Father can be an enemy to the country

The busiest place in Linhuai County is naturally Yashu Street, where the main entrance of the county government is located.

Houya Street, where the county government office is located, is too deserted.

This is like the relationship between the face and the butt. The face is visible all day long, but the butt is hidden from view.

Because Houya is the inner residence of the county magistrate, and the county magistrate only takes office, he is also honest and self-sufficient, and does not engage in crooked ways. Naturally, there are almost no people on Houya Street.

There was only one humble tavern in the whole street, which was half-open.

It was almost noon now, and only one table of customers came to the store.

The shopkeeper was looking forward to it, and finally another middle-aged customer wearing a felt hat came to the door.

Guest, please come inside, a private room or a private seat? The shopkeeper greeted him hurriedly in person.

I have an appointment. The guest lowered his head and pointed inside.

Hey. The shopkeeper was frustrated and led the hidden guest into a single room in the corner.

Two distinguished guests, here comes the person you have been waiting for.

The two guests inside raised their heads when they heard this. One was the chief attendant of Han Zhixian County, and the other was a scholar in his forties with a round face, a long beard and squinting eyes.

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Seeing someone coming, the chief casually stood up to give up his seat, and went out with the shopkeeper to order.

After the visitor sat down, he took off the large-brimmed felt hat on his head. The scholar came closer to look at him and said, Aren't you Han Boshi? Han Boshi is not that old.

The visitor had no choice but to take off the fake beard on his cheeks, and his face suddenly looked younger. It was Han Yike. Beth is his name.

Mr. Guanzhong's short-sightedness is getting worse and worse, Han Yike said helplessly.

Who says it's not the case? During the Chinese New Year, my grandson put the unfinished firecrackers on my desk. Mr. Na Guanzhong said with a bitter smile: I touched it while I was writing at night. I couldn't see clearly what it was, so I held it in front of the lamp. Look carefully.

The results of it?

As a result, the medicine thread ignited when it touched the fire and exploded immediately. My ears were ringing from the explosion and my face was black. Only then did I realize that I had a big firecracker. Mr. Guanzhong said jokingly.

Oh haha... Han Yike was so amused that he burst into laughter and pointed at the other party and said, No wonder your husband's novels are so superb. He is so good at telling stories!

Oh, have you read the novel I wrote? Mr. Guanzhong asked in surprise: I don't think I have read it to you and your son.

At this time, novels had not yet reached the level of elegance and could not be considered as a manifestation of talent like poetry and songs. Rather, it is regarded as a sign that scholars are not doing their job properly. So many times, until the moment it is published, you don’t even know it is a novel.

In the fourth year of Hongwu, my master became an official and retired to seclusion. I went to Qingtian to pay him a visit. I stayed there for more than a month and happened to see his manuscript. Han Yike explained.

This is the only possibility. Mr. Guanzhong nodded and said, At that time, I asked my son to bring the manuscript to Liu Bowen, ask him to correct it, and see if he could help me publish it.

The tutor's story-telling is excellent, but it cannot be published for the time being. Han Yike said, worthy of his reputation for quick talk.

Well, I will go back to Beijing to see him this time. He has already told me. Mr. Guanzhong sighed, and then asked casually: Can you put the book aside for now? Which one do you think is the best?

The Legend of Sansui Pingyao, The Romance of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, The Complete Story of Water Margin, and The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I have read all four of them. Han Yike commented seriously:

In my humble opinion, Water Margin is the best. In fact, Three Kingdoms has a more elegant style. Unfortunately, it only has twelve volumes and is not available below.

So it can't be compared to Water Margin.

What do you mean there are no more eunuchs? Eunuchs? Mr. Guanzhong laughed and scolded: Don't worry, Three Kingdoms is not about eunuchs. There will be eunuchs below! It's just that they haven't been written yet...

Well, if sir can write such a masterpiece as Water Margin, Three Kingdoms will definitely be even more exciting! Han Yike was full of praise, completely forgetting the entanglement and cover-up before coming.

Water Margin is actually the original work of my master, Mr. Shi Naian, and I compiled it into a book. Mr. Guanzhong corrected him seriously.

Needless to say, we now know that his surname is Luo, and his name is Luo Guanzhong.

That's right. Mr. Nai'an must be eighty years old now, right? Han Yike said heartily, probably his eyes were worse than Luo Guanzhong's.

My master Hongwu passed away three years ago at the age of seventy-five. Luo Guanzhong said calmly: It was in order to fulfill my master's last wish that I gave the manuscript to Liu Bowen to read.

That's it. Han Yike sighed regretfully.

At this time, Chang Sui knocked on the door, and the two stopped talking and asked the shopkeeper to come in and serve dishes.

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After the food was served, the door to the private room was closed again.

Han Yike held a pot and poured a glass of wine, sprinkled it on the ground and said, I respect Mr. Shi Nai'an and his Liangshan heroes.

Okay. Luo Guanzhong stroked his hands and smiled: Bo Shi is the first to say this, but he will definitely not be the last.

I absolutely believe it. Han Yike nodded heavily, and then broke the harmonious atmosphere of the fan meeting.

It's just that you, sir, shouldn't go to the capital to find my master. He said solemnly: My master is worried, slandered, ridiculed, and troubled. If you go, I'm afraid someone will make a fuss about it.

As he said that, he poured another glass of wine and said sadly: I in Eastern Zhejiang have already killed Qingqiuzi and Wang Changzong in vain. I can no longer tolerate my husband and my master!

How can I be so virtuous and capable as to be on par with Mr. Qingtian? Luo Guanzhong shook his head and said: Besides, the people Zhu Hongwu wants to kill are us, the old ministers of King Cheng, what do we have to do with him, the founder of the Ming Dynasty?

Sir, you can't say that. At first, each was his own master, but now the world has become one. We are all ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Do we need to divide each other again? Han Yike shook his head.

You should tell Zhu Hongwu this! Luo Guanzhong suddenly raised his voice, his chest rising and falling.

He wanted to pick up broad beans with chopsticks, but he couldn't pick them up.

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The grudge between Lao Luo and Boss Zhu is easy to explain clearly.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was divided into three parts south of the Yangtze River. Zhu Yuanzhang was sandwiched between Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, and it seemed that he would be finished at any time.

The territory occupied by Zhang Shicheng stretched from Shaoxing to the south, Jining to the north, part of Huaixi, Henan, to the west, and the sea to the east. It spanned more than two thousand miles and controlled the richest land in the world, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers! No matter how you look at it, it looks like the winner in the end.

In addition, Zhang Shicheng was a generous man and liked to attract guests. He often gave away luxurious carriages, horses, houses, and gold and silver treasures. Therefore, many literati from Jiangnan at that time joined his Zhou regime.

Among them were Shi Naian, master and apprentice Luo Guanzhong, and Qingqiuzi mentioned by Han Yike just now.

Qingqiuzi was Gao Qi, the most talented man in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

As a result, they soon discovered that Zhang Shicheng had no ambitions, did not listen to advice, only cared about having fun, and was waiting for great opportunities but failed to seize them. He could not defeat Zhu Yuanzhang, who had already eliminated Chen Youliang.

So they all left Zhang Shicheng disappointedly.

Zhu Yuanzhang deeply despised these landlord class scholars. But the most important thing for the country is to win people's hearts. Therefore, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he not only let things go by the wayside, but also invited them to serve as officials to stabilize the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

However, the twisted melon is not sweet, and Boss Zhu and Literary Man cannot urinate in a pot after all. What the literati hope to get is a relaxed political environment, generous economic privileges, preferential political treatment, not punishing the officials, and sharing the world with the emperor and scholar-officials.

In short, even if it is not as good as the Song Dynasty, at least the treatment cannot be worse than that of the Yuan Dynasty, right?

Unfortunately, they met Boss Zhu...

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