Indeed, as Li You guessed, the other cabinet elders were a little unable to sit still. As a bachelor who is not really a prime minister in the system, but is regarded as a prime minister, and at the same time needs to do the work of the prime minister, he must have influence, otherwise he will lose the authority of the government.

In their cognition, influence is something that cannot be seen or touched, and they need to rely on their words and deeds to accumulate bit by bit. But this notion has recently been subverted, and the culprit is Na Li You.

In the Pravda in his hand, the influence seems to be visible and tangible. It is quite obvious that Lu Gelao has published a column for three consecutive issues, and it has been relaunched as a Pravda, and his influence has increased visibly, and Yang Gelao seems to have made a lot of gains.

And the other elders are counterexamples, counterexamples of one and the other, so they feel uncomfortable. In the long run, where can their old faces be placed in the court? Of course, faint regret is indispensable, a few days ago, Li You sent them a piece of paper to ask for a draft, and they contemptuously threw it into the wastebasket, and now this result is a bit self-helping.

At present, if you change your previous attitude and write an article for the purpose of publishing in the newspaper, it will be like spitting on your own face, and it is quite faceless. Even if you can put down the sub-questions and take the initiative to submit the manuscript to the truth, will you be sarcastic, difficult, and ridiculed by Li You? With Li You's mind, it is hard to guarantee that it will not be like this, and at that time, he will really take the initiative to send his face to the door and be beaten.

Can't let Pravda become a two-person turn of Lu Ge Lao and Yang Ge Lao! This is the consensus of Xu Shoufu, Peng Cifu, Yuan Ge Lao, and Jin Ge Lao. However, there is no consensus, but there is no good way to use it.

If someone else is the president of Pravda, then no matter whether this person is promoted or demoted, or transferred or transferred, there is always a way to reach a tacit understanding after joining hands. But this is Li You, so it makes several pavilion elders feel at a loss.

Don't forget, the previous few cabinet elders had already made a ghost and drove Li You away from the newspaper office of the Guozi Supervision Office, and as a result, the official newspaper office was smashed, and it can even be said that it was a complete defeat.

And Li You gave up the Ministry of Industry and other beauty differences this time. Take the initiative to ask Ying to go back to the newspaper office to clean up the mess. In the eyes of others, it is to take into account the overall situation and ignore personal gains and losses.

At this time when he is about to come back to life, if several cabinet elders once again drive Li You away from the newspaper office, it will be completely shameless and shameless in front of the Son of Heaven and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and it is certain that he will have a shameless reputation.

Thinking of this, several cabinet elders all had an idea, could it be that Li You had calculated this at the beginning, so he simply left the newspaper hall neatly, and privately invested money to run a reasonable newspaper, and the official newspaper could not be run? Could it be that Li You originally wrote to ask for a manuscript. Is it also to induce them to deliberately mock and ignore?

I have to say that Lord Li's image in the hearts of several bigwigs is too demonized, at that time, even if Lord Li can calculate again, how can he calculate that he has the opportunity to return to the newspaper office, count that Shi Saijiu took the initiative to resign as president and recommend him to take office, and that he can return to the helm of Pravda?

If these can be calculated, it is an immortal, and Li You is just watching one step at a time. In other words, Li You, who is a man of two lives, has a very forward-looking insight and hype awareness. It is too easy to innovate and seize the opportunity in the battle for public opinion.

Can he only endure until Li Youjiao's army will be defeated, the extremes of things will be reversed, the prosperity will decline, or he will take the initiative to make mistakes? According to the development of things. It's possible, but it's going to take a long time, can you wait? Especially when Li You is thirty or forty years younger than them...

If it was just "a little" unable to sit still now, then several pavilion elders would soon really be unable to sit still, because something happened in the court.

Some time ago, the governor of Shandong sent a message to the imperial court, saying that the province had planted cotton extensively in recent years, and the cotton was sold along the canal to the Jiangnan weaving factory, which was very profitable. As a result, other agricultural affairs have been affected, so please ask the imperial court how to deal with it.

Regarding this incident, which was regarded as "the budding of capitalism" in Li You's heart, the cabinet did not argue with the result, and the court could not reach a consensus, which was a small hot topic in the court recently. Therefore, Lu Ge Lao Cai published an article in the column of Li You's version of Pravda, "The Good and Bad of Shandong Guangzhi Cotton", which is by no means untargeted.

After Lu Gelao's policy was published and sent to the various yamen tables through the truth report, I don't know why. The controversy was much quieter, and Lu Gelao's opinion gradually became the mainstream view.

In fact, the incident itself is not big, but the meaning revealed is meaningful, which makes the other pavilion elders feel a great sense of crisis. If the previous cabinet elders were thinking about the issue of face, then now what needs to be worried about is the issue of the strength of power.

It can be said that Li You showed the courtiers the power of the newspaper as a platform for public opinion from the high-end level, so that they were psychologically shocked again after looking at the very low-end Mingli newspaper. As the saying goes, there are thousands of ways to run a newspaper?

Regarding Lord Li's use of power to support Peng Ge Lao's behavior, the court surprisingly turned a blind eye, and not many people expressed their stance on this for the time being. One is the shadow of a person's famous tree, others have opinions and others say it, so why bother to provoke Li You for no reason. The second is that President Li didn't give other bigwigs a chance, and other bigwigs refused to contribute, and they also laughed at Li You's inability to do anything at that time, so it's no wonder that President Li is in this situation.

However, the four pavilion elders are not weak, although they have been generalized, their comprehensive strength is definitely much stronger than Li You, and it depends on how the situation continues to develop.

On this day, Li You was sitting in the Guozi Prison, and reading the account books of the newspaper office, calculating the problem of the deficit of silver and how to turn losses into profits. Suddenly, I heard a report saying: "Zhu Fanghe, a member of the Ministry of Etiquette, came to visit Li Yanxian. ”

This seems to be the first time that Mr. Fanghe has come to the yamen to find him in person? For this friend of the clan, the etiquette specifications on the official face should obviously be higher, so Li You hurriedly greeted him and said, "Rare guests." ”

Zhu Fanghe laughed a few times, "I was in charge of school affairs, but when I came to this country, I was called a rare guest by you, and people who don't know still think that you ridiculed me for dereliction of duty." ”

This... Li You shook his head and smiled bitterly, that is, he said clichés and divided people into different occasions, and if he was not careful, he would almost offend people. Invited Zhu Bulang into the public room, served tea and asked, "Mr. Fanghe is here today, why did you come?" ”

Zhu Bulang has a hearty temperament and is also familiar with Li You, so he doesn't beat around the bush, and says straightly: "The matter is not a big deal, then the Ministry of Rites Hai Shangshu asked me to pass on a message to you, and asked you to send another document to the princes." ”

Li You knew well when he heard this, this must not only be the meaning of Hai Shangshu, but also the meaning of the cabinet. It's just that they can't let go of their bodies and faces, so they ask Zhu Bulang, a court with a transcendent identity, to spread the word "timely rain".

As long as they send them another document to ask them to contribute, they will naturally have a step down and actively write articles to submit to Pravda. However, I have already given them a step, why should I give them again in vain?

Zhu Fanghe said to Li You: "Brother has almost survived this year, the Son of Heaven intends to promote me to be the master of ceremonies, the ministry is no problem, now I need the cabinet to nod, otherwise it will always be unjustifiable." ”

"Congratulations! It's not easy to release Brother Crane. Li You raised his hand and said, and then he also understood what Zhu Fanghe meant.

In fact, theoretically speaking, a Wupinlang is nominated by the Ministry of Officials, and then appointed with the approval of the Son of Heaven Zhu, and Quanzheng is the affairs of the Son of Heaven and the Ministry of Officials. However, in fact, if the cabinet does not nod its head, it will indeed be a bit unjustifiable, especially since Zhu Pi still has to issue a cabinet before an edict can be formed.

If others are okay, if they can open up the joints between the officials and the Son of Heaven, and at the same time are not afraid of offending the cabinet, they don't need to pay attention to it, but Zhu Fanghe can't. He has the identity of the clan, and he is very sensitive in the civil and official circles, and if he is a little unparticular, he is afraid that gossip will fly all over the sky. Therefore, you need to be more rigorous than others in the procedure, otherwise there will be some "improper position" meaning.

Zhu Fanghe, as the Tanhua of Jinghe in the spring of the second year, has been eight years now, and he is a member of the Ministry of Etiquette, obviously because of the result of being suppressed by the courtiers because of the identity of the clan, and the Son of Heaven is helpless, but he doesn't want to take the route of honoring relatives.

Now there is an opportunity to improve to Lang Zhong, the core department of the Ministry of Rites, which is very rare for Zhu Fanghe, and the cabinet will use this matter as his Li You's article.

Li You's mind turned around a few times, and he thought about the cause and effect of this matter thoroughly. didn't wait for him to speak, and listened to Zhu Bulang again: "The doorway here, I can see it clearly for my brother, and the cabinet is just using my brother's future to bargain with you." It is said that he is a brother who is deeply favored by the emperor, and others also sell a little face, so they don't care about the official rank.

But Brother Wei thinks it would be better if you took the opportunity to make peace with the cabinet members on the issue of newspapers. You can't really keep a stalemate like this, although you can take the advantage in the short term, but for a long time, it will always be unfavorable to you, after all, it is the four elders. ”

Zhu Bulang knew Li You's character, and was worried that Li You would be "a dead dog on the wall" this time, so he took the lead to persuade him.

Li You smiled slightly, "Actually, I am also waiting for this opportunity, since Mr. Fanghe personally said peace, then I have no intention of disobeying." However, I also have a few ideas that I would like to discuss with Mr. Fanghe. ”

A quarter of an hour later, Zhu Fanghe couldn't help but sigh: "Don't mention anything else, your ability to create opportunities without a chance is very admirable for my brother." No wonder you chose this position a few days ago, this time it is really going to be, you are the youngest court official, this thought is simply exquisite. ”

Li You said incomprehensibly: "There is never a lack of opportunities in the world, what is lacking is only the vision to find opportunities." ”

The newspaper is just a platform, within the scope of the target audience, of course, the more people who participate in the platform, the better, whether it is their own party or enemy, the more the merrier. This is not an emotional place in the first place, business is business, and it has nothing to do with human feelings.

Li You did not think of excluding those cabinet bigwigs from Pravda from the beginning, only if they use and rely on this platform, then this platform can be valuable, and he, Li You, who is in charge of this platform, can gain substantial influence.

Now, at last, they can't hold their breath anymore.