Since the founding of the country by Emperor Taizong Zhao Kuangyin, Bianjing has experienced peace for a hundred years. Therefore, starting from the era of Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi, it gradually became rich and prosperous. The scale of the city also got rid of the restrictions of the old city walls and quickly spread to the mountains and fields outside the city.
Today, Hongqiao, which was outside Bianjing City, has become a bustling place with many shops.
Just outside Bianjing City, there are now 14 more squares than in the early days of the Kingdom, and nearly 200,000 people live here.
The Bianjing government also sent officials to manage the city, inspecting and inspecting it just like in the city.
As for Zhouqiao, which is the most prosperous and bustling city in the core of Bianjing City, it can only be described as 'popular with people, busy with traffic, and endless streams of water'.
The Bianjing authorities even had to dispatch a large number of officials and troops on both sides of the Zhouqiao Bridge to manage order, direct traffic, and sometimes even had to deal with disputes caused by traffic accidents.
On both sides of the Zhouqiao Bridge is the most prosperous night market on Blue Star.
Even though it is noon now, the prosperity of the north and south of Zhouqiao is still amazing.
The huge traffic flow, diverging forward and backward, and the dense flow of people like a river, make people's scalp numb.
On both sides of the street, there are countless wine shops and teahouses, with all kinds of colorful flags hanging from their roofs, making it dizzying for everyone to see.
The clerks and servants in twos and threes took advantage of the free time in the afternoon to gather together, listen to the play and read the newspaper, and have a good time.
"Today's tabloid is here!" A mysterious literary man, with a large stack of paper wrapped under his arm, quietly came under the big willow tree outside a restaurant and shouted to the crowd gathered here to watch the acrobatic performance.
Said: "Is there anything you want to buy?"
"Today's tabloids, do you have any important secrets?" Someone asked immediately.
"It's very important!" The scholar said mysteriously: "The tabloid secretly searched for secrets and recorded the inside secrets, which are still kept secret... There are also provincial detectives who have personally heard about the affairs of the two houses and recorded them in writing.
Very interesting..."
He blinked: "Everyone, is there anything you want to buy?"
"There are a lot of secrets today, so the tabloid price has been increased to fifty cents per copy!"
In the Song Dynasty, there were official residence newspapers inherited from the Han and Tang Dynasties, which daily reported on the national affairs, the policies of the two governments, and the affairs of the states and counties in the world.
However, this newspaper often reported good news but not bad news, and its text was obscure and its vocabulary was boring. The general public had no interest in it at all.
The population of Bianjing is growing day by day, the society is getting richer and richer, and private commerce is gradually prospering.
As a result, a new secret industry was born - tabloids.
I don’t know since when, there have been some groups in Bianjing City who specialize in writing down the trivial stories about the intrigues between the two palaces and the emperor’s concubines and selling them to others for reading.
These people, relying on the complex streets and districts of Bianjing, played a hide-and-seek game with the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture, while selling what they knew everywhere.
As a result, a special tabloid industry was formed.
It has developed to the present because of the ruling style of the officials of the current dynasty and their tendency to rule by doing nothing.
The tabloid industry in Bianjing City flourished like never before.
Jing Youzhong and Empress Guo were deposed, and even before Zhongshu received the official edict, everyone in Bianjing knew about it.
During the Baoyuan period, Yuan Hao rebelled, and the people in Bianjing already knew the contents before the Manshu arrived in front of the emperor. The public was furious, forcing Zhang Shixun's government to confront Yuan Hao head-on, and could no longer be reconciled and cover up.
Go down.
Of course, tabloids often deliberately fabricate false news and rumors for money and gimmicks.
For example, in February this year, when Empress Cao entered the Daxiangguo Temple, all the tabloids reported the same news: Duke Shou had passed away, and the officials were crying!
As a result, not a single word was true.
Therefore, its credibility is still questionable.
Therefore, someone immediately said: "If your tabloid dares to make a single false statement, someone will pluck you out!"
"Don't dare!" The scholar immediately smiled and took out a piece of white paper full of words from his armpit and handed it to the speaker: "If there is any lie, I will cut off these hands without any need for a strong man..."
So, the man immediately took out fifty copper coins and handed them to the other party.
The scholar took the money and didn't count it. He just weighed the weight and realized that fifty cents was a lot, so he wrapped it under his arm and headed elsewhere.
He must seize the time and seize the market before his peers do it, and make a name for himself.
The person who bought the scholar's paper was surrounded by many people at this time.
"Zhang Dalang, Zhang Dalang, hurry up and read it to us. What is this tabloid saying?" The crowd shouted loudly and urged.
The man named Zhang Dalang pushed aside a few people who were crowded around him and cursed: "Go, go, if you want to know, why don't you just buy one for yourself?"
But on his lips, he had already begun to read aloud the text of the tabloid he had just bought: "Tokyo Secret Record..."
"Hey! It's a tabloid run by the Cao family, so it can't be wrong..." The knowledgeable onlookers immediately exposed the person behind the tabloid.
However, in Bianjing City, it is an open secret who runs each tabloid.
Even the Kaifeng Mansion knew it clearly in their hearts, but everyone was smart and could see through it without saying anything. No fool would be stupid enough to seek trouble and correct those behemoths entrenched in the Forbidden Army and the Imperial City.
That is to say, if the tabloids find out where it hurts, under the strict orders of the angry and angry officials of the two prefectures, the Kaifeng Prefecture officials will take action and arrest a few tabloid employees to take the blame and vent their anger.
Zhang Dalang has continued to read: "Secretly recorded tabloids, spying on secrets, Fu Yanhe in the palace, personally saw the Hanlin medical officer, promoted Xu Xi of the Imperial Medical Bureau to send someone to report: Shou Guogong taught the method of inoculation to the infected grandfather
, it was personally tested by the Hanlin medical officer, and dozens of people tried the seeds before and after, and all of them recovered as before. Your Majesty, Fuwei, can do it with great blessings, and the acne has been reduced. From now on, people in the world will no longer have to worry about acne!"
boom!
explode!
The entire crowd under the willow tree immediately exploded.
The stage actors who were performing acrobatics a second ago couldn't help but stop.
"The pox has been conquered?"
Countless people were chirping and surprised.
Even Zhang Dalang's hand holding the paper was trembling.
Pox?
Who is not afraid?!
Whose family has no siblings, or whose relatives and friends died at the hands of that terrible disease?
But now, this tabloid actually said that Hanlin medical officers used the secret method that Duke Shou brought back from Grandpa Gansheng, and it was verified to be successful. From now on, as long as that method is used, the subjects of the Song Dynasty will no longer have to worry about acne?
"If this matter is true..." Zhang Dalang suddenly knelt down and kowtowed towards the imperial city: "The common people are willing to abide by the law in this life and never do anything illegal again!"
He is thirty-six years old this year and has four wives and concubines, but most of his children are daughters and only two sons.
The eldest son unfortunately contracted pox and passed away a few years ago, which caused him great pain.
Therefore, after his concubine gave birth to another son for him last year, Zhang Dalang became worried day and night and went to the temple and Taoist temple to burn incense every day. His character and temperament also improved a lot.
Now, when I suddenly heard about this, I was naturally overjoyed, but couldn't believe it.
