"Brother Void!"

"Little prodigy, you are also coming to dinner."

“……”

A few days later, Wang Yuan entered the cafeteria to eat, and the new classmates suddenly became enthusiastic about him.

Needless to say, "Bamboo and Stone" and "On Poetry" have already spread, and they will soon spread from outside to the Civilization Academy.

Wang Yuan could only return the salute all the way, although he was so annoyed that he couldn't get angry with others, after all, everyone was greeting him out of kindness.

"You're famous." Song Linger said with a smile.

Liu Yaozu said: "Yes. The bookstore is already selling poetry manuscripts, and one will cost half a penny, and your two poems are at the top of the list. ”

Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "I don't want to be famous, if I ......"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Wenxue suddenly came over and sat down, and took out a piece of paper: "Ruoxu, you see that this poem of mine was written when I visited Tonghua Temple last year. ”

Wang Yuan was speechless for an instant, and honestly tasted the poem.

"The north of the city is ten miles away, and the mountain gate is lonely and the grass is dashing. The smallpox is suspicious and the clouds are falling, and the cypress is frequently moving. The sound of the morning chime follows the pine rain, and the fragrance of afternoon tea leads to the wind of cinnamon. The cane quinoa walks leisurely, and the infinite dust disappears. ”

The writing is good, at least a hundred times better than Wang Yuan's own poetry.

"Good poetry!" Wang Yuan praised.

Chen Wenxue said with a smile: "Unexpectedly, Ruoxu also likes poetry, you and I can learn from each other in addition to studying." ”

"Where, where," Wang Yuan hurriedly shirked, "I haven't learned to compose poetry at all, and I don't even understand the rules of plain living." Moreover, Mr. said that poetry is a small way, and it should be based on current literature. From today onwards, I will be studying behind closed doors, and I will not write poetry again for three years. ”

Chen Wenxue did not doubt that he had him, and said solemnly: "If the heart of learning is so admirable to me, I should also study hard behind closed doors!" ”

"Whew!"

Finally flickered over, Wang Yuan hurried to eat, planning to go back to the room as soon as he finished eating.

Ancient academies also had canteens, with tables for eight people and tables for four people, and the standard was for two people to share one meat and one vegetable.

Tuition, books, room and board...... It is very expensive to add up, and ordinary scholars simply cannot afford it, which is equivalent to a private school in ancient times.

Therefore, those who followed Wang Yangming to study in the academy were basically from the Yin Shi family. Ordinary families did not dare to live in the academy, and only went to the street at the entrance of the academy to observe for free when Wang Yangming was in a public class.

Among the newcomers, Qin Yue, Zou Mu, Li Weishan, Wang Yuanming, Gao Fengming and others quickly became super fans of Uncle Wang. Especially Wang Yuanming, this guy is very rich in his family, not only sending rice, flour, oil and salt to the teacher, but also often helping other students.

When Wang Yuan was eating, a few more people sat over and pulled him to discuss poetry, and he used the previous excuse to shirk it.

This not only did not offend people, but won the respect of all beings, after all, poetry is indeed a small way.

Suddenly, all the beings stood up one after another, and Wang Yuan also stood up.

Wang Yangming walked into the cafeteria with an old man, talking and laughing, and the old man's entourage was carrying a jar of good wine.

"Wang Erlang, come and sit!" The old man shouted at Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan immediately went over and greeted him: "Sir, Zhang Zhentai, the student is polite!" ”

This old man's name is Zhang Guan, and he was also excluded to Guizhou as an official because he angered Liu Jin, and he had the same fate as Wang Yangming. It's just that Zhang Guan's official position is even greater, as a procurator in Guizhou, in charge of the justice of a province.

Since Wang Yangming came to the Civilization Academy, Zhang Guan often brought his own wine and food. He didn't discuss knowledge with Wang Yangming, he simply chatted to relieve boredom, and scolded Liu Jin in the air as soon as he got drunk.

This old gentleman never stopped, and wrote many letters to complain to the imperial court. It is said that Liu Jin asked the eunuchs in Guizhou to collect wealth for him, and encroached on countless military fields, causing a large number of military families to flee - it will not be long before he will be demoted again and demoted to Shanxi as a senator.

"Sit down," Zhang Guan asked his entourage to open the wine jar, and said to Wang Yuan with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a few days, you have become a prodigy, and even the two political envoys have read the poems you wrote." ”

Wang Yuan said shamefully: "I just made two random songs, and I don't deserve the name of a prodigy." ”

Zhang Guan patted the table and said: "Your two sentences of 'thousands of blows are still strong, and the wind is blowing from east to west, north and south', is really well written." It will become an official in the court one day, and it must stay in the bones of today, and it must not be frightened by treacherous and petty. As long as you uphold righteousness, what are the eight tigers in the capital? Don't look at their arrogance at this time, they will be swept away by the court in the future! ”

Here it is again, this old and angry young man, every time he will spray Liu Jin and the Eight Tigers.

"What the platform said is true, the boy remembers the teachings." Wang Yuan smiled and agreed.

Zhang Guan said to the young man next to him: "Xiang'er, fill up the wine for Wang Yuan." ”

The young man's name is Wang Xiang, and he was also brought by Wang Yangming from his hometown. Because he was too young, only fourteen or fifteen years old, he didn't take it to Longchangyi, but stayed at Zhan Hui's house in the city. Later generations studied Wang Yangming's letters, and "Xiang'er" often appeared in the letters, which was talking about this Wang Xiang.

Wang Xiang was smart and clever, and poured wine for everyone.

Wang Yangming didn't dare to touch a drop, he ate the vegetables honestly, and casually asked Wang Yuan's homework.

Chatting and chatting, Zhang Guan talked about his glorious old things: "In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, the Hami rebels detained the border. At that time, I was only a judge in Shaanxi, but I also knew how to reorganize the armament and put down the chaos in the border in one fell swoop. Your Majesty rewarded me with lottery coins for meritorious service and promoted me to the position of deputy envoy of Sichuan according to the inspection. Saying that, he suddenly slapped the table, "Guizhou is just a bunch of wrecks, some seedlings and thieves rebelled, not only did it not settle down for almost a year, but it also made more and more trouble!" ”

"Zhang Zhentai is brave," Wang Yangming poured him a drink, and said with emotion, "Not everyone has your responsibility." ”

This sycophant made Zhang Guan very cool, and he really deserved to be cool.

According to the judges, they are only the right to do things, and they do not have the right to command the army, so they are mainly engaged in local judicial work. Zhang Guan was able to train troops in Shaanxi in this capacity, and he also led the troops to quell the border chaos, in comparison, he is really qualified to say that the officers in Guizhou are a group of waste.

According to Zhang Guan's idea, he only needs to let him lead the troops and train him personally for a month or two, and he can sweep away the rebels in Guizhou.

It's a pity that Zhang Guan didn't have a single soldier, so he could only find Wang Yangming to drink and complain every once in a while.

After scolding the Guizhou officer, he turned around and scolded Liu Jin again, and Zhang Guan's resentment in his heart finally vented. He touched a glass with Wang Yuan, and asked Wang Yangming again: "What has Bo'an been busy with lately?" ”

Wang Yangming replied: "In addition to lecturing, I am reading the "Medicine King Bodhisattva Turning Beads to Protect Life Sutra". ”

"Bo'an is still concentrating on Buddhism?" Zhang Guan couldn't help laughing.

Wang Yangming explained: "This "Medicine King Bodhisattva Turning Beads to Preserve Life Sutra" should not come from Tianzhu, but an apocryphal scripture made by Middle Earth. ”

Wang Yuan asked, "Since it is against the scriptures, why does Mr. still read it?" ”

Wang Yangming said: "This scripture is dedicated to how to treat pox. ”

Pox is smallpox.

Yungui belongs to the smallpox-prone area, and this scripture is also very rare. In the name of the Bodhisattva, the king of medicine, he combined the theory of traditional Chinese medicine with Buddhist thoughts, and wrote a Buddhist scripture for the treatment of smallpox.

When Wang Yangming was teaching in Longgang Mountain, he often wandered around the neighborhood, and found the "Medicine King Bodhisattva Turning Beads to Preserve Life Sutra" in a ruined temple, as well as a narrative left by his predecessors.

From the narrative, it can be known that in a certain month of a certain year, smallpox epidemic broke out in Guiyang. The Miao people were helpless, and every time a child fell ill, they would abandon the child in the wilderness and carry it home after a few days without dying. A wandering monk came to Miaodi and lived in an abandoned temple, and as long as people went to the temple to worship, they would no longer be infected with smallpox.

When the plague ended, the wandering monk disappeared without a trace, and the local people regarded it as the birth of the medicine king Bodhisattva, and renovated the ruined temple. After that, when the people fell ill, as long as they went to the temple to worship, they could be cured without medicine, which was very effective.

Hearing Wang Yangming's narration, Wang Yuan was surprised: "This Buddhist scripture records the method of treating pox? ”

Wang Yangming shook his head: "The Buddhist scriptures say that if a child has pox, his family should burn incense and bathe, do not kill or commit adultery, and worship the Buddha in the morning and evening, and it can be cured." But I think that these are all chiseled words, and the real treatment for pox should be the pox species mentioned in the essays in the narrative. I've been researching for many days, and I don't know what pox is, can the medicine for pox still be grown? This method has not been passed down and has not been practiced in ancient times, so I think it is very strange. ”

Wang Yuan was shocked by these words, and the time of the smallpox outbreak in the narrative should have occurred in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, when there were monks who knew about pox treatment.

As for the family members of smallpox patients, they should burn incense and bathe and worship the Buddha in the morning and evening, the former is to emphasize personal hygiene, and the latter is a monk taking the opportunity to spread the Buddhist faith.

Wang Yuan was reminded by this, and suddenly wanted to study how to plant pox, so that he would be prepared for smallpox epidemic in the future.

Historically, the detailed records of pox were recorded in the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty. But it is human pox, not cowpox, because the failure rate is quite high, people think that only relatives can have an effect on each other's pox - there is a family with a very high survival rate of pox, and others think that the family's pox is very good, so they go to great lengths to steal pox seeds.

Wang Yuan reminded: "Maybe it's fighting poison with poison." Plant the pus from the healed person's acne on the healthy person. ”

Zhang Guan reproached: "Don't talk nonsense, this method can only make healthy people sick!" ”

Wang Yuan continued to explain: "I have heard from the elders in the village that every time there is an outbreak of pox, the livestock will not die of illness. Can it be confirmed that pox in livestock is milder than in humans? If cowpox is planted on a human body and the acne is actively infected, will you no longer be afraid of getting acne? After all, people who have had pox will never get it again in this life. ”

Wang Yangming's eyes lit up: "This method may work!" ”

Zhang Guan also felt that it made sense, and said: "If I become an official in the future, I will encounter a pox epidemic in the jurisdiction. Planting cowpox on those death row inmates may prove that it can also benefit the people. ”

Khan, isn't a death row prisoner a human being? It was actually used for human experiments.

After the old man Zhang Guan finished chatting about the smallpox epidemic prevention work, he suddenly pulled Liu Jin again, slapped the table with wine and scolded the eunuchs for damning.

After drinking too much, Zhang Guan dipped his fingers in wine again, drew a simple map of Guizhou on the table, and analyzed the battle situation for Wang Yangming and Wang Yuan at this time: "The top priority is to mobilize Banzhou soldiers and horses, and fight Xifeng with the Guizhou official army in the north and south, and open up the official road to Guizhou into Guizhou." In this way, Huguang only needs to transfer 5,000 troops to block the rebels' eastward main road, and then he can attack from east to west and break it in one fell swoop! An old friend from the DPRK and China wrote to me, saying that the military department was all Liu Jin's henchmen at the moment, and the military situation in Guizhou was all suppressed, and the emperor did not know that there was a rebellion in Guizhou! ”

"Alas, the eunuch party is a disaster for the country." Wang Yangming could only sigh.

Although Wang Yuan is a historical idiot, he also knows that Zhu Houzhao likes to fight, and he is never soft on foreign enemies and internal criminals. The war in Guizhou has dragged on for nearly a year, and the military department has not yet mobilized a large army to quell the chaos, so Zhu Houzhao must really be unaware.

And the military department was controlled by Liu Jin, most likely because Liu Gonggong deceived the saint and listened, An Guirong must have secretly sprinkled a lot of silver.

Old Man Zhang was so drunk that he scolded Liu Jin's eighteenth generation ancestors in a hurry. patted Wang Yuan on the shoulder again and told him to study hard, only then was he helped by his entourage to fall crookedly and leave.

In the evening, Lu Jian, the deputy envoy of Guizhou, also came to chat with Wang Yangming, and Wang Yuan took the initiative to add wine to accompany him.

Uncle Wang is really able to mix, and he has only been in the Civilization Academy for two months, and he has become good friends with Guizhou civil and military officials and Tusi. Historically, on the first day of the Lunar New Year next year, Lu Jian, the deputy envoy of the Inspectorate, even personally accompanied Wang Yangming to visit the famous places in Guiyang.

Wang Yuan took the opportunity to hitchhike, and gradually became familiar with the officials in Guizhou, and everyone regarded him as a nephew - the name of the prodigy is still useful, and the civil officials serve in the local area, and they especially like to promote the prodigy.

This year's Guizhou officials have more or less enmity with Liu Jin. Either they were degraded, or they were squeezed out by the public and secretly, and when Liu Jin fell, these officials would definitely be promoted.

For example, the old man Zhang Guan, in a few years, will be the governor of Liaodong, holding the military and political power in Liaodong.

(PS: Regarding the smallpox Buddhist scriptures, it is not a random fabrication.) Wang Yangming later printed this scripture and made a preface himself, and the preface mentioned pox: "But the seeds of pox have not been passed down through the scriptures, and they have not existed in ancient times." ）