A hundred years ago, there was no Internet and mobile phones, and the transmission of information was all by letters and horses. However, the topics that people usually chat about are no less than those of modern people.

——For example, the most popular novel in the north, which is talked about in almost every teahouse and tavern, must belong to the novel serialized in the "Dongfang Beijing News", "The Ferry of All Beings".

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that literati are lofty, even if they are only authors of popular vernacular novels, they can be regarded as "holding a pen".Therefore, an author like Yan Heqing who took the initiative to lower his profile and was even willing to write a serious novel for a group of prostitutes is indeed No. 1 in all ages.

No matter how many people praise him or scold him, no one can deny that the name Yan Heqing is indeed popular in the literary world.

The thousands of characters serialized in the "Dongfang Beijing News" every week will be discussed over and over again, and studied word by word.Fans copied the wonderful sentences in their notebooks, and recited them every day at home, and some fanatics even threatened in public, as long as they can meet with the author and ask for advice, they will have no regrets in this life;

And the haters also bought newspapers, scolded and read them, scolded them, and formed a certain comment group with their peers, ordered a pot of tea in the teahouse, and scolded them all afternoon for not repeating the same thing. .Among them, the person who scolded brilliantly will be applauded by others, his face is flushed with excitement in the applause, and he is very proud. He picks up the tea cup and drank it in one gulp. After the dry saliva in his mouth slows down, he continues Scolded for a while.

In the end, these two types of people went home contentedly, which actually helped the sales of "Dongfang Beijing News"—it doubled several times!

The president didn't care what readers scolded or not. Seeing that the newspapers sold out every Monday, he was so happy that he called Xu Weixin into the office and praised him fiercely, saying that Yan Heqing, the author, they would definitely Keep it well!It doesn't matter even if the manuscript fee is increased by two or three times!

When Xu Weixin came out of the office in a daze, he thought it was because he had been scolded for hallucinations during this time.

Why is the president not only not being called to talk, but also specifically praising him?

Is it possible that the gang of officials and gentlemen in the Beining government really don't even read newspapers?

He thought in disbelief, why do you feel that these officials and gentlemen have suddenly changed from wolves to Buddhas, and they can even bear this kind of thing that cuts off their money?

It is no wonder that Xu Weixin has such doubts.Because this "All Beings Crossing", in addition to causing an uproar in the literary world, the most profound impact is the current society's views on the matter of "prostitution".

You know, as more and more brothels are opened in the city, prostitution has become an open drinking activity for the high-ranking dignitaries.What's more, in order to please these people, they will directly book a venue, and invite gentlemen to go in and "have a good time".As for the bottom-level brothels that entertain laborers and coolies, occasionally the public security department will seize them if they don't like it, but as long as you pay enough gift money, any ghosts and snakes will protect you.

But it's different now.

The real and cruel fates of the characters in "All Beings Crossing", the examples of families ruined by whoring and human trafficking, and the heart-pounding descriptions of men and women struggling after contracting diseases all make those who clamor "this is The gentlemen of "Fung Ya" were terrified, and many people who were afraid of death even began to walk around the alleys opened by brothels, for fear of being infected with some inexplicable diseases.

Although many people still clamored that Yan Heqing was an alarmist, doctors soon came forward to confirm that these diseases are real, and people who contract this disease in reality are a hundred times more miserable than those in the book more than.

In the end, when the "Dongfang Beijing News" added relevant pictures to a certain issue of the series, these clamoring people were finally completely speechless.

The trend of public opinion in the whole society has been reversed, and just two days ago, a senior official of the Beining government has issued an order that from today onwards, the business licenses of brothels of all sizes in the city will be withdrawn one after another, and the public security department will be ordered to place these places in three At the same time that all the rectification was completed within a month, people were also ordered to amend the relevant legal provisions——

This means that from now on, not only opening a brothel is breaking the law, but even those who visit prostitutes are also breaking the law!

At an academic meeting held in Jingluo University, Wen Chunqiu said with a smile that the atmosphere in the country has become clear recently, and he has become more and more curious about this Mr. Yan Heqingyan.

He even expressed frankly that if he had the opportunity, he really hoped to meet the author, and invited him to come to Jingluo University to give a speech to the students.

Words like this come out of Wen Chunqiu's mouth, but the meaning is completely different.

This old gentleman's reputation is not only in the literary world, but also in the political circle. Who is not aware that this is equivalent to supporting Yan Heqing's ideas in disguise?

Under his influence, the "big shots" who originally dismissed a chief writer of a newspaper's fiction column gradually began to pay attention to Yan Heqing, a little-known rookie author.

In Jingluo University, this influence is even more obvious.

The number of students applying to join the fiction club has more than tripled this semester, and the classroom where the president and the others usually study can't fit, so they have to apply to the school for a bigger classroom.

Kang Ping has also been promoted from a newcomer in the club to a senior senior. He no longer needs to do errands to the library. Every time there is an event, he just needs to sit happily on the seat, drink scented tea, and wait for someone to treat him. Just send this issue of "Dongfang Beijing News".

As the first person in the school who discovered Yan Heqing's talent with "eyes of wisdom", Kang Ping did have a different plot for this author than others.

He has a thick notebook, on which is every update published by Yan Heqing in the newspaper, without missing a word, and he copied them all.

Occasionally when he came home on weekends, he would take the notebook and read it to his younger sisters at home.

Although his father had attended once and frowned and warned him not to read such heavy things to his younger sisters, Kang Ping felt that it would not be a bad thing to let them know the dangers of the world earlier.

It's like the youngest sister in his family. She has been to Suzhou and Hangzhou once before, and she was very fond of Liu Qingqing, a famous prostitute there. Even after she came back, she didn't study hard. All kinds of jewelry, dressing yourself up, and making a bunch of friends with indescribable character, which they call "connections".

He knew that the little girl was influenced by the recent trend of Western equality in society. She always talks about "everyone is equal", thinking that she is already beautiful, and she can still be a courtesan even if she doesn't go to school. Eat well, everyone is equal anyway.But Kang Ping always felt that such an idea was wrong, but he was stupid, he only knew that it was not good for the little girl to do so, and he couldn't say why it was not good.

It wasn't until he saw the book "All Beings Crossing" written by Mr. Yan Heqing that he suddenly realized.

Equality for everyone is what we strive for all our lives, not the standards we demand from others. When a person is still at the bottom of the whole society, and wants to talk about equality with others, those exploiters will just sneer and say sarcastically : Are you worthy?

Therefore, he neatly copied the unfinished book from the newspaper and recommended it to his younger sister.

To Kang Ping's relief, although the little girl's grades in school still haven't improved much, at least she won't be dressed up every day to meet the group of so-called "friends" - a few times down, those who were originally aimed at her The men and women who came here with jewelry and beautiful clothes felt that it was a shame to go out with her, and they were unwilling to associate with her.

Although the little girl cried very sad because of this, Kang Ping felt that it was a good thing for her to see the people around her clearly at no cost.

"I really want to meet this Mr. Yan." Sitting at the door of his house, he looked at the gloomy sky above his head and the ripples of rainwater dripping from the eaves on the pool in the courtyard, and sighed sincerely, "If If Yan Heqing can come to Jingluo University to teach, then I will go to his class even if there is hailstorm!"

There are many people from other walks of life who have the same idea as him.

Every day, besides letters from readers, the newspaper office of "Dongfang Beijing News" received the most letters asking about Yan Heqing's identity and contact information.

Although the vast majority of Xu Xiaoming obeyed Xu Weixin's orders and ignored them, there were also some letters that they had to answer.

Originally, dealing with inquiries from such important people was the most troublesome thing for Xu Weixin, but since Jing Xinglan came to the newspaper office that day, Xu Weixin can even walk with wind, and when he sees such letters, he packs them all up. Send it to the trash.

——Anyone who hesitates for a second is considered a loser!

"It's just something written by a poor scholar with hysteria!"

In a large mansion in the west of the city, an official working in the public security department was so angry that he almost smashed his house all over the place: "What's wrong with this group of people, everyone is obsessed by ghosts? There are hundreds of brothels in the city. How much revenue will be added to the government? It's just a few whores' life and death, the devil's letter to this group of people suddenly has a conscience!"

He stood at home panting, with a pair of dark eyes viciously scanning the mess around him.The servants and wives next to him stood aside in fear, not to mention persuasion, they didn't even dare to approach.

After all, in this family, the master is the sky.

"What is the origin of this Yan Heqing?" After barely venting his inner anger, the security officer finally calmed down, and began to frown and think, as if talking to himself, "Recently The direction of the wind is also very strange. There is a big fight for a novel, even if the public opinion is fierce... Ha! Joke, when did they care about this?"

After thinking about it, he felt that either Yan Heqing was working in the Beining government, and he must be someone with high authority; Not even the slightest leak.

"It's really difficult, tsk!"

He complained, his eyes both resentful and helpless.

No one even knew his last name, so he had no choice but to put pressure on the newspaper directly.But after all, he has stayed in this position for so many years, and those gentlemen who have lost more official positions than him are still waiting and watching. He, a little guy under him, hastily made a move, isn't he looking for death?

"Old, master," seeing that his mood had eased, his wife who had been standing by the side without daring to show off, finally said tremblingly, "The door...there is someone looking for you outside the door."

"Who?" He frowned fiercely.

It's so shameless!

"Yes... it was Yuan San and the others, and they brought a cart full of gifts."

The exact names of Yuan San and Ma Si are unknown, but people in the city habitually refer to them as Yuan Sanye and Ma Siye.Although they were born poor and humble, none of them was easy to get along with, and they were all ruthless among ruthless people. Most of the brothel industry in the entire Forty-Nine City was under their control.Naturally, the government's revision of the law this time also directly harmed their interests, and it could even be said that their vitality was seriously injured.

At this time, they came to give gifts and visited the sheriff's home, and they also knew why.

"No! Drive away, drive away, drive away, all!"

The magistrate is bothering, how can there be any time to control their life and death?

But before his wife could respond, the sheriff who was planning to go back to the house suddenly stopped.

"By the way," he turned his head slowly, narrowing his eyes, "I remember, these two are rich, right?"

The wife didn't know what he wanted to ask, so she could only nod silently.

Although Yuan San and Ma Si are only "businessmen" on the surface, there is no industry in the world that is more profitable than pornography, gambling and drugs. Naturally, they are also earning a lot of money, and their net worth far exceeds that of ordinary officials who only receive government salaries. them.

"Since they want to give gifts, let's give them." The sheriff obviously still didn't want to let go of the two fat sheep who came to the door by himself, he dragged his voice lazily, "But I won't see people. Just say that I'm unwell and can't see guests. But you tell them something for me—"

"Having money can turn ghosts into millstones. When a man gets angry, blood splatters five steps away, but when the literati fight...they all kill without blood."

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