Zhang Jiyao didn't expect that Xiao Zhenlei's real purpose in meeting him this time was to open a newspaper with him, which was an undesirable thing for him, he has been engaged in the news industry for some years, and he has a lot of experience and insights as a reporter over the years. I don't want to cause trouble, let alone the newspaper office being closed down and suspended, after all, there are only a few people who really have such an idea as Xiao Zhenlei, but if there is a newspaper of its own, then the restrictions will be greatly weakened, at least there are no artificial obstacles within the newspaper. ↑ Top Novel, www.

However, Zhang Jiyao also knows that if the newspaper wants not to be troubled by the authorities, the boss must have a lot of energy and have the ability to settle down when the relevant departments of the authorities come to find trouble, so if you want to run a newspaper according to your own wishes, this backstage boss must be hard enough.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jiyao hesitated a little, he said: "Mr. Xiao, I really want to start a newspaper, but now if you want to use a newspaper to express your own opinions, you don't have enough background to make a difference, and now the concession is also very strict in this regard, and I am worried that if the newspaper is established, it will be closed down soon, so."

Xiao Zhenlei knew what he was worried about after listening to Zhang Jiyao's words, he thought about it, took a puff of cigarette and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, I have some opinions about the profession of journalist, and I don't know if it's right or not, you can listen to it." I believe that the duty of a journalist is to report the facts of the news in a factual manner, and to verify it before reporting it. Make sure that the news is authentic, and not mixed with personal descriptions and comments between the lines of the report. In a way, the work of a journalist and a historian has a lot in common, and if the reporter's reporting is devoid of a personal point of view, what reason is there for the authorities to shut down the newspaper and suspend the newspaper? ”

Zhang Jiyao frowned when he heard this, and nodded after pondering carefully: "Mr. Xiao's views on the work of reporters are indeed reasonable, after all, there will be different opinions on anything from different angles, but if reporters can't express their own opinions in the report, then how to reflect the right and wrong views of news facts?" For example, the imperial court has raised taxes again, whether this matter is good or bad. There's always a saying, right? Another example is that so-and-so killed his wife who stole people, is this right or wrong? What is the impact on society? There should also be a position and point of view, right? ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded: "Yes, this is indeed a problem, but I think it can be solved in this way, if we run a newspaper, we can open a commentator's column on a certain page of the newspaper to solicit commentators' articles from the outside world, and anyone in the outside world can express their own opinions on a certain incident or news, write their own remarks into words, and mail the manuscript to our newspaper." After review, our newspaper believes that the views are very new, sharp, and representative, and can be published in the columns of commentators, and for the articles of these commentators. Our newspaper pays for the number of words, but at the end of these commentators' articles, we have to take a stand. This is the opinion of the commentator and does not represent the opinion of the newspaper. The authorities are looking for trouble, let them go to the trouble of these commentators. Nothing to do with our newspaper! For some particularly well-known commentators, our newspaper can consider long-term cooperation with them, list them as special commentators, and give preferential treatment to manuscript fees and other treatments! In this way, our newspaper has both factual reports and commentary on certain current events, and because there are special commentators who write articles, they are much larger than those written by reporters, so that certain points of view can be published with great pleasure, and readers can enjoy reading them, and the authorities will not be caught in trouble with our newspaper."

Zhang Jiyao listened, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and after Xiao Zhenlei finished speaking, he slapped the table violently, Xiao Zhenlei was fine, but he scared the people who drank tea around him, and made the surrounding tea customers complain, and the two hurriedly apologized, and everyone was relieved and drank tea again.

Zhang Jiyao said excitedly: "Mr. Xiao, listening to your words, it is better to study for ten years, the method you think of is really good, I believe that as long as we adopt this method, the newspaper will definitely be prosperous, and the authorities will not trouble us!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei could only smile bitterly in his heart, the authorities don't need a reason to find trouble at all, but going to the newspaper according to what he just said can indeed save a lot of trouble, and if the newspaper is run in this way, in the days that follow, in order to protect their own safety, those commentators no longer dare to use their real name at the place where the author of the article is registered, and use a name that they think has a personality or expresses their wishes, or a name with commemorative significance, all in all, these names have special meanings, Just like those writers, they always like to write by another name, which is called a pen name.

Xiao Zhenlei saw that Zhang Jiyao was so excited, so he struck while the iron was hot, "Mr. Zhang, I just said that I will pay for the newspaper and get the license, and you will be responsible for the business, I don't know what you think?" ”

"Of course!" Zhang Jiyao rubbed his hands and immediately agreed, "This is something I can't ask for, and I want to thank Mr. Xiao for his trust!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile: "If you want to say thank you, I should thank you, I just pay for it, but all the business matters are handed over to you to be responsible, and I will trouble you to work harder in the future, by the way, I don't know how long it will take you to deal with your current work?" ”

Zhang Jiyao hurriedly said: "It's very simple, I just need to say hello to the original newspaper editor-in-chief!" ”

"That's good, let's do it, these days you go around the concession, pick a few places for our newspaper office location, of course, we do the typesetting of the newspaper by ourselves, printing will temporarily find a printing house to cooperate, and after the newspaper is done, we will prepare to build our own printing house, on the one hand, we can print newspapers, on the other hand, we can do the business of printing books!" There is another use that Xiao Zhenlei did not say, that is, printing money, but this is a matter for a later time.

Because Zhang Jiyao has long had the idea of running a newspaper, he has long been careful about the location of the newspaper's office, and he has been engaged in journalist work for so many years, and he is also very familiar with the various printing houses on the beach, he hurriedly said: "Mr. Xiao, in fact, I have long been optimistic about a few places, as far as I know, these places are now idle, and the rent is not high, and I am very familiar with the various printing houses in Shanghai, it depends on when you have time, let's go and see together, you think you can do it!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, thought about what other arrangements there were in the past few days, thought for a while and said: "Then the morning after tomorrow, you leave me a contact information, and I will look for you then!" ”

"Good!" Zhang Jiyao hurriedly took out a pen and paper from the briefcase, left Xiao Zhenlei a phone number and address, Xiao Zhenlei took the note and put it in his pocket and left, not long after Zhang Jiyao drank tea and left the teahouse with the briefcase.

On the morning of September 16, Xiao Zhenlei called Zhang Jiyao, the two met at the agreed location, and then went together to see Zhang Jiyao's early optimistic about several locations, ran for a day, after negotiating with the owners of those locations, Xiao Zhenlei felt that there was a place to be more satisfied, the location was on Nanjing Road, and the rent was also very cheap. And it is a separate floor, so it is not suitable to do a shop pù to do a shopping mall, the boss feels that it is not cost-effective to rent out here as a house, after all, it is not possible to rent the price of housing rental, Xiao Zhenlei and Zhang Jiyao want to rent the office space of the newspaper to make the boss overjoyed, the two sides finally reached an agreement after a fierce bargaining, the landlord made concessions on the price, and Xiao Zhenlei extended the lease time to five years, Xiao Zhenlei dropped the deposit and agreed with the landlord to sign the housing lease contract tomorrow.

At noon, the two found a restaurant on Nanjing Road to feed their stomachs, and in the afternoon, the two went to the printing house to talk about business, to see which printing house was willing to take over the newspaper printing business of the newspaper, and ran three printing factories in a row, either the scale was too small to undertake such a large business of printing newspapers, or the other party's production and printing tasks were full, and there was a printing factory because there were big loopholes in safety management, Xiao Zhenlei visited the other party's printing workshop and found that many workers smoked. He feared that if a fire broke out because of the pyrotechnics, the newspaper would not be released in time, and it would have a very bad impact on the newspaper.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the two came to the last printing house that Zhang Jiyao was more familiar with, and the two called the boss of the printing factory in advance before they came, so they were received by the boss just when they arrived at the printing house, and after a while of greetings between the two sides, Xiao Zhenlei proposed to come out of the printing workshop to see the working conditions of the workers and the printing equipment, the boss was very enthusiastic, and immediately took the two to the production workshop.

After visiting, Xiao Zhenlei and Zhang Jiyao found that there are still many printing machines in this printing factory that are idle, and those machines are still very new, obviously the production capacity of this printing factory can be increased a lot.

After the visit, Xiao Zhenlei and Zhang Jiyao exchanged views, more satisfied with the printing house, so they negotiated with the boss to print the newspaper business, the boss of the printing house is of course very happy to have business to come to the door, and the price is not high, the two sides reached some after some bargaining, and agreed to sign the contract on another day.

Xiao Zhenlei discussed with Zhang Jiyao and decided to name the newspaper "Shumin Daily" to serve the people. (To be continued......) R527