"The general only loves money, the emperor but eats wine. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info swept away the money in the south of the Yangtze River and filled the mud horse mouth. ”

A group of naughty children on the side of the street sang a newly popular nursery rhyme in a crisp children's voice while playing. The accent of Jiangnan, mud and Li are indistinguishable, and the urchins sing about mud horses, but passers-by clearly say that it is actually Li Ma. People who have a heart will smile when they hear it.

Today's son was supported by Li Ma and the others, and this matter is well known in Nanjing. Some people secretly compared Emperor Hongguang to Zhao Gou of Song Gaozong in a corner of peace. Coincidentally, when this Song Gaozong was still His Royal Highness King Kang, there was a legendary miracle of crossing King Kang with a mud horse and crossing the Yellow River to escape the pursuit, which can be regarded as the help of the Holy Son of Heaven. However, some people have verified that the person who helped His Royal Highness King Kang cross the Yellow River and escape the chase was actually a common man named Li Ma, but in order to establish the miracle of the Son of Heaven, he deliberately pointed to the red rabbit horse in front of the Guandi Temple and said that it was a mud horse.

Now calling Li Ma a mud horse may not be without the insinuation that Emperor Hongguang is compared to Zhao Gou. Anyway, this emperor with the "seven musts" is also an emperor who does not meet their standards in the eyes of righteous gentlemen.

On the other side of the road, in front of the ink shop that sells books, pen, ink, paper and inkstones, the man quickly wrapped the purchased pen, ink and paper for the customer, and put away a very delicate printed book and handed it to the customer: "Sir, yours." ”

Xiucai, who was dressed in a green shirt, looked at the pen, ink, paper and the book in the bamboo basket with some doubts, "Man, is there a mistake?" I didn't buy a book. ”

"That's right. Messire. "According to the current custom, the man calls Xiucai Xianggong." The books sent by the guild the day before yesterday said that all those who came to buy pen, ink, paper, books, calligraphy and paintings would be accompanied by a copy of the "Hongwen Xianggong Sacrifice Collection" written by Emperor Daxing himself. Xianggong, you go back and think about it, it is full of wonderful pens of Mr. Adult, maybe there will be autumn hair! ”

Listening to this guy's clever words, Xiucai happily carried the bamboo basket and left. A middle-aged scribe with a beautiful beard at the door of the shop walked over and looked at the bookshelf behind the man: "This little brother, what do you want to buy, can you get this book as a gift?" ”

"Sir, are you going to ask for this book?"

"Yes! I have heard for a long time that there are a lot of wonderful pens in the sacrificial texts of that day, but I hate that I was not in Beijing at that time, and I had no chance to read it. There are wonderful texts that cannot be missed. ”

"Since Mr. is a scholar, then the old man will give one away. Anyway, old decay is also generous to others. The old shopkeeper, who was writing behind the counter, came and ordered one to be taken and handed to the bearded scribe.

The bearded scribe took the book, exchanged a few more polite words with the old shopkeeper, and then got up and took his leave. After waiting for a long time on the street corner, I took a four-person sedan chair and went to the city.

"Strange, how do I think this person is familiar?" The old shopkeeper shook his head, but he couldn't remember who this person was, so he could only sigh a few times secretly, the years are unforgiving, and his memory is not good.

"Shopkeeper, isn't that Ruan Dacheng and Ruan Yuanhai! At the beginning, we also saw the play "Old Protégé" written by Mr. Zhang in Mr. Zhang's garden, have you forgotten? "It's still a young guy, and after thinking about it for a while, I remembered that when I first watched the play, I had seen this Ruan Dacheng with a very eye-catching beard from afar.

Although he had a lot of opinions on Ruan Dacheng and his people, after watching the performance of Ruan Dacheng's opera troupe, he praised him in "Dream Memories of Tao'an" as "a cluster of new people, and those who are not out of the ordinary", saying: "Ruan Yuanhai is a good family, stressing the eyes, being reasonable, and talking about the joints, which is different from Meng Lang in his class." However, the yard books he played were all self-made by the owner, sketched with pen and pen, and painstakingly exhausted, which was different from the reckless people in his class. Therefore, the performance is excellent, the feet are excellent, the output is excellent, the sentences are excellent, and the words are excellent. Speaking of which, he used five "excellent" in one breath in a row, which shows that it is indeed excellent, and it is by no means a polite remark out of affection.

"Hey! I knew it was him, so why didn't I talk to him! "Although the old shopkeeper is a few years old, he is still the gossip of chasing stars.

Ruan Dacheng got into the sedan chair and gave the order to go to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, so he just opened the letter and prepared to read.

The white and delicate paper, the beautifully printed pages, not to mention the article, this appearance alone makes people feel good. On the title page is a couplet, "Jun's grace is as deep as the sea, and the courtiers are as heavy as a mountain." ”

Behind the title page is a table of contents for an entire book, which is eye-catching. The catalogue contains hundreds of memorial texts in the book, nearly 1,000 poems, more than 1,000 couplets, and also lists the pages of the first few volumes of the book, who the author is, what the official residence is, the name of the department, etc., which is almost a personnel file.

The first place is naturally the sacrificial text written by Emperor Chongzhen of Daxing for Inspector Hong. Followed by dozens of adults and gentlemen listed in turn.

It seems that it has made Ruan Dacheng's chest happy, "This book can be as good as Chen Lin's essay!" ”

This collection of sacrificial texts, collected and compiled by Li Peiting and ordered to be distributed in Nanjing and surrounding cities, is the same as that nursery rhyme, which belongs to the weapons of public opinion attacks on the enemy by their respective camps.

The gentlemen of Donglin ordered people to compile nursery rhymes and organize children to sing them inside and outside the city, while the Nanyue Army took out the sacrificial texts to worship Hong Chengchou with great fanfare and gave them away in bookstores and paper stores everywhere. Moreover, in the column of the author of the article, attach your place of origin, subject A, official position, etc., so that people can know it at a glance.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty's Inspector Hong has long become Mr. Hong of the Qing Dynasty, but the authors of the sacrificial texts and elegiac couplets are still in the court, even if they have changed their doors and become officials of the Dashun court, but his same year and fellow disciples have a lot of posts in Nanjing and various places in the south of the Yangtze River. This undoubtedly made these people crack in the face. "What is your intention to praise a person who is shy and has failed the king's grace? Do they all want to follow him and become the second Wang Meng? ”

As a person who has formed a great enmity with the Donglin Restoration Society, Ruan Dacheng is very happy to look at the familiar names on the sacrificial catalog, many of these people are inextricably linked with the "Staying in the Capital to Prevent Chaos and Revealing Post" in Chongzhen's eleventh year.

In fact, the incomparably great and righteous "Staying in the Capital to Prevent Chaos and Public Disclosure", which has been touted in history, has nothing to do with loyalty and justice. In the final analysis, it is a group of sons and brothers who are jealous and don't show signs of each other.

Ruan Dacheng is good at poetry and opera because of his good writing, and the opera troupe at home is the top of the moment, so it is inevitable that he will be too popular in Nanjing. So, whether it was the fourth son of the Restoration Society or the fourth son of Qin Huai, they all looked at him unpleasantly.

Sitting at home behind closed doors, woe will come from heaven. This time, he provoked the famous "Four Sons of the Late Ming Dynasty" - Chen Zhenhui, Hou Fangyu and a large group of merry sons and brothers who mixed up on the Qinhuai River, as well as Gu Gao, the grandson of Gu Xiancheng, the founder of the Donglin Party, Huang Zongxi, a great Confucian, and Zhou Bi, a member of the Ministry of Rites.

Ruan Dacheng thought that he was disappointed, and at the same time, in order to avoid the war in the Central Plains, he went from his hometown in Huaining, Anhui Province to live in Nanjing, the capital of Anhui, wrote and acted in new plays, made friends, and sang songs to entertain himself, which was also a very common thing in the capital at that time. Although there is no shortage of celebrities in the court, they are all based on their own talents, and they are all in the eyes of Zhang Dai, Wen Zhenheng and others, including Shi Kefa, Fan Jingwen and others, who also meet friends with poetry. Even in the operas he created, there was no arrogant meaning of "intimidation" as Chen Zhenhui, Wu Yingji and others said, but they used this to beg for mercy again and again. Unexpectedly, Gu Gao, Wu Yingji, and Chen Zhenhui looked at the boss unpleasantly, thinking that Qin Huai's courtesans and Yinggeyan dances were the patents of our generation, and Ruan Huzi came to join in the fun.

In August of the 11th year of Chongzhen (1638), they wrote an article "Staying in the Capital to Prevent Chaos and Public Disclosure" to solicit signatures extensively, and attacked Ruan Dacheng, which was full of alarmist untruths. Ruan Dacheng was named "King James Reverse Case", which was difficult to argue and defeated; Chen Zhenhui and others thought that they had beaten the water dog, and their merits were immeasurable.

The cause of this incident, Chen Zhenhui, one of the four sons, also said it very clearly. "Lao Tzu just doesn't like you!"

In his "Seven Rules of Writing", there is a chapter "Preventing Chaos and Exposing the Truth", which is quite weekly, which says:

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Wu Ciwei (Wu Yingji) had "Staying in the Capital to Prevent Chaos" and publicly discussed Ruan Dacheng. Dacheng used the Dang Cui and Wei cases to discuss Chengdan, and the crime was violent in the world. At that time, the spirit was still able to run around the Quartet, and there were many things in Nanzhong and You, and they were really up and down, and they held their intimidation. The second tail is angry and rebellious, and the woo sits on the public opinion, and the slump is the same; The scholars and doctors are struggling, fighting for their hearts, and their consciences are mourned. One day, he said to Gu Zifang (Gu Gao), Zifang said: "Gao does not hesitate to axe and hammer, for the southern capital to remove this great sorrow." "The two of them have passed each other, and they say so. Yu said: "Cheng is guilty of no state, although the scholars and traffickers, although they are not unscrupulous, there is no word against the case to remind them, so that a little bit is broken, such as paralysis and feces, and the decision is fast, and it may not be useless in people's hearts." Under the second taillight, a draft was cut, and Zifang resolutely took the initiative.

In fact, Chen Zhenhui said very clearly, what the fourth prince and Wu Yingji and others are not used to seeing is not a bullshit case, nor is it anything else, but Ruan Dabeard, an Anhui countryman who has been deposed for many years, went to Nanjing and stayed at home honestly and peacefully, but traveled around, and the lyrics and songs he composed were freely displayed on all kinds of all-night singing and dancing banquets, and everyone was not happy; And "circulating singing, parallel with Dongjia, Zhonglang, Hanqing, Bai, and Ma", and "those who know it are important, it is said to be ...... The real lyricist is the authentic descendant", and the Ruan family opera troupe was even better at that time, known as the first in Jinling; At the same time, it is like a city, "Nanzhong has many things to do with you...... Woo don sits on the public side, and stumbles as before; The scholars are squirming, fighting for the heart", and the health of the limelight is unparalleled for a while.

What I heard in my ears was the opera and singing section compiled by Ruan Dacheng, and the guests were also discussing which one was the most exciting, that is, the beauty in front of them also staged this excerpt written by a bearded man, which made them feel embarrassed by these great talents who have been mixed in the Qinhuai River all the year round, how can they save face, and how can they swallow this bird breath?

So they're upset.

Therefore, to put it bluntly, this case arose because Ruan Dacheng was too talented, too popular, and too popular.

It was revealed that the gills of Nanzhong knew that there was a reverse case, and they quarreled and said: "Reverse so! Reverse so! "The scholars are honest and shameful, and they are also bound to be absolute. Cheng was depressed, and his heart became more and more hateful...... To himself, he was a friend of Jingxi Xiangjun (referring to Zhou Yanru), and he was singing and singing, and he was unraveling, and he whispered: "Who is Zhenhui, what is it?" If you want to kill someone, why complain? "Weeping...... Chenggui lurked in the Niushou Mountain of the South Gate and did not dare to enter the city; Galloping to Qiu Ma, Lu'er cub, Kun Yao Tongqu, so far dying! (Chen Zhenhui: "Seven Rules of Writing")

The last two sentences can be regarded as a one-sentence breakthrough. "You are a dog cub from Luzhou, Anhui Province, why do you wear famous brands every day, drive a sports car and hug the girl in front of our four young people?"

Between Chen Zhenhui's words, the self-satisfaction of realizing the immeasurable merits is overflowing, and Wu Yingji's "Preventing Chaos and Public Disclosure" even begins by saying that this move is a major event of "sacrificing one's life for the tiger and throwing one's head for the country". Of course, Chen Zhenhui will not forget to carefully describe Ruan Dacheng's embarrassment after the "Lu'er cub", and ridicule him fiercely. The Donglin-Fushe vein has killed Ruan Dacheng like this, but how can anyone who has a little blood and bones swallow this breath?

Do you think you don't dare to enter Nanjing City and hide in Niushou Mountain? Tell you, there are no doors!

Ruan Dacheng is a smart person, of course he knows the truth that a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and besides, he is not a strong dragon, just a stranded little water snake; And the group of people who want to deal with him are not snakes, but the dragon and phoenix nobles among the people, and few of them can be provoked by him.

So he first went to ask Hou Fangyu, who was also one of the four youngsters, because he had an old relationship with Hou Fangyu's father, Hou Sui, and Hou Fangyu was the son of an old man. He paid for Yang Wencong, one of the "Nine Friends in the Painting", that is, Yang Longyou, who painted Li Xiangjun in "Peach Blossom Fan", (the one who was also beaten up because of the conflict between Li Shouhan, Qian Qianyi and others on the Qinhuai River in the previous article.) Invited Li Xiangjun and Hou Fangyu to travel every day, while matching Hou and Li Qingyuan, while trying to ask Hou Fangyu to be in the middle and say a few good words for himself, but Hou Fangyu refused. (Hou Fangyu: "Zhuang Confession Hall Anthology?") Gui did not go to Jinling Day and Ruan Quang Lu book)

According to Chen Zhenhui's son Chen Weisong's "Mao Pijiang Shou Preface" and Wu Weiye's records, at that time, the so-called "children of the high family, talented and self-promising", gathered in Nanjing to "carve the altar (), establish a name", among which Chen Zhenhui, Hou Fangyu, and Mao Xiang were the three people, because they were "all noble sons". When the three of them travel, they "must set up wine and call for singing and dancing." Jinling song and dance departments are the world, and Huaining (Ruan Dacheng) singer is the crown, and the lyrics are all out of its master", these nobles also know the name of Ruan Dacheng's song and dance team, so "Manzhao". In this word "manchu", you can imagine the arrogance of the attitude of the three people at that time. It's basically like this: "Who is that, how many of our brothers are drinking on the Qinhuai River!" You bring your chicks and give our buddies a drink. ”

Ruan Dacheng knew that he was "known as Mr. Zhu's criticism." Day and night want to redeem themselves, deep thoughts have no way, then the singer is urgent, and let his old slave take the lead. It is the song of "Swallow Notes" written by Huaining", that is, Mr. Chen Yinke said that "the meaning of painful Chen misrecognition, and the love words are pitiful".

Ruan Dacheng ordered his troupe to rush to stage this play, and his plea for mercy was overflowing, so what was the attitude of Chen Zhenhui, Hou Fangyu, and Mao Xiang? Wu Weiye remembered this matter more thoroughly, but he said: (Ruan Dacheng) knows that all the gentlemen spurn it, and he begs for advice to lose his life. Those who will meet the three of them, put the wine rooster under the rooster, call the good ones of their families, and the new words made by the master of the song are overjoyed and say: "This gentleman wants to be good to me." "What is the detective? Seeing the kings frolicking and listening to their songs, they are also called good. In the middle of the night, he was drunk, and he scolded in the crowd: "If you want to redeem yourself with a lyricist (Wei Zhongxian)'s son? "It is full of whiteness, slapping his palms and laughing wildly, and he has a lot of rest. (Wu Weiye: "Plum Village Anthology?") Fifty years of life in the frontier)

As the saying goes: "You have to spare people and spare people", a few sons and brothers are happy, and they want to call other people's private opera troupes to sing and dance for themselves. Who knew that these people were not, but they slapped their hands and laughed wildly, and began to scold each other in public as "Yu'er Sister", saying that you think you can redeem yourself with this kind of tone? I also yelled and cursed all night. This kind of practice is inevitably too mean, it is really too insulting and too provocative, no wonder Ruan Dacheng later stubbornly did not forget it, and finally took revenge after coming to power. changed to any person, and was pointed at his nose and scolded all night, "You are the son of a eunuch and a nanny, a bitch." "As long as there is an opportunity, you have to take revenge. Ruan Dacheng's revenge is considered very civilized. The public case of Lao Tzu's surrender to Li Zicheng who did not pursue Hou Fangyu was already very graceful.

Ma Shiying knows a lot about the deep hatred between Ruan Dacheng and Donglin. Now, in the face of Donglin's barking, Ma Shiying recommended his old friend to Li Shouhan.

For this famous playwright, Li Shouhan had only heard of it during the Kunquzi drama of "Zhong Kui Marrying a Sister", but since it was a character recommended by Ma Shiying, it was good to think about it. Not only can he use the old feud between him and Donglin to deal with Donglin, but he can also give full play to his strengths. According to the current situation, some favorite dramas have been compiled and sung in various places.

Before he finished reading the first volume of the collection of sacrificial texts, the sedan chair had already arrived outside the gate of the Dadu Governor's Mansion.

Under the sideways gaze of everyone, Ruan Dacheng was dressed upright, and ordered the accompanying servants to go to Yuanmen to deliver the name post, and then a Chengqi official greeted him.

"But Mr. Yuanhai in person?" Cheng Qiguan was very polite and gave a deep bow to Ruan Dacheng.

"Don't dare to be it, it's not Ruan Dacheng."

"My lord and Lord Shoufu have been waiting in the house for a long time, sir, please come with me."

In a word, it suddenly made Ruan Dacheng feel like he had ascended to a fairyland.

The two powerful figures in Nanjing City were waiting for them together, which was no less than the difference in treatment compared to being scolded by a group of half-drunk sons and brothers for a night. (To be continued.) )