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Chapter 192 Mental Attack ([-]-word chapter, merged and updated today)
The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

No matter Bian Yujing or Fang Ziling, in the first two or three days when they saw "The Continuation of the Thieves", they were actually just watching the excitement.

Especially because Fang Ziling persuaded Shen Shuren not to be arrogant before and lost the bet, he found that he was not crazy, but really had this strength.

Then for a few days, my mind was buzzing, and I just passively accepted it when I read the book, and even my independent thinking ability temporarily declined.

However, Fang Ziling calmed down quickly after coming to the door to be soft and untie his knot.After I read the masterpiece carefully after returning home, I actually saw some deep meanings that I hadn't figured out before.

Shen Shuren didn't have time to pay attention to what opinions these ladies would have.So after that day, I quickly focused my energy on the rest and preparation of the troops.

He didn't feel at all that the other party could help him strategically, at most, he was just a friend to talk about, and he could help him with anything.

Unexpectedly, three days later, Fang Ziling calmly came to ask for advice again.

Last time, she got acquainted with the way, and this time she didn't need her brother to lead the way. She just put on a scholar's robe and took a carriage to the governor's yamen to ask for an audience.

Shen Shuren has a lot of things to do every day, so it is not so easy to see, so the maid in the house led Fang Ziling to another courtyard, served tea and waited.It was not until the lunch break that Shen Shu found time.

"Miss Fang, why do you want to ask for advice?" Shen Shuren also didn't see him, and didn't say "see for advice" at all, only said that the other party wanted to ask him.

When Fang Ziling heard these two words, he was a little unhappy for no reason, but he was crushed by his performance last time, so he had to admit it for the time being, so he continued:

"I really want to 'ask for advice'. I went back and read "The Continuation of the Thieves" carefully for a few days, and there were a couple of things I didn't understand. I felt that it was not like Brother Shen's original style."

Shen Shuren sat down across from the tea table, and "slapped" the fan and spread it out: "Speak."

Fang Ziling gritted his teeth: "After reading "The Continuation of the Thieves", Brother Shen's judgment on Li Zicheng's current situation is that 'water without source and tree without roots, although the army is strong, it will soon turn into decline. Therefore, the longer the stalemate and siege , as long as Li Zicheng is not allowed to travel to several provinces and absorb the fat and anointing of the people of several provinces for his use, the less you have to worry about', is this conclusion correct?"

Shen Shuren nodded casually: "That's right, didn't you say this three days ago—you saw this after you went back?"

However, Fang Ziling just unified the basic consensus first, and quickly continued: "Also, I can see that Brother Shen's views on history have always emphasized that 'history will not simply repeat itself',
Because 'later generations will always learn a lesson, especially to avoid the mistakes of the predecessors that they saw recently, so they would rather step on the mistakes of 'the last time' or even 'the last time' than simply step on the 'upper time' times 'by mistake', is that right? "

Shen Shuren continued to nod proudly: "That's true. This is also the opinion of my family. It is something that people have never seen before. Since ancient times, there has been no long-term dynasty. The way of demise will be the same as the previous long-term dynasty.

It's like there are countless traps on a road, and the person in front just fell into a certain trap and died. Even if the person following behind knows that he will fall into the trap and die in the end, he will at least change to another trap and will not fall into the same trap. . "

This truth is not a difficult rule for modern people who like to analyze data.

But the ancients seldom think about it this way. Confucian historians like to talk about things at the level of "Tao" and don't like to count and summarize data, which gave Shen Shuren another point to take advantage of the loopholes to gain fame and "academic achievements".

Of course, his purpose is not to care about breaking the "academic reputation", what he wants is to damage the morale of the enemy, and some things are just written casually.

After Fang Ziling confirmed these ideas, he finally came up with a clue and pointed out a key point: "So, Brother Shen has always said that 'history will not simply repeat itself, and pits will not be stepped on continuously', combined with the explicit and implicit hints in your book , Xiaomei concluded that you actually want to express a meaning:
You want to tell Mr. Yang Ge, to tell His Majesty, just after Li Zicheng annexed the old ministry, he thought he could take over Kaifeng, which he failed to win last winter, or even other goals.

But in fact, whether it is the Kaifeng defenders, or other surrounding defenders, or even Sun Chuanting, the newly appointed governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, they will learn the lessons of Fu Zonglong, Wang Qiaonian, and Fu Wang who lost their teachers and lost their land.They may use their troops cautiously, or they will defend at all costs, so it is still impossible for Li Zicheng to win in the short term?

In the next few months, Mr. Yang Ge should sit back and watch Li Zicheng look for new targets to attack without saving. When Li Zicheng's troops are under the fortification of the city, the veterans of the division are tired, and the soldiers under his command have re-realized that "after the three armies join forces, the combat power will not be the same. Not strengthened', so when the morale is low again, the imperial army will attack again? "

Shen Shuren was taken aback for a moment, unexpectedly he took Fang Ziling seriously for the first time.

He had to admit that when he was writing "The Continuation of the Thieves", there must have been a lot of such thinking tendencies and hints, but he didn't dare to make it too clear, instead he was vague in some places.

In addition, Gu Yanwu helped him polish this work, and after Gu Yanwu's second innovation in specific diction, some uncertainties became more blurred.

Unexpectedly, Fang Ziling figured it out and summed it up.

The reason why Shen Shuren wrote this subconsciously was, of course, because he relied on his prophet of history, so he wrote it unconsciously-Shen Shuren knew that it would be easy for Li Zicheng to take Luoyang, and it would be easy to kill the second governor of Shaanxi, but he opened the seal. But he fought three times and failed to win for a year and a half.

In history, after the Kaifeng city was broken, Chongzhen died within half a year. Kaifeng really stood firm for a long time. In the end, Li Zicheng, like Ying Zheng and Chang Kaishen, solved the problem by breaking the embankment and flooding the city with the Yellow River. It was really cruel. .

In the final analysis, the tragic death of King Xiang, King Fu, stimulated King Zhou, making him one of the few vassals in the late Ming Dynasty who was willing to spend all his wealth to help the army and endure hardships with the defenders.For the sake of King Zhou's family and wealth, the Henan Ming army persisted for a long time.

But Shen Shuren knew that history would be changed by the butterfly effect, so the more he went on, the less he dared to write in too much detail or be too blunt, otherwise it would be bad for him to be slapped in the face in the future.

On the other hand, last year he was able to speak categorically, regardless of arrogance, and predicted that Li Zicheng would kill Luo Rucai, Ma Shouying and annex his followers.Even if Li Zicheng didn't want to do it, Shen Shuren could sow discord and promote it by writing it out.Both parties involved in the schemes and calculations are thieves, no matter how successful the calculations are, to the Ming court, they are all meritorious and innocent.

But this year the situation is different. If Shen Shuren continues to categorically predict that "the King of Zhou is willing to spend all his wealth and defend it, Kaifeng will definitely not be able to attack", it is very likely that he will be attacked by his political opponents as "framing the King of Zhou and designing Li Zicheng to target him." Aiming at the King of Zhou and the governor of Henan, the officers and soldiers of Huguang are willing to use up the power of the rebel army at the expense of their neighbors."

The two parties to be provoked are no longer all bad guys, but one is a friendly army. At this time, Shen Shuren must be cautious in speaking!
Fang Ziling obviously also figured out this possibility, so he directly pointed out the key point: "Since brother Shen has always been famous for planning strategies, predicting the enemy thousands of miles away, and several months later, why didn't he write more clearly this time? Woolen cloth?

If this can be predicted, in the future it will be unfavorable for the intruders to attack fortified positions. At that time, someone will stir up the flames, emphasizing that the defeat of the intruders in this battle has already been defeated by the wise men in the army. Wouldn't it be a great blow to the morale of the intruders?
At that time, the generals inside the bandits will be in a state of panic, thinking that the frontier officials on the side of the government and the army have no plans, and who has the courage to fight to the death for the bandits? "

Shen Shuren was taken aback for a moment, he subconsciously wanted to say the reasons for "you can't write like this", but after thinking about it, he held back.

Those words are too nasty, and they involve the diversion of disasters among the officials in the feudal towns and borders within the imperial court, so it is not suitable to say it clearly.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren was so eloquent that he couldn't run out of excuses, so he quickly adjusted his speaking skills:
"Miss Fang, I don't know if you have ever played a game of gambling. When a person has nothing, he goes to the table to play and puts all his eggs in one basket. This is normal. Anyway, there is nothing to lose. At most, you lose your life, say Not worth the money.

But after you win a big hand, it is not a good thing to bet all the time next time, because as long as you lose one hand, all the previous earnings will be lost.

So the poor must be arrogant and the rich must be stable. Before I wrote "On the Thieves", my reputation was worthless, and I hadn't established the prestige of "magic calculation". Of course, I had to gamble a little bit.

At that time, even if I was only [-]% or even [-]% sure, I still had to speak straight and clear the details. Anyway, I have nothing to lose if I say something wrong.Now that I have been burdened with the burden of divine calculation, I can't just waste the vested prestige, speak a little more safely, and say [-]% of the words with [-]% certainty, isn't that right? "

Fang Ziling listened very carefully, and was even a little nervous. After listening, she was actually relieved, as if she had let go of a burden. She smiled triumphantly while helping to make suggestions:

"So! I advised you not to be arrogant last year, and I didn't completely lose the bet! You also admitted that you were not [-]% sure at the time! You just relied on the fact that you are not ashamed of being wrong!
That being the case, you have miscalculated a little this time, and haven't found the best strategy to solve the situation—your own reputation is valuable, but you may not need to say it yourself if you say something straight.

The ancient scholars taught the scriptures to the sages, and they all knew that they should be divided into "The Analects of Confucius" and "Confucius' Family Language".Supplementary apocryphal scriptures and penetrating and supplementary works can be written with certainty and detail, so as to deceive the ignorant and get their own place.

Now that your reputation is valuable, if you are afraid of saying the wrong thing, you dare not speak in too much detail in "The Continuation of the Rogues", so you can use the name of others to write some radical words based on the extension of "The Continuation of the Rogues". There are noses and eyes.

Even arranging some operas and excerpts about King Zhou and governor of Henan fighting against Li Zicheng's attack on Kaifeng, and disseminating them in Henan, specifically to confuse and sway illiterate ignorant generals, may be more effective than your original "Liu Thief Lun Xu".

How many of these rogue generals will read "The Continuation of the Rogue"?If in the excerpts, it is performed as in Wang Shizhen's "Ming Feng Ji", like the martial arts between Yan Song and Zeng Mi between the Tatars, Li Zicheng is set on the Tatars, and then Yang Ge is compared to Zeng Mi,

In addition, there are ignorant and stupid people inside who force loyal and righteous generals to fight quickly with the bandits. After the bandits fail to attack, they design a counter-insurgency, use the treacherous and incompetent people in the court, frame the generals in front, and force them to fight, just like Yang Guozhong persuaded Li Longji to force his brother Shu Han went out to fight in Tongguan... There are so many allusions in the past and present that can be alluded to, isn't it better than your dry "The Continuation of the Thieves" to shake the hearts of the intruders?

And in this way, the imperial court can continue to carry some strategies, such as letting out rumors that "in fact, if the Luo and Ma Jiubu are really willing to use their lives for Li Zicheng, Kaifeng City can actually be captured quickly."But the former Luo and Ma departments just didn't want Li Zicheng's prestige to increase greatly, they just didn't want it to appear that after Li Zicheng annexed them, the originally impregnable fortified city could be broken now, so they deliberately worked and did not work hard...'This kind of thing, if you go up It cannot be overstated to add drama and folk jokes.

And once it is correct, it can be said that these judgments are all made based on "The Continuation of the Thieves", and it was inspired by and confirmed by people of insight in the folk.

And once you make a mistake, or have no effect at all, you can also push it clean, saying that it is a foolish folk who read and interpreted wrongly, and it will not affect "The Continuation of the Thieves" and your personal reputation of "Brother Shen" .

It is also beneficial to advance, and it is also beneficial to retreat, just like "Confucius's Family Language" is right, then it is said that this is the original meaning of "The Analects of Confucius", and "Confucius's Family Language" is not right, just say "Confucius's Family Language" "is an apocrypha attached to it, which does not affect the authority of "The Analects" at all. "

Fang Ziling eloquently revealed some of her insightful opinions over the years of studying.

Shen Shuren couldn't help being a little surprised as he listened.

It seems that Fang Yizhi's family is indeed a family source, which is unusual.It is not a fluke that the father can be the governor of Huguang, and the son can be admitted as a Jinshi and rank among the fourth sons of Jiangzuo.

If Fang Ziling was a man, and he also took part in the imperial examination, maybe he could really gain something.

Just based on her reading eyes and her understanding of how the ancients cherished feathers and prevented the apocryphal scriptures from polluting the authority of the real scriptures, this woman is extremely terrifying.

Isn't Fang Ziling's argument the purely "fellow people, two creations" routine used by later generations!

The original work is too classic, and the IP is too valuable. I am afraid of saying the wrong thing, and I dare not speak on a large scale, so I will get a bunch of colleagues and second creators with a low reputation to speak on a large scale that the original work dare not say!
Anyway, if you make a mistake, you will lose the reputation of the second creation and the same person!If you are right, the credit can be attributed to the original work!
Of course, it is not difficult for people who read a lot to find that this kind of thing is also useful to the ancients. When various schools of thought and various schools of philosophical beliefs were born, it is very common for serious and apocryphal scriptures to coexist.

If it breaks out, the apocrypha can also be whitewashed and admitted, and even become a genre of its own.If you don't make it out, it will be directly classified as apocrypha.

It's just that this topic is too high-end, and 99% of the common people will not be mentioned this kind of dragon-slaying art, so the analogy of "fandom creation" is better understood by the general public.

Shen Shuren was silent for a long while, and asked nonchalantly: "Can you still write excerpts? Write libretto?"

Fang Ziling smiled triumphantly: "What's the matter! Have you never eaten pork or seen a pig run away? Although my family's education is strict, girls are not allowed to go out casually, but there is an adoptive mother who sings at home. She has listened to operas since she was a child. Why not?" meeting!"

Of course Fang Ziling doesn't know how to write opera scripts and librettos, but she can't be shy. She knows that these are tricks, and she can learn them quickly with her knowledge. She just needs to read a few librettos and learn the format, and the content is still there. Not easy to fill?

Although this kind of thinking underestimates literary and artistic creation, she is indeed so optimistic and arrogant.

Shen Shuren nodded: "For this kind of thing, after you have the singing book, you have to find a way to spend money to ask the folk group to sing more, spread it deliberately, print more singing books and distribute them quietly, or pretend to sell them at a low price. , Sichuan and other places.

Among them, if money is needed or negotiations with the outside world are required, I will take care of it myself. After the matter is completed, you will also be regarded as a contribution to Daming.

At least it can hit the morale and unity of the robbers to some extent, even if it is only temporarily unfavorable to attack Kaifeng in the future, and it can induce the robbers to suspect one or two of their subordinates, it is a credit. "

Fang Ziling was affirmed, and he was also very excited. He felt that his books for more than ten years had not been in vain, and that a woman could do great things.What made her even more happy was that she was hit by Shen Shuren and Bian Yujing a few days ago to her sense of intellectual superiority, and now she finally regained some ground and her confidence was restored.

Even if you have no power to fight the thieves physically, you can at least attack and confuse the enemy on the propaganda front and the spiritual level.

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After getting Shen Shuren's authorization, Fang Ziling was very excited. After returning home, he first brought his elder brother Fang Yizhi over, and asked him to call all the adoptive mothers who sang songs at the house, and asked them to read the libretto for daily rehearsals.

It's a pity that Fang Yizhi is not a good listener. He has not been an official in Wuchang for a long time, and the foster mothers in the house are really not good enough. The few librettos he usually rehearses are all clichés.

The Fang family's original team of singing and adoptive mothers was of course of good quality, but they all followed the old lady and stayed in the governor's office in Jiangling. It was impossible for Fang Ziling to travel thousands of miles back and forth to find a few singing books.

She thought about it, the bull had already blown out, and decided to ask Bian Yujing to help with this matter.

Although Bian Yujing is not a top-notch opera artist, her sister Li Xiangjun is the number one in Nanqu opera, and Chen Yuanyuan is the number one in Kunqu opera. There are plenty of resources to find.Bian Yujing himself has been exposed to it for many years, so he must know something about it.

Fang Ziling had Shen Shuren's verbal authorization, so he pulled chicken feathers as an arrow, and went to find Bian Yujing the next day.

Bian Yujing said that she became a female crown, but in fact she practiced at home and did not wear Taoist robes. To put it bluntly, she was a lay woman.Her residence in Wuchang was also found by Shen Shuren. It was not luxurious and spacious, but it was also exquisite and elegant.

A small courtyard with three entrances, the patio inside the vertical flower gate is full of bamboo forests, plus a small pond and stone tables and benches, it looks very indifferent to fame and fortune.

Fang Ziling came here for the first time, looked around with great interest, and then set up the score: "Miss Bian, I heard that you were originally a master of Nanqu, and my sister was ordered by Shen Futai yesterday to help "The Continuation of the Thieves". "Accompanies a few popular accompaniments that can be understood by illiterate people.

But I don't know how to write libretto, so I want to discuss with my sister, get some songs with beautiful rhetoric and more sung, and let's see how they look first. "

Bian Yujing didn't know anything, but when Fang Ziling told this story, he was surprised, curious and looking forward to it, and also a little bit disappointed.

Three or four days ago, I and Fang Ziling had just gone to Mr. Shen's mansion to ask Qing for advice. Since Mr. Shen had an idea, why didn't he leave it to himself, but went to trouble Miss Fang?
In terms of quyi libretto, how can I be better than Miss Fang!If I can't do it, I can still ask Sister Xiangjun for advice. She is the best Nanqu in the world, and she understands it very deeply.

Bian Yujing couldn't help thinking to himself: It seems that Miss Fang's knowledge is really superior, which is why she was so appreciated by Mr. Shen. His performance that day was just a cleverness after all.

Fortunately, she also knew that she was a weak woman like a rootless duckweed, so there was nothing to argue about. She was a lady of every family, and she was willing to come to ask for advice, which was already a great deal of face.

Bian Yujing wanted to have a good relationship with the other party, so he did not refuse, first took out all the singing books in his collection without reservation,

She also made good tea with her own hands, and asked Fang Ziling to sit in the quiet room and watch slowly. She went to find Li Xiangjun and Chen Yuanyuan, and get some better and more complete singing books.

The city of Wuchang was not big, and Bian Yujingxiu's residence was not far from the governor's office, but he came back in less than half an hour, carrying a large stack of high-quality singing books.

Fang Ziling and Bian Yujing were discussing each other, so they began to test the waters and discuss with each other.

When Fang Ziling first started writing, it was inevitable that she would not be down-to-earth. Bian Yujing also euphemistically said a few words to her, telling her not to use too elegant words, so that ordinary people can understand as much as possible.

Fang Ziling was a little angry when he heard it at first, and felt that Bian Yujing was not as knowledgeable as her, and he had the face to ask.

It's quite like a professional writer who was born as a graduate student in the Faculty of Liberal Arts in later generations. When she heard that the web writers were gesticulating and said that she was not down-to-earth and that she was not good enough for Xiaobaiwen, she was generally upset.

But it didn't take long for Fang Ziling to realize his problem. After all, he went for pragmatism this time. How could a thief general understand it?

So she changed the course and overcame herself. The more she wrote, the more vulgar she was, and the more she wrote, the more ridiculous she was.

A few days later, he took out the original one or two fold samples and showed Shen Shuren.After Shen Shuren saw it, his eyes really lit up, and he ordered his servants to secretly spread the money out.

All the librettos that could be used were printed and typeset with movable type as soon as possible, and a few hundred copies were made and then sent directly to the opera singers and storytellers in Xiangyang, Xinyang, and Nanyang for free.

Then secretly pick some drainage teams, and directly pay for them to perform in the governor's yamen.

After Fang Ziling and Bian Yujing discussed and opened up their minds, the content of the play that was finally brought to the stage was already several times richer than what Fang Ziling told Shen Shuren at the time.

It is no longer limited to the historical period involved in "The Continuation of the Thieves", and even the current affairs hotspots involved in the "continuation" of the scriptures have also been adapted.

For example, "How did Li Zicheng set up a banquet to trap and kill Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying by throwing a cup as a sign. Which traitors did he bribe Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying?" They are all vividly depicted, and every traitor is added with flesh and blood. No less It was set up by Lu Bu's family slaves with three surnames.

Such a mix of things that have happened and things that have not yet happened, real people and artistic people, and seven truths and three falsehoods are mixed. After a period of time, as long as it spreads to Henan, it will definitely confuse quite a few people.

In less than a month, even Li Zicheng himself saw one or two famous ones.

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PS: There is an update of [-] words, so there is no need to wait this afternoon.

Tomorrow will start dismantling two changes.

(End of this chapter)