Sun Yueling smiled slightly, and walked away with the people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info This Kou Shen is a native of Shaanxi, he has always been honest and honest as an official, and he is people-oriented, although he does not have a deep friendship with him, but Sun Yueling also admires him in his heart.

A high platform has been erected at the back of the mountain gate, which is a place for speeches of various schools. In particular, at the suggestion of Han Qianshui, the Fenghua Society changed the original method of various factions to take turns to give speeches on the stage, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation of disputes caused by different viewpoints -- if the various factions really quarrel and even insult and beat each other, this is the last thing that the Fenghua Society wants to see, and it is not their original intention to convene this conference.

Thousands of seats have been placed on the vast field in front of the stage, and the front seats have long tables and soft chairs, which are for the adults in the official office and the leaders and elites of various factions to sit on, and the back is all stools for the ordinary people who come to watch the meeting.

However, looking at the formation of people coming today, I am afraid that these seats are far from enough, and most people can only stand on both sides of the seats to watch. Fortunately, today's weather is beautiful, it is a good day with a high spring sun and a clear sky, if it is a humid and rainy day, it will be ruined.

Coming to the back of the high platform, Sun Yueling walked to a round table and sat down, and said to the person in front of him who was looking at the conference book: "I thought I came early, but I didn't expect you to be earlier than me, I really convinced you." ”

The man didn't raise his head, but said, "If I were as idle as you, how would this conference be held?" Just this matter of setting up the venue and distributing gift books kept me busy for half an hour. ”

Sun Yueling grinned and said, "There is a good wife like this, what more can Sun Yueling's husband ask for!" ”

The man raised his head, glared at him, and said dissatisfiedly, "What did you say?" Who is your wife? ”

Sun Yueling smiled, reached out and stroked her cloud-like hair, and said, "Xinying, can't you still feel my Sun Yueling's affection for you?" ”

Chu Xinying frowned, stretched out her hand and slapped it on his hand, and said angrily: "Don't move your hands and feet, there are many people here, what should I do if such an impolite behavior is seen, how can you still preside over the 'Speaking Literature Conference'?" ”

Sun Yueling was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, and said with a smile: "It's still Xinying thoughtful, Yueling Menglang, hehe......"

This woman is none other than Chu Xinying from Baishi City, Sichuan. Since Sun Yueling ordered Han Qianshui to stay in Jiangnan to operate, Han Wanshui was able to gain a foothold in Jiangnan with the strong help of Sichuan Baishicheng, and Fenghuashe and Baishicheng have since come closer, and the two sides have had many business contacts. After Chu Xinying arrived in Suzhou last year, she rushed to Fuzhou to see Sun Yueling, but unexpectedly, after arriving in Fuzhou, it happened that he was about to return to Jiangnan after being degraded, so Chu Xinying had to accompany him back to Suzhou.

Fortunately, with Chu Xinying by her side all the way, Sun Yueling's frustrated mood was appeased, and the whole person regained his previous fighting spirit. That time from Fujian to Suzhou, not by sea but by land, from Xianxia Pass out of Fujian into Zhejiang, and then back to Suzhou, hundreds of miles together, the two are more affectionate, the mind is compatible, feel indistinguishable from each other.

After returning to Suzhou, Chu Xinying simply didn't leave, and stayed in Jiangnan to help Sun Yueling take care of some business matters of Fenghua Society, saving him a lot of thought. But Chu Xinying is not a member of their Fenghua Club on the surface, she opened a brocade shop in Suzhou City, and she is the owner of this shop.

Sun Yueling picked up the teapot on the table, poured a cup of tea for her, and said: "Xinying, in order to be able to successfully hold this conference, our Fenghua Society has invested a lot of manpower, and the batch of tea that should have been transported to Sichuan by us is really not able to be escorted, so I think it is better to let your people do it for you." ”

Chu Xinying nodded and said: "This matter is simple, it just so happens that the people in the store are going back to Sichuan to transport some silk brocade over, and I will let them take your goods to the place." ”

Sun Yueling said happily: "Great, thanks to you, I have saved a lot of trouble." ”

Chu Xinying said angrily: "It's good that you know." ”

While the two were talking, Han Xiaoshui suddenly came to Sun Yueling's side and said in a low voice: "Sect Master, the Jinling Society has sent people, along with Zhou Shunchang and Qian Qianyi and others, and even Yingshe has sent people to join them. ”

Sun Yueling was shocked when he heard this, this time the conference was held, they originally informed Zhou Shunchang, Qian Qianyi and others, and he also personally went to Jinling to Suzhou to replace the invitation, these people did not express their position at first, just said some polite words to perfunctory him, saying that they would come to Yunyun if they had time. Seeing their attitude, Sun Yueling thought that they would not come, but when the matter came, they all came without saying hello, which was beyond his expectations.

Han Xiaoshui said again: "This time they came uninvited, I'm afraid things won't be so simple." ”

Sun Yueling nodded and said, "You're right, these people have always been at odds with us, and they regard us as grassroots outliers, but now they actually come to the meeting, there must be a reason inside." ”

Han Xiaoshui raised his eyes and looked around, and whispered, "Could they be here to cause sabotage?" ”

"This ......," Sun Yueling frowned. Since beating him and settling in Suzhou, Jinling Club and Zhou Shunchang and others have been hindering and making difficulties everywhere, so that the Fenghua Society was once very passive, but fortunately, they were supported by them in the most difficult time, and now the Fenghua Society has come forward to hold this Jiangnan Cultural Conference, and those people in the Jinling Society must be very angry, so this time they came, they must not have come to support the party, maybe they will have to make some small moves, so they said to Han Xiaoshui, "The person who comes is a guest, you go and ask Zhong Yansong, whether they Heshan Academy is going to send someone to speak, if so, Reserve a place for them; If not, place them in front of the meeting. ”

After a pause, he continued: "Also, if they send people to attend the conference to speak, you can clearly explain to them the rules of the conference, you can only make a speech alone, you can't gather crowds to make noise, let alone rebuke and criticize other literary schools, you must strictly follow the rules of the conference." ”

Han Wanshui answered: "Yes, my subordinates know." "Just go away.

Chu Xinying waited for Han Qianshui to leave, then frowned and said, "If the Jinling Guild is really here to make trouble, then what should I do?" ”

"The soldiers are coming, and the water is coming to cover the earth!" Sun Yueling smiled faintly and said, "If they play with literature, we will naturally accompany them to the end; If they play martial arts, then I'm sorry, Kou Futai is not easy to get along with, I believe he will definitely handle it impartially and arrest all these troublemakers, after all, this event is also about his face, he will not sit idly by, Xinying, you can rest assured. ”

By the time it was over, all the participants sent by various families had arrived, and the square under the high platform was already full, and even the passages on both sides and in the middle were full of people, crowded and crowded, and the whole venue was noisy, and a thousand voices were humming.

At this moment, a burst of drums and strings suddenly sounded, like a cracked silk, faintly emanating from the high platform, and spreading out in all directions through the sound of heavy human waves. A woman's figure suddenly appeared on the high platform, with green clothes and water sleeves, with a graceful figure, covering her face with a veil, and slowly moving in the stage.

After the crowd boiled for a while, it suddenly fell silent, and the whole venue became silent, and the needle drop could be heard.

Sun Yueling whispered to Han Xiaoshui and smiled: "It seems that Miss Fengli is still very charming, as soon as she appeared, she suppressed the scene." ”

Han Xiaoshui said with a smile: "Suzhou Oiran is naturally worthy of its reputation. ”

The woman who took the lead on the stage was Feng Li, a popular flower prostitute in Yinghexuan on the shore of Jinji Lake in Suzhou, known as the top brand in Jiangnan, and the literati in the Jiangnan area were all proud of her favor and being summoned by her. This time, in order to avoid the scene being too monotonous and intense, Sun Yueling spent a lot of money to invite Feng Li to perform, which can be regarded as adding some fun to the conference.

In the Ming Dynasty, especially at the end of the period, this kind of thing of enjoying with courtesans and poetry and music was very common, and it has always been regarded as an elegant and happy thing by Shilin, and many readers are eager to do it, and they can't stop, and now Feng Li can appear in the public place of the Saying and Literature Conference, which makes many people feel excited and shout that it is worth the trip.

At this time, Feng Li's performance on the stage is the Kunqu opera repertoire "The Story of the Purple Hairpin" in the "Fallen Hairpin Lantern Shadow", this repertoire is quite popular in the Jiangnan area, everyone has long been familiar with it, but it is another thing to be performed by the top brand Feng Li girl in Suzhou, countless people stretched their necks, stood on tiptoe and squeezed forward, wanting to see the appearance of this legendary prostitute more clearly.

Sun Yueling and Han Qianshui did not sit under the stage, but sat on the side of the high platform as the hosts, and he asked again: "What did Zhong Yansong say?" ”

Han replied: "They agreed to send representatives to the stage to speak, and I repeated the rules of the conference to them again, and they said that they would follow them. ”

"Really?" Sun Yueling didn't expect Jinling to become so cooperative, and said, "This is the best, as long as they are not here to make trouble, we have no reason not to welcome it." ”

Han Xiaoshui said with a smile: "This conference is held so grandly, presumably they are not willing to be lonely, so they suddenly changed their minds to come to the meeting, after all, they are also a branch of the Jiangnan Literary School, if they miss this event, it will not be a good thing for them." ”

Sun Yueling nodded and said, "That makes sense." After a pause, he added, "Are all the adults in the official office we invited here?" ”

Han Wanshui said: "Most of them came, only the governor Mao Yilu, the inspector Xu Ji, and the inspector Wang Qitai did not come." ”

"Oh." Sun Yueling sighed secretly in his heart, Mao Yilu still didn't give him face as always, but it's no wonder that Mao Yilu is Wei Zhongxian's godson, in charge of important military and political affairs in Jiangsu, how could he take him, the former envoy who stepped down, in his eyes.

Half an hour later, Feng Li's performance ended, and then Sun Yueling invited Cao Changhe, the political envoy, to take the stage to deliver a speech, which kicked off the official convening of the conference.

After Cao Changhe's speech, the conference officially began. I saw that the first speaker on the stage was a young gentleman, handsome, with a long jade tree in the wind.

"Who is this?" Sun Yueling picked up the gift book and looked at it, and saw that the first person on the speech list was a representative of the "public security faction", but he did not know this person.

"This person is Tao Guoxing, the nephew of Tao Wangling, the elder of the public security faction and the former Guozi priest Jiu Tao Wangling." Han Wanshui explained, "The public security faction is gradually scattered, and there is a lack of successors, so they are ranked in the first place." Pointing to the west row of Yaxi, he said, "For this speech, Mr. Yuan Zhongdao, the leader of the public security faction, also came to the town in person. ”

Sun Yueling nodded, stopped talking, and turned his head to watch Tao Guoxing's speech on the stage. This Tao Guoxing was foaming at the mouth on the stage, and his voice was full of emotion, but it did not resonate much with the audience, and many people even looked disdainful and didn't care about him at all.

Sun Yueling could only be speechless about this. The school of public security faction he also knew a little in his previous life, and he paid attention to the straightforward expression of his mind and the set of temperament, but in the late Ming Dynasty, when many schools of thought were in full swing, he gradually couldn't keep up with the trend and was completely isolated from the world, so he declined, and there was not even a talent who was in charge of the overall situation, let alone a well-known erudite Confucian.

Perhaps Tao Guoxing himself was aware of this situation, and the speech that followed became more and more weak, and his voice became low from the impassioned voice at the beginning, and finally ended the speech hastily and Shi Li retreated.

Sun Yueling's eyes were sharp, and at a glance, he saw that Yuan Zhongdao, a Nanjing official sitting on the west side of Yaxi, actually patted the seat and sighed, and his lonely expression was overflowing. Thinking that he came in person despite his age, and the speeches of his students did not resonate with the audience, he must have been depressed in his heart.

Not long after, the representative of the second school began to speak on stage, and the man who appeared on the stage was about forty years old, dressed in a green robe, and his face was covered with dust, and he looked a little haggard.

Before Sun Yueling could speak, Han Xiaoshui sighed: "I can't imagine that the 'Jingling faction' actually sent Tan Yuanchun, one of the elders of the founding faction, to give a speech, which is really unexpected." ”

"Tan Yuanchun? It turned out to be him? Sun Yueling's mind flashed, and he suddenly remembered that when he was watching the Oiran Conference on the bank of the Qinhuai River, Wang Xiuwei, a beautiful prostitute in Meiyan Pavilion who had entered the first class of the Oiran, had written poems in public and confided in his heart, saying that he missed Tan Lang. At that time, he didn't know who Tan Lang was in her mouth, and he was still envious in his heart, but later he learned that Tan Lang in Wang Xiuwei's mouth was Tan Yuanchun, the representative of the 'Jingling faction', but he didn't expect it to be the person in front of him.

couldn't help but pay more attention to him, staring carefully at the stage, wanting to see what this person had to say.