Chapter 29: Dreams

In China, public opinion supervision is a new term, perhaps not until the first year of the empire, and in the imperial constitution, there is even a separate list of articles related to public opinion. "Congress shall not make laws restricting freedom of speech or freedom of the press; Citizens are denied the right to peacefully assemble and petition the Government for grievances. "In China, the supervision of the press and public opinion involves not only freedom of speech, but also freedom of the press, and is inevitably guaranteed by the Constitution, and it is precisely for this reason that since the founding of the empire, China's newspaper industry has developed extremely rapidly, and in just nine years, there are 16,700 large and small newspapers in the country.

There are many newspapers, and there are also many reporters, and for journalists, they must firmly establish the dignity and self-confidence of journalists, in fact, to put it bluntly, for most journalists, they have the question of "I am a journalist, who am I afraid of?" I dare to kick anyone's uncle's ass", and this concept is precisely a prerequisite that must be possessed by public opinion supervision.

And the reporters and newspapers did not disappoint the public, and many corruption cases in China were first exposed by the media before the prosecutors followed up. A newspaper, no matter what revelations are made, no matter which high-level people are involved, can expose it on its own. But once the exposed person sues the newspaper and the content of the report is judged by the law to be untrue, then the punishment will also be extremely severe. Many small newspapers have closed their doors because they cannot afford the high fines.

On the other hand, newspapers have a powerful function of supervising public opinion, which is a favorable weapon to curb the trading of power and money in officialdom, and it is precisely because of this that the Congress has formulated corresponding provisions: in China, anyone can run a newspaper, but the government cannot run a newspaper, and supervisors cannot supervise themselves.

"Jinling Times" is a relatively large newspaper in China, and its influence and reputation are no less than those of well-known newspapers such as "Declaration" and "Ta Kung Pao." The reason why it became famous was because it repeatedly exposed cases of corruption in officialdom, and it can be said that this newspaper established its reputation by supervising the government.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Shao Zhenqing woke up from sleep. There are nearly 30 beds in the duty room on the fourth floor, and it is hard to be a journalist, among the middle-class and high-income class in China, the first is a teacher, the second is a lawyer, the third is a doctor, and the fourth is a reporter, but compared to the first three, reporters are undoubtedly hard, and reporters often eat and live in newspapers in order to get a news, especially those who are new to the industry.

Due to the late working hours of the newspaper, no one had gotten up at this time, but when a phone call came in just now, the voice of the reporter of the Ministry of Social Affairs was too loud, and the reporter of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Shao Zhenqing, was harassed from his dream, so that he was woken up from his dream.

"What? Found naked corpses in the Qinhuai River? Doe? ”

The social affairs reporter, who was answering the phone, suddenly let out a high-pitched voice.

"Okay, I'll go down right away"

The reporter hung up the phone, got out of bed, and walked out into the room.

"It's really unlucky, there is still no big news"

After the reporter from the social department muttered and walked out, for the reporters who stayed here, what they longed for was to get a big news, according to the rules of the newspaper, who receives the news and who is responsible for reporting, so if they can receive a big news, it often means that they can jump from an ordinary small reporter to a famous reporter, and even the newspaper may open a column for him, of course, for hundreds of thousands of reporters, there will always be only so many hundreds of dozens of famous reporters.

At this time, the originally quiet duty room was suddenly full of early morning vitality.

For Shao Zhenqing, he also has the same desire, for 16 years old admitted to Zhejiang Higher School, 19 years old admitted to Nanjing Imperial University to study journalism, for six years, although he is also a reporter of the Ministry of Social Affairs, but he has been in charge of political news interviews, therefore, car accidents, murders...... These things have nothing to do with him being a horse and a cow.

Therefore, he could have slept a little longer, but at this moment, his drowsiness has disappeared, and in fact, the rest of the personnel seem to have been affected by the same, so even the foreign reporters and the reporters of the liaison department have gotten up one after another.

After washing up, when I went down to the editorial office on the third floor, I saw several reporters answering the news or news clues on the phone, and the reason why everyone slept in the newspaper office was very simple, that is, because there were telephones here, so that they could get news clues in the first time, and there would be no news clues when sitting at home. ,

“…… Yesterday, 80,000 miners of Shanxi Datong Coal Mining Company went on strike in solidarity with the striking students in Beijing. Looks like I'm going to send someone over, ......."

Shao Zhenqing listened to the reporter's telephone conversation while flipping through the newspapers on the desk of the Social Department. When reading the newspaper, he skipped the economic and foreign editions, and first browsed the social edition. This has been his habit for many years, and he is also a journalist for the Ministry of Social Affairs.

Now that all the universities in the capital are on strike, even the high schools, and the small and medium-sized businessmen are also supporting the striking students, and looking at the newspapers that it seems that the workers are also supporting the students, it seems that the political turmoil in the past few days is not necessarily just a small up-and-down.

"Maybe it's going to be a big storm"

Shao Zhenqing, who was eager to be distributed to the social department when he first joined the newspaper, is now satisfied with being a social affairs reporter. Of course, I had to go to various government offices in Beijing almost every day, deal with the officials, constantly question the officials, and then question the government's actions in the newspapers, and soon when I returned to the office, I noticed that their behavior had changed.

An article may change a lot of things, and now Shao Zhenqing has deeply liked this atmosphere.

After browsing through more than a dozen newspapers, Shao Zhenqing's brows furrowed, and from the reports in the newspapers, he could realize that the current turmoil of cabinet collapse may not only be a small storm, but may cause a big storm, because at least from the current point of view, this is not an isolated incident.

In the newspapers, Yuan Shikai, who is the prime minister of the cabinet, can be seen in a speech, calling on citizens to remain calm and restrained, it seems that even he cannot control the situation now, at least he is very powerless against the current student strike, since he can not restore order, and can not make concessions, in fact, unless he resigns voluntarily, those students will never take the initiative to stop the strike.

In fact, in Shao Zhenqing's view, the weirdness of this turmoil is a bit surprising, perhaps because Mingji monopolizes interviews with students, workers, and businessmen, so he has interviewed Democratic Premier Liang Qichao and Constitutional Party Premier Yang Du, both factions have nothing to say.

On the other hand, even idiots can see that without the agitation of the Democratic and Constitutional parties, this student strike would not have been as large as it is now, especially in some mining and industrial provinces, where the workers' strikes were more like a wave, and it can be said that this time the turmoil was far greater than any previous strike or strike.

This is an unprecedented political trend, with the academic community taking the lead, the industrial community participating, and the political circle is the driving force behind the political event, and more importantly, the royal family, which can play a decisive role, has remained silent in this turmoil, which is really unexpected by Shao Zhenqing, in his opinion......

Just then, the phone rang suddenly.

"Ministry of Social Affairs, Shao Zhenqing Tel"

Listening to the shouting, Shao Zhenqing was stunned, it was so early in the morning, could it be that there was no big news.

Ten minutes later, Shao Zhenqing, who took a taxi, came to Zhuangzi Park, there are dozens of parks in Nanjing, most of them are named after Zhuzi Baijia, Zhuangzi Park is one of them, the reason why he came here is only because he received a tip, there is a big news to him, and his informant is an old classmate.

Looking at the time of the watch, it was already 4 o'clock in the morning, and there was no one in the park now, Shao Zhenqing knew that this point, even if it was a big news, I am afraid that the front page could not be changed anymore, hundreds of thousands of newspapers had been printed, but his pace was still very fast, because the place where Tian Cheng made an appointment made him realize that this might be a big news.

Tian Cheng and Shao Zhenqing were classmates in college. In the past few years, Shao Zhenqing got a lot of news from Tian Cheng, although it is not big news, but it can always let him grasp some opportunities, in fact, government agencies are like this, in China the government cannot run newspapers, so government agencies need to maintain relations with the press, and providing news is a means to maintain relations.

In the past, he used to tell the news on the phone, but this time, how could he choose to tell him the news here? Almost subconsciously, Shao Zhenqing realized that maybe this was really a big news, and on the way, he even considered that maybe Tian Cheng would tell him a shocking news, and it was news that was not approved by the supervisor, otherwise he would never choose this time, this hour. ,

What news will it be?

Could it be that His Majesty is ready to intervene in the strike?

If His Majesty intervenes, how will he intervene? Publicly support Yuan Shikai? And then send troops into the city to maintain order? But this big news, with Tian Cheng's identity, is it possible for him to come into contact with it? He works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as if he were engaged in intelligence work, but he is not an agent, he is now the head of the Information Section of the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he has no access to that kind of incident.

Could it be that there will be some major diplomatic changes?

However, Shao Zhenqing also felt very strange, with Tian Cheng's prudence and steadiness, it was impossible for him to leak state secrets, otherwise he would not have been promoted to the head of the consultation section in charge of contact with the press, this position required him to deal with reporters in the press, which meant that if he was not careful, he might leak some secrets from his mouth, and at that time, no one would be able to save him, leaking state secrets is a serious crime, and the lightest is 20 years of hard labor, and the news he revealed was not secret. But if it didn't involve confidentiality, why would he choose to meet him in such a place?

With many questions in mind, Shao Zhenqing quickened his pace and walked along the path illuminated by street lamps towards the lakeside in the depths of the park, until he reached the small lake in Zhuangzi Park, where he stopped when he saw a person sitting on a chair with the shadow of a tree by the lake.

"Peng Cheng, I haven't seen you for a long time, what's the matter? Why can't I tell it on the phone? ”

"Oh, it's you? How can it be so coincidental? Are you here for an interview, or are you? ”

Tian Cheng said in a very flat tone, his tone and expression only made Shao Zhenqing stunned, he knew that his classmate was originally a delicate person, otherwise he would not be responsible for dealing with the press, and he took the initiative to meet him, although he was puzzled, Shao Zhenqing still noticed that his expression was a little nervous.

Could it be that something is going on?

"What's wrong with you?"

Shao Zhenqing sat down, then looked at his old classmate, trying to find something in his expression, but to his disappointment, apart from nervousness, there seemed to be no other emotion on his face.

But what's wrong with him? It's obviously the self he made an appointment with, why did he come here and ask such a thing instead?

"...... me?"

Tian Cheng asked rhetorically.

"Nothing is wrong with me? I just want to be here alone for a while? Think about some questions"

Without even turning his head to look at Shao Zhenqing, Tian Cheng continued.

"I can't sleep at night, that's why I came here to sit, you know, I can't live anywhere from here."

While speaking, Tian Cheng lit a cigarette a little nervously, and after taking two puffs, he suddenly stood up, and when Shao Zhenqing still didn't know why, he had already made a gesture and left.

"Well, you can sit here for a while."

When Tian Cheng left, Shao Zhenqing stood up and looked at his old classmate with some surprise, what was wrong with him?

Standing in the park, Shao Zhenqing, who felt as if he had been tricked, looked at Tian Cheng's background, and it took a while to react, and when Tian Cheng left, his eyes seemed to be looking at the trash can next to him, and he didn't look at himself, could it be ......

A few minutes later, after making sure that there was no one around and Tian Cheng had walked away, Shao Zhenqing stood up and walked towards the trash can, and as soon as he reached in, he felt something like a file bag.

really

Taking out the file bag, Shao Zhenqing's heart was happy, he didn't even look at it, but directly put the file bag into the interview bag, he could realize that this file bag may be what he dreamed of - big news, can make him a big news, otherwise Tian Cheng would not be so nervous.

And he will also understand why Tian Cheng behaved so abnormally, he was for self-preservation, at least, this is not a leak, this file bag was found, not given to him by Tian Cheng.

Thinking of what this big news might involve, Shao Zhenqing hurriedly ran towards the outside of the park, and returned to the newspaper office first, who knows what kind of news this is.

"It's finished"

In the shade of the trees in the distance, Tian Cheng watched the fast footsteps of his old classmate, the corners of his lips raised, he knew this old classmate, he had a good name and good fortune, as long as he caught the news, he would do whatever it took to send it out.

People always have dreams, and the dream of old classmates is to become a celebrity.

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