Starting from crossing the Fengshen

Chapter 34
The issuance of the second issue of Minbao was like dropping a depth charge into a calm lake.

The whole Shaoxing Prefecture was boiling.

The newspaper was completely out of stock, with nearly [-] copies sold in Shaoxing City alone.

Not only that, but many businessmen from other places saw business opportunities. They went to the newspaper office one after another and asked to buy a large number of newspapers, even the first issue.

In Shaoxing, a civilian newspaper cost only two cents.

They can resell it to other places and easily get rid of it for five cents. This resale is two and a half times the profit.

You know, in Shanghai, a newspaper generally costs ten cents.

If they also sold it for ten cents, that would be five times the profit. How could they not be excited?

At the same time as they were excited, they also secretly cursed Minbao as a fool.

The price is set so cheaply, it's a total loss, and I'm afraid they won't be able to sustain it for long. They have to squeeze out as much wool as possible. If it goes bankrupt in the future, or the price increases, then they won't make any money.

Tao Chengzhang and Lu Xun were also excited.

They suddenly understood why Yin Qi insisted on setting a low price.

I guess they also hope that these businessmen can sell the people's newspapers all over the country.

This is much easier than building their own channels.

Anyway, for them, it doesn't matter whether they make money or not, and it doesn't matter whether they lose money. The key is to promote people's newspapers and inspire people's wisdom, so that they can find more like-minded people.

In the next five days, Minbao continued to publish one issue per day.

Sales are also rising.

The entire Shaoxing Prefecture maintained around [-] copies, but the number for export increased to [-] copies on the fifth day.

Fortunately, they all have manuscripts saved so that they can support one issue every day.

However, Tao Chengzhang also posted a call for papers.

I believe that after a month, the newspaper will be on track and they won't need to write articles day and night.

In five days, Ximen Yaochuixue, Tao'ershanren, and Lu Xun became popular celebrities. Ximen Yaochuixue, in particular, was sought after by young people and was revered as a pioneer in the new era.

Five days later, democratic newspapers appeared in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai and other places.

It also caused a great stir.

Liang Qichao, the chief writer of Shanghai's "Current News", was shocked and even more delighted after reading several issues of the People's Daily. He seemed to see a ray of light appearing before the dark dawn.

"Min Bao is truly a pioneer of the times!"

Immediately, he announced in the "Current News" that all articles must be in vernacular to support the New Culture Movement launched by Minbao. At the same time, he telegraphed Tianjin and asked Tianjin to pass it on to Kang Youwei's people in Beijing.

On the same day, Kang Youwei and others received a telegram from Liang Qichao, and they were also pleasantly surprised. They felt that the New Culture Movement could be included within the scope of the reform.

So under their instructions, reform societies in various places supported the New Culture Movement, and newspapers adopted vernacular.

In this way, the New Culture Movement swept across China with a raging fire.

The New Culture Movement came so fast and violently, and it had already spread throughout the country when countless people were stunned.

But how could the classics scholars in various places allow the vernacular to be promoted?
They cursed at home, but no one could hear them.

Even if the boycott was announced in public, it could not match the propaganda in newspapers, so many Confucian scholars joined forces and established newspapers in various places.

They also need to master their own channels to speak out and confront the New Culture Movement.

For a time, newspapers all over the country flourished.

.........

There were many disturbances from the outside world, but Yin Qi ignored them.

He asked Yin Hai to buy many medical books, such as the "Huangdi Neijing", "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other widely circulated medical books.

He planned to memorize all these medical books silently, and then find a famous doctor to study them.

Although the understanding has been improved to the level of genius, it is definitely not enough to master the theory of medical skills, and a lot of practice is needed. …

Shaoxing Prefecture, Jingxiong Society.

The Jingxiong Club was founded by Qiu Jin, and all its members were young women, the worst of whom were ladies from landlords' families.

It's not that the threshold is high, it's that women from ordinary families don't dare to call "feminism".

Jingxiong Club is essentially a poetry club that meets every once in a while.

Let’s discuss poetry and articles together, or exchange reading experiences.

Of course, there are also feminist insights.

The publication of the People's Daily gave them something to talk about.

……

Today is the time for the Jingxiong Club to gather again.

More than twenty young and beautiful ladies were discussing in groups of twos and threes.

Yin Shishi and a sweet-looking woman got together and had a heated discussion about a poem and article in the newspaper.

Especially poetry, they are more interested in it.

If Yin Qi were here, he would know that this woman was the one who bumped into him on the street.

Her name is Zhang Youchu, and she is Yin Shishi's best friend.

"This Ximen Kaixue is so talented, and his vernacular poetry is so mature. He must have been writing it a long time ago, but why have I never heard of this person before?"

Yin Shishi said with admiration, a hint of brilliance flashing in her beautiful eyes.

Zhang Youchu pursed his lips and smiled, nodded slowly and said, "Well, he is not only talented, but also has a passionate patriotic heart. Every time I read his patriotic poems, I feel like I can't breathe."

Yin Shishi nodded repeatedly: "Even my father said that Ximen Yaochuixue is a patriot. Our president also admires this person very much and said he really wants to meet him."

"If you can..."

Zhang Youchu stopped talking halfway through.

She also wanted to see Ximen Kaixue, but she wanted to see that person even more.

She used to be a good girl, but since joining the Jingxiong Club, she has gradually been influenced by Qiu Jin's feminist ideas and wants to become more independent.

So she went out secretly for the first time, without any maids or followers.

She wanted to try this feeling of going out independently.

But I didn't expect that I would be stopped in the street by a missionary.

He also said in a vulgar way that she was the reincarnation of an angel and that he would take her back to the church to serve God. This scared her so much that she kicked the preacher in the crotch, then turned around and ran away.

When she was about to despair, it was the man who wounded the missionary, allowing her to return home safely.

To this day, whenever she closes her eyes, those gentle jade eyes and the sunny smile on that handsome face will always appear in her mind.

Some days later, she deliberately took the maid to walk that road again, but she never met that person again.

Yin Shishi didn't pay attention to Zhang Youchu's expression because Qiu Jin came.

Qiu Jin has a beautiful face, a straight waist, and a heroic spirit.

Seeing her coming, the girls all stopped talking and looked at her with admiration in their eyes, because Qiu Jin was really outstanding, versatile in both civil and military affairs, and acted neatly.

Qiu Jin said with a smile: "Sisters, I think you all want to know Ximen Yaochuixue, Lu Xun and Tao'er Shanren. I have decided to go to the newspaper office tomorrow, hoping that the newspaper office can introduce them to us. If they agree, I will take four people to meet them, or invite them to come to our Jingxiong Club as guests."

"it is good!"

Yin Shishi and others were overjoyed and cheered.

They didn't doubt Qiu Jin's words, because she always kept her word, which was comparable to that of ordinary women.

(End of this chapter)