Please ask me to be the emperor

Chapter 1703 Counterattack

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, the latest news on the Spring and Autumn Conference of the Society!"

"Selling newspapers? What kind of newspaper is this?" A group of scholars who gathered in Jiangyin asked strangely when they heard a few boys hawking on the street before they could disperse.

"Jiangnan Xunbao, the great scholar Zhang Cai is the editor, and the great scholar Zhang Pu writes the editorial!" A barefoot boy laughed.

"Oh? How do you sell this newspaper?" Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and couldn't help but look at each other and asked.

"Chenghui, one penny for each!"

"A penny? Can paper money do it?"

"Paper money? This young master, the Ming Dynasty is dead, who needs paper money?"

"Okay, then give me a share!" Someone couldn't help but be curious and couldn't help but hand over a penny.

"Okay, sir, take your time and take a look!" The boy quickly took out a portion and handed it over.

"What an old thief, how dare you tell the truth and confuse right and wrong." The man took the newspaper, glanced at it briefly, and suddenly started to curse.

It turns out that the "Jiangnan Xunbao" was the mouthpiece of the rebel army, with Zhang Cai as its editor-in-chief and Zhang Pu as a commentator, so it naturally had a biased stance.

Those scholars who had never defended Zhang Pu were even more furious when they saw this article and wanted to tear up the newspaper.

Some even had a bad temper and immediately bought a newspaper, then ground it and refuted it point by point on the spot.

"Your Highness, is it really okay to do this?" Zhang Cai saw the excitement of the crowd outside the window and couldn't help but asked a little uneasily.

"Problem? What problem can there be?" Zhang Shun picked up the tea cup and took a leisurely sip. "Is it possible that our report is false?"

It turns out that Zhang Shun arranged for Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai to try their best to speak in favor of the abolition of slavery, while all the disadvantages were ignored.

Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai were honest gentlemen, so they hesitated after hearing this.

Zhang Shun tried to persuade him three or two times, but all failed.

He couldn't help but feel angry, and sneered: "When you wrote the tombstones of the five people, you weren't so coquettish!"

"Your Highness!" When Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai heard this, their faces immediately turned red and they shouted angrily, "Five of them, even if Duke Zhou of Liaozhou was arrested, they would die out of anger!"

"As for the sages and officials in this county, please be in charge and bury them at the site of the abandoned temple of Wei Eunuch, and set up a stone at the door of his tomb as a reminder of what he did. Wow, that's great!" Zhang Shun said coldly. He answered a few words and then smiled.

"Sir, there is no need to say more. The king has already memorized this text by heart."

"God knows what the matter is, and the earth knows it. You know it and I know it, so why say more!"

When this incident occurred, the then magistrate of Suzhou was none other than Kou Shen, a famous scholar from Tongguan County, Xi'an Prefecture.

At first, Zhang Shun paid a special visit to this person when he passed by here.

When this person was chatting with Zhang Shun, he naturally mentioned the inside story, so Zhang Shun knew something about it.

"This" Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai were stunned when they heard this, and couldn't help but look at each other, feeling something bad in their hearts.

Despite Zhang Pu's impassioned writing of "The Story of Five Tombstones", he didn't mention the whole story at all. There is a reason for that.

He originally thought that this matter was done without anyone noticing, but he never expected that the young Zhang Shun knew everything about it.

"I don't want to mention what happened in the past, and I don't want to make mistakes in the future. You have to take care of yourself!" Zhang Shun reminded him when he saw that the heat was almost over.

After being reminded by Zhang Shun, these two people could not pretend to be noble, so they quickly polished their brushes and used their historical pens to write the Spring and Autumn Conference as a victorious conference, a one-sided conference, in which justice defeated evil.

Now that the two of them saw that the world's scholars reacted so fiercely and that things were in danger of getting out of control, they suddenly felt something bad in their hearts.

"Bastard!" Just as they expected, as soon as the "Jiangnan Xunbao" came out, two people angrily tore the newspaper into pieces.

These two people were none other than Gu Menglin and Gu Tinglin, the backbones of Fushe.

As the saying goes: The four surnames in Jiangdong are Gu, Lu, Zhu and Zhang!

The first of these four surnames, the Gu family of Wu County is certainly not unworthy of its fame.

From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, after fifteen hundred years, they are still a prominent family in Jiangdong, and naturally they also have many slaves in their family.

A few days ago, the Oolong Society broke out, and the Gu family also suffered a lot of losses. They longed to eat their flesh and sleep on their skin, so when they saw the articles written by Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai, they became furious.

Gu Tinglin was still young, only one year older than Zhang Shun, and he was in the prime of his youth.

He couldn't help but cursed Zhang Shun, Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai, and called them "three thieves". Then he said to Gu Menglin: "Brother, now I have an armpit and an elbow, and there are three more." The thief opened his eyes for it, this sincerity is threatening the survival of the Gu family, I don't know how to deal with it?"

"You, you are still too young!" Gu Menglin shook his head and smiled when he heard this, and explained, "How are today's 'shun thieves' compared to the eunuchs of the past? With the prosperity of the eunuchs in the past, wouldn't they have ended up dead in the end? What’s the end?”

"Don't be anxious, don't be afraid. Those people are going against the grain and will be killed sooner or later. Just relax!"

"What, we're not sitting anywhere?" Gu Tinglin couldn't help being surprised when he heard this, "If that's the case, the Gu family's servants will disperse in a hurry!"

It turns out that due to the "noise" of the rebels these days and the uprising of the Oolong Society, most of the slaves in the most prosperous Jiangdong area have now escaped.

"Run? Where are they going?" Gu Menglin couldn't help but sneered after hearing this, "There is nothing to live in, no fields to farm, and no rice to eat. The world is so big, where can they escape to?"

"If you don't do good things like dogs, you will become wolf cubs instead. If wolf cubs were so easy to do, how could their ancestors join my family and become slaves?"

"Go, go, let them all go, I'll see how long they can be proud of it!"

"Remember, Zhongqing, without us masters, this bunch of dog slaves wouldn't even be able to afford food!"

"Then we don't do anything?" Gu Tinglin felt relieved and couldn't help but ask again.

"No? Why not!" Gu Menglin said with a smile, "Since Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai can run newspapers and write articles, can it be that we two brothers can't even use newspapers or write articles?"

It turns out that during this season, not only the commodity economy was prosperous, but the printing industry was also spread all over the world.

Among them, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and Fujian were the four major printing bases at that time. This was also the fundamental reason why "Jiangnan Xunbao" was able to be issued so quickly.

Printing shops are everywhere. As long as you write good articles and pay some money, you can print as many copies as you want.

"Hey, that's right!" Gu Tinglin woke up from a dream after hearing this, "Since the 'Three Thieves' can do anything for "Jiangnan Xunbao", why don't we do "Gu's Written Talks"?"

"Calling it "Gu's Written Talk" is a bit too narrow, why not call it "Wuzhong News"!" Gu Menglin shook his head after hearing this and added with a smile.

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