At a time when the Liu family's forces were just beginning to develop small light industries such as soap, glass, and matches, the Xu Huizhou family quickly gained a foothold in Shanghai.

However, it is only a firm footing.

Barely a place to stay.

Barely a good salary.

Barely able to live.

Their family brought more than 30,000 silver dollars to Huhai to buy a big house, a garden house or something, but it is no problem to spend a few thousand silver dollars to buy a house that does not rely on the central area.

In fact, Xu Huizhou actually wants to buy a three-bedroom house in the central area rather than a two-hall courtyard in the fringe area.

But his mother was used to living in the yard.

At the same time, I also feel that the feng shui of the three-bedroom house is too poor, not only are the bedrooms crowded together, but the toilet and kitchen are in the same space as the bedroom, this kind of feng shui can't be worse.

Mother Xu didn't want to live in this kind of house.

Xu Huizhou was helpless, and he wanted to buy a second-entry courtyard in the central area, at least twenty or thirty thousand silver dollars, if they used all the silver dollars they brought to buy a house, but there was no reserve fund to prevent accidents, so Xu Huizhou could only choose to buy a two-entry courtyard in a remote area to live, fortunately, he wrote articles and worked freely, not limited to the specific place of work.

It's just that it's a bit more troublesome to send the manuscript.

Others are fine.

The level of development of the newspaper industry in Shanghai is far greater than that of Xu Huizhou's hometown, and many newspapers are not limited to regional distribution, but can barely carry out nationwide distribution, although the distribution process is a bit of a time difference, and the articles published in Shanghai on the same day may take three or five days before they can be distributed in other places, but publishing their own articles in newspapers and periodicals distributed throughout the country is obviously a thing worth showing off and increasing fame.

If the content of the article is very innovative, or it is extremely satirical and critical, then it is basically difficult to pass the manuscript, and if the article is written to praise the government, it will be almost 100% rejected, because at this time the criticism of the government is the mainstream.

It is the literati who are not afraid of authority.

Find a progressive direction for the country and the nation.

It is an act that promotes the development of the country.

If you praise it.

That will undoubtedly be considered by the literati to be slapping the horse, bending the backbone, and breaking the bones of the literati.

Those who sing praises are flattering villains.

At the beginning, Xu Huizhou didn't know much about the situation here, and at the same time felt that this was a big city, and there were more possibilities to meet high-ranking officials, so the articles he wrote were very tactful, and some even obviously had some sycophancy, and such articles would obviously not be accepted by the Shanghai poster industry.

Therefore, in the first two months, he didn't write a single manuscript, so he could only stay at home and eat his old book.

Later, he ruthlessly bought many previous issues of newspapers and periodicals, and began to look for the common denominator of those articles in the newspapers, learn from them, and imitate them.

It was only at this time that Xu Huizhou realized that Huhai did not need to say anything vaguely about scolding the government.

It's about being as straightforward as possible.

The more fierce the scolding, the better.

The more fierce the scolding, the more people watched.

There are almost only three types of content in a full-page newspaper.

The first is to scold the government for criticizing current politics or the confrontation between literati, in short, it is related to scolding.

The second is the charm of small things, current political anecdotes, local anecdotes, as well as entertainment and advertising content.

The third is normal news.

Of course, for them literati, normal journalism has nothing to do with them at all.

Because normal news is written by those reporters, they are not responsible for this, they mainly write current political news and commentary news, however, at this time, the domestic news classification is not so detailed, and the boundary between news and commentary is actually quite blurred, so it is difficult to make specific distinctions.

However, these have nothing to do with Xu Huizhou.

After more than a month of study and summary, Xu Huizhou finally figured out the rules and requirements of receiving manuscripts here, and began to write some manuscripts criticizing current politics in an imitative manner.

In the following years, Xu Huizhou first continued to imitate and learn, and at the same time carried out certain innovations while imitating learning, and it didn't take long for him to get out of his own way and have his own style.

This is actually quite important.

Only after you have a characteristic, a reputation and a readership, will the local literary circles officially accept him as an outsider.

Until the ninth year of the Republic of China.

Xu Huizhou officially integrated into the Huhai literary circle, and got into a relationship with some bigwigs in the literary world, and occasionally interacted with each other.

At this time, he was no longer a newcomer who was often rejected at the beginning, and it was no longer him who submitted his manuscripts to newspapers and magazines, but the editor of the newspaper, Baba, who came to him to ask for manuscripts, and several large newspapers and periodicals signed column contracts with him.

He presided over a page column in the newspaper to criticize and comment on current affairs.

It's come to this point.

He began to feel comfortable mixing sand and some of his own tendencies in his articles.

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Shanghai Seascape and Literary Salon

It is said to be a salon, but in fact, the essence is still more similar to the poetry banquet in the past, but the way has changed a little, and the overall rules are more biased towards the West, but in the final analysis, it is still a place to exchange information, contacts and even blind dates with each other.

Xu Huizhou was not qualified to come over at all in the past, or no one sent him an invitation at all, but now he is no longer the same person he used to be, as a freshly baked young poet and patriotic critic, he can attract women.

I don't know how many girl students want to meet her.

I don't know how many celebrities want to marry him.

"Brother Xu, look at the girls of the Wang family and the Zhang family over there, if you are not embarrassed, I guess they all want to get to you, do you have a fancy to it?

I remember, the last time I went to your house, your mother was very worried about your marriage, how long will you delay it, my sons have been born, and you are still two years older than me, could it be that you were too hurt because of the ruthless ex-wife in front of you? ”

He Shuhua smiled and slightly lowered Xu Huizhou's waist with his elbow, his eyebrows and eyes were fine-tuned, and he gestured to a few women who were secretly looking at them not far from the left, and asked with great interest.

"What a thing!

I just haven't found a partner who is compatible with my soul, and I want to find someone with whom I can share the same topic and write poetry with me, so that maybe I can have a happy life.

It's a pity that I searched and searched, but I didn't find it. ”

Look, that's how literati can speak.

Even the flowers can be said by him so loyal and true, those ignorant girls, I am afraid that they can't wait to become his soul mate on the spot.