Under Chen Xu's consistent goal of requiring newspapers to stabilize the people's hearts and minds, Daqin Metropolis Daily rarely reported negative news across the country, basically copying the style of news broadcasts in later generations.

The front page is naturally the movement of the emperor and the court, and the leaders are very busy.

The second edition is the country's current political news, grain production has increased, commerce has prospered, road construction has been advancing day by day, and the people and the people are happy and rich.

The three versions of the surrounding movements, the Marquis of Tongwu conquered Lingnan, the Marquis of Jingwu deterred the Western Regions, the ethnic minorities were ragged and hungry, and they couldn't say anything, and the Huqiang barbarians around them were living in dire straits, and they needed Daqin to help solve their difficulties.

Of course, there are also problems of bullying and official corruption, but they are all reported on the premise of verifying the truth, and they are generally not reported with great fanfare, and they are explained in a few sentences, giving full play to the function of the mouthpiece of the imperial court.

The content of the newspaper is mainly based on the imperial decrees, current political news, entertainment, farming, military, business, sports, stories, scientific and technological miscellaneous talks, and hundreds of opinions, etc., exposing the dark side of Daqin is not the main aspect, and the current state of Daqin is not suitable for unscrupulous press freedom and speech.

Chen Ping, as a die-hard fan of Chen Xu, has naturally always put Chen Xu's newspaper purpose in the first place, so each issue of the newspaper is dazzling and the content is extremely substantial, but in fact it seems to be good news.

Today's Daqin Metropolis Daily as a super media covering the whole country, each issue of the newspaper sells more than 100,000 copies, more than 1,000 formal reporters across the country, and non-staff reporters are countless, and the number of people who rely on editing, proofreading, printing, distribution, and sales is enough for tens of thousands of people. They firmly remember the only requirement that Chen Xu gave to reporters at the beginning, that is, to truly record everything they think is valuable, and then send it back to the museum, as for whether it can be published, the editor of the newspaper is responsible for it, and if it cannot be published, there are naturally reasons why it cannot be published, and the newspaper pays wages according to the news value, although most of these manuscripts cannot be published, but the salary is not less.

In addition to the official reporters who opened the newspaper, there are also a large number of supernumerary reporters and scribes from all over the world who also collect and edit various manuscripts all year round, so hundreds or even thousands of manuscripts are sent to the newspaper every day, and several warehouses of the newspaper have long been full, and rows of wooden shelves are bundled and stored according to the date and place, and hundreds of reviewers have been reading the manuscripts day and night for selection, and I have heard that many of them have blurred vision and become short-sighted.

Regarding Chen Xu's sudden request to look at the manuscripts and files of Yanmen County in the last six months, Chen Ping did not dare to slack off, and instructed the warehouse supervisor to go to the warehouse to inspect and count, and after half an hour, a full cart was pulled, and there were at least two or three thousand articles neatly stacked.

"Master Hou, all the manuscripts from Yanmen County from March to the present are here, what do you think should be done?" Chen Ping's mouth was a little dry.

Although these manuscripts have been simply reviewed and selected, it will take at least a few days to read them all again.

"The matter that Ben Hou wants to investigate today is relatively secret, so this matter must be completed by the two of us, Secretary Chen will arrange it!" Chen Xu had nothing to do today anyway, so he decided to do it himself.

Although Chen Ping's face was bitter, he didn't dare to ask more, so he quickly asked people to clean up a separate room, and after moving these manuscripts in, he closed the door, and the two of them each sat down with a teacup and began to look through the materials.

"Master Hou, what are you looking for?" At the moment, Chen Ping still didn't know what information Chen Xu was looking for.

"You take a look at this ...... first," Chen Xu took out the book from his pocket and handed it to Chen Ping.

Chen Ping took it and read it roughly inexplicably, and then looked up at Chen Xu, but found that Chen Xu had already buried his head in reading the manuscript, so he had to look at the book in his hand again with suspicion.

Chen Ping is still very familiar with the book, he now also has the right to play the emperor directly, and he naturally knows a lot about the review of the book, and many of the court edicts published in the newspaper are sent together with various Zhongshu provinces and the emperor's approved book.

And there is nothing surprising about the book that Chen Xushen mysteriously came to show him.

Except that it is relatively short.

Twice...... Three times......

When Chen Ping saw it for the fifth time, he finally found some problems, that is, because the book was too short, and almost nothing was clear in it.

If it was in the era when bamboo and wood slips were still used before, it was reasonable that the book was short, but now the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone have long been spread throughout the country and even spread to the surrounding Liang Dynasty, Liaoyue and other places, and the manuscripts of officials, scribes and even newspaper reporters in various places strive to be detailed and rich in content, and this kind of short music Chen Ping has not seen it for several years.

"Master Hou, are you saying that there are many ulterior secrets behind this book?" Chen Ping asked cautiously.

"Uh-huh~" Chen Xu nodded while flipping through the manuscript.

"Then do you think that our reporter station stationed in Yanmen may have a detailed record of this incident?"

"Naturally, this matter will not be as light as written in the book, Yanmen Pass is the largest city in the northwest, the status is very special, when Zhao State hoarded heavy troops here to fight the Huns, Jingwu Marquis has also been stationed in Yanmen to guard against the Huns, after the death of Li Mu, Zhao people built Jingbian Temple outside Yanmen Pass to commemorate his great achievements, thank him for defeating the Huns to defend the country, but now there are soldiers from the Great Qin Border will clash with the local people in Jingbian Temple, this matter will not be simple......"

Chen Xu told the relationship between Jingbian Temple and Li Mu, and Chen Ping immediately captured important information from it, and said with a slight trembling of his hands and feet: "Master Hou, then this matter may involve the Hou ...... of Wucheng."

Chen Xu glanced at Chen Ping slightly and nodded: "Yes, so this matter must not be leaked out before Ben Hou plans how to deal with it, I will work hard for you today to help me find out the useful information!" ”

"No hard work, no hard work!"

Chen Ping was frightened and excited, this kind of secret thing is only known to him and Hou Ye, this closeness and honor are not enjoyed by others in the world, but if Chen Xu intends to investigate this matter clearly, I am afraid that the resistance is not ordinarily large, if Chen Xu is replaced by Feng Quji, Meng Yi and other Shangqing of the three provinces and six departments, and even the first grade, they will definitely retreat before they start, once it is revealed that they will deal with the three grandchildren of the Wang family, it is estimated that there is no need to investigate, and they will directly pack up and go home to retire.

In the whole world, if there are people in the world who can just get along with the Wang family except for the emperor, there is no second one except Chen Xu, not the Montessori, not the Feng family, and even more so the other scum families.

It's not the same level at all.

Because even if the destruction of Jingbian Temple was personally arranged by Wang Li, even if many local civilians were killed and injured because of the conflict, the emperor would never punish Wang Li, and the final outcome was naturally over.

The emperor can even let go of a guy like Zhao Gao who plots against the troubled country, let alone sweep away the Wang family of the Six Kingdoms for him.

Qin Shi Huang has an arrogant and withdrawn temperament, and his mind is extremely unpredictable, if someone wants to make him unhappy, he will definitely make your entire family of ancestors unhappy for eight generations.

"The search is not very large, from March to August...... It should be a press release in July, the target is near Yanmen Pass, the key words are Jingbian Temple and the soldiers of the border, although the workload is relatively large, but as long as you grasp these keywords, it is not too difficult to find, it is more time-consuming, let's start! ”

Chen Xu nodded and began to flip through the manuscript again, the speed was very fast, almost less than a minute to drop the next one, Chen Pinghe quickly packed up his mood and began to help.

According to the speed of the two of them, it takes an hour to view more than 100 articles, and an hour is less than 300 articles, and if you want to read this manuscript of nearly 3,000 or two, it will take at least two days.

The next time, the two of them nested in this separate office while reading the manuscript while chatting and speculating on the story behind the book, in a blink of an eye at noon, both of them were hungry and dizzy, Chen Xu asked people to get a few steamed buns and a little pickle porridge, the two continued to read while eating, until Shen Shi, the two came out of the room with red eyes, Chen Ping asked people to lock the house, and then accompanied Chen Xu straight to the Qinghe Hotel.

"Whew, back pain!"

In the Rising Sun Pavilion of Qinghe Hotel, Chen Xu sat on the dining chair without any image, Chen Ping was slightly better, but he looked disheveled and tired, and he was also sitting crookedly on the dining chair and was too lazy to move.

The steward of the hotel was very discerning, and quickly asked the two little tea ladies to serve fragrant tea, and arranged for a group of maids to come in to help the two massage their shoulders and legs, and the kitchen quickly prepared the dishes and drinks.

After a while, Chen Xu finally lifted his face from the rice bowl, opened a glass of wine and poured a glass for Chen Ping and himself, and the two began to drink and eat slowly.

Although Chen Xu has a high status, Chen Ping and he are also very familiar with him, including Hu Kuan and Zhang Cang and others, several people are very casual together on weekdays, Chen Xu pours them wine It is a common thing, and he doesn't pay attention to any messy etiquette at all, everyone is used to it.

The meal was half full, and after a few glasses of wine, the two finally felt much better

"Master Hou, I didn't expect you to really guess it, there is really a record of this matter in those manuscripts!" Chen Ping said while eating.

"It's not a guess, this is a reasonable speculation, the local officials want to cover up the matter, naturally it can't be too small, I didn't expect the matter to be more complicated than I thought, three people died, more than ten people were injured, Jingbian Temple was destroyed, and the guards will arrest hundreds of civilians, among which there are even senior military attachés at the level of captains involved!" Chen Xu nodded with an ugly expression.

"Master Hou, does that mean that this matter may have been instructed by the Marquis of Wucheng?" Chen Ping asked.

"You can't make a decision before the matter is investigated, but Wang Li will definitely not be able to escape the involvement!" Chen Xu shook his head slightly.

"The same is true of the flat conjecture, when the general was ordered to conquer the Zhao State, the opponent happened to be Li Mu, the two were evenly matched in Jing Cheng for more than a year, the general could not take half a advantage, and even almost was defeated by Li Mu several times, and then used a counter-plot to induce Zhao Wangqian to kill Li Mu, the general had a chance to break Zhao, the general has never been defeated in the battlefield in his life, but only in the hands of Li Mu almost planted and fought, Wang Li is young and vigorous, and now he is knighted and marquis Che is in charge of the northern military camp, it is the time of life to be proud, Therefore, he arranged for his generals to destroy Li Mu's ancestral temple, thinking that the general's shame and hatred were vented back then......"

For Chen Ping's analysis, Chen Xu naturally recognized seven or eight points.

His relationship with Wang Li is not deep, and of course it is not shallow.

At the beginning, Wang Li and Bai Zhen helped him rescue the water in Wancheng, which can be regarded as a relationship between birth and death, the two are also strong in martial arts, Bai Zhen is a little older, very murderous but has a calm personality, Wang Li is brave and domineering but has a slightly impetuous personality.

According to Chen Xu's speculation about Wang Li's character, he must have done something to destroy Li Muci's temple.

Of course, in addition to the reason for Chen Ping's speculation, Chen Xu felt that there was another very important reason, that is, Wang Li was too idle in the northern military camp, almost the same as in front of him, and it hurt to be idle.

is also leading the army, his father Wang Ben is in the south and Baiyue Gang's fire, recovering lost land and conquering barbarians, and the propaganda in the newspapers is overwhelming, which is simply very lively.

In the west, Jingwu Marquis Mengtian also led 30,000 elite horsemen, and in just two years, he successively conquered Yueshi, Wusun and dozens of countries in the Western Regions, opening up nearly 10,000 miles of territory for Great Qin to the west, and I heard that the Hu merchants in the Western Regions are now frantically coming and going to Great Qin, and a large number of caravans are about to squeeze the gate of Xianyang City, which is also lively.

Compared with Meng Tian and Wang Ben, Wang Li must feel that he is a joke at the moment.

He led 40,000 of the most elite horsemen of Daqin, but he has been basking in the sun at the border of the Great Wall, and now the Huns and Huns are all assessed that the Huns are guarded by the Daiguo of Gongzi Kun, and the Donghu people are guarded by the Liao State of Gongzi Jianglu, and his 40,000 troops are like a joke and have nothing to do along the Great Wall.

What's more, when he conquered Donghu and Fengche Hou, the people had already discussed and pointed fingers, and he was still full of ambition when he was the marquis, but as this matter slowly subsided, he also slowly felt a kind of grievance and shame.

If it weren't for his grandfather and father, he would not have reached this status by virtue of his own ability.

Even in terms of martial arts or military merits, he is far inferior to Yinshan Hou Jiang Hu, when Jiang Hu raided thousands of miles with two thousand horsemen to break the Xiongnu royal court, beheaded the head of the Xiongnu king, and captured his wife and returned with a great victory, what a blood and glory it was, but Wang Li's conquest of Donghu, although he also captured and killed the king of Donghu in victory, was indeed well prepared and had Meng Tian's hundreds of thousands of troops as a support and backing, in fact, there was a taste of victory.

Therefore, all kinds of factors are intertwined, and Wang Li is very restless at the moment, and it is not surprising that he did something out of the ordinary during the idle egg pain.

As the main general who held the military power for the emperor to guard the north, destroying an ancestral temple and killing a few people is almost nothing to the current Great Qin.

Therefore, these news articles that took more than half a day to find were drowned in all kinds of entertainment stories after they were sent, and the clerks who reviewed the manuscript at the beginning may have seen this very sensitive manuscript without discussing it with a few editors-in-charge and directly stuffed it into the pile of old papers.

These manuscripts do not conform to the main theme of promoting righteousness, and they will be sent back to the editorial room.

Therefore, in general, this matter has been covered up so far, after all, it was caused by Chen Xu himself.

But what Chen Xu didn't understand was why this matter had dragged on for several months, and after it had begun to calm down, why was he poked out by the Guangwu County Order again recently, and even arrested a few soldiers who made trouble at the beginning for trial by the Criminal Department, so that Wang Li suddenly woke up to what he had done wrong?

Or does the Guangwu County Order want to uphold justice for the people of Zhao and fight for Li Mu?

But no matter which way he said it, Chen Xu felt a little unreliable.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Chen Xu felt that there might be a bigger change in the vicinity of Yanmen Pass because of this matter, whether it was Wang Li or Guangwu County.

But if there is really a civil uprising or a bigger change, why hasn't half of the news from the people reached Xianyang?

"By the way, you can go back later and ask if the recent press release of Yanmen County was sent back in time, and whether there have been any interruptions or other situations!" Chen Xu said suddenly.

"Master Hou is saying that someone will be afraid that this matter will be exposed and intercept the press release?" Chen Ping paused for a moment.

"We have only checked the manuscripts until the end of April today, but according to the manuscripts that have been found and recorded, the time is almost concentrated in March, and almost none of them are seen in April.

"Master Hou's speculation is very reasonable!" Chen Ping nodded.

"By the way, tomorrow I will arrange some people to inquire about the travelers and merchants who come and go to Yanmen County, and see if they can inquire about some information!"

"Yes, Master Hou!" Chen Ping hurriedly surrendered his hand.