In just half a year, from the first newspaper to the present, the vast majority of people have become accustomed to the novelty of newspapers.

In addition to the capital, the Jiangnan region, which has always been at the peak of its literary style, is not far behind in publishing its own newspapers, and various newspaper companies have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, making newspapers quickly become something that is generally accepted and recognized by more and more people.

Many literate people always feel as if something is missing when they don't read the newspaper every day, which has gradually become a habit.

Even those who are illiterate can learn many things through the content of the newspaper told by others.

For the people in the capital, most of those who want to know about current affairs will choose the Beijing News, and most of those who want to read stories will choose literary newspapers.

These two newspapers each occupy almost half of the newspaper industry in Beijing and have become leaders in their respective fields.

Other newspapers can only rely on their own characteristics to carve up the rest of the readers.

However, not long after the high-profile "Wuxiang case" ended, a current affairs newspaper suddenly came out like a dark horse, and blatantly grabbed territory with the Beijing News.

This newspaper is called True Knowledge, which is supposed to be taken from the meaning of true insight.

Zhenzhi Bao is not a new newspaper, but like other newspapers, it was founded after the literary newspaper was launched and became popular.

The newspapers established at the same time as the Beijing News, Minsheng Evening News, Story Newspaper and other newspapers took the route of current affairs.

Although it is a current affairs newspaper, compared with a big newspaper like the Beijing News, it has always been in the embarrassing position of others eating meat and drinking soup.

Not only is the content not as new and abundant as the Beijing News, but many things are not easy to report.

For example, it did not dare to report the previous smuggling of salt and the literary newspaper being bought by Fu Wangqiang, and it did not even mention it at all.

It dared to report the Wuxiang case, because the largest official involved in the case was just a county magistrate from another place, and the local officials and families were not involved.

However, in terms of content, Zhenzhibao's reports are far less real-time and comprehensive than those of the Beijing News, and sometimes they can only use the Beijing News' reports to add oil and vinegar to the processing as news.

However, during this period of time, Zhenzhi Bao has been reporting on the various gossips and private lives of many current Beijing officials.

As a result, the sales of Zhenzhibao quickly became popular in a short period of time, from the original average of two or three thousand copies per issue to seven or eight thousand copies at once, more than doubled.

There is no other reason, because it is the preference of many ordinary people to inquire about other people's gossip news, especially the protagonists of these gossip news are still many current Beijing officials, which makes people even more excited.

There is all this gossip news, for example, the most eye-catching news is: a certain official of the Ministry of Officials is usually serious and upright. But no one would have thought that he would have an ulterior relationship with a pillar of a big opera troupe.

And the pillar of the troupe is not a woman, but a male flower girl with a good face and a woman.

Liking men's style is against human morality, it is definitely not a glorious behavior, and it mostly happens to the children of the family.

Now this kind of thing happened to a ministry official, how can this not be staggering.

In addition, Zhenzhi Bao also reported the gossip of other officials one after another.

For example, a household official was raising an outer room outside, and the other party was a woman in a green house.

This official was very fond of this outer room, not only bought her a lot of jewelry, but also often stayed outside and mingled with her all day, and rarely even returned home, which had the intention of spoiling his concubine and killing his wife.

Another example is that a certain official of the Ministry of Industry is obviously from a concubine, but he relies on his official status to force his mother-in-law to hand over the responsibility of presiding over the middle feed to his biological mother, who is a concubine.

Or when an official of the Ministry of Rites served as an examiner for the examination a few years ago, one of the Jinshi who won the crown in the Toad Palace that year happened to be the son of this official's classmate. Isn't that a coincidence?

This kind of gossip about the current officials is really eye-catching, and it is difficult for people not to resist reading it, which is why Zhenzhi Bao can suddenly become popular in a short period of time.

The best thing is that Zhenzhibao does not name and say which official it is, but through the introduction and description of the matter, intentionally or unintentionally, people can vaguely guess which one is talking about.

Such a report really made the parties involved in the incident both annoyed and helpless.

Because Zhenzhibao did not name and say which official it was, there was no way for people to deny it or hold him accountable.

What's even more odious is that if anyone dares to stand up and protest at this time, it is likely that people will misunderstand that he is one of the parties.

This kind of dilemma of knowing that the other party is playing right and wrong, but completely taking the other party's helplessness makes the parties angry and hateful.

What's more, many careful people found that these officials who broke the news in Zhenzhi Bao were all people from the Great Prince's faction.

In this way, it is almost clear who the real owner behind this original unheard-of newspaper that suddenly made a splash.

It seems that after Fu Wangqiang's failure to buy a literary newspaper, the second prince did not give up his plan to buy a newspaper to fight against the Beijing News.

And what he likes is obviously this true knowledge retribution, and he has already succeeded.

With the connections and resources of the second prince, it is not difficult to find out the gossip of various officials.

This trick was indeed effective, not only increasing the sales of Zhenzhibao, but also effectively cracking down on the civil official clique that supported the great prince.

For a while, many civil servants suddenly became nervous, not only being cautious in their usual lives, but also telling their family members to avoid going out as much as possible, so as not to leave any tricks to be maliciously reported by the True Knowledge Report.

After Chi Fei learned from his father-in-law Ning Zhiyuan that the behind-the-scenes boss of this True Knowledge Newspaper was indeed the second prince, he couldn't help but be a little amused.

This kind of method is really disgusting.

But compared with the methods of the eldest prince, the tricks of the second prince are really a little out of the flow, and they can even be said to be a little indiscriminate.

Although this can disgust the officials of the Great Prince's faction, it will make other officials who remain neutral disgusted with him, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The second prince didn't seem to understand one thing, the position he was fighting for was to command hundreds of officials and command the position of the world's Ninety-Five Supreme, not the position of the leader of the Cao Gang.

If you want to be convinced, you need to show a bearing and majesty that is appropriate to that position.

Using such means to attack the opponent will fall into inferiority from the beginning, and will only make the civilian-bureaucratic clique that flaunts the literati temperament disdainful.

In this regard, the eldest prince is obviously much more clever.

He did not use the same means to retaliate against his opponent, nor did he tolerate the matter, but asked the Beijing News to publish a righteous and stern condemnation article.

He denounced the truth that the newspaper had spread rumors and ruined the rumors, and called on all newspaper practitioners and all readers to resist such a cancer in the press and restore the newspaper industry to cleanliness.

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