Regarding all kinds of discussions from the outside world, as one of the parties who were bet, Shisaijiu is not too worried about his position for the time being.

His appointment as the president of the newspaper was not run by anyone, but was the result of the deliberations of the inner and outer courts, and in officialdom terms, he was called "extremely upright", second only to the imperial court.

Overturning this result is equivalent to rejecting the opinions of several scholars and several scholars at the same time, the difficulty can be imagined, even the Son of Heaven cannot easily dismiss it, and it is even more difficult for Li You to take it back.

On the contrary, Lord Shi even had expectations for Li You, hoping that Master Li would assist him in running the newspaper in Guozijian. Although he had a slight understanding of the newspaper concept from Li You's previous arrangement, so he was confident that he could also run a newspaper, but after all, he did not have as much understanding as Li You in this regard.

It's a pity that the stone sacrifice wine didn't look forward to Li You, and Li You has been avoiding him since the court meeting, except for the time when he took the initiative to come to the door. However, the Guozi Supervision Office ushered in two other vice presidents, both of whom have very good backgrounds, one is Sun Yijiang, the superintendent of Fujian Province, who is said to have been recommended by the first assistant Xu Gelao; The other is You He, the young master of Honglu Temple, who is said to have been recommended by Yuan Ge, a scholar of Wenhuadian University.

This is enough to prove that the political sensitivity of the bigwigs is generally higher than that of ordinary officials. The second assistant Peng Ge Lao did not install someone to run the newspaper, it was not because he did not realize the significance of the newspaper, but because Guozijian was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and Hai Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites was his cronies, so he could directly exert influence on the newspaper run by Guozijian, and there was no need to provoke people's attention and install another person to run the newspaper.

In the past, it was Li You's own behavior to run a newspaper, so the relatively low-level name of the institution was named the newspaper office, but now that it is recognized by the imperial court, it will be formalized. The newspaper office was renamed the newspaper office, and it was temporarily attached to the name of the Guozijian in the name of dispatch.

If there is really great development in the future, then it is expected that the newspaper office will continue to be upgraded and changed to a newspaper department or a newspaper supervisor. At that time, the newspaper will be separated from the Guozijian and will have nothing to do with the stone sacrifice wine, and the two vice presidents will become the natural candidates for the official position - this is the layout of the big guys.

On 14 February, the two vice presidents took up their duties in Guozijian. Shi Saijiu was in a complicated mood and met the two in the public room.

After a greeting and a "long admiration", the guests and hosts sat separately, and after a few words of greeting, the three of them had an in-depth conversation about the newspaper. Suddenly, I heard a report from the handyman outside the door: "Inspector Li, please see you." ”

Then Li You has never shown up, but he came to see him at this time, is it a coincidence or deliberate? The stone sacrifice wine was stunned for a moment and invited Li You in. In fact, Li You is really a coincidence this time, he doesn't care about what has become of the Guozi Supervision Newspaper now. There are several presidents who are also not related to him.

After entering the house, Master Li caught a glimpse of two officials sitting next to the stone sacrifice wine. One of them was a little familiar, and the other was a little familiar and couldn't remember who it was, but it was clear from the number of seats that the status of these two people was average. So don't bother to ask who it is. He only arched his hand to the stone sacrifice wine and said, "There are a few small things, I want to ask Lord Shi to raise your noble hand." ”

Shi Saijiu raised his hand and said, "I have something to say." ”

"A few days ago, the official paid out of his own pocket to create some character plates in the classics hall. and they shall be removed for these two days; In addition, the official wants to borrow three or five book-printing craftsmen from the Prison Classics Department. ”

People who are not stupid can guess what Li You is going to do when they hear these words, and the stone sacrifice wine was stunned for a moment, and quickly asked, "Do you want to start a new stove?" ”

"Yes, since the imperial court does not allow this official to report in the Guozi Prison, of course this official will find another way out! Don't hide it from Lord Shi, this official has bought a three-entry house at the intersection of Chongwenmen Nei Street and Chaoyangmen Nei Street, in order to run a newspaper! Li You said unabashedly.

Sure enough, it's time to run a newspaper. That intersection is very convenient, and it is indeed a good place... The other three people in the room looked at each other in amazement.

As the chief and vice president of the Guozi Supervision Office appointed by the imperial court, they all had studied the new newspapers advocated by Li You, and naturally they all knew some of the tricks and difficulties of running private newspapers.

First of all, the Da Ming Law does not stipulate that private individuals are not allowed to run newspapers, or that the matter of running newspapers in the Da Ming Law is completely blank. Nowadays, hand-copied newspapers are still relatively popular. But the gap can be filled, and the imperial court can certainly issue new decrees to prohibit private individuals from running newspapers at will in the name of preventing fallacies and confusing the public. Therefore, the legal risk of private newspaper is very high, and only government agencies such as Guozijian do not have to worry about this kind of risk.

Second, the investment in running a new-style newspaper is not low. Whether or not you can make money is unknown. The imperial court and the government can run newspapers at any cost in order to "educate people's hearts". It's nothing more than a few thousand taels of silver smashed in a year. But if private newspapers continue to lose money, what is the picture?

Third, in order to run a new type of newspaper that is published on a regular basis, it is technically necessary to adopt flexible and fast movable type printing to meet the needs of high-frequency regular printing. However, at present, the printing industry, due to cost considerations, generally does not have a tight time requirement, so the vast majority of them are still manual engraving printing.

From this point of view, only Guozijian, who has 280,000 copper movable type, has the conditions to run a newspaper, and Li You wants to run a newspaper privately, where will he find movable type for a while? If you cast a complete set of sufficient movable type from scratch, it will take a lot of time, and the opportunity has long been lost.

If you don't use movable type, relying on engraving printing, in order to complete the plate making in a short time, then you must hire hundreds of skilled craftsmen all year round, the cost is extremely high, and the speed is not as fast as movable type.

Fourth, it is necessary to recruit a number of manpower with sufficient quality to run a newspaper, and there are many scholars, craftsmen, and miscellaneous laborers, and it is even more impossible for ordinary people in this regard to compete with the Guozijian who has 3,000 teachers and students and thousands of craftsmen and miscellaneous laborers.

To sum up, in the absence of precedent, the high cost and high risk of privately run new newspapers are daunting, and only the government can afford it. I have to say that Li You had a good vision at the beginning, and it seemed that only Guozijian had the most mature conditions for running a newspaper in the entire capital.

So I really don't understand what this Lord Li thinks, that is, his personality does not admit defeat, and he can't take such a risk to gamble on his net worth? He should be the person who knows the most about the difficulties in running a newspaper.

Li You ignored the surprised gazes of the others, and asked again: "Yes or no, please ask Lord Shi to send a word." ”

"Not really." It was not the stone sacrifice wine that spoke, but one of the two officials next to him.

Li You looked at it, but it was the familiar one, and this was the green onion again? He asked disdainfully, "What kind of character are you?" Is there a place for you to interject here? ”

"In the Lower Honglu Temple, Shaoqing You He, was used by the imperial court and temporarily sent as the vice president of the newspaper. Lord Li wants to borrow the word plate craftsman from the newspaper hall, why can't the official interject? The man introduced himself first. He also refuted: "First, the word plate was voluntarily donated by Master Li to Guozijian at the beginning, since this is the case even if it is owned by Guozijian, how can it be taken away?" Second, the craftsmen are all assigned by the imperial court to serve in the Guozijian, and they cannot be privately taught and accepted by the law, and there is no reason to borrow them without authorization. ”

Li You frowned and said, "It turns out that the imperial court also sent a vice president? Lord You, are you going to deliberately make things difficult for your own officials? ”

"Don't dare, it's just a duty. I would also like to ask for your understanding. You He replied.

The two vice presidents of them were sent by their respective backers to report to the Guozi Supervision Office. On the one hand, the main task is to prepare to occupy the position of public opinion and make arrangements in advance to seize power. On the other hand, it is to strictly guard against it. What we prevent is the restoration of Li You's comeback, and put an end to all the possibilities of Li You meddling in the newspaper.

This purpose may seem redundant, but it is by no means superfluous. Li You's resurgence is something that countless people with previous convictions and lessons have learned before, and those who have suffered losses will keep it in mind.

Although Lord You didn't expect Li You to take the initiative to start a new stove before. Leaving the Guozi Supervisor alone, Yuan Ge Lao did not instruct what to do at this time. But in the spirit of not allowing Li You to run a newspaper no matter what, it is always right to prevent him from using the resources of Guozijian.

Li You didn't say anything, and after a moment of silence, he said: "This official wants to use sixty prisoners, and he also asks Lord Shi to let them go, this is a relevant document." ”

"No!" It was You and Lord You who spoke first.

Li You suddenly turned his head sideways and stared at You He fiercely, with anger on his face. Of course, Lord You knew what kind of person Li You was, but Yuan Ge had instructions. He couldn't disobey, and he could only stubbornly stand up to it here.

"A young secretary of Honglu Temple who is not on the stage can also manage the prisoners of the country? Lord You's claws are too long, do you really think this official can't cut your hand? Li You scolded sharply.

At this time, Sun Yijiang, another new vice president, said to Shi Saijiu: "Lord Shi, there is an order from the imperial court, and the three of us will discuss the matter of running a newspaper in the future, please think twice." ”

Two vice presidents are eyeing each other. There was a faint feeling of regret in the heart of the stone festival, and he felt that he might have made a mistake.

At the beginning, Li You opposed his own performance and insisted on running his own newspaper, which seemed to be selfish, but it may be correct. And he comes out of the public heart. But he still reported to the imperial court, otherwise he would not have faced the current situation. As the saying goes, it works. Make a fortune with a muffled voice.

After weighing it in his heart, Shi Saijiu reluctantly said to Li You: "The prisoner is a national cultivator to study, and it is inconvenient for private use. ”

"It seems that you have refused with an iron heart." Li You seemed to be talking to himself, and suddenly he raised his hand and threw the document in his hand into Lord You's face.

This method is a naked humiliation, although the gold content of You He's status and official position is a cut worse than Li You, but it is also a five-grade product, how can you tolerate such a slap in the face? He subconsciously grabbed the piece of paper, crumpled it into a ball, threw it on the ground, and roared: "Li You, don't deceive people too much!" ”

Li You looked up to the sky and laughed a few times, raised his hand and said to the stone sacrifice wine: "Farewell!" ”

Looking at Li You's back, the stone sacrifice wine was puzzled. He has a lot of experience dealing with Li You, and he intuitively feels that something is wrong.

After thinking about it, Lord Shi's eyes fell on the paper ball on the ground. He bent down to pick it up, unfolded it, and saw that this document was clearly a yamen post, and the payment was clearly from the ministry.

Looking at the content again, it was the Ministry of Officials in the name of trial implementation, which approved Li You to give 100 prison history quotas for running newspapers. In other words, this is an official official document of the ministry, not Li You's own private request to borrow the prisoner.

Why didn't he make it clear just now? Lord Shi sympathetically handed this letter to Lord You and Lord You, and sincerely persuaded: "Your Excellency should go to the Ministry of Officials immediately and explain to Zhao Tianguan." ”

What to explain? First, why did the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, who was not ranked on the power list, dare to refuse the arrangement of personnel work by the officials; The second is why Shaoqing of Honglu Temple dared to crush the official documents of the Ministry and throw them on the ground.

Sun Yijiang, the superintendent of Fujian Province and another vice president, had a feeling of joy that it would be a good thing if the two vice presidents became one of him.