Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 322 A Gentleman Wants to Run a Newspaper

Shen Song, Bai Ning and the others planned to go to India to join Le Bao.

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

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

You said yes, why do you want to take the lead? I thought they thought Emperor Zhu had a good reputation, and he might be like those ancient sages and wise emperors.

But who would have thought that Emperor Zhu had already said that he would never recruit the six gentlemen as officials.

it's good now.

For other troublemakers, as long as they are subdued, they can still take 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 just go to the new textbooks honestly and take the exam to become a scholar and become an official."

Wu Xinzhong glanced at Du Ruchong and sighed.

Who said it wasn't.
"Brother Wu, now you and I are both missed by the emperor. I don't have to be an official. I don't think the Ming court is like the previous court. It still does things according to the rules. Although I didn't get an official, I returned to my hometown and worked hard. I can still live in peace." Du Ruchong sighed, "It's better to go to another country, I will return to my hometown in Sichuan, and you will return to Jiangxi."

Wu Xinzhong was also a little unwilling.

What did they gain such a great reputation for?

Isn't it for being an official?

Now there is a reputation.

The officer is gone.
Wu Xinzhong looked at the bustling Guangzhou Street.

This era is very different from before.

In the Ming Dynasty.

Unprecedented breadth of speech.

And there is also a [Li] on top.

It seems to just do things according to the rules.

You don't have to worry about things like the magistrate of the former Qing Dynasty and the magistrate of the broken family.
Wu Xinzhong thought of this, looked at Du Ruchong and said, "Brother Du, do you know what I see the most these days?"

"What is it?"

"newspaper!"

Wu Xinzhong shook out a large number of newspapers from the bag.

From more serious reports of various political and military news.

To publishing local news, serializing novels.

There are also some small H articles published
Everything is available.

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

Wu Xinzhong said.

Du Ruchong looked at all kinds of newspapers in his hands, and looked up at Wu Xinzhong.

"Brother Wu is saying that you want to run a newspaper?"

"Exactly!"

Wu Xinzhong took out a copy of Feng Yue Bao.

"Just such a newspaper, the articles are shoddy, the content is lacking, and the layout is not very good-looking. Do you know how much it sells for?"

Wu Xinzhong said, without waiting for Du Ruchong's answer, he stretched out three fingers: "Three copper coins!"

"I've seen a newsstand that sold more than 100 copies of such a newspaper in one morning. There are at least hundreds of copies of this newsstand in the streets and alleys of Guangzhou City."

"Even if there are [-] newsstands, and each newsstand sells [-] copies of [Feng Yuebao], that's [-] copper dollars, [-] Ming yuan per day!"

"Three thousand Ming Yuan!"

Du Ruchong took a deep breath, already thinking about it.

Farming in my hometown in Sichuan, even if the family has [-] acres of land and rents it out to farmers, how much millet can they harvest in a year?

It's just a mere one or two hundred Ming Yuan.

This [Feng Yue Bao] actually sells [-] copies a day in Guangzhou City? !
"Brother Wu, it has nothing to do with us to make money from [Feng Yue Bao]. [Feng Yue Bao] is all about writing obscene articles. How can you and I make money by writing such articles? What's more, this [Feng Yue Bao] It's a big local newspaper, and if you and I want to run a newspaper, how can we compare it with [Feng Yue Bao]?" Du Ruchong thought for a while, and he thought of many problems.

[Feng Yue Bao] I have been working in Guangzhou for many years, and my reputation has gradually grown from small to large, and I only write articles about "Feng Yue Things".

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

So it is not surprising that people can do it.

"Why can't we compare? What are you and me now?" Wu Xinzhong said.

Ever since he was unable to be an official, the thoughts of this champion in the Jiaqing period in history have come alive.

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

Isn't there a saying that being an official for thousands of miles is only for money?

Now if there is a chance to make a fortune, it doesn't seem like a big deal not to be an official.
"What else can I do, a poor scholar who has absolutely no hope of being an official." Du Ruchong smiled wryly.

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

"Gentleman?"

"Yes! One of the six gentlemen who are famous all over the world, the second!" Wu Xin said.

"What about this?"

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

This is natural.

Although the six gentlemen were clearly stated by Emperor Zhu that they would not be recruited as officials.

But among the scholars in the world.

The Six Gentlemen have a great reputation.

They also have quite a few sympathizers.

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

"Brother Du, what can you see from reading these newspapers?" Wu Xinzhong asked.

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

"That's right, the types of these newspapers are different, but for each type of newspaper, there are usually only one or two with a large market share!"

Wu Xinzhong thought for a long time before he 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 imperial policies!" Wu Xinzhong said.

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

"It is because there were no newspapers that opposed the imperial court before, that we have a market for this!" Wu Xinzhong said.

"No, no, no, no." Du Ruchong shook his head like a rattle, "You don't want to die, what will the Ming court send Jin Yiwei to arrest people?"

"It's impossible!" Wu Xinzhong said firmly.

"The etiquette of the Ming Dynasty is here. As long as we don't rebel or attack the emperor, what crime is there if we just comment on certain specific policies? According to the etiquette, there is nothing wrong with other words except for rebellion, attacks on the emperor, and the royal family." crime!"

"Can this work?" Du Ruchong hesitated.

"Why can't it work? Brother Du! This [Feng Yue Bao] can sell for [-] cents a day. At least our newspaper can't be worse than this [Feng Yue Bao]?!"

This is true.

There are so many scholars in the world, just in the city of Guangzhou, there are not many scholars who sympathize with the Meridian scholars of that day.

And
Earning [-] yuan 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.

"Then what is the name of our newspaper?"

Du Ruchong asked.

"You and I have the name of gentleman, how about we call it Gentleman News!"

(End of this chapter)