Wu Haowen left, took the official boat prepared for him by Wu Haogu, with his ideals and Wu Haogu's advice, and slowly went west along the Bianhe River. He would change carriages at Baibo in Luoyang and then head west to Lantian County, located in the hinterland of the Guanzhong Plain.

After sending his younger brother away, Wu Haogu returned to the observation deck on the fourth floor of the Republic Building with some complicated thoughts. A sumptuous Kaifeng dish has been placed, Cai Jing and Cai Longtu are talking with the two beauties who have just come to accompany the wine about the experience of filling in the lyrics and composing poems, and from time to time chanting a few words of poetry in a Hokkien dialect that I don't know who made it. It also attracted bursts of applause and praise from the two beauties, which is really a bit of a gentleman and a traitor.

Wuhan Gu thought to himself: If it is not the era of Huizong Dynasty but Renzong, Yingzong, and Shenzong, becoming such an elegant scribe is probably the life goal pursued by his own family, right?

It's a pity that my family didn't travel to a good era, so I could only dig into the corners of the scholars!

"Da Lang, come here, the old man just filled in a song "Man Jianghong", and asked Feifei to sing it with you."

"Man Jianghong" is a word brand name, ninety-three characters in double tone, four rhymes in the front, five rhymes in the back, five or six sentences in the front, and seven or eight sentences in the back. After the three or four words to use the battle, this tune example is used into the sound rhyme. It is a very common word card, there are a lot of people, by the end of the Northern Song Dynasty has summed up more than a dozen formats, there are many templates to refer to, it is not difficult to fill in a song, the difficulty is to fill out a song that can be passed down to the world "Man Jianghong".

The song improvised by Cai Jing sung by Bai Feifei "Man Jianghong. "Summer Flowers" must not be passed on, and the whole article is the taste of Fengheng Yuda. But I didn't know that the end of the world is coming, and the era of Gou An's peace is about to pass!

However, the bureaucrats of Gou An Taiping will still be made from generation to generation by serving the education system of the imperial examination. And the traitorous minister Cai in front of him, among the characters who have worked hard to meet him, is actually already outstanding - in Wu Haogu's opinion, even if those famous ministers of the Renzong Dynasty cross over, they can't cope with the Jurchens who are hanging! The Jurchens were much more powerful than the party members at that time......

Thinking of the death knot cover door of the glitzy and prosperous era of the Great Song Dynasty, Wu Haogu couldn't help but sigh.

Hearing Wu Haogu's sigh, Cai Jing also lost his thoughts, and waved his hand to stop Bai Feifei's cappella.

"How? Are you worried about the important affairs of the official family? Can you talk to the old man? ”

Hearing Cai Jing's question, Wu Haogu's thoughts had already been retracted, and then he smiled bitterly: "The official family wants to speak with a mouthpiece and eyes and ears to sit and watch the world!" ”

"Mouthpiece and eyes and ears?"

Cai Jing frowned and said: "Is the official family dissatisfied with the Taiwan admonition or is it dissatisfied with the Guozijian?" ”

In this era, there is no public opinion tool for the people, so all Cai Jing can think of is the Taiwan Admonition and the Guozijian.

"Definitely." Wu Haogu shook his head, then sat down beside Bai Feifei, picked up the chopsticks and sandwiched a piece of fish tart, dipped it in the secret sauce produced by the Su family's old vinegar, put it in his mouth and chewed a few bites, and swallowed it.

"What the officials want is to target the mouthpiece and eyes and ears of the people of the world, not to be dissatisfied with the Taiwan admonition and the national prison."

"Against the mouthpieces and eyes and ears of the world?" Cai Jing thought for a moment, "Is it the academy?" ”

The official and private academies all over the Great Song Dynasty are also part of the Shilin Qingliu, and naturally control part of public opinion. Since most of the academies were not under the nose of the imperial court, it was a blind spot for the imperial court to control speech.

"It's not a academy," Wu Haogu smiled, and he didn't sell it anymore, "It's a miscellaneous book like Wenqu Xing" that is regularly engraved and published. ”

"Wenqu Star Magazine?"

Cai Jing was stunned, he hadn't read much of this book, but he had to read every issue of the "Oiran" album - "Wenqu Xing" is "Imperial Examination Tutoring Materials", Cai Jing is the person who can give questions to the imperial examination, what else to read? And the "Oiran" album is a must-see, because the works of "Zhao Xiaoyi" will appear on it from time to time, which needs to be certified and studied......

"Although "Wenqu Xing" was raised because of the imperial examination, the articles published on it are not all related to the imperial examination." Wu Haogu said, "Some of them are related to national events. ”

"But what about the government military system?" Cai Jing asked. He still knows about this, and he has also read some articles discussing the military system. However, in his opinion, the level of these articles is limited, and most of them are just on paper.

Wu Haogu smiled and nodded, "The official family thinks that there are many more people who watch "Wenqu Xing" than those who study in Guozijian!" If "Wenqu Xing" can become the mouthpiece of the official family, then the official family will be subject to much less constraints in the future. ”

"Elbows?" Cai Jing furrowed his brows and was silent for a while, "Does the official family want "Wenqu Xing" to contain Taiji and Guozijian?" ”

Wu Haogu smiled: "The official family is not dissatisfied with Taiwan's admonition, but just wants to open up the road of passing on the news from top to bottom, so as not to be deceived by traitors." ”

The power structure of the central government of the Northern Song Dynasty was not arbitrary by the king, but there were certain checks and balances. For example, there is a certain restriction on the power of the monarch, and the Taiwan admonition can restrain the power of the minister, and the clear stream of the matter with the national eunuch as the leader can constitute a certain amount of supervision over all the important ministers.

However, this mechanism of supervision and checks and balances still floats at the top, and the middle and lower class intellectuals and even ordinary people basically have no channels to speak out. In the same way, the emperor's own contact with the middle and lower classes and even the people was cut off by the bureaucracy. An ideal emperor should know only what the bureaucrats want him to know.

The common people can also only know the emperor's will from the mouths of the officials - the so-called mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and the emperor's will is conveyed to those low-level people, and God knows what it has been distorted.

And if "Wenqu Xing" becomes a news publication, distributed openly and widely, and reported in a timely and accurate manner, then Zhao Ji will not have a mouthpiece that can directly publish the words of the Holy Decree and understand the situation in various places?

Wu Haogu can buy newspapers with money to achieve the purpose of manipulating public opinion......

Although Cai Jing was a traitor, he was relatively unable to get rid of the limitations of history, and he did not know the routines of the bourgeois traitors of later generations to manipulate public opinion. So when I think about it now, I actually think that the "official method" is very good!

"The official family is really a holy monarch!" Cai Jing nodded and said, "You can actually come up with such a clever method...... Da Lang, since "Wenqu Xing" magazine is going to become the mouthpiece and eyes and ears of the official family, it is impossible to continue to run business, right? Which government office is the official going to hand it over? ”

Wu Haogu smiled, he had long known that Cai Jing would have such a question - although the Song Dynasty did not have news control, the management of private engraved books was still relatively strict, and many official anthologies involving so-called imperial court secrets would encounter trouble when they were engraved and printed. Therefore, once a newspaper in the real sense appears, there will inevitably be the idea of being run by the government.

Wu Haogu said: "The official family wants to hand over "Wenqu Xing" to Zhao Xiaoyi. ”

"Zhao Xiaoyi?" Cai Jing was stunned, "The official family wants to control it personally?" ”

"That's right." Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Otherwise, who else is it appropriate to manage?" The official family originally wanted to bypass the mouthpiece and eyes and ears of the two governments! ”

"What about the internal officials?" Cai Jing thought for a moment and asked, "Can the chamberlain be involved?" ”

Wu Haogu smiled: "Zhao Xiaoyi is Kaifeng cloth, how can he let the internal officials enter "Wenqu Xing"?" And if the internal officials are in charge of "Wenqu Xing", don't the ministers in the court still want to jump their feet? ”

"Then this "Wenqu Xing" is a ......"

"It is done by a private scholar, and neither the chief writer nor the compiler shall have an official status."

Wu Haogu's arrangement is still very ingenious, using the signboard of "Zhao Xiaoyi" to set the rules of the game of "sponsored by folk scholars", so as to prevent the newspaper from becoming an official office - this is not setting rules for "Wenqu Xing", but setting rules for the entire news newspaper industry.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty did not have talents and fame, and folk scholars were a difficult concept to define, probably just ordinary people who had no official status and had read books, right?

"I see, that's ......" Cai Jing looked at Wu Haogu, a contemplative expression appeared on his chubby round face, and only after a while did he ask tentatively, "This "Wenqu Xing" ...... I think it's still under your control, right? ”

"It's all for the official family!" Wu Haogu smiled, "Now there are only two main writers of "Wenqu Xing", it is definitely not enough, Cai Longtu can have a suitable candidate to recommend?" ”

In fact, "Wenqu Xing" magazine does not even have a full-time chief writer now. Hou Zhongliang and Zhao Mingcheng are both part-time, and most of the compilations under the main author are played by Hou Zhongliang's disciples and Zhao Mingcheng's students from Guozijian, and most of them are also part-time.

At the same time, most of the articles published in the "forum page" of Wenqu Star magazine are also contributions from readers, and there are no special "reporters" to cover the news. It's still far from a real newspaper, and if you want to do a big job, it's indispensable to recruit talents.

And Cai Jing, of course, will not let go of this opportunity to meddle in the magazine "Wenqu Xing" - this is the eyes and ears and mouthpiece of the heavenly family!

"Old man, keep an eye on you," Cai Jing didn't recommend it immediately, "I'll talk to you when I have a suitable candidate." ”

Cai Longtu reached out and stroked one of his beards as he spoke, and groaned for a while, "Da Lang, this "Wenqu Xing" seems to be something that can still be used to restrain Qingliu Wuke, isn't it?" ”

"No, of course not." Wu Haogu shook his head again and again, "Wenqu Xing is this magazine, and Qingliu celebrities can also write articles on it!" Although neither the chief writer nor the editor are officials, it is still possible for officials to submit articles...... Cai Longtu, do you have any articles to go up? ”

Cai Jing smiled: "Not for the time being, but the old man still has some advice."

You...... I have the ability, but I can cause trouble! And I'm not afraid to make things bigger, which is not good! Although the official family protects you, you are a military attache after all, and you still have to remember the rules of this dynasty.

So you must not tear your face with Zeng Bu and An Tao again! Because the fire in the camp in the north of the state was really too much, and there could be no second one. Otherwise, Han Zhongyan will also break with you. ”

Wu Haogu looked at Cai Jing, "Could it be that the lower officials want to let them splash sewage?" ”

Cai Jing smiled: "That's not necessary, the old man told you, you should correspond like this......"