Chapter 560
Li Su also knew that Dian Wei was not educated and was afraid that he would not ask clearly, so he thought about it and asked Zhang Song to go out with Dian Wei to deal with this "famous scholar emergency".
The reason why Zhang Song was chosen was because Li Su knew that Zhang Song was the most suitable for rap with the four staff members around him.
In contrast, Xu Shu is known for his strategy, and Wang Lei is frank and honest. Although Deng Zhi was a bit diplomatic and eloquent in history, he was not used to criticize others.
Moreover, Deng Zhi has followed Li Su for several years. As Li Su's chief clerk, his status is higher than that of the other three. Li Su thinks that he has sent Deng Zhi to give him a face. Zhang Song is different. He is short and ugly, so it just happens that he humiliates Ni Heng.
Zhang Song was cheering up: I have been following Sikong An for almost two years. I have been doing behind the scenes before, but now I have gained a chance to show my face. How can I not seize it!
Although Zhang Song had heard of Ni Heng's reputation and thought that he was not sure of winning by directly scolding. However, Zhang Song's wisdom was far-reaching than Ni Heng. He vaguely guessed that Ni Heng was causing trouble at this critical moment, and it must be the system of becoming an official in the imperial examination.
Sikong has worked hard to design another set of ways to win people's hearts for scholars from other places. Ni Heng will undoubtedly bring shame on himself.
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After half a cup of tea, Zhang Song was surrounded by a group of guards and went to the gate of the Governor's Mansion. Seeing Ni Heng's clothes were not in order, Zhang Song was slightly shocked and ordered the guards to let go:
"Distract, don't be rude to this crazy person."
The guards felt a little aggrieved: "Reported to Zhang, we didn't tear the clothes we did, but he took them off by himself. We were afraid that there would be an injustice in front of the Governor's Office and wanted to hold him back, but he didn't expect that he would struggle and torn it."
Zhang Song couldn't help but feel funny: Does this guy have a special habit of being exposed? Imitation of "taking the head of the carriage, and walking naked in the carriage"?
However, Zhang Song had the ability to remember everything he saw. His talent was to be knowledgeable and knowledgeable. A flash of inspiration in his mind was already realizing what Ni Heng's "performance art" was expressing
In fact, Cao Cao in history did not immediately get the profound meaning of "a corrupt scholar who searched for chapters and sentences"? Cao Cao's reading was like Zhuge Liang, "judging the general principles but not understanding them very much."
Otherwise, Cao Cao would not have done anything Kong Rong's connotation when he said that "King Wu defeated Zhou and gave Daji the Duke of Zhou", he still asked stupidly about "whose words are written out".
But Zhang Song is different. Zhang Song is much better at reading and judging details than Cao Cao. Since he suddenly thought of Qu Yuan’s words in "Nine Chapters" "Come on the head of the carriage, and Sang Hu walks naked", he will naturally follow it down: "Loyalty does not need to be used, and wise does not need to be used. Wu Zi is in trouble, and he is better than a dry skeleton..."
In Chu Ci, the head and the naked conduct are all complaints about the unused talents of the loyal and wise! Therefore, this is a mockery of the ruler's failure to appoint people based on their merits and being as foolish as King Huai of Chu!
Li Su sent Zhang Song out to deal with this guy who was cursing with different ways of performing arts. It was a party. Otherwise, even if Li Su came here himself, he would not have read so many twists and turns, and he could not see the other party's "playing with memes", let alone "refuting the memes".
Zhang Song said calmly: "Hahaha, Ni Heng Ni Zhengping, I heard that you are also a famous scholar in the plains. He turned out to be able to play the trick of "taking the head of the carriage, and Sang Hu's naked walking" to attract attention. If you really have any dissatisfaction with Li Sikong's method of loyalty and virtuousness, just give a frank advice, what is it like to play this?
I heard that when you first came to Xiangyang, you had a prick of yourselves. Unfortunately, the envoy Liu was disdainful to use the vainly famous madman such as you, so that the tattoos were destroyed, is this a matter?”
Zhang Song first pointed out "I can understand your meme", and then directly began to expose Ni Heng's scars, which naturally made Ni Heng furious.
It turned out that Ni Heng wanted to seek an official position when he went to a place. He often held a wooden business card in his arms and wanted to submit his relationships everywhere. However, because of his bad temper, he was arrogant and unsuccessful for a long time, and the words on his resume were wiped out and he still didn't send them out.
Although the ninth rank Zhongzheng system was not implemented during the Jian'an period of Cao Cao in history, the personnel work of those grassroots civil servants was already under the leadership of Chen Qun.
So when a friend saw that Ni Heng was not successful, he advised him, "I don't know when you will be discovered by raising your nobleness like this. You should take the initiative to curry favor with Chen Changwen (Chen Qun) and make you familiar with him."
As a result, Ni Heng's self-esteem was hurt and he retorted: "How can I make friends with those who kill pigs and sell wine? (How can I get from Butcher)" It seemed like Chen Qun had to come to him to come out and become an official.
Although I lived in Xiangyang for two more years and did not return to Xuchang, Ni Heng's style of conduct has not changed. Now, Zhang Song's words have hit the biggest pain point of his self-esteem, and he has become irritable in an instant:
"Angry villager! What are you! Clothes hangers, rice buckets, wine bags, how dare you look down on me!"
There is no way, who told Zhang Song not to introduce himself yet? Ni Heng just wanted to scold him, but he didn't know who was on the other side, so he had to say a few general and ruthless words first.
Zhang Song's mouth twitched with nasolabial folds, and he hated others the most to call him short: "Middleman? I am an ignorant man in Sikong's Mansion, such as Zhang Song and Wei Er, and I don't know about the figures in Shu."
Ni Heng: "Zhang Song, I don't know the same knowledge as you and other villagers. Today's events are obvious to all people in the world. Li Su does not accept loyal advice, eliminates the path of wise men in the north, acts in ignorant deeds, and is a laughing stock in the world! Liu Bei used this narrow-minded villain, no wonder he could not fight against Yuan Gong's fourth generations and three Dukes.
Dear Sili, Yanyu wise and wise men, what happened to you this year? Everyone knows how many old friends around you want to abandon Jingzhou and return home. It’s ridiculous to be so idle for seven years in Liu Jingzhou!”
Ni Heng's first half of the sentence was a spoiled Zhang Song, and the second half was a direct turn to the onlookers.
Not to mention, what he said to the masses really resonated a lot.
Although this place is just the most prosperous place in Xiangyang City, the square at the gate of the Governor's Mansion/Yuanzhou Muslim Mansion cannot gather many people in just over a dozen minutes.
Because the most prominent people in Jingzhou want to buy property here, a brick was smashed on the road, and at least nine out of ten people were well-known scholars or officials. Just a few hundred people watched, the social impact was already great. At least dozens of people were famous northern scholars, because they could not become officials.
Zhang Song also knew that bickering was useless. The key to dealing with Ni Heng was to dismantle the treatment of northern scholars, so he stopped bickering and just announced a new policy loudly:
"Don't be impatient, don't listen to Ni Heng's crazy words and incitement! Li Sikong never blocked the path of wise men. It was just that the imperial examination method was first developed in Chang'an, and the Guanzhong area was previously harmed by Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Guo Si and others for many years. No Guandong soldiers moved to the imperial examination to be effective, so there is no need to make up for the gaps.
However, after Sikong arrived in Xiangyang, he had worked hard to govern the people in just six or seven days. He had conducted a survey on the prosperity of northern exiled scholars in Jingxiang. Li Sikong had long been planning a method to recruit scholars for the fallen states, but it had not been improved yet and has not been announced.
The new scientific examination will never hurt Jingzhou. The selection of local local officials in Yizhou will be considered separately. After the regular scientific examination, it will be announced and organized separately."
After hearing Zhang Song's open promise, the northern scholars in the crowd who were motivated by Ni Heng's interests also relaxed a little and were no longer rashly led by Ni Heng as guns.
Some people hid in the crowd and did not dare to show up, but just secretly started to cheer: "Is this true for Li Sikong? Is there any evidence?"
"Even if we haven't finished discussing it, I'll talk about how to do it."
When Ni Heng saw that his fans were so easy, he was shaken. He was instantly angry. He shouted directly at the crowd behind him:
"You are shameless villain! You abandon your rituals when you see the official! Don't be deceived by Zhang Song. This is just a matter of his fear of public opinion and arguing that is not bad. Before he came out, Li Su told him to calm down the situation. If we hadn't united and fought together, Li Su wouldn't be so kind!"
As Ni Heng said this, he established his prestige in the crowd for the time being, a bit like a public intellectual who caused trouble. After being denied the rumors by the authorities, the public intellectual said, "the rumors are the truth."
It seems that without Ni Heng's pleading for the people, Li Su would not be so good to the people. The benefits the people get were all caused by Ni Heng's righteousness and blood.
As expected, those short-sighted and profit-seeking people in the crowd were scolded by Ni Heng and dared not speak anymore. They thought it would be better to wait and see how to maximize their own interests.
Zhang Song looked at these gangsters coldly and took out two drafts from his sleeve: "Justice is in the hearts of the people. These consultation drafts are the products that Li Sikong and us urgently agreed on several days. Li Sikong's elegance of loving the people and caring for the scholars is known to everyone.
These should not be shown to others, but if you have any doubts, you can come and take a look. Sikong promised that he would naturally give a new method to recruit scholars at the end of this month."
When the onlookers saw Zhang Song taking out so many "internal meeting minutes" for discussion, they instantly believed it 70% or 80% of them. They felt that this was impossible to be a temporary stopgap measure that Li Su took after hearing that someone was cursing at the door, because it was impossible to move so quickly.
If the above things are true, it must be that the relevant departments have been working hard to draft for several days.
"Can we see?" Another cheer was raised in the crowd.
Zhang Song picked up a few insensitive ones, and asked the guards to stick them on the stones that were usually posted outside the mansion, and announced that they would take them off at night because this was not the final plan.
Immediately, many northern scholars were forced to line up and watch while maintaining order by the guards. Everyone could only watch for a few dozen seconds and could not delay, but because everyone knew that there were too many people watching today, they could understand.
"It seems to be true. Li Sikong still loves the people and cares about the people. Let's wait for the news."
"That man probably wanted to be an official and was so impatient."
"Yes, the name of the thorn is so sharp that it is gone."
Some northern scholars who were more mentally curled up have turned to mock Ni Heng's desire for profit.
Although Ni Heng did not hear everything clearly, he was still very angry. He was eager to find the place: "Since Li Su said that he had long been caring for the scholars, why did he come to Jingzhou for six or seven days and not receive the exiled northern soldiers and listen to the public's opinion!
Zhao Boran, Shi Guangyuan, and Meng Gongwei of Runan were all famous scholars in Jingxiang. They were disheartened these days and wanted to move back to their hometowns. The wise men were lost to this point. Li Su turned a blind eye to him, did not accept the request for advice, and was isolated from the inside and outside. He did not want to eliminate dissidents and cultivate confidants and flatterers?"
Ni Heng's words were already the last struggle, and there was one point in his speech, that is, in order to avoid suspicion, Li Su did not receive any scholars without official positions these days, nor did he listen to the opinions of the people.
But his original intention of doing this was to prevent "the chief examiner or the imperial examination host from having a preconceived impression of some people." Li Su was for the sake of fairness of the exam, and he did not want to turn the exam into the Tang Dynasty's appearance of "writing poetry to the 'professional paper' before the exam, and showing the article to get a good impression."
Unexpectedly, Ni Heng distorted and used it at this moment.
Regarding this issue, Zhang Song naturally knew how to help Li Su defy the rumors righteously.
However, before Zhang Song could speak, someone in the crowd jumped out and criticized Ni Heng: "Ni Zhengping, what are you talking nonsense! Which eye did you see that I was going to move back to my hometown!"
The crowd burst into laughter. It turned out that it was Shi Tao, the representatives of the "Northern Famous Scholars" mentioned just now, who directly spoke out to refute the rumors, saying that he had never thought of moving.
You Ni Heng has already been on the blacklist, don’t implicate us. Since Li Sikong is willing to take the exam, we still hope to be an official!
When Ni Heng heard the open betrayal of the melon-eating crowd behind him, he almost became so angry that his eyes turned dark. A mouthful of blood was so lingering that he couldn't recover.
Chapter completed!