The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Busy seeking fame, busy seeking profit, taking a break from the busy schedule to have a glass of wine;

Working hard, working hard for farming, having fun while working hard, let’s make a bowl of tea.

This is the couplet at the gate of Wangjiang Tower. The wording is simple, easy to understand, and there is infinite artistic conception in the plain.

During the period of the Republic of China, teahouses in Shanghai were the best in the world.

All kinds of teahouses in old Shanghai were news gathering and distributing centers, and there was a lot of news, so police officers, detectives, and reporters often visited. Often some tabloid reporters go to the teahouse to make a bowl of tea in the morning, and spend half a day inquiring about news and anecdotes, and then send them directly to the editorial office of the newspaper office. This is how all kinds of frivolous news are produced.

Patrols are even better. They simply use the teahouse as an official office, and complete everything from investigation to interrogation in the teahouse.

Wangjiang Tower by the Huangpu River is such an old teahouse, where Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng often tried their cases.

In the middle of the morning, Liu Xinquan, a reporter from Jingbao, came to the teahouse leisurely. When he entered the door, he said to the waiter, "Old rules, a bowl of scented tea and a stack of peanuts!"

"Okay!" When the man spoke, he blinked frantically at Liu Xinquan.

Liu Xinquan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood, turned around and walked out.

Before he walked out of the teahouse, two Chinese patrolmen stopped him: "You are Liu Xinquan?"

Liu Xinquan smiled wryly and said, "I am, what orders do you two servants have?"

"There is a case that requires your cooperation, come with us!" While the policeman was speaking, he had already held Liu Xinquan up and down.

They did not return to the arresting room, but went directly to the private room on the second floor of the teahouse.

Du Yuesheng sat at the seat by the window, pointed to the river outside and said: "Brother Zhou, the scenery here is not bad."

"It's a great place with a wide view." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

The door of the room opened suddenly, and two Hua arresters dragged Liu Xinquan in, and pushed him to the ground with a thud and knelt down.

Liu Xinquan saw that it was Du Yuesheng, and tremblingly said, "Du...Master Du, what do you keep looking for me for?"

Du Yuesheng did not answer, but smiled and said to Zhou Hexuan: "When I was still selling fruit, I heard the name of Wangjiang Tower. I was doing business on the street that day, and I saw three scissors (thieves and pickpockets) Harms the country people. The first one shrugged his shoulders and pushed the country man forward and bumped into the second. The second pretended to be angry, grabbed the country man and beat him. The third came forward to smooth things over and plead for the country man. The country man He left thankfully, and as soon as he left, the three thieves burst out laughing, because all the money in the countrymen's pockets fell into their hands."

Zhou Hexuan smiled helplessly: "This kind of trick is really deceiving."

Du Yuesheng continued: "The three scissors did not laugh a few times, and a plainclothes patrol caught them and said: Come on, follow me to Wangjiang Tower. When the three heard 'Wangjiang Tower', their feet went limp , guess why?"

Zhou Hexuan asked, "Why?"

"Because Wangjiang Tower was the case-handling court of Uncle Huang Jinrong at that time, hahahaha!" Du Yuesheng laughed to himself.

Liu Xinquan, who was kneeling on the ground, was trembling all over, and said with a bitter face, "Master Du, what did I do, you should tell me exactly."

Du Yuesheng then turned to look at Liu Xinquan, and asked, "The reporter of "Jing Bao" whose pen name is Jia Wang is you, right?"

"Yes, Jia Wang is my pen name." Liu Xinquan nodded.

Du Yuesheng asked again: "You wrote an article two days ago?"

"I wrote two articles, which one are you asking about?" Liu Xinquan asked confusedly.

"Ruan Lingyu's article." Du Yuesheng said.

Liu Xinquan looked at Zhou Hexuan, came back to his senses immediately, kowtowed frantically and said, "Mr. Zhou, I was wrong, I shouldn't have scribbled, I shouldn't have slandered Miss Ruan, please let me go!"

Zhou Hexuan asked blankly: "Who told you what you wrote?"

"A young man in his twenties, dressed in ordinary clothes, but I don't know him." Liu Xinquan's forehead was sweating.

Du Yuesheng said: "Speak clearly."

"I just went out that morning, a young man gave me a letter, and the content of the article was written according to that letter." Liu Xinquan said.

"What about the letter?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"At home, I don't know if I threw it away, I don't remember clearly." Liu Xinquan cried.

Du Yuesheng scolded in a low voice: "Bring it, immediately!"

Liu Xinquan frantically ran home, and soon brought a few pages of letter paper.

After Zhou Hexuan read it, he couldn't see why, and said, "If you think about it again, you really don't know the person who sent the letter?"

"I really don't know him," Liu Xinquan said.

"Are there any other characteristics?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"I'll think about it, I'll think about it again," Liu Xinquan tried hard to remember, and said in a daze, "Oh, I really wish I had seen it, but I just don't remember it clearly."

Du Yuesheng grinned and said: "Then you think about it slowly, and eat when you think about it today."

Liu Xinquan's face suddenly turned into a bitter gourd, and his liver trembled with fright.

Du Yuesheng smiled and said to Zhou Hexuan: "Brother Zhou, I want to introduce a friend to you today, let's go to Desheng Building for a drink first."

"The guest is up to the host." Zhou Hexuan said.

The two walked out of the door of the private room side by side, and just as they were about to step out of the room, Liu Xinquan inside suddenly shouted: "I remembered, the one who sent me the letter was a worker from the Star Film Company, I met him when I was interviewing a star! "

"Take him to the star company to arrest people!" After Du Yuesheng finished speaking, he left without looking back.

Zhou Hexuan followed Du Yuesheng to the Desheng Tower, and it was noon after he sat down for a long time. A middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes came into the private room.

Du Yuesheng introduced: "Brother Zhou, this is Secretary Xiao Tongzi Xiao of the Central Propaganda Department."

Xiao Tongzi was gentle and gentle, he smiled and shook hands with Zhou Hexuan and said, "Mr. Zhou, I have long admired you!"

"Hello, Secretary Xiao." Zhou Hexuan didn't understand the reason for this guy's visit, but he had heard of Xiao Tongzi's name before crossing, but this person hasn't made a fortune yet.

Xiao Tongzi was born as a skilled worker, believed in socialism, and went on strike when he was young. Although he only joined the Nationalist Party on the eve of the Northern Expedition, due to his outstanding ability, he has been promoted very quickly in the past few years, and has already achieved the positions of Secretary of the Central Propaganda Department and Chief of the News Collection Section. During the Central Plains War, he went north with Wu Tiecheng to persuade Zhang Xueliang to join the Central Committee.

These are nothing, Xiao Tongzi's real career has not yet started, and this person will be reassigned as the president of the Central News Agency in two years.

After Xiao Tongzi became the president of the Central News Agency, he made the Central News Agency independent of the party headquarters of the Kuomintang Party, and carried out a series of professional, social and corporate reforms. During his 16 years in office, he developed the Central News Agency with only a few dozen people into a large-scale news agency with 52 branches and more than 2,600 employees.

Therefore, Xiao Tongzi is honored as "Xiao Sanye" and has the reputation of "the father of China's modern communication industry".

To put it bluntly, this person will become Chang Kaishen's top mouthpiece, a super boss in the press during the Republic of China.

The food and drink were served, and after a short chat, Xiao Tongzi asked with a smile: "I heard that Mr. Zhou is going to initiate the establishment of the 'China Newspaper Association'?"

Well, that's what it's for!

The Central Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang is about to intervene directly, and this action is very fast.