Chapter 136: Opening up private newspapers

Seeing this situation, the brave aristocratic women of the Tang Dynasty finally stood up, wrote an article with their slender jade hand, and submitted it to the newspaper one after another. Although they are delicate and weak, their language is extremely sharp, not only accusing those opponents of being old-fashioned, but also cold-blooded and ruthless, only caring about the style and style, but they don't see the loneliness of the Zhang Liu family in the text.

The Tang Dynasty is an open era, although the women of the early Tang Dynasty have not been as strong and unrestrained as the Tang Dynasty, but in terms of style and behavior, there has been a bit of rudiment, a timidly young lady who is usually at home is likely to be the fierce author who scolded the old master in the newspaper. And it was precisely because of the addition of this group of women's soldiers that the strength of the two who supported Li Su was greatly increased, and they soon fought with their opponents.

However, while the two sides were arguing, the focus of the discussion began to spread from the vernacular dispute at the beginning, and slowly began to spread to other aspects, such as the war burned to the people's competition between industry and commerce and agriculture. Because in addition to telling the experience of Zhang Liu's family, Li Su's article also focused on the comparison of Zhang Liu's life before and after entering the factory, and greatly praised the positive side of industrial and commercial development to the society.

Naturally, many scholars from families were extremely dissatisfied with this, because it was already related to their vital interests, so many people took this opportunity to publish articles in newspapers, exaggerating the negative impact of industrial and commercial development. Things have developed to this point, and the emerging industrial and commercial owners of Datang finally can't sit still.

Industry and commerce are a new class with a very complex origin, in addition to the original business owners who made a living from traders, laborers, mining and other occupations, there are also new classes of people, such as a few people who seize the opportunity or climb up from the bottom of the society through their own efforts. However, it now occupies the most important position of industrial and commercial owners. It was the emerging aristocrats of the Tang Dynasty who were dragged into the water by Li Su. The emerging aristocracy held the core power of the court, and scholars needed the recommendation of these new nobles whether they were taking the imperial examination or being an official. This also caused a large number of scholars to gather under each emerging aristocratic sect.

When these new aristocrats saw that the industry and commerce on which they depended were under attack. Naturally, they will not sit idly by, and they have mobilized the literati around them to start fighting back, although these literati also have their own original positions, but in the face of the Tang Dynasty nobles related to their careers, there are still many people who choose to cater to them, so the momentum of those who support Li Su has risen sharply for a while.

In addition, I am willing to mention that the newspaper was originally a tool that Li Su got in order to crack down on the five surnames and seven hopes, and he naturally would not let this tool have an adverse impact on him, so when publishing articles. Li Su and Yan Bei did some maneuvers to minimize the number of articles that opposed them, while articles that supported their own side took up a lot of space. Such an unfair practice. Although it attracted many people's private abuse, the effect was extremely obvious. Soon, the Datang public opinion circle, which was influenced by the newspaper, slowly turned to a favorable direction for Li Su.

"Rokuro, one of your articles can make our newspaper miserable!" In a pavilion in the courtyard of the newspaper office, Yan Bei was pouring bitter water on Li Su, during this time, not only Li Su was attacked, but even Datang Daily was not good, and as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Yan Bei was under huge pressure, if it weren't for Li Su and Li Ke behind his back, he really couldn't hold on. Fortunately, now that the wind direction has finally changed, he feels a lot more relaxed, and at the same time, he finally has time to complain about Li Su.

"Brother Yan, what are you, I am the one who is really wronged, I wanted to use the name of the sixth brother to get a little light, but I didn't expect to be scolded by so many people for no reason, and even my uncle scolded me severely!" Compared to Yanbei, who is simply under pressure, the unlucky Li Zhi is the most innocent one, he just beat it up during the interview, and because of the shoddy whale meat, he didn't eat much for a few days, I wanted the sixth brother to make up for it, add his name to the article, and satisfy his vanity of publishing the article, but I didn't expect to suffer an unwarranted disaster.

"Sixth brother, what you did in this matter was really inconsiderate, I said that your article was inappropriate, but you had to publish it, how about it, it caused public anger, right?" Li Ke also rarely criticized Li Su.

"Yes, yes, yes! This matter is all my fault, I didn't understand the seriousness of this matter in advance, and it has brought a lot of trouble to everyone, Li Su is here to apologize to all the brothers! Li Su kept apologizing to the three of them, just looking at his grinning appearance, he really didn't have any sincerity.

A vernacular article report actually caused such a big impact, in fact, Li Su was also a little surprised, and even the situation behind it was out of control, fortunately, the newspaper was his one-third of an acre, and the focus of the dispute slowly changed to the population dispute between industry and commerce and agriculture, for which he was well prepared, and the two means of light and darkness were used together, and the situation was quickly turned to his advantage.

"Liulang, look at the recent draft, affected by your report, coupled with the wide dissemination of your Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many people have begun to try to write articles in the vernacular, if our newspaper publishes it, it may lose a large part of the readers, if it is not published, but with your article in front, this makes the people in the newspaper are in a dilemma!" Li Ke shook the manuscript in his hand, all of which were submitted by the newspaper in the vernacular.

"Yes, yes, hey, there are still people who write articles in the vernacular to attack industry and commerce?" Li Su was very interested when he heard this, so he took it and flipped through it casually, and found that the content in it was varied, and there were all kinds of writing, and some people criticized industry and commerce while advocating vernacular writing, which can be described as very novel. In fact, these should not be considered real vernacular, but they are somewhat similar to the semi-vernacular of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but the atmosphere of the literary language in the article is thicker.

"Rokuro, don't patronize it, you quickly think of a way, what should I do with these vernacular articles?" Yan Bei also asked anxiously, for this matter, he and Li Ke had been worried for several days, so they called Li Ke here, firstly to ask for guilt, and secondly, to let him find a way to solve this problem.

"This is easy to do, isn't it vernacular, then let's just run a vernacular newspaper!" Li said nonchalantly.

"Another newspaper?" Not only Yan Bei and Li Ke were surprised, but even Li Zhi, who was drinking tea, almost choked after hearing this. The three of them all know that although Datang Daily was founded by Li Su, it has the support of Li Shimin behind it, and it is precisely for this reason that everyone thinks that Datang Daily is the mouthpiece of the imperial court's external propaganda, and even regards it as a special newspaper, and they didn't expect Datang to have a second newspaper.

"Isn't it just another newspaper, and you're so surprised?" From the beginning, he never thought of running only one newspaper, and even Datang Daily was just a model he set up, the purpose was to let everyone see the role of newspapers, and then compete to set up various newspapers, so as to speed up the circulation of information in the whole society.

"Liulang, one newspaper is enough to lose money, if there is one more, will it be ......" Yan Bei asked a little worriedly, he is now the editor-in-chief of the only newspaper in Datang, but if there is one more newspaper, then his worth will drop.

Although the newspaper lost money, that money was not worth mentioning to Li Su at all, so as soon as Yan Bei's words came out, he immediately understood what the other party was thinking, so he said with a smile: "Brother Yan, the biggest role of the newspaper is to spread information, if you only rely on the strength of you and me, it is difficult to develop in a short period of time, so sooner or later the newspaper industry will be open to private individuals." ”

Hearing Li Su's words, Li Ke immediately frowned, after this period of time, he deeply realized the influence of the newspaper, so he said with some concern: "Liulang, I don't object to you wanting to start another newspaper, but the newspaper is a sharp weapon, if it is not in our hands, I am afraid that it will suffer in the future!" ”

After hearing this, Li Su showed a smug smile and said: "Hehe, sixth brother, don't worry, when I first started the newspaper, I had already discussed this matter with my father, and there were corresponding checks and balances, so I don't have to worry about the newspaper being used by others." ”

Hearing Li Su say this, Li Ke and Yanbei were relieved, and Li Zhi was very interested in the way of checks and balances that the sixth brother said, and kept chasing Li Su to ask, but Li Su's mouth has always been very strict, and he didn't ask the key to it after asking for a long time, but he learned that Li Su was almost ready, and he would soon open up a private newspaper.

In a verdant bamboo forest in the south of Chang'an City, a gust of wind blows, accompanied by the rustling sound of bamboo leaves rubbing, and the laughter and noise of silk bamboo and tourists. In a clearing in the bamboo forest, a party is being held, most of the people at the party are dressed in scholars' robes, and they are in groups of three or five or chanting poems or talking about the piano, which looks very elegant.

The people who came here to participate in the party were all students of the Tang Dynasty Guozijian, Guozijian is the official school established by the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the highest institution of the national education system.

However, the Guozijian is not so easy to enter, unless it is an ancestor or father who has an official title, he is not qualified to enter it at all. And according to the level of the officials, the scholars who go to study will also be divided into different colleges to study the corresponding courses, for example, the highest Guozixue only recruits the children of the nobility of the third grade and above, while the Taixue recruits the children of the nobility of the fifth grade and above, etc., it can be said that the strict class of the Tang Dynasty is reflected from the admission.