In the Xinbao newspaper, Fanning met Zhu Pei's aunt Zhu Jie.

"Why is Ah Gu here?"

"I'll ask you! When did you come back?"

"Yesterday afternoon, I happened to have something to come to the newspaper office today. How was the last movable type printing?" Fan Ning asked with a smile.

"It's still improving, but it's much better than before."

Zhu Jie asked his subordinates to take out a pair of copper movable characters and put them on the table. Fanning took out a "Guo" character, which was made very delicate and meticulous, and could be called a work of art. Behind it is green, which is classified according to the rhythm, but there is a small circle of gold in front, which Fanning is a little puzzled.

Zhu Jie smiled and said, "Golden circles represent the most commonly used characters, silver circles are the second commonly used characters, and black circles are the less commonly used characters. We have made hundreds of pairs of the most commonly used characters."

"Why do you need to build so many?"

"This is the biggest problem with using movable type. The same word in an article often appears more than a dozen times. We have more than a dozen articles in a newspaper. What should you do?"

Fanning nodded, he didn't expect this problem.

"We can only solve this problem. We should prepare as many words as possible for the most commonly used words, such as the most used words such as the "一" and "大" and so on. We have prepared more than 100 words, such as advertisements in the supplement, and try to be consistent in the format."

Fanning sighed, "Mobile type is still too troublesome."

"Actually, it's okay. The key is to be proficient. Once the character matching master is proficient, he can match a page in one hour."

Seeing that there was no one around, Zhu Jie lowered her voice and said, "We usually have to support twenty carving boards, each of whom pays ten guan a day, which is just a wage. Now we only need two character matching masters, each of whom pays three guan a day, and the carved board costs more than ten guan a day, and now there is no more. Do you think, how much money we have to save every day? We have been losing money through newspapers, but now we actually make money. This is the credit for movable type!"

The two walked out of the matching room, and Zhu Jie asked with a smile: "You will not ask about movable type today, right?"

Fan Ning smiled and said, "In another ten days, I want to go to Beidao and recruit a group of immigrants to go with you. I'll promote it here."

Zhu Jie smiled and said, "Then I will publish a special issue for you. How about immigrating to Beidao with Xiao Fan's husband?"

Fan Ning was startled and shook his head repeatedly, "This won't work. It will be taboo by the court, it will be too explicit."

"Then what do you think of doing?"

Fanning hesitated and said, "I want to do something more implicit, such as doing a question and answer to the Xixia Battle on the front page, and then mentioned that I plan to go to Beidao for a month's vacation, and then add a few words at the end. If you are interested in immigrating to the island, you can contact the newspaper and help me contact us."

"Is this too implicit? Will it be effective? Generally, people who want to immigrate only look at various recruitment notices in the supplement to compare the conditions of each company."

"It should be effective. In addition, a big notice was also published in the supplement, Xiao Fan's husband's vacation place, and then various beautiful words and sentences are used to describe Beidao. The effect will come out."

"There is no problem at all. Let's make an appointment. I will bring the most capable editor to your house to visit and then print it out tomorrow at noon."

Fanning nodded, "I will wait for you."

.........

At noon the next day, with an article published in Xinbao, the people of the capital and civil and military officials in the court realized that Fan Ning had returned to Beijing, but he had to take three months off at the same time.

Most people expressed their understanding of his vacation. After all, after fighting against Liao and Xixia, he had not had a rest for the past two years. He should relax, but many people still felt an unusual meaning about Fanning's vacation.

Zhizheng Hall, Fu Bi put down the newspaper and asked Han Jiang, "What is Fanning going to do? Do you want to be a hand-off manager?"

Han Jiang smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know what he wants to do, maybe he really wants to take a break."

"fart!"

Fu Bi cursed and said, "You are twenty years older than him, and you haven't even had a rest. What do he want to rest?"

"Why don't Fu Xiang ask him by himself!" Han Jiang said helplessly.

"Has he come today?"

One of the employees hurriedly said: "Mr. Xiao Fan has been here today. I wonder if he is still in the official room?"

Fu Bi was annoyed, picked up the newspaper and walked towards Fanning's official room.

Fan Ning's official room was a small courtyard. His specific official position in the court was the Tongzhi Privy Council, but in fact he did not care about the affairs of the Privy Council, and at most he learned about the abnormal movements of the Liao Kingdom.

As soon as Fu Bi walked to the door, he happened to meet Fan Ning coming out of the room.

"Rich husband, scare me!"

Fu Bi glared at him, pointed to the newspaper in his hand and said, "Is this true? Do you want to rest for three months?"

Fanning smiled and said, "I'm going to have lunch, so why not have a drink together."

Fu Bi snorted, "It's useless to get drunk."

Fan Ning smiled silently and took Fu Bi to the Zhulou next to the imperial city. There was a special elegant seat here. The sound insulation effect was very good and generally not for the outside world. Only a few people could use it. Fan Ning was one of them.

Fu Bi walked into the room and looked at it. The furnishings in the room were elegant and elegant. He liked it very much, so he asked, "This elegant room is good. I often come to this restaurant, why don't you know it?"

"This elegant room is not open to the public. If Fu Xiang likes it, I told the shopkeeper that Fu Xiang can be a special user."

"Okay! Tell him, I like this here very much."

Fan Ning asked the bartender to invite the shopkeeper. After a moment, the shopkeeper arrived hurriedly and bowed and said, "Please give me instructions!"

Fanning pointed to Fu Bi, "In the future, Fu Gong can use this elegant room when he comes here to treat guests to dinner or drinks."

"I understand, I'll record it."

The shopkeeper hurried away. Fan Ning asked Fu Bi to sit down, filled him with a glass of wine, and smiled and said, "I really want to take a hundred days off. I want to go to Beidao. Both the Empress Dowager and the Emperor have agreed."

Fu Bi was silent for a moment, "Is this the same reason as if you were not participating in the city entry ceremony?"

Fanning nodded, "It's really a bit of a relationship."

Fu Bi sighed, "Why did you offend Wang Anshi?"

"Why does Fu Xiang say that?"

Fu Bi pondered for a moment and said, "Originally, the emperor planned to lead the imperial army to accept the surrender of Xixia. You know this!"

Fanning nodded, "I know, my husband Han and I were ready, but the emperor seemed to be worried about the epidemic, so he canceled the plan."

"No 500,000 soldiers were sick, so what was the emperor worried about? Wang Anshi persuaded the emperor not to go, saying that he could just put the surrender ceremony in the capital. The emperor was not suitable to stand under the dangerous wall. The emperor was persuaded by him and canceled the plan."

"This move is very poisonous!" Fan Ning said lightly.

Fu Bi nodded, "I realized later that I asked you to accept surrender on behalf of the Song Dynasty. It seemed to have raised you, but in fact it left a shadow in the emperor's heart. To be honest, it was a wise decision not to participate in the triumphal entry ceremony."

Fan Ning was not surprised that Wang Anshi was hostile to him. Many of Wang Anshi's reforms were undermined by him, especially the Qingmiao Law and Baojia Law, which were the core of Wang Anshi's reforms, but were abolished. Even if many reforms introduced changed their flavor, especially the reform principles he proposed, they must reach a consensus on the court and the opposition before they can be implemented. This undoubtedly brought great constraints to Wang Anshi's reforms, so Wang Anshi's extreme dissatisfaction with him can be understood.

Fan Ning smiled again and said, "Since Fu Xiang can understand me, then I will take three months off, why is Fu Xiang dissatisfied?"

Fu Bi shook his head, "You may not know yet. Wen Yanbo is preparing to be appointed as the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion, Wu Chong is appointed as the pacification envoy of Hexi Road, Wang Anshi takes over as the left prime minister, Zeng Gongliang is once again appointed as the chief political affairs, Su Song is to be appointed as the Minister of Personnel, Zeng Gongliang firmly supports the reform, and Su Song is also a supporter of the reform. Do you understand?"

Fan Ning smiled faintly, "So what can it do? Many reforms have no social foundation. If he promotes the Qingmiao Law and the Baojia Law, it will inevitably lead to large-scale land abandonment. The consequence is not something he can afford."

Seeing Fu Bi's face full of sorrow, Fan Ning smiled and said, "Don't worry, Fu Gong, don't worry. The emperor is no longer so easy to deceive now. He will implement some reforms, but he should not be hurt by the Song Dynasty. Sometimes it is a good thing to let the emperor encounter some failures, so as not to think that all reforms are beautiful."

Fu Bi nodded silently, "Then don't you give me any advice?"

Fan Ning pondered for a moment, dipped his finger in water and wrote a name on the table: "Lu Huiqing".

He said to Fu Bi: "Before Su Song became the Minister of Personnel, he transferred this person to the Southern Continent to serve as the prefect of Dingnan."

Although Fu Bi didn't quite understand, he nodded, "I understand, what else?"

Fan Ning asked again: "Wang Anshi took over as Wen Yanbo's position, and his position will be vacant. Is there any explanation for the new deputy general manager?"

"No decision yet, do you have any recommendations?"

Fanning nodded, "Before I leave, I plan to recommend Ouyang Xiu as the Chief Political Affairs Officer to the Empress Dowager."
Chapter completed!