Chapter 86
Because it was in its infancy, many matters were not yet complete, and the first issue of "Jianlai" only printed [-] copies.

All the booksellers in the city united to print these [-] copies of newspapers, working overtime day and night for three days.

Among them, [-] copies were sent to the military camp, and the remaining [-] copies were sent to various teahouses, restaurants, Guozijian, academies and other places, and they were all free of charge.

In the evening, in the military camp on the outskirts of the city.

The generals of the battalions are organizing the battalion sergeants to read newspapers. This is a political task personally assigned by Liu Wenbing, the governor of the Beijing camp in the morning.In the Flying Tigers barracks, all the soldiers gathered.

Qi Dazhuang greeted Zhu Yousong and said, "You used to be a vassal king, and reading and literacy are no problem. Come and read newspapers for everyone."

Zhu Yousong lost a lot of weight and his skin was tanned. He said lazily, "Report to Qi Qianhu. I have practiced all day. I am very tired now. I just want to sleep and I don't have the energy to read the newspaper."

"It's fine if you don't read, you will stand guard tonight." Qi Dazhuang said.

"The first-rank official crushes people to death, can you kill me?" Zhu Yousong muttered, reluctantly came over, took the newspaper and glanced at it, and shouted, "Hey, it looks interesting of!"

Then he sat on the chair and started reading the newspaper.

The soldiers were quickly attracted by the news content in the newspaper, and listened carefully. The huge barracks was very quiet, only Zhu Yousong's voice penetrated into people's ears word by word.

Shocked, strange, interesting!

After reading the news, many people yelled, "Whoever made the headline, thanks to him being able to figure it out, I laughed so hard!"

"Hey, I didn't expect those big figures with heads and faces to be inferior to beasts!"

"The emperor killed Qian Qianyi and others. It was a good job. You should kill a few more!"

There was a commotion for a while, and the shouting and cursing stopped.Zhu Yousong started to read "Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp", and the barracks became more quiet, and the soldiers were completely ecstatic, immersed in Lu Li's strange stories.

Zhu Yousong was also very obsessed, and after reading it, he was very disappointed and said: "It's gone, why is it over?"

"Read it again, read it again!" cried the soldiers.

Someone simply went to snatch the newspaper, and the scene suddenly got out of control.Zhu Yousong was pressed to the ground by several people, but he only held the newspaper with both hands, and shouted: "This is mine. What kind of gun are you grabbing? Can you understand it?"

Qi Dazhuang roared: "Give me peace, or I will be dealt with by military law!"

The soldiers hurried back to their original positions, Qi Dazhuang said: "This is a new newspaper published by Jinyiwei's news department, called "Jian Lai", and it will be published regularly every month in the future, and "Ghost Blowing Lantern" will continue to be serialized. It is sold in major bookstores in the town, and a newspaper is a penny, that is, ten copper coins, but copper coins are not accepted for the time being, and you can buy it with silver. If you like reading newspapers, you can buy them with silver! Alright, let’s go.”

Then he turned around and looked at Zhu Yousong, and stretched out his hand: "Give me the newspaper."

"Master Qianhu, you can't let me work hard for nothing, this newspaper is mine!" Zhu Yousong ran away.

The soldiers gathered together in twos and threes, chatting about the news and retelling the wonderful plot of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

"The Donglin Party is really shameless!" Someone scolded.

"I still like ghost stories..." Someone said, seeing Zhu Yousong who was running wildly, and shouted, "Zhu Yousong, who wrote "Ghost Blowing the Lantern"?"

"The world sings!" Zhu Yousong ran away in a hurry.

"What a strange name, who is it?"

A soldier said triumphantly, "I know who it is, it's His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Really?" Many people exclaimed.

"Can it still be false? When we first attacked Huai'an, the emperor led us to hide in the forest and told us the story of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp". And you think about it, the world is dominating, with such a domineering name, who else but the emperor would dare Use it?"

"It makes sense! Oh, our emperor is both civil and military, he is truly a heavenly man!" Someone shouted long live, and many people echoed in unison.

"The story written by the emperor, not to mention the price of a penny, is a tael of silver. I want to join in every month!"

……

On the outskirts of Nanjing, more than ten miles away, there is an exquisite tower covered with flowers and trees, called "Jiangyun Tower".

The Jiangyun Tower is spectacular and gorgeous. Qian Qianyi spent a lot of money to build this tower for Liu Rushi.Liu Rushi often met with literati and dignitaries in the building, and Jiangyun Tower became famous far and wide.

The emperor killed Qian Qianyi and confiscated Qian's family, but considering that Liu Rushi was loyal and resolute in history, and spent the rest of his life running around for the anti-Qing cause, he did not make things difficult for her.Only an imperial decree was issued, ordering Liu Rushi to lead the cultivation practice.

In the afternoon of this day, many people came to Jiangyun Tower, all of whom were members of the Donglin Party and Fushe.

Everyone sat in the hall, sighing.

Liu Rushi's face was stained with tears. Qian Bingjiu comforted her and said: "Mrs. Liu mourns and obeys the changes. People cannot be resurrected after death. Qian Shangshu loved you the most during his lifetime. I think he was under the influence of Jiuquan and did not want to see you crying all day long." .”

Mao Xiang, who was also known as the fourth son of the late Ming Dynasty with Hou Fangyu and others, said: "How did things become like this, can any of you tell me?"

Lin Shi glared at the blowing beard, and said bitterly: "To say something that shouldn't be said, our emperor is too violent and cruel. How is it different from Jie Zhou for killing scholars and officials like this?"

Huang Zongxi sighed, and Gu Yanwu said: "It's better not to say such things, so as not to bring about the disaster of killing yourself!"

"Hmph, a real man shouldn't be afraid of death! I and other members of the Donglin Party only act with the righteousness in our hearts. We are not afraid of the tyrant's butcher's knife. It would be better to kill me so that the world can see the true face of the tyrant!" Lin Shi shouted to Ye Ze.

This is the ugly face of a hypocrite. At this time, he never mentions the crimes committed by Qian Qianyi and others, and keeps cursing the emperor as a tyrant.

There was a sudden noise outside the building, and after a while, Li Xiangjun ran in with disheveled hair and panicked, "If you are my sister, please help me!"

People were taken aback and asked questions in a rush.

Liu Rushi first helped Li Xiangjun to sit down, poured her a cup of hot tea, and said softly, "Sister Xiangjun, why are you like this? Just tell me if you have any difficulties, and I will try my best to help you."

"Suddenly many people came to my Meixiang building today, smashing and beating, extremely vicious. I... I escaped with great difficulty, and almost died..." Li Xiangjun wept unceasingly.

"What's going on? Do you have any enemies?"

"I'm a weak woman, I keep myself safe, where did my enemies come from?" Li Xiangjun was wronged and angry, and took out a crumpled "Jianlai" newspaper, "It's all because of this newspaper!"

"Let me take a look!" Lin Shitui took the newspaper and read it hastily, gasping for breath.

The rest of the people gathered around and looked down together, their brows gradually became pimples, and their faces were as if stained with pot ashes.

"Shock!Two men, one old and one young, competed for the woman in the brothel, and finally pleaded guilty and punished." It is about Liu Rushi cohabiting with Chen Zilong and Qian Qianyi successively.Chen Zilong and Qian Qianyi were originally punished for committing a serious crime, but according to the author Pi Liyangqiu's narrative, their deaths were more likely to be caused by jealousy, and Liu Rushi became a concubine.

"Isn't this distorting the facts?" Mao Xiang frowned, but when he saw the next news, he was immediately speechless.

"Shock!The squire held a luxurious banquet for his birthday, and the extravagant Dorgon was shocked when he saw it! ", wrote about Mao Xiang's birthday a few days ago. The article listed the sumptuous dishes at the banquet, vividly and vividly, and wrote a sentence at the end, "In the deep winter, hundreds of refugees who went south from Yingtianfu died of freezing and starvation." .

The comparison of the two is very meaningful!
"Okay, even I won't let it go!" Lin Shidui shouted.

He said Shock!A farmer actually does this kind of action in front of his daughter! "This news, it was written in the news that two years ago, Lin Shidang forced a farm family to sell their fields at a low price, colluded with the government to bully others, and forced the farmer to kneel and beg for mercy in front of his daughter.

As for Shock!Men will be silent when they see it, and women will cry when they see it!If you don't turn, you are not from Daming! ", it is written that Fan Jingwen resigned from office and did not become a monk in order to quell the party struggle in the court, and praised his spirit of understanding righteousness;
" Shock!Chen Yuanyuan kindly recommended beautiful women to the emperor, but was reprimanded. The reason behind it is heart-warming! ", wrote the emperor's righteous words to reject Li Xiangjun's seduction, and to shape the image of the sage;
"Shock!Who said that women are inferior to men, Princess Changping humiliated all the soldiers, but the soldiers were convinced! ", actually tells the story of Princess Changping who won the crown in the archery competition, and praises her for being a heroine.

There was silence in the hall, a deathly silence, an embarrassing silence.

After a long time, Lin Shi roared to him: "Who wrote it, what a despicable person wrote the dirty article, I am at odds with him! Don't stop me, I'll go out and do my best!"

No one spoke, because these people knew each other well, and the news published in the newspapers were not slanderous rumors, but things that actually happened.

After a while, Gu Yanwu said: "Even if we know who wrote these articles, what's the use? Do you really dare to go all out? Mr. Liu Zongzhou has warned us before that since he claims to be an upright gentleman, he should act responsibly. The style of a gentleman. But over the years, the lords of the Donglin Party, many students of the Fushe Society, and many people have been running around like dogs, and finally they have fallen behind!"

"Gu Yanwu, it's not your turn to teach me a lesson!" Lin Shi twisted his nose angrily.

Huang Zongxi said: "Arguing and internal strife will not help. How should we deal with this situation?"

"Although the words and sentences in these articles are vulgar and vulgar, they are full of heart! If a gentleman conducts himself improperly, he will face disaster sooner or later. Let me go!" Gu Yanwu flung his sleeves and left.

"He...what's his attitude?" Lin Shidang glared at Gu Yanwu's back.

Li Xiangjun said tremblingly: "Listen to me, everyone, the public in the city is furious now. The mob not only points the finger at me, but also threatens to teach you a lesson. I don't think this Nanjing city can last any longer. At least there will be no peace, and at worst it will be terrible." There is a fear of life."

Maoxiang shuddered and said, "Oh, I remembered that my fourth concubine will be pregnant tomorrow. I have to rush back to take care of her. Say goodbye!"

After speaking, he ran away.

"Hey, I also remembered that my old man's second anniversary is here. A few days ago, I invited some Taoist monks to come to my house to perform rituals. I will give the old man another first seven. I have to go back to the countryside. Farewell, farewell! "

Lin Shi rubbed oil on the soles of his feet and ran out of the building.

Huang Zongxi scolded: "Shameless, I will be in contact with these two people from now on, heaven and earth will not tolerate it!"

Liu Rushi looked at the gloomy sky outside the window, and said with tears: "The wind is always blown away by the rain. The Donglin Party is no longer what it used to be, and it should be dispersed. Sister Xiangjun, you are right, Nanjing City is indeed If you can’t wait any longer, follow me to Jiaxing.”

(End of this chapter)

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