Chen Tianping has been very bad lately, very bad.

Since he fainted in front of the door at noon that day, he has been lying in bed at home and pretending to be sick, and at the same time sent Pei Boqi out to inquire about the situation and move around in many ways.

But Pei Boqi hit a wall again and again.

First of all, the officials of the Ministry of Rites no longer let Pei Boqi enter the Ministry of Rites, let Pei Boqi go back and wait for news, if the emperor has a will, someone will notify him. Pei Boqi was helpless and wanted to ask for a long time, but the gatekeeper of the Ministry of Rites glared: "The emperor is very busy, there are so many things in the Ming Dynasty!" Wait! ”

In response to this situation, Chen Tianping ordered Pei Boqi to find Huang Zicheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the yamen couldn't enter, so he went to block him on the road, Pei Boqi did so, and he did get it, but Huang Zicheng also showed great helplessness, saying that the imperial court was studying the affairs of Mongolia and the Japanese Invaders, and there was no energy and money to manage the affairs of Annan.

Pei Boqi came back and discussed it with Chen Tianping, and felt that it was right, or let's wait.

Even so, Pei Boqi still has to go around the Ministry of Rites, anyway, he is idle and idle, and it is the right way to hit a pole with or without dates.

But a few days later, Pei Boqi discovered an unexpected situation, Hu Pingkang, the envoy of the Annan Hu clan who was under house arrest by the Ming Dynasty a few days ago, actually entered the Ministry of Rites in a grand manner.

Pei Boqi also wanted to go in, but was stopped, and he was still the annoying doorman.

Pei Boqi had no choice but to retreat and inquire about Hu Pingkang's news, this doorman was a jack-of-all-trades, and quickly told the truth, after Pei Boqi heard it, it was like five thunderbolts, and he hurriedly ran back to tell Chen Tianping.

It turned out that on the second day after Chen Tianping fainted at the gate of the noon gate, the Ming Emperor summoned Hu Pingkang, although no one knew what he said, but since that day, Hu Pingkang's house arrest has been lifted, and he was even allowed to leave the Ming Dynasty and return to China.

Not only that, Hu Pingkang also began to visit the powerful and important ministers everywhere, and it is said that the gifts sent were very valuable, and even Huang Zicheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhuo Jing, the secretary of the household department, did not refuse his visit, and no one knew about the confiscation of gifts.

Chen Tianping and Pei Boqi were dumbfounded.

They also want to visit the ministers, but they don't have the money!

When Chen Tianping came to Daming, he also had some money on him, which was given by the lord of Laos, but the money was quickly spent. Of course, before the flowers ran out, Chen Tianping met the Ming Emperor, and the Ming Emperor gave Chen Tianping a set of houses, and let Chen Tianping receive twenty silver yuan from the household department every month, otherwise Chen Tianping would starve to death and freeze to death on the streets!

Later, Pei Boqi also came, and the emperor arranged for the two of them to live together, and at the same time allowed Pei Boqi to withdraw ten silver yuan a month from the household department to solve his basic living problems.

Thirty silver yuan a month for two people, it is not a big problem to solve the problem of food and clothing, but it is pure nonsense to go up and down, and they are embarrassed to take out this money, and they are reluctant to say it, after all, it is their own money for food!

In the end, Pei Boqi came up with an idea, whether to go to the Laotian envoy to see if he could get some money, Chen Tianping felt that this idea was good, after all, he was sent by the Laotian envoy, and Laos did not have a good impression of the aggressive Annam Hu, so the Laotian envoy should help him.

However, to Pei Boqi's disappointment, the Lao envoy had already returned home.

Just when the two of them sighed for a long time and were at a loss, Pei Boqi found a good way, that is, the newspaper.

Starting from the "Minsheng Xunbao" in the last years of Hongwu, the newspaper gradually occupied a place in the Ming Dynasty.

Its content has also expanded from the initial people's livelihood information such as prices, business opportunities, roads, interest rates, etc. to all aspects of life in the Ming Dynasty, such as the "Kyoto Daily" contains a serialized novel column, and the "Daming Daily" contains a social commentary column, and at the same time, these newspapers are involved in the corruption of some local officials and the oppression of the gentry to varying degrees, and of course, it also includes the customs and political conditions of the newly conquered territories such as Korea and the Japanese Kingdom.

In order to regulate the publishing industry, Zhu Yunwen established the General Information Administration and appointed Yang Shiqi as its director.

However, with the increase of newspapers and the expansion of the scope of management, Yang Shiqi gradually became overwhelmed, because he also had to provide advice to the emperor in the secretary and supervise and assist the emperor in handling government affairs, so since the establishment of the article five years ago, Bai Wangru served as the director of the General Information Administration. Bai Wangru is the elder brother of Concubine Bai Fangrui, who reads averagely, but his brain is relatively active, he has a certain sense of the overall situation, and he is a relative, and he has a certain personal relationship with Emperor Zhu Yunwen, so he can resist the pressure brought by the exposure of some news, so he has been sitting in this position for more than four years.

Pei Boqi and Chen Tianping noticed the newspaper because they paid attention to the war of conquest and war, and after comparison, they found that the "Zhejiang Daily" reported on the conquest of the Japanese in the most detailed and fastest, but it paid too much attention to the description of the customs and customs, business opportunities and details of the war, and lacked macro and forward-looking prospects; The Daming Daily's coverage of the expedition was the most authoritative, and in addition to supplementing the contents of the newspaper, it occasionally included some forward-looking policy discussions.

After analysis, the two also found that most of the people who bought "Zhejiang Daily" were businessmen, while the readers of "Daming Daily" were mostly court officials, nobles, scholars, etc., but the sales of the latter were much less than the former.

In addition, newspaper readers in teahouses and taverns prefer to read newspapers such as "Zhejiang Daily" and "Jingshi Daily", and at the same time, some storytellers compile "The Return of Joseon" and "The Legend of the Expedition" according to the above themes, which can also win a full house in the teahouse......

However, the two are still a little resistant to submitting articles to the newspaper, and from the bottom of their hearts, this is equivalent to exposing their predicament to everyone in the Ming Dynasty, which is too embarrassing......

Chen Tianping, as the only surviving descendant of the Chen clan in Annan, Pei Boqi, as a former waiter of the Ministry of Rites, used to be a decent person with a head and a face, but now he has no relatives and no way to ask for help, seeing Hu Pingkang moving around, but there is no way at all.

In the end, Chen Tianping made a decision and submitted the article to the newspaper, but Pei Boqi could only obey the order.

To their surprise, the "Kyoto Daily" and "Zhejiang Daily" soon published their articles, among which "Hu's usurpation of the throne, people and gods are angry", "Hu's ambition", "Analysis of Annan's current situation" and so on also aroused good responses.

In these articles, Pei Boqi listed Chen's counterattack against Meng Yuan and his deference to the Ming Dynasty when he was in power, showing his loyalty; At the same time, it also describes the Hu family's ingratitude, cruelty to Zhongliang, usurpation and deception of the Celestial Empire, and raiding and plundering the border of the Ming Dynasty......

In short, the article only shows one meaning, the Hu family is not only a scourge of Annan, but also a cancer around the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty should immediately raise troops to fight against it and never suffer in the future.

The effect of the newspaper was far beyond Chen Tianping and Pei Boqi's expectations, and within a few days, the teahouse and wine shops began to talk about Annan, and the scholars in Taixue and Jingshi University also began to comment on Annan and published it in various newspapers.

What made the two even happier was that reporters from many foreign newspapers in Beijing came to their homes to conduct interviews, among which Guangxi Daily, Yunnan Daily, and Guizhou Daily were the most active, and even officials from the above-mentioned areas in Beijing visited their homes to learn about the situation in Annan.

But the good times didn't last long, and Hu Pingkang, the envoy of the Hu family, began to fight back, he paid to recruit special "writers", began to submit articles in newspapers, refuted Chen Tianping's views one by one, and even questioned the legitimacy of Chen Tianping's identity, vaguely pointing out that Chen Tianping was the son of a domestic slave, what was Ruan Kang Yunyun; also said that Pei Boqi was just a down-and-out literati with poor character, and he was not reused in Annan, and he held a grudge, so he slandered the Hu family everywhere, and his heart could be punished......

Under Hu Pingkang's money offensive, Chen Tianping and Pei Boqi were quickly defeated, their submissions were rejected, and they were even abused on the street, so that they didn't dare to go out.

But at this moment, someone approached them and offered to provide them with funding, of course, conditionally......