Chapter 23 Yangzhou Elegance
Except for the time of travel, the stay in several major cities in Jeju, such as Jian, Linzi, Taeju and other cities, does not exceed 20 days. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The reason for staying so short was that Zhou Ming found that he didn't seem to be very popular.
For example, during the publicity and warm-up period, five or six hundred readers wrote letters to them, saying that they would definitely come to this "meeting" to meet "Mr. Zihua", whom they had admired for a long time, and to buy a few sets of "Zihua Anthology" signed by Mr. Zihua, and so on...... As a result, on the day of the book signing meeting, less than 200 people arrived at the scene, and more than half of the people who strongly said they would come did not come.
For example, classmate Lu Wencai, in the prosperous Linzi City, chartered the entire drunken fairy building, widely issued invitations, invited a group of local celebrities, and some local famous prostitutes, ready to hold a large-scale "poetry meeting" in the drunken fairy building, and the boss "Haiping Wenxian" together, taste poetry and fu, fly flowers and wine, throw pots and poems, listen to famous prostitutes play the piano, how elegant...... As a result, the Drunken Immortal Building Poetry Club, those who were invited, were less than half.
Even, the poetry meeting was only halfway through, "Haiping Wenxian" Tian Zihua, just created two poems that made everyone in the audience excited and applauded, and the atmosphere just became strong, when the poetry meeting scene, suddenly came a group of uninvited guests, this group of uninvited guests, mostly middle-aged men, and a few solemn-faced old men, all of them were Confucian clothes, with a cold face and a bad look.
As soon as they entered the venue, these people pointed at Zhou Ming and scolded him, saying that his Zihua Book House's "Story Club" "corrupted the atmosphere" and "reversed the holy way", and his "Zihua Anthology" was "frivolous rhetoric" and "not worth a damn".
All kinds of harshly worded accusations made Zhou Ming feel like "a thousand people are pointing out".
In this era, the first batch of "trolls" made Zhou Ming, who was originally in a good mood, sink like water, and his mood was extremely bad.
But after thinking about it carefully, Zhou Ming immediately figured out the reason.
In the final analysis, it was the Zihua Book House he founded that violated the interests of these "Qilu Confucians".
What does Zihua Bookstore represent?
It is advocating freedom, being aggressive, open and innovative, and unconstrained.
What do these Qilu celebrities represent?
It is conservative, stubborn and conservative, and it is a rule that cannot be changed.
The two things are incompatible, and ideologically, there will naturally be violent collisions and conflicts.
In particular, an old man pointed to his nose and pointed to some articles and poems he wrote, and vigorously accused him of "being unruly and unrelenting" and violating the "subtle words and righteousness" of the saint everywhere, claiming that Zhou Ming's various "rebellious" behaviors would surely cut himself off from the world...... Zhou Mingden was furious, and he was speechless with a single sentence, his face was red, and he almost vomited blood and fainted:
"You are also worthy of talking about the sage's subtle words and righteousness? I will only say one thing, since this place is the land of the sage, why is it that the rich have no land for the rich and the poor to stand on the ground? Since you are a disciple of the sage, why don't you see the benevolence and morality, but see the thief everywhere? I will send you a sentence below: Since you are a bitch, don't set up the archway of the sage, junior, ashamed to talk to hypocrisy!" After speaking, he threw away his sleeves.
After completely offending these "Qilu Confucians", Zhou Ming and others had to leave in disappointment.
However, in the territory of Jeju, there are still some harvests, such as climbing Mount Tai, Xiaolu Mountain and other famous mountains, Zhou Ming wrote a "Mount Tai Fu", and a number of poems, not long after, through the Zihua Book House, these works are widely circulated in the world, many local literati and celebrities in Jeru, after watching these articles and poems, beat their chests and sigh, their hearts are painful and annoyed: "Why don't Mr. Zihua stay in Jeju for a while......? How annoying!"
At this time, Mr. Zihua has long been ethereal, and he can't be traced.
……
In the spring of May, on a wide official road.
A group of horseback riders came in the dust.
Towards the evening, under the afterglow of the setting sun, a week is fifteen miles long, surrounded by a majestic city with a moat, the whole body exudes golden light, like a golden city, when it appears in front of you. The cavalry, which was in a hurry, slowed down and strolled along the willow bank.
Riding on the horse, everyone looked at the scales in the moat, in the breeze, the catkins were flying, and on the white stone pavement, there were tall horses, and they also raised their hooves, as if they didn't want to make too much noise.
The warm breeze is intoxicating, and the surrounding scenery is like a paradise wonderland.
"Wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist, ride a crane down to Yangzhou! This Yangzhou is really the richest place in the world!"
After paying the entrance fee and entering this huge city, which may have 300,000 people, the streets are full of people, warehouses are gathered, there are countless people carrying carts, men, women and children wearing different colors of clothes, rubbing shoulders and passing by...... Zhou Ming, who was leading the horse, shouted to Zhang Yuan beside him in the hustle and bustle of the vendors on both sides.
"Yes, Brother Zihua, when we passed by Suzhou and Xinzhou, which are known as 'paradise on earth', we felt that it was already a big city in the world, but I didn't expect that this Yangzhou Mansion was several times more prosperous than that of Xinzhou and Suzhou!"
Zhang Yuan, a classmate, lamented that compared with Yangzhou, the development level of his hometown Qingzhou is indeed too far behind.
"Yangzhou is the land of fish and rice, the land of ointment, Yangzhou salt industry, but also to this place to bring infinite wealth, hundreds of years of wealth accumulation, created a large number of rich salt merchants, therefore, there are two things here are the most famous, one is Yangzhou cuisine, for example, there is a famous dish, called 'thousand silk tongue', to make a plate of this dish, to take the tongue of a thousand tender chickens, in order to cook a plate of ......"
"The second is Yangzhou thin horses, it is said that these thin horses, is the tooth of the tooth mother, the thin girl bought, carefully trained, passed on its piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, taught it all kinds of obscenity, and made it half hungry and half full, raised a delicate figure, among them" three inches of golden lotus ", the most superb, these thin horses, after being bought by the rich businessmen, all kinds of blasphemy, to satisfy the heart of the perverts, every year there are a lot of thin horses, unbearable tart and died, it is really pitiful to ......"
Classmate Cui Shi'an is deeply embarrassed by some prosperous things in the prosperity of Yangzhou.
Hearing this, Li Dazui on the side opened his eyes like copper bells and said: "It's the first time I've heard that rich people can still play like this?" ......he clenched his fists again, and said with a sinister face: "If someone dares to raise my sister as a thin horse, my fist will definitely smash that person's head into a pulp." ”
Li Dazui has two younger brothers and three younger sisters in his family, because he eats the most, and the younger brothers and sisters are very thin, especially the three younger sisters, if you think about it carefully, it is really the same as the "thin horse" described by Cui Shi'an, but now that he can make money, he has sent hundreds of dollars to his home one after another, and the conditions in his hometown have improved a lot, and the three younger sisters should not be so thin......
Zhou Ming didn't say anything, some people have money, and their moral quality will not improve, but will decline rapidly and do all kinds of ridiculous things...... But in this era, people have long been accustomed to it, and there are even more absurd, the scholar class, the aristocratic royal family, are no better, absolute rights, absolute desires, without certain constraints, most people, will be lost in these desires, will also be destroyed in them......
Zhou Ming, who has experienced everything, desires, of course, there is, but he has become the master of these desires, not the other way around.
After walking through several streets and asking the locals for directions a few times, Zhou Ming and others finally found a four-story restaurant called "Deyun Building" - this is the Tianjia family that Zhou Ming sent people to found, ten states in the world, and there is one in each state capital, naturally, Deyun Building is also the predecessor of "Deyun Club".
Of course, Deyun Building, at present, is still a large proportion of eating and lodging, but there are also some storytellers, singers and dancers, every day in the building to talk about storytelling, singing and performing, plus some special dishes, Deyun Building, soon became one of the most famous restaurants in Yangzhou City.
Just entered the restaurant.
Kicking and staring, Lu Wencai and Tang Junming, who learned the news, quickly walked down from the upper floor.
"Boss, I've been waiting for you for eight or nine days, why haven't you arrived until now?"
"Boss, if you don't come again, Brother Wencai and I, I'm afraid we will be drowned by those prayer posts who want to see you, good guy, at most I received two hundred prayer posts and more than eight hundred letters a day...... Boss, you don't know how popular you are in Yangzhou City now, right?"
Lu Wencai pulled Zhou Ming's sleeve and said: "Boss, your trick of holding the pipa and half-covering your face is simply amazing! In Yangzhou City, your Mr. Zihua's fame is already great, and after the opening of Zihua Book House a few months ago, your fame is even more incredible...... Come on, boss, I'll take you to a room and look at the pile of prayers and letters, and I'm sure you'll be scared!"
Different from Jeju, which tends to be conservative, Mr. Zihua, who has always been very popular in Yangzhou, sent people to Qingzhou to buy a large number of Mr. Zihua's works, and after coming back, he pirated them on a large scale, and he was also the most booksellers in Yangzhou.
This point, from Zhou Ming and others, during their short stay in Suzhou and Xinzhou, caused by the phenomenon of thousands of empty alleys and worshipping posts, it can be seen that in this era, the collection of handsome guys + talents + celebrities is still very popular with people from all walks of life.
Hearing Lu Wencai's words, Zhou Ming smiled slightly, waved his sleeves and said: "This matter is not in a hurry, I have been on the road for many days, and let me burn incense and bathe for five days, and wash the dust on this body first......"
After speaking, under the guidance of the store manager, he went straight to the second floor.