A middle-aged man in an earth-colored robe, with a fat body and a fat round face, sat at a table and drank tea slowly, when he heard footsteps at the door and looked up, he saw a young man walking in accompanied by a guard-like person, he immediately stood up and said respectfully: "The villain has Jia Laobi, deputy of the eighteenth squad of the Shansi C Brigade, has seen the adult, may the adult be blessed and healthy!" ”

Yue Yang looked at this middle-aged man who was fat and had a chubby round face as if he could say Wishing you prosperity at any time for a while, he couldn't imagine that such a middle-aged man who looked like a treasurer would be an undercover agent, nodded and pointed to the seat next to him and said, "Sit down!" ”

"Thank you, sir!"

After the two sat down, Yan Laobi sat on the stool and straightened up, staring at Yue Yang, waiting for his orders. Yue Yang didn't talk nonsense and asked directly: "Jia Laobi, do you have anything to do with this time when you come to find Ben Hou?" ”

Hearing Yueyang culture, Jia Laobi was about to stand up and reply, but saw Yue Yang waving his hand: "Sit down, sit down and talk back." ”

"Yes!" Jia Laobi sat down and pulled his buttocks half-buttocks, and then said respectfully: "Back to the Hou Ye, the villain came to report to you this time, and the people behind the rumors that you ordered to track down have already found out, and this matter was done by the Wang family who was expelled from Yingzhou Mansion by you back then." ”

"The Wang family?" Yue Yang's eyes couldn't help but be stunned, "Is it the Wang family of the four major families in Yingzhou Mansion?" ”

"Yes, Master Hou!" Jia Laobi replied with a wry smile: "The Wang family has disappeared since they offended you in Yingzhou, but I didn't expect them to move their family to Jinling. Spreading the news that you want to sell refined salt in Jinling on a large scale is what Wang Chenglin, the second son of the Wang family, found someone to do. ”

"Wang Chenglin?" Yue Yang's eyes froze, this Wang Chenglin almost took the life of the predecessor of his body, and later led people to fight with him by the Sanggan River because of grabbing water. In the end, after losing the battle with himself, the family withdrew from Yingzhou City, and then disappeared, but he didn't expect to run to Jinling.

"Huh...... This Wang family is really ghostly, it's just that they can't live a good life in Jinling, and they continue to set up Benhou, are they too long? The corners of Yue Yang's mouth showed a trace of anger, just because of these rumors. broke the original cooperation plan between himself and Wei Guogong, such a poisonous snake hiding in the dark is more dangerous than a jackal on the surface, thinking of this. Yue Yang said with a hint of coldness in his eyes.

"Jia Laobi, you immediately inform the head of your team C, and say that I don't want to hear from anyone in the Wang family from now on, do you understand?"

"Yes. The villain understands! ”

"That's right. Is there any news about the official named Wang Qian? ”

"Back to the Hou Ye, there is already news." Jia Laobi said respectfully: "After the official named Wang Qian offended the eunuch Qian Neng, he was dismissed from his official position by Qian Neng and thrown into the prison of the town guard mansion in the north of the city, but because Wang Qian's official position was too small, Qian Neng ignored him after throwing him into the prison, so he is still locked up alive, but you also know that the prison is where people stay." If you don't try to get people out, it is estimated that the body and bones of the surnamed Wang will not last long. ”

"That's it!" Yue Yang touched his chin and pondered. Only then did he say: "Nacheng, you go back first, I'll call you if there's something!" ”

"Yes!"

Jia Laobi stood up and respectfully bowed to Yue Yang and withdrew, when he went out, Chen Dazhi personally sent him out, just like when he came, not many people in the whole courtyard found that someone had come just now.

Sending Jia Laobi away, Yue Yang sat on the chair, closed his eyes and pondered, after a while, a faint fragrance fluttered slightly in the air, and then a pair of soft little hands gently placed on his temples and gently massaged, the strength of this little hand massage is not light or heavy, it is very appropriate, Yue Yang moaned comfortably, leaned his head back, and his head suddenly fell into a pile of warm fragrance.

After a while, Yue Yang praised sincerely: "Xiaowan, your massage skills are really good, much better than Yue'er." ”

Dong Xiaowan's faint voice came: "Xianggong praised it falsely, Yue'er and Sister Xiangjun are both knowledgeable people, and now they are helping Xianggong review the manuscript for the past two days, and the concubine can't help anything, and she can only help Xianggong massage to relieve fatigue." ”

"That's pretty good." Yue Yang turned his head with a smile, reached out and hugged Dong Xiaowan's thin waist, hugged her whole person in his arms, and kissed her heavily on the little face before comforting: "As the so-called art industry has a specialty, Xiangjun and Yue'er, one of them was born in a family of eunuchs, and the other is familiar with poetry and books, while you are proficient in female red, each has its own strengths?" How can you say it's useless......"

It seems to be a man's nature to lie to women, and Yue Yang is naturally no exception, and after a series of sycophants, Yue Yang coaxed Dong Xiaowan into a smile, and finally came to another courtyard.

This courtyard is different from the courtyard where Yue Yang stayed at the right time, there are many craftsmen walking here, these craftsmen are all printing masters hired by Mao Xiang and Chen Zhenhui at a high price by Yue Yang, and they are now nervously preparing for the publication of the first Daming Times.

Yue Yang walked into a room, came behind a busy craftsman, patted him on the shoulder, and asked, "Master Zheng, have you all figured out how to use this printing press these days?" ”

"Got it!" The craftsman surnamed Zheng looked back and said excitedly after seeing Yue Yang: "Childe, this thing you got called the printing press is really too godly, as long as you typeset it according to these things, we can easily typeset the article, as long as it is arranged, it will not be a problem to print thousands of copies a day." ”

"It's good that you figure it out, so we can start work tomorrow!"

Yue Yang smiled and nodded, although as early as the Song Dynasty, Bi Sheng, who was born as a commoner, created a clay type, a word for a seal, with fire to harden, to make it a pottery, although Bi Sheng invented the world's earliest movable type printing printing, but this printing method still has a lot of limitations. Therefore, the clay movable type he created did not remain, and until the Ming Dynasty, the mainstream of Chinese printing was still engraving printing.

But the disadvantages of block printing are well known. The cost is high and the workmanship is complicated, in order to establish the "Daming Times" Yueyang specially got a set of lead printing press from modern times and got it to Jinling, and let several craftsmen found by Mao Xiang be familiar with the machine, after a few days of study and operation, finally figured out the operation method of this set of machine.

Since the house where the printing press was placed was full of things, and the room was full of ink, Yue Yang stayed for a while and then went out of the room to another room. And in this room, Wang Yue and Li Xiangjun were sitting at a table, carefully reviewing the manuscripts one by one, and the good-looking Dai eyebrows suddenly stretched and wrinkled, because they were too concentrated. Even Yue Yang's arrival didn't notice.

Seeing this situation, Yue Yang suddenly felt teasing, walked up to the two and suddenly shouted.

"Hey ......"

"Ahh

The second daughter, who was too concentrated, was so frightened by Yue Yang's cry that she almost jumped up, until she fixed her eyes on Yue Yang. The two second daughters, who were so frightened that they threw down their manuscripts and pounced on Yue Yang. Four pink fists kept pounding on his body.

"Call you bad, call you bad, see if we don't kill you!"

"Okay, okay, I was wrong!"

Yue Yang, who had done something wrong, had no choice but to let the second daughter vent her grievances and dissatisfaction there, and after a while, she sat down with the second daughter in her arms, and said with a smile on the two of them: "Okay, the husband is just joking with you, how about it." Have you read all these drafts, and are there any better ones? ”

Listened to Yue Yang's words. Wang Yue raised her mouth and said: "Xianggong, I and Sister Xiangjun have read these drafts, to be honest, they are not very good, you see, what are they written here?" ”

After speaking, Wang Yue picked up a few manuscripts and handed them to Yue Yang and said: "Look at this manuscript, it is full of people, except for the readers, who can understand it, and this article, you see, it is full of words criticizing the imperial court, if it is sent out, I am afraid that the government will find it the next day." ”

Yue Yang picked up the manuscript and took a cursory look at it, and couldn't help shaking his head, "To be honest, these articles are not good, they are either showmanship or bullshit articles piled up with a bunch of gorgeous words." For example, in this article, you can just criticize the court, and it's not a big deal, after all, if you don't scold the court these days, you will be embarrassed to say that you are a scholar. But what you scold must be reasonable, what people do wrong, how to correct it, you have to say a way, these people are good, just care about scolding, after scolding, it doesn't matter, at most write a sentence "The pro-gentleman is far away from the villain, the world is peaceful", such a person can only use the word straw bag to describe him, what is this called! ”

Li Xiangjun on the side also said: "Xianggong, don't be too anxious, after all, it is impossible for Mao Gongzi and Chen Gongzi to find so many people to submit in such a short period of time, and the initial establishment of our newspaper and magazine has not yet made a name for itself, so it is inevitable that those who are really knowledgeable will not contribute to us, so it is inevitable that the level of these manuscripts is not high." ”

Wang Yue said unhappily: "But Sister Xiangjun, Xianggong has high hopes for this newspaper, if it is published like this, I am afraid it will ruin Xianggong's reputation." ”

Seeing Wang Yue's pouting mouth, Yue Yang couldn't help but scratch his nose lightly in amusement before he smiled: "Okay, Yue'er Xiangjun, don't worry, if there are really no good manuscripts, Xianggong has a few articles here, if there are really no good articles, you can just pick some up." ”

"What, Xianggong actually wrote a manuscript too?"

Wang Yue and Li Xiangjun immediately stared at Yue Yang, with a look of surprise on their little faces, they had known Yue Yang for the past few days, Yue Yang had never revealed his literary level in front of them, and now he even said that he had a few articles to publish, which immediately made them interested. Especially Li Xiangjun, a woman who is known as a good qin, chess, calligraphy and painting on the Qinhuai River, has a strong love for articles, and after hearing Yue Yang's words, she even grabbed her man's sleeve and shouted for him to take it out quickly.

"Actually, it's not a good manuscript, it's a novel that you write when you have nothing to do on weekdays, you can take a look at it first, and if you can, you can publish it in the Ming Times one after another." With that, Yue Yang took out a book from his arms and handed it to Li Xiangjun.

Li Xiangjun took the book and read it softly: "Hey, this book is called Confucianism?" ”

Then, Li Xiangjun turned the book. When I saw the first chapter, it was written: It is said that Chen Dayi borrowed celebrities to conceal the full text......

Li Xiangjun is a person with good books, and as soon as he saw this book, he fell into it and couldn't pull it out again.

Seeing that Li Xiangjun was so fascinated, Wang Yue pulled Yue Yang's arm and said coquettishly: "Xianggong." Is there only one copy? ”

Seeing Wang Yue's longing look, Yue Yang had no choice but to take out a book from his arms and hand it to her; "No, there's another copy here, can you take a look!"

"There really is!" Wang Yue took it and read softly: "Old Disabled Travelogue, what a strange name." "Finished. I couldn't wait to look through it.

Yue Yang waited for a long time, and saw that the second daughter was still studying hard, so in desperation, he patted them on the shoulder and asked, "How is it?" The two books that Xianggong gave you are not bad, right? ”

Li Xiangjun raised his head, and his eyes showed excitement: "Xianggong, this book is very well written, it can be said that it upholds the public heart and points out the evils of the times." Sharp-edged. especially in Shilin; The text is also harmonious and harmonious. Graceful and sarcastic, the concubine has never seen such a sharp and witty article, you are so talented! ”

"yes, there's this one!" Wang Yue shook the book "The Travels of the Old Remnant" in his hand and exclaimed: "The second book can be said to be a hateful pick-up of the so-called Qing officials, or especially more than the corrupt officials, which has not been tasted by anyone, although the author is also very complacent, and has made an extremely sharp attack on the current government and current situation. It can be described as hitting the nail on the head, and it is more than a hundred times stronger than those disease-free moaning bullshit articles on the table. Xianggong, how did you write it? It's amazing. ”

Looking at Wang Yue and Li Xiangjun's excited and admiring eyes, Yue Yang touched his nose and wanted to tell them: In fact, these two books are really not written by your father-in-law, but if you deny it, the second daughter will inevitably ask the original author, where will Yue Yang go to find out Wu Jingzi and Liu E, the two big men who have not yet been born, so she has to pinch her nose and recognize that she is the author's name, anyway, if you don't plagiarize a few famous books or poems these years, you are embarrassed to say that you are crossing, why can't others be buddies.

Seeing Yue Yang's silent acquiescence, Wang Yue and Li Xiangjun couldn't help but be in awe of their husband, they originally thought that their husband was just a general who could fight well, but they didn't expect it to be both civil and military, which is amazing.

Seeing the increasingly adoring look in the eyes of the second daughter and the eyes that seemed to be dripping water, Yue Yang didn't know why, he always felt a little sweaty on his forehead, and hurriedly asked: "What, two daughters-in-law, do you see if it is okay to slowly publish these two books in our Daming Times, and whether it can attract everyone." ”

"Of course!" Wang Yue hurriedly said: "Husband, don't you know, this kind of small talk about current affairs is the most popular among those girls and neighbors on the Qinhuai River, and the concubine dares to guarantee that as long as it is published like this, it will definitely be full of readers." ”

Yue Yang moved his gaze to Li Xiangjun, who had a more stable temperament: "Xiangjun, what do you say." ”

"The concubine thinks it's okay!" Li Xiangjun also nodded: "Our newspaper originally didn't plan to collect cash at the beginning, although the manuscripts received so far are not very well written, but with these two novels at the bottom, even if the other manuscripts are almost written, it doesn't hurt." ”

Seeing that the two daughters-in-law had a positive attitude, Yue Yang patted his thigh: "Okay, then let's start making people typeset, it will be printed overnight tonight, and it will be published on the street tomorrow, I don't believe that no one will read it!" ”

"Oh...... By the way, Yue'er, I have already inquired about your father's whereabouts, and now that your father is fine, I have asked someone to take my name to the Wei State Mansion, and ask Old Man Xu to help release your father, it is estimated that your father will be able to come out in a few days, you can rest assured! ”

"Xianggong ......" Wang Yue's eyes immediately turned red......

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On the morning of the eighth day of the second month of the tenth year of Chongzhen

As the sky began to turn white, a group of teenagers began to appear on the streets of Jinling, each of them carrying a thick cloth bag full of a pile of drumming paper, and when they passed some teahouses, taverns and inns, they would take out a newspaper from the cloth bag that still smelled of ink, and hand it to the shopkeeper or the man there, and tell them that these things were free things and no silver, and they could take them as much as they wanted, and even when they saw some well-dressed merchants or scholars, They will also hand them a copy.

As long as it is a human being, whether it is a man or a woman, young or old, there has always been no resistance to free things, which is true throughout the ages.

Although some pretentious people took the newspaper with disdain and threw it aside before they read it, many more people were curious to see what was written in the newspaper, but when they read it, many people immediately fell into it.

"Good, well written, well written!"

In a teahouse, the storyteller held a copy of the Daming Times and patted his thigh while reading it, and couldn't stop cheering.

A tea guest asked curiously: "Old Liaotou, what are you shouting, why don't you hurry up and say a few paragraphs to the masters." ”

"You know what?" The storyteller glared at the tea guest, "This thing called the Daming Times is very well written, and two of the novels are so wonderful, I'll tell you when I'm done!" ”

"Oh...... And what's going on? Okay, look at it, and when you're done, tell us guys about it......"

The Daming Times, which was issued on the first day, slowly entered everyone's field of vision...... (To be continued......)