Shen Song and Bai Ning planned to go to India to defect to Lebao.

And Wu Xinzhong and Du Ruchong are now drinking in the restaurant.

To be honest, they are already starting to regret it in their hearts.

You said okay, why do you want to take the lead, I thought that Emperor Zhu had a good reputation, and he might be like those ancient sages and emperors, giving them a past blame and recruiting them for their own use.

But who would have thought that Emperor Zhu had already released his words and would never recruit the six gentlemen as officials.

It's good now.

Other troublemakers, as long as they are soft, they can still go to the imperial examination.

Only a few of them have no future as officials.

But if you can't be an official, what can you do?

Du Ruchong sighed: "If I knew this, I would have honestly gone to the newly learned textbooks, and I would have taken the exam to become an official." ”

Wu Xinzhong glanced at Du Ruchong and sighed.

Who's to say it isn't.

"Brother Wu, now you and I are all remembered by the emperor, this official has not been done, I don't think the Ming court is like the previous dynasty, or do things according to the rules, although I didn't get an official, but I can still be stable when I return to my hometown to farm." Du Ruchong sighed, "It's better to go to another country, I will go back to my hometown in Sichuan, and you will go back to Jiangxi." ”

Wu Xinzhong was also a little unwilling.

What did they make such a name for themselves?

Isn't it for the sake of being an official?

Now the fame is there.

The official is gone.

Wu Xinzhong looked at the bustling streets of Guangzhou.

This era is very different from what it used to be.

In the Ming Dynasty.

Words are unprecedentedly wide.

And there is also a [ceremony] on the top.

It seems that as long as you follow the rules, you will have to do things.

Don't worry about things like the prefect of the county who broke the house before the Qing Dynasty

Wu Xinzhong thought of this, looked at Du Ruchong and said, "Brother Du, do you know what I have seen the most these days?" ”

"What is it?"

"Newspapers!"

Wu Xinzhong shook out a large number of newspapers from his baggage.

From the more serious reports of various political and military news.

To publish local news, serialization.

There are also some small H articles

The whole nine yards.

"I've read it in the past few days, and in the city of Guangzhou, there are all kinds of newspapers. The sky is high here, the emperor is far away, the people are rich, and the road is wide, which is unprecedented. ”

Wu Xinzhong said.

Du Ruchong looked at the various newspapers in his hand and looked up at Wu Xinzhong.

"Brother Wu is saying. Want to start a newspaper? ”

"Exactly!"

Wu Xinzhong took out a copy of [Fengyue News].

"It's such a newspaper, the articles are shoddy, the content is lacking, and the layout is not very good, do you know how much it sells?"

Wu Xinzhong said, not waiting for Du Ruchong to answer, but stretched out three fingers: "Three copper yuan!" ”

"I've seen a newsstand, such a newspaper, just one newsstand sold more than 100 copies in one morning, and this newsstand in the streets and alleys of Guangzhou City, this newsstand is at least hundred."

"Even if it is a hundred newsstands, and each newsstand sells a hundred copies of [Fengyue Bao], that is 30,000 copper yuan, 3,000 yuan of daily sales!"

"Three thousand dollars!"

Du Ruchong took a deep breath, and his heart was already calculated.

If you farm in your hometown in Sichuan, even if you have 100 acres of land at home and rent it to farmers, how much grain can you harvest in a year?

It's just one or two hundred dollars.

This [Fengyue Daily] can actually sell 10,000 copies a day in Guangzhou City?!

"Brother Wu, this [Fengyue Daily] makes money, and it has nothing to do with us, [Fengyue Daily] is all about writing some obscene articles, how can you and I write this kind of article to make money? What's more, this [Fengyue Daily] is a local newspaper, you and I want to run a newspaper, how can it be compared with [Fengyue Daily]? Du Ruchong thought about it for a while, and he thought of a lot of questions.

[Fengyue Daily] has been deeply cultivated in Guangzhou for many years, and its fame has gradually grown from small to large, and people are specialized in articles on "Fengyue Things".

There are quite a lot of old color batches at any given time.

Therefore, it is not surprising that people can do it.

"How can it not be compared? Who are you and now? Wu Xinzhong said.

Since he couldn't be an official, the thoughts of this champion of Jiaqing in history have come alive.

You can't be an official, you can only make money.

There's not a saying. Thousands of miles of officials are only for money.

Now if there is a chance to make a fortune, it seems that it is not a big deal not to be an official.

"What kind of identity can it be, a poor scholar who has no hope of being an official at all." Du Ruchong smiled bitterly.

"No, no, Brother Du, you and I are gentlemen!"

"Gentleman?"

"That's right! One of the six gentlemen who are famous all over the world, uh, two! Wu Xinzhong said.

"So what?"

"How? This means that you and I are very famous, especially big! Much bigger than this [Fengyue Report]! Wu Xinzhong said with a smile.

It's natural.

Although the Six Gentlemen were made clear by Emperor Zhu that they would not be recruited as officials.

But among the men of the world.

The fame of the six gentlemen is very great.

Their sympathizers are also quite numerous.

"What does this have to do with running a newspaper?" Du Ruchong was puzzled.

"Brother Du, what can you see when you read these newspapers?" Wu Xinzhong asked.

Du Ruchong looked at a few newspapers on the table, frowned slightly, thoughtful.

"Yes, there are different types of newspapers, but there are usually only one or two copies of each type of newspaper. Market share! ”

Wu Xinzhong thought about it for a long time, and actually came up with the word market share. 、

"So. We can run a newspaper in a category that hasn't appeared before! ”

"What category?"

"A newspaper that specializes in commenting on and criticizing the policies of the imperial court!" Wu Xinzhong said.

"This, this." Du Ruchong looked left and right, and lowered his voice: "Isn't this against the imperial court?" ”

"It's because there was no newspaper that contradicted the imperial court before, so we have a market for this!" Wu Xinzhong said.

"No, no, no, no." Du Ruchong's head shook like a rattle, "You don't want to die, what can I do if the Ming Imperial Court sends Jinyi Guards to take people." ”

"It can't be!" Wu Xinzhong said firmly.

"The gift of the Ming Dynasty is here, as long as we don't rebel, we don't attack the emperor, but just comment on some specific policies, what is the crime? According to the rites, except for the remarks of rebellion and attacks on the emperor and the royal family, the rest of the speakers are not guilty! ”

"This. Will it work? Du Ruchong hesitated.

"Why can't it work? Brother Du! This [Fengyue Daily] can be sold for 10,000 points a day, and our newspaper can't at least be worse than this [Fengyue Daily], right?! ”

That's true.

There are so many scholars in the world, just in this Guangzhou city, I don't know how many scholars sympathize with the scholars at noon that day.

And

Earn 3,000 a day, after deducting the cost, how can you have a few hundred yuan?

Earn hundreds of dollars a day!

This is more profitable than being an official.

"And what's the name of our newspaper?"

Du Ruchong asked.

"You and I have the name of a gentleman, so it's better to call it a gentleman!"

(End of chapter)