“Taohua Temple in Taohuawu, and Taohua Fairy under Taohua Temple;

Peach Blossom Immortal planted peach trees, and picked peach blossoms and sold them for money.

When I wake up, I just sit in front of the flowers, and when I get drunk, I come to sleep under the flowers;

Half awake and half drunk, day after day, flowers fall and bloom year after year."

Tang Bohu liked this imperial poem very much, and because of this poem, he had to admit that His Majesty the current emperor is a talented king. In his heart, he even regarded this king as a confidant, because through this poem, he found that this king and himself were intimate, and they were actually casual and unruly people.

Although His Majesty the Emperor has always tried his best to establish rules, let eunuchs abide by rules, civil servants abide by rules, and even made rules for himself, such as the constitutional outline.

It is precisely because of this that Tang Bohu resolutely strengthened his heart to follow him as the attendant of His Majesty the Emperor, and did not choose to pretend to be crazy, just like he ran naked to avoid King Ning's recruitment in history.

"Why is Your Majesty so talented? It's not just that this peach blossom poem is well written, but also Linjiangxian is well written. The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward. Tsk, no one can get it if you have a big mind and a big creation!"

Tang Bohu sighed again, and then he put the newly introduced newspapers in his hand and began to review them carefully. He reviewed them very seriously, which was very different from his romantic and casualness when he was inquiring about news in the market. This is because Zhu Houzhao once told him that he was the true literary figure in the Ming Dynasty, so he was the only one who deserved to be the mouthpiece of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

A scholar died for his confidant. Tang Bohu always thought that he was the number one person in the literary world. Now that the Emperor said so, he naturally acted as Zhu Houzhao's mouthpiece.

In recent years, he has also tried his best to defend Zhu Houzhao's actions that did not conform to the Confucian tradition, and has also tried his best to use his understanding of the scholar-official class and the lower-level people to expose some of the ugly things of the scholar-official class.

However, at this time, Tang Bohu saw a new article from a new publication called "Ru Lin Zhengdao". He read it and couldn't help but laugh:

"This is the style of the top scholar Lun Wenxu. Does this gentleman treat the scholars and people in the world as the examiner of the examination? It's all over the article! It's just a mess! However, since your Lun Wenxu dares to refute Mr. Yangming (Wang Shouren is Yangming, and now Gao Ju Governor is also a leader in the academic world, he naturally deserves the title of Mr. Tang Bohu), then Tang will refute you for Mr. Yangming!"

“So great!”

Wen Zhengming, who was also a servant in Zhu Houzhao's attendant's room, walked in at this time and said with a smile:

"At that time, if it weren't for Brother Bo Hu, you were harmed by those hypocrites in the Shilin, how could he be the first prize in Lun Wenzhi? You should write it quickly and let Wen see if writing such a clear article with clear quality and texture besides drawing and writing poetry!"

"Brother Zhengming will know after seeing it!"

After Tang Bohu smiled and said, he saw that the other attendants from the attendants came in one after another, so he put away the newspaper and said:

"Let's discuss matters first. Your Majesty said that he will not be bloody in the court, but in the future, it will become bloody in the literary world. The pen in our hands is swords and guns, and what we want to compete for is the public opinion of the world!

This is a war without gunpowder. The meaning of what is done is not less than the good governance of the court's officials, or even more meaningful. The government of the court can only maintain its momentary strength, and we can make the culture of China last forever!"

After Tang Bohu said this, Wen Zhengming nodded and agreed.

Zhu Houzhao also learned about the actions of Lun Wenxu, Yan Hong and others from the East Factory.

The Admiral of the East Factory, Ma Yongcheng, even asked directly: "Your Majesty, do you want the East Factory to copy their "The Righteousness of the Confucians"? They are slandering the court!"

Zhu Houzhao glared at Ma Yongcheng: "The inspector of the Dongchang can only treat officials, not people! Besides, this is actually a good phenomenon. These Confucian disciples from gentry finally bent down their proud bodies and preached and learned to the common people they ignored. It can be seen that my Ming Dynasty has really changed!"

"I remember the teachings of the emperor! However, although they did not try to influence you in the court, they were bewitching the people. They were manipulating public opinion."

Eunuchs like Ma Yongcheng and civil servants, especially civil servants who adhere to Confucian orthodoxy, are born enemies. In Ma Yongcheng's view, eunuchs are repeatedly regulated because these civil servants are influencing the emperor. Therefore, although Zhu Houzhao had no intention of pursuing him, he still tried to persuade Emperor Zhu Houzhao to pursue him.

"Do you think they can make the people of the world understand by relying on these poems by Zishu? I asked local officials to carry out literacy classes, and what they popularized is characters. Even the learnings enlightened by social sciences have been used in pinyin to correct the world's words. Now, although the people are literate, how many people can understand this ancient text that has no standard sentences and read them in a shortened line! These old scholars are not very familiar with them. Every word is obscure when they submitted memorials to me. Now they are also fun to write articles to the people. I am afraid that the people will only buy meat buns!"

Zhu Houzhao said again, "What's more, the battles in this game are the same as those in swords and guns. Who is the one who decides the final victory or loss in the war is the one who has the money? I am rich and can raise a battalion of literati to be my mouthpiece. Can he fight against me?"

"The Emperor's Holy Lord! No one in the world can be your opponent..." Ma Yongcheng began to flatter, and Zhu Houzhao just smiled slightly. In any case, he was still willing to see that these different classes of interests in the Ming Empire could compromise and concessions with each other in this way to achieve balance, rather than relying on war and massacre to resolve each other's conflicts.

Just as Zhu Houzhao expected.

Lun Wenxu and Tang Bohu criticized each other in newspapers and magazines through pens and words.

The two of them initially only refuted ideological things such as Confucian Neo-Confucianism and Mind Studies.

Finally, they criticized their respective writing styles.

Lun Wenxu scolded Tang Bohu for his vulgarity in his writing, ignorant and rude language.

Tang Bohu criticized Lun's narrative for being obscure and meaningless.

Therefore, Tang Bohu finally began to openly believe that the Ming Dynasty should advocate vernacular Chinese and abandon ancient styles, because this would be more conducive to communication and enlightening people's wisdom.

Lunwen is originally fighting for retro, so naturally it is not allowed to change the style of the Ming Dynasty. It is also believed that we should respect the ancient style and continue to use Confucian classic textbooks to enlighten the society, and abandon the standard sentences and pinyin that are emerging nowadays.

"I, Tang Bohu, don't agree with Lun Wenxu's remarks! If you read without standard sentences, even the saint's remarks will be misunderstood! Let me give you an example, the sentence "The people can be used to know, but not to know" will be read as "The people can be used to know, but not to know" and will be read as "The people can be used to know, but not to know," and which sentence is the true meaning of a saint?"

"From this, we can see that if ancient Chinese texts do not have standard sentence readings without pinyin and do not keep pace with the times, even the remarks of saints and sages will be often misread, which is the real harm! Therefore, I, Tang Bohu, believe that standard sentence readings and pinyin are the two greatest achievements of this dynasty!"

Tang Bohu's straightforward and simple discussions were supported by the people at the bottom who had first understood the words, and many peddlers began to become fans of Tang Bohu.

Lun Wenxu repeatedly failed in his refutation with Tang Bohu and fewer supporters. Even some Neo-Confucian scholars began to be affected by Tang Bohu's arguments, and felt that the lack of standard sentence reading would make the saints misunderstand the words of the saints, so they began to read these Confucian classic standard sentences seriously.

However, because people have different understandings, many Neo-Confucians also quarrel with each other, and they all feel that what they read is correct and should be used as a standard.

"Tang Bohu started the vernacular movement of my Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Houzhao was not interested in the quarrel among the Confucians, but he was very interested in the vernacular movement initiated by Tang Bohu, because he remembered that in history, it was also because the academic community began to apply for vernacular as the starting point that China truly embarked on the journey of Nirvana and rebirth.

Confucianism has imprisoned China for too long. First of all, the obscure and obstructiveness shown in style is not conducive to the popularization of the empire's education. Now, Tang Bohu's dispute with Lun and classical Chinese was undoubtedly a change in the Ming Dynasty because of his debate with Lun and narratives.

Tang Bohu's vernacular movement received support from many people. Kang Hai of the School, Wang Shouren of Jiangxi and Wang Jiusi of the Ministry of Personnel all began to express support.

Of course, Lun Wenxu also has a large group of supporters, but as Zhu Houzhao expected, there was no emperor among the supporters of Lun Wenxu. Therefore, after he repeatedly bought houses and land to make up for the funding gap in order to increase the printing and sales of his "Su Lin Zhengdao", he eventually fell into a funding crisis again.

A publication that only wants to express his thoughts but does not want to adapt to the public and emperor's will eventually go bankrupt by his Lun Wenxu and owes countless debts.

In less than a month, Lun Wenxu could only eat porridge and wine with his family.

In less than half a year, Lun Wenxu had to rely on his friends to live a life.

But at this time, a scholar came to him: "Mr. Lun, the editor of our Chunlou Dream Club, we are hereby the order of the president to hire you as the chief writer, and the monthly silver is 100 taels. What do you think?"

"One hundred taels a month is already higher than my previous salary, but I just don't know what your society wants Lun to write?"

Lun Wenxu, who has been erased by poverty, heard that someone hired him with such a high salary, had long forgotten that he was once a proud No. 1 scholar.

"Writing about the love between children and things in the boudoir can also reveal various lifestyles, such as my widow sister-in-law, my friend's beautiful wife and concubine. Nowadays, the people like to read this and write it carefully, so delicately that they have to show the romantic affairs they have in bed every day."

As the scribe said, he took out a copy and handed it to Lun Wenxu: "Sir, please take a look. This is the last issue of the social magazine! A new editor sold the paper in Luoyang as soon as he published the first legend."

Lun Wenxu couldn't help but read it. He was naturally resistant to the words. He read it in a short while and couldn't sleep at night, had a physical and kidney deficiency, but he was addicted to it. He also accepted the recruitment of Chunlou Dream Club as the chief editor, and finally embarked on the path of Tang Bohu back then, and seemed to have forgotten that he had used this to mock Tang Bohu.

Since ancient times, talented men are very romantic, and Lun Wenxu is no exception. Because he has been spending time in brothels and restaurants for a long time, his romantic stories are more vivid. He earned 3,000 taels of money in the first legend. Three months later, he bought a real estate in Nandu (Nanjing), five months later, he bought a manor, one year later, and another year later, and in the third year, he returned to his hometown and buried in Nandu.

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but sigh and said, "Although Lun Wenxu is conservative, he is still a great scholar in the academic world, but he didn't expect to leave so fast!"

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