In March of the first year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor issued an edict to divide the world into ten roads based on the situation of mountains and rivers, including Guannei, Henan, Hedong, Hebei, Shannan, Longyou, Huainan, Jiangnan, Jiannan, and Lingnan.
Ten envoys patrolled the country and merged prefectures and counties.
The emperor granted Zuo Guanglu the title of Doctor and the Shepherd of Yongzhou. Yang Gongren, the Duke of Guanguo, was appointed as the envoy of Guan Nei Dao, inspecting and interviewing the states in Guan Nei.
Yanzhou.
Wu Huaiyu received the news one day earlier than the official document from the imperial court.
The news was sent by Lai Ji, the secretary of the Economic Affairs Bureau and a direct bachelor of Chongwen Hall, and was published in the first issue of the Beijing News. This newspaper planned by Wu Huaiyu has not been officially released until now, which is also very difficult.
This Beijing News has a total of about ten pages. It is in the form of a folded page. When folded, there is a slightly thick seal on both ends. The two characters "Beijing News" on it were also written by Wu Huaiyu in Yan style. Now they are called "Beijing News" in the Tang Dynasty.
Wu style, together with European style and Chu style, are called the three styles of calligraphy.
The first issue contains only about 5,000 words in total.
The headline on the homepage is naturally the edict that the emperor established the ten realms of the world and appointed Yang Gongren, Li Xiaogong, Yu Wenshiji, Li Jing, Du Ruhui and other ten people as watchers to patrol the world. This edict was almost copied directly, and there were no comments from commentators.
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The Guannai Road was within the geographical scope of ancient Yongzhou, and also governed the Shuofang Hetao area. Its entire jurisdiction included the areas north of Qinling Mountains, east of Longshan Mountain, Helan Mountain, south of Langshan Mountain, Yinshan Mountain, and east of Hedong and west of the Yellow River.
"This Beijing News is quite strange. It can be delivered faster than the official documents of the imperial court. The Bureau of Economic Affairs is very powerful." Doulu Huairang, the Sima of the Lingzhou Governor's Office and the governor of Youzhou, now works in Yanzhou in Huaiyu every day.
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He drank oatmeal, read the Beijing News, and marveled.
Laiji sent a total of one hundred copies of the Beijing News, and they were delivered quickly along the post road. It was considered that they had invested in the reputation of the Beijing News. Fortunately, the Economic and Economic Affairs Bureau now has sufficient funds, so it can be so fast. It was just a matter of changing horses.
The substitutions did not stop.
The journey from Chang'an to Yanzhou is more than a thousand miles, and it only takes two days.
When these hundred copies of the Beijing News arrived, Huaiyu naturally had to distribute them to the two counties, three counties and four counties in Yanzhou, as well as to Lingzhou, Xiazhou, Qingzhou and Youzhou next door.
"Hey, there is actually a frontier poem by you, Erlang, on it. I have never seen this one before. The luminous cup of grape wine. If you want to drink, play the pipa immediately. Lord Don't laugh when you are drunk on the battlefield. How many people have returned from the ancient battles. This cool song
"Zhou Ci is wonderful." Although Doulu Huairang was afraid of death and did not dare to go to the battlefield, he also liked to talk on paper, especially arty, and was even a fan of frontier poems. He could recite every poem of Wu Huaiyu's frontier poems by heart.
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He even hired people to copy many volumes of Wu Qingyang's frontier fortress poems at his own expense and gave them away.
I have never seen this Liangzhou poem before, but it is very well written.
"Wow, there are actually two more songs at the end. This one is about marching in the army. Qinghai is covered by long clouds and snow-capped mountains. The lonely city looks at Yumen Pass in the distance. Yellow sand wears golden armor in a hundred battles. Loulan will never be returned until it is broken."
"Hiss, this is the taste, absolutely authentic frontier fortress poetry, good poetry, good poetry."
"This song is about the bright moon of the Qin Dynasty and the Pass of the Han Dynasty. The people who marched thousands of miles have not yet returned, but the flying generals of the Dragon City are here, and they don't teach Hu Ma to cross the Yin Mountains. Oh my God, Brother Wu, how much ink is there in your belly? How can you do it so casually?
Here are three classics, so well written,”
Liangzhou, wine, general, Jinjia, Yumenguan, Loulan, Longcheng, Yinshan, these words automatically formed a beautiful romantic scene of the frontier fortress in Prince Consort Doulu's mind.
In the eyes of real battlefield veterans, war is actually cruel. Although everyone rushes to the battlefield, they are just risking their lives for their future. They are putting their heads in their belts and licking the blood from the knife. There is only cruelty and no romance.
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But in the eyes of Doulu Huairang, a man who shrank to the rear every time he fought, he was full of blood-red romance, and he could be excited and excited just by daydreaming about the rear.
He likes these frontier fortress poems, just like he likes to hang a sword every day, which seems to make him brave and heroic. This guy is even obsessed with Huaiyu's frontier fortress poems.
Now he is not only fascinated by Wu Huaiyu's poems, but also asks them to write such frontier poems when recruiting some scholars and disciples. Unfortunately, there are a few who can write such powerful poems.
Wu Huaiyu just smiled.
This was all before leaving Beijing. When I was studying the first issue with Laiji, Zhang Chengde and others strongly requested Huaiyu to write some frontier fortress poems, because his poems are now very famous in Chang'an, not only liked by many young scholars, but also by Huaiyu.
After reading it, they abandoned their writing and joined the army. It is said that many of the ladies and daughters of the aristocratic families in Chang'an also liked it very much. Wu Qingyang's poems became a popular symbol in Chang'an.
Later, even if I didn’t really understand or like it, I became a fake fan just to be fashionable and follow the fashion.
In order to gain fame after the publication, Lai Ji strongly requested him to write several new songs.
It has to be a classic that can be passed down from generation to generation.
This is not a problem for Wu Huaiyu. After all, these frontier poems are all masterpieces by famous poets in the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning, he just recited them in Longyou at the right time, making people think they were his masterpieces. He also explained at the beginning,
Later, I no longer explained that having a romantic identity as a frontier poet was not a bad thing, especially when one had sufficient status, such an elegant name would be of great benefit.
As for Wu Huaiyu actually not being able to write poetry, but what does that matter? No matter how dignified the county official, any scribe would dare to mess with him.
It doesn't matter if you can't compose propositional poems. You can say that you don't bother to compose them. Only when you have good inspiration can you write truly good poems.
Anyway, good works come out from time to time, so who can deny his status as a poet?
You will only bring humiliation to yourself.
Even Doulu Huairang, a fan of frontier poems, is so fascinated by these three poems. It is conceivable that this first issue of the Beijing News will become an instant hit.
In addition to Huaiyu's three new frontier fortress poems, there are also legendary novels and stories behind them.
The legendary novel published is called Legend of the Ancient Mirror, written by Wang Du, the elder brother of the scholar Wang Ji, a relative of the Wu family. During the Sui Dynasty, Wang Du served as a censor, a book doctor, and the magistrate of Ruicheng County. He was also ordered to compile the history of the Sui Dynasty.
Chijie sent an envoy to the east of Hedong to provide relief work through the canal, but he was nowhere to be found, probably lost among bandits.
The Ancient Mirror Chronicles he left behind is a good novel, and can even be called the beginning of the legendary novels of the Tang Dynasty, but it is still largely a continuation of the legendary novels of the Six Dynasties.
This story unfolds in the form of Wang Du's autobiography. After the protagonist Wang Du obtained an ancient mirror from Fenyin Housheng, a strange scholar in the world, he and his brother Wang Ji traveled with the ancient mirror to defeat demons. The whole story is about 5,000 words.
, there are more than a dozen short stories connected together, which are long in length and delicate in description. Especially the detailed description and character dialogue are strengthened, making the whole story very talkable.
This is also called by later generations as an important symbol of the development from the legendary novels of the Six Dynasties to the legendary novels of the Tang Dynasty.
After Wu Huaiyu and Wang Ji got married, they had a good relationship. The Wang Ji brothers often went to Wu's home to give lectures. When Wu Huaiyu was collecting books for the East Palace, Wang Ji gave him a copy of his brother's posthumous work.
Wu Huaiyu liked it very much after reading it. If this book were published on Qidian.com, it would probably be regarded as cliche, but if it were published in the Tang Dynasty, it would still be quite explosive. It has a bit of the invincible and refreshing feeling of Internet literature, compared to most at this time.
Simple notes, fantasy stories and novels can be much richer and more delicate.
Wu Huaiyu specially selected The Ancient Mirror as the novel section of the Beijing News. The section name is called Legend. However, since there are more than 5,000 words in total, it is serialized. The Ancient Mirror has more than a dozen short stories, so it is divided into ten
It is a series of articles, and each article is only a few hundred words long.
In order to gain fame, Wu Huaiyu even wrote a story about a bearded guest under the pseudonym Qinglian Jushi. It used the love story of Hongfu, a geisha in the palace of Sui Prime Minister Yang Su, who boldly eloped with Li Jing as a clue to describe the story of those who aspired to become king in the late Sui Dynasty.
The story of Zhang Zhongjian, a bearded man, was impressed by his true destiny, Li Shimin, and went to sea to stand on his own feet, which created the image of the Three Fengchen Heroes.
When Huaiyu showed this story to Laiji, he fell in love with it at first sight. Although Huaiyu didn't say who the layman Qinglian was, Laiji didn't care.
Although Zhang Chuchen and Li Jing in this story are still there, and Li Jing is still an honorable minister, don't the common people like this kind of private story about a big shot, especially this kind of romantic legend.
This story portrays today's emperor as Mr. Right, and this is enough for them to release it boldly.
Although there may be a lot of fiction about Li Jing, the story of Hong Fu running at night has always been talked about in the public.
So this story is definitely more explosive than The Ancient Mirror.
It also happens to make up for the shortcomings of the Ancient Mirror Chronicles, which only contains a few hundred words at a time. The Story of the Qiu Bearded Guest is also serialized in installments. Now that everyone has read the beginning, who can’t wait to see the sequel?
Anyway, Prince Consort Lu Huairang, after marveling at the three new works of Frontier Poems, read The Ancient Mirror and found it quite interesting. However, when he read the beginning of The Story of the Qiu-bearded Guest, he was already scratching his head.
"Where's down there?"
"It's gone down there."
"Why is it gone? It was just when I was enjoying myself, why is it gone?"
Doulu's son-in-law was very anxious, "Erlang, hurry up and show me the back."
He thought that the Beijing News was also a book, just divided into volumes, and he was anxious to read the later ones.
"Brother Doulu, this Beijing News is published every ten days. A new newspaper is only released on the tenth day. The next one will have to wait ten days."
"What, I'm reading a story and you have to wait ten days to see the follow-up."
"This is a serialization. The book will be picked up after ten days. But the entire story will probably be serialized in about ten issues, which will take about three or four months to complete."
"This is unreasonable," Doulu Huairang said anxiously, "Can you tell me the story behind this now?"
"This is a serial. The person who wrote this story is called Qinglian layman."
"Where is the layman Qinglian? I will go find him now."
"The layman Qinglian submitted an article to the Beijing News. He may be a scholar or even an official living in Chang'an, but we don't know who he is."
Li Jing is his master, and he does not dare to reveal his identity as layman Qinglian. Otherwise, if the disciple arranges his master and his wife like this, he will be labeled as bullying his master and destroying his ancestors.
In fact, the real biography of the beard was written by people in the late Tang Dynasty. It only has about 2,000 words in total, which is too simple. Wu Huaiyu has gone through extensive secondary creation and is written in the style of an online novel. It depicts the love-hate entanglement between the three heroes.
, plus the original work of Family, Country and World, which was only two thousand words, he processed it into one hundred thousand words.
I have long thought about using a serialization model to attract manpower for the Beijing News. One issue will be serialized with a thousand words, and it will be serialized with hundreds of issues. If necessary, a bound volume or a single volume can be issued.
In fact, the most attractive thing about these legendary stories is their imagination. Basically, there are not many details, but compared with Ganba's classic and historical collections, there is still a market.
Doulu Huairang slapped his legs when he heard this. He immediately decided to write a letter to the Beijing News organizers, Donggong Economic Bureau and Chongwen Hall, to strongly express his dissatisfaction as a reader. He even asked for the name and address of the author, lay Buddhist Qinglian, to be authentic offline.
As long as you can get the manuscript and read it first, you can even spend money to buy it out.
Seeing him like that, Wu Huaiyu chuckled. He was so impatient that he wanted to let the next generation read a book he liked serialized for ten or eight years without finishing it, and he was not allowed to explode on the spot.
You have to be patient when reading!
I think back when he chased Geng Zichuan, it was Ji Geng who survived for more than ten years.
