The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 288
After Li Xiangjun finished speaking, she lowered her head, and her forehead was sweating nervously. Dong Xiaowan was also uneasy, and she blamed her for talking too much. It would be terrible if she offended the Queen Mother.

Zhang Yan didn't speak, but frowned, thinking that Lang'er seemed to attach great importance to this newspaper, otherwise it would be impossible to let the two girls behave like this, even if they didn't beat the two girls personally, she would let her take care of it, but the fact is In the past two years, Lang'er has never mentioned anything about the Propaganda Supervisor and Fengyue Division.

This is also the reason why she didn't want to care about it. Thinking of this, she pondered for a while and said: "400 million copies must be printed each within three months. Send troops to the printing workshop to garrison, as for how to keep it secret, you can arrange it yourself, and leave other matters alone, can it be done?"

"Don't worry, the queen mother, the ministers will be absolutely foolproof, there will be no mistakes, and the content will not be leaked."

Seeing that the queen mother relaxed the deadline, the two women breathed a sigh of relief, and knew that the matter was of great importance, so they quickly promised,
I couldn't help but feel a little excited, such an important matter, the queen mother actually handed it over to their propaganda supervisors, from now on their propaganda supervisors will no longer have to be afraid of those literati and inkmen who will look down on them.

"Well, so Aijia will leave this matter to you and the two of you." Zhang Yan nodded in satisfaction, and her tone softened unprecedentedly. After thinking about it, she added: "Your newspaper sells for three cents for one cent. Aijia will give you five coins for each exam question, and the total of 800 million copies is 4 taels, so Aijia will give you 4 taels of silver as funds, is it enough?"

"Thank you Queen Mother, 4 taels are enough."

Both women nodded hurriedly, but they couldn't help but secretly said in their hearts, the rumors are indeed true, the queen mother is really not ordinary stingy.

Such an important examination paper, a total of 800 million copies, was allocated to them for a mere 4 taels of silver. This is their propaganda supervisor, otherwise any printing workshop would have to suffer.

In fact, even their publicity supervisors will suffer. After all, this test question must not be sloppy. It must use good paper and ink. In order to prevent mistakes and omissions, it must be time-consuming and laborious to check one by one. Fortunately, the size is about the same as that of a newspaper. , saving a lot.

However, the two women have long been accustomed to losing money. In the past, the publicity supervisor almost lost 10,000+ taels a month. Although it has improved, it still loses tens of thousands of taels a month.

"Well, you guys back off."

"It's the Queen Mother, I'm waiting to retire!"

"and many more…"

The two of them had just bowed and retreated, but Zhang Yan called out again, calmly turned out a stack of papers from the desk, and said, "This is something Ai Jia wrote in his free time, you can take a look at it. Let's not let anyone know about this, understand?" After speaking, his face was also slightly flushed.

"Yes, I understand." Dong Xiaowan hurriedly took the stack of papers respectfully, lowering her head and not daring to look at the expression on Zhang Yan's face.

The two took the examination papers and manuscripts given by Zhang Yan, went back to the propaganda prison under the escort of the Imperial Forest Army, and closed the door, eager to see what stories Zhang Yan wrote.

"Tsk tsk, sister Dong, I didn't expect the queen mother to look cold, but the love story she wrote was so unrestrained and bold, and it made people cry. Really..."

"Keep your voice down, don't you die?" Dong Xiaowan hurriedly covered her mouth, although she also found it incredible, but she was relieved after thinking about it.

After all, the queen mother is also a woman, and she has been widowed for many years. In the deep palace, there is no one to accompany her. When she is bored, it makes sense to write something to pass the time. newspaper up.

It took the two women an hour to read the manuscript carefully, and then they looked at each other with shock and disbelief on their faces, as if they had discovered a major secret, but this time they I dare not say it out loud.

"Sister Dong, do you think the Queen Mother will silence the two of us in the future?"

Li Xiangjun shivered and wiped his neck, looking scared.

"Should... probably not?"

Dong Xiaowan also shrunk her neck, but she also felt a little worried. After all, only the two of them knew that this story was written by the Queen Mother.

"Hey, forget it, as the saying goes, it's a blessing, not a curse. A disaster can't be avoided. If the Queen Mother really wants to silence her in the future, I have to shout out when she is dying." Li Xiangjun waved his hands.

"Do you think that if the Empress Dowager really wants to silence her, you can still shout it out?" Dong Xiaowan gave her a white look.

But I'm not struggling, after all, it's too easy for the Queen Mother to kill the two of them, so it's useless to worry about it now.

"Let's think about what kind of pseudonym we should give the Queen Mother. If the Queen Mother is not satisfied, I'm afraid it will really kill the two of us."

Immediately, the two women racked their brains and began to think of a pseudonym for Zhang Yan. Although the Queen Mother didn't say it clearly, she definitely couldn't use her real name to publish it, nor could she use their pen name to publish it in their name, let alone someone else's. To publish in the name of others, otherwise it is an act of courting death.

Through this story, the two of them had a little understanding of Zhang Yan's true temperament. After thinking about it for more than a dozen times, they were rejected one by one, and they started to have a headache for a while.

"It's so stupid, why do we need to rename it, can't we just use the names of the characters in the story?" Li Xiangjun patted his forehead.

Dong Xiaowan also came to her senses, and hurriedly agreed: "Yes, I would be satisfied with the name Queen Mother in the story, maybe that's what the Queen Mother meant, it's just that we two are too stupid to understand this now, if we make up our own minds, really If you rename it, I’m afraid it will really be over.”

After finalizing the decision, the two women immediately started typesetting by themselves, striving to publish the beginning of the story in the Fengyue chapter in this issue.

In the palace, Zhang Yan's intestines were already remorseful.

After reading so many episodes of Fengyue novels, and being bored on weekdays, I wrote an article to pass the time over time. I once thought about publishing my own story in the newspaper, but I just thought about it all the time, and I didn’t dare to read it. She really put it into action, and even hid the manuscript so tightly that no one has read it except herself.

Today, for some reason, she became obsessed with ghosts, and there was no one else in the study, so she took out the story she had written, but as soon as the two of them left, she regretted it, and was even a little scared, but it was done, and it was useless to regret it.

Sitting alone in the study, Zhang Yan was very distressed. The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. When she thought about the stories that were written by her, her heart was in a mess, and she even thought of sending someone to recover the manuscripts. Thinking that the two girls must have already seen it, it would be useless to chase them back, unless the two girls were killed to silence them.

But she really couldn't do this kind of thing, so she finally sighed, shook her head and gave a bitter smile, the two girls probably didn't dare to reveal her identity, thinking of this, she felt a lot more at ease in her heart, instead she faintly looked forward to the next one The newspapers are coming.

(End of this chapter)