the two continued to look at the next edition.

This version is the "Zou Shu".

This version is much more normal, at least the words and sentences above are all written language.

Memorials are all submitted to the imperial court and naturally cannot be easily changed.

However, the above memorials were mainly submitted by Chang Sundan, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice.

Both of them were the first readers of Chang Sun Dan's recent memorial.

But when they looked at it at that time, they only saw that the Zhou family wanted to check themselves.

But now when they saw it in the newspaper again, they suddenly read another layer of meaning.

The iron-faced and impartial Chang Sun Dan!
Zhou Tieyi wants to shape Chang Sun Dan into Qingchen!

Thinking of this, Dong Xingshu snorted coldly, "If this is what he meant by clearing away the dark clouds that cover the sun, then it is nothing more than that, a man who is just seeking fame and integrity! We are here and will not let him succeed!"

Then the two continued to flip through the pages, and when they came to the third edition of military affairs, they saw the article in which Yuchi Pojun was left out. They were not surprised, but they read the entire article.

The two of them immediately found the key.

That is, the writing style of these three articles is the same as that of Tianhou's "Experiences in Growing Flowers", or even slightly inferior to that of Tianhou. They all use the most straightforward spoken language to make one thing clear.

The two couldn't help but look at Yuchi Pojun.

Even if this old guy is not good at writing, why did he regress so much today?

"Did you write this?"

Dong Xingshu asked directly, his tone naturally mixed with contempt.

Yuchi Pojun was also reading the newspaper. When he heard the question, he looked up and snorted, "I have never been good at writing."

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