Recently, a book has been circulating in Lin'an City, called "The Biography of Yue Fei", which was originally only circulated privately in a small area and did not have any impact.

Since the outbreak of the night festival in the lonely mountain camp, the soldiers of the old battalion were arrested and tortured by the Imperial City Division, and then transferred to Dali Temple, this "Yue Fei Biography" suddenly exploded, the scholars and literati almost had a copy, and some people compiled it into a commentary, and vigorously promoted it in the teahouse wine shop, from the dignitaries and nobles in Lin'an City, down to the peddlers and pawns, everyone can tell Yue Fei's life deeds one or two things, as for the "Man Jianghong" made by Yue Fei at the beginning of the book, it can be sung by Huangkou children.

"Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rest. Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, and be fierce. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad.

Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing. When the courtiers hate, when will they perish. Drive a long car and step through Helan Mountain. Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood. To start from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky. ”

Wu Yang's desk has a copy of "The Biography of Yue Fei", the three big characters "The Biography of Yue Fei" on the cover are strong and powerful, and Yue Feiyue's heroic posture holding a gun occupies the entire cover.

Wu Yang looked through some of the old files of the Imperial City Division, and among them was a portrait of Yue Fei, and the cover was very similar to the portrait in the file, which meant that either the person who painted had seen Yue Fei himself or the portrait, or someone close to Yue Fei provided a reference.

Turning the cover, on the title page is this "Man Jianghong", the font is Xingshu, and the ink is dripping, as if he is unhappy for this hero who died of death!

With the spread of "The Biography of Yue Fei", there were bad rumors in the market, some people turned out the old things of Shaoxing for eleven years, and then contacted the rumors that the Jin people wanted to destroy the Song Dynasty on a large scale, and many people pointed the finger at the Great Song Emperor Zhao Gou, questioning whether the original Song and Jin discussions and policies were correct, is it the best and only choice?

What's more, it is said that some people heard that the soldiers who participated in the Northern Expedition recalled that when Yue Fei waved his army to the north, he defeated the Jin people and retreated, and saw that the Great Song Dynasty Xiongshi was about to smash the Jin people's lair, drive them back to their hometown, and take advantage of the situation to restore the territory of the Great Song Dynasty to welcome back the second emperor of Huiqin. It was the current emperor who was afraid of losing the throne, so he listened to Qin Hui's slander, and forced Yue Shuai to be a teacher with twelve gold medals, and then under Qin Hui's control, he did not hesitate to bend his knees and become a minister, and paid tribute to the Jin State, and finally killed Yue Fei unjustly, just to keep his throne!

"Kill Yue Fei, Jin Ren hasn't come over like this! And who is expected to resist it now? Is it the dead Qin Hui or our emperor? ”

The tragedy of the war described in "The Biography of Yue Fei", as well as the physical misery of the veterans of the Gushan Battalion, all put the cruelty of the war in front of the people, especially those who followed Zhao Gou all the way south to settle in Lin'an City, and recalled the heartache of the country being ruined and the family ruined, and the wife was separated, and the panic that was covered up was magnified little by little in the heart, and finally became a hole that filled the dissatisfaction.

If this panic is allowed to spread, who knows what kind of catastrophe it will turn into!

These days, the soldiers led by Bai Yu are also called Chazi, and they rush into the various shops in Lin'an City, trying to find out the initiator.

These officers were drawn from among the officials of the family, and there were forty men in each round. Some family officials can't take their turn until they quit the sequence, which well guarantees the secrecy of their actions.

"The Biography of Yue Fei" was not sold in the market, and it was placed in people's homes at night. The storytellers have been tortured one by one, and it is true that they saw the opportunity and found a book by themselves, telling stories in the teahouse restaurant just to earn money, and did not communicate or conspire with others. Thankfully, this path didn't work, so we came up with another way. ”

Bai Yu simply walked to Wu Yang's desk, pointed to "The Biography of Yue Fei" and said: "We found the most experienced bookstore owner in Lin'an City, and after comparing the paper, ink color, layout, carving, etc., it was finally determined that it was printed and produced by a book printing workshop called 'Hu Ji Printing Workshop' in Ginkgo Hutong. The two brothers were escorted by the foreman in charge of the printing, named Cheng Ran. ”

"Who wrote the book? What about the owner of the print house? ”

"According to Cheng Ran's confession, there were two scholars who asked them to print books, one was about 30 years old, and the other was only in his early 20s. The boss of Hu Ji Printing Workshop went back to his hometown in Sichuan to worship his ancestors a few years ago, and has not returned yet. The two scholars found Cheng Ran and asked him to print the book at double the price, and Cheng Ran called the workers to start work overnight on the money and land, and it only took three days to print and bind the book. According to Cheng Ran, the two scholars were guarding the printing workshop throughout the printing process, and after the book was printed, the two scholars also found a car to load it, and they were also happy to be idle, so they didn't know where the two sent the book at all. ”

"The Biography of Yue Fei" was talked about in Lin'an City, and Cheng Ran felt quite honored at first, after all, as an ordinary printing worker, he may not be able to meet a book comparable to 'Luoyang paper' in his life, and it can indeed be used as a talking point to boast to his peers. Later, when he saw that our people were visiting the people and things of this book, Cheng Ran was frightened, and told the workers involved in the printing of the book to keep their mouths shut, and he himself found a place to hide. ”

"It's hard work, bring people up!"

After a while, the two relatives pushed Cheng Ran, who was tied up with five flowers, and the person on the right kicked Cheng Ran at the crook of his knee, kicking him to his knees with a "poof".

"This is our commander, your lord, you need to answer truthfully what your lord asks you, don't deceive, otherwise you will look good!"

The Great Song Dynasty was open-minded, and the people were not particularly afraid of the government, but the Imperial City Division was no better than elsewhere, Cheng Ran kowtowed again and again: "The villain has told the official what he knows, and there is not a word of deception, please check it out!" ”

Wu Yang patted the ruler on the table and shouted, "What are the names of the two scholars who are looking for you to print books?" Where do you live? And if there are no accomplices, you quickly and truthfully recruit them! ”

"Adult, the villain has said, took the job, the villain and his companion were locked up in the printing workshop and worked day and night, and really didn't pay attention to anything else, only knew that the older scholar who contacted the villain was surnamed Cheng, he claimed to be from the villain's own family, as for where they were, this and this, they didn't say, and the villain never asked. On weekdays, our boss is responsible for dealing with guests, and the villain is a foreman, who deals with machines and printing workshop guys, and is not good at this......"

After a moment of silence, Cheng Ran suddenly shouted: "The villain remembers one thing!" ”

"Speak quickly!"

"Once the two of them were talking there, the villain listened to the young one say that as a student, my generation should follow Chen Dong's example, and speak up for righteousness or something, the villain was busy inspecting various processes to check and fill in the gaps, so he only heard this sentence, and thought in his heart, could these two people come from too many students?"

"What else? Do you see the person who helped them deliver the books? ”

Cheng Ran smiled bitterly: "For three days and nights in a row, almost day and night, after the book was printed, they were happy to give money, and many guys fell asleep on the ground when they saw the money in their hands." The villain just held his eyelids and negotiated with the two of them, where did he still have the heart to take care of anything else! ”

Wu Yang saw that he couldn't ask anything more, so he ordered: "Take the person into custody temporarily, and there is no need to tie him up anymore, give him some more food, and take it down!" ”

Cheng Ran was escorted away, and Wu Yang said to Bai Yu again: "Tomorrow, you will work hard again, take someone to Taixue to find out the situation, be sure to make sure that people are confirmed, Taixue and those old pedants protect the calves, if they catch a trace of tricks and mistakes, you have to bear their saliva!" ”

"Don't worry, I'll be careful tomorrow and never let those turbans get their hands on it. Sleepy and tired, his subordinates retired first! ”

"Go ahead, I'm going to rest, I've been busy lately."

"These people are really, Lin'an City has been calm for so long, and I will have so many moths as soon as I am on duty, which makes people not idle!" Bai Yu grunted and reluctantly went out.

After Bai Yu left, Wu Yang flipped through the "Biography of Yue Fei" on the table, now this book has been listed as a banned book, after some inspection, the flow out of the "Hu Ji Printing Workshop" has basically been copied back, unless it is a manuscript. Wu Yang has also read the content in it, if this is not a banned book named by the official, Wu Yang would like to chase the author and write some prequels or postquels.

"The Biography of Yue Fei" tells the legendary life of Yue Fei in popular and simple words, especially "Mother-in-law's Tattoo", "Fierce Battle of Niutou Mountain", "Bloody Battle of Xiangyang", "Recovery of Yang Zaixing", "Kaifeng City Battle of Jin Wushu" and so on.

Wu Yang was born in Jiangmen, his uncle Wu Jue, and his father Wu Ling are all characters in the same period as Yue Fei, and when they see the highlights in the book, they can't help but praise them, and they are fascinated, and they can't wait to be a small soldier under Yue Fei, and fight the enemy together with him, and fight fiercely on the battlefield!

As soon as "The Biography of Yue Fei" came out, there were not a few people in Lin'an who had the same thoughts as Wu Yang, and the people all discussed: "'Serve the country with loyalty', Marshal Yue is a big filial son, but also a big loyal minister, since his mother-in-law tattooed him with such words, how can he be a traitorous minister?" ”

"If you want me to say, Qin Hui is a traitor who betrays the country, he instigated His Majesty to recall Yue Shuai with twelve gold medals, killed him on a 'trumped-up' charge, and instigated His Majesty to be a vassal to Jin Guo, what is not a traitor?"

"Do you know what 'unwarranted' is? It's just that there is no such thing at all, you see, even Qin Hui himself admitted that he deliberately wronged Marshal Yue! Fortunately, he is dead, otherwise the little second child would have spit on him! ”

"Your Majesty, isn't he old and confused? What does such a traitor protect him? also took the black water to himself, and asked me to say, Your Majesty is too soft-hearted, and there is no distinction between loyalty and treachery! ”

"Your Majesty is not too soft-hearted, but confused! Killing loyal ministers, protecting traitorous ministers, isn't it confused? ”

The discussion in the market is getting bolder and bolder, and the spearhead is directed at the emperor, so it is no wonder that the emperor wants to list it as a banned book.

But if books can be banned, how can the people's leisurely mouths be banned?