Generation Z Artists

Chapter 31 Criticism and Division

In fact, there are far more than one or two articles criticizing Fang Xinghe.

Because he violated the biggest taboo at that time - threatening reporters.

It is difficult for children who have not experienced the 90s to imagine how arrogant the fourth power was in the era of print media. They simultaneously controlled the right to interview, the right to distribute, the right to disseminate, and ultimately formed the right to make qualitative judgments.

Qualify everything and everyone that happens, and then form an authoritative interpretation, with "I" as the standard.

Ordinary people have no channels to learn the truth, nor do they have the energy to verify the details. They can only passively accept indoctrination and then pay high respect to the writers who write.

This has created their noble and lofty status, but has also fostered their self-proclaimed "sense of mission" but in fact very stubborn temperament.

Now, a little guy like Fang Xinghe actually dares to challenge our authority?
It's the other way around!

Xu Renjie cannot even be ranked among all the critics, but because of his special identity, he becomes another strong proof that "Fang Xinghe is unpopular."

In addition to Nandu, more than 20 national newspapers including Yangtze River Daily followed suit.

They exerted a powerful influence and interviewed one celebrity after another. The media, education, and literary circles were all in an uproar over this matter.

But, there is a very strange situation happening——

There is a huge gap between the real world and the world portrayed by the media.

If you are an adult who reads the newspaper every day, you will find that at least 70% of the voices in the society are criticizing Fang Xinghe, regarding him as a representative of a bad boy who is arrogant, rude, unruly, extreme and violent.

Under such a huge voice, people who were willing to explain for him, such as Zhao Chunhua, Wang Yali, Chen Danya, etc., were suppressed and could hardly cope.

If you are a person who does not read newspapers, then the years are peaceful and the world is peaceful.

Xiaoyanzi is so cute, my salary is getting less and less, Nokia's Chinese mobile phone is so fashionable...

Teen writer? Not interested.

And if you are a middle school student who already knew Fang Xinghe, then you will suddenly find that Brother Fang is exuding a fatal attraction.

He was a dick in a way that was unimaginable in 1999.

Originally, only girls liked to talk about Fang Xinghe, and boys often used disdain to hide their jealousy. However, after being stimulated by the phrase "Who is not under 14 years old?", that fragile aversion was suddenly in jeopardy.

So, Mr. Fang smiled happily as he looked at the star value which suddenly skyrocketed again.

Half a month ago, the star value was more than 1800 million.

Then, as criticism and counter-criticism intensified, the star value steadily grew to 3000 million and fell into a downward trend.

And now, once the Nandu report was released, the starlight value skyrocketed by 10 million in two days!

If this trend continues, by the time of the high school entrance exam, the small treasury might have a chance to reach nine figures?

But he couldn't wait any longer and wanted to spend lavishly now.

【Properties Panel】

Appearance: 99 for face value, 75 for body shape
体质：力量69、速度80、耐力70、灵敏75、柔韧73
隐藏：协调72、感知69、恢复74、免疫69、健康75
Arts: Writing 79
After a period of unremitting training, his endurance increased by 1 point and his health increased by 2 points. Apart from that, his attributes remained unchanged.

70-79点的属性，提升1点需要100万星光值，80-89是每点1000万。

According to the original plan, Fang Xinghe increased his endurance attribute to 80 points, consuming a full 1900 million starlight points.

Oh, it hurts.

I felt it quietly and found no particularly big changes, except that I seemed to have a little more energy.

It was not until the evening, when he finished the last set of math problems as usual, that the boy finally realized the power of 80 points of endurance.

I should be very sleepy at this time, but now I am not sleepy at all. In fact, I feel more awake.

Then two more sets?

Fang Xinghe worked on his questions until 12 o'clock before going to bed, and then got up at 6 o'clock the next day as usual, full of energy.

Endurance is not only about physical endurance, it also improves mental endurance.

It’s a pity that more than 80 points are too expensive and I can’t afford it for the time being.

Fang Xinghe gave up the idea of increasing his endurance and, as originally planned, increased his coordination to 80 points, spending 1700 million star points, and his piggy bank was empty again.

But the effect of coordination was immediately apparent. When he picked up the craft sword and stabbed out the first sword, it felt very smooth.

It's not that you suddenly become stronger, but it's a mysterious feeling - the force is smoother, the control of strength is more precise, the movements are agile and smooth, it is comfortable to practice and even more comfortable to watch.

After morning exercise, I opened the panel and took another look at my skill proficiency. Sure enough, all my skills had improved.

Although it's not much, the improvement in efficiency is visible to the naked eye. If you continue like this, sooner or later you can practice your kung fu to the maximum level on your own.

"If I have more star points, I will increase the main attributes to 79 points, and then focus on improving coordination!" Fang Xinghe made the decision happily and went to school in high spirits.

There is nothing new today. Nandu’s report is still the focus, but more people are following suit.

The one who jumped the most wildly among them was Song Zude, a "colleague" of Fang Xinghe in his previous life.

He launched a fierce attack in the Southern Daily: "I look down on Fang Xinghe! A so-called genius who is packaged and hyped up, a middle school student's essay that makes no sense, a red-haired guy who thinks he is handsome, but in fact he is just a gangster! Apart from teaching children bad things, what else can he do? If I were chosen as a judge, this would never happen, I would have thrown his crappy article into the trash can long ago!"

At the same time, his younger brother Liu Xinda and several literary critics also published "manifestoes" in different newspapers that contained more insults than criticisms.

Aunt Chen was afraid that Fang Xinghe couldn't handle it, so she went to talk to him, but in fact... it was just soso.

Fang Xinghe was not angry at all, and did not want to mention that kind of garbage. He was just curious about the Southern faction: What is the position of the South now?
As an insider, Aunt Chen has a deep understanding of this.

"Nanfang was originally founded with the support of the reformists within the system. It is of high quality and has always been at the forefront of social hot spots. It takes criticism as its mission and is good at digging out the 'truth of things' and penetrating the essence of society through the appearance of hot spots.

Their several newspapers and publications each have their own focus, so you have to be careful, this matter is obviously not over yet."

Fang Xinghe pondered it carefully for a while, but still didn't quite understand it.

So where do they stand now?

Jumping left and right?
Before he could really figure it out, Aunt Chen's words came true.

In the latest issue of Southern Weekend on Thursday, editor-in-chief Yan Lieshan wrote an article titled "Looking at the Failure of Traditional Education through Fang Xinghe."

"Fang Xinghe is not wrong. He is even a winner. It is our traditional education that is wrong, failed, and incapable..."

The spearhead was directed at education, with the author stating that "there is no education at all from the county level down" and criticizing certain departments for their dereliction of duty.

But to Fang Xinghe himself, he was extremely gentle, encouraging and hopeful.

Good man, you’re trying to play this on me?
You are really like Guan Gong swinging a big axe on his head, driving a black car in front of a bread shop...

The funny Niu Huaishan made our President Fang laugh.

This article needs to be considered from two aspects.

Yan Lieshan's attitude towards Fang Xinghe is obviously PUA - he is scolded in Nandu and praised in Nanzhou, one suppresses and the other praises, and it is obvious that he wants to rub him back and forth, grind away the rebelliousness, and finally accept him as a dog.

Tsk tsk, if we talk about playing around, it has to be you black-hearted literati...

Of course, this is just a side note. The real core of the article is naturally to criticize the education system from a "citizen" perspective.

Fang Xinghe didn't even need to see the final direction, he would understand it after just reading a few sentences.

The Internet water army is a small circle, and they can vaguely sense each other, and Mr. Fang is particularly good at exposing people through their intentions.

In his framework, there are only four types of professional water armies.

The first type is those who are timid or have a bottom line, and only make a living in the entertainment industry, and they praise or criticize anyone just for fun.

The second type is those who will take any order and take advantage of anyone as long as the benefits are sufficient. They have no likes or dislikes in their hearts and are money-oriented people who believe that "the bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish". They are called greedy.

The third type is, you give one dollar of dog food and do ten dollars of work, and you sincerely think that your country is not good and is not worthy of him. This is really fucking stupid.

The fourth type receives ten dollars of funding, but transfers eight dollars to let idiots do the work. They hide themselves carefully and never show up unless there is a good opportunity. They know very well what the truth is and what they want to do. They are purely evil.

The representative of the first category is naturally Fang Xinghe himself.

The second type is to send Zude.

The third category is Lady Luo.

The fourth category is found in large numbers in the cultural circle, such as the leader who was sentenced for publishing poisonous teaching materials.

Generally speaking, the second, third and fourth categories are clearly defined, but occasionally there are also compound talents who are stupid, bad and greedy.

It is not convenient to name this kind of top-quality product, everyone can judge for themselves.

Now they are highly skilled, while the information that the people can receive is limited and their ability to discern is not strong, so their living space is extremely broad.

By the time Fang Xinghe was active, these people either died outside, wandered around picking up garbage, or stayed in the country like street rats, with their lives and beliefs completely collapsed.

Paying attention to them is purely to give them face.

With this mentality, Fang Xinghe decided to spend the last time before the exam in quiet study and ignore external affairs.

When I have some free time in the future, I will go after them one by one, and the black-hearted Langmie will give them a slap in the face many times.

As a result, he didn't need to move at all. Mengya, who was furious about the affected sales, took the initiative to release his hidden trick.

(End of this chapter)