In Chang'an City, Yan Shigu, who got up early, was in the courtyard, bending over to the ground, carefully looking at the grass sprouts that had just emerged on the ground. The shallow layer of greenery, just looking at it, makes people feel happy.

"Brother! Brother! A hurried voice came from outside, Yan Shigu was very familiar with this voice, but he was surprised by the hurry inside the voice.

As soon as he straightened up, he saw that his younger brother had already hurried over from the court. Younger brother Yan Xiangshi, one of the eighteen bachelors, is very prestigious, and he has not seen him so intolerant for a long time.

This makes me wonder.

I saw Yan Xiangshi holding a piece of paper in his hand, hurriedly took three steps and made two steps to Yan Shigu, handed the paper in his hand to Yan Shigu, and said: "Brother, many children on the street are selling this, a penny a piece!" Take a look at what's on this! ”

Yan Shigu didn't take the piece of paper immediately, but just looked at his brother, seeing that although he was in a hurry, there was excitement in his eyes, so he guessed in his heart that it would not be a bad thing.

Only then did I take the piece of paper, open it, and immediately saw a big title -- "Policy Transparency, Wide Speech." The name was not surprising, but it seemed a little strange, so I looked down. When I took a closer look, I was suddenly surprised in my heart, it turned out that the so-called policy transparency is to make the policies and decisions of the imperial court, and the things that the imperial court does to govern the country, open to the people of the whole world in this thing called a newspaper, so that the people of the whole world know what the imperial court has done, so as to supervise the imperial court. And open the way. It was after the people of the whole world knew what the court had done. You can make a decision about yourself about the court. or the views and opinions of the behavior of a certain thing are written in a chapter, sent to the newspaper office, and published in this newspaper for the court to see.

Yan Shigu's heart was shocked, staring at the newspaper in his hand, taking a few quick breaths, and then suddenly turned his head and shouted to his subordinates: "Quick! Hurry up and prepare your car! The old man wants to enter the palace immediately to meet His Majesty! ”

It seems that Yan Shigu reacted like this. There are also Li Gang and Kong Yingda, the three of them left the house together, met outside the palace gate, saw the solemn look on each other's faces, didn't say a word, hurriedly entered the palace, and went to the Taiji Palace.

It seems that someone has already arrived earlier than them, and as soon as they followed the inner attendant to the outside of the Taiji Hall, they already heard the voice inside. The city is noisy and noisy.

"Your Majesty. Please check his person and seal his things. Cure him for the crime of arguing about the government! "As soon as I stepped forward, I heard someone shouting.

"Your Majesty, it is really unwise to make such an important matter of the imperial court public. Now there are still Turkic and other tribes around my Datang, so wouldn't it be possible to have a full view of my movements? ”

"Lord Zhao's words are wrong! Since His Majesty ascended the throne, he has been open to a wide range of opinions, and even if he is in charge of politics, he will invite speakers to participate in order to listen to opinions and fill in the gaps. His Majesty was happy when he heard it, and he was blunt and admonished, and he was as good as a stream, so that he could have the prosperity of today's Tang Dynasty! This move can collect the public opinion of the world and make the court know what the people think, so that the people will definitely support it, which is really a great good! ”

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The voices in the Taiji Hall came and went, Li Shimin sat on the throne, looking at the ministers below with an expressionless face and red ears, spit splashing, and even some of them were almost about to lift their sleeves and move.

Although the hall was messy, Xia Hong, who was not in the hall, didn't know about it. Walking around the streets with Li Chengqian, watching the newspapers in the hands of those newsboys gradually sell out, and then went out to Chang'an and went to the printing house.

led Li Chengqian to the courtyard behind the printing house and entered a room, which was arranged like a large office in a military academy. took Li Chengqian to the innermost compartment, where only a desk was placed, and there was a small room surrounded by glass on all sides, and said to Li Chengqian: "This will be the place where you will do errands in the future." The rest of the people are expected to be there soon. ”

"Brother Sheng, I won't!" Li Chengqian looked at Xia Hongsheng helplessly and said.

"Actually, you don't have much to do, and there is a set of criteria for choosing what kind of article to publish in the newspaper, and the editors will choose it according to the criteria, and give it to you together with the current opinion and strategy written by the newspaper people themselves. The job of a writer is to write a manuscript, and the job of an editor is to select well-written and useful articles. These things come together to you, and your job is to nod your head, or shake your head—nod your head, and it will be published in the newspaper, and if you shake your head, you will not be published. ”

"It's as simple as that?" Li Chengqian said happily: "Since it was selected by the editors, it must be good, isn't it just that I just need to nod my head and agree!" ”

Xia Hongsheng shook his head: "Actually, your job is the most difficult - or rather, you didn't come here to work at all, but to learn things." ”

"Learn?" Li Chengqian was stunned: "What to learn?" ”

"There will be a lot of manuscripts coming to the newspaper, and there will be many good and useful manuscripts, and there will be many bad and useless manuscripts. And the editor's choice must be accompanied by his personal thoughts and emotions. For the same manuscript, one editor may think that it is nothing to do and talk nonsense, while another editor thinks that it is a needle and a bad time. That's when they're going to show you the manuscript and make your initial decision. So first of all, you have to learn to be objective! What is objectivity is to look at and think about things as they are, and have nothing to do with all personal feelings, prejudices or opinions, and be impartial. You can't just let it pass happily in your heart just because a manuscript is praising you, praising Your Majesty, and praising the Tang Dynasty, while ignoring its words and slapping the horse. Nor can we reject an article because it is written with bitterness and cruelty, like a dagger pointing out our shortcomings and shortcomings. Secondly, you are exposed to countless manuscripts every day here, that is, countless personal thoughts, countless personal opinions. You have to pick out the most useful, the best ones and insights from these countless opinions and opinions. What a way to broaden your horizons! When you review manuscripts here, just as your father and emperor review them in the palace, you will be exposed to countless thoughts, draw the essence from these countless thoughts, and condense your own thoughts. Third, there will be disputes between different editors over the quality of a manuscript, and you need to deal with interpersonal relationships here. I hope that you can forget your status as a prince and a prince for a while, and just be a chief editor who reviews manuscripts, and then use this capacity to deal with the interpersonal relationships between yourself and the editors under you, as well as between the editors under you, so that you can learn how to use people. ”

Li Chengqian was stunned by Xia Hongsheng's words, and gradually showed an excited look on his face, and suddenly grabbed Xia Hongsheng's hand and said excitedly: "I see! Brother Sheng! I didn't expect my father to send me here with such a deep meaning! Thank you Brother Sheng for reminding me that Cheng Qian almost failed his father's cultivation! Brother Sheng, don't worry, I will do a good job in this errand! (To be continued.) )