Neither the emperor nor the Ministry of Internal Affairs found fault, so Shen Yi's first draft passed the review smoothly and can be arranged for subsequent publication.
Di Bao is currently not making any money.
Because the cost of printing in this era was relatively high and the movable type printing technology was not very mature, the Di Bao had to be carved one edition at a time, requiring dozens of craftsmen to do it at the same time. Therefore, the cost of printing was not low, and the imperial court regarded the Di Bao as The company is used as a mouthpiece, so the price when the Di Bao is sold is not very high, so overall it is not profitable, and the court has to subsidize it.
However, after Mr. Shen takes over, Di Newspaper Company will completely turn losses into profits.
However, making money is making money, and growing is growing. It is absolutely impossible to develop into the Jin Yiwei of another world at present.
Because at its peak, the number of Jinyiwei had expanded to 100,000. With Di Baosi's financial capacity, it was absolutely impossible to support so many people.
Because Di Newspaper Division could not collect protection fees like Jin Yiwei did, the imperial court would not allow them to do so.
Of course, the Di News Agency is still just a prototype, and the current way to make money is very simple. Now the emperor has tacitly agreed that the Di News Agency can develop into an intelligence agency on its own. When this intelligence agency gradually forms a scale, there will naturally be other Ways to make money.
After the first draft of the next edition was finalized, Shen Sizheng, the new official, began to convene meetings with informants from the Di News Department.
Nowadays, in Jiankang City, there are about 200 people responsible for providing intelligence to the Di Newspaper Division. These people are all non-staff personnel and do not have fixed salaries. In the past, the Di Newspaper Division would provide more or less information based on the information they provided. some money.
And now, a new Sizheng has come to the Di News Department.
Shen Yi spent almost three days to select nearly 30 young and capable people from these 200 informants, and took them into the Di Newspaper Division. He made them official employees of the Di Newspaper Division, and they were paid on time every month. The money kind.
Since they are formal workers, upper and lower classes will naturally begin to form. Shen Yi did not appoint them directly. Instead, he gave these thirty people a one to two month inspection period, at which time three small flags will be selected. As well as a general banner, the salary will be one level higher than others.
No matter in which era, gaining wealth is something that everyone is passionate about. With the treatment as a foundation, these people are naturally full of energy. They all patted their chests and assured Shen Yi that they would do a good job.
These thirty people are the "start-up team" of the Di News Agency's intelligence agency.
In the subsequent development process, some people in this start-up team will climb up the ranks and gradually become excellent intelligence personnel or managers, while some people will inevitably fall behind and be eliminated by this team.
These are inevitable things.
And Shen Yi still has a lot to do.
To be honest, he needs some professional intelligence trainers to train these newbies, and he also needs a few more professional accounting offices to set up the "Department Branch" of the Di newspaper department.
However, all of this needs to be done slowly, and it cannot be done in a month or two.
There is no other way to find professional intelligence training personnel but to find them in the internal security department. As for the accounting office, let’s see if we can find a way to recruit some professionals from the household department.
After all, Mr. Shen has an uncle who is about to become the Minister of Household Affairs, so the latter should not be a difficult task for him.
In this way, Shen, who was full of energy, worked in the Di Newspaper Division for four or five days in a row, and finally transformed the Di Newspaper Division into shape. In the next few days, he, the director, ignored the administrative staff. Instead of asking people to collect "dirty information" about the Yang family, they were going to write a short essay about Young Master Yang.
Young Master Yang, Yang Fan, could not be said to have done all the bad things in Jiankang, at least he was notorious. In the past, his father, Yang Jingzong, had all the power in the court, so no one dared to gossip about him. But now, the old man Yang Xiang has retired from the book and spends all day playing chess and drinking tea at home, without the protection of the power in the court...
Too many people are willing to speak ill of the Yang family.
There was no need for professional intelligence personnel at all. In just two or three days, with the help of the thirty unprofessional intelligence personnel from the Di News Department, a lot of dirty information about Mr. Yang had already appeared on Shen Yi's desk.
Shen Sizheng was not polite and planned to start writing a short composition about the Yang family that day.
Of course, this kind of short composition is full of political manipulation, so it must be reported to the emperor first and cannot be printed directly.
On the emperor's side, there is no shortage of dirty information about the Yang family. As for when the emperor will settle these old accounts, it all depends on how the war is going on the front line.
The imperial court started fighting with the Qi people in the spring, and the two sides have been fighting for several months. During these months, conflicts continued on the front line, and Chen Guo's war was not going well.
There are wins and losses, but overall it is a loss.
Therefore, the atmosphere in the court became very delicate.
For example, before the candidate for the queen has been decided, some people are already thinking about the title of the noble concubine after the Northern Qi princess enters the palace.
But all this has nothing to do with Shen Yi. He commutes to and from get off work steadily every day and does his own thing step by step.
Until this afternoon.
Shen Yi left the newspaper office early as usual. Because of the hot weather, when Shen Yi returned home, he asked two maids to fill a basin of hot water and take a hot bath.
After taking a shower, Mr. Shen stretched out and felt comfortable all over. He lay on the lounge chair in his yard, closed his eyes, and said lazily: "Qing'er."
The maid Qing'er came over, poured a cup of tea for Shen Yi, placed it on the low table beside him, and said with a smile: "Master, do you have anything to say?"
"I received a letter from Jiangdu today. The master is already on his way to Jiankang. He will arrive in Jiankang probably tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest. In the past two days, you should clean up the main house at home and buy whatever is missing. Don’t wait for my father to come over, you are short of this and that.”
This second-entry house given by the emperor is really not small, with more than ten or twenty rooms. However, because Shen Yi has elders in the family, he does not live in the largest main house in the north, but in the east of the courtyard. The largest room in the eldest son's room has always been empty and unoccupied.
It's not that Shen Yi is pedantic, but because his father is still alive and he is not married, he must abide by the rules.
Qing'er responded, nodded and said: "Ping'er and I also clean the main room on weekdays. Tomorrow, when the slaves go to Dongshi Street to buy some things and decorate it, the master can live in it."
Shen Yi lay on the recliner with squinted eyes.
"I'll have some ice delivered tomorrow and use it in every room in the house. It's too hot."
Having said this, he opened his eyes and glanced at Qing'er: "Tell me when the money is gone."
Qing'er smiled and nodded, and just as he was about to speak, there was a knock on the front door of Shen's house.
Shen Yi lay still and Qing'er had already walked over. She was not in a hurry to open the door and asked who it was.
A young voice came from outside the door.
"Zhao Zhuo from Qingzhou is here to bring his sister-in-law to apologize to Shen Sizheng."
Zhao Clan's ancestral home is Qingzhou.
It is worth mentioning that Qingzhou is now in the hands of Northern Qi and has been lost.
Qing'er turned around, ran all the way to Shen Yi, and repeated to Shen Yi in a low voice.
Si Zheng Chen opened his eyes, stood up from the recliner, and then looked at the door of his courtyard.
He didn't hesitate.
He strode over.
