Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 403 Encouraging to Run a Newspaper
Fan Ning brought Zhu Pei to Zhu Yuanfeng's residence in the afternoon, and Zhu Yuanfeng's eldest son, Zhu Xiaojun, received them. Zhu Xiaojun was very similar to Fan Ning's second uncle, Fan Tiege. He was about forty years old. There was shrewd look in the small eyes.

Of the three brothers of the Zhu family, Fan Ning actually prefers the Zhu Yuanfeng family, and they basically get along very well. Although Zhu Yuanfeng's three sons and one daughter have not entered official positions, they are even more cordial.

Needless to say, Zhu Yuanjun has already broken up with his elder brother and third younger brother. Zhu Yuanfu himself is good, but his eldest son, Fan Ning’s father-in-law Zhu Xiaoyun, has a relatively cold personality and can’t be said to be happy with him. As for the other children, except for Zhu Yuanfu’s second son, he is not bad. In addition, the other three and four sons are all ineffective, and they are still worried about Zhu Pei's dowry.

But Zhu Yuanfeng's sons are all very good, and their grandchildren are more united. This is the main reason why Fan Ning would rather live in Zhu Yuanfeng's residence than his father-in-law's when he came back from Kunzhou.

"It's not easy to meet fourth uncle today!" Zhu Pei said with a smile.

Zhu Xiaojun ranks fourth among Zhu's brothers. Zhu Pei always calls him fourth uncle. As for Zhu Pei's relative fourth uncle, Zhu Pei calls him younger fourth uncle. It is obvious that Zhu Xiaojun's relationship is closer.

Zhu Xiaojun laughed and said: "Today is a ten-day holiday, and your third grandfather said that someone will invite you to dinner later, but I didn't expect you to come by yourself."

Zhu Pei curled his lips, "It's not sincere, we only said this when we came here, ignore the fourth uncle, is the third grandpa here?"

"It's in the back house!"

Zhu Xiaojun greeted Fan Ning again, and said with a smile: "It was Ah Ning who brought down Liu Yun!"

Although the Liu family is family friends with the Zhu family, the relationship with Zhu Yuanfeng has always been bad. It is also because the Liu family looked down on Zhu Yuanfeng who was a concubine. As for Zhu Xiaojun, he was discriminated against by Liu Yun since he was a child. When Zhu Xiaojun learned that Liu Yun was demoted, he immediately let out a bad breath.

Fan Ning laughed and said, "Fourth Uncle thinks too highly of me. I have something to do with bringing down Xue Zongru and Liu Qin, but demoting Liu Yun was an accidental arrangement of the emperor. To be honest, it was beyond my expectation. He should have done it long ago. The matter has fallen into the hands of the emperor, and Zhang Yaozuo is likely to be involved, so the emperor has been holding back, and this incident of Xue Zongru has given the emperor an opportunity to demote him."

Fan Ning knew very well in his heart that the Minister of the Ministry of Officials was already called a half-prime minister, and he was only one step away from the minister. Although the incident of Ouyang Xiu was bad, it could not reach the level of severely punishing the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. , it is far from his turn to demote him.

This shows that the emperor wanted to touch Liu Yun a long time ago, and was extremely dissatisfied with him, but Liu Yun was Zhang Yaozuo's confidant, and promoted a large number of Zhang Yaozuo's subordinates. Liu Yun, it can only be said that the emperor can't bear it.

Zhu Xiaojun nodded, "Aning still sees it clearly, let's go inside! Your third grandpa is waiting!"

The two walked into the atrium, and saw their sister-in-law Zhu Jie sitting in the courtyard with the old man to enjoy the shade, Zhu Pei was holding the old man's arm and acting like a spoiled child, but Zhu Yuanfeng was scolding her.

"You little girl who is only thinking about her husband and son-in-law, you have caused me to have no boy to make tea. I asked why the taste of the tea was wrong in the past two days. I only found out that you took Xiaowen away. You said What to do!"

"Hee hee! I still don't understand what the third grandpa is thinking? We don't have much dragon tea, so I'll give you three catties at most."

"Three catties is too little, at least five catties!"

"It's only three catties. If you don't do it, I'll return Xiaowen to you."

"Don't! Don't! I don't want that brat, just give me three catties!"

Everyone laughed dumbfounded, Zhu Yuanfeng asked Zhu Pei for tea in a different way!

Fan Ning said with a smile: "I heard from the grandpa that the Fuzhou tea farm is about to produce dragon tea, and there will be a source of it in the future."

Zhu Yuanfeng shook his head and said: "The dragon tea grown in Zhu's tea farm is not old enough, it is a little worse than the dragon tea in the palace, it can only be called half dragon and half phoenix tea, of course it is already very good, but it is still your dragon tea To hook my tea addiction, tell me the truth, how much dragon tea do you have?"

Fan Ning scratched his head and said, "You old man, please let me go! I can't bear to drink that dragon tea myself."

"Ha! It means there are quite a few more. I'll trade it with you. How about ten catties of half dragon and half phoenix tea for you for one catty of dragon tea?"

"Then let's change to three catties first!"

"Wait a minute! How do I feel that I have suffered a lot."

Everyone laughed together, didn't Zhu Yuanfeng suffer?Just now Zhu Pei agreed to give him three catties of dragon tea. "

"Your three catties of dragon tea has nothing to do with what Ape gave me, it's something else, that is, you have to give me six catties."

Fan Ning nodded, "Then six catties!"

Zhu Yuanfeng suddenly burst into a smile, how could he be at a disadvantage, sooner or later he would have to exchange all the dragon tea in Fan Ning's hand.

Several servants sent some chairs, and Zhu Pei knew that her husband had something to discuss with the third grandfather, so she took her sister-in-law to the back house.

Fan Ning sat down in the yard, and someone brought hot tea. Although the weather was relatively hot, the literati and bureaucrats still did not want to drink a big bowl of herbal tea to relieve the heat like the hardworking people at the bottom.

"A-Ning is here on business today!"

Fan Ning pondered for a moment and asked, "I wonder what the third grandfather thinks of "Chao Pao" and "Tab Pao"?"

"Are you asking for my personal opinion?"

Fan Ning nodded, Zhu Yuanfeng thought for a while and said, "From a commercial point of view, these two newspapers are not good investments. As far as I know, "Chaobao" has been losing money, relying on the profits of "Taboli" to make money." To make up, secondly, the waters of running a newspaper are relatively deep, not every businessman can run a newspaper, although the speaker is innocent, if they really offend the court dignitaries, they can use other businesses to punish people.”

"Third grandfather investigated the newspaper, did he also have such an idea?"

Zhu Xiaojun next to him smiled and said: "We also considered running a newspaper ten years ago. I was still in charge of running this matter. I bought several printing houses and recruited some active editors. Basically, everything was ready, but the imperial court was still in charge. It was not approved, and after we lost more than 1 yuan, we finally let it go."

Zhu Yuanfeng sighed: "This is the problem. If you are not ready, you will not be able to apply to the court, but if the court does not approve it, then the previous preparations will be in vain and the loss will be heavy. Many people who want to run a newspaper are for this reason. , and finally had to give up.”

Fan Ning knew this condition. To start a newspaper, you first need to apply to the local government. If you want to run a newspaper like entertainment news, it is easier to get approval. No need to report to Zhizhengtang again.

But if it involves newspapers related to government affairs, it will be more strict. After the remonstrance court has passed the review, it must be discussed and approved by the Zhizhengtang. This is the most difficult thing.

Fan Ning pondered for a while and asked again: "The application was unsuccessful ten years ago, where did it get stuck?"

Zhu Yuanfeng glanced at Fan Ning, ten years ago it was Zhu Yuanjun who became the Right Advisory Doctor, and it was stuck in his hands.

Fan Ning asked again: "If the Zhu family still wants to start an entertainment news newspaper, how sure are they of passing the local government's approval?"

Zhu Yuanfeng shook his head, "The local government never makes it difficult for newspapers to run. As far as I know, all applications for newspapers have been approved by the local government. They will not make things difficult for such things. In the end, the court refused to approve them."

Zhu Xiaojun asked cautiously: "What does Ah Ning mean, let us apply for the newspaper again?"

Fan Ning nodded, "This time around the Ouyang Xiu incident, I discovered that public opinion is terrible. They can turn white into black, manipulate public opinion, and completely destroy a person's reputation in the shortest time, but public opinion can also turn black into black." It’s painted in white, I don’t want to use public opinion to deal with someone, but at least I have the ability to protect myself at critical moments, and I happen to be in charge of the court, if the Zhu family runs an entertainment news newspaper, I can approve it.”

Zhu Xiaojun is also a little tempted. The failure of running a newspaper last time has always made him sad, but this time is indeed an opportunity. Fan Ning will be appointed as Zhijian Yuan. It would be a pity not to take advantage of this opportunity.

He also persuaded his father: "Father, if it doesn't involve government affairs, it shouldn't be a big problem. I think this is really an opportunity. Besides, we still have five printing houses, which have never been dead. If we publish newspapers, they will be wiped out. "

Of course Zhu Yuanfeng knew the risks involved, he pondered for a long time and said, "What does Ah Ning mean to use the power of the newspaper at the critical moment?"

This is a key issue. If Fan Ning attacks his opponents with newspapers at every turn, the Zhu family will not be able to afford it.

Fan Ning nodded, "I will not embarrass the Zhu family!"

Zhu Yuanfeng thought about it for a long time, and finally agreed, "If it doesn't involve government affairs, I can give it a try."

(End of this chapter)