Datang: The prince of salted fish was overheard by Li Er

"What's wrong? Chong Chi, is there any problem with this book?"

Wang Gui was very puzzled.

He didn't understand what was in this book that his elder son was so worried about.

Wang Chongji pointed to the editor-in-chief above and said, "Father, the editor-in-chief of this book is Gao Shilian."

"And if you look at the opening message of the first article, apart from His Majesty's words, Gao Shilian's words obviously have something to say!"

It turned out that Gao Shilian wrote in the opening message that he would become the editor-in-chief of this "Zhenguan Banyue Tan". Apart from His Majesty's reason, it was also thanks to someone, a blessing in disguise.

Those words sounded in other people's ears, but it was because of Gao Shilian's complaints about being demoted before.

However, to the ears of the Wang family and his son, it seemed that Gao Shilian knew what he had done in the past.

Wang Gui patted his son on the shoulder and said: "Chongji don't need to be nervous, the matter has passed for so long, then Gao Shilian guessed that we did it, and wanted to reverse the case, so what can he do."

"Didn't you see, he was assigned by His Majesty to write this magazine."

"Writing books and talking about them sounds good, but in fact they are all the work of poor literati who have no ambitions."

"You look at the front of the book, it's all about the battle with Tuyuhun this time."

"To put it simply, it's just that Gao Shilian and that little Li You are showing their merits to His Majesty."

Wang Gui casually flipped through the magazine in his hand, and made his own comments while reading.

However, after he read the article about the Great War, his eyes became more serious.

Wang Gui saw an article about "The Law of Zhenguan".

After studying it carefully, Wang Gui changed his previous opinion.

"Chongji, your idea is really good. This Gao Shilian and that little Li You want to use this magazine to lay the groundwork for their upcoming "Law of Zhenguan"."

"Let these sensational articles be fermented among the people for a period of time, and when they are actually published, it is estimated that there will be at least ten times more people who want to treasure a copy."

Wang Gui's words are not exaggerated. In this era, there are only a very small number of people who really care about the law.

Except for the people in the government, there are even fewer.

Ordinary merchants and craftsmen, although they know a few words, they don't have the desire to take the initiative to understand.

Because they feel that as long as they are honest, what the law stipulates has nothing to do with them.

However, after the magazine's publicity, everyone knows that the new law is closely related to the lives of the people. Driven by interests, more people want to know more about it.

"Father, this time the magazine can help promote "The Law of Zhenguan", and he will be able to promote His Majesty's other ideas in the future."

"Look at the name, since it's called Ban Yue Tan, there must be an issue every half a month."

"Baby thinks that the next issue will probably promote "Zhenguan Clan Records"."

"With this experience, "Zhenguan Clan Records" will become even more unstoppable."

Wang Gui nodded like this, and he thought of what Wang Chongji could think of.

Faced with this unprecedented public opinion offensive, Wang Gui was helpless.

After thinking for a while, Wang Gui said, "Then I will send my name card to Cui Mingan's residence, the servant of Huangmen, and say that I will go back and see you later."

"After we tried to bring down Datangcoin last time and failed, I made a serious summary."

"It seems that we can't do it alone."

"Since our five surnames and seven look forward to the same spirit, we should also help each other at this time."

"This time, it's time to truly show our combined strength."

After Wang Chongji got the order, he immediately went to Cui Mingan's house.

At this moment, Cui Mingan was also reading "Zhenguan Banyue Tan" together with his son Cui Qiu, when he heard that someone from the palace came to visit him, Cui Mingan immediately laughed.

"Did you see that Gao Shilian showed his hand, and old Wang Gui couldn't help it."

"At that time, taking advantage of Gao Shilian's negligence, he wanted to kill two birds with one stone while destroying the compilation of the clan annals and at the same time snatch the position of servant."

"Now that Gao Shilian's book is finished, the counterattack will naturally come."

Cui Qiu nodded and said: "What you do by yourself, you have to recite by yourself, what does it mean to drag us on!"

"Look at me turning him down in the past."

However, Cui Mingan shook his head and said: "Let him come, this time the matter of the magazine is not a trivial matter."

"Do you still remember that we spread rumors about King Yan before? This magazine is obviously the little prince's trick."

"Although he doesn't have the same mass influence as us, he also has his advantages."

"That is, he has absolute influence over more than half of Datang's printing factories."

"It's also thanks to our aristocratic family spending money to set up a lot of printing factories in the past few years, otherwise we might really have no chance."

"This time, it is indeed time for us to act together."

Then Cui Minqian pursed his lips and said with a smile: "But, since Wang Gui asked us on his own initiative, we have to take the lead in this action!"

After accepting the name card, Cui Mingan was not idle, and immediately asked his son Cui Qiu to invite Cui Shanwei, the chief farmer from the Cui family of Qinghe, and Zheng Shanguo, the Minister of Rites from the Zheng family of Xingyang.

After the four of them arrived together, they each expressed their opinions and expressed their views on the current problem.

Wang Gui was the first to speak: "Everyone, the Li family in Longyou has already turned to the court, and the Lu family in Fanyang and the Li family in Zhaojun have no one in Beijing who can make decisions. How to deal with this matter depends on everyone's opinions. .”

"I've also read the first issue of "Zhenguan Banyue Tan". Although it hasn't obviously harmed the interests of the aristocratic family, if you let it go, it will definitely be a problem!"

"In my opinion, we need to mobilize the power of the family immediately and resist it among the people."

However, after Wang Gui finished speaking, the brows of the other three families naturally frowned.

After seeing that the editor-in-chief of "Zhenguan Banyue Tan" was Gao Shilian, the other three had already guessed why Wang Gui was in such a hurry.

If it was at other times, they would naturally be happy to stand by and watch Wang Gui and Gao Shilian fight quietly.

But this time, "Zhenguan Clan Chronicles" is like a sharp sword hanging over their heads.

Although from Li Shimin's attitude, they have long seen that this is the general trend, and now that the imperial power is in full swing, they have no way to resist Li Shimin's intention anyway.

Even so, they also hope to reduce the influence of that book as much as possible, and hope that it will not spread among the people.

Originally, if it wasn't for Li You's sudden appearance, their strategy would have really worked.

Although Li Shimin vigorously promoted "Zhenguan Clan Records" at the court level, it did not have much influence among the people.

The real weakness of these aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty will have to wait for the vigorous reforms during the period of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian.

After Wang Gui finished speaking, Cui Mingan smiled slightly and said, "Master Wang's words are different."

"In fact, although the method of Gao Shilian and Yanwang magazine seems ingenious, it actually has a very big flaw."

"And as long as we make good use of it, we will definitely achieve better results!"