When Cheng Qi and the others picked up their friend Ma Zhan "out of prison", they happened to meet the "old friend" Wu Sangui and his family members who were escorted in, and both sides completed a replacement reaction without a smile, but they cursed each other more than 10 million times in their hearts.

According to the custom of the Song people, the big guy first went to a shaving shop, cut his hair short, and trimmed his face. Then we went to a big shopping mall together, bought a new set of clothes, and finally went to a restaurant to get drunk.

When the wine was half-drunk, everyone talked about the topic that had been interrupted that day, and discussed the matter of starting a newspaper. The cultural atmosphere of the Song Kingdom was extremely relaxed, and it basically only took a few people who could play the pen to start a newspaper. Specific lettering, typesetting, mimeographing and other small things are done by special workshops. And no yamen was idle to censor the newspapers and books on the market as numerous as the sands of the Ganges.

After the republican revolution, the republican theory of republicanism without a king and a father violated the criminal law; And under the encouragement of Jiangyou Wangxue's disciples, it seems that the defense of men and women is not a particularly important thing; The spring palace map can also be hung at the door of the store as a signboard, all kinds of theories, all kinds of strange forces, as long as there is a market, it seems that there is nothing impossible.

The only problem is who the issue is, as Cheng Qi and his previous survey of the workers found, the workers are only paid enough to barely make ends meet, and it is almost impossible to provide education for their children. Except for a small number of skilled jobs, the vast majority of workers are illiterate, and they don't know if they are put down, which makes them suffer enough, but the heavy pressure of life makes it impossible for them to afford their children's tuition, and half-grown children are still half of the labor force for a family, and they are in consideration of immediate interests, and parents would rather send their children to learn to work.

As a result, the newspaper, whose main content was to expose the plight of the workers, ended up targeting the well-to-do students on the university campuses.

The first issue of the issue was written by Ma Zhan. After two or three days and nights of revision, he finally wrote what would become a classic, "Drum and Cheer for the Exploited":

"Dear students and friends, when you choose exquisite clothes in the store, when you travel to various places by train, when you sit in Bianjing and enjoy shark fin in the sea and treasures in the mountains, have you ever thought about how these great creations of nature and manpower appeared in front of you? ……”

Majan is a poetic essayist, and his pen is like a gushing yellow water, and when he opens the newspaper, there is an eloquent force rushing to his face. The article spread all over the campus on the day it was released, and the tabloid newspaper "Truth" quickly became a fad.

"The situation is very good, not a small good." Cheng Qi said happily to his colleagues in Liao: "I think we can take a bigger step and be bolder, and we should be bold a little bigger, and directly propose that the consulate of Liaoguo detain our newspaper members for no reason, which is a serious violation of the law." ”

Ma Zhan, who was worried that he couldn't find a good way to save his sweetheart, also woke up from a dream, this time he was more efficient, and the next day he came up with an editorial, coupled with other excerpts from Cheng Qi's "The Condition of the Working Class in Luoyang" and other students' enthusiastic contributions, and soon the second issue of "Truth Daily" came out.

The first issue of "Truth Daily" has a total of eight pages, which is naturally not worth mentioning compared to the big newspapers on the market, such as "Bianliang Daily News", "Bianjing Yomiuri", "Oriental Xunkan", and "Old Beijing Daily", but it is very unique and does not take the market-oriented route, and there is no need for newsboys to chase rickshaws and taxi carriages and ask, "Sir, sir, do you want to buy newspapers?" It was all up to the enthusiastic students to circulate it in their own small circles and groups, but it soon became famous in the student circles in Bianjing.

The reason is also very simple, no matter how much Confucius emphasized that there is no class in education, access to higher education is a rather scarce thing in any era. This is especially true in this era, although there are tens of thousands of college students in Bianjing, their backgrounds are quite uniform, almost all of them are quite scholarly, and their circles overlap greatly. In such a circle, it is easy to form an atmosphere of unity and branching, and almost every few years, a trend-setting figure will come out to run a newspaper, and set up a club to organize the surrounding students as the core after entering the society in the future. Cheng Qi also conforms to the process of history, and of course has some of his own struggles.

While the third issue of the newspaper was still being drafted, the second issue of the newspaper had already been passed on to their parents through some students, and one of them was approved by a parent "Is there such a thing?" Outrageous! Eight big characters were sent to the relevant yamen, and the yamen naturally did not dare to slack off when they saw the criticism of the big man, and immediately sent the North China Consulate of Daliao through official channels to the text, so when the ink of the third issue was still fragrant, Yuan Xue finally walked out of the door of the consulate surrounded by classmates.

"That's the power of the struggle." After all the members of the Self-Rescue Association were finally reunited, Guo Shan pointed out sharply: "Unity is strength." The theme of our next issue is to call on students to unite regardless of nationality to jointly denounce the Liao court and ask them to be more humane in their treatment of the people. ”

The fourth issue of the newspaper was directly aimed at the Liao court, and the members of the Self-Rescue Association from Da Liao hacked their families and were really better than the other. They did not shy away from telling all the students at home how their aristocratic families brutally exploited the poor serfs and cruelly treated the rebellious herdsmen. For a while, the crowd at the door of the embassy of the Great Liao State was excited, and the window glass was smashed several pieces, if it were not for the emergency dispatch of the Yamen, I am afraid that the ambassador of the Liao State would not have food that day.

This time it made a bit of a big fuss, Cheng Qi and the others once again entered the public security business, but compared to the original day trip, now they are very skillful in talking and laughing with the official adults sitting in the hall.

In fact, the public security affairs also know that calling these people who play with their pen can only be a routine matter, and everyone knows that the group of students who besieged the embassy are stunned, and they love to make trouble for the government when they have nothing to do. But if you really want to say that they belong to incitement and conspiracy, this hat is a bit too big.

After drinking a cup of tea, the public security affairs can only let these "culprits" out, but the Liao people are not easy to bully in the end, and soon, Zu Dashou found Honglu Temple again with a briefcase: this time he finally found a basis.

"According to our investigation, among the people who besieged the embassy on November 6 was Lu Wen, a key criminal we have been seeking to arrest. This person directly attacked the embassy of the country and caused property damage. The person has already violated the criminal law and should be punished, whether under the laws of your country or under the laws of your country. ”

Honglu Temple did not dare to slack off when it received the official official document of the Liao State, and immediately negotiated with Dali Temple and Yushitai. This time, there were no special big people to ask for warmth, and Lu Wen was quickly imprisoned, and he was almost sent back to Liao in the name of deportation with Wu Sangui's footprints.

"It's a loss of a general." Cheng Qi said bitterly: "The situation of the struggle is becoming more and more complicated, which fully shows that the reactionary government is united in suppressing the people. At present, we should change the tactics of struggle, first of all, to go to the places where the oppression is most intense, to the enemy's stronghold, and to fight in the belly of the enemy like a monkey. The second is to carry out the struggle more covertly, and it is not appropriate at the moment to directly raise the slogan of overthrowing the government and overthrowing the imperial system, but I propose to adopt a literary and artistic method of struggle, to carry out propaganda activities more extensively, and to develop our own comrades under the noses of the enemy. ”

Cheng Qi's proposal was unanimously agreed by all colleagues in the Self-Rescue Association, and it was decided to set up a northern branch to be responsible for selecting some progressive students who were witty and resolute and had not yet revealed their identities to return to Daliao to secretly carry out work behind enemy lines; The Southern Headquarters continued to run the "Truth Daily" well, but it had to change the content of the publication from a real revelation of a knife and a real gun to a covert literary interpretation in order to avoid risks in various factors.

A few days later, at the Bianjing Railway Station, Cheng Qi and Huang Yang bid farewell to their colleagues in the Northern Branch, the sound of the whistle was still in his ears, and he suddenly thought of an ancient saying: The wind is sluggish and the water is cold......

Huang Yang twisted his neck, and for some reason, he suddenly burst out and said: "Once the strong man is gone, he will not return." ”