After more than 20 years of development, the scale and functions of the Yulong Daily newspaper have far surpassed any institution in the imperial court.
Xie Yu had always been in charge of the newspaper, but now he has basically stepped down from his post, and Zhang Yanyan is now the director.
Zhang Yanyan's rank is equivalent to that of a third-rank official.
This is a woman's glory.
Unlike any department in the imperial court, the newspaper truly achieved fairness and impartiality.
Female workers make up half of the workforce here.
Zhang Yanyan was naturally thrilled to see Jiutian come to the newspaper office to learn.
Seven years ago, she was fortunate that Jiutian gave her a divination, otherwise she would have died at Li Ranran's hands.
She never imagined that Li Ranran would try to kill her.
At that time, Liu Qingyun and Xie Xingwan were about to get married. She was so happy that Li Ranran came to Daming Prefecture from the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion. The former top young ladies gathered together and were very happy.
Zhang Yanyan received a divine message from the heavens, but she didn't suspect her; she was just wary of others.
However, November 11th was the first day that the Nine Heavens Divination had predicted, so she had to be on guard. She was extremely careful that day. In the middle of the night, while she was asleep, her personal maid, Chenxiang, discovered that Li Ranran was burning charcoal in the room under the pretext that the room was too cold.
Chenxiang remembered Zhang Yanyan's instructions, so when Li Ranran took the charcoal to burn, he woke Zhang Yanyan up and quietly gestured to her that Li Ranran wanted to burn charcoal.
Zhang Yanyan broke out in a cold sweat when she saw the doors and windows were tightly closed.
Using the excuse that it was "too hot and stuffy," he asked Chenxiang to take the charcoal out.
As a result, on November 18th, the best friends went on a trip to Yanshan Lake. At the manor, Li Ranran asked the waiter to bring her a large basin of charcoal in the middle of the night.
Because of her initial wariness, and now that the Nine Heavens Divine Divination has issued its second warning, Zhang Yanyan couldn't sleep at all last night.
When the charcoal was brought into the room, and Li Ranran locked the doors and windows, Zhang Yanyan immediately got up, grabbed Li Ranran, and slapped her former friend twice.
As the Princess Consort of Ning, she was no longer spared any mercy from Li Ranran, who had tried to kill her time and time again.
Summon Gu Zheng and the Duke of England to come and ask them how to handle the situation.
The Duke of England is the elder brother of Li Yunmu and Li Ranran, and Gu Zheng is Li Ranran's man.
When the two arrived, they were speechless upon hearing what Li Ranran had done.
Gu Zheng lowered his head and remained silent.
The Duke of England repeatedly asked Gu Zheng what to do. Gu Zheng avoided Zhang Yanyan and then told the truth: "Ranran married me, which is a marriage down. I am incompetent. She beats and scolds me and the children at home. To this day, the Earl's mansion only has one eldest son, and we dare not take in a concubine."
Li Ranran married Gu Zheng with the intention of getting involved with Zhou Shaoyu.
Xie Zhaozhao was divorced, and she wanted to become Xiao Heng'er's stepmother, but Zhou Shaoyu wouldn't even leave her a crack in the door, so she took a roundabout way and married Gu Zheng.
She did not consummate her marriage with Gu Zheng for two years after their wedding. It was not until Xie Zhaozhao established the Jade Dragon Kingdom, merged Da Gan into Jade Dragon, and reunited with Zhou Shaoyu as husband and wife, declaring that she would be monogamous for life, that she consummated her marriage with Gu Zheng.
However, since Zhou Shaoyu and Xie Zhaozhao became emperors, they did not help the Earl's family, so she no longer regarded Gu Zheng as a human being.
Not only were they forbidden from getting close to him in the mansion, but they also frequently threatened him with their son.
Li Yunhuai was furious when he heard that his sister was so vicious and courting death.
Prince Li Tang was already a promising young talent in the Jade Dragon Court, and he was quite speechless about his aunt.
On the day Li Yunhuai brought Li Ranran back to the Duke's mansion, news spread the next day that Li Ranran had died from burning charcoal...
The thought of almost dying at the hands of her best friend still terrifies Zhang Yanyan, who remains deeply saddened and filled with regret.
She knelt before Jiutian and bowed, saying, "Thank you, Princess, for saving my life."
Jiutian helped her up and said with a smile, "You are a close friend of the Queen Mother, so you are my elder. You don't need to bow anymore. Just call me Jiutian."
Her words were gentle, yet carried an undeniable pressure. Zhang Yanyan stood up, respectfully said "Yes," and then asked Jiutian how long he planned to stay and what his plans were.
Is he here to supervise? To learn? Or to take up a position?
Jiutian said, "The timing is uncertain. I want to learn about the entire operation of the newspaper."
Zhang Yanyan didn't think twice. Jiutian was the master of the Jade Dragon Kingdom, and they would do their best to teach her whatever she wanted to do.
So from that day on, Jiutian carried a notebook in his hand and studied from department to department, spending about a month in each department, and even going out with others to conduct on-site investigations and write articles.
She spent more than a month in the printing department, eventually learning the latest printing techniques, mimeographing, and so on. She even disassembled two machines and reassembled them.
Every department expressed indescribable surprise at Jiutian's seriousness.
Jiutian is now the most honored person in the Jade Dragon Kingdom besides His Majesty and the Crown Prince, yet he often wears a newspaper uniform, a Taoist bun on his head, and does hard and tiring work that other noble children are unwilling to do.
What puzzled everyone even more was that she recorded almost every step in extremely detailed terms, down to the problems they encountered when the Yulong Newspaper was first established.
During the day, she interned in various departments of the newspaper, and at night she studied all the newspapers, from the first newspaper twenty years ago to the latest issue.
Of course, during her time studying at the newspaper office, she didn't neglect completing the invitations for the wealthy and powerful to host banquets.
Xie Zhaozhao and Zhou Shaoyu's original plan to take her on a trip fell through. Their daughter seemed more interested in governing the world than eating, drinking and having fun with them.
Xie Zhaozhao had nowhere to express her maternal love: How come it's not what I imagined?
The seventh year of the Qi dynasty, the twenty-second year of the Yulong era, the first day of the twelfth month.
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