Wanli Xinming

Chapter 178 Assassination
"On Contradiction - Zhu Yijun".When Zhang Sixiu opened the thin booklet, the emperor's name pierced his eyes, causing the cold hairs on his back to stand up.

"Taoist, what?" The first sentence asked, about to establish the pattern of this Hongwen in the universe.

"The Book of Changes says: One yin and one yang are called Dao. Yin and yang are contradictory. Everything and everything is inexistent - either agitation leads to chaos; or the same leads to harmony; or yang is prosperous and yin declines, or yin Strong and weak."

The emperor opened a sentence with a question, and then answered the question, irrefutably pointing out that yin and yang are the Tao.Contradiction is the embodiment of yin and yang.Zhang Sixiu's back was sweating slightly after seeing the first few sentences in the text.

"Where does the contradiction come from? The inherent nature of things and things. And what is the nature? Movement, connection, contradiction. Why is it clouded? The principle of all things in the world is one, that of 'movement'. The movement of the sky is the movement of the stars; the movement of the sea is the movement of the earth; In the middle, the mean exists because of what is."

In the process of the whole "On Contradiction", the emperor did not make theories in terms of theory, but even gave practical examples to irrefutably prove the legitimacy of reforms - taking the salt government reform as an example.

"When the salt law of the state was in the middle, salt was expensive and grain was cheap, and the contradiction was that the output of salt was insufficient for civilian use; then, the production of salt increased, and the grain storage at the side was less, salt was cheap and grain was expensive, and the contradiction turned into the accumulation of official salt. After the world salt farm was contracted, salt production increased sharply, and the contradiction turned into a low salt price, although this was beneficial to the people, it was not conducive to the livelihood of the salt farm.”

"Because of this, in the fifth year of Wanli, the court set a minimum salt price, and the sales of salt should not be less than five cents per catty. Is there any contradiction? It is also obvious that those who seek more sales are in conflict with the Salt Transport Department."

The benefits of all things in the world, if you try to view it from the perspective of contradiction, it is like viewing the lines on the palm of your hand!
Nothing in the world can exist without the distinction between yin and yang; nothing can exist without contradiction, and the universality and absoluteness of this contradiction is also; the spear and the shield are inseparable; .Contradictions exist in one body and share a single thought. The potential changes and the time changes. The particularity and relativity of this contradiction is also evident.

"The sage said: "Yi", has it come to an end? - It has already broken the riddle and made it clear to future generations, but it is a pity for those who did not see it later. At this time, I do not know the reason for the change of the world, and I can only leave the boat to seek the sword. ridicule!"

For a booklet with less than [-] words, Zhang Sixiu pondered over and over again, and stayed up all night.The emperor's majestic and eloquent prose clearly explained the universality, unity of opposites, particularity, struggle, and mutual transformation of contradictions under the influence of internal and external factors with indisputable logic.Zhang Si gained something from reading it once, and gained something from reading it again—and then he felt as if he had cleared the fog shrouded in front of him, and he almost screamed because he had attained the Tao!

"On Contradiction" is Zhu Yijun's adaptation of "On Contradiction" by a great man of later generations, and it also reflects his learning achievements in Chinese classical philosophy over the past few years.His own Tao, the so-called "Three Views" has long been formed; and his advanced knowledge in sociology also made Zhang Juzheng and other pedantic scholars of heaven and man utter the words "a sage is born to know it", otherwise it would be impossible to explain this investigation. How the philosophic thought of breaking good fortune can sprout in the heart of the 15-year-old emperor.

After the small-scale copying of "On Contradiction", in the upper echelons of the empire, Zhu Yijun had a mysterious aura on his body.

In Jiangling City in August, Mr. Zhang Wenming was in the Zhangfu Garden, enjoying the recently popular new drama "Ming Feng Ji". "Ming Feng Ji" was written by Wang Shizhen. After the failure of the Wang family, it is said that Wang Shizhen changed it and changed it, and finally came up with the first current affairs and political drama in Chinese history. [Note]
During the Wanli period, Kunqu Opera was the most popular in the entertainment industry in the north and south of the Yangtze River.At that time, a group of famous composers and lyricists pushed the development of Kunqu Opera to its peak—and created conditions for the later birth of Peking Opera.

"Ming Feng Ji" written by Wang Shizhen contains five plays including "Eating Tea", "Writing Book" and "Impeachment". This historical fact was written down to the time when Yan Song was defeated and Yan Shifan was put to death, and the ten loyal ministers who went one after another in the process of falling strict were praised by Wang Shizhen as: "Chaoyang Danfeng sings together", which is "Ming Feng Ji". "The origin of the name.

Zhang Wenming usually has nothing to do, and he is impatient to entertain officials from all over Jiangling, and he finds things to train his own opera troupe.

Recently, someone came to tell me that "Ming Feng Ji" written by Wang Shizhen in the sixth year of Longqing became popular in the south.Zhang Wenming kept up with the trend in the play, so he ordered to go on and let the class leader bring the boys and girls to practice quickly.

On August [-]th, the major stewards in Zhang's house and the Zhang family's branches from far and near gathered in Zhang's house to wish Zhang Wenming the Mid-Autumn Festival.Because Zhang Wenming loves to be lively, Zhang's house set up a banquet in the garden, and sat around with a head and face, listening to the play while drinking.

"I hate the powerful ministers for helping the party and overthrow the government. I can't write about his monstrous sins, and I can't write about his deceitful secrets. His crimes are obvious, who doesn't know? I only write about him. The six nobles are in chaos together, and they also have the benefits of transportation and goods around the world. After all, he thinks that he is sincere and sincere, and he will tell the king face to face." It coincides with the singing of "The Revised Edition in front of the Lamp", and the noise in the banquet has been reduced, and will play the role of Yang Jisheng's old student's lyrics were clearly delivered to the guests' ears.

Zhang Wenming was drinking lightly with a small bowl of amber wine, and when he heard this lyric, his expression became calm.Zhang Juyi, who was serving his father at home, smiled and said, "This lyric says Yan Song, not Xu Jie or Gao Gong."

Hearing this, Zhang Wenming smiled, put down the bowl of wine and said, "Gao Gong and Uncle have a good relationship. If you don't say that 'ten-year-old boy', you are also in the court at this time-- But it can help your big brother share some of the burden."

Zhang Juyi listened and smiled bitterly: "A tall beard is not acceptable."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Juyi's eyes flashed coldly, and then he saw a dagger inserted into his old father's throat.Zhang Juyi was so shocked that his mind went blank, and he continued the sentence: "Others share authority with him."

Then, there was chaos on the field.The old man on the stage threw the flying knife, tore the costume in half, revealing a short dress, and pulled out a machete from behind his shoulders, heading straight for Zhang Wenming's main table.

This machete is temporarily the most powerful weapon in the garden.During the Ming Dynasty, there were very few assassinations of political opponents.Xu Jie and Yan Song had been fighting for more than ten years, and neither of them thought of sending assassins to physically destroy each other - no matter who was assassinated, his opponent would immediately fall into a state of destruction.

Therefore, in the garden of Zhang Wenming's house, the chairs and benches sitting under the buttocks are the ones who can play a few tricks with the scimitar. On the one hand, he surrounded the main family, preventing the assassins from getting close.

Who would have thought that the assassin just faltered a shot, and in the chaos of the whole garden shouting "kill!" and "come!", he shifted sideways and avoided a vegetable plate thrown by a servant , straight into the northwest corner of the garden.

When he got under the big wall, he pursed his lips and whistled, and suddenly a long rope was thrown in through the wall outside the garden.Seeing that the chasing troops had arrived, the assassin had no time to crawl slowly, so he pulled the rope back a few steps, took a short run, and dragged the rope to the top of the wall.

Seeing that the assassin was about to turn out, Zhang Fu Nuyuan, who was chasing after him, was in a hurry and used the long and short weapons in his hands as flying knives, and threw them violently at the wall.The assassin grabbed the rope with one hand and threw the machete out of the wall with the other hand, then held down the top of the wall and hit his body horizontally, and was about to swipe away from the top of the wall.

With a "pop" sound, the goose ling knife thrown by a Zhangfu martial artist stabbed into the assassin's thigh.The assassin screamed and fell out with a plop.

Everyone grabbed a few steps, and when they were pulling the rope, they actually pulled the rope in from outside the wall. It should have been the person who was answering who let go.The outer wall of Zhang Mansion is more than ten feet high, and none of these people can jump on it. It is slow to take a ladder and go around through the back door. A sturdy martial artist shouted: Take a personal ladder!

The people's ladder here hasn't been set up yet, and everyone heard the sound of swords smashing into the air outside the wall. It should be someone swinging a knife.Accompanied by the sound of waving the knife, there was a neighing sound of a horse outside, and the sound of horse hooves gradually faded away.

The martial artist who stepped on the ladder to the top of the wall called out, "The assassin has been killed, and the heads have been taken away! - Go! Go and report to the officials and seal the city!"

　Whether "Ming Feng Ji" is the first current affairs political drama is controversial, and there is also a theory that the script was completed ten years after Wanli.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)