Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1816, literati gathered

"Sell the newspaper! Sell the newspaper!"

"The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was officially completed and opened to traffic. One bridge flies from north to south, and the natural moat becomes a thoroughfare!"

"Good news, good news, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was officially completed and opened to traffic, a great project of the century, long live the Ming Empire!"

In the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, with the shouts of newsboys, the news that the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was officially completed and opened to traffic spread quickly in the first time.

All of a sudden, the entire Ming Dynasty was discussing the matter of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.

A tea house is here.

"Crack~"

With Mr. Newspaper Reader's slap, the originally noisy teahouse immediately became quiet. Everyone looked at Mr. Newspaper Reader in unison, looking forward to his interpretation of today's newspaper.

"Yesterday, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was officially completed and opened to traffic. This century-old project, which cost [-] million taels of silver, was officially completed in just a few years."

"Its completion will profoundly change the history of our Ming Dynasty, and will also deeply affect the future and history of our land in China!"

"In history, many dynasties relied on the natural danger of the Yangtze River to divide the north and the south. Soochow, Chen, Southern Song, etc., relied on the natural danger of the Yangtze River to form a natural defense line."

"But from now on, the Yangtze River will no longer block the north and the south. It only takes a few minutes to pass between the north and the south of the Yangtze River. Trains, cars, and horse-drawn carriages can all pass through, which will greatly facilitate the north-south travel. The Beijing-Tianjin area and the Jiangnan area."

"From now on, you can take the train from the capital directly to Songhu, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Jiangxi. In the future, as the train continues to be built, you can also go to Jiaozhi and Xianglin in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Nanyang."

"We should be grateful to live in such an era, a great era!"

"We have the most sage son of heaven, all the princes in the court are loyal and patriotic ministers and generals, and the people of our Ming Dynasty are the most industrious and intelligent. With the joint efforts of everyone, this has created the glorious and prosperous age of Daming today! "

"How majestic and vast the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is, it was something that the past dynasties never dared to imagine. Now our Ming Dynasty has grown bigger."

"Of course, in this great era of ours, we not only have the great Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, but also many more great projects, such as the Great Wall Railway leading to Sichuan, the Jiangxi-Guangdong Railway running through Lingnan, etc. We will also create more Glory and miracle, we will leave great wealth and the confidence and pride of standing on top of the world to future generations!"

Following the words of Mr. Newspaper Reader, the entire teahouse immediately resounded with applause and applause like a tide.

People who can afford tea and like to listen to Mr. Reader's newspaper can be regarded as the middle class of Ming Dynasty, and they can be regarded as the intellectual class. They are the most concerned and concerned about Jia Guotian.

This is very different from later generations, who care about state affairs in later generations, but ordinary people, the so-called elites in the middle class, who care more about their own interests, how to make more money, even if they don’t care He even mocked the low-level people who cared about state affairs, thinking that they were eating pickles and radishes and worrying about state affairs.

Isn't it everyone's responsibility for the rise and fall of the world? At any time, the people at the bottom have the greatest relationship with the rise and fall of the country.

The economy is not good, and the people at the bottom are the most miserable. When there is a war, the sons of the people at the bottom will go to war. What about the rich?They have already immigrated abroad, and they have to tell you that national affairs have nothing to do with the people.

Then tell me, all the contributions are made by the ordinary people at the bottom, why it has nothing to do with the ordinary people?
When did it become a mistake to care about the major affairs of one's own country?
Of course, this is a strange phenomenon in later generations.

Everyone in Ming Dynasty has the mentality of a protagonist in this matter, and everyone believes that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.

The same is true of the opinions and spirits propagated by various newspapers. Even the pedantic Confucian newspapers advocate the family, the country, the world, loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, loyalty to Ming Dynasty, loyalty to the emperor, loyalty to one's master, loyalty to one's family, Be loyal to your family and your career!

It is this kind of thought and feeling that runs through the long years of thousands of years. No matter how many ups and downs we have experienced, we can always stand tall.

At this time, Daming still has the national spirit and strong backbone that have been passed down for thousands of years.

Unlike later generations, after three hundred years of slavish education and ignorant domestication in the Qing Dynasty, the spirit and backbone of the nation were interrupted, and then experienced a hundred years of turmoil, facing the technological explosion and development of the new era.

So much so that we lose more and more precious spirits.

Nanjing.

Here at the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, Wen Zhengming, Tang Zhen, Chen Chun, and Cai Yu traveled to Nanjing together again.

In the last scientific examination, no surprises, everyone has lost their names again. They have lost consecutive battles and watched helplessly. The former friend Tang Bohu is already the governor of Hong Kong and a member of the fourth rank. Maybe he will work for a few more years. Tang Bohu might be able to become a third-rank member.

Zhu Zhishan took the imperial examination together with his son. His son won the Jinshi and he failed the examination. The Township Immigration Department is here in front of a small official of the seventh rank.

At any rate, Zhu Zhishan can still be a small official, although there is not much hope for promotion in the future, and he will be an official at the state level, but he is still an official.

People like Wen Zhengming, Tang Zhen, Chen Chun, Cai Yu, and the like don't even look down on Juren. They are only scholars at a young age, and they can't even be officials. and so on, or find a private school to be a teacher.

There is no doubt that they look down on both of them. They all think that they are talented and educated, and they all think that one day they will be able to leap the dragon's gate with a carp, become a farmer in the morning, and ascend to the Tianzitang in the evening.

The imperial examinations were not going well, and they were depressed. Naturally, what they liked most was traveling around the mountains and rivers. This may be one of the reasons why they were still unable to pass the exam.

The traditional imperial examinations are even more terrifying and difficult than the college entrance examinations of later generations. In the three-year scientific examinations, there are very few places. If you don’t show your spirit and attitude, you will fail even if you are a talented person. of.

"A bridge flies from north to south, and the natural moat becomes a thoroughfare!"

"This bridge is really majestic and majestic, like a giant dragon. It is really a century project!"

Wen Zhengming stood on the bridge together, looked at the river, looked at the north and south of the bridge, watched the heavy traffic and people coming and going on the bridge, and heard bursts of sirens from time to time, amidst the billowing black smoke, the train rumbled Come.

Looking at the bridge, there are many people, many scholars, like Wen Zhengming and others, wearing long gowns and holding fans, and they came here to play, and there are quite a few of them.

When they met each other and reported their identities to each other, they were all well-known talents in the Jiangnan area, so it was inevitable to cherish each other.

After only a short while of practice, hundreds of scholars have already gathered on the bridge. Everyone shouted to each other Brother Liu, Brother Li, Brother Wang, and Brother Zhang. Above, everyone will use this bridge as the theme to play some word games among literati.

What pair of pairs, poems and inscriptions, etc., naturally won the positive response of these literati and poets.

The ancient scholars, in fact, all of them were very well-to-do. There were very few truly poor scholars. Even poor scholars were only poor relative to the rich. For ordinary people, they Scholars are all rich.

Even if they don't do anything, they are looking for inspiration and materials romantically, they are still noble scholars, and they are a group of people with status and status wherever they go.

This is the only way to play with words and poems in a leisurely way, instead of being busy and running around for life like the passers-by on the bridge in a hurry.

After some pairings and poetry recitations, everyone learned that Wen Zhengming, one of the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River, was also present, and they immediately clamored for Wen Zhengming to draw the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in front of them with pen and ink.

And Wen Zhengming has always been difficult to refuse such a request.

Immediately, he asked his school boy to prepare pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and spread out a long roll of rice paper. Wen Zhengming immediately splashed ink, and a majestic and mighty Yangtze River Bridge soon appeared on the paper.

"it is good!"

"It's really as majestic as the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, majestic and majestic!"

"Brother Wen's talent, I admire him!"

"To be able to see this masterpiece that has been handed down through the ages today is really lucky for three lives, lucky for three lives!"

"Brother Wen's paintings are unique in the world!"

Many literati and poets around me couldn't help giving their thumbs up immediately after seeing it. Wen Zhengming's paintings are also very famous, perhaps not as famous as Tang Bohu's paintings, but their level is obviously at the level of everyone.

(End of this chapter)