Xiangye

Chapter 64

Hearing Gao Wen's question, Yu Shiyuan smiled and said, "Why, you are reluctant to part with the money. You have received such a high manuscript fee, so what if you treat me to dinner?"

Everyone is young, Yu Shiyuan is open-minded and easy-going, not as weird as his uncle, and he can talk to Gao Wen on weekdays.Besides, this kid might not be able to take over the Linlang Book Pavilion in the next two years, and he will have to publish books in his hands in the future. Gao Wen thought for a while, then nodded and smiled: "It's easy to say, easy to say, I was just about to talk to Brother Shi Yuan .”

After finishing speaking, he told his subordinates, took Yu Shiyuan into a fairly elegant tea house, and ordered two cups of Xinyang Maojian and a plate of fried pumpkin seeds.

Yu Shiyuan: "Brother Erzhi is being stingy."

Gao Wen: "I'd like to invite Shiyuan to have a drink, but it's a big Chinese New Year, so drunk and sad. Now it's not time for dinner, let's drink tea to clear our stomachs."

Yu Shiyuan nodded: "That's right, I've been socializing too much, and I'm bored. I just want to eat some green vegetables and tofu." He looked out of the window, and there was a bunch of plum blossoms in the yard, snow-white and blood-red. .Then he said: "As for asking you to treat me, I just sent the remuneration for this issue to your mother. Here is your pocket money. This episode of "Journey to the West" sold very well. Do you think you should?" Invitation?"

As he spoke, he handed over a money bag, which was Gao Wen's pocket money.

Gao Wen: "I share [-]/[-] with your bookstore. Your uncle and nephew get much more than me, so you still come to beat me?" He took the money belt and put it on his belt.

At this time, the tea house was full of tea guests as usual, and a storyteller was telling a story about Monkey King Liusha River collecting sand monks.The storyteller's voice was clear and full of emotion, and the tea guests below also burst into applause.

Gao Wen felt complacent, and suddenly remembered something again: "Shi Yuan, your uncle is so weird, you drove me out of the house that day, and you cried like that, but the article I wrote was not successful, and it couldn't catch Mr. Yu's eyes. , or caused his sadness?"

"What can't be done? That's too much." Yu Shiyuan said: "Er Zhi, although I don't study, I have been to school for a few years, and I am in the business of a bookstore. As long as a piece of text is handed over to me, no matter it is poetry Gefu is still Cihuayanyi, stereotyped writing, and you can tell good from bad at a glance. As for what is good, I can't tell. However, my uncle is also a decent janitor at any rate, and has a reputation as a scholar , I have been immersed in stereotyped art for decades, so I naturally know the benefits of your article "Confucius Climbs Dongshan and Xiaolu"."

Gao Wen interrupted him: "Don't stop talking, I don't even know who gave me the watch name." Thinking of this, he felt annoyed.

Yu Shiyuan: "Brother Erzhi, I think this word is quite good. In "Zuo Zhuan", there is a saying in the 20th year of Xuan Gong: "It's not what you know. Husband and text, stop fighting and fight.""

Gao Wen patted his forehead: "I've forgotten this allusion, so it's really good, I don't know who got it, probably the old man Chen Guaizi." The affair with the little nun was found out and spread everywhere, which made Gao Wen extremely annoyed.At this moment, hearing Yu Shiyuan say this, he also felt that the name was well obtained, and the anger in his heart calmed down a lot: "Shiyuan, go on."

Yu Shiyuan said: "Uncle naturally knows the benefits of Brother Er Zhi's stereotyped essay, and he told me about it when he came down. He said that this essay is really wonderful. If it really goes to the examination room, don't say it." It’s a provincial examination, even if it’s for reference in Beijing, a Huiyuan is easy to grasp.”

Gao Wen was taken aback. This article was indeed Hui Yuanwen, and old man Yu's eyes were really vicious: "Then why are you crying, Mr. Yu? If you really like my article, you can buy it and engrave it. It’s included in the collection of Shiwen. I really don’t want to pay for the manuscript, so the old gentleman treats me to a table wine, and everyone has a good time talking about the wine and talking about the sage’s scriptures, how nice it is.”

"You, you, a person who can write such beautiful articles, but wants to use such an essay to understand Yuanwen in exchange for remuneration, or even a meal of wine. Er Zhi, I really don't know what to say about you ?” Yu Shiyuan looked distressed: “Don’t say it’s my uncle, even I want to cry a lot! I think uncle has read books all his life, and it can be said that he has chewed the words of the sage and Zhu Zi’s annotations from beginning to end. Into the stomach. But once in the examination room, every year he is not famous. If he wants to be famous and become an official, the old man will have to go out of his way. And you, a small yamen classics, only studied for a few years in a private school, and there is no famous teacher Pointing, once you get started, you can write such a majestic prose. Imagine what it would be like if you took part in the imperial examination. I dare not say anything else. There are also some good scholars. God, heaven, why are you like this? It's not fair, you let a person who is keen on fame and fame fail him in repeated trials. A subordinate official who is not qualified to take the imperial examination, but you gave him a brilliant pen?"

"Erzhi, tell me, can my uncle stop crying after reading your article? He's crying for you as well as himself!"

Gao Wen was dissatisfied: "What petty official, aren't you pointing at the monk and scolding the bald thief? I was born this way, what can I do? I'll put it nicely now and others call me Master Gao, but it's not good to say it's bad. He's a lowly servant, my household registration system is like this in the Ming Dynasty, what can the Sa family do... Hey, don't mention this matter again..." As he spoke, his mood suddenly fell.

Yes, I am also a Chinese-student at any rate, and I am a master of Chinese studies.After traveling to the Ming Dynasty, if you don’t become a clerk in the yamen, even if you are a beggar, with my inductive learning ability as a modern person, plus memorizing the number one scholar’s ​​stereotyped essays, it’s still not three fingers Pinch the snails.

At that time, how happy will it be to be a Jinshi and rank, to be appointed to the Imperial Academy, and to be awarded to high officials?It's not like now, in a small Hancheng, relying on pleasing Duzhi County to live.If one is not good, no matter how much credit I have made for him, I will be punished if someone gives an order.On weekdays, one has to guard against Huang Wei and Han Guizi's tricks behind their backs.

Seeing Gao Wen depressed, Yu Shiyuan reassured him.

After peeling a few more melon seeds, Yu Shiyuan suddenly asked: "Brother Erzhi, I heard that your family is not from Hancheng. My grandfather has never been a lowly citizen for more than a generation, is there such a thing?"

Gao Wen: "Yes, my ancestral home is Zhuanglang County, Pingliang Prefecture. When my grandfather suffered a disaster at home, the land was barren. My ancestors lost the land in their hometown and fled to Hancheng to live. By the way, there are three sons of Zhuanglang at home. What about the ten-acre land deed!"

"Your family still has [-] acres of land, why didn't you go back to take care of it?" Yu Shiyuan was amazed.

Gao Wen smiled wryly: "It's land, but it's just on paper. It's not like you don't know the land in northern Shaanxi. It's fine on weekdays, but it's washed away by a heavy rain. It's been decades. It’s hard to say that it has been washed into ravines and river valleys, and it’s useless.”

Yu Shiyuan nodded: "That's right, so the people in northern Shaanxi are poor! By the way, do you have a family tree?"

Gao Wen was even more curious: "Why are you asking this?"

"Answer me, do you have any?" Yu Shiyuan was very serious.

"The farmer, the landowner, the small household, how could he have something?"

Yu Shiyuan: "Whether your ancestors were born and raised in Pingliang Prefecture, or maybe they escaped from other provinces. I think you have a beautiful face, brother Erzhi, and you seem to be from Jiangnan."

"I still look pretty like this?" Gao Wen looked at his strong arms, feeling amused, "I'm from Shaanxi. I heard from my mother that several generations of my ancestors were digging in the soil."

Yu Shiyuan sighed, depressed: "It seems that I was wrong." He bowed his head and remained silent.

After a long time, Gao Wen's Virgo obsessive-compulsive disorder: "Shi Yuan, if you have something to say, please say it quickly, don't whet your appetite."

After urging for a long time, Yu Shiyuan explained that at the end of last year, after Wala withdrew his troops, the imperial court issued an imperial edict, saying that it was to reverse the case of Fang Xiaoru.In the past few days, the official document had just arrived in Xi'an, and he was walking around the city all day long, and happened to see the Dibao copied from the government office from the hands of some scholars.

The so-called case of Fang Xiaoru involved an old incident in the Jingnan War. It has been nearly forty years so far, and it has gone through four generations of emperors: Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, and Zhengtong.At that time, after Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world, he established his capital in Nanjing, and appointed the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Biao as the prince.

It is a pity that Zhu Biaoying died young. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang made Zhu Yunqi, the son of the prince Zhu Biao, the grandson of the emperor.The primogeniture system is an ancient feudal ethics tradition, but the problem is that Zhu Yuanzhang's other sons were not convinced at that time, especially Yan Wang Zhu Di, the commander who made great military exploits for the Ming Dynasty.

When the great ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang collapsed, the eldest grandson of the emperor inherited the throne, named Jianwen, and was known as Emperor Jianwen in history.

Jianwen ascended the throne as emperor when he was a weak crown. This person has limited talents and no political experience, so he is inevitably radical in his affairs and politics.Where the succession took place, the power of the vassals of various places began to be restricted when the foundation was not stable, which aroused the fear of the group of emperor uncles.Therefore, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised his troops to fight back, shouting the slogans of "Qing Jun's side" and "Feng Tian Jing Nan". This historical event was called "Jing Nan Battle" by later generations.

Emperor Jianwen was just a young man in his early twenties, while the founding generals of the Ming Dynasty died and became old in Zhu Yuanzhang's repeated purges.When it was time to go to war, the imperial court was shocked to find that no one could use the country.But King Yan was actually the only commander with actual combat experience.

As a result, the Yan army went all the way south and occupied the capital Nanjing in a devastating manner.Emperor Jianwen also disappeared inexplicably, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, ascended the throne in Nanjing as emperor, who was born in Yongle.This is the famous Emperor Yongle in history, Ming Chengzu.

When Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty raised his army, although the banner was "Feng Tian Jing Nan", it was a rebellion, and he felt a little guilty in his heart.Therefore, the emperor ordered Fang Xiaoru, the leader of Shilin at that time, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and a doctor of literature, to draft an imperial edict.In order to show the people of the world that I, Zhu Di, have been entrusted with the destiny of the heavens, and I am supported by the entire scholar class, and I am extremely righteous.

Fang Xiaoru was summoned to the imperial court, and the sound of grief and mourning resounded all over the stage of the hall.Throwing the pen to the ground, weeping and cursing: "If you die, you will die. I will never draft an imperial edict."

Zhu Di was furious and threatened that if he refused to draft the imperial edict, he would be punished by the nine clans.

Fang Xiaoru replied that even if we punish my ten clans, he would not be able to write this edict.

Who is Ming Chengzu? He commanded thousands of troops and was killed by a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.Killing an old Confucian would not even blink an eye.He said: "Since you want me to punish your ten clans, well, I will fulfill you."

Therefore, he ordered Fang Xiaoru's car to be smashed into the city, and Fang's family was slaughtered, and none of Fang Xiaoru's disciples escaped.In order to make up the number of the ten clans, even the neighbors of the Fang family were killed.

This matter Chengzu did a little too much, scholars all over the world feel the same way, and the other family is extremely sympathetic.After all, Fang Xiaoru died for Jianwen, which is in line with the moral concept of "loyalty and righteousness" in feudal society.Chengzu, if you want to kill Fang Xiaoru, killing him alone is enough, and it can also complete Fang's reputation as a scholar.But you can't justify killing the whole family. Isn't this challenging the bottom line of social morality?
After the Yongle Dynasty, did the government and the public have voices to rehabilitate Fang Xiaoru?

After the death of Cheng Zu, his son Renzong Zhu Gaochi came to the throne, and discussed with the Ministry of Rites: "All the ministers of the Jianwen Dynasty have been executed for public display. Their family members who became official slaves were released as civilians and their fields were returned. Among the foreign relatives guarding the border, only one person was left in the guarded place, and the rest were released and returned to their hometowns."

It's just that the plan was made by the late emperor after all, if the case is completely overturned, it will damage the reputation of Emperor Chengzu.Discussed for a long time, that's all.

Yu Shiyuan said that Gao Wen's accent had a hint of Jiangnan accent, so he guessed that his ancestors moved to Shaanxi from there.It would be great if Gao Wen was the descendant of the planned criminal.

According to the imperial decree, during the Yongle period, Fang Xiaoru's case involved a lot.The number of people involved was huge. In addition to the beheading of more than 800 people, thousands of people were exiled, exiled into the army, and served as lowly slaves. Some women even entered the Jiaofang Division and fell into prostitution.

These more than 1000 people have reproduced for nearly 40 years, and now there should be tens of thousands of people.

This time the imperial court set things right. Hearing about the plight of the descendants of the plan, he felt pity. He ordered the local government to verify the identities of the descendants of the offenders and return them to good status.

Gao Wen had worked in Shanghai for many years in his previous life, and he was fluent in Mandarin on weekdays.However, because it is located in the core area of ​​Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, the accent will inevitably be affected. This time, I brought it here casually.

Hearing this, Gao Wen laughed: "Your mother's ancestors were punished by ten clans, what are you thinking?"

In fact, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu's position is not right, and Yingzong Zhu Qizhen is still in the hands of the Wala people, so he may not feel guilty.Naturally, I have to show the appearance of a promising king to the people of the world—I am a qualified emperor, and I am more suitable to rule the world than the Supreme Emperor.

In fact, Emperor Jingtai did a very good job.First, he used Qianqian to severely damage the Oirat army in the offensive and defensive battles in Beijing, and even fled back to Mobei first.Secondly, it is to rectify military affairs, so that the military equipment of Xuan and Dafu will be completely reduced.

The next step is to replace the central and local officials, and really take the power into their own hands.

Now, he is thinking of buying scholars again.Fang Xiaoru has a very good reputation in history, and he died unjustly. If he can be rehabilitated, he will definitely be supported by scholars.

In another position, if Gao Wen sat in the position of Emperor Ming Dynasty, he might not be able to do better than him.

After laughing, Gao Wen said: "Thank you, Brother Shi Yuan, for your concern. I am indeed not a descendant of those involved in the project."

At this time, the previous battle of Liushahe was just about to end, so there was naturally a burst of applause.

Someone came down with a wooden basin to ask for a reward, and Gao Wen and Yu Shiyuan each threw a handful of copper coins into it.

All the tea guests are enjoying themselves, so it is natural and generous to reward them with money.However, someone still shouted: "Say it again, say it again."

"That's right, don't hold your breath."

"Isn't it just for money? Tell me again, we have copper in our waists, and we must have you."

The situation in front of him looked familiar, and Gao Wen subconsciously felt that something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)