Chapter 328: Lost and Found

The two have similar political views, although their identities are different, but they talk about speculation, and they have been friends for many years. After the wine bar snored and the ears were hot, the two fell asleep again, and they didn't know how late they fell asleep.

At three o'clock in the morning, Zhang Duanyi got up at night, but he was pressed by Wei Liaoweng's clothes, and he couldn't help but smile when he heard Wei Liaoweng snoring slightly.

I thought that Wei Liaoweng was now in a high position, but he had never forgotten these old friends, and he always had some official frame to participate in political affairs, but he never thought that he was the same as when he was young, laughing when he was happy, and scolding when he talked about unhappy things.

"With such a temper, he can still be a governor of the government, and the official family can tolerate him, I think it's not shallow."

For the young son of heaven in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang Duanyi still admires it from the bottom of his heart. Not to mention anything else, at least in terms of recovering lost land and expanding territory, since the Great Song Dynasty, there has been no son of heaven who can compare to it - Taizu Taizong has touched a nose of ashes in the sixteen states of Youyun, not to mention the millions of miles of Han and Tang Dynasty old lands in the East!

"Masao, don't worry, have another drink."

Wei Liaoweng suddenly said at this time, and then turned around, Zhang Duanyi heard that he was still persuading him to drink in his dream, and couldn't help laughing again.

Taking advantage of him to turn around, Zhang Duanyi got up, he pushed the door open, and the autumn wind rushed up to make love to him, he was refreshed, and he didn't feel a long breath.

If it weren't for Wei Liaoweng's encounter on the way, if it weren't for Wei Liaoweng still thinking about the old, I don't know where I would stay today.

What's more, I don't know how to arrange it tomorrow.

He has now made up his mind, since Wei Liaoweng treats him as before, then he will not be hypocritical, he will come to Lin'an this time, if he slips back, he really has no face to see his old wife, so even if he temporarily stays at Wei Liaoweng's house, he must write the manuscript again, and find someone to publish a book, so that he has the face to return to Suzhou.

But the next morning, when he woke up, he found that Wei Liaoweng had already left, and there was a servant waiting beside him, listening to him ask, the servant smiled and said: "Today's officials are very diligent in government, although the time of the court meeting has been postponed, but the cabinet ministers are not lazy, the lord has to get up at six o'clock every day, and he has to go to the Taiwan Pavilion at seven o'clock to deal with government affairs. ”

Zhang Duanyi is no stranger to this, and so are the officials in Suzhou, but he never thought that Wei Weng Guiwei would be subject to this restriction if he participated in politics. The servant had lived in Lin'an for a long time, and he was accustomed to observing words and feelings, and at the end he added: "The same is true of today's official family, unless there is a rest every seven days, otherwise go to Boya Building on time at seven o'clock to give instructions on official documents." ”

In order to deal with government affairs more quickly, he set up a bachelor in Boya Building on the basis of the bachelor of Boya Building, and he only said that it was an assistant to a group of Boya Bachelors, but in fact, he set up some secretary generals of the emperor who were appointed by young and middle-aged officials to assist him in handling official documents. This waiter has a low rank and no real power, and there are restrictions from foreign dynasties, so Zhao and Ju are not afraid of them taking power and arbitrarily exercising power.

In the future, when the scholars of Boya Lou gradually take over the power from the current court, these young officials will come in handy with their experience and drive.

Wei Liaoweng's lunch was also eaten at the official office, as the governor in charge of finance and civil affairs, his official affairs were very busy, not to mention that he often had to work overtime at noon and even at night.

When he came back in the evening, Zhang Duanyi put down his face and talked about his stolen manuscripts, Wei Liaoweng smiled slightly when he heard it, took out a manuscript from his arms, and handed it to Zhang Duanyi: "Brother Zhengfu, but this one?" ”

Zhang Duanyi was dumbfounded, this was the manuscript he had lost!

"Yesterday, I heard Zhengfu say that he lost his property, so he asked Huo Chongcheng - this person is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, serving in the Ministry of Justice, he has a relationship with the three sects and nine people in Lin'an, and he has a secret spy, and it is only a matter of three or five hours to find the lost property for Zhengfu and his brother." Wei Liaoweng said with a smile: "Brother Zhengfu is actually wrong, he lost something at the station, and he should immediately go to the station inspection room to report the case." ”

Zhang Duanyi had nothing else to say except nodding, he came from the lowest level of the market, and was used to seeing the faces of the officials, as the saying goes, the yamen is open to the south, and there is no reason to come in without money, even after Zhao and Ju reformed, the influence of these stereotypes and bad habits is still huge, so Zhang Duanyi can not deal with the government, so he will not deal with the government as much as possible.

"There are too many people at the station, and thieves can't be caught, but it's better to make up for the loss than to do nothing." Speaking of this, Wei Liaoweng was a little surprised: "When I was young, I pointed out the country with my husband and brother, and I only said that there is an evil trend in the world, as long as you and I are in power, we will be able to shake it in one go, but now I know that this evil trend is not because one or two people can change it." ”

Wei Liaoweng's words were really inspired by his feelings, and what happened in Hedong Province in the first half of the year is a ready-made example. The local tyrants, inferior gentry, scholars, officials, and hooligans in Hedong Province and Jingxi Province almost colluded to form a complete black coal industry chain, and the local tyrants were responsible for opening coal kilns in their hometowns, and the scholars provided protection, and the officials opened the door of convenience, and the hooligans kidnapped laborers for them, and then threw these laborers into the black hole in the coal mine. If it is according to Wei Liaoweng Zhang Duanyi's temperament when he was young, he only feels that there is a Qing official who has arrived, and by virtue of the authority of the Son of Heaven, he will either kill or expel him, and it will naturally be peaceful in the world of Haiyan River. But in fact, these colluding forces are so intertwined that they really affect the whole body. Moreover, this batch is cleaned up, and if it cannot form institutional constraints, the next batch will appear quickly.

"Exactly, in the past, I thought that Mencius was good and good, but now I think that Xunzi's evil nature is the way of heaven. It's my own family, and when I see others rich and rich, I inevitably want to replace them. Zhang Duanyi said awe-inspiringly: "Besides, now, the Son of Heaven attaches great importance to industry and commerce, although it is for the sake of people's livelihood, but he also released a hungry tiger, this hungry tiger eats people and does not spit out bones, it is ferocious, ferocious!" ”

What he said later made Wei Weng stunned: "Why did Zhengfu say this? ”

"Father and Brother Hua will know ...... when they see my book," Zhang Duanyi sighed.

Wei Liaoweng was busy with government affairs, and Zhang Duanyi's article, but he abolished political affairs and spent a day reading it. At first glance, he also felt inappropriate because of the coarseness of his words, with Zhang Duanyi's level, he should not have written such a plain thing, but after careful scrutiny, this article was written precisely for those workers who were rough in night school, and colloquialism was exactly what it should be, and if it made the words brilliant, it would not be beautiful. The most important thing is that in Zhang Duanyi's text, the situation of those female textile workers is very miserable, completely different from what Wei Liaoweng saw in Lin'an City.

They have more income and higher horizons, and they have some sense of rebellion against what was originally bound to them. But the forces that bound them not only did not let them go, but also colluded with the factory owners.

They are still under multiple pressures, and there is an extra mountain above them than before.

But it wasn't that that made Wei Liaoweng sad - no matter how enlightened he was, he was still a machismo, and although he sympathized with the plight of the female workers, he only sympathized with them, and what he saw was that these female workers, like the male workers around them, were brutally oppressed by the private factory owners.

In the factories controlled by Zhao and Ju, there were certain guarantees for workers, such as various welfare measures, but with the expansion of industrialization, more and more private individuals opened their own factories, and in the fierce competition, the rights and interests of workers became the first to be cut by factory owners. For example, a pregnant woman has to go to work with a big belly even when she is seven or eight months old, and she must return to work within a month after giving birth, otherwise she may lose her job.

Male workers also had a hard time, with no rest periods, and could work more than 14 hours a day – night work had been possible since the invention of the gas lamp. Their salaries are getting meaggerent, and many workers in private factories earn less than they earn fourteen hours a day than the eight hours a day in the factories controlled by Zhao and Ju.

Private factory owners relied on this brutal form of exploitation to compete with the factories controlled by Zhao and Ju. Originally, Zhao and Ju hoped to promote technological innovation among private factory owners through competition, but the first thing these short-sighted men considered to reduce costs was to exploit workers, or reduce workers' wages, or extend working hours.

"In the long run, there will be trouble."

Putting down the tea in his hand, Wei Liaoweng raised his eyes and glanced at Zhao Youju, but he didn't find any surprise or anger on the face of the Son of Heaven, Zhao Youju was looking at Zhang Duanyi's manuscript intently, and his eyebrows occasionally raised.

The appearance of this manuscript was really unexpected by Zhao and Ju.

"Your Majesty?" Seeing that Zhao Youju was looking attentive, Wei Liaoweng called in a low voice, and Zhao Youju waved his hand, signaling him to be quiet and continue to look down.

From the perspective of future generations, this manuscript is only more than 60,000 words, which is not a masterpiece, but it is written in the vernacular, which makes Zhao Heju more moved than its content. Flowery rhetoric and obscure allusions have made knowledge a mystical thing in the hands of a few elites, and vernacular writing has fundamentally changed that. Zhang Duanyi wrote this in the vernacular, was it out of his original intention, or was it just accidental?

After that, it's time to think about its content. Zhao Youju has now been the emperor for more than eight years and nearly nine years, and he is not thinking about the problem now, as he was when he first ascended to the throne, and he found that his mind has become more and more "cruel". For example, in the situation of those workers, Zhao and Ju found that they were not as angry as before.

This is in Wei Liaoweng's eyes, but it has become the Son of Heaven's cultivation is getting better and better, and his mood is not moved by color, and it has become unfathomable.

"This Zhang Duanyi is an interesting person, and he actually wrote such an article...... I want to meet him, can Wei Qing arrange it for me? ”

Hearing that Zhao and Ju had opinions on Zhang Duanyi, Wei Liaoweng was overjoyed, and he borrowed Zhang Duanyi's manuscript, which was originally used as a stepping stone, and wanted to recommend Zhang Duanyi to Zhao and Ju. He immediately said, "This man is in the minister's house, and if His Majesty wants to see him, he can summon him now." ”

"If you can write such a literate, I will send someone to summon it, but I am afraid that the Son of Heaven will not be able to call the ship." Zhao Youju patted the table lightly: "But it's okay to try, even if you don't succeed, you can also make him famous...... Decades and hundreds of years later, this fame is also useful. ”

Just like Zhao Youju said, he summoned Zhang Duanyi to come, but Zhang Duanyi refused to enter the court. Zhao Heju didn't force it, just called it, but Wei Liaoweng secretly admired it in his heart.

He has been participating in politics for a long time, Zhang Duanyi is in Suzhou, and with the friendship between the two of them and Zhang Duanyi's knowledge, as long as Zhang Duanyi asks to come to the door, he will install a position for Zhang Duanyi. But for such a long time, even if Zhang Duanyi was reduced to the point of relying on his old wife to work in the factory for a living, he never came to look for him, proving that this person's mind is no longer in the official career.

Zhang Duanyi has a greater ideal, from the conversation with Wei Liaoweng, he has a more direct understanding of Zhao and Ju, such a humble and far-sighted son of heaven, for his little disrespect will only laugh at him, and even intend to invite him to be famous.

Sure enough, Zhao Heju not only did not blame, but also personally named his manuscript "Iron House", and asked Wei Liaoweng to write a preface for it, and handed it over to the "Great Song Times Weekly" for publication, and after the serialization was completed, it was also ordered to be published by the Commercial Book Company in the form of a single book.

This was originally a book that was not very flattering, but after some publicity, it caused a great uproar among the Confucian forests, and although the Son of Heaven himself gave it its name, it was still criticized at first. As for its content, Rulin did not have any objections, thinking that this was to expose the face of the businessman's "valuing profit over righteousness", but for the way he wrote in the vernacular, Rulin cursed.

This is inevitable, these Confucian students instinctively feel that after the Son of Heaven used wisdom to break the way of Confucianism to dominate the official career, the emergence of vernacular literature is the Son of Heaven breaking their monopoly on public opinion.

At this point in the Great Song Dynasty, the economic and even social changes are huge, but there is no humanistic change to adapt to it, so it is still a lame giant, which is something that Zhao Youju has always been worried about. Zhang Duanyi's birth made him realize that with the deepening of social changes in the Great Song Dynasty, the time was finally ripe for a profound change in the field of humanities.

At the same time as The Iron House, there were also translations of Western books, such as a series of works by Aristotle, which were compiled into the book "Theory of Tools". Originally, there was the study of "name discrimination" in China, and these works of Aristotle, after being cross-referenced by those learned Confucians and the study of name discrimination, suddenly became a common tool used by these scholars to debate each other.

This is exactly what Zhao and Ju want. As the controversy over "Blood and Tears of the Weaving Factory" reached a white-hot situation, Zhao Youju publicly affirmed the use of vernacular for creation in the court, and took out 10,000 yuan from the inner treasury to set up the Great Song Award to reward the creation of vernacular literature, which actually set off an upsurge of the vernacular literary movement.