I run a newspaper in ancient times

Li Li fluttered away from the palace, and returned to the mansion with the colored glaze beads on a sad face.

As soon as he entered the door, the butler said to him: "My lord, Young Master Yun has arrived."

Li Li's eyebrows twitched when he heard this: "Where's the person?"

"It's time to eat."

Li Li put away his bitter and bitter face, walked into the room with a smile, and saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man grabbing a chicken leg with one hand and eating rice with the other.

As soon as he heard the noise at the door, he immediately straightened his head, and when he saw Li Li, he rolled his eyes, a sweet dimple appeared at the corner of his mouth, and was about to open his mouth to call someone, when he saw Li Li holding a fan and said with disgust: "After eating say."

The young man nodded hurriedly. He ate a chicken leg, swept away the dishes in front of him, and burped after eating three bowls of rice. He lifted his sleeve and wiped his mouth and shouted at Li Li: "Big brother."

"Why is it like a starving ghost reincarnated, did not eat on the way?" Li Li handed him a bowl of soup.

The young man picked it up, took a sip and drank it, then nodded sincerely and said: "Master hastily urged me to take someone to Beijing after receiving your letter, just for fear of delaying your business, we didn't have much rest on the way."

"There's no need to be in such a hurry." Li Li said, "Where are those people?"

"They are all staying in the Zhuangzi outside the city, waiting for orders from senior brother."

"How's your skill?"

The young man patted his chest and said: "Climb over the wall, walk over the wall, drill holes on the beam, there is absolutely no sound."

"What if it is discovered?"

The young man said: "Slippery autumn is like a loach, with a strange figure, no teacher and no school, we are the third rate."

Hearing this tone, he seemed quite proud, but Li Li nodded in satisfaction, and then asked: "What if unfortunately you get caught?"

The young man showed hesitation. He was wearing a short jacket and had many weapons hidden on his body. After thinking about it, he took out all of them and placed them on the table one by one.

"This is an official tool, which is used by the guards of the Shen family, and that is developed by the Wuyan Division's workshop. The Zhou family's guards use it more. In addition, there are those of the Imperial Army, the Imperial City Army, and the guards next door... …When the time comes, you can use the weapon at hand wherever you go for missions. Senior brother, don’t worry, we can change even the number of martial arts, as long as we encounter someone who is not as knowledgeable as the second senior brother, we will generally not be able to tell.”

This preparation is... very sufficient.

Li Li patted his little junior brother on the shoulder in relief and said, "Junior brother, you can become a teacher now."

Yunxi scratched the back of her head, said with a smile: "Our master said the same."

After he finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked, "Eldest senior brother, I heard that the second senior brother is going to return to Beijing from the border, is it true?"

Li Li poured himself a cup of tea, and said indifferently: "That's right, the edict of recall is already on its way."

"Ah, that's a good relationship. Finally, our brothers and sisters can meet together." Yunxi was quite happy, "Master also said that the two brothers only know the person, but not the body, so I have to introduce it carefully." .”

But Li Li suddenly stopped making any noise, and just narrowed his eyes and looked at him.

Being looked at by him, Yunxi felt terrified, and couldn't help asking: "Why is senior brother looking at me like that?"

Li Li said with deep meaning in his eyes: "When he comes back, remember to hide for a while and don't appear in front of him."

"Why?" Yunxi was puzzled, "What did you do? I'm sorry for the second senior brother, I don't want him to recognize..." Before Yunxi could finish speaking, he seemed to remember something. He touched his chest and pulled it out from inside. A gossip tabloid to relieve boredom on the go.

The paper was crumpled and ravaged miserably, but it couldn't stand up to the huge font on the headline - "There are countless vulgar fans in the world, only a bright moon enters my heart - Prince Yi's forced marriage".

Yunxi: "..." He understood in an instant, even a crazy idiot like Li Li would be ashamed to say that he was a senior brother from the same school.

It's so embarrassing.

If Fan Zhiyuan found out, he might have to defect to his school and stay away from this psychopath.

Yunxi leaned over meanly, and winked: "Eldest brother, so you also want face?"

Li Li had no expression on his face, and slapped the fan down.

Probably after being taught a lesson by the Empress Dowager, Li Li deeply realized the mistake of his outspokenness, and finally "reflected behind closed doors" in the mansion for more than half a month.

Afterwards, Li Li left the customs and summoned Zhu Run, editor-in-chief of the gossip tabloid.

Gossip tabloids usually prepare the content of this issue in the first three days, proofread, review and fine-tune on the fourth day, and the three workshops work together to start publishing and putting it on the shelves in the last two days.

Today happened to be the tabloid's manuscript for this issue, and Zhu Runyi brought it over for Li Li's review.

Li Li flipped through it casually, then threw it aside, seemingly dissatisfied.

"My lord?" Zhu Run asked cautiously.

"That's all the content?"

"Yes……"

"Could it be more boring? Show it to me for free. I don't even bother to look through it. Why, there isn't anything interesting to report in Beijing recently?" Li Li asked lazily.

Zhu Run hesitated for a moment and said, "My lord, there are interesting things, but it's not easy to be published in the tabloids."

Li Li changed his sitting posture and looked at him: "Tell me."

Zhu Run licked his lips and said, "Nowadays, the most exciting thing outside is the election of beautiful women. The emperor has been on the throne for nearly five years. This is the first time that the harem has been expanded. The officials and eunuchs in the capital are quite excited."

"anything else?"

"And I just discovered it yesterday morning." Zhu Run said and handed over an article.

The title of the article is particularly interesting, it is "The fog is heavy, a female corpse is found by the river, alas, who is the girl?"

"Yo, the murder case?" Li Li regained his energy now, took the article and read it carefully, and then asked, "Is there any follow-up report?"

"Yes, some of us are already squatting at the gate of the yamen waiting for news. Now the identity of this woman has just been confirmed. She is a newly married daughter-in-law in the west of the city. Our people have asked secretly, and it has been proved by experience that she was strangled to death. Throw the corpse in the river, and now we will see how Mr. Fuyin solves the case." Zhu Run replied immediately.

Li Li nodded, and continued to ask: "Did Fu Yin drive the reporter away?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Runyi raised his chest and said: "I'm quite disgusted, but we just asked a few more questions at the door, and we didn't point fingers at the official post, and didn't get in the way of business. Besides, who made the gossip tabloids your property? My lord will not drive you away even for the sake of your face."

After Zhu Run finished speaking, he glanced at Li Li, and saw that the latter's face was neither happy nor unhappy, so his heart clicked suddenly.

He asked carefully, "My lord, is there something wrong?"

The gossip tabloid has been running for four years, and such cases have never been involved.

Even when I saw it in the early years, I was afraid of trouble and didn't dare to reach out.

Later, I gradually became more courageous, and dared to release a detailed review after the dust in the official office had settled. This was the first time that someone who tracked halfway like this followed to solve the case.

Although Zhu Run couldn't guarantee whether this case would be published in the newspapers, it was a pity that he couldn't find out what was going on when there was big news.

He has followed Li Li for so many years, so he probably can grasp the meaning of this prince.Although he is honorable, he doesn't want to be involved in any affairs of the court, and he doesn't want to be involved in the messy party disputes.Even if an official is caught, most of the reports are about romantic affairs, which makes people laugh for fun.

This female corpse case looks like it came from common people in the market, but what might be involved?

Zhu Run immediately felt a little regretful, so he remedied it: "Why don't you go back and look at other submissions, maybe there are some novelties that have been missed?"

Naturally, it is impossible for a gossip tabloid to rely on only a few editors and reporters, and the update speed is actually not slow.

So far, the reason why it has not been boring and repetitive, and has strange highlights is that the tabloid widely accepts contributions from all over the world. If it is favored and published in the newspaper, it will be paid generously.

Many impoverished scholars lived in the capital on their manuscript fees. This is also the reason why gossip tabloids spend so much and lose money every year.

Zhu Run actually thought about saving this part of the expenses, but was rejected by Li Li.

This is also one of his sources of information. Some people who are not considered hidden piles have actually subtly become an informant for the tabloid.

In order to guarantee the manuscript fee, they will also try their best to pay attention to what is happening around them.

In this capital city, a huge information network is accumulated little by little, and the news is often delivered to him faster than any other force.

Even Zuo Xiang and Wu Ninghou have to be far behind.

In fact, Li Li had already known about the case of the female corpse through various sources.

And it is more detailed and in-depth than the article Zhu Run sent.

Just want to report...

Li Li touched his chin, and finally said: "Remove the headline, and replace it with the female corpse case."

After Li Li finished speaking, Zhu Run was extremely surprised.

Li Li glanced at him and sneered: "What kind of eyes do you have? Lanzhou is discussing cooperation with various merchants. We must be worthy of this money. The sales volume is only a lot, not less. How can you be satisfied with that little thing just now?" meet the growing spiritual needs of the people in the capital?"

Zhu Run doesn't quite understand the latter sentence, but he doesn't need to understand it, as long as it should be.

"However, my lord, will you be embarrassed?"

"This king is in trouble?" Li Li found it even more funny, picked up the fan and shook it easily, "This king is a super-grade prince, do you still have to look forward and backward when reporting such a small case? Is it me who is in trouble? Is it Jing?" Zhaofu Yin, all the people in the capital are paying attention, how can he be perfunctory, if he doesn't find out the real culprit, he will be sorry for his black hat."

Zhu Run nodded again and again, and complimented: "My lord is wise."

"Come on, as the king, I should be more courageous and write the headline well. Needless to say, the cause of the case, the doubts and difficulties must also be clearly written. Where did the talk go? Where is the female corpse? Isn’t it a newly married family, what about her husband, her in-law’s family, her mother’s family, and the surrounding neighbors, what’s the reaction? Let our readers follow along and take a look at this case.”

"I understand." Having received Li Li's permission, Zhu Run immediately assured, "Don't worry, my lord, we have sufficient manpower. We will keep an eye on the gate of the yamen and around that family's house all day long. If we go to the neighborhood to inquire one by one, there will always be some news. , as long as there is any movement, follow up, even the clues will not let go."

How powerful the power of public opinion is, it has been witnessed by later generations.

Even if the speed of news dissemination is a little slower in this era, as long as someone pays attention and continues to ferment, some things cannot be fooled at will.

With such a big weapon in Li Li's hand, how could it be possible for the tabloids to keep reporting some innocuous things, and sooner or later they would involve some sensitive topics.

Now that the manpower is getting full and the foundation is down, his General Fan is going back to Beijing...

The dark and turbulent waves in the capital should also set off big waves.

Although the governor of Jingzhao is not an upright person who is not afraid of power, but he is not a fool, but he is easy to calm things down and shrink back when encountering iron bars.

But when the tabloids are published and Wanmintong pays attention, it is not known whether they can withstand the pressure.

Li Li hummed, picked up the tea on the table, took a sip, and raised her lips slightly.

Zhu Run's matter was over, so he was about to go down and re-typeset, when he heard Li Li suddenly stop him and said: "The resentment of the young ladies towards this king still persists, right?"

Zhu Run smiled and said, "Women, you are the most careful. After a while, it should be over. It's just that the sales of the last issue were not very good, and the ladies and wives resisted a lot."

Li Li was thinking about how Shi Yu, who was still in the clothing bureau, got her to the side of the emperor, and after thinking about it, she pretended to say: "Is it the king? After three days of introspection, I feel really guilty. How about it? There will be a draft column in the next issue, and I will send a draft guide to these girls who are waiting for selection."