marquis of jingan

Chapter 172 Shaking people!
For Shen Yi, the biggest difficulty in compiling a newspaper is that he has to write a lot of words. After all, when he was studying in the academy, an article on literary policy was about five, six hundred, seven, and eight hundred words. Why don't newspapers have [-] to [-] words? The workload is really not small. Even if the conception stage is excluded, copying [-] to [-] words is still a lot of work.

It took Shen Yi two or three days to formally finalize the draft, and then spent a few more days copying it, and finally finished the first draft and sent it to Zhao Shilang's residence.

Although Zhao Shilang was entangled in the affairs of the household department, he agreed to Shen Yi after all, so he took the time to meet with Shen Yi and carefully read the manuscript that Shen Yi had spent nearly seven days writing.

After roughly reading it, Zhao Shilang put the manuscript aside, frowned slightly and said: "The content is novel, but the number of words is a bit too much. If it is used to print the mansion newspaper, it will take dozens of craftsmen to carve and half a block. More than a month is too time-consuming and laborious.”

The Dibao of the past is not the same as the Dibao of later generations.

The former residence newspapers had concise sentences. For example, the soaring food price in Jiangdu last year, if written in the residence newspaper, should be only a few short sentences.

In April, the Ministry of Households expropriated rice to Jiangdu, and the price of grain in Jiangdu rose sharply. In May, imperial envoys were sent to interrogate and punish more than a dozen grain merchants, and the price of rice was flattened.

As for the things written by Shen Yi, although they are not in the vernacular, because there are too many contents described, there are seven or eight thousand words in total, so it is difficult to print them.

Shen Yi had already thought of this, he bowed his head to Zhao Shilang and said: "Master, my nephew once asked in Dongshi Street that several big book printing shops in Dongshi Street already have movable type, although it is not as good as engraving. It’s too cheap, but it won’t be a problem to print an issue in ten days and half a month, and the imperial court will promote it, and this thing can sell at least [-] copies, and the cost will not be too high.”

"Besides..."

Shen Yi lowered his head slightly and said: "Besides, if this thing can become the mouthpiece of the court, it will become another sharp weapon of the court, even surpassing the Huaihe navy. How much money will the court spend on the Huaihe navy in a year? Money is insignificant in this mansion newspaper."

Zhao Shilang frowned slightly, he looked at his junior, and said slowly: "Speak as you speak, don't mention the Huaihe Navy Master, if people listen to it, maybe something will happen."

"You will be an official in the future."

Zhao Shilang said earnestly: "The most important thing to be an official is to keep your mouth shut, manage your hands well, don't say what you shouldn't say, don't do what you shouldn't do."

"In this way, we can go further in the court."

Now that Shen Yi has come into contact with the emperor, and the emperor has given him an errand, it means that even if the examination goes badly in the future, there is a high probability that Shen Yi will enter the imperial court and become an official.

Therefore, Zhao Changping taught this junior in this way.

As for the Huaihe Navy...

In the past 60 years, after that General Zhao led the Huaihe Navy to repel the Northern Qi army, the Zhao family's generals and the Huaihe Navy have become an unshakable existence of the Dachen Army.

For example, Mr. Zhao, the general of the Zhao family, was even able to openly challenge Zhang Jian, the family member of the family, which showed the status of the Zhao family in the court.

The Huaihe Navy already has some suspicions that it is too big to lose, so it is quite sensitive in the court. Zhao Shilang, the court bigwigs, will not mention the Huaihe Navy in a leisurely manner.

Shen Yi bowed his head and said: "My uncle taught me, my nephew has memorized it."

Zhao Shilang nodded: "There is nothing wrong with your manuscript. You can send it to the palace after you correct it yourself, but remember one thing."

Zhao Shilang said slowly: "If someone in the palace asks if you have shown it to me, remember not to deny it, but you should be more tactful in your words. If you want to say that I checked for mistakes and omissions for you, you can't tell the palace. I checked the content for you, understand?"

Troubleshooting and auditing, it sounds like there is no difference.

But when it comes to the emperor, it's very different.

The error checking is just to help Shen Yi check if there are any mistakes or omissions, and if it is to review the content in advance...

This is an errand entrusted by the emperor. The emperor himself has not tried it yet, but you, a servant of the household department, have tried it for the emperor first?
Shen Yi's mind is clear, so he can naturally understand the difference. He nodded quickly and said: "My nephew will keep the words of the uncle in mind."

"Ah."

Zhao Shilang waved his hand: "Let's go."

"Your teacher sent another letter yesterday, asking me to tell you that although you must do your best to do an errand for His Majesty, after completing this errand, you still have to focus on your studies, pass the mid-term exam, and be named on the gold list in the future." , is your right path."

"Young people are most likely to be fascinated by the utilitarianism in front of them. You must never lose sight of the basics."

Shen Yi cupped his hands again: "Thank you teacher, uncle for your teaching."

After Shen Yi bowed his head to express his thanks, he took his manuscript and left Zhao Shilang's mansion. Because it was getting late, Shen Yi was not in a hurry to submit the manuscript to the palace, but went home to sleep first.

In the early morning of the next day, Mr. Shen took the manuscript and was going to find a place where the inner guards were stationed, and handed in the manuscript in his hand. After he walked out of the alley, he first found a breakfast stall on the side of the road and sat down. A bowl of noodle soup, ready for breakfast.

As soon as he sat down at the breakfast booth, he heard two Jiankang locals chatting next to him.

"Yesterday afternoon, the barbarians from the north came to another mission. I heard that they did not enter the city, but were still stationed outside the city. The scale was much larger than last time. Qian Laosi, who worked outside the city in Fuchun Hutong, said, There must be at least 300 people."

The other person was eating rice cakes. After hearing this, he took a bite of the cakes and said, "Didn't the barbarians come here last year? They left after hearing that they sent a princess. Why are you here again this year?"

"do not know."

The person before said with a smile: "It must be that Princess Hu has been left alone in the capital for half a year. The Emperor Hu is in a hurry, so he sent someone to ask, it may be..."

The man lowered his voice, looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "I heard that some time ago, in Dongshi Street, someone belittled that Hu Ren princess in the teahouse on Dongshi Street. Few people saw with their own eyes that she was surrounded by a group of barbarians, her hair was all wet, she kept her head down, and she was wearing a coat to wrap herself tightly..."

"This appearance is obviously taking advantage of others."

This person is obviously a good person, and he said excitedly when he said this: "If it is true that someone from our Dachen bullied this barbarian princess, it will be regarded as a bad breath to the country."

The other person wanted to be more upright, frowned and said: "You can't say that, no matter what, it's not the behavior of a gentleman to belittle a weak woman."

"That's what I said, I didn't say what kind of gentleman that person is. Ten days have passed, and I haven't heard of anyone arrested by the Jiankang Mansion for questioning. This frivolous thing doesn't seem to be true..."

He bowed his head and sipped a few mouthfuls of cake soup, and said vaguely: "But now the people of Qi are here again, maybe it's because of this incident..."

Shen Yi was sitting next to him. After hearing this, he was also a little worried. Could it be that the Northern Qi princess came from her hometown to make trouble for him...

Thinking of this, Shen Yi hurriedly got up, paid for breakfast, took his manuscript, and ran all the way to find the inner guard to hand in the manuscript.

(End of this chapter)