Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 15
There are several art of war books in the book that Jia Qiong brought back, which he showed to his cousin Xu Shan.

Xu Shan has been determined to serve the country by joining the army since he was a child. He is not from a noble background, so he can only be a leading soldier if he directly joins the army.

If you want to get high, you have to take part in martial arts examinations. His father, Xu Hong, was born in martial arts examinations back then.

This dynasty learned from the lessons of the collapse of the previous Song Dynasty. Although the generals were still noble and powerful, the status of warriors had also improved, and it also left a path for warriors to rise.

However, there is absolutely no chance for a pure martial artist to stand out. Only those who are noble or have a martial arts background can have the opportunity to lead a party.

Over the past hundred years, this dynasty has had many great talents with military qualifications. There are also quite a few who have held the positions of commander-in-chief of a town, admiral, and even minister of the Ministry of War.

However, the most important thing in martial arts is strategy and art of war, followed by archery and horse riding.

If you fail the strategy test, even if you are better at martial arts than Xiang Yu, it's all nonsense. To put it bluntly, you must first be a scholar.

It's just that the imperial examination tests eight-legged strategy and theory, while the martial arts examination tests military tactics and strategy.

Therefore, if you want to pass the test, you must read more military books. There are several very precious military books in Wenhui Building that cannot be found on the market.

For example, "Sun Bin's Art of War", "Three Chapters on the Art of War" and parts of "Wu Zi's Art of War" that have been lost in later generations can greatly broaden Xu Shan's thinking.

If Xu Shan passes the martial arts examination, Jia Qiong can use the Jia family's resources on him to help him stand out as soon as possible, which will also help himself in the future.

In the following days, Jia Qiong's life became very regular. She would get up at dawn and practice martial arts with her cousin for an hour.

After that, apart from eating and sleeping, I just coded. When I was tired, I read a book or played with Xu Weirui for a while. I didn't go to bed until about [-] o'clock in the evening.

A month later, the Beijing Literary Newspaper published a special issue. This newspaper published some interesting stories, poems, articles, or short stories that had recently appeared in the literary world. The sales volume has been good.

The first page of this special issue publishes the poem "Mo Mei" which has recently been widely circulated in the literati circle of Shenjing, as well as the entire process of the birth of this poem.

The proprietors behind the Beijing newspaper were the Wang family, so it goes without saying that the whole process was slightly beautified by Wang Hun.

On the second page, it was written in huge Song font, "Jia Qiong, a rising star in the literary world, has created a new martial arts novel, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, which will be released in Wenhua Zhai in the near future."

All the pages at the back are published in the first three chapters of The Condor Shooting.

A magnificent world of martial arts has slowly begun in front of the world for the first time.

The story written by "The Condor Shooting" is set in the Southern Song Dynasty, which is not far from now, so the people of that time will have a more immersive feeling when reading it.

Coupled with the novel subject matter, exciting plot, and the gimmick of a storybook written by a ten-year-old prodigy, it quickly aroused a strong response.

In just half a day, the current issue of Beijing Newspaper was sold out and had to be urgently reprinted.

At the same time, Wenhua Zhai also experienced a peak in customer flow, and there was an endless stream of people coming to inquire about the release date of the Condor Book.

And as time went by, more and more people came, and some impatient bookworms even came to ask questions twice a day, which made the old bookstore owner feel overwhelmed.

However, the shopkeeper in the store didn't know the specific time for the book to be distributed, so he could only vaguely explain it first.

It is only said that it will be sold in the near future, but the specific time has not been determined.

In the end, the old shopkeeper had to go to the palace to ask Wang Hun for instructions, and then posted a notice: "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" will be released on May [-]th.

As soon as this notice came out, the congestion in the store gradually calmed down.

However, there are still many people who feel that the time is too long and are trying to get a first look with the old shopkeeper.

In fact, Shooting the Condor has already been published, but at Jia Qiong's suggestion, Wang Hun planned to release it simultaneously in all provinces, which would require about two months of preparation time.

Therefore, at this time, thousands of the latest printed books in the Wang family's printing workshops in Shenjing, Jinling, and Chengdu are being continuously sent to 12 central cities across the country.

Luoyang, Kaifeng, Hanzhong, Jinan in the north, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Songjiang, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Yueyang and Changsha in the south.

Correspondingly, the content published in this issue of Beijing News was also published simultaneously in mainstream newspapers in these big cities.
From this day on, storytellers in major teahouses across the country began to lecture on "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" one after another.

The story of the Condor Shooting did not have a strong response among officials. After all, it was just a novel, not an article by a sage.

Even if those officials liked it, they would secretly watch it at home and would not discuss it.But among young students and ordinary people, the response was extremely enthusiastic.

In particular, the brutality of the Jin people and the weakness of the Song Dynasty described in the book greatly aroused the enthusiasm of a group of aspiring young people.

Following this trend, the story of Jia Shentong giving poems in exchange for books, which was originally only circulated among scholars in the capital, quickly spread among scholars and markets across the country.

Daming Palace, South Study Room.

Ji Hongzhang, the commander of Jinyi Guards, presented a copy of the capital's newspaper to Emperor Longqing.

"Your Majesty, an interesting thing happened in Beijing recently."

He is the leader of the Jin Yiwei and wants to act as the emperor's eyes and ears. He feels that today's newspaper may be of interest to the emperor.

Emperor Longqing took the newspaper and read it once, and said calmly: "This Jia Qiong is quite talented, is he a side branch of Ningguo... Ignore it for now.

By the way, when the book comes out, remember to show it to me. "

"The minister obeys the order."

Yangzhou, the back hall of the Yamen of the Yanxunyan Censor.

Lin Ruhai walked into the study room with a new copy of Guangling Monthly. In the study room, his wife Jia Min was teaching the young Lin Daiyu to write.

Seeing Lin Ruhai smiling, Jia Min asked curiously, "Master, is there any happy event?"

"Madam, the Jia family has a child prodigy.

Look at the story written in this newspaper about the child prodigy who gave poems as a reward for writing books, and the story novels he wrote.

What a young talent, incredible. "

Lin Ruhai handed the newspaper in his hand to Jia Min, then bent down to read what his daughter had written, and touched her head lovingly.

Lin Ruhai was in poor health and had difficulty in having children. She never had children after marriage. It took many years of recuperation before she finally got better.

He had children in his old age, and gave birth to a daughter and a son one after another in the past few years, but he did not want the youngest son to die at the age of three.

Lin Ruhai is already 40 years old, and it will be more difficult to have children in the future. As a result, Jia Min is depressed and her health is deteriorating.

Lin Ruhai saw Jia Qiong's deeds today and quickly came to find Jia Min, just to make her happy.

Sure enough, Jia Min also looked happy after reading it, and said with a smile: "Unexpectedly, a few years after we left Beijing, such an outstanding child came out of the family. It is really a blessing for the Jia family.

I met this child Jia Qiong when he was a child. He was cute and well-behaved. I didn't expect him to be so talented at just ten years old. "

Five-year-old Daiyu also curiously leaned over to take a look and recited in a soft, childlike voice.

The head tree of the inkstone pool in my house is blooming with light ink marks.

Don't let people praise the color is good, just leave the air full of vitality.

Lin Ruhai smiled and asked: "Yu'er, do you think this poem is good?"

Lin Daiyu said: "Okay...Dad, I also want to read the story novel written by the prodigy."

"Yu'er is still too young, and she can't read the storybook written by brother Jia Qiong yet.

Mom, would you like to tell you the story about how he presented poems as a reward for books? "Jia Min saw too many killing scenes in The Condor Shooting and did not dare to show it to Daiyu.

"Mom, how old do I need to be to watch?"

Jia Min smiled and said: "When you grow to mother's chest height, you can see it then."

　Little loli sister Lin appears
　　
　
(End of this chapter)