Soul echo

Chapter 650 Investigation Work
"Teacher, I bought all the Qianji Pavilion literature and periodicals on the market!"

Zhong Ye looked up and saw Lilian walking in with four big men carrying boxes, then raised his eyebrows.

But he didn't say anything, and after the four big men put down the cages and left, Zhong Ye spoke slowly: "If I remember correctly... I should have said 'buy one of each', right?"

Lilian, who was originally complacent, suddenly froze, and twisted her stiff neck to look at the four big cages.

It's like... it's really like that...

"I'll take one copy of everything, and you can return the rest later. Remember to apologize to the store."

With that said, Zhong Ye put down his pen and walked out from behind the desk, opened the cage, and rummaged through the books.

He was careful when picking up the books, so as not to damage the books. In this way, it would not be so troublesome for Lilian to return the books.

Zhong Ye found a total of [-] different publications from a large pile of books, including the Book of Magical Soldiers and the Record of Heroes.

Picking up those publications and flipping through them casually, Zhong Ye discovered that, just like ancient novels and film and television works, Dongtu also had various 'list rankings'.

However, these 'lists' are all launched by the Qianji Pavilion, and there seems to be no other organization other than Qianji Pavilion to make these things.

There are other people doing things like "Poetry Collection" and "Anthology Collection", but they are not like Qianji Pavilion, which will evaluate poems and essays, and they are not as "authoritative" as Qianji Pavilion.

If one looked at these publications from the perspective of an ordinary Eastern native, one would not find anything weird, but now Zhong Ye reads these publications with prejudice, and immediately feels that these publications are just as he imagined, full of " Provocation' means.

Every article and every word in these publications is full of 'comparison', and at the same time there is a clear point to it.

For example, one of the publications used to introduce the disciples of various sects not only described their martial arts characteristics, but also stated the number and results of their martial arts competitions with other people.

Moreover, this publication is used to introduce living people. If someone dies before an article comes out in a certain issue, the next issue will tell that the person is dead, and the next issue will not have that person again. .

After comparing several issues of these publications, Zhong Ye concluded a rule. Publications such as anthologies are fine, but all publications about the world and with characters appear by default, that is, once someone dies, that person will be removed from the publication. disappeared.

Naturally, there is nothing wrong with this, people die like a lamp goes out, everyone is dead, what are you still doing on the list?
But precisely because of this, the conflicts between the quacks are always continuous.

Even though Zhong Ye was in Jingzhou prefecture, and his reputation had long been known far and wide, there were still gangsters fighting in Jingzhou city, and they were naturally caught by Zhong Ye, and then sent to prison for self-reflection. If you destroy other people's property, you will pay the debt. If you kill an innocent passer-by by mistake, you will have to pay with your life.

Zhong Ye looked down on quacks. Although he himself was also a knight-errant signed by Juyi Pavilion, just like he looked down on other adventurers when he was in Westland, those rangers with uneven quality and some lawlessness couldn't catch his eyes.

Maybe it's for fame, maybe it's for money, or both, many quacks are eager to gain the approval of others, and among this 'others', Qianji Pavilion is the greatest authority, up to the emperor, Down to the common people, many people are paying attention to the publications published by Qianji Pavilion.

Not everyone in this world is a good person, so, in order to 'get on the list', I am afraid that some people will do some shady things, such as assassination...

"Lilian, I apologize to you."

Hearing this sentence suddenly, Lilian looked up in surprise, "Huh?"

Zhong Ye closed the booklet in his hand, "Although you are indeed a little confused and bought all the publications related to Qianji Pavilion on the market, my previous thinking was also a bit wrong. Through the comparison of the same publication in different periods , I just found some problems."

With that said, Zhong Ye looked at Lilian, "If it wasn't for your 'mistakes', I might not have been able to discover these things so quickly."

Among these [-] kinds of publications, except for "Hero Record", the other publications are somewhat suspected of sowing dissension. The reason why there is no Hero Record may be because Qianji Pavilion cannot provoke so many legends.

——Those who can be listed on the Hero Record are legends!

After thinking for a while, Zhong Ye walked out of the office and called the secretary in the next room.

"Go and inform other people and let all officials gather in the meeting room at the time of application. I have something to discuss with them."

The clerk was taken aback for a moment, and then left with his hands folded.

Now the whole yamen pays the most attention to efficiency. For the sake of efficiency, many red tapes can be removed.

It has to be said that after canceling those red tapes, the efficiency of their work has indeed been greatly improved, and some problems in the past can be easily solved now.

It couldn't be solved before, it was all because of poor communication, and the root cause of poor communication was those red tapes.

Now it is only half an hour before Shenshi, and it is really difficult to notify all the officials within half an hour. Fortunately, as Zhong Ye's secretary, the civil servant has the power to mobilize a few government officials, so he can find a few officials at will. A yamen servant assigns tasks.

Half an hour later, all the officials were notified and rushed back to the Yamen.

When the last official was seated, Zhong Ye cleared his throat, and said straight to the point: "After cutting off public funds for eating and drinking, the yamen has a lot of funds, some of which have been used to pay the salaries of the yamen servants and improve criminal investigation tools, but there is still a lot left over. A big part of it, so I have an idea."

As he spoke, Zhong Ye threw the brochure in his hand onto the table for many officials to watch.

"This is a collection of essays released by Qianji Pavilion. I want to cooperate with Qianji Pavilion and Chengzhong Bookstore and order some books from them. Moreover, this business is not short-term, one-time, but long-term. What do you guys think? Ideas? Feel free to bring them up."

Many officials looked at me and I looked at you, and there was a moment of silence before a young girl raised her hand, breaking the silence.

"My lord, can we only talk to Qianji Pavilion or the book shop in the city? I heard that there is a women's club in the south of the Yangtze River, and they often release some anthologies that women like me like. Can the Yamen introduce them?"

Hearing this, Zhong Ye glanced around and found that among the people present, there were not many women, but there were one-sixth of them.

"It's a good idea, but the quantity shouldn't be too much. Discuss with yourselves which ones you want to order, and then report to me."

Then, Zhong Ye looked at Dai Lila who was sitting next to him, "Dai Lila, you need to follow up on this matter."

If it was just such a trivial matter, it was impossible for Zhong Ye to hastily summon all the officials, but Dai Lila couldn't think of what Zhong Ye was going to do after thinking about it.

Hearing these words, a flash of light flashed in her mind——Zhong Ye is a drunkard, and ordering publications to enrich the Yamen is just an excuse. What he really wants to do is to investigate Qianji Pavilion or bookstores in the city. .

But Jingzhou Mansion City has been cleaned up by Zhong Ye more than once, even if there are abyss believers who hide deeper, it is impossible to show their feet so quickly, so the object he wants to investigate is actually the 'Qianji Pavilion'!
"Yes, Mr. Zhong." Delilah narrowed her eyes with a smile.

Qianji Pavilion, an organization that can arouse Zhong Ye's interest, should be very interesting... But if she wants to investigate Qianji Pavilion, she needs to put aside the half-finished 'investigation work' first.

This is not a big problem, at most it just lengthens one's own sense of expectation.

The question is, after she stops the ongoing investigation, will Zhong Ye find anything?
But then I thought about it, so what if I was discovered?

Zhong Ye glanced at Dai Lila who was smirking strangely, then looked at the officials present, stood up, "The meeting is over!"

(End of this chapter)