Rebirth of the Powerful

Chapter 81 The Uncrowned King

The man walked up to him and shouted from afar, smiling: "Xiao Luo, come here, let Uncle Wang pinch it!"

As he spoke, he walked to his side, struck out with both hands, worked from left to right, and pinched his face severely.

Xia Xiaoluo suddenly remembered that this person was one of his father's few close friends——Wang Dongping, editor-in-chief of Luoshui Daily.

This person and Xia Jindong met through literature. He was originally the editor of the supplement of the County Daily. His father liked to write prose, poetry, and historical reviews for the editorial department of the supplement. They drank tea and played chess together, and became close friends.

However, in the past two years, Wang Dongping's literary talents have been outstanding. From the editor of the supplement to the editor-in-chief, he was promoted to the editor-in-chief within two years, and began to write official articles. He has become more and more busy, and the number of times he looks for Xia Jindong has become less, but The relationship between the two has never faded.

It can be said that the tea is not cold when people walk.

As for his later development, Xia Xiaoluo also had a slight impression. At the end of the 90s, he seemed to resign and went to China's leading portal website, and finally took the post of editor-in-chief.

Xia Xiaoluo smiled and said, "Uncle, you still pinch me even at this age!"

Wang Dongping said: "Hey, brat, you chased me every day when you were young and let me pinch you!" He patted Xia Xiaoluo on the head and said, "Where's your father? I'll find him for tea!"

Xia Xiaoluo went upstairs with him, and when he knocked on the door, Xia Jindong was sitting in the room waiting for him.

Xia Xiaoluo looked at a few people in overalls who were busy setting up their phones, and thought to himself, as expected, the difference is immediately apparent.

Wang Dongping praised with a happy smile: "Oh, Lao Xia, look at this official promotion, all kinds of good things have come, the phone has been installed, and the refrigerator has been replaced with a larger one!"

Xia Jindong smiled and said, "Well, don't bury me! You bought everything two years ago."

Wang Dongping said: "No nonsense, let's go, go drink!"

Xu Xiaoman immediately came out from the back room, sullenly said: "Drinking again!"

Since Xia Jindong was promoted to the deputy director of the Health Bureau, there have been many things to welcome and send, and there are many things to drink and eat with the leaders of all parties.

In the first few times, I still enjoyed it, but later I found that the eating and drinking in the officialdom was really torture. I got drunk every day, and I had to vomit after going home and then drink some porridge, and I suffered a lot.

"Oh, sister-in-law, slap your mouth! We don't drink alcohol today, drink tea! How about we go to the newly opened Luomingyuan teahouse!" Wang Dongping hurriedly apologized, and slapped his face a few times, "So, today we take Xia Xiaoluo, let him follow and supervise, and resolutely don't drink!"

Only then did Xu Xiaoman give him a smiling face.

The three rode their bicycles straight to the "Luomingyuan Tea House".

The decoration of Luomingyuan Tea House is exquisite, with a touch of antique flavor. Chinese paintings, wood carvings, rockery, bonsai and other things are installed, which seems to have a bit of cultural atmosphere.

It was considered a relatively advanced leisure place at that time.

Wang Dongping was obviously a frequent visitor here, the waiter guided him to a box called "Luoshui Pavilion", and the three of them sat down.

Before Wang Dongping could sit still, he said, "Jindong, I'm going to go into the sea!"

Xia Jindong almost spit out his mouth, and said: "Stop making international jokes, you are not suitable! Besides, you are now the editor-in-chief of Luoshui Daily! This is a party newspaper. In two years you will be The Minister of Propaganda, how many people have sharpened their heads and wanted to get into this position. You finally got it, are you willing?"

Wang Dongping looked gloomy, and said: "Fuck! Jindong, you think I'm so happy to be the editor-in-chief!" He unknowingly scolded a dirty word, which was not suitable for his status as a cultural person, and he looked at Xiao Xia apologetically. Luo glanced.

Xia Xiaoluo ate some snacks and said, "It's okay, you guys talk about your own."

Wang Dongping continued: "Grass! Do you know the Near East? I am also a poor child from the countryside. Do you know what my greatest ideal was when I was a child? I envy the chefs in our commune the most. Back then they ate big pots of rice! Why? ?Because he doesn't bask in the sun, isn't tired, and can still eat enough. When eating, everyone wants to look at his face. Now think about it, don't mention how ridiculous it is."

He took a sip of tea and said: "I can have today. According to people in our village, it is because of the smoke from the ancestral graves! I cherish it. Besides, everyone says that doing party affairs and publicity is getting closer to the leaders." , Maybe I will be the secretary general of the county party committee soon."

Xia Jindong took out a pack of cigarettes, gave Wang Dongping one, and lit it for him.

Wang Dongping took a deep puff of the cigarette between his fingers, and vomited it out, as if vomiting out countless stagnation.

He supported his head with his right hand holding the cigarette, and said painfully: "But, if you are not in this position, you don't know the pain in this position! You thought that the reporter was the uncrowned king, but now you understand that the reporter is a fucking whore! Let any leader do it! And it's your brain, ###your brain!"

Xia Jindong smiled indifferently: "Dude, don't be so exaggerated!"

"Hey, it's true. Now that I think about it, I'm happy when I'm the fucking editor-in-chief but not the editor of the supplement. To be honest, someone will give you a reward for being the editor-in-chief! What do you do when you're an official? It's about face, except for getting benefits. , but also to satisfy vanity, euphemistically called spiritual civilization, all the towns below have assignments to publish articles, and they all want to show their faces, and any town that wants to make a special topic has to offer me cigarettes and wine! But, it’s also annoying!"

He took a puff of cigarette viciously, exhaled a large smoke ring, and said, "You don't know, how many of my manuscripts have been killed by the leaders! Am I the editor-in-chief!? I am not, he is Lu Junchao! Just take Today, a farmer entrepreneur in Donglin Township bought a case of Moutai in a department store and gave it to a customer. I, a big customer, have seen everything. Once I drank it, it was a fake! The business was lost. This matter It’s not the first time, I’ve drunk people to death before! Call our newspaper office to complain, I’ll definitely have to check it out, it’s from the fake village of Dongji in your township! I wrote a manuscript, It was posted on the same day. But Lu Junchao called me the next day and scolded me bloody, asking me if I still want to do something else!"

Xia Jindong and Xia Xiaoluo looked at each other, then turned to Wang Dongping and said, "Brother, you don't know that Dongji is a fake village built by Lu Junchao, right?"

Wang Dongping said angrily: "I don't know? How big is Luoshui County? What kind of news can get out of my ears? I just know that I want to poke this hornet's nest! You can fake it, but you have to make it drinkable, I can’t stand it if I’m drunk to death, human life is at stake, if people are doing it, the sky is watching, is there any justice in this world?”

Xia Jindong laughed and said, "You, the uncrowned king, are sometimes suffocated to death!"

Wang Dongping said: "I'm an uncrowned king of the ball. It's not over yet. In the afternoon, the Propaganda Department came to the newspaper office in person and asked us to support Dong Ji's work, saying that Dong Ji is our big profit and tax family. You say I’m still an uncrowned king, but I’m just a little eunuch, and I can’t even handle a fake village.”

He deliberately said the last sentence in a hoarse voice like a male duck's voice, very much like an eunuch in a palace drama in the Qing Dynasty, which made Xia Jindong burst out laughing.

Xia Jindong said: "I don't think Luoshui County is even capitalistic now, it's aristocratic capitalism, where power and money are seamlessly combined!"

Wang Dongping said dejectedly: "Yes, you can see that there are three-story small western-style buildings everywhere in Dongji. It's okay, and the provincial leaders come to visit. They say it's a model of collective economy. It's really dark humor. There are blood and tears under the neon lights. Behind the high-rise buildings There are shadows!"

Xia Jindong didn't speak, and the atmosphere changed from laughing and cursing to extremely dull.

Wang Dongping said: "With our roles, I don't want to play with them anymore. When I fight with them, it's hitting an egg against a rock, no, it's hitting an egg against the earth, and the opponent's backstage is my boss! Or say , I just fight my boss, how can I beat them?"

Xia Jindong said: "Hey, you've got a big temper after becoming the editor-in-chief! You, you are not suitable for doing business just because of your business spirit."

Xia Jindong knew Wang Dongping as much as he wanted to know himself.

Wang Dongping said: "Hey, now is the tide of the commodity economy, everything is centered on economic construction, what is centered on economic construction, is centered on making money. As long as I go to sea, I will be considered to be integrated into the social trend! We are also After graduating from university, he must have a better brain than Dong Jiuxing, right? Isn’t he thick-faced and dark-hearted? Why can't we make a lot of money!"

Xia Jindong smiled, didn't say anything, and said in his heart, I'm afraid you can't be so thick-faced and dark-hearted.

From what he said just now, it is not known whether Wang Dongping really resigned and went to sea, but his resentment towards the system is very obvious.

Xia Xiaoluo suddenly remembered something. "Oriental Weekend" was founded in this year. This newspaper is famous for its outspokenness and courage. basic idea.

By the 21st century, "Oriental Weekend" has developed into a serious and credible newspaper in China. It is the weekly news newspaper with the largest circulation in China, covering all major and medium-sized cities across the country. The circulation of each issue is stable at more than 200 million copies. The core readership is Knowledgeable readers.

In the future, the Oriental News Department is known as the Whampoa Military Academy of Huaxia Media. The various talents trained and trained here will occupy half of Huaxia Media, including newspapers, TV, Internet and other media, and will hold the discourse power of Huaxia Media. Power has become another invisible right besides the regime, and power should not be underestimated.

At this time, the newspaper is in the stage of recruitment.