Chapter Twenty-Nine: The People of the Kingdom Do Not Kill Famous People
There are many ways to destroy a person.
Su Hao offers one of the very cruel ones.
Xu Fang was a real celebrity. He is profoundly educated, penetrates Confucianism and Taoism, is very good at the art of famous masters, and has no obstacle to arguing.
Xu Fang's "madness" is known in Linzi.
The people he scolded were not only Su Lu, but also the Treasure Chamber of Commerce.
From the prince to the county guards. As close as the magnates of the Qi State and as far as Mu Chu - he really scolded Chu Jun.
As long as he can't see it, and feels that it is unfair, he will scold.
There is no doubt that he has offended many people, but no one can do anything to him.
Because he is famous.
The word "name" comes from the mouth. When the ancients walked at night, they couldn't see each other clearly, so they called out their names loudly to let each other know. Hence the word.
Therefore, the meaning of "name" can be extended to boast of fame to be widely known.
Xu Fang is deeply expected, and his character can also be called noble.
He was born in a poor family, and when he was still studying in Sangu Academy in his early years, the dean of the academy privately changed the ranking of the articles in the academy in order to tie up with the powerful, and the son of the powerful at the bottom of the ranking was promoted to the second, and the original second was squeezed down.
This is Ben has nothing to do with Xu Fang, because he is the first.
But when he learned of this, he tore up the book in anger and vowed not to be with the evildoers for the rest of his life.
Many people believe in the belief that "each family sweeps the snow in front of his door, and he doesn't care about the frost on the tiles of others." ”
And Xu Fang upholds the justice and axiom of the entire academy.
It was a great sin for a Confucian scholar to destroy books, and he even had to be discarded for a time.
But the impact of this incident was too great, and it alarmed Yan Ping, who was the minister of state at the time.
Yan Ping personally inquired, and later the entire Sangu Academy was abolished, and Xu Fang became famous all over the world.
It is precisely because he is such a celebrity that his attack on the Treasure Chamber of Commerce is so immediate. A sentence of "A blockage", a sleeve to cover his nose, directly knocked the reputation of the Treasure Chamber of Commerce to the bottom.
And how did Su Hao do it?
He didn't do anything but reply without a pain.
After seven years like this, Xu Fang may not remember that he scolded the Jubao Chamber of Commerce. Because he is jealous and hateful, and he has scolded too many people and things, how old is the Treasure Chamber of Commerce?
Xu Fang has been in Linzi all the year round, but his hometown is in Xinming County, northwest of Qidu. The Xu family was originally from a poor family, because of such a character as Xu Fang, it was not bad in the local area.
Seven years later, Xu Fang is participating in a debate in Jingguo.
And the business of the Treasure Chamber of Commerce has become bigger and bigger. At this time, he had almost controlled seventy percent of the business in Songcheng City, Xinming County, Xu Fang's hometown.
Su Hao gave an order.
In the entire Songcheng, there is not a single merchant willing to sell anything to the Xu family.
Firewood, rice, oil and salt, everything you buy is sky-high, and you can't afford it at all.
The Xu family wrote a letter to Xu Fang, but the letter lingered at the post station for more than ten days, but it couldn't be sent.
The Xu family couldn't hold on anymore, and later even tried to beg all the way to Linzi, but everywhere they passed, the door was closed.
Any family that refuses to give alms, the Treasure Chamber of Commerce gives one or two red gold, which is called "closed gold" at the time.
For this expenditure alone, the Jubao Chamber of Commerce spent 100,000 taels.
And such a huge expenditure, in exchange for -
In peacetime, the Xu family starved to death!
From a 73-year-old mother, to a wife who takes care of housework, and a three-year-old son.
No one was spared.
And from beginning to end, Su Hao's people never touched a finger of the Xu family.
It was only at this time that the letter was magically delivered to Xu Fang.
But by the time Xu Fang rushed back day and night, he was the only one left in the Xu family.
There is no way to sue him, and no one is willing to stand up for him. He frantically knocked on the door, but was easily subdued by the Treasure Chamber of Commerce, and he couldn't even see Su Hao's face.
only left a sentence for him, saying that "Chinese people do not kill celebrities".
Xu Fang's heart was shattered on the spot, and he disappeared without a trace.
The reason why this matter did not spread was that the Jubao Chamber of Commerce deliberately covered it up, and the second was that the people of Songcheng knew that they were unrighteous and remained silent.
Some people questioned how the Xu family could starve to death because they couldn't buy food in peacetime.
Is it the secret killer of the Treasure Chamber of Commerce.
Su Hao once responded: "Xu is missing some blockages!"
The sentence "I look at the stinky people with a blockage, not like the Treasure Chamber of Commerce!" is still mentioned by people today, but the person who said this sentence has never appeared again.
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Bringing Xu Fang into an inn secretly controlled, the first thing Chong Xuansheng did was to let him take a shower and change his clothes.
"Wouldn't it be better to be miserable?" asked Xu Fang.
Jiang Wang glanced at him and understood that this person had probably never let go of his hatred. When he fell in Yulifang, when he was with the beggars, he was only afraid of his heart and mind, and he thought about how to retaliate.
For this reason, he did not hesitate to live a more humble life, so that the revenge that had not yet arrived would be more violent.
"Do you still expect someone to uphold justice for you?" Chong Xuansheng frowned and said: "I don't want you to sell miserably, I want your celebrity demeanor, madman arrogance." ”
He went to great lengths to find out Xu Fang, of course, not because of justice.
The so-called justice failed to keep Xu Fang back then.
In fact, if it weren't for the Treasure Chamber of Commerce suddenly sticking a knife in his back, he wouldn't have thought about this incident at all. Who is Xu Fang, how pitiful is it, and what does it have to do with him?
"I don't understand. Xu Fang asked in a hoarse voice, "What do you want to do?"
Chong Xuansheng didn't answer and asked: "Do you have the ability to take revenge, do you have any plan to defeat the Treasure Chamber of Commerce?"
Xu Fang was silent.
Even if there was no expression on his scarred face, it was enough to feel his pain.
"Then go take a shower. Chong Xuansheng said.
Xu Fang turned around and really went to take a bath.
Chong Xuansheng told him that he only needed to listen to orders. And he had no choice.
has been in Yulifang for so many years, and the only person who came here was Chong Xuansheng.
As for "respect"?
He didn't need that kind of thing anymore. He just wants revenge.
Once, he naturally got up in anger and went away with his sleeves. Like Chong Xuansheng, a so-called child of a family, he Xu Fang can point his nose and scold the dog's blood.
But all that was once is gone.
Now he is just a son who has lost his mother, a husband who has lost his wife, and a father who has lost his son.
A beggar living on the streets.
A hopeless revenge, an avenger.
......
"Let's go. ”
Watching Xu Fang leave, Chong Xuansheng said.
Jiang Wang asked, "It's hard to find him, if you want to do something, don't you hurry up?"
"No matter how much time you hurry, you need to give him time. He had been lying on the ground for so long that he had forgotten how to be a man. ”
Chong Xuansheng pushed the window open a crack, looked at the sky outside, and then closed the window and walked out: "It's almost dawn." Let him rest all day, and we'll come back tomorrow. ”
Jiang Wang was worried that Xu Fang would not get the promise and what stupid thing he would do, so he asked, "Don't you explain something to him?"
Chong Xuansheng only shook his head: "I believe he has enough patience. ”
He still hasn't said a word.
If the current Xu Fang doesn't even have this patience, then there is no value left.