Outsiders look at the bustle, insiders look at the doorway.

The big people who are accustomed to intrigue in the court, if they find a new thing, their first reaction is "friend or foe", and the second reaction is "pros and cons".

The so-called "gossip newspaper" is actually a casual version of the "Di Bao", but it is not as serious as the Di Bao, and most of the content of the Di Bao is the decrees and edicts sent by the imperial court to various local governments, and each of them can be officially recorded in the history books.

The gossip newspaper is different, each of its articles is not qualified to be recorded in the history books, but there must be more people who are interested in it than those who read the Di newspaper, because every article in the gossip newspaper is not serious, and from ancient times to the present, Chinese people are very interested in spying on the privacy of others, especially celebrities, and the gossip newspaper just meets the people's unserious and secret needs.

In later generations, "no one asks in front of the general's grave, and the world knows the family affairs of the opera" is the result of the decline of morality, and in this life, Gu Qing invited the princes of the court and the folk celebrities and poets to do a play.

After 2,000 gossip newspapers were invested in Chang'an City, which has a population of one million, and it was determined that the person-to-person transmission was confirmed, the effect was really sensational, and even Gu Qing did not expect the degree of sensation.

Few people have specifically summarized this aspect of celebrity anecdotes before, even if they summarized the celebrity rhymes at that time, they were just silently recorded in a small book, just for self-entertainment, no one was as boring as Gu Qing, and actually thought of telling the public's attention about celebrities.

Two days later, Yang Guozhong found Gu Qing.

This time, Gu Qing really shocked him, but he didn't expect a young man to keep doing things without even standing firm on his feet after coming to Chang'an.

In order to find out the source of this gossip report, Yang Guozhong spent a lot of effort and sent countless people scattered in the restaurant inn in Chang'an City, and finally caught a hired street ruffian and dug out two businessmen from Qingcheng County, Shuzhou.

The clues were reported to Yang Guozhong, and Yang Guozhong immediately thought of a person.

Qingcheng County, Shuzhou, he has been more sensitive to this place recently, the last time he feasted in the garden, Yang Guifei specially called Gu Qing to introduce the two to each other, and the concubine kept calling Gu Qing as a "little fellow countryman", with an intimate tone, as if he was spoiled by his younger brother, Yang Guozhong had a deep impression of Gu Qing.

Now that he checked the so-called "gossip newspaper", and finally found two businessmen from Qingcheng County, Yang Guozhong immediately thought of Gu Qing, but what the gossip newspaper said happened to be about the garden party that day......

So Yang Guozhong ordered not to touch the two businessmen, but to visit Gu Qing in person.

Changle Fang is relatively remote, Yang Guozhong took the carriage and stopped in front of Gu Qing's house, and after the carriage stopped, he did not get off, but asked the entourage guards to knock on the door first and hand over the post.

This is the ancient rules of visiting others, the so-called "do not tell the door is for the evil guest", before visiting others, first to pay homage, say clearly the time and place of the character, the host readily agreed, the guest came to the door again, if the host has something, then make another appointment with the person who sent the post, the two sides have not yet met, the number of etiquette will be full, unlike the mobile phone of later generations, whether the owner is willing to communicate or not, the mobile phone will ring, and you can find you by hiding at the ends of the earth, this is the evil guest.

The entourage stepped forward and knocked on the door, a few times the back door opened, the entourage respectfully handed over the post, and said a few words to the people inside the door, Yang Guozhong has been observing through the curtain of the carriage, and it didn't take long for the entourage to walk back with a strange look of paper and hand it to Yang Guozhong with both hands.

Yang Guozhong took it inexplicably, opened it and saw that there was a line of extremely ugly words on it, which read, "A good person has a safe life".

"This ...... What does this mean? Yang Guozhong asked in amazement.

The attendant's cheeks twitched, and he lowered his head and said, "It means that Gu Senjun is waiting for Yang Taifu to come." ”

"You didn't tell him that the officer was in the carriage outside?"

"Got it."

"Then he also asked you to hand out a line of words, what does 'a good man have a safe life' mean? Tsk, what an ugly word. ”

The entourage said respectfully: "Gu Senjun said that the courtesy is still exchanged, Yang Taifu handed over the post, and he wanted to reply to the post, and what did he say that the reply was polite, and it was 'saving the dignity of the landlord', and the villain didn't understand what he meant." ”

Yang Guozhong stared at the line of words in his hand and pondered for a long time, his mind turned quickly, he was pondering the hidden meaning of this line of words, and after thinking about it, he couldn't guess it after all, and while secretly annoying his lack of intelligence, he had to passively think that this line of words should mean blessing.

Pushed off the carriage by his entourage, Yang Guozhong walked to the door of the Gu family's house, still thinking in his mind.

"What does it mean to save the dignity of the landlord? Could it be that the dignity of this official has been provoked? Who would dare to die like this? Or, what was written in that gossip newspaper was to save the dignity of the official after falling into the water and make the official less embarrassed, Gu Qing was revealing his kindness to me? ”

Yang Guozhong thought secretly, his face was cloudy, and his entourage stepped forward and knocked on the door.

The door opened, revealing Gu Qing's unhappy face, this kind of face appeared at the door of the house, but all the guests who were more sensitive must feel that the host's face was full of rejection, and those with a bigger temper would inevitably turn around and leave, and break off the relationship.

Fortunately, Yang Guozhong had seen Gu Qing, and he knew that Gu Qing looked like this, so he was not unhappy at all.

"Haha, Gu Xiaolangjun, it's been a long time. The foolish brother came without telling him, he was really presumptuous, and the virtuous brother should not be blamed. Yang Guozhong laughed.

Gu Qing also smiled: "Yang Taifu came to the cold house, it was Peng Shenshi, how can you say that you are presumptuous, Yang Taifu, please inside." ”

The two entered the door and walked into the front hall, Yang Guozhong looked around and nodded slowly.

The location of the house is remote and relatively small, compared with Yang Guozhong's mansion in Chang'an, which is comparable to a palace, Gu Qing's mansion can only be regarded as barely enough to live in.

"Studying in the house, he has his own elegance, and the house of the virtuous brother is good." Yang Guozhong praised against his will.

Gu Qing said with a smile: "Yang Taifu is smiling, it's not that it's elegant, it's mainly that the housing prices in Chang'an are too expensive, and the lower officials are too poor......

Yang Guozhong smiled, this chatting ability matched his unhappy face.

After looking around, Yang Guozhong was surprised to find that there were no housekeepers and servants in the house, and there was only Gu Qing in the huge mansion.

"If the virtuous brother is inconvenient, the foolish brother has quite a surplus, and tomorrow someone will arrange some servants and guards for the virtuous brother, anyway, the virtuous brother is also an official, and he is quite important to the concubine, and the days can't be too shabby."

Gu Qing hurriedly refused: "Thank you Yang Taifu for your kindness, the house was just given by His Majesty, and the backyard is still being repaired and decorated, and after the decoration is completed, we will hire housekeepers and servants, and I can barely cope with it in the past few days." ”

It's not that he doesn't want to take advantage, it's just that the future prime minister of the Tang Dynasty arranged housekeepers and servants for Gu Qing's mansion, and the ghost knows how many Yang Guozhong's eyes and ears are in it? One by one, they have ghosts in their hearts, and when the time comes, they will make a lot of trouble, but they will hinder Yang Guozhong's face, and they can't fight or kill their subordinates, which is a headache.

After the two chatted for a while, Yang Guozhong finally got to the point, took out a crumpled gossip report from his arms, pushed it in front of Gu Qing with a smile, and said: "Foolish brother is rude, I guessed blindly, I'm afraid this so-called 'gossip report' should be the handiwork of the virtuous brother, right?" ”

Gu Qing didn't even read the newspaper, and smiled calmly: "Yes, it's a ...... from the lower officials."

Without waiting for Yang Guozhong to speak, Gu Qing blinked again and said with a smile: "Your house traced the source of the gossip report, did you stop tracking down the two businessmen from Qingcheng County?" Yang Taifu guessed from the word 'Qingcheng County' that it was a lower official, right? ”

Yang Guozhong was stunned: "You actually know everything? ”

"It's not that you know everything, but this gossip newspaper is made for Yang Taifu at all, everything is brought by the lower officials to Yang Taifu, don't you see that the evaluation of you in the gossip newspaper can be described as both positive and majestic, Yang Taifu must have heard a lot of praise about you in the past few days, right?"

Yang Guozhong was puzzled: "Why did the virtuous brother run this newspaper, why did he want to bring the foolish brother here?" ”

Gu Qing looked at Yang Guozhong's eyes and said calmly: "The lower official position is low, and there are few friends in Chang'an City, but this newspaper is a good thing, its significance is not to make money, but to ...... public opinion."

Yang Guozhong seems to have realized: "Those who 'public opinion' are also the people, and the 'commentators' are also analyzed, and the 'public opinion' is the voice of the people who analyze and judge the truth, right?" ”

Gu Qing smiled: "Exactly, Mrs. Yang's mansion is very talented." But does Yang Taifu know that public opinion can actually be guided or even misled? ”

Yang Guozhong sighed and said, "I want to hear about it." ”

"Take the gossip newspaper in front of you as an example, it describes that Yang Taifu was killed by thieves in Qujiang Pond that day and fell into the water, after falling into the water, according to the real situation, it was Yu Linwei who couldn't catch the thief, and Yang Taifu had no choice but to give up, but the gossip newspaper wrote that Yang Taifu was tolerant and elegant, and said that it would not be pursued again, and it was spread to the streets and alleys of Chang'an.

"What the gossip newspaper does is to guide public opinion, there are positives and negatives to everything, the so-called 'horizontal view is a peak on the side of the ridge, and the height of the distance is different', the gossip newspaper is in my hands, I can decide which angle the world should look at a thing, and even decide whether this matter is a good thing or a bad thing, whether this person is a good person or a bad person, what does Yang Taifu think?"

Yang Guozhong's eyes lit up: "'Looking horizontally, the side of the ridge is a peak, and the distance and the height are different'...... Good verse! It is worthy of being a genius who made 'I wish people a long time, thousands of miles together', and the exit is a wonderful sentence. ”

Gu Qing was stunned, I plagiarized again? Who is this poem for?

No matter what, copy and copy, what?

Immediately, Yang Guozhong said again: "Brother Fool heard what Brother Xian meant, do you want to partner with Brother Fool to run this gossip newspaper?" ”

Gu Qing said with a smile: "Exactly, not only to invite Mrs. Yang, but also to invite the concubine Niangniang to join the group, I don't know if Mrs. Yang is willing?" ”

Yang Guozhong frowned and groaned: "This gossip report...... It seems that it is a bit public, and I am afraid that I will be attacked and criticized by the courtiers in the future, which will not be conducive to my position in the court......"

Gu Qing smiled and said slowly: "Xiaguan just said that there are pros and cons to everything, Yang Taifu might as well imagine that if Taifu has any political enemies in the DPRK and China in the future, then ......"

Yang Guozhong snorted, and his hand trembled slightly.