The promise is easy to make, but how to operate, Fan Ning is still confused, in fact, no matter whether Ouyang Qian asks for himself or not, Fan Ning is willing to help Ouyang Xiu, after all, Ouyang Xiu has an old relationship with him, and now the key is not his will, but action, how can he help Ouyang Xiu?

Fan Ning returned to Fan's Mansion with a heavy heart, and as soon as he left the East Courtyard, the little maid ran up and said, "Someone came to look for an official just now!" ”

Fan Ning was upset, waved his hand, and continued to walk towards the study.

When he reached the door, he stopped again and asked, "Who is looking for me?" ”

"It seems to be someone from "Chaobao", he left a post, and I put it on the official's desk."

Fanning nodded and walked into the study, this is just Fanning's temporary study, they only came back yesterday, and they haven't had time to clean up their mansion, otherwise, ordinary little maids are not allowed to enter his study.

There was indeed a prayer post on the table, Fan Ning picked up the worship post and looked at it, it was actually Li Xiang, the proprietor of "Chao Pao", of course, this proprietor is actually a puppet, and the real controller will not show up easily.

Fanning sat down, playing with the note in his hand, and slowly fell into deep thought.......

"Who said I wasn't coming back for dinner!"

I don't know how long it took, and Zhu Pei's unhappy voice suddenly came from the courtyard, "Has the official come back?" ”

"The official is in the study!" The little girl was timid.

Fan Ning got up and walked to the door, and when he saw Zhu Pei's puffed face, he couldn't help but smile and asked, "I went back to my mother's house, but I was actually angry?" ”

Juppey glanced at Fanning, walked quickly back to his bedroom, and threw himself on the bed, Fanning walked in, sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhu Pei covered her head and said unhappily: "My mother is too lenient, I had a big quarrel with her, and I came back angry." ”

"How can your mother be lenient? Tell me about it! ”

"My mother said that I had not had children for two years of marriage, and that I didn't want to pass on the family to my husband."

Fan Ning suddenly laughed dumbly, it turned out that it was for this matter, he patted his wife's buttocks and smiled: "You are only nineteen years old, so you want to be a mother?" ”

"I want to give birth!"

Zhu Pei sat up suddenly, and said with red eyes: "I also want to give birth to a good daughter, but I can't get pregnant, what should I do?" ”

Fanning hugged his wife in his arms and comforted her: "You can't rush to give birth to a child, you have to go with the flow, after all, you are only nineteen years old, and it is not good for you to have a child too early." ”

Zhu Pei wiped her tears and said: "Mother let me think about it myself, if it doesn't work, I will marry you a concubine, she said that the dignified four-grade high-ranking official has no children of his own, and it makes people laugh when they hear it." ”

Speaking of marrying a concubine, Fan Ning's heart couldn't help but skip a beat, and he quickly changed the topic and smiled: "Today, I went to the Ministry of Officials to step down and filled in a paper, which asked to fill in your edict, I just remembered that you don't seem to have a decree yet, you should be a Fengshuo person." ”

"I'm not uncommon to have a lady who wants to stand with a bunch of old women, unless you become a minister, I am almost the same as a princess."

"I will definitely redouble my efforts to make the lady become the prime minister and duchess as soon as possible."

Fan Ning coaxed Zhu Pei, and finally made her feel a little more comfortable, and Zhu Pei said coquettishly: "Husband, when will we move back to our own house, living here, I'm a little unaccustomed." ”

"I need to recruit some maids and servants."

"Didn't we bring four little maids?"

"At most, they do things in the inner courtyard, but they can't do it in the outer house."

"Or, as before, borrow some maids and servants, and when we settle down, we can recruit our maids and servants and housekeepers, and then send them back."

This method is also feasible, Fan Ning nodded with a smile, "Then tomorrow you go to the new house to clean up, and we will move in the day after tomorrow." ”

Zhu Pei hugged her husband's neck and said coquettishly: "People haven't eaten lunch, their stomachs are rumbling with hunger, let's go out to eat!" ”

Now there is still more than half an hour before the time for the Zhu Mansion to eat, Fan Ning knows that she actually wants to go shopping with her, so she smiled happily: "Then let's go!" Go to Pan Lou Street for dinner. ”

The two took Jian Meizi and Aya, left Zhu's Mansion in a carriage and headed in the direction of Panlou Street.

...........

Early the next morning, Fanning came to Dongdajie, and he soon found the "Chao Bao" hall, which was a large shop, presided over by an archdeacon surnamed Sun, and there were about forty or fifty people in it.

In fact, "Chao Pao" and "Tabloid Newspaper" are two melons on the same vine, but the customers they face are different, and the "Tabloid Newspaper" faces the people who like all kinds of gossip news and the women in the house, and the concubines in the palace also like it.

The "Chao Pao" is more serious, and the guests are generally literati and doctors who care about current affairs and politics.

Of course, there is also overlap between the two customers, like Zhu Yuanfeng, there are not a few people who read both "tabloids" and "Chaobao", and various teahouses, restaurants, and brothels have subscribed to a lot of "Chaobao" and "tabloids", although the newspaper does not make as much money as the profiteering industry, but its influence is very great.

Fanning walked in the door, and a guide greeted him, "Does the guest officer want to break the news, or negotiate to buy the newspaper?" ”

Generally, the people who come to declare customs are either whistleblowers who come to provide news and get a little reward, or they are the shopkeepers of teahouses and restaurants who come to discuss business and want to buy newspapers for a long time.

Fan Ning took out Li Xiang's prayer note and said lightly: "I came to find your Li Dongzhu, and he invited me to come over in the morning." ”

The little guy didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran to find the archdeacon, Archdeacon Sun was in the lobby, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "Your Excellency is Fan Zhizhou?" ”

Fanning nodded, "I am!" ”

"Proprietor Li is waiting in the inner hall, please come with me."

Fanning followed Archdeacon Sun to the inner hall, Fanning looked at the pen gentlemen who were writing articles with their heads bowed, and asked with a smile: "Is it too late to write four pages of content a day?" ”

"The division of labor and cooperation is basically in time."

"What about the carved plates? Every day the carved board has to be replaced with a new one, carved so many words every day, is it too late? Fanning asked with a smile.

At this time, there was no movable type printing, in fact, even if there was movable type printing, it could not replace the engraving printing, mainly because the effect of clay movable type printing was too bad, and the handwriting was blurred, far less refreshing and tidy than the carved board.

And even if the carved plate is carved wrongly, the wrong word is dug out and then make up a new word on the line, almost can not see that the carved plate is mended, and there is no reason to abolish a carved plate on the wrong word at all.

Archdeacon Sun smiled slightly: "It seems that Fan Zhizhou doesn't understand the way the newspaper does things at all. ”

"Oh? But hear it! ”

"Fan Zhizhou saw a "Chaobao" front and back four pages, you must think that you want to engrave four engravings, but in fact, sixteen carved plates, four carved plates put together into one layout, such as this!"

Archdeacon Sun picked up a carved plate casually, and when he dismantled it vigorously, the carved plate was immediately divided into four pieces, which were originally wedged together.

"Four carved plate craftsmen are responsible for a layout, and it is engraved in one hour, and the carved plate is actually very easy, the key is printing, and it takes three or four hours for hundreds of thousands of newspapers to be printed, so they can only be distributed before noon."

Fan Ning suddenly realized that the carved plates were divided into many small pieces, carved by different people, no wonder the efficiency was very high.

Not long after, Fan Ning came to the inner hall, Archdeacon Sun asked Fan Ning to wait, he went in to report, and after a while, a thin and tall middle-aged man quickly greeted him, "In Xia Li Xiang, welcome Fan Zhizhou to the newspaper hall." ”

Fan Ning said apologetically: "I happened to be out of the house yesterday, so let Li Dongzhu run for nothing." ”

"Where! Where! It's because I didn't make an appointment in advance, and I should apologize for going abruptly! ”

"Huh! It's okay, I also want to come over today to see what the newspaper is like, and I've always been curious. ”

"Then do you want me to accompany Fan Zhizhou for a visit?" Li Xiang enthusiastically proposed.

Fanning shook his head, "No need, Archdeacon Sun has already solved the doubts in my heart just now. ”

"I see, Fan Zhizhou, please!"

Fan Ning followed the proprietor Li Xiang into the inner hall, the two sat down separately, Archdeacon Sun hurriedly arranged for someone to serve tea, and he sat down and bowed down himself.

Li Xiang said with a smile: "Chao Bao has always wanted to write an article to introduce Kunzhou and Fan Zhizhou, but I have never had the opportunity, I wonder if we can talk about it?" ”

Fan Ning smiled and nodded, this is the interview of later generations, this is also the main purpose of coming to the "Chaobao" pavilion, and he also conveyed a certain message to Zhao Zhen, the son of heaven, through the "Chaobao".

"I don't know what proprietor Li wants to ask?"

"Is it convenient for Fan Zhizhou now?"

Fanning smiled slightly, "Anytime!" ”

Li Xiang was overjoyed and hurriedly asked Archdeacon Sun to arrange a stenographer, and he wanted to ask Fan Ning some questions in person.

"I heard that Han Xianggong checked the accounts when he went out to inspect Kunzhou two years ago, and found that millions of taels of gold and tens of millions of taels of silver passed through the hands of Kunzhou officials, but there was not a single tael missing, and the physical objects were completely consistent with the accounts, which caused a sensation in the imperial court, why could Kunzhou do this?"

Fan Ning thought for a while and said: "This is because I am the inspector of the imperial history, in Kunzhou to establish a set of perfect supervision methods, we not only supervise the amount of gold and silver, but also to supervise the officials, the earlier the problem is found, the sooner the reminder, lest the officials fall too deep, and finally go to prison, this is also the love of the officials, Kunzhou officials are indeed very clean, this is obvious to all........"