Ruidu has been silent for a long time.

People and nature have a wonderful connection. In autumn and winter, everything begins to hibernate, and the gradually cold weather makes people less interested in going out.

Not only the market, but even the Qinglou Chu Pavilion has been depressed a lot, and most of the people walking on the street are listless.

The citizens are not to blame. The court was calm, the people were surprisingly stable and peaceful, and the good people in the streets and alleys didn't know what to talk about even if they wanted to find something to talk about.

However, there is always a time when this brief tranquility is broken. Finally, one day, someone threw a pebble at the mirror-like lake.

That day happened to be the day when Xiao Jing returned to Ruidu for the second month.

The third page of the Mirror has a section called "Jishan Pavilion", which will publish some positive things. All along, the gentry welcomed this part of the content, as they were also given the opportunity to show their faces.

Although many of the things published originated from the children of poor families, such as the filial son who was hungry and cold but still took care of his parents, and the poor and still hard-working scholars, the rich and powerful gentry had more resources at their disposal, and it was too easy for them to do some good deeds.

It is true that most of these people's butts are not so clean, but there are finally people who still remember how they eat, at least they haven't done anything that can be called "hurtful to nature". Not only that, but they often pay for a bridge, a road, or something, and they have a good reputation in the local area.

The gentry didn't have much to offer, all they cared about was fame. Today, this column opened up by the Mirror provides an excellent platform for everyone to be proud of their good deeds being published, and some people have specially acquired a large number of newspapers with their own deeds, presumably to keep them for their children and grandchildren.

The existence of the "Jishan Pavilion" helped the Mirror to win the favor of the gentry. Many people who had previously complained about the newspaper have changed their minds, and some have even expressed a willingness to establish a good relationship with the newspaper.

It was against this background that the article that lit the fuse was born.

It's just a well-balanced propaganda article, and there's nothing special about it. However, the day after the newspaper went on sale, a newspaper called Ming Pao suddenly became a problem.

The popularity of the mirror newspaper has led to the development of the newspaper industry, and hundreds of newspapers of all sizes have sprung up around the capital. After a period of competition, the tabloids have been almost eliminated, and the remaining twenty or thirty newspapers, although still different from the mirror newspapers, have a stable readership.

Ming Pao is one of them. This newspaper also started as a secret news in the market, and was originally classified as a "tabloid", but later people slowly discovered that although the things it published looked a little pompous and even unbelievable, they were often proved to be quite reasonable and not groundless...... As a result, Ming Pao won the trust of readers and survived the fierce competition.

This time, the Mirror newspaper published the deeds of a good man surnamed Meng, praising him for caring for his neighbors and showing compassion for the poor, setting an example for the locals and being a model for the villagers.

However, the Ming Bao article, which was extremely unimpressed, pointed out: This Meng Shanren is just a vain appearance!

In his early years, he occupied the land of his neighbors, forced his lover to be slaves, and it is said that he also obtained many small industries such as oil mills by abduction. How can such an unbearable person be a model? Are you blind in the mirror, and you don't even check this?

At first, Ming Pao's accusations did not attract much attention.

The Mirror is a well-deserved giant in the press industry, and it is naturally the object of many people's eyes. In the past, many newspapers tried to win their reputation by "touching porcelain" mirror newspapers, but in the end, they all ended up in disgrace and embarrassment.

The reason is simple, every story in the Mirror is extremely solid, and it is absolutely impossible to pick a bone out of the egg.

People are convinced that the result this time is the same, and Ming Pao will steal chickens and rice.

The course of events is indeed similar to this. In the next issue of the newspaper, the Mirror published a response to Ming Pao, listing all kinds of good things that Meng Shanren had done, directly denouncing Ming Pao's accusations as fabricated, and demanding an apology.

The few people who watched the excitement thought that there was no excitement to watch this time, but who knew that Ming Pao was still competing with the mirror newspaper.

Soon, a new issue of Ming Pao came out. The newspaper pointed out a lot of clues about the Meng family, some of which can be used as circumstantial evidence or even direct evidence as long as they are explored a little, and people can't help but believe it.

This surprised the people who had originally scoffed at Ming Pao, and turned into suspicion of the report.

It's never a big deal to watch the excitement, and countless people have arrived at the battlefield of the polemic like sharks smelling blood.

Next, the new Mirror refuted Ming Pao's arguments one by one in a large number of pages. In addition to this, it also casually publishes the story of another Zhang Shanren.

When the newspaper went on sale, many people bought it as soon as it came. After reading it, everyone thought it was weird: no matter how you look at the Mirror's statement, it looks a little pale...... To put it bluntly, it's sophistry.

Slowly, even some of the most loyal readers can't bear it:

"The Mirror: What's going on? Isn't it infallible, how can people be so reasonable? ”

"It's really weird, a small Ming Pao can explain things clearly and thoroughly, but the Mirror Pao is struggling, isn't it that you don't have to think about writing things after the family has a big business?"

"The mirror newspaper used to be a gentleman, but now for the sake of face, he knows that he has made a mistake but still has to use strong words, which is really disappointing. If this is still the case in the future, the old decay will go to the prescribed newspaper. ”

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Readers often love deeply and take responsibility, and in the final analysis, it is for the good of the newspaper. Therefore, even if someone sent a fierce letter to the newspaper, Xiao Jing only laughed. Seeing a few people who were too excited, he inevitably wrote a reply letter to the past, sincerely thanking them for their corrections.

Others, meanwhile, could not sit still.

Although Meng Shanren is not a well-known figure, he is also a squire with a head and a face. He was scolded like this, and other villagers would be a little sad: what if one day the broken things of his own old sesame seeds and rotten grains were shaken out?

Many of the gentry had been publicly praised by the Mirror, and they were even more worried. The devil knows how much black material Ming Pao still has in his hands, in case it comes to his head one day, isn't it an old face that has been beaten?

Anxious, everyone stood on the side of the mirror. But whoever has a little ink in his stomach writes an article and submits it to the mirror newspaper anonymously, the content of which is nothing more than to defend the Meng family, and scolds the Ming newspaper to the point of blood.

There are also people who have launched the relationship between the government and the government, but they have not touched a single hair in any link of Ming Pao when they check left and right.

At the moment when the saliva was flying, Ming Pao gave the mirror another heavy blow.