Wanli Xinming

Chapter 117
Shen Zheng, on the first day of May in the third year of Wanli, Li Zhi, a member of the Nanjing Criminal Bureau, sorted out the few manuscripts on the table, took off the pimpled silk official robe, put on cotton civilian clothes with more fluff, and greeted his colleagues. , left the yamen.

Just a few steps out of the gate, I heard someone shouting from behind: "Li Zhuowu!"

When Li Zhi turned around to look, a smile appeared on his thin face and said, "I asked who called me, it turned out to be Brother Feng. How did you come to this Ministry of Punishment? But something happened?"

Feng Bangning approached and pretended to say, "I'm showing my respects to Mr. Li." He said that, but the speed of bending his knees was extremely slow.

Seeing this, Li Zhi smiled without saying a word, and did not stop him.Feng Bangning laughed and said, "You bastard, be careful that I don't send your book."

Li Zhi laughed when he heard it, lightly slapped Feng Bangning on the shoulder, and asked with a serious expression, "What are you doing here at this hour?"

Feng Bangning shook his head and said, "I'm not doing errands, I'm here to find you. If you have time, go to the Huihui Building and sit down."

When Li Zhi heard the words "Hui Cui Lou", his mouth became wet.With a wry smile, he said, "I can't do it today. Mr. Longxi has arrived in Nanjing. I'm going to meet him today."

Feng Bangning heard it and said with a smile, "I also know that Mr. Longxi is in Nanjing - do you still know him? Can you take me to meet him?"

Li Zhi listened, and said in a stern manner: "You are covered in copper smell, and you are entangled with me, but don't smoke Mr. Longxi, and I won't lead you."

Thanks to Feng Bangning's intentional friendship, Li Zhi had already become a pair of good friends with him, and he often joked with him. Feng Bangning heard it and didn't take it seriously.

Grabbing Li Zhi's robe sleeve, Feng Bangning asked, "Have you made an appointment with Mr. Longxi?"

Seeing Li Zhi shaking his head, Feng Bangning said with a sigh of relief, "It's still early, you and I will go to the Huihui Building first, I'll discuss something with you, and after dinner, I'll hire you a carriage and arrange some gifts before you go— - Otherwise, you go to eat free food at this hour empty-handed?"

This arrangement made Li Zhi dumbfounded and had no reason to refuse.Feng Bangning first sent the servant next to him and asked him to hire a carriage to buy gifts, and then dragged Li Zhi away.

Huizuilou is a newly opened halal restaurant in Nanjing in the past two years. Because the owner is willing to pay for the cost, every dish puts Rishenglong's secret "monosodium glutamate" in it. This business is not good.

Feng Bangning often came here, the shopkeeper saw him coming, and hurriedly took out a spare small room, and let Feng Bangning and Li Zhi go upstairs.

The two ordered some dishes, and Li Zhi asked: "After all, what are you looking for from me? But it's rare, you still have a day to ask for me."

Feng Bangning smiled first: "Brother Li, what's the point of what you're doing as an official? Look at your robe, it's all fluffed up. ——Wait for the foolish brother to buy you another one, or you will wear this to see you. Mr. Longxi?"

Li Zhi was prosperous in his writing, but he never talked to Feng Bangning, and sighed after hearing it, "I have been poor all my life, I haven't saved the money for writing books, and my wife will change and rent a house. I'm a poor official. Can you live in a two-bedroom house? Absurd!"

Feng Bangning listened and smiled: "Your original house is too cramped, a family of six lives in four houses, and the family has no land to put anything in. The old sister-in-law did the right thing, or else you would also just throw away all the money. already."

Li Zhi was speechless.When the dishes came, Li Zhi chewed on the case and asked, "Tell me about you, I'm leaving in a hurry."

Feng Bangning took out a piece of paper from his arms, unfolded it flatly, and handed it to Li Zhi: "Brother Zhuo Wu has knowledge, let's see if Brother Yu can do this business?" The first issue of "Huangming Nanjing Daily".

Li Zhi had just drank a sip of the fresh soup, and was smoothing the shark fin in his stomach.When I took over the newspaper, I saw the eye-catching headline at first sight, and I was about to spit it out, but in a flash, I was afraid of being rude and ruining the dishes on the table, and my mouth closed tightly.

Feng Bangning heard a snort from behind the newspaper, followed by a violent cough.Li Zhi threw the newspaper to the side, Feng Bangning saw that some shark fins were spraying from both nostrils and hanging under his nose. He was full of beards, and he was bending over and coughing violently.

After finally blowing the stuff out of his nose, Li Zhi drank tea and rinsed his mouth, and then he took a breath.Seeing Feng Bangning was overjoyed at the side, he scolded: "You are so dirty, I'm looking at an old man who is about to be 50 years old, can you stand such a joke?"

Feng Bangning apologized with a smile first, and said, "I didn't expect that the eldest brother Zhuo Wu, who is known as a 'heretic', would not be able to stand this thing. It seems that this business is just a fool's idea and can't do it."

Li Zhi rolled his eyes and said, "I haven't read it yet. I'll talk about it when I see it." After speaking, he picked up the newspaper on the ground and read it carefully from beginning to end, without mentioning that he was in a hurry to see Long. Mr. Xi.

After reading it, he folded the newspaper and held it in his hand, looked Feng Bangning up and down, and his face became serious.He said in his mouth: "Feng Dong's family is such a big force, why did you think about this thing? What are you, the folk newspaper?"

Feng Bangning listened, afraid that he would be separated from him.He quickly said: "Brother Zhuo Wu, didn't this ask you to come first?"

Li Zhi listened and closed his eyes for a while to ponder.Then he said in a cold voice, "Speaking of which, who is behind you?"

Hearing his words, Feng Bangning became more and more stubborn, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said with an apologetic smile: "Brother Zhuo Wu, you don't know about me? When I first came to Nanjing, I got into the relationship with Eunuch Li, and this is the only way to open the door. Get up, Qingliu Bookstore, who else do I know?"

Li Zhi listened, clapped the newspaper in his hand, and said, "Have you shown this to Li Xiushan?"

Feng Bangning still smiled and said: "Well, let's not hide it from the big brother. I have already worshipped Eunuch Li as my godfather. When the foolish brother made this thing, he read it first, and the godfather said that the imperial court did not stipulate that people should not run newspapers. Just like the novels and stories of Qingliu Bookstore, who could have thought of it before? Whoever does it first will make a lot of money—that means supporting me to do it.”

After Li Zhi heard what he told Eunuch Li, he felt a little better.His straight face loosened, and he pointed at Feng Bangning with a smile and said, "When I met you before, I felt that I was angry with me. If you are brave enough, there is nothing you dare to do! Open a bookstore. The eunuch is the godfather, you are going to cut yourself off in Jiangnan Shilin!"

Feng Bangning laughed and said, "Haha, anyway, my family's books and scholars don't come to buy them, they are all bought and seen by peddlers. What am I doing with those fake Taoisms?"

When Li Zhi heard this, he laughed out loud and cheered.He said in his mouth, "What a fake Taoism! But you are wrong. Most of the fake Taoists in your family have sent people to buy them. These fake Taoists don't show up."

Then he said: "If you ask me, of course I will say this thing is good! However, whether the court can let you do a long-term job is still between the two. When Eunuch Li is here, he can protect you, but the court wants to seal it up. , he may not be able to stop it!"

Feng Bangning heard this and thought that he had finally entered the alley.He smiled and said: "You still don't know what kind of person my godfather is? Before I came to you today, I came out of the guard house. My godfather has asked the emperor's will to allow me to do this business."

Li Zhi heard this, and said in surprise: "This idea, Li Xiushan actually disturbed Tian Ting, this holy family is too hot."

Feng Bangning smiled bitterly and said, "I asked him the same way, and my godfather said, 'You don't understand the power of this newspaper, but you dare to think about it, how can I still be as unstable as you?' Brother Zhuo Wu, what do you mean by this? I didn't dare to ask at the time, what's so great about this newspaper? Why don't I think? It's just some talk, what could it be?"

Li Zhi listened and sighed to Feng Bangning: "Young brother, you really have a big heart. Duke Xiushan is right, once this thing comes out, it will be a hundred times more powerful than your small talk books - this is a weapon of public opinion, a pole to stir people's hearts!"

Feng Bangning listened, pretended to be afraid, and said, "If you say it like the eldest brother, isn't this a beheading business? Otherwise, I won't do it."

Li Zhi listened, and his eyes burst into a bright light: "Don't, don't. You have the emperor's backing, what are you afraid of?! As long as you don't talk nonsense and bury the court and the government, what can get in the way - I see your first edition. Two articles are good, who wrote them?"

Feng Bangning heard it and said proudly, "It was the idiot's own handwriting. I saw the transcript of the imperial palace newspaper and Lord Hai's memorial in the guard house. I copied it and commented on it. Brother, see how I did that poem. Sample?"

Li Zhi listened, unfolded the newspaper, and read again the hymn touting the emperor's overhaul of water conservancy.He asked: "Master Hai is an imperial envoy, how can Eunuch Li have a memorial?"

Feng Bangning shook his head and said, "I don't know about it. Anyway, I saw it on the godfather's book case."

Li Zhi listened and stopped asking about it.Pointing to the newspaper and shaking his head, he said, "I'm blind to your novel idea of ​​running a newspaper. You can still call this a poem? These few words are the worst of this poem. You might as well not print it. Mom's, like a The big mung bean fly looks like it's lying on the white-flour steamed bun, it stinks too much for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, seeing Feng Bangning's hat on his head was two inches taller, Li Zhi hurriedly changed the subject and said, "This reading symbol is quite novel, and it was thought out by my virtuous brother?"

Feng Bangning snorted angrily and said, "Exactly, there are always people saying that I can't distinguish between the words of my family, so I came up with this trick. You haven't read your own book? It's been used twice!"

Li Zhi smiled bitterly and said, "I never read the sample book you sent me. It's for making money. Every time I write it, I use cotton to stuff my nostrils before writing it out."

When Feng Bangning heard this, he was even more angry, and he slapped the table and said, "Hello, Li Zhuowu, you eat meat in a bowl, and curse your mother with chopsticks. From tomorrow, the fee for writing will be halved!"

When Li Zhi heard this, the grass in the temple panicked and said, "Brother, don't be annoyed. I'm not angry with you any more. You just revealed the fact that you caused me to spray rice. You came today to ask me if I can do this? "

Feng Bangning breathed a sigh of relief and asked himself: Do I have any real friendship with this fellow?It's all messed up now.He said, "Big brother, how can I manage such a big business? I'm looking for you today—I want you to resign and become the editor-in-chief of this newspaper!"

Li Zhi was overjoyed and exclaimed, "Really? Brother Xian, don't lie to me, I really dare to do it!"

Feng Bangning was overjoyed when he heard what he said, and he fell in love with his uncle Feng Bao.It is really amazing how the uncle concluded that Li Zhuowu has the heart to resign from office.

He said, "What am I lying to you for? But we can agree on three chapters. First, the articles you edited cannot attack the court; second, you can start writing things that are deviant after three years; third, I have the final review right!"

When Li Zhi heard this, his eyes were red, and he suddenly choked up: "Brother Xian said that after three years, let me express my feelings directly? In the newspaper? I promise you, I don't need to give money, I will help in vain!"

Seeing his appearance like this, Feng Bangning felt a little distressed in his heart.Said: "Brother, what are you talking about? The monthly salary of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper is 60 taels, and the foolish brother will give you eight times the official salary!"

　Press: Brother Li Zhi now has an official salary of fourteen stone, which is more than seven taels of silver.

　　Also: Lao Mo published the first newspaper in Nanjing and Fang was not in the capital, a small part of the reason was because of Li Zhi.Book friends give a like for the thinker, cast a vote and let's go!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)