Chapter 63: Layout
After disposing of the old case, everyone finally learned the vigorous and resolute behavior of the young judge of Kaifeng Mansion, and the prestige of Lord Wu Zhi spread all over the capital at once, and Wu Zhi had the nickname of "Young Wu Qingtian", and people compared him with Lord Bao Zhengbao of the Renzong Dynasty, which made Cai Jing, the initiator, very embarrassed and unhappy.
When Wu Zhi heard that he had the title of "Young Wu Qingtian" again, he smiled indifferently and didn't care, just burying his head in his own business.
In order to settle these old backlogs, Wu Zhi paid thousands of dollars out of his own pocket! This made him feel very distressed, but thinking that he could do something practical and good for the people, he was relieved, this power should be taken from the people for the people, and his wine business could earn back this expenditure in two days.
In June, the fire clouds dispersed, and the cicadas chirped in the treetops. In the blink of an eye, June has quietly come again, the sun is like fire, and the sound of cicadas is chirping.
After the fifth year of Shaosheng, after the fifth year of Shaosheng, the official Zhao Xu after continuous meditation and boxing, his body became stronger and stronger, and his spirit was much better than before. Zhao Xu hoped that in the "Yuanfu" era, the country would be rich and the people would be strong, and the Great Song Dynasty would become stronger and stronger, sweeping the Eight Wildernesses, and Zhongxing was hopeful. Zhao Xu also expects his cultural and martial arts functions to be taken to a higher level, and he is really shaking the past and the present, overshadowing the ancestors of the dynasties.
On the sixth day of June in the first year of Yuanfu, the annual Tianzhen Festival has arrived again, the imperial court has taken a day off as usual, and the capital is a lively scene of jubilant celebration.
Wu Zhi rarely had such a leisurely day, and took Jin Lian, Xiao'e, Liu Yue, Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo, Si Fangguo and others to visit the Daxiangguo Temple again, and put incense on it together, praying for the blessings of Jin Lian, Liu Yue, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo and other relatives who were thousands of miles away.
In order to reassure Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo, after Wu Zhi dealt with the backlog of old cases, he sent four capable employees of Caoyun Company, driving two carriages and holding letters written by Li Zhenguo himself, to Langzhong in the south to pick up Li Zhenguo's parents and sister. This made Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo very grateful.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the sales of the champion series of liquor in the Zhuangyuan Building were hot, and the average daily sales limit was mentioned to 100 bottles, 60 bottles of "Zhuangyuan alcohol" wine, and 40 bottles of "Zhuangyuanlang" wine. In more than five months, the champion series of liquor has brought Wuzhi a net income of nearly 530,000 yuan!
After four months of unremitting efforts, Wu Zhi also gained a firm foothold in Kaifeng Mansion and established his authority, so that his officials no longer dared to despise his youth, although he could not talk about absolute obedience, at least he did not dare to obey the yang and the yin.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, Wu Zhi turned twenty years old, and after Wu Xiu and Feng Niang held a simple coming-of-age ceremony for him, he was also considered an adult. For this reason, Wu Zhi gave himself a word, which is called "for", which is taken from the sentence "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations".
When he becomes an adult, it means that he can get married and have children, but Wu Zhi doesn't want to get married and have children early, he still has a lot of important things to do, and now is not the best chance to get married. Moreover, Wu Zhi has received a good education, a man marries a woman at the age of twenty and marries at the age of eighteen, he feels that he is still too young and premature, and he is not mentally prepared for this.
When he explained his thoughts to Wu Xiu, Feng Niang and Jin Lian, Wu Xiu and Feng Niang could only understand helplessly, while Jin Lian understood with shyness.
The eighteenth year of the female college has changed, and the eighteen-year-old golden lotus has become more graceful and moving, delicate as a flower, and her eyes looking at Wu Zhi are always full of affection. Whenever Wu Zhi sees him or the two of them are alone, his heart is swaying and relaxed, but he is quite determined, and he can always control himself in the fluctuations of his body and mind, except for some hugging and holding hands, he has not violated the etiquette. Wu Zhi didn't want to be Yanagi Megumi, but he didn't dare to be too presumptuous and abrupt.
Since Jin Lian came to the capital to live with Wu Zhi's family in Enzhou, she regarded herself as Wu Zhi's woman, and willingly followed Wu Zhi to advance and retreat together, but she is also a more traditional and reserved girl, and she feels embarrassed and shy about Wu Zhi's intimate action of holding hands and hugging each other on weekdays.
Therefore, when she heard Wu Zhi's explanation, she was also relieved, because she could deeply understand that Wu Zhi's affection for her was genuine, even if she got married later, anyway, she would rely on him in this life, and she would not swerve until death.
After being demoted from the capital to being intercepted and killed in Zhuxian Town and then being harassed when he returned to Beijing, this series of things made Wu Zhi know that his strength was still too weak, and he was always in an unfavorable situation of being beaten passively, and he was determined to reverse this situation, so the only way to attack was to take the initiative!
So, since Li Hongyi, Zhang Xing and Hu Kui led 20 men to the capital to do things for Wu Zhi, Wu Zhi took the opportunity to leave them all in the capital, with Li Hongyi as the leader, set up a secret spy agency called "Hongyi Society" in the rented house, and after simple training, specialized in spying intelligence and other work, directly serving Wu Zhi.
For this reason, taking advantage of the opportunity of the wealthy families to hire their families, Wu Zhi placed several seemingly honest but clever subordinates to the mansions of Cai Jing, Cai Bian, Xiang Zonghui, Duan Wang, Shen Wang, Zhang Chun and others, to help him find out the movements of these people and important family members, and then pass the news to the location of the "Hongyi Society". Other personnel went to important departments and places inside and outside the capital to inquire about the news, and also reported to the location of the "Hongyi Society". The information obtained was collated and summarized by specialized personnel, and then directly submitted to Wu Zhi for review by Li Hongyi, Zhang Xing, or Hu Kui.
Li Hongyi, Zhang Xing, Hu Kui and others were quite curious about what Wu Zhi had done, but they were also eager to try it and full of interest.
These people, in addition to receiving a basic salary of ten yuan per month in Caoyun Company (the basic salary of Li Hongyi, Zhang Xing and Hu Kui is thirty yuan per month), Wu Zhi also made up six yuan for each of them every month, which made everyone overjoyed and won the hearts of the people.
Wu Zhi needs to grasp the movements of the imperial court, as well as the movements of some ministers and royal families in the court, especially the every move of Cai Jing, Cai Bian, Xiang Zonghui, Xiang Huaiyu and Duanwang Zhao Ji, all of whom are his enemies and the objects he needs to deal with.
Originally, Wu Zhi didn't want to provoke the Xiang family, more things are better than less, but Xiang Huaiyu jumped out without knowing what to do, not only teasing Jin Lian, but also hiring murderers, which made Wu Zhi have one more enemy, and became Wu Zhi's primary target for attack.
and Cai Jing, who also jumped out first inexplicably and took the initiative to fire at Wu Zhi, which made Wu Zhi a little confused. Because in addition to Xiang Jia, Cai Jing, Cai Bian, Duanwang Zhao Ji, Tong Guan, Gao Yu and others are just Wu Zhi's subconscious enemies, so far, Wu Zhi has not shown any hostility towards these people, and it stands to reason that Cai Jing should have no reason to deal with him first.
But what Wu Zhi didn't expect was that in fact, Cai Jing took the initiative to jump out for a reason.
Originally, more than four months after returning to the capital, Wu Zhi was still wondering why Xiangjia didn't move like he had changed sex, but in fact, it was not. Although Xiang Zonghui and Xiang Huaiyu were slightly restrained after being admonished by the Empress Dowager, they were still unwilling, so they found Cai Jing and asked Cai Jing to set up obstacles for Wu Zhi in Kaifeng Mansion, trying to make Wu Zhi unable to gain a foothold in Kaifeng Mansion. Cai Jing was jealous of his ability, and he was also hindered by the face of Xiang Zonghui, the king of Handong County, and the Empress Dowager Xiang, so there was the scene where Wu Zhi was deliberately embarrassed at the beginning.
Now, Cai Jing has taken the initiative to come out, so Wu Zhi has to spare some time and energy to deal with one or two.
As for Duanwang Zhao Ji, in fact, Wu Zhi had already calculated him, from the day Wu Zhi taught meditation exercises and boxing to the official Zhao Xu, it was equivalent to a silent declaration of war with Zhao Ji!
If possible, Wu Zhi also wants to grasp the movements of the Empress Dowager Xiang and the official Zhao Xu, but with Wu Zhi's current ability and means, it is obvious that he does not have the ability to extend his tentacles to the palace inside, which is not feasible at present, and he needs to take his time step by step, or buy the eunuchs in the palace, or send his own people into the palace, it depends on the situation.
Wu Zhi has suffered from being attacked by rumors and knows the power of public opinion, so he decided to establish his own public opinion team, and if necessary, he will also have a public opinion guide to confuse the public. In later generations, online public opinion is like an atomic bomb, with amazing lethality. Therefore, Wu Zhi must also have his own mouthpiece, that is, to run a newspaper.
In addition to the original three craftsmen of the workshop, Wu Zhi hired a group of frustrated literati with high salaries, and established a graphic society called "Rushi", from which an old adult literati named Gu Lin was selected as the head of the graphic society. This Gu Lin is a scholar in his thirties from a poor family, who has even taken several imperial examinations and has been named Sun Shan, and is a little resentful of the world.
In order to act in concealment, Wu Zhi did not tell them his name, he only declared himself to be Pan Gongzi to the public.
In order to avoid people's eyes, on the first day of the establishment of the "Rushi" Graphic Society, Wu Zhi pretended to be entrusted by a friend named "Pu Songling" to hand over the manuscript of several chapters of the story of Liao Zhai Zhiwei that he had compiled and written, and asked him to publish it as the first work after the establishment of the Book Society, and also handed over the drawings of later books and newspapers to Gu Lin, and instructed him to publish them according to this typesetting. The name of the book and newspaper is "Qiushi Weekly", and it is stipulated that it will be published once a week!
A few days later, the streets and alleys of the capital were full of voices talking about the story of Liaozhai, and the story of Liaozhai compiled by Wu Zhi conquered people at once, and everyone circulated it one after another. The first book and newspaper work after the establishment of the "As Is" Graphic Society became popular and earned everyone's attention, and the "Such as Yes" Graphic Society also attracted great attention from people, and it was regarded as taking root in the capital and standing firm.
People on the streets of the capital are holding this novel and unique book and newspaper in their hands, and while reading it in a drunken and obsessive manner, they are all talking about what kind of person this person named "Pu Songling" is. When Wu Zhi was reading in the study, Xiao'e and Jin Lian also hurriedly ran in, holding the book and newspaper in their hands, and said to Wu Zhi anxiously: "Brother Dalang, look, isn't this the story you told us?" How did you get up there? Or was it written by a man named 'Pu Songling'? Isn't that a lie? It's too much of a deception! It's time to settle accounts with them! ”
Wu Zhi took the book and newspaper in Xiao'e's hand and looked at it, smiled dumbly, stretched out his hand and rubbed Xiao'e's head, and said affectionately: "Silly girl, this 'Pu Songling' is me, this is my pen name." I made it public! ”
"Pseudonym? Brother's? Xiao'e was still a little confused, muttering in her mouth.
When Jin Lian heard this, she smiled, pulled Xiao'e to the side, and explained to her. After a while, Xiao'e suddenly realized that she was happy again. Brother Da Lang is famous, and she is also sincerely happy!
Xiao'e, who is sixteen years old, has grown into a big girl, with a height of more than one meter and six meters, red eyebrows and phoenix eyes, a high nose bridge, and a ruddy and white complexion, which makes her look slim, youthful and beautiful, and is no longer the thin little girl she used to be.
But in Wu Zhi's heart, she will always be a little girl who needs to be pampered, and he will spoil her for the rest of her life.
Wu Zhi didn't want to publish a book to become famous, he just wanted to gather popularity, so that the "Rushi" Graphic Society could stand out and expand its influence among the people. It seems that he has succeeded in this step. In the next step, Wu Zhi will solicit manuscripts on the "Qiushi Weekly", poems, songs, story essays, entertainment gossip, acupuncture and current disadvantages, technological innovation, etc., can be submitted, and a certain remuneration will be given depending on the situation of the manuscript, that is, the pen fee, so that the majority of literati have an outlet for catharsis, and also earn some manuscript fees by the way. At the same time, Wu Zhi will also intersperse his views on current affairs and ideas on change from time to time to improve the wisdom of the people.
These are all things on the surface, and the things behind them are to use books and newspapers to carry out public opinion propaganda and guidance, so that things can develop in the direction pursued by Wu Zhi, and assist Wu Zhi to complete some important strategic goals.
Wu Zhi's purpose in running a newspaper is not to make a profit, he is to control public opinion! This will be a powerful offensive weapon in his hands.
The magic is one foot high, and the road is one foot high. Doesn't the enemy like to play tricks? Then Wu Zhi will conspire with Yang Mou!