After speaking the truth, Li You began to announce the facts, "This official is by no means a person who talks on paper and refuses to do things!" The selection of talents starts today, and those who are interested can go to the leaders of each class to register! For the first time, I want to select 60 people, and the monthly salary is tentatively set at three taels! After being selected, it will be the first generation of my Ming newspaper, and the newspaper office can be established! ”

Three or two! This income is definitely not low, in today's world, three taels of silver per month is a high salary, and ordinary craftsmen or shopkeepers are only one or two taels.

Shi Saijiu, who had already walked to the door of the public house, was stunned when he heard Li You's announcement that he was starting to select people, he was too anxious and rash! Do you do that? Today is only his first day in office, and the seat is not warm.

After Master Li finished speaking, the supervisors of the hall left the front of the Yilun Hall in twos and threes, and there were many discussions as they walked. Obviously, the pie drawn by the Inspector is very attractive, provided that it is as beautiful as he says.

There are quite a few people who are eager to try, and 60 out of 600 people are selected, and the probability is not low, at least much higher than that of the election officials. Of course, the first choice for inmates is still to elect officials, but if they can't be elected, instead of staying in prison, it is better to be a newspaper person and wait for an opportunity, and if you don't become a newspaper person, you can't resign.

Li You whispered to Han Zong, the elder, "Take that old prisoner to my public room, and I want to talk to him." ”

Han Zong left in response, and another miscellaneous servant came to Li You to report to him: "The wine lord is invited." Not knowing what else to say about the stone sacrifice wine, Li You turned around and went to find him.

Although Master Shi had just listened to Li You's passionate speech, he was also infected and shook in his heart, and he had the urge to write a newspaper to reprimand Fang Xuan. But after hearing that Li You hurriedly started the selection, and then returned to the room to calm down. I felt that something was wrong.

When he saw Li You coming, he questioned: "Is it appropriate for you to agitate the prisoners with great fanfare before you have even skimmed the eight characters?" ”

What did he see? Li Yougu talked about it left and right. "What's wrong? As long as you are willing to do it, there is no problem at all. ”

"How dare you say it! You promised to run a newspaper so that 100 prisoners would have no worries about food and clothing, and paper and ink would cost money, at least thousands of taels a year, where would the silver come from? The Guozijian does not have this silver. ”

Li You said confidently: "Money is not a matter of Lord Shi's care. The official has his own way to raise money, and if he doesn't want to make a lot of money, it is not a problem to maintain his income and expenditure! Today, the official asked the craftsman to start making the word plate, and at the same time, he selected talents to run the newspaper in the past two days. ”

Seeing that Li You only talked about how to do it, but did not talk about the issue of responsibility, Shi Saijiu couldn't help but say angrily: "You promised to let all living beings point out the disadvantages of the country, this is completely a supernumerary imperial history." It is unknown what the court will think, and it is even more unknown whether they agree or not. When the situation is unclear, this official sees that you are acting so rashly, not like a young man who is impatient and rash, but I am afraid that it is deliberate and has no other intentions! ”

Li You's face changed. "What is this that Lord Shi said? The officer didn't understand. ”

The stone sacrificial wine patted the case and said: "You not only have to be the blue sky, but you also have to be a capable minister." If you want to be a capable minister, you don't want to take on the name of mediocrity and incompetence, so you deliberately perform so deliberately to shirk your responsibility!

If you can do it, everyone will naturally be happy, and you will become famous and famous. If you can't do it. You can also make a grief and indignation, and the excuse is that you have tried your best to do things, but the court does not allow it, so you have no choice but to do it.

Until then. You either resign in anger, or take this opportunity to get rid of the country's superintendent errand, anyway, it will not damage your reputation at all! spread it, it's not that you, Lord Li, don't do things, it's that the court doesn't let you do things, and the prisoners are all scholars. Maybe it can give you a good reputation, yes or no? It reminds me of what happened to you in Suzhou three years ago when you flattened food prices. At that time, you deliberately broke with the grain merchants and hung up your crown, and in the end, the whole city was praised. ”

Li You was exposed to his thoughts, and he was a little annoyed and angry: "Who dares to say that he is 100% successful in doing things in the world?" If you look ahead, are timid, and don't take the slightest risk, then don't do anything! ”

Shi Saijiu unceremoniously accused Master Li, "Although you are easy to enter, in fact, there is no risk to yourself at all, this little thing will not affect your future, and it will not shake your foundation!" But he risked his luck with the future of the prisoner!

Have you ever thought about what will happen to these prisoners who have been provoked by you, or who have been dragged into the water by you, and suddenly give up halfway, and how to deal with yourself? How can you not be full of resentment against the imperial court? What if the imperial court pursues it? ”

Li You sneered a few times, "If it's unlucky, it's their bad fate!" Don't say that my heart is like an iron stone, there are always people with good lives and bad lives in this world, no one can make everyone have a good life, it would be good to create a chance for them to try! It's better than reading a book all your life and ending up learning uselessly. ”

Then Li You sarcastically said: "You Lord Shi are kind-hearted and love the prisoners, but it's a pity that you can't even create a chance after two years of sacrificial wine, and you are still scolded today, this is a good official?" ”

The stone sacrificial wine immediately vomited three liters of blood, and the argument was completely defeated.

Li You returned to his public room, and the old prisoner was waiting for him respectfully outside the door, and when he saw it, he hurriedly saluted: "Student Bai Siwen, meet the inspector!" ”

Li You nodded and asked concisely and clearly, "Would you like to be the main writer of the newspaper?" ”

"The boss favors him, and he is willing to serve the dogs and horses!" Bai Sven saluted again.

"Well, the official will write down your name." After saying this, Li You had no other superfluous words, everything was silent.

Only Han Zong was covered by clouds and mountains on the side, and he didn't understand why the old man didn't even investigate, so he directly chose this old scholar?

For Li You, there is no need to investigate at all, the previous performance of the old prisoner Bai Siwen is nothing more than two reasons. The first reason is that he has no way out, and he is really excited that he can't help himself. If this is the case, give him a chance to come forward, and he will easily receive loyalty.

The second reason is that he seized the opportunity and deliberately jumped out to please himself, so as to be opportunistic. If this is the case, it also shows that this person intends to get closer to himself, and dares to get closer to himself. For those who know the current affairs, of course, they can use it first, and Master Li does not discriminate against people who dare to fight for positions at such a critical moment.

Whichever possibility he is, it can be seen as usable for the time being, and more specifically can only be observed in daily work. Besides, this person has been cultivated in Guozijian for so long, and the writing is not much worse, and it must be known that the newspaper does not rely on words to run well.

In the next two days, while accepting the registration, Mr. Li suddenly vigorously grasped the style of study. Five of the short-sighted prisoners made a mistake against the wind, and after being caught, they were given 30 lashes as punishment and hung on both sides of the corridor for public display.

As for those who came to sign up, there were more than 500 people in two days, but Li You, an outsider, could not be chosen. This responsibility was simply given to the prison officers, and each of them was given a few places and asked them to nominate candidates on their own. This can be regarded as a popular gravitation.

On the tenth day of the second month, Li You was in the classic hall, instructing craftsmen to make word plates. It's not that Master Li has to bow down personally, it's really because it is necessary to design several fixed-format word plates according to the newspaper layout, and if Li You doesn't come forward, who else can know what to do.

In fact, in Li You's conception, he did not want to run a purely political newspaper, and he talked about the disadvantages of the world when he talked about the prisoners, and he sold dog meat on the head of a sheep to earn fame under the guise of a sheep. It's not charity, in essence, it's the king to make money to survive, otherwise there is no long-term reason, so you have to rely on urban newspapers.

In his thoughts, it can be divided into about four sections, the first is political speculation, using the big truth to hang the sheep's head, the second is the capital, using lace news to earn eyeballs, the third is business knowledge, using advertising to sell dog meat, and the third is Kyushu Guangwen, using anecdotes to increase the interest and curiosity.

Suddenly, a miscellaneous servant hurriedly came and reported: "The Ministry of Rites has sent a message to the inspector that he will discuss the matter of the report in the Eastern Dynasty court tomorrow." ”

When Li You heard this, he understood that this must be a matter of the stone sacrifice wine to report to the court, and the Son of Heaven issued a court meeting. And the Guozijian is in charge of the Ministry of Rites, so the court meeting is also convened by the Ministry of Rites. When new things come out, it is indispensable to have another verbal war.

And the next day, Li You and the stone sacrificial wine entered the imperial city, passed through the Chengtian Gate and the Duanmen, and came to the Dongchao room outside the noon gate, and met with the cabinet and Jiuqing. This time it was a small meeting of the inner court and the outer court, and there was no Kedao Cilin present, so the bigwigs made up their minds and played the Son of Heaven, which saved a lot of worry.

Li You saluted, secretly swept around, and looked at the bigwigs sitting with solemn expressions, he just wanted to laugh in his heart. His idea was placed in the era of his previous life, in fact, it was just a metropolitan newspaper, can you imagine the appearance of the great elders who can only be seen on TV seriously discussing whether or not to run a certain metropolitan tabloid?

Just when Lord Li was thinking about entering the wrong, Hai Shushan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, opened his mouth, "The day before yesterday, the Guozijian was making progress for the matter of running the newspaper, and His Majesty ordered us to gather for discussion, what do you think?" ”

There was silence in the room, the bigwigs drank tea, closed their eyes and recuperated, counted the gold bricks, and none of them spoke. The first is Li You's business, and the second is not a matter of life and death, whether you agree with it or not, you have a sick brain to be a bird.

The bigwigs didn't speak, and Li You spent time with him, bowing his head and not moving. After a long time like this, Hai Shangshu probably felt that it was really unreasonable to go on like this, and he, the host, was also disgraced, so he said: "Master Li will explain the situation first." ”

Li You saluted again: "The specific situation, presumably the stone sacrifice wine has been written in the compromise, if the princes have no objection, they will do the same." ”

Li You said this, and if he didn't speak, it would become a default, and some people couldn't help it immediately.