That night, the military government sent a large amount of wine and meat, Li Yuanhong Governor himself did not show up, and the person who gave the gift said that he had not slept for several nights in a row, and he was relieved to hear that Dajie was dizzy, and he did not know whether it was true or not.

The Hunan army aiding Hubei set up a banquet with wine, regardless of officers and soldiers, gathered together to celebrate the victory of Yudaimen Station. Everyone ate and drank openly, and everyone was happy. The officers and soldiers of the second battalion who made great contributions were the center of the entire banquet, and Wang Zhenyu, who was the pipe band, was naturally the center of the center, and the officers gathered around him to toast.

Lu Diping drank two more glasses, blushed and squeezed in front of Wang Zhenyu with a thick neck, and shouted: "Brother Wang, you are not kind, you said that you would do a big job in Hankou together, but you have to instruct your brother to lure the enemy for you." Now someone has said, saying that it is my brother I am greedy for life and afraid of death, and I left my brother in Hankou in order to get out of myself, and I can't argue with my brother, this grievance is big, you have to punish yourself, you can't let my brother and I carry this black pot for you. ”

Lu Diping is a team of zuihou who returned to Hanyang, so the whole army is spreading that the second battalion was trapped in Hankou in order to cover him Lu Diping, and Lu Diping is the villain who abandoned the friendly army. And when he first lost the news of the second battalion, Wang Longzhong also angrily reprimanded Lu Diping and others, and even used his fists and feet. Lu Diping is not afraid of being beaten, but he is afraid of losing face, he is now discarding the name of the friendly army throughout the entire Hunan army to aid Hubei, if Wang Zhenyu does not help him wash it off, he will not be able to continue to mix in the Hunan army, which is known for its hegemony.

Wang Zhenyu was stunned for a moment, it seems that the actual situation is different from what this old brother said. However, the sedan chair was carried by everyone, and seeing the trace of embarrassment and nervousness in Lu Diping's red eyes, Wang Zhenyu from later generations suddenly understood everything, and he smiled at Lu Diping: "Yes, this matter, brother, I did something inappropriate, and I should punish myself with a cup." ”

After a cup of belly, Wang Zhenyu spoke again: "But Brother Lu blamed my brother, at that time, luring the enemy was a very critical and dangerous errand, if you Brother Lu didn't go, it would be difficult to let the dolls of the Hubei Student Army go." Hey, if that's the case, the jade belt door won't be blown up, and the brothers won't have this meal to drink, right? So I said Brother Lu, you really blame me, you also have to be punished, and you have to punish yourself for three cups, don't you say? ”

Everyone drank to the head and coaxed one after another, which was equivalent to giving Lu Diping an explanation in public, Lu Diping was already grateful to Wang Zhenyu, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, it's the old brother who blames the old brother, self-punishment, self-punishment." ”

As a result, after three cups, Lu Diping was drunk and unconscious, and became a mess of mud, this wine.

What Wang Zhenyu didn't expect was that such a trivial matter in his own opinion was actually exchanged for Lu Diping's lifelong friendship.

On November 20, Wang Longzhong's First Concord and Gan Xindian's Third Concord were ordered to return to Wuchang, and the wartime General Headquarters conveyed a very clear order, and the Hubei Military Government's Li Yuanhong Li Dadu Governor personally awarded medals to the troops who had made meritorious contributions in the Hankou counterattack.

When the troops of the Hunan army marched into Wuchang City, the whole Wuchang was in a sensation, and the citizens spontaneously went to the roadside to welcome this triumphant army. Colorful flags fluttered on the streets, and the crowd of greetings stood on both sides, with no end in sight. People excitedly stuffed eggs into the hands of the soldiers, and in the eyes of the citizens, it was these brave soldiers from Hunan who defeated the Tartars to keep Hanyang and Wuchang. Otherwise, if the Tartar soldiers really fight, everyone will be unlucky, don't you see that Hankou has been burned clean by the Tartar soldiers! Thankfully, we still have such a group of brave and warlike militias in front of us.

This is also the result of the military government's deliberate high-profile propaganda, the previous war was really too hard, and the whole of Wuchang seemed to be shrouded in a dark cloud. Therefore, although the Battle of Yudaimen failed to kill many Beiyang soldiers in the end, considering that this battle not only achieved remarkable results, but also did alleviate the entire situation. Li Yuanhong and others thought about it again and again, but they didn't care about squeezing out Huang Xing, and directly decided to make high-profile propaganda to boost morale and calm people's hearts.

The major media also rushed to report on the victory of the Hankow counterattack, although both warring sides insisted that they had won, and the Qing government even announced that more than 10,000 enemies had been killed, and that it had only lost hundreds of loyal soldiers. But this will not affect the judgment of the media, because the Yudaimen station was indeed terminated by the people's army, and the earth-shattering explosion was even heard clearly in the Hankou Concession, and after that, the Qing army did not continue to attack Hanyang, and now fools know who succeeded.

However, it was not the old newspapers such as "Declaration", "Wanguo Gazette", "Ta Kung Pao", and "News" that first published reports on this war, but "Hermes-Epitek Daily", which had just been established for more than ten days.

Shao Piaoping, the chief writer of Hermes-Epitek Daily, personally rushed from Hangzhou to Wuhan after learning the news of the victory in Hankou, just in time for the victory in Wuchang. But the article was not written by him alone, and there was also a reporter Huang Yuansheng, who was halfway home. There's no way, who let Huang Yuansheng, who was born as a foreign attaché, be in Wuhan at this moment!

Out of personal interest, Wang Zhenyu also studied a little journalism in his spare time in later life, not to mention anything else, he still knows that there are several well-known newspaper reporters during the Republic of China.

I really didn't expect that when I first arrived in this era, I was very fortunate to meet two of the most famous reporters in the early days of the Republic of China, and they were interviewees.

Wang Zhenyu thinks he knows a lot about journalists in later generations, especially Chinese journalists.

If American journalists are dung pickers, then Chinese journalists are dung eaters.

Of course, this person can't blame the reporter entirely, to a large extent, there are also institutional problems and social reasons. The largest revenue of Western media comes from two parts, one is advertising, and the other is sales, which actually boils down to sales.

The key to sales is the reader's approval, and you can imagine that a newspaper that sings praises every day, such as Pravda in the former Soviet Union, no matter how true its name is, cannot hide the fact that it is full of lies. No matter how much such a newspaper has a backstage, do you think readers with normal sexual orientation will pay for it? And if there is no newspaper that readers pay for, will advertisers pay to advertise on it?

What is called the choice of the market, this is the case. You could say it's a Riba man, but that's human nature.

Later generations of Chinese media people are in such an awkward position, full of lies will definitely not work, the government that picks the door will basically not allocate much money to the media, and many times the media are making a living on their own. But it is not possible to tell the truth, layers of audits, severe administrative sanctions after the fact, or overt or covert high-voltage lines. Media reporters and contemporaries are all surviving in the cracks, and gaining fame and fortune is tantamount to doing the Chinese dream.

At this time, if a journalist wants to live a good life and live a nourishing life, he can only play one role, a science and technology official, or a public intellectual.

After graduating from high school, Wang Zhenyu's classmates joined a government newspaper, which has a pattern of reporting on the leader's personal itinerary and the government's political achievements, praising the wisdom of the party and the government, and depicting the gratitude of the people in the market. If you really can't write a manuscript, it doesn't matter, just turn out the newspaper from the same period last year, copy it aside, and remember to change the time, place, and characters. Anyway, basically ordinary people will not spend money to buy such newspapers, and the largest readership is retired veteran cadres.

Oil and water are naturally limited, and the biggest income is every time the government holds a meeting or the enterprise engages in publicity, run over to get the speech and red envelope that has been written, and then convert the report into a news body and publish it, and the red envelope is the gray income other than legal income.

The above is the state of existence of small local state media reporters.

Wang Zhenyu's cousin graduated from a university in the capital and was assigned to a commercial newspaper in Guangzhou. You have a problem, it's okay, I found out the inside story in the interview, don't rush to write the manuscript first, and then give your public relations department a call, then, I also paid for this manuscript, if you don't want the truth to come out, then give some hard money.

Of course, it also depends on the situation, generally speaking, manuscripts that are not right to people will be sent, but it is best not to send manuscripts that are not right to people. There are often individual reporters who are overwhelmed by a sense of justice and conscience who are hacked to death and slashed, and the result is often that the newspaper does not dare to use you anymore. Because maybe that day, because you offended the people of Tongtian, the newspaper leader didn't even have to be the editor-in-chief.

Therefore, what you often see is that the evil deeds of some small characters are reported in the newspapers, and the evil deeds of big people are not dared to be cared about.

The truly courageous journalists with a conscience are the ones who dare to expose the deals and the truth behind the scenes, not the public intellectuals who are there screaming and screaming. The former is being reversed by strict censorship, while the latter feels good about themselves and is thriving.

Shao Piaoping is precisely the reporter with conscience and courage that Wang Zhenyu admires, and in the entire Republic of China, this gentleman exposes the truth the most and has the greatest courage. Because of this, he has offended the real power figures many times, so that he has no place in the whole of China. He could only hide in the embassy area and continue to write until he died tragically at the hands of Zhang Zuolin. Such reporters are the real dung pickers, the real warriors. As for his death, it is not so much a pity as a hope for this nation, because there are still people who dare to shed blood for telling the truth. Such talents are real dung pickers, real Chinese media people.

In addition, later history textbooks put the killing of Shao Piaoping with the killing of the founder of a certain party, often giving people the illusion that the two were closely related. However, Wang Zhenyu has verified that there was a full year difference between the deaths of these two people, except that they both died at the hands of Zhang Zuolin, there is basically no other connection. I don't know who is borrowing and exalting whom!

Far away, the problem now is that Wang Zhenyu looked at Shao Piaoping like an admiring pig brother, which made Shao Piaoping have a certain good impression of this civilian army officer in a very inexplicable way.