The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 127 East Park Gala
Hu Yinglin was confused and asked curiously: "Why are you laughing?"

Xu Shupi said with a smile: "This mimeograph method was pioneered by Jianyang. Today, Sanwu's mimeograph workshops still have to import ink and wax paper from the factory in Jianyang."

Wang Wenlong explained: “At that time, I needed to quickly print flyers to promote Guacaidai, so I made the mimeograph method public. I never expected that it would now be used to print bad books.”

Hu Yinglin was stunned and quickly asked Guacaidai the cause and effect in detail.

Hu Yinglin also traveled to various places and saw the suffering of people's livelihood. After hearing the specific situation, his expression changed and he quickly said: "I didn't expect that the invention of mimeograph was such a process. According to this, wax block mimeograph is really beneficial to the country and the people, or am I short-sighted?" ”

Scholars in this era all pay attention to "the most powerful person establishes virtue, the middle person establishes deeds, and the inferior person establishes words."

The best Confucian scholars should be able to educate the people, that is, be good officials; the second best should follow Confucian rules personally, that is, leave a reputation as sages in the countryside; and world-famous literati like them, although they are famous for their articles, In the world, but he feels that he is just "making a statement" and is the lowest.

Compared with Wang Wenlong, he was able to educate the people to grow vegetables and crops and help the people survive the famine. This was already a level of morality, and he would naturally be praised by literati.

The topic turned to mimeographed books. Wang Wenlong took the opportunity to promote his "Xunbao" published using wax-mimeograph technology. He also shared the content of the novel "Strange People in the World" with everyone, and then shamelessly asked everyone for articles.

Everyone didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but they still agreed to give Wang Wenlong a few short articles to publish in the "Xun Bao".

As the editor-in-chief of "Xunbao", Wang Wenlong did his best to go north this time. He even didn't let go of Xu Guangqi, who had left two days ago. On the ship, he forced Xu Guangqi to write an article introducing plane geometry from the perspective of a person at that time. Xu Guangqi's article was deleted several times in order to live up to Wang Wenlong's high expectations. The content is explained in simple terms. This popular science article will probably arouse some readers' interest in geometry.

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Wang Wenlong stayed in Dongyuan and waited for a few days. Everyone from Wushan Society also arrived one after another.

Three days later, Yuan Hongdao finally returned to Jiangsu. As soon as he got off the boat, he was dragged to the East Garden by Xu Shupi's servant who was waiting on the dock. Everyone in the East Garden heard that Yuan Hongdao was coming, and everyone present was finally able to have a party.

The three brothers of the Yuan family were all leaders of the Xingling Sect at this time. Unfortunately, only Yuan Hongdao came back today. The eldest brother Yuan Zongdao had passed away, and his younger brother Yuan Zhongdao also stayed in Shuntian to wait for the imperial examination.

That's right, don't think that Xu Guangqi's transfer from Songjiang Prefecture to Nanjing's imperial examination means he is very good. The Yuan family is truly powerful. They directly sent Yuan Zhongdao to Shuntian Prefecture to take the exam.

The difficulty of the imperial examination in the north is almost the same as that in the south, and Shuntian is not yet in Shandong, the major imperial examination province in the north. In the north, it is an easy area for imperial examination. Yuan Zhongdao, who was born in Shilin, Hubei Province, went to Shuntian to take the examination, and the success rate was incomparable. How much higher is he in the south? Feng Menglong and other Jiangnan scholars would be envious to death.

Of course, the imperial examination immigration in Shuntian was also more difficult. Yuan Zhongdao had to sit in the imperial examination and immigration prison for two or three years in order to take the imperial examination in Shuntian, but the benefits were nothing compared to them.

Everyone had a banquet to eat and drink in the East Garden first. At noon, Yuan Hongdao was finally hurried to the East Garden by the slipper. By this time, the small drinker at the banquet was already a bit drunk.

Yuan Hongdao met all his old friends one by one. He was also frustrated in the capital. Suddenly seeing so many famous people in Wuzhong, his face was extremely happy.

Wang Wenlong stepped forward and said with a smile: "Yuan Zhonglang, I have heard about my brother's name for a long time, and now we finally meet him."

Yuan Hongdao listened to Ye Zhouze's introduction, his eyes lit up and he said: "Wang Jianyang! Oh, I finally saw it today. I almost tore through Brother Jianyang's "History of Portugal" and "Tianyan Lun". I just suffered from not being able to see him. Taiwan kiss."

He admired Wang Wenlong's works quite a lot, and he pulled Wang Wenlong along to talk about them endlessly. He was also particularly interested in overseas anecdotes.

Wang Wenlong was not timid at all, and had the advantage of having a vision of the times to back him up. Even if Yuan Hongdao was a major leader in the literary world at that time, Wang Wenlong could not lag behind in his extensive research and discussion.

The two talked loudly, and soon everyone's interest was attracted. There were quite a few curious people holding wine glasses beside them to listen to Wang Wenlong's words.

Everyone was surprised by Wang Wenlong's charm, and after a few conversations, Wang Wenlong also discovered that Yuan Hongdao was indeed very charming.

This person was born into a top-notch family at this time, with a good background, real ability, and a wandering character who is obsessed with mountains and rivers. Moreover, he has an excellent tutor and likes to mingle with everyone, because his family background and literary talents do not require Deliberately showing off, he is quite low-key.

Think about a top-notch rich man with a kind personality, brilliant literary talent, and broad knowledge. How could he not be liked by others?

Yuan Hongdao and Wang Wenlong talked for a while before being pulled away by their friends. Some of the celebrities followed Yuan Hongdao away, while others continued talking beside Wang Wenlong.

This time at the Wushan Club's big gathering, many literary figures gathered together. They held a banquet among the mountains and rivers of the East Garden, where they drank and drank. There was also a band composed of dozens of singers from the Xu family singing nearby.

Talk and laugh with ru, no contacts STOMATOLOGY.

There are many celebrities present at Wushan Society today. Shen Jing, the leader of the music circle, Hu Yinglin, the leader of the poetry circle, and Wang Qi, the bibliophile, are among the older generation present.

The younger generation includes Shen Jing's apprentice Lu Tiancheng, Jianyang Wang Wenlong, calligrapher Ling Mengchu, critic Shen Defu, as well as young people such as Ye Zhouze, Feng Menglong, Yuan Wuya, Chen Jiru, Xu Shupi, Xi Langxian and others.

Tang Xianzu who was in Linchuan, Xie Zhaozhe and Jiao Hong who were officials in Nanjing and could not come, and Wang Jide who was writing music in Henan also sent poems and essays to respond.Shen Jing found Wang Wenlong drunk and gave Wang Wenlong a wink.

Wang Wenlong smiled and asked, "What's the matter, sir?"

Shen Jing pointed at him and said with a smile: "My Yi Xiu has asked for news about you for more than six months, asking about your writing, how your reputation is, etc."

Wang Wenlong nodded and asked carefully: "Can she reveal her secrets?"

The old gentleman shook his head: "I asked her too, but she was very brief. She just asked more questions every time. It was probably because the girl was shy."

Shen Jing has been creating the image of a romantic celebrity for Wang Wenlong in the past few months, but he did not expect that the direction will become more and more distorted. The image of Wang Wenlong he created in Shen Yixiu's mind is thousands of miles away from the real Wang Wenlong.

The little girl almost misunderstood Wang Wenlong as an embroidered pillow, and the old man Shen Jing described the image as more and more embroidered.

This old man is really not suitable to be a messenger. If Shen Yixiu meets the real Wang Wenlong in the future, not to mention that Wang Wenlong is actually a good person, Shen Yixiu will be shocked when he finds out that Wang Wenlong is a normal person.

But Shen Jing was still complacent, feeling that her work was done step by step and was quite successful.

In fact, Shen Yixiu's method of asking about Wang Wenlong's background and then changing the subject was exactly the same as Wang Wenlong's method of dealing with the elders who introduced him to his girlfriend in his previous life.

But when Wang Wenlong and Shen Jing talked about the engagement, Wei Tianjue's matter had not yet come up, but now he thought about how he would explain to Li Guoxian if he made an engagement with the Shen family and went back?

Wang Wenlong didn't think much about it. He quickly changed the topic and asked Shen Jing: "Why didn't Mr. Danyuan come to today's literary meeting? I still want to meet him."

"He wasn't feeling well, so he didn't come today." Shen Jing explained.

Wang Wenlong nodded.

Danyuan is Jiao Hong's name, and Jiao Hong is also a member of the San Wu family, a patriarch of the Wushan Society, and he lives in Nanjing. He was supposed to be there today.

Wang Wenlong knew in his heart that Jiao Hong's absence was probably not because of any physical discomfort, but because he was discouraged and didn't want to go out.

Jiao Hong's identity in history is that of a great bibliophile, but in fact he won the first prize more than ten years ago, and later worked as an editor at the Hanlin Academy and then as a student of the emperor's eldest son. was thrown to Nanjing.

During the Korean War, Ge Lao Shen always worked with Zhang Wei to help conceal the inner story of Yang Hao, the governor of Liaodong, who had lost his master and caused chaos, and deceived the court. At that time, Ding Yingtai, Jiao Hong, and others, the military aid painter to Korea, were against Yang Hao.

Ding Yingtai took the initiative to expose Yang Hao's crimes, and Jiao Hong and others responded.

But he did not expect that Ding Yingtai did not move Shen Yiguan and others at all. Now Shen Yiguan is still the elder of the pavilion, while Jiao Hong and others were retaliated. Jiao Hong was thrown to Nanjing as a clerk from the side of the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo.

Some scholars in later generations even believed that Li Zhi's death was related to the struggle against Jiao Hong in the court.

Li Zhi was a good friend of Jiao Hong. Killing Li Zhi itself did not make much sense. The purpose may have been to frighten Jiao Hong.

Although Jiao Hong was on good terms with Sanwu scholars at this time, he claimed to be ill all the time and could not leave Nanjing. He had obviously become reclusive. A few years later, when his friend Li Zhi was killed like a chicken to scare the monkeys, Jiao Hong would be completely disillusioned with the officialdom. Feeling cold, he settled in Nanjing and devoted himself to collecting books and studying history.

In this era, Sanwu was economically prosperous, but politically it was not the real center. It often became a dwelling place for those who failed in court struggles or those who lived in seclusion.

Shen has always been able to guarantee his position in the cabinet by relying on the Sanwu Zhejiang Party. After the failure of the Jiao Hong struggle, he went to Nanjing to collect books. The Donglin bosses also stayed in Nanzhili to give lectures. They were all the people who caused trouble in the capital. , but the place where the think tanks behind them live and the place where they live in seclusion after defeat are often concentrated in Sanwu in the south.

Living in this era and interacting with these characters, Wang Wenlong felt like he had entered a history book.

Without further ado, Wang Wenlong was sitting at a table of historians.

Jiao Hong didn't come, but Jiao Hong's good friend Guan Zhidao did. He was a Jinshi during the Longqing period. Now he has resigned from office and gone into seclusion for almost ten years. He spends his time at home studying classics and history in Yun Yehe.

At this time, Guan Zhidao was reading the letter sent back by Dong Qichang. He was quite surprised after reading two sentences: "The oracle bones were really dug up in Zhangde Fucheng, Henan Province. Jianyang's contribution is not small!"

Wang Wenlong hurriedly said humbly: "I still rely on Xuan Zai Gong to contribute, I am just starting to get started."

　Sorry for being late

　　
　
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