Since the founding of Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, Bianjing has been peaceful for a hundred years, so since the era of Taizong Zhao Guangyi, it has gradually become rich and prosperous. The size of the city also broke free from the limitations of the old city walls and quickly spread to the mountains outside the city.

Today, Hongqiao, which was outside Bianjing City, has also become a bustling and lively place with many shops.

Just outside Bianjing City, there are now 14 more squares than at the beginning of the country, with a population of nearly 200,000, living here.

The Bianjing government also sent officials to manage it, inspecting and checking it like in the city.

As for the core of Bianjing City, the most prosperous and lively state bridge, it can only be described as 'vast population, busy traffic, and endless streams'.

The authorities in Bianjing even had to send a large number of officials and troops on both sides of the state bridge to manage order, direct traffic, and sometimes even deal with disputes caused by traffic accidents.

On both sides of the state bridge, it is now the most prosperous night market on the Blue Star.

Even if it is now noon, the prosperity of the north and south of the state bridge is still amazing.

The huge traffic flow, the front and back divergence, the dense flow of people like a river, makes people's scalps tingle.

On both sides of the street, there are countless wine shops and teahouses, and all kinds of colorful flags hang from their roofs, which makes people dizzy.

The guys and helpers took advantage of this afternoon leisure time to get together, listen to the drama and read the newspaper, so leisurely.

"Today's tabloid is here!" A mysterious literati, with a large stack of papers wrapped in his armpits, quietly came to a large willow tree outside a restaurant, and shouted to the crowd gathered here to watch the acrobatic performance: "Is there anything you want to buy?" ”

"What are the important secrets of today's tabloids?" Someone immediately asked.

"Very urgent!" This literati said mysteriously: "The tabloids explore secrets and record the secrets of the big inside, but now it is still a secret thing...... There are also provincial detectives, who have heard about the affairs of the two governments and recorded them as words, which is very interesting......"

He blinked, "Guys, do you have anything to buy?" ”

"There are a lot of confidential things today, so the tabloid has been specially increased to fifty wen a piece!"

The Great Song Dynasty has inherited the official mansion newspaper since the Han and Tang dynasties, and reports daily on the major national policies and the policies of the two governments, as well as the affairs of the prefectures and counties in the world.

It's just that this newspaper often reports good news but not bad news, and the text is obscure and boring, and the general public has little interest in it at all.

Bianjing's population is growing day by day, the society is becoming more and more affluent, and private commerce is gradually flourishing.

As a result, a new secret industry was born - tabloids.

I don't know when it began, there were some groups in this Bianjing City who wrote down the things about the intrigue between the two governments of the country and the emperor's concubines and sold them to others to read.

These people, relying on the complex streets and squares of Bianjing, played a game of hide and seek with the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture, and at the same time sold what they knew.

As a result, a special tabloid industry was formed.

has developed to the present, because of the ruling style of the official family himself and the character of ruling by inaction.

The tabloid industry in Bianjing City has flourished like never before.

In Jing Youzhong, Empress Guo was abolished, and the Chinese book had not yet received the edict from the official family, and everyone in Bianjing City knew about it.

During the Baoyuan period, Yuan Hao rebelled, and before the book arrived in front of the king, the people of Bianjing already knew the content, so the crowd was furious, forcing Zhang Shixun to be tough with Yuan Hao, and could no longer cover up with the mud.

Of course, tabloids often deliberately fabricate false news and rumors for money and gimmicks.

For example, in February this year, Empress Cao entered the Daxiangguo Temple with her front foot, and all the tabloids on the back foot were unified: Shouguo Gongfu, and the official family wept endlessly!

As a result, not a single word is true.

Therefore, in terms of credibility, it is still worth questioning.

Therefore, someone immediately said: "If you are a tabloid and dare to have a false word, someone will pull out your skin!" ”

"Don't dare!" The literati immediately smiled and took out a piece of white paper full of words from under his armpit, and handed it to the person who spoke: "If there is a fake, the strong man will not let go of it, and cut off these hands by himself......"

So the man immediately took out fifty pieces of copper and gave them into the other man's hand.

The literati took the money, didn't count it, just weighed it, and knew that fifty wen was a lot, so he wrapped his armpits and went elsewhere.

He must seize the time and seize the market before his peers start, and make a name for himself.

And the person who bought the paperman's paper was surrounded by many people at this time.

"Zhang Dalang, Zhang Dalang, hurry up and read to us, what does this tabloid say?" The crowd was shouting and urging.

The person who called Zhang Dalang pushed away a few people who were too crowded around him, and scolded: "Go and go, if you want to know, don't you just buy one yourself?" ”

But on his lips, he had already begun to read aloud the text of the tabloid he had just bought: "Tokyo Secret ......"

"Yo! It's a tabloid run by the Cao family, so it's probably not wrong......" Everyone in the audience knew the goods, and immediately revealed the person behind the tabloid.

However, in Bianjing City, it is already an open secret who runs the various tabloids.

Even Kaifeng Mansion is clear in his heart, but everyone is a smart person, and if they see through it or not, there will be no fool who is stupid enough to find himself bored and correct those behemoths entrenched in the forbidden army and the imperial city.

That is to say, if the tabloids caught in the sore spot, under the strict orders of the two prefectures who were embarrassed and angry, the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture took action and arrested a few tabloid employees to take the blame and vent their anger.

Zhang Dalang has already continued to read: "Secret record tabloid, internal exploration of secrets, Fu Yan and the palace, personally saw the Hanlin medical envoy, the promotion of the Taiyi Bureau Xu Xi sent someone to report: Shou Guogong gave the grandfather to plant pox, after the Hanlin medical officer personally tested, dozens of people before and after the trial, all of them recovered as before, Fu Wei His Majesty can do Weifu, pox disease to come, from now on the world no longer have to worry about pox!" ”

Rumble!

Explode!

The whole crowd under the willow tree exploded immediately.

The stage that was still performing acrobatics a second ago couldn't help but stop.

"Pox subdued?"

Countless people chattered and were amazed.

Even Zhang Dalang, holding the paper, was trembling.

Pox?

Who isn't afraid?!

Who has no flesh or blood, or relatives and friends who have died at the hands of that terrible disease?

But now, this tabloid actually said that the Hanlin medical officials used the secret method brought back by Shou Guogong from Grandpa Gansheng, and verified it successfully, and from now on, as long as they use that method, the subjects of the Great Song Dynasty will no longer have to worry about pox?

"If this matter is true...... Zhang Dalang suddenly knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of the imperial city: "The grass people are willing to abide by the law in this life, and never do anything like a traitor!" ”

He is thirty-six years old this year, married four wives and concubines, but most of the daughters he gave birth to, only two sons.

The eldest son unfortunately contracted a pox disease and died a few years ago, which made him extremely painful.

So, after his concubine gave birth to a son to him last year, this Zhang Dalang was worried day and night, and went to the temple every day to burn incense, and even his personality and temper became much better.

Now, when I suddenly heard about this, I was naturally ecstatic and couldn't believe it.