After nightfall, mist began to envelop the capital. However, compared with the past, the current capital did not fall into darkness because of the fall of night, and the lamplighter who picked the picker continued to pick the small oil lamps to the road with a pick, although these oil lamps were lit with the cheapest cotton oil, but they dispelled the darkness of the city. On the twentieth day of the lunar month last year, when the street lamps on several streets such as Xuanwumen Street were lit, there were even thousands of people who went to see the style crowded under the street lamps to watch.

From there, every few days, there will be a street with oil lamps, when in people's minds, these dim street lamps, even more sacred than the moonlight, after all, it completely changed people's perception of the night, and of course there is more gratitude to the emperor - these street lamps are built with royal money, even the lamp oil money, also from the royal family.

The Emperor is benevolent!

Of course, no one knows that the laying of street lamps was entirely at the suggestion of Shi Yiwen, and the little emperor "endured the pain" and took out tens of thousands of taels of silver to build street lamps in the capital. The cost is only more than 100 dollars, but the street lamps in the capital do cost a lot of silver.

But unexpectedly, the street lamp company saw profits that month - the signboard hanging on the street lamp is rented out, because the price is not expensive, and it is the most eye-catching location at night, naturally welcomed by the store, and because of this, the little emperor finally breathed a sigh of relief, at least this business will not lose money.

On this night, the capital is as lively as ever, it seems to be no different from the past, because of the appearance of street lamps, there are many pedestrians on the street, which is completely different from the desertion of the past, and in a restaurant next to this lively market, a few people are there, they seem to be sitting steadily, there seems to be a little melancholy between their eyebrows, sometimes, they will look out of the door, and sometimes they will hang their heads and drink tea.

Today is a big day!

While drinking tea, Zhang Siwei pondered silently, occasionally, when he would look at Shen Xing, when he didn't say anything, he lowered his eyes slightly, and then continued to drink tea.

The same is true for most of the others, all of whom are there waiting silently, waiting for the time to come.

"Ziwei, are you sure Zixiao is okay over there?"

Finally, Shen Xingshi broke the silence and set his eyes on Zhang Siwei.

"He's definitely reliable!"

Zhang Siwei said directly.

"Zixiao, like the younger brother, is from a Shanxi businessman."

The Zixiao in his mouth is Gao Guangxian, the right attendant of the military department, who is responsible for the defense of the capital, although the assistant left attendant of the Beijing camp is their person, but the Beijing camp wants to enter the city, and Zixiao's pass is more important, which is also the reason why they will find him Zhang Siwei, of course, there is another reason is Jiubian!

Maybe the people in Jiangnan have been running the imperial court for more than 100 years, but Jiubian has always been a Jin merchant, and it is they who are the salt merchants, and the influence of salt merchants in the Jiubian generals for so many years is far greater than that of Jiangnan.

"That's good, that's good......"

Shen Xingshi nodded, this will be a little more relaxed, in fact, even so, his heart is still hanging in his throat, if it weren't for Zhang Juzheng's step-by-step pressing, bullying people too much, no matter what, he would not have come to this point, he would endure it again, put up with him for ten or fifteen years, he believed that he didn't need to endure so many years at all, after all, the emperor is getting older day by day, the bigger the emperor is, the more disgusted he will be with Zhang Juzheng's control of the government, and in the future, he only needs to push the boat down the river, so that Zhang Juzheng can obediently roll back to Jiangling, He could overturn all the reforms that Zhang Juzheng had set.

But now, Zhang Juzheng's sudden murder disrupted his plan, and even now the assassination of the minister in Nanjing has already involved him, if he does not kill the killer, his life will be difficult to protect.

"Jiangling, Jiangling, don't blame Shen for being ruthless! Blame you, only for deceiving people too much......"

Compared with the little emperor, Shen Xingshi cared more about Zhang Juzheng, after all, in his opinion, his real enemy was only Zhang Juzheng, as for the little emperor...... I can only blame him for his bad life!

"Ru Mo, after you do it, you must send someone to the "Ming Pao" office in the white paper shop no matter what, if you don't control it, tomorrow when the "Ming Pao" is published, you and I will be chaotic ministers and thieves!"

Again, Zhang Siwei reminded solemnly.

More than a year ago, Zhang Siwei didn't care about any newspaper at all, but now it's different, "Ming Pao" has long gone deep into thousands of households in the capital and Beizhili, if the newspaper says that they are "chaotic ministers and thieves", the vast majority of the people will not doubt it, and what's worse is that the newspaper is still in the hands of Shi Yiwen, and Shi Yiwen is Zhang Juzheng's lackey, how can he not worry.

"I know that this time, not only to take down the "Ming Pao", but also to take down its lithographing, now Jiangnan can also see the "Ming Pao" everywhere, the newspaper is everywhere distorting the facts, telling right and wrong, and the people are still willing to believe it, on what basis? Isn't it because it sells cheaply, there are many people who buy it, and there are many people who read it, so naturally everyone will follow it......"

In the past year, there have been many people in the north and south of the country who have learned from "Ming Pao" to run newspapers, but all of them have ended up at a loss, and the reason is that the characters are too big, the newspapers are too expensive, and the reason for the big words is because they do not understand the "stone printing technique", and the stone printing is the root of the "Ming Pao" rampant and unscrupulous.

For the lithograph, Shen Xingshi has long seen it in his eyes and remembered it, with the lithograph, he can run a newspaper, he can grasp the public opinion of the world, sometimes public opinion is more effective than a knife and a gun, just like Shi Yiwen went to Nanjing, if it weren't for the "Ming Pao" for him, I am afraid he would have been ruined in the wind comments of Jiangnan Shilin, and everyone was gold...... But it's not as good as a newspaper with a circulation of hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands!

"Indeed, indeed it ......"

Just when Zhang Siwei responded, there was a knock from the outside. Almost at this moment, several people stood up at the same time, and then they looked at each other, their expressions a little panicked, a little nervous, and of course a little anticipation.

"It's three watches!"

Three more!

The hour is coming!