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Episode 1: New Arrival Chapter 609: Uneven Heat and Cold

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    In recent days, Li You has been very busy in preparation for running the newspaper. He usually spends time in the Imperial College in the morning and sneaks to the newspaper office in the afternoon.

    This is an unprecedented undertaking in this time and space. From personnel to tools to various layouts, we have to worry about it, and others cannot replace it.  At most, he pulled out two teachers from his family, Mr. Cui and Mr. Tuesday, to serve as his main assistants.

    As for the sneakiness and twists and turns of Mr. Yuan Ge and his like, he has no intention to care about it for the time being.  "We are people who focus on practical matters. We cannot indulge in conspiracies and tricks, otherwise we will lose the big for the small!" Mr. Li said to the two masters and assistants.

    "Best regards, proprietor!" Mr. Cui and Mr. Zhou praised sincerely.

    According to Li You's secret plan, each of the five cities in the east, west, south, north, and middle set up a reporting station relying on the Military and Horse Division, and another reporting station was set up at Chongwenmen Customs in Nancheng where there was a lot of news. Each station had ten chief writers.  Six reporting stations totaling 60 people.  The newspaper headquarters has 20 chief editors, who are responsible for editing and adopting manuscripts.

    Mr. Cui Zhenfei, the former Imperial College student and current Li Zhai teacher and master, was pushed out by Li You and prepared to serve as the editor-in-chief of his own newspaper.

    Mr. Cui was very excited about the title of editor-in-chief and felt that he was about to reach the peak of his career.  Of course, Editor-in-Chief Cui¡¯s current main task is to recruit eighty supervisors, including sixty chief writers and twenty chief editors.

    At the same time, Li You took the time to go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, gave You Shaoqing a small message to put on, and received the new notice of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. After that, he officially posted a list in the Imperial College, recruiting supervisors to report to his home in the name of graduation history.  Work in the workshop.

    This time, everyone from the Imperial College Stone Sacrifice to Sun Yushi, another vice president of the newspaper, pretended to be deaf and dumb, allowing Li You to recruit troops and pretended not to see it.

    You Shaoqing¡¯s lesson is in front of him. Hearing the news that he is going to be the prefect of Guilin, far away from the Emperor, who wants to stop Li You?  Mr. Nayou didn't even come to the Imperial College these past two days.  Busy hitting joints on Tuomen Road.  Very irritable.

    But it is said that after word of mouth has spread during this period, most of the supervisors understand what it is like to be a newspaper reporter.  What's more, Li You had previously recruited people with great fanfare, although in the end, among the sixty people, he felt that so many people could not be used because of the stone sacrificial wine.  Only thirty were retained, including Bai Siwen, who was personally appointed by Li You, and were eliminated, but after all, it objectively played a role in popularization.

    And this time Li You recruited more people than last time.  The Ministry of Official Affairs gave him one hundred places as a supervisor.  He plans to recruit 80 people at once, and the remaining 20 places will depend on the situation.  If eighty people are indeed enough, there is no need to use up the one hundred places. Recruiting twenty more people is twenty wages. If you can save it, just save it.

    The recruitment notice was posted beside the corridor. Naturally, countless supervisors gathered around to look at it during class.  Li You felt something in his heart and stepped out of the public house, standing on the terrace of Yilun Hall and looking down.  But I saw that there was a lot of excitement there.  There was a bustling crowd, and the students were whispering and talking. It seemed that the recruitment was extremely popular.

    Li You couldn¡¯t help but said happily to Editor-in-Chief Cui next to him: "I have learned so many talents. They are all mine!"

    Editor-in-chief Cui, the former Southern Supervisor of the Imperial College, is even more ambitious.  After a few years of wasted time, he returned to the Imperial College to recruit people as the editor-in-chief.  Is this considered a half-full return home?  This time he personally recruited subordinates, which was the first time in his life. From now on, he will have eighty subordinates!

    The registration location is located in the west wing of Yilun Hall, where Chief Editor Cui is responsible for logging in.  As evening approached, Li You came here and asked: "How many people have signed up today? There are too many people, and we have to take the exam at an appropriate time and eliminate a group."

    Editor-in-chief Cui was stunned and replied: "Nine."

    Li You was shocked, not even double digits?  This gap with psychological expectations is also too big!  He thought he heard wrong, "Are you kidding? How come there are only nine? This is still far from eighty!"

    Editor-in-Chief Cui was on the verge of crying, "I can't help but say it's a big success. There are many people watching, but few people signing up. There are only so many people at the end of the day, and it seems that there may not be so many people tomorrow. I have failed my employer's high expectations."  !¡±

    Li You took the list over and scanned it several times. There were indeed only nine people, not even the name of Bai Siwen who dared to take refuge in the last recruitment.

    Where is the problem?  Mr. Li immediately ordered his subordinate Han Zong: "Go and find Bai Siwen, the supervisor of the first class of Suixingtang East! Just tell him that I have something to ask him!"

    ?????? Han Zong responded and headed towards Suixingtang.  Classes haven't ended yet, and most of the prison students are sitting in class studying, which is very easy to find.

    Not long after, Han Zong found Bai Siwen, who was nearly forty years old.  Li You stared at Bai Siwen and asked: "The Imperial College Office applied for recruitment. Although you were hired by me, you were eliminated after Master Shi took over. So there should be nothing to worry about now. Why didn't you sign up this time?"

    Bai Siwen looked at Mr. Li¡¯s face.Looking at it, I felt uneasy. Did I offend Mr. Li by not signing up this time?  Did Mr. Li specially select him last time, thinking it was a favor, but this time he shrank, so he was unhappy?

    Bai Siwen couldn't help but regret a little, he was really short-sighted this time.  If there are still many registered supervisors, it doesn't matter whether you sign up or not. I guess Mr. Li won't care about a small supervisor.

    But in fact, no one signed up this time. I needed to be more active, but I just followed the crowd and avoided it. If you are an adult with a domineering temperament, you will definitely have a grudge.

    Thinking of this, Bai Siwen grimaced, "Master Inspector, listen to the truth from the students, even if going to the newspaper office to work is considered a historical event, the official department will also give birth status. But"

    "But what?" Li You asked.

    Bai Siwen thought for a moment and then replied: "But your newspaper office does not belong to the imperial court or the government. It is just a private property. We, the supervisors, may not be willing to do it."

    Depend on!  Li You suddenly slapped his forehead with his hand. He had been in a high position for a long time, and he was used to the days when "everyone talks and laughs, and everyone comes and goes", but he had forgotten this deep-rooted habit of being a scholar in the Chinese dynasty!

    That means you should learn to be an official even if you don¡¯t want to be an official, and you should act like you are learning to be an official even if you don¡¯t want to be an official!  Anyway, we have to rely on the official wording!

    The last time I ran a newspaper in the Imperial College, the reason why it was so popular and so many people signed up was not all because of the attraction of being the so-called chief writer or chief editor, nor was it because I was good at stirring up people's hearts, nor was it necessarily the temptation of a high salary of three taels of silver.

    The most important thing is that even if the Imperial College is marginalized and has no power, it is still a well-known national brand and one of the eighteen yamen of the imperial court.

    Working in the Imperial College newspaper can at least be regarded as serving the country, and it does not insult the status of a scholar.  For those prison students whose future is uncertain due to lack of opportunities, its appeal is certainly not small.

    "And my own copycat newspaper shop, which looks like a private property, does indeed look like what Bai Siwen said. It does not rely on the court or the government. It looks like an ordinary shop. How can it be so attractive to scholars?

    Besides, if you want to go to life, of course, if you want to go to major gates, the greater the power, the better, at least you can mix your face and connections to lay the foundation for future development.

    In fact, the supervisory students are learned and cultivated according to the official preparatory team model. Of course, all the thoughts of the supervisor are mainly facing the officialdom to go to a private newspaper workshop calendar. How good is it to the development of the officialdom?  This is really an unknown number.

    Li You has been in the upper reaches for too long and is a bit out of touch with the people. It is inevitable that he was negligent and did not carefully understand the psychology of supervising students, so it is not surprising that he received the cold reception today.

    Bai Siwen looked at Li You with an expression that seemed to be reflective, and couldn't help but say a few more words, "One more thing, yesterday there was word from the Taixue Office that they planned to recruit twenty more people, our classmates.  Most people are waiting to see this matter. If I join your newspaper office, I'm afraid that the newspaper office will miss the opportunity, so I really don't dare to sign up today."

    So there is such a thing?  Did he deliberately not let himself know?  Li You was a little annoyed. He was indeed sloppy today and didn't think carefully.  Apart from anything else, our own newspaper has many shortcomings compared to the Imperial College newspaper office.

    First of all, my own newspaper is not as attractive as the national newspaper; secondly, the Imperial College newspaper office is recruiting formal personnel, and I can only do side work informally in the name of historical events; thirdly, the newspaper office may be upgraded in the future and become the chief writer and editor.  You can also get a grade crown.  With these three points in mind, most normal supervisors would try their best to get into the newspaper office.

    Seemingly too anxious to eat hot tofu, Li You asked again: "Has the reporting office informed you when they will start recruiting staff again?"

    Bai Siwen frowned and said, "I've never heard of this. I just told everyone to wait for the news."

    Li You didn¡¯t think much about it at first, but when he heard Bai Siwen¡¯s answer, he immediately became alert.  Is this a disguised method to deliberately make things difficult for yourself?

    ¡° If I want to recruit people, I guess I can only do it after the recruitment of the Imperial College Office is completed, and I also have to choose from the supervisors who have no chance to go to the Yamen.

    But in other words, as long as the newspaper office does not start recruiting people again, the Imperial College students may still have hope of entering the newspaper office, so they will not easily sign up here.  If they delay for three to five months, why should I wait for three to five months?

    "Who released this news?" Li You asked.

    "It is said that after the Shijiu Liquor department cleared its staff, the new vice president felt that there were not enough people and wanted to recruit new people, but the time was delayed."

    It seems to be a very normal job, and there is nothing to say about it, but Mr. Li has never been afraid to speculate on others with the greatest malice, especially people and things related to him in the officialdom.  Is there really such a coincidence that a random decision by the vice president named Sun Yijiang prevented him from recruiting supervisors?

    Li You couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, "I do my work sincerely, but why are there always insidious villains who don't do real things to come out and hinder me!"

    Bai Siwen was speechless. He really didn¡¯t understand Mr. Li¡¯s realm.  If running a newspaper shop by yourself to compete with the imperial newspaper office can be considered a practical thing, then Mr. Li is indeed "working hard".  Bai Jiansheng really couldn't understand that the imperial court actually ignored Mr. Li and did not ban him until now.

    {PiaoTian Literature www.PiaoTian.com thanks all book friends for their support, your support is our greatest motivation}Is there really such a coincidence that a random decision by the vice president named Sun Yijiang would prevent him from recruiting supervisors?

    Li You couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, "I do my work sincerely, but why are there always insidious villains who don't do real things to come out and hinder me!"

    Bai Siwen was speechless. He really didn¡¯t understand Mr. Li¡¯s realm.  If running a newspaper shop by yourself to compete with the imperial newspaper office can be considered a practical thing, then Mr. Li is indeed "working hard".  Bai Jiansheng really couldn't understand that the imperial court actually ignored Mr. Li and did not ban him until now.

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