The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 308 Tokyo Qugui, the battle in the literary world

This night, Zhao Tun sent the siblings back to the palace until the sun was about to light up.

Sure enough, there was no banquet in the palace. According to the past practice, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was held until dawn.

But at this moment, the palace was lifeless, without the slightest festive atmosphere.

Emperor Daojun just demoted Zhao Fu to a commoner, but did not drive him away from the palace, so Zhao Fu could still live in the palace for the time being.

In later generations, even though Jingkang was approaching, Emperor Daojun still did not restore the title of Zhao Fen, and after Zhao Huan ascended the rank, he did not do it either.

When Jin Bing attacked Tokyo and drove the clan to the north, Zhao Fu was also coerced.

Later, after several migrations, he finally landed in the City of Five Kingdoms. According to various historical data, Zhao Fu lived a very long time. He was the longest-lived among the princes of the Northern Expedition.

Two or three days later, news gradually spread that Zhao Tun participated in the Taixue Poetry Association, and instead of writing poems and lyrics at the poetry conference, he composed two pieces of music, which immediately caused a storm in Tokyo's literary circles.

Those two songs spread at an extremely fast speed. In less than half a month, almost all brothels in Tokyo were playing and singing.

The literati and poets who went to play wanted to listen to Qin Wang's composition, but they had to pay extra large sums of gold and silver.

In the literary world, the dispute over lyrics and music was directly brought to the table, and each other attacked each other. All kinds of verbal and written attacks were staged every day. Many literati students who originally only focused on lyrics began to write music instead.

With the increasing number of composers, new songs have sprung up like mushrooms after the spring rain, and singing is often heard in the streets and lanes, and the songs are beginning to glow with vitality.

At this moment, in an exquisite small courtyard not far from Fan Tower, the table under the plane tree was full of fruits. A beautiful girl with a beautiful face and a delicate figure was gently holding her fragrant cheeks with her wrist as bright as creamy fat. Whispering and lingering: "Nongyu, do you think the prince has forgotten me?"

The little girl next to her hurriedly said: "How could the prince forget the lady, the prince was so sincere that day, he even punished those high officials for the sake of the lady."

The girl was Zhao Yuannu. She sighed softly when she heard the words, and looked into the distance with bright eyes: "These days I always think, if he is not... not the prince, I would rather he is a poor scholar, and then I redeemed my body and went away with him, living together, living freely and freely."

Nongyu looked at his wife's madness, couldn't bear it, and comforted her: "My lady, the prince is an official in the court, so he must be busy with business, and there was a celebration banquet a few days ago. I heard that the ban is in the mansion, and it seems that the ban has just been lifted. It is estimated that I will come to visit my wife in a few days."

Zhao Yuannu's eyes were slightly blurred, and he said: "I heard that Mei Niang said that he went to the Taixue Poetry Association and composed two pieces of music, which are now popular in the shops in the city, and no one can play and sing."

Nongyu bit her lip, and said, "Lady, since the prince has started to compose the song, why don't you practice it, to save the prince from being in a hurry when he wants to listen to it."

Zhao Yuannu nodded immediately: "It is indeed time to practice, otherwise the qin, flute and other instruments will be unfamiliar. By the way, Nongyu, two pieces of music may not be enough. Mei Niang said that there are many people composing music in and out. Go and ask for a few pieces." , I will practice together.”

Nongyu said: "Wait a moment, my lady, the servant girl is going now."

Zhao Yuannu watched Nongyu go out, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, and a look of melancholy appeared on her cheek...

Zhao Tun was in the mansion one day watching a new song released outside, and Li Qingzhao and others criticized his lyrics, he couldn't help laughing secretly, he advocated that the music should not be written, and now the literary world regards him as the leader of the music world, and some poets have united Suppressing him was extremely noisy.

After watching for a while, he called Lei San over and told him to go to Zhouqiao to find Qi Hongyu to cross the house.

After a while Qi Hongyu arrived, and together with Lei San, Zhou Chu and the others, Zhao Tang said, "I have something to do recently, I'll leave it to you guys."

Qi Hongyu asked curiously: "What is your master going to do? Hongyu must do his best."

Zhao Tong said: "It's not a big deal, I just want to open a theater, only sing operas and talk, and don't do other things."

Several people were stunned when they heard the words, isn't it Gou Lan who sings and talks?
Lei San said cautiously: "Will the prince want to open the Goulan Courtyard?"

Zhao Tang glanced at him: "Goulan is too complicated to operate. This is a theater building. It is enough to sing operas and talk about songs and books on weekdays."

Qi Hongyu's eyes lit up when he heard the words: "My lord, this is simple. I don't know how large it needs to be. Do you have a choice of location?"

Zhao Tong thought for a while and said, "Why do we need four terraces? There are some miscellaneous shops inside and outside. As for the location, it doesn't need to be too prosperous, as long as you don't leave the inner city."

Qi Hongyu said: "You can go to this slave's house. It just so happens that I have seen two places before, so it is very suitable."

Zhao Tong said: "Red Fish is up to you, and the people in the house should cooperate with other matters. As for the opera troupe, if they want to raise their own big ones, they don't need to be famous. They just need to read music and be able to sing. If they want to recruit innocent people from the public Kind of, a few families are mixed together and brought into the theater building."

Qi Hongyu said: "This subordinate understands."

Zhao Tang looked at Lei Sanzhou again: "You take people to follow to maintain, you don't need to report everything, just watch and deal with it."

Lei Sandao: "The subordinates know that if any troublemakers are beaten away with sticks, they will never hold back."

Zhao Tang shook his head: "Now it's business, don't always think about fighting, even if it's fighting, you have to treat it as a business..."

Lei San was puzzled, looked at Zhou Chu, Zhou Chu ignored him with a look of disgust, and said to Zhao Tun: "My lord, my subordinates know how to do this, and my subordinates are good at this kind of thing."

Zhao Tong said: "It's good to know, to do business, you have to look like a business, business is not a quack, business is money!"

The three saluted and said yes, at this time the steward outside came to report, saying that there was a decree from the palace.

He sent the three of them away and went to the front hall to receive the order, but he saw that it was Zhang Di.

The decree was a verbal order to let him go to the palace to have a banquet at night, Zhao Tang was puzzled, and asked Zhang Di after the decree was completed.

Zhang Di whispered: "My lord, be careful tonight, Zhou Bangyan, the prefect of Shunchang, is back, and he is in the palace."

Zhou Bangyan is back?Zhao Tong frowned. This old Ci poet, old Du Du, didn't want to be an official in Huaidong, so why did he go back to the capital?
To tell the truth, Zhao Tong didn't like Zhou Bangyan's Ci. Although Zhou Bangyan has always been respected as a master of gracefulness and mastery, later Ci Theory called him the crown of poets, and he was recognized as a poet with "negative generation name" , Both contemporary and Song Dynasty had a great influence.

But Zhao Tang just didn't like it, and that public opinion didn't include him, not to mention the pros and cons of Zhou Ci, but he just didn't have the slightest interest in Zhou Ci.

Of course, literati look down on each other, and everyone has their own eyes. Even if Zhao Tong doesn't like it, he can't change Zhou Bangyan's position in the Ci world. of.

But Zhao Tun just felt that Li Qingzhao's Ci was better than Zhou Bangyan's.

Even though this elder sister is addicted to drinking and gambling, her temper is also overconfident and a little stubborn, but the words are really well written.

In Zhao Tun's eyes, Li Qingzhao's graceful Ci is the end of the Song Dynasty. He believes that the graceful Ci of the Great Song Dynasty ends with Li Qingzhao, and there will be no one to follow.

Zhao Tang thought for a moment, then looked at Zhang Di and said, "Zhou Meicheng is a very old age, not living in Huaidong's gentle place for the elderly, what are you doing when you come back?"

Hearing that Zhao Tun's tone was not polite, Zhang Di flattered him: "My lord said that years ago, the officials took pity on him because he was old and it was not easy to be in office. They transferred him from Hebei to Huaidong, but for some reason, suddenly Shangshu is going to Beijing."

"He took the initiative to go to college?" Zhao Tang rubbed his chin and thought, it couldn't be because of the lyrics and music dispute, right?
"My lord, it was he who took the initiative." Zhang Di lowered his voice and said, "It was so reckless at first, but the officials readily agreed to it. As soon as Zhou Bangyan returned to Beijing, he was immediately called into the palace by the officials. middle."

Zhao Tong squinted his eyes. The two elders originally had a rift, but they joined forces to deal with their own family?

The Emperor Daojun definitely wanted to suppress him. Maybe Zhengchou couldn't do anything about it. Zhou Bangyan had to go back to Beijing to deal with him because of the dispute over lyrics and music. Even though the two had old grudges before, they hit it off on this matter!
Zhao Tong said: "Aside from Zhou Bangyan at the palace banquet tonight, who else is there?"

Zhang Di thought for a while: "Wang Fu, Cai You and Bai Shizhong seem to be the ones at the top, except for Zhou Bangyan, they seem to be some literati and poets in the capital. By the way, there are also several disciples of Zhou Bangyan. .”

Zhao Tong nodded, there was no doubt about the Hongmen Banquet, and it seemed that he wanted to suppress him with the competition of lyrics and music.

However, no matter how good you Zhou Bangyan's Ci is, no matter how many poets from the capital are present, can you hold yourself back?

Although you, Zhou Bangyan, were well-known in the dynasty and not in later generations, no matter what, I'm afraid you won't be able to enter the top five poets since ancient times, right?

I have four composers here waiting for empty seats, just to compete against each other.

As for the other poets in the capital, besides Li Qingzhao, at this moment, there are really few who can do it. No matter how many people there are, you can still surpass the hundred-year-old composers I remember?

Zhao Tong didn't take it seriously, although this kind of thing was a dispute between literati, the taste of the Emperor Daojun immediately changed when he got involved, but since they all united to deal with him, he overthrew them all.

Cutting through the mess with a sharp knife, the lightning is too fast to cover the ears, and tonight directly set the tone for the Shilin literary world that the music can compete with the words and can compete with each other.

After Zhang Di left, Zhao Tang immediately called Su Shi, and after giving some instructions, Su Shi led the way out.

In just a few hours afterward, the news that Qin Wang and Zhou Bangyan will compete in the palace with the poets in Tokyo spread like wildfire, causing a sensation in Tokyo.

All major academies, brothels, bookstores and printing bureaus are all boiling. There is no doubt that many good words and songs will be published tonight, which is a great blessing in the literary world.

Academies and schools are all concerned about the article and the impact of this matter. Those doctoral students have already faintly felt that this should be a big showdown in the competition for lyrics and music. There must be a winner and loser to determine Qu's true status.

If the king of Qin wins, or even if there is only a tie, then the status of Qu will be self-evident immediately, and it will go hand in hand with poetry and Ci, unshakable.

If King Qin loses, it may not have much impact on King Qin's literary talent and knowledge in the hearts of the world. After all, King Qin is also a master in poetry and poetry, but he has failed in the matter of promoting music. This will be a heavy blow to King Qin's reputation. blow.

The Zhengdian Brothel and the Bookstore Printing Bureau were thinking about how to get the poems and music at the dinner in the first place, which represented wasted money.

Whichever family can get the lyrics and music of the King of Qin or Zhou Cizong first, and pass it on before other families, then not only can they become silver immediately, but also become famous in the capital.

My family gets what others can’t get, what does that mean?It means that there are people in my palace who are superior and others. This is an invisible force. It is a fear for competitors, and it is a guarantee of safety for guests.

So all the shops and buildings used their means to get the poems at tonight's banquet as soon as possible, no matter how high the price was, it was worth it.

Wang Fu, Cai You, and Bai Shizhong were relentless when they received the gifts. After all, they were the only three court officials to attend the dinner, and all the shops they shared with them went to pay respects. Let these three adults reveal something first, so that they can sing in the building earlier than other families.

Others found connections in the palace. Those eunuchs were not all lonely, many of them were from local households in Tokyo. They had both relatives and neighbors outside. found.

Naturally, Fan Lou will not miss this kind of thing. Fan Lou has the most friends, and has some contacts with Wang Fu and the three of them. As for the palace, he has a close relationship with Zhang Yaban, who is the most favored at the moment. Fan Xuewen and Zhang Di are even beaten friendship.

Fan Xuewen knew that it was safest to find someone in the palace for this kind of thing, so he sent someone to beg Zhang Di with a heavy gift, but Zhang Di only accepted half of the gift, and asked someone to bring a letter back.

After reading the letter, Fan Xuewen looked suddenly enlightened, and then handed the letter to Mr. Wu who was beside him.

Mr. Wu took it and looked at it. Zhang Di said in the letter that although this matter can be done, it may not guarantee that Fan Lou will be the first to get the lyrics and music, but since he has accepted the gift, he will give Fan Lou an idea. To do things, but they will definitely get the music first. The idea is to let them ask the King of Qin.

Mr. Wu nodded and said: "Zhang Yaban is right. As long as he can ask the king of Qin, then Fan Lou will definitely be the first to get the music from all the stores."

Fan Xuewen said: "It should be like this. The lord must have a plan in mind for this kind of major event of the duel of lyrics and music. There is no need to spread it from the palace, and it can be brought to us directly!"

Mr. Wu said: "Da Dong family, I think it's not too late, I should prepare a generous gift and send it to the palace immediately, and this matter... still needs to be done by Da Dong family in person."

Fan Xuewen nodded and said: "Then hurry up and prepare the ceremony, I will go to the palace immediately!"

Over there, Zhao Tun was sitting quietly in the mansion and meditating, when suddenly someone came to report that the boss of Fanlou had brought a gift and asked to see him.

Zhao Tang smiled slightly, and said: "I know why he came, and the gift will be taken and put into storage. As for what he wants, let him go to Zhao Yuannu."

In the small courtyard, Zhao Yuannu was holding a pipe flute in his hand. He had just finished practicing a piece of music, and his watery eyes were staring at the plane tree in a daze, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

The maid Nongyu went over to inquire, and after a while ran back with a happy face, shouting as she ran, "My lady, my lady, the prince sent someone to deliver a letter, and he brought some songs..."

(End of this chapter)