The Happy Life of a Duchess

Sitting in the carriage, Adele's mood was a little inexplicable.

She was astonished by this sudden outburst, and even more astonished that she couldn't react in time.

Adele had expected that she would inevitably encounter difficulties along the way, but the current development made her feel too surprised, as if everything unfolded like a strange farce.

She herself was in it but felt that there was always a kind of incomprehensible loss. If she really wanted to say it, there should be other things such as

To be honest, even the very experienced Mr. Weihan, as a professional in charge of newspapers and periodicals, did not expect that this strange controversy would cause the official organization to issue a document to them and order them to stop publishing.

This is unreasonable, after all, the ban on entertainment has long been abolished.

Now in France, even some dangerous musicals satirizing the authorities or criticizing the dynasty can be successfully screened and staged, as long as there is an opera house willing to arrange your performance.

The constraints on newspapers are relatively small.

If the matter is about relatively large political content, or if the "reactionary" speech is too serious, there will be a situation similar to a warning, but right now Adele is far from reaching such a level.

To put it bluntly, a non-governmental newspaper held an essay contest, and the number of votes and calculation formulas were still completely public. Under such circumstances, out of dispute over the results, they came to warn the entire newspaper, and even contacted the bookseller to ask them to It is completely unreasonable that they should have published an issue normally, and there is no way to continue it.

Adele could understand that the magazine on her side might be blocking some people's way. After all, their income is good, and the income of others is naturally poor, but it should not reach such a point.

It is not enough to let other magazine publishers try their best, even use some power similar to "blocking" to contain a new newspaper that has not seized much market share at present, and from the beginning they mainly focus on is different in terms of——

There is no content conflict between them and traditional magazines.

They don't do those current affairs news, they don't do those weird public opinions, they focus on women, whether it's the current mainstream fashion section, or the relatively popular fashion analysis, literary appreciation, or What kind of romance novels are read by women, these have no conflict with those produced by traditional paper media, and the degree of overlap is very small, so small that they were not taken seriously before.

If it wasn't for this time that they just did a rather large-scale essay competition that was highly topical due to the influence of public opinion, they wouldn't even have reached such a high level.

In the eyes of many people, this is a small magazine, the one that uses "women" as a gimmick, just as they look down on the women's market and don't care much about the women's market, they don't pay much attention to their magazine, of course, if it is People with a little vision should be able to see the potential hidden in it.

But frankly speaking, everyone's attitude is still very conservative.

Although they have seen the success of Adele and others, they are unwilling to let them transform or open up this new market that has not developed much.

Everyone is waiting and watching, thinking that this is a market with potential and development prospects, but also full of various risks and challenges and extremely unstable market.

They don't understand women's purchasing power, influence, even aesthetic needs, women's own needs and abilities, and they don't know how much consumption they can bring. Most importantly, they don't know whether they can impress this group of " Harsh Lady Reader" is similarly unconfident.

Adele's magazine has only been established for a few months, and there are less than ten issues. This is the result of adding a few times in the middle. In terms of long-term results, take them as an example to observe The whole market is limited.

The establishment of their magazine itself is somewhat unusual. Their core members are all noble ladies. They themselves have considerable influence, and can make many people who want to join the upper class naturally be influenced by them ——

This is beyond the reach of other newspapers and magazines that promote to all members of society.

Although Adele and others didn't only have high-end ideas at the beginning, there is no doubt that at the beginning of its establishment, it carried an aura that other magazines could not match.

Of course, Adele has made it look relatively plain and friendly to a large extent by launching some more civilian content in the follow-up, but fashion itself is a thing with a threshold, not to say that everyone can take a shot Head enters casually.

Either rich or talented.

Smart people can use limited resources and rely on the knowledge recorded in magazines to reproduce and create excellent matching and dressing in a cheaper way.

Rich people can rely on spending money to achieve the fashion mentioned in the magazine, which saves a lot of processes such as aesthetics and consideration, and greatly reduces the possibility of mistakes.

These are the conveniences that this magazine can bring.

But not all others can imitate.

After all, someone has to buy into the fashion content you write, right?

Men's aesthetics are different from women's, which is almost undoubtedly recognized by everyone.

Entering rashly, it's easy to get bloody. They don't look like noble ladies and wives who have spare money to toss.

With such an attitude, Adele really can't imagine any competitors from her colleagues who want to attack them and do something to bring down their own superiors.

Moreover, she has not heard of any well-known publishing groups that will publish publications for female readers in the near future. If it is those particularly small magazines, those low-end newspapers are naturally not enough to pose a threat to them, let alone Impossible to achieve the present result.

The more she thought about it, the more confused Adele became.

When she came back to her senses, she realized that she was not far from the rented place.

"..." She frowned slightly.

When Adele went out today, she didn't change the carriage.

But the one she used was not the one she used at home. The most important thing was that the logo on the carriage was sent for refurbishment. For the time being, this was not a car with the logo of the Juradi family.

But when she got off the carriage, she seemed to see someone staring at their carriage, and ran away quickly.

Maybe it's because Adele is deliberately cultivating her own information network. She also knows a little bit about using children and poor people as stalkers. I don't know if she is too sensitive. She always feels that the little girl who just ran away The back view seemed to be right after she got out of the car.

"what happened?"

Jenny asked her in a low voice.

"It's a bit strange." Adele frowned quickly, and she told Jenny in a low voice, "You let the carriage stop at the back door later, and we will leave through the back door later, don't go from here."

"Yes." Jenny didn't think much about it. She wasn't as keen, but she never doubted Adele's orders, and she was always able to execute them very well.

After a while, Adele finally met Mr. Weihan with an anxious face in his office on the second floor.

Mr. Crewe was actually there too, but he didn't have anything else to do right now, so he wasn't too busy, so he flipped through the manuscript casually.

The assistant Ms. Mandela who was invited to help during the essay solicitation period stayed, but the assistant editor who was originally hired did not stay. I heard that the family found a relationship. I took a letter of recommendation and went to a large grain store. As an accountant, the income is slightly higher than that of an assistant editor, and it is also more leisurely-maybe the busyness during the essay solicitation period scared her.

Adele and others didn't force it either.

After the previous work, Miss Mandela has been recognized by everyone. After discussion, Adele has arranged for her to become a regular after the results of the competition are released.

From the original hourly temporary worker to an assistant editor with a fixed job and salary, the income is slightly lower than that of Mr. Crewe.

Probably the content is similar to what I did before, and I also sorted the manuscripts to do some chores, but one more thing is to help Mr. Crewe read the manuscripts sometimes.

But Adele has also promised to be a helper for two or three months first, and if she performs well and everything goes well, then she will be made a full-time member directly. By then, she will also be an experienced editor who can get started, so she will Arrange a section dedicated to editing.

At present, until there is no problem in the newspaper office, Leo has always been responsible for the manuscript of their salon, which is about the fashion part.

Adele writes some manuscripts depending on the situation. Of course, her manuscripts can enjoy special treatment. She is also very aware of her own quality level. Good writing will be published in full, and bad ones will not be published or deleted appropriately. , Leo and Mr. Crewe will also help her in this regard.

Originally, Mr. Crewe was in charge of other parts, including other contributions and literature and nature-related sections, generally some poetry, novel appreciation and some related contributions.

If it is excellent content, it will be published, but there are not many times like this. As the number of contributors increases, this piece will naturally become more outstanding. In the past, most of the time it was still concentrated on a level of evaluation, and It is an evaluation that is close to the way of teaching guidance, and it is the kind that can teach people how to read novels and poems for analysis.

They discussed that Ms. Mandela can be responsible for a lot of things in the future. After all, as a lady, she can also be in charge of the fashion section, but she likes literature very much, and she was also a teacher of French, so she can also do the literature section. .

Of course, the specific content still depends on her future performance and personal interests. If it is a core position, such as the fashion version, of course it is impossible to give it to her all at once, but considering that Leo will also get married in the future——

Although Leo himself insisted that even after marriage, he is willing to continue to do this job and career, but Adele always has to consider her marriage, honeymoon and other things. During this period, at least three or two months, the content of several issues Probably still have to hand over to other editors to be more responsible, and she doesn't want Leo to work too hard.

Mr. Weihan handed her a document-like content, and then explained:

"During this period of time, I tried to contact some acquaintances, and found that the printing manufacturers who published for us seemed to have received some..."

He considered his words, and finally spit out a "warning".

Adele raised her eyebrows upon hearing this, noncommittal.

She continued to listen while looking at something like this document in her hand.

Although it seems to be the seal of the literary review department, it probably means that their newspaper published excessively controversial content and brought bad social impact, so they were ordered to rectify and not continue to publish during the rectification period.

The public opinion outside started to spread inexplicably overnight, what bad things she did, which caused a wide range of negative discussions, similar content, but we must get to the bottom of it, but no one is real.

It just poured a big basin of dirty water over, and brought up the conflicts and conflicts she had with British businessmen before, probably with the intention of creating a situation similar to "making troubles", "rebellious authorities" and "intent to provoke troubles". "The stigma to her.

To be honest, Adele has the idea of ​​fighting for legitimate power for women, and she is indeed heading in this direction, but unfortunately, her progress is not fast, at least not as exaggerated as in those limelight.

That is to say, before she even started, she was already being talked about through the newspaper's main reader group "women" and the "female direction" of the essay competition. It roughly means that it favors women, insults the authority of men, and then the notoriety behind it.

"That's ridiculous."

Adele raised the document in her hand.

Mr. Weihan nodded, also found it inconceivable.

However, he still tends to think that this is someone who wants to take this opportunity to get rid of his female boss. After all, Miss Adele is the most popular and famous noble lady in the circle. He even bluntly said that it might be her boss. The purpose of some opponents' tricks is actually to hit her with this.

Running a newspaper might be just an add-on. In short, as long as those messy stigmas are put on her, even if she is already engaged, there may be some bad risks.

Adele was not too worried about this. After learning the whole story from Mr. Weihan, she was basically sure that this document had no effect at all, even if it had an official seal on it, even if Adele She doesn't know much about the interrogation and investigation process of relevant government departments, but based on the many legal provisions she has read before, she already knows it, and this will definitely not defeat her!

The only ones affected may be those booksellers who are intimidated by the official "warning" document, which may affect their subsequent publications.

There is no doubt that it is impossible to sell a new issue normally. If you want to continue to publish, conventionally speaking, you have to go through a lot of human relations and processes. It will take at least one or two months in the middle. A large sum of money was invested in order to revoke this announcement instruction document that can basically be characterized as a "disgusting person" and continue to publish their publications.

But after this, maybe a lot of readers will be lost in the future, and there may be new magazines of the same type coming out during this period...

Another key point is that the noble lady, who may be a little timid, will be insensitive to the salon and refuse to continue to participate.

Adele has already thought about these things. After thinking about it, she felt that it was impossible to solve this matter according to common sense.

If you really spend a lot of money in it, it will be inferior, and to a certain extent it will be a trap, which will affect her reputation. Basically, once you do this, it will be tantamount to notoriety, so you are still willing to associate with her. The number of nobles will definitely be greatly reduced, and her influence will also be weakened a lot.

Of course she also knows that everyone must be talking about her recently, and it is also the autumn social season, she can't miss such an important period, and there will be her marriage later, so she doesn't want to procrastinate.

Unless she admits defeat at this point, doesn't continue to engage in this matter, and just find someone to find a name to replace this matter. This solution was also discussed by the Duke's father and her, but she insisted on understanding the situation.

Adele sneered, and under the uneasy expression of Mr. Weihan, she realized that Miss Mandela and Mr. Crewe, who were secretly observing the situation here, threw the junk document aside, and put her hands on her chest. Cross in front and lean back in the chair.

"Any lawyers you know?"

Make her admit defeat?

impossible.