Saturday at 12 noon on the second week】

Just as the locals came home to have dinner, the elites and journalists participating in the election were eating rough meals, and the square was slightly calm, the commanding heights in the square were seen: the window of the bell tower in the central church was pushed open, and then hundreds of pieces of paper were poured out and flying towards the entire square.

The dazzling sunlight passed through the thin paper flying in the air, and for a moment the entire square seemed to be filled with white feathers.

"Cao, have those bastards from the business association spread leaflets again? Who can see the lunatic?" Lin Liuming, who was sitting on the deck chair under the stage, drank lean meat porridge with skinny eggs and lean meat porridge, saw the white paper flying everywhere in the sky, frowned and said to his colleagues.

While eating, everyone nodded in agreement: "Yes, the Business Association is crazy. No matter how many flyers are, it is not as good as money**. Our boss Zhong Jialiang will definitely invest money again. Those guys from the Business Association are just waiting to cry."

On the other side of the platform.

"Oh? Have those guys from the party spread leaflets? Who can see?" Li Guangxi, who was sitting on the deck chair under the stage, also drank lean meat porridge with skin and eggs and lean meat porridge, saw the white paper flying everywhere in the sky, frowned and said to his colleagues.

While eating, everyone nodded in agreement: "That's right, it's just about spending money. No matter how many flyers are, they are not as good as money**. Our 100,000 yuan is not a secret or reward, and we are completely ahead of the party guys."

A piece of paper flew to the platform of the business association. Zhang Qijie reached out and grabbed it, lowered his head but exclaimed, saying, "This is not a flyer, but a newspaper."

At the same time, several servants from the Party picked up several newspapers and gave them to the old men to read. Lin Liuming was the first to take them over, took a look, frowned and said, "Song Shang Economic News? Is this a newspaper? What kind of newspaper?"

"Songshang Economic News? Isn't it the internal newspaper that our Opium Pavilion subscribes to? It was renamed as "Foreign Pharmaceutical Market News" and wasn't the boss Zhong Jialiang was going to form the Songshang Group? You don't know? Are you dizzy when you smoke opium every day?" Zhong Erzai said angrily, while grinning and touching his arm to peel off. He just went on stage and yelled for an hour before the skin was peeled off.

"But isn't that thick stack? It seems that there is only the first page." Lin Liuming waved the newspaper in his hand strangely: "Why are the business association throwing our newspaper?"

"Songshang Economic News" is indeed a very thick newspaper, and is said to be the newspaper with the most pages in the country.

But civilians should not want to use it to use it for meat and cabbage, because this newspaper is said to be the most expensive newspaper in the country. It is a loss for ordinary people to buy meat and it is better to buy a tabloid on both sides of the front and back of the single one.

The thickest and most expensive is of course because of the newspaper owner's unique hobby. He is not worried about sales and can let the newspaper lose money. This person is naturally the head of the foreign medicine guild - Zhong Jialiang.

Since he planned to diversify the group, he used the abundant cash in his hands to enter various industries, and on the other hand, he changed his internal newspaper, Foreign Medicine Market News to "Songshang Economic News".

It has the same name as Song Shang Bank, the first private bank in the Song Dynasty, and also the same name as Zhong Jialiang's planned "Song Shang Consortium".

However, this newspaper is not as popular as Songshang Bank. As soon as Songshang Bank was established, a commercial organization that wanted to obtain capital loans broke through Zhong Jialiang's home and occupied the headlines of various commercial newspapers. However, there were not many people who wanted to subscribe to the Songshang Economic News.

First, this newspaper was born into the internal notice newspaper of the Foreign Medicine Guild. What does the Foreign Medicine Guild care about?

As the distribution end of the world's largest opium business chain, a part of the opium trust, and the largest market maker of opium varieties in the imperial futures market, the foreign medicine guild is naturally concerned about opium prices, opium sales, production and weather, and marine transportation as a prediction of its own operations and price fluctuations in the futures market.

Therefore, this newspaper mainly talks about the opium market situation around the world and predicts future price changes.

Futures practitioners and opium futures speculators cannot lack this newspaper, but as far as the foreign medicine guild is concerned, small and medium-sized opium restaurants in various places do not even need this newspaper. Their prices are notified by the Beijing headquarters' telegram. Who cares about the prices and predictions? Not to mention the weather in India, and the ghost place is flooded, so it doesn't care about it.

Therefore, no one reads this newspaper among the middle and lower-class staff within the system, and the only person who read it was probably the group of futures.

The newspapers are published once a week and are very frequently distributed. The information in the opium market actually does not require much page. It is enough to hold two pages and four pages to death, and there is enough space to put some valuable things.

The serious newspaper owner will smile and exchange thin newspapers for real money. Who will make so many pages? What to publish? Will you publish psoriasis?

But who is Zhong Jialiang?

Zhong Jialiang is not an ordinary person

First, he is definitely not an ordinary person, he is the nominal richest man in the imperial business world;

Secondly, if he hadn't met the Sea Emperor, he might have been a young man, because during the Qing Dynasty, as a descendant of the Thirteen ranks, he could have played the No-Hairy Industry until he lost all his money and even wanted to commit suicide. For this reason, he had to surrender to the "Long Hair" at that time - the God Emperor's Divine Army. Is there anything more to this? When the God Emperor entered Guangdong to sweep the opium industry, the Crusaders killed him and jumped into the sea to commit suicide, he said that he was the first traitor of the Qing Dynasty. He was not only fine but also extremely rich;

Again, this person must be a literary youth. Whoever has the nickname "Zhongxi Fengwen" has a "familiarity". It's not just literature and art, and often advocates the Western political system. He hopes to "govern together with the monarch and the people" in his head. What is this not the imported product "literary art"? Of course, if the imported product "literary art" is translated, it must be "" + "proud"; if the Haihuang had not spoiled him, he would have been beaten by countless people. But since the emperor was spoiled, he could not be beaten, but instead he had to surround him to compliment this person's hobby. What is this not literature and art?

The so-called reward is like the person, you can imagine what kind of newspapers a person who runs.

The front page is absolutely nothing to do with opium. Of course, there are only 2, 3, 4, and 5 versions. Sometimes only two to three and a half pages are related to opium. So what are the others?

The front page must be the important news of the Song Dynasty, and it is a serious editorial, which is more serious than the Imperial Daily.

Others?

Red wine tells you how to appreciate French red wine;

Architecture tells you how to build an authentic Western building plus decoration;

Oil paintings and sculptures teach you how to move your thief away from the genitals of men and women to appreciate Western art from a certain... Well, who knows what angle is it? Isn't the so-called "beauty of art" your "genitals"?

The clothes are right. The Song Shang Economic News often sees large copperplate prints of male and female models, shamelessly robbing the sales of "International Clothing" that are not well-distributed, and I wish I could teach you how to dress like a foreigner;

You read that right. This newspaper often reveals the Western political and social masters, and a collection of incomprehensible transliterations and translations. Unless you absolutely cannot understand the academic level of the emperor, you will tell you how the masters worshipped by Westerners talk about social systems. A while ago, Rousseau, a guy who often makes Chinese people think of as experts in textile mills, recently criticized Rousseau, and because France, the second most powerful country in the world, was turned into the Germans. The political system should learn from the British Constitutional Monarchy and the emperor liked the continuation of the British royal family very much, and immediately changed his course and crazily promoted the British Master Locke's Christian conservative view of "not saying no taxes"; of course, "not saying no taxes" made readers of the Song Dynasty who were lucky enough to see this newspaper shook their heads and sighed, thinking: "Is there any more to pay the imperial grain? Is this a fucking thing?"

So you spent a lot of money to buy a thick copy of the Song Shang Economic News. Except for the first two pages that are useful, the rest are all the toys of these petty bourgeoisie and rich people, and you may not be able to understand them.

Moreover, the newspaper is printed with exquisite quality, so the price is very expensive, and each issue issuance will definitely suffer losses. However, Zhong Jialiang, who aims to keep a well-printed newspaper with the goal of keeping in line with international "noble newspapers" such as the Times, scoffed at the "Penny Newspaper", a civilian newspaper with fierce development momentum in the international community.

Therefore, the Song Shang Economic News is a relatively fucked newspaper throughout the Song Dynasty.

If you are a Jinling on the Futures Exchange or a businessman who does opium futures speculation or hedging, you buy the Songshang Economic News and that is an ordinary businessman;

If you have nothing to do with what you said above, as an ordinary white-collar worker in a business company spends a lot of money to buy this newspaper, skip the red wine, architecture, art, and clothing behind the opium business, and attempts to live as beautiful as the newspaper one day, that is, the literary businessman;

But if you live in a city like Longchuan, you don’t do opium and don’t try to live a Western gentleman life, and if you buy such newspapers, you can only call you a standard businessman.

Therefore, in the eyes of most Song people, the "Song Shang Economic News" is a newspaper, which is so expensive that most people are reluctant to buy it, and you can't understand it even if you are reluctant to buy it. If you throw it away, it's a pity to throw it away, but you won't stick the page of a female model on the wall like a coolie and kiss it repeatedly. In short, you can't deal with this newspaper, either it or you, you will definitely be one or even the second.

This kind of newspaper may have a good sales volume in big cities like Huizhou and Ganzhou, but Longchuan Post Office has always ordered three copies, all of which were ordered by Longchuan Opium Pavilion. I have never heard of anyone in the county selling such newspapers.

When someone bought hundreds of copies of the Song Shang Economic News, and deliberately stripped the front page and collected it, transported it here all night from the capital, and threw it down from a high place, so that the entire Sany Square would fly over, at this time, the local beggars in the square could not come back to their senses.

Really, I have never heard of this newspaper;

And real Western goods, except for big city reporters, may not exist among the local guys who are squatting in the square for takeout;

The few remaining guys are half-baked foreign slaves who are the rustic bulls, and they may have read this newspaper somewhere occasionally;

So everyone in the square was a little stunned and stared at the strange newspaper that fell at their feet.

"Mr. Fang, what do you don't know how to read?" Li Meng said angrily, then turned his head and said, "The sun is too poisonous and can't stand it. You can find materials immediately and you must put on a sunshade."

"The front page of this newspaper says we have an election." Lin Liuming handed the newspaper to Fang Bingsheng.

When Fang Bingsheng heard this, he put down the dish in his hand, said oh, took it and looked at it.

Unexpectedly, a minute later, he put down the newspaper and shouted in horror: "This is a troublesome."

Li Meng and others quickly stretched out their heads and asked, "What did the newspaper say?"

Fang Bingsheng handed them the newspaper and said, "You can read it yourself."

Several people gathered their headlines and saw that the front page of the newspaper was "Colored** may turn elections into bribery, which is related to the country, and whether the empire should immediately stop the lottery.

Moreover, the newspaper is very new. It was published yesterday, but it was actually scattered in Longchuanman Square today.

This article is written very long, but it is clearly organized. In addition, the keywords "Your Majesty", "Election", "", "British", "France", "America", "Sir Song Deling", "Mr. Zhong Jialiang", "Mr. Weng Jianguang", etc., make people see the main theme of the article at a glance.

The topic of the article is:

1 "What is election?" lists the beautiful experiences of European powers;

Then he turned his gun and asked, "What's the matter with Cai Nima?"

3 Then the two were united, and the cry of heartache and beating his chest and falling feet: This color was used by shameless people, the natural carrier of Qing culture, the rich man in the country, turning the global election experiment that the empire is attracted by the world-renowned elections into a big bet;

4 The author loaded the bullet again and fired repeatedly: "Cai** is too damn," "Cai** ruined the election", "Cai** is the official bribery election", "Cai** turns fair and fair elections into casinos"

After shooting his father and ancestor countless times, the author put away the smoked gun, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly to the emperor and whined: "Your Majesty, stop the lottery." "How will the European and American powers view my emerging East Asian empire?", "This lottery election will greatly damage our international reputation."

6 In order to increase persuasion, the article asked a series of familiar names to worry about the future of the empire. There is no need to guess that it is Zhong Jialiang, Weng Jianguang, and the party of the Jardines Association of the United Kingdom and their foreign friends;

7 Finally, the author gave a solution: immediately stop the lottery ticket and the original amount of the bet is refunded.

"It's good to stop the lottery, no need to fight for money." Several people raised their heads in confusion and asked Fang Bingsheng.

Fang Bingsheng pointed at the dark crowd in front of the platform, his fingers trembled slightly.

Everyone looked at the crowd because there were too many people and too many rustling people, so they had not allowed the newspaper information to be transmitted, and suddenly understood what Fang Bingsheng meant.

Lin Liuming asked in a trembling voice: "What should we do?"

Fang Bingsheng picked up his hat and jacket and shouted, "What are you waiting for? Run?"

After turning around and running away

The county town local beggars and business associations do not know the newspaper details, but someone in the square knows it.

Huang, a reporter from the big newspaper "Haijing Jiwen" who was drinking porridge under a snack shed in a corner of the square, took the newspaper picked up by his follower, put down the bowl, read it again, and then the man stood up holding the newspaper in his hand, kicked the stool over, shouted: "I, Cao Zhong Jialiang, you want to escape."

A minute later, a business association member who was gathering under the wooden board under the platform to have a tea and rest, saw a black shadow swept across his head and face, and flew to his platform like an eagle. The wooden board above his head was stomped down to earth.

Several candidates were puzzled and crawled out on the platform. Huang reporter pointed at the opposite side and ran away. He did not forget to turn his head in Xuanhuafang and looked at the party members here in fear. He was so angry that he couldn't speak. Huang reporter Huang, who was so sad that he couldn't suppress his grief and anger, grabbed the Song Shang Economic News in his hand into a note flower. Looking at the crowd in the square, he whistled to the sky: "Zhong Jialiang is inhumane, he actually wants to seal the lottery **"

The fact of the lottery ticket is not important, reporter Huang himself did not buy any lottery tickets;

But Zhong Jialiang did this, what did the reporters eat?

Who is full and has nothing to do to do this small county where birds don’t shit are shitted by the sun?

Isn’t it just waiting for the battle between the giants in the capital?

Now, Zhong Jialiang has diarrhea

I actually want to cut off the firewood

Not only did he not continue to invest big money to bet, but he actually wanted to block the entire lottery **?

Who cares if it’s a casino? Is it a bribery election?

Without lottery **Gold and Silver Showdown, what should the newspaper industry eat?

Who cares about the election in the entire Song Dynasty? Who knows that? Everyone cares about your bets

Therefore, when reporter Huang saw Zhong Jialiang running away, he was more angry than anyone else.

"This is the internal newspaper of the Foreign Medicine Guild, Zhong Jialiang, proposed to close the lottery **No 100,000." On the high-headed table, reporter Huang pointed to the newspaper in his hand and shouted at the crowd repeatedly.

Soon, the reporters woke up first, and then they were all there. The whole square came alive. Everyone searched at the party platform with murderous eyes and shouted: "Where am I wiping the party?"

The party has long been running away

Fang Bingsheng ran in the front. Under the scorching sun, he panted and held a torch pillar on the street to rest. Before he could run out of Sany Street, the roar of the square behind him was already coming: "What should I do if I wiped the party and ran away from this group of dogs. What should I do if I raise my money?"

He could only push the pillar away and continue to run wildly. He couldn't help but think: "Zhong Jialiang, you are going to be ruthless. At least you tell grandpa, I'm still an envoy in the enemy camp, and you're going to war? He almost threw grandpa to the group of troublemakers and put them in the pot and cooked."
Chapter completed!