chaos! What a mess!
Under the escort of Yu Lin's new army, Zai Chun and a group of people went out of Donghua Gate and went straight to the Chinese Embassy. Fu Qing had already seen the newspaper before him, and he was shocked and rushed to Xiao Letian immediately.
"The head of state... I don't know how this happened. I have sent people to copy these forged newspapers all over the streets!"
"Believe me, this matter has nothing to do with me!"
In contrast to Mr. Qing's panic, Xiao Letian was extremely calm. He was holding a bowl of steaming polenta in his hand, stirring it with a white porcelain spoon to cool it down. There were several pickles and fried dough sticks on the table in front of him. Shaobing buns and so on!
"Third Master is here! Get a bowl of porridge for Third Master... Don't be so impatient. I didn't sleep well last night. What did you say?"
It was Hu Hu who was serving today. This sick concubine expressed her wish to the Third Master to wish him a happy life, and then filled a bowl of porridge and placed it in front of the Third Master.
"Third Master, please use it! I got up at four o'clock in the morning to make porridge. These side dishes were also marinated in Tanggu in advance. You can try them..."
"Oh, thank you, aunt! You don't have to be polite and let the maid do it..."
After being polite, Mr. Qing finally couldn't eat the rice bowl in his hand, so he put it on the table again, "No, I won't be able to take a bite if I don't explain this clearly!"
"The Qing Dynasty published such a fake newspaper. I am directly responsible. It was me who failed to manage the newspaper! However, I really didn't expect that those people would be so crazy? They could actually attack the newspaper..."
"Haha, actually? Third Master, it's a bit childish for you to use this word!" Xiao Letian put down the bowl and chopsticks, "You can say the word actually, but I think this word should be replaced by necessity!"
"Yes! It's inevitable. You have underestimated the enemy's cunning and malicious intentions from beginning to end. Why did they give up attacking your newspaper?"
"Have you always thought that those people hiding in the darkness are a group of idiots with low intelligence? They only know how to bark or kill people indiscriminately?"
"You are wrong. I just discovered today that there is an insidious force hidden in the Qing Dynasty that even I was not aware of!"
"Don't look at me. I know it wasn't Guiziliu and the others who did this. There must be someone behind it... But I still can't figure out who these people are! Who could they be?"
Xiao Letian thought for a moment and had no idea. "Third Master, do you know how lively it was here last night? People posted big-character posters, threw shit, spread evil, and even threw bombs!"
"But I haven't let anyone take action. Do you know why? I just want to lure the snake out of the hole. I want to see who these people are? What other tricks do they have..."
"Let's see the results. They didn't even let Qingshui Yamen of your newspaper office go... To be able to put their minds to this is really a master. I think their rank is higher than Guiziliu!"
Fu Qing had an expression of disbelief on his face, "Could it be...don't you know that too? Wang Ju has so many spies, doesn't he have any clues?"
Cao Cao was about to arrive when he said Cao Cao. Wang Ju walked in almost without hesitation, "Third Master, I am a human, not a god! How can I know everything?"
Wang Huaiyuan sat directly at the dining table. "Third Master, you did something wrong today! How could you come to see the head of state in the first place when something like this happened?"
"Do you think the head of state won't believe you? Are you going to come here to explain? You have to arrest people as soon as possible and seize these fake newspapers as soon as possible!"
"Do you know how many copies the newspaper secretly printed last night? 13,000 copies! They were all scattered. I have sent spies from the Northern Bureau all over the streets to tear down the posters!"
"As for the ones bought by Baiguan's family, they are still easy to deal with. I believe His Majesty will take action!"
"In the time it took you to sit here and explain to the head of state, I have already sent people to invite all the employees of the newspaper office! Look, here they are..."
There was such a big mess in the capital, and Chun Shisanniang couldn't stay idle. After receiving the order, she immediately took action personally, 'invited' the heads of the newspaper office one by one, and was the first to come to the office to meet the head of state. It was Luo Hao and Wen Xiu.
Thirteenth Mother did not abuse them, nor did the two of them resist and run away. Both of them staggered when they walked with ashen faces. When they saw Xiao Letian, his knees went weak and they knelt down!
"Disciple Luo Hao... Wen Xiu... pay your respects to the master... Disciple is guilty!"
After saying one sentence, the two of them had red eyes and burst into tears, "Master, please tell me clearly...this newspaper is fake...it is really not printed by us, it is fake!"
Xiao Letian looked at the two of them and said, "Stand up and answer! Even if you are guilty of death, I will not let you kneel down to ask questions! Stand up!"
"You said this newspaper is fake? But the news from the Northern Bureau proves that the steam printing press was working all night last night, so what were they printing?"
"The six typesetters and the seventeen workers in the workshop have already confessed that it was Deputy Editor Ding Quan from the newspaper office who started typesetting with the templates you signed. How do you explain this? ?”
Director Wang threw over a sample of a fake newspaper. This is a necessary part of newspaper printing. The editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief and editors held a meeting to discuss the content of each page. After the general discussion, each department would write the manuscript by hand!
In the end, these contents will become a handwritten newspaper sample. After the two editors review it, they will sign it together and then send it to the typesetting workshop.
After several persons in charge in the workshop jointly verified that the signatures were correct, they began to arrange the printing plates with movable type, and finally entered the workshop for printing!
This set of procedures is closely linked with strict rules and regulations. Logically speaking, it would be too difficult to print newspapers privately!
Wen Xiu and Luo Hao took the newspaper sample and looked at it several times, especially the place where they signed their names. They stared at it for ten minutes.
In the end, the two of them said with sad faces, "I, I, I... I admit that the handwriting is indeed very similar, even we can fool ourselves!"
"But this is really not what we wrote! How dare we deceive our master and destroy our ancestors!"
Xiao Letian nodded, "So, someone forged your signature? It seems that this deputy editor of Ding...Ding or something is very problematic?"
"It's Ding Quan... from Suzhou, Jiangnan. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any problems!" Wang Ju said in a low voice.
"It's broken! This Ding Quan is going to be in danger... Have you sent someone to find him?" Xiao Letian exclaimed.
This gangster was really quick. When Tie Yaozi and his men raided Ding Quan's house, they discovered that everything was too late. The bodies of Ding Quan and his wife were already cold.
"The throat was stabbed, and the blood was solidified. It looked like he had been dead for more than three hours..."
"Damn it, report to the head of state quickly! Tell your brothers to move quickly. People in this newspaper office are in danger. Rescue them first!"
Infuriating information was sent back one after another. The deputy editor-in-chief Ding Quan had his throat cut, the oldest typesetter was drowned in the well, and the whereabouts of the four ordinary editors were simply unknown, and their lives and deaths were unknown!
Pieces of news were quickly gathered in front of Xiao Letian, and the atmosphere in the entire Chinese embassy was extremely depressing!
"Haha, these people are determined to cut off all the clues! But they seem to have forgotten that these two signatures are the biggest flaw!"
Xiao Letian said with a livid face, "You, Luo Hao and Wen Xiu, also studied hard in Hanchuang. You still have some calligraphy skills. Your handwriting is not that easy to imitate!"
"Now tell me, how many people in this newspaper can imitate your handwriting?"
"No! It's not that we are bragging, our handwriting is also among the best in the capital. Let alone the newspaper office, it is difficult to find anyone who can surpass us in the entire Sijiu City!"
"How weird is this? Is it possible that computer copying technology has appeared in this world?" Xiao Letian said to himself.
Note: It’s 2020, and it’s time for us at Yinlong to review and look forward to it!
To be honest, 2019 was a very sluggish year for Yinlong. It does not mean that there are fewer book friends, but that we encountered an irresistible #net cleanup campaign.
I can’t explain the specific details in detail, but our book almost disappeared from the world in the summer, just a little bit closer!
Hidden Dragon was lucky enough to escape, but then it was blocked from the list. For half a year, our books were unable to be listed on various lists!
Everyone knows that online writing is all about talking. It is essentially no different from the Tianqiao storytelling in the past. What it expects is the support of many book friends. There is great power in numbers, and it is in urgent need of publicity!
All my book friends are my bread and butter. It is the 10 or 20 cents, 1 or 2 yuan subscription money, and red envelope money that come together to earn the writer's meager royalties!
However, the list was closed for half a year, and all recommendations were stopped. Coupled with the irresistible force, Yinlong's sales in the second half of the year were very sluggish, and its popularity also suffered a huge blow!
As for the income, let’s be honest, it was cut in half and then cut in half again, which is terrible!
Hey... some things are really irresistible to us and cannot be changed, but life has to go on, and I can't really stop reading this book!
At this moment, I can only say the same old thing: "No gentleman can support craftsmen!"
Xinjing needs everyone's support. There is no website recommendation, so we can only rely on word-of-mouth promotion among readers. Brothers and sisters, try to recommend it to your fellow book friends, and try to guide them to genuine reading!
Even if one person brings a new book friend into the trap, it will be a great help to Hidden Dragon!
As for subscriptions and red envelopes, book friends who are qualified should give more rewards. 2020 is really difficult, and we really need to work hard to get through it!
Brothers and sisters who think this book is worth reading, please give Yinlong a helping hand to tide over the difficulties!
Thanks!
