On the second day, Zhu Ming moved from the dormitory to the VIP dormitory with his entourage.

lives next door to Chen Yuan, and the two share a courtyard.

Chen Yuan also had an entourage, and there were four of them.

Of the four entourage, only one had ever studied, and the remaining three were all bodyguards.

There was no way, he first went from Fujian to Jiangdong, then from Jiangdong to Lianghuai, then to the Central Plains and Guanzhong, and now to Hanzhong. If there were no bodyguards around, they would have been robbed by bandits a long time ago.

What's more, it also requires people to carry luggage and coils.

The three bodyguards were practicing their guns and sticks, and Bai Sheng and Shi Biao couldn't help but want to ask for advice on martial arts.

So, these five rough men mixed together, and they were uncomfortable dancing with knives and sticks all day long.

Bai Sheng learns things very quickly, and he can understand all kinds of moves and skills at a glance. But I couldn't sink my temperament, and I practiced and practiced, and I felt a little better, so I had to stop and rest and chat with the three bodyguards.

Shi Biao is just the opposite, it is difficult to learn moves, and it is even more difficult to comprehend the tricks of moves. What Bai Sheng learned in ten minutes, he had to ponder there for two or three days, and Chen Yuan's three bodyguards were speechless.

On the fourth day, before Chen Yuan's article was finished, he plunged headlong into the library of the academy.

However, "Journey to the West" spread first, and the manuscript was divided into more than ten parts, and a group of outsiders took turns to read it. There are even more enthusiastic people who light up the lamp at night to copy it, and want to copy the entire "Journey to the West".

This matter was soon discovered by the principal.

One of Min Wenwei's hobbies is to inspect the academy. When he encounters students who work hard, he will praise and encourage; When he encounters students who are playing and playing, he can reprimand them for half an hour in a row, and the criticism is not the same.

At night, they inspect from the upper house to the inner house, and then from the inner house to the outer house.

When he arrived, he found that there were three dormitories, and the lights were still on.

Min Wenwei walked to the door and peeked in through the crack in the door. I saw that three of the four out-of-house students in the house were reading, and one was writing articles.

Poor students also know how to work hard?

Min Wenwei suddenly felt relieved, if everyone can study hard until late at night, why worry about not being able to improve their knowledge? Yangzhou Academy will be able to enter and exit the scholar again!

I went to another dormitory and peeked, and found that there were three people studying inside.

It is not easy for poor students to learn, and Min Wenwei is not prepared to disturb. He was about to leave silently when he heard someone in the room say, "Why haven't you finished reading it yet?" I've been waiting for an hour! ”

In the Song Dynasty, there were two systems of timekeeping, twelve hours as the big hour and twenty-four hours as the hour.

"Wait a little longer, I'll watch it again, and I'm almost done."

"Rewatch it again? You birdman! ”

"Hey, don't grab it, beware of the manuscript being torn."

"Hand it over!"

“……”

Min Wenwei feels that something is wrong, no matter how studious she is, she won't compete for books, right?

"Bang bang bang!"

Min Wenwei said in a deep voice: "Open the door!" ”

The room was instantly silent, the oil lamp was blown out, and the four students lay down on the bed as fast as they could.

"Open the door!" Min Wenwei scolded again.

Suddenly, there was a sound of snoring in the room, and one after another, the snoring was like thunder, one after another.

Min Wenwei said angrily: "If you don't open the door again, you will be expelled from the academy!" ”

The snoring stopped, and the door opened.

Min Wenwei said: "Take it out!" ”

The four students hurriedly took the books, all of which were sage books such as Mencius and the Analects.

Min Wenwei just sneered, walked straight inside, pulled out a stack of manuscripts from under the pillow, turned around and asked, "Do you want me to search for it myself?" ”

The students had to hand over the rest of the manuscript and wait in fear to be scolded.

Min Wenwei said: "Go to bed early!" ”

As if pardoned, the four students flew to bed.

Min Wenwei went to the other two dormitories, collected all the manuscripts, and returned to his room full of anger.

"Palm Lamp!"

At the sound of an order, the servant lit the oil lamp.

The manuscript was glued together with rice by the students, and each chapter was glued into one copy, and each copy was also numbered.

Min Wenwei put it away according to the number, and then read it at night, he wanted to see what could make students forget to sleep and eat.

The beginning was changed by Zhu Ming, first writing Pangu to open the sky, then writing that the co-foreman could not touch Zhou Mountain, and then writing Nuwa refining five-color stones to make up for the sky. A five-colored stone was left in the world, and in the East China Sea, the innate stone monkey was bred.

When I first read it, Min Wenwei was full of disdain, and felt that such words were unsightly.

With a critical eye, Min Wenwei continued to read. As he read, the oil lamp fammed and he turned it on. At the end of the reading, I simply changed a wick.

"Woohoo!"

With a rooster crow, Min Wenwei woke up suddenly, and found that he actually saw three or four o'clock in the middle of the night.

He hurriedly blew out the lamp to sleep, and his mind was full of Sun Wukong.

The next morning, the mountain chief was still asleep, and for the first time, he did not go to the campus on time.

It wasn't until more than eight o'clock in the morning that Min Wenwei finally woke up. Dressed and washed, went to school for a walk, then went to breakfast, and then hurried back to the house...... Read.

The legends of the Song Dynasty are all short stories, and in terms of literary evaluation, even the Tang legends are not as good.

There are also some scripts, except for opera lovers, no one reads them, because they can watch the play directly.

The feature-length "Journey to the West" was thrown in front of the audience in the era of black and white silent films in the Song Dynasty, just like a sci-fi blockbuster in the 21st century. That kind of impact is something that even a great Confucian can't bear, let alone a small principal.

I read it day and night, for days on end.

Min Wenwei finally finished reading "Journey to the West", and felt that the aftertaste was long, so he opened it and reread it. He also picked up the brush, made annotations while reading, and wrote down his reading testimonials.

From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the mainstream of Confucianism was to refute Buddhism.

In particular, physicists and psychologists destroyed more than one or two Buddhist temples when they were local officials. The temples without the approval of the imperial court were demolished and the wood and stone were removed to build schools, and all the teradas were confiscated and replaced with school fields.

But if you don't know the Buddha, how can you refute the Buddha?

The more ruthless the Confucians, the deeper their understanding of Buddhism, and their Buddhist attainments can even not be lost to the monks.

On the hill where Yangzhou Academy is located, there is a temple nearby. Min Wenwei's uncle, after being deposed and returning to his hometown, also carved an inscription on the temple, and even donated money to build a new hall.

Although Chen Yuan criticized Wang Anshi for worshipping Buddha, he often visited Buddhist temples and studied no less Buddhist scriptures than Wang Anshi.

Ercheng is also like this, criticizing Su Shi for worshipping Buddha, and they themselves are also studying Buddhist scriptures.

The difference is that Ercheng, Yang Shi, and Chen Yuan only read Buddhist scriptures and did not introduce Buddhism into Confucianism. Su Shi and Wang Anshi quoted a lot of Buddhist theories and used them as nourishment for Confucianism.

When Min Wenwei read "Journey to the West" for the second time, he was very keenly aware that this was not about Buddhism, but about the integration of three religions!

The Taoist color is too strong, although he still can't read a lot of the content.

The story of the original "Journey to the West" has been formed in the Yuan Dynasty, but it must have been greatly added and deleted in the future. The version that eventually passed on to later generations contains a large number of Quanzhen Taoist thoughts, and there are even more than a dozen poems in the book, which are directly copied from the Quanzhen Taoist Sutra, and there are many more poems written in the way of the Taoist Sutra.

Therefore, some scholars have inferred that "Journey to the West" spanned as long as 200 years from the story to the final draft. During this period, a number of authors added and deleted it, and its final finalizer is likely to be Yan Xiyan, the founder of the Yan Zu School of the Quanzhen Sect.

The author of "Journey to the West" signed "Huayang Cave Master", and Huayang Cave is the Maoshan where Yan Xiyan stands.

Although Zhu Ming changed some of the plots, he copied the poems in Dan as they were. Min Wenwei also read the Taoist scriptures, and his sense of sight was too strong, and after repeated reading, he suspected that the author was a Taoist priest.

Moreover, it is also a Taoist priest who preaches the unity of the three religions - the Quanzhen Sect has not yet been founded at this time.

Calling the students who stole it, Min Wenwei patted the manuscript and asked, "Where did this book come from?" ”

One student stubbornly said, "It was written by Zhu Chenggong." ”

Min Wenwei was obviously stunned for a moment, then started to think, and sneered: "A young man, it is unimaginable to be able to penetrate the Three Classics, how can he have time to read the Taoist Sutra?" It must have been done by his father, and the mouth of the son preached the Tao. ”

Another student couldn't help but ask: "Mountain Chief, isn't "Journey to the West" written about Buddha?" ”

"Buddha skin and bone Confucian soul," Min Wenwei opened the manuscript where he took notes, "it is clearly written. The Bodhi Patriarch here, 'Speak for a while, talk about Zen for a while, and the three schools cooperate with each other'. And here, 'also respecting monks, respecting the Tao, and nurturing talents', isn't it talking about the unity of the three religions? There are many such descriptions in the book. You are shallow in knowledge, you only know how to read the story, how do you know what is told inside? ”

The students couldn't answer, they just thought it seemed to be very profound.

Min Wenwei said again: "You can't see this, and you definitely can't understand it." When one day you succeed in your studies, you will become an official in the imperial examination, and you can look at it when you study. Let's go ahead and study hard. ”

The students retreated in panic and then asked around who had copied the manuscript in private.

You copy a little, I copy a little, and the students piece together a little bit, and only half of "Journey to the West" is pieced together.

Min Wenwei sighed alone: "This Zhu father and son are not ordinary people!" ”

He has read the couplet written by Zhu Ming, and he admires it very much, and he is asking the craftsman to carve it, and it will be hung at the main entrance of the academy in the future.

And Zhu Ming's little-known father is not only a reclusive Confucian, but also a Buddhist cultivator, I am afraid that he belongs to a master like Yichuan Weng (Shao Yong).

Min Wenwei is actually very tolerant of academics, provided that he does not talk nonsense in front of his students. As long as it does not affect the student's reading, the Taoist Buddhism cares about his, and when his uncle inscribes the inscription of the Buddhist temple, he is still on the scene to help study the ink.

Calling his nephew again, Min Wenwei asked, "Mr. Chen and Zhu Chenggong, what are you doing these days?" ”

Min Zishun replied: "In the morning, I went in and out of the library building, and in the afternoon we talked about learning, and Mr. Chen's article has not yet been written. I wrote it several times, but I tore it up and said that I was not satisfied. ”

"They write an article, and immediately come and tell the old man!" Min Wenwei commanded.

Then, this thing began to revise the manuscript of the book, and the plot of the Jade Emperor being frightened to escape was deleted and changed to a more positive one. Let's just say that Sun Wukong hit the Nantianmen, and he was not able to enter the Lingxiao Treasure Hall at all.

The plot modified by Zhu Ming was changed by Min Wenwei again...... Just to not commit the taboo of heaven.

After revising the manuscript, Min Wenwei took his entourage down the mountain and went straight to Zhizhou's mansion.

Last year, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty ordered a nationwide search for precious Taoist scriptures.

Min Wenwei doesn't have a precious Taoist scripture, but he feels that "Journey to the West" can replace it. This book is a Buddha skin and a Confucian soul, and the official family will definitely like it when he sees it, and maybe he can give him a petty official.

The Min family must be more officials, and now there are only a few shadow officials and tribute officials, and there is not even a serious non-commissioned officer.

He also dreams of being an official, as long as he becomes an official, he will be chic in an instant, and he will no longer stick to any righteous and evil ways. He has been in the academy for more than 20 years, and he has had enough of his mother!

(End of chapter)