Many people in later generations came into contact with the song "Linjiang Immortal" for the first time in the opening chapter of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
But in fact, the author of this poem, Yang Sheng'an, was born more than a hundred years later.
The son of the chief minister, who was the number one scholar in the dynasty, before he had time to display his talents, he was involved in the "Great Ceremony Discussion" and was sent to the Yunnan Army several times by the intolerable young Taoist priest.
In the third year of Jiajing's reign, he was shackled and escorted all the way to Jiangling by a sergeant. When he was crossing the Yangtze River by boat, he saw the surging river, the green mountains in the distance, and two white-haired fishermen on the boat who were drinking and chatting. He couldn't help but be deeply touched and thought of himself.
I was filled with emotion at this ordeal, and wrote this eternally famous poem "Linjiang Immortal".
Later, when Mao Zonggang revised "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he used it as the opening sentence. Because it was so practical and appropriate, it was as if it was tailor-made for the heroes of the Three Kingdoms.
This poem is also a masterpiece for Luo Guanzhong, because it is like telling his life. At least that is what Teacher Luo himself thinks.
So one can imagine his desire for the second half.
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"What's down there?" Seeing that he was indifferent, Luo Guanzhong urged.
"Down there, I seem to have forgotten." Zhu Zhen put down his brush and admired his own handwriting. He should not say anything, but he had made too much progress.
"Fuck..." Teacher Luo cursed.
"If you tell me more about those things you know, sir, I will definitely remember them." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "You also know that inspiration needs to collide."
"You're really..." Luo Guanzhong was furious, but he still couldn't resist the temptation below and said helplessly:
"Okay, let me say. In fact, the Shipping Department was no longer good in the Yuan Dynasty. The reason is simply that the administrative capabilities of the Yuan Dynasty were too poor to supervise smuggling. The officials at the top and bottom were corrupt and did not care about it at all.
The national interests are at heart. Maritime merchants find that as long as they buy officials and find a good protection umbrella, they can smuggle unscrupulously and still pay taxes? What a fart!"
"Yeah." Zhu Zhen nodded and said, "This is pretty much what I learned. What next?"
"Later Zhang Sijiu occupied Jiangnan, and he didn't care about anything. The maritime merchants naturally supported him and hoped that he would continue to rule." Luo Guanzhong continued:
"Zhang Sijiu was able to resist for so long with only one state, and it was inseparable from the continuous transportation of supplies by maritime merchants. Later, Zhang Sijiu was defeated. Those maritime merchants knew that they would not end well if they stayed behind, so they fought with Zhang Sijiu's remaining troops.
He retreated to the island and continued to fight against the imperial court while continuing to monopolize maritime trade."
"So, the ones who monopolize the sea are still the original ones?" Lao Liu was very good at focusing on the key points.
"Absolutely. A lot of people must have died over the years, but overall, they are still the same group of people." Luo Guanzhong nodded.
"Good boy. But they can't go ashore. Who should they look for to buy goods and who should they look for to ship goods?" Zhu Zhen asked: "Who should we rely on for personnel replenishment and material replenishment?"
"Haha." Luo Guanzhong chuckled and said, "I can only tell Your Highness this. In the two to three hundred years since the Song Dynasty, the entire Jiangnan has been in the shape of maritime trade. All walks of life, every household
, all rely directly or indirectly on maritime trade. The powerful families make huge profits from it, and the common people rely on it to make a living. Your Highness thinks, do the maritime merchants need to worry about the questions you asked?"
"No need." Zhu Zhen said with a wry smile: "The whole Jiangnan belongs to them."
After a pause, Lao Liu asked again: "So the shipping department of this dynasty cannot be opened?"
"That's right. The whole of Jiangnan is smuggling, and it's nothing more than a shipping company. How can the imperial court get a share of the pie?" Luo Guanzhong said calmly.
"Why has no one ever reported these problems to the court? Even if people from Jiangnan are involved in smuggling, what about the local officials? They are exiled officials from other places, so why do they turn a blind eye? Are they all complicit?" Lao Liu asked incredulously.
"Wasn't the official from other places killed by your father..." Luo Guanzhong teased.
"Teacher Luo, don't say that. My old man regretted killing Wei Guan." Zhu Zhen said with a bitter smile: "Besides, with so many officials, someone will report it, right?"
"Yes, with so many officials, someone will report it, right?" Luo Guanzhong repeated angrily, and then asked quietly: "Then why doesn't your father know?"
This statement is very clear - all memorials in the world must be delivered to the Zhongshu Province first. Whatever the Zhongshu Province gives to Boss Zhu, Boss Zhu can read. If the Zhongshu Province does not give it to him, Boss Zhu will naturally not be able to see it.
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"You mean..." Zhu Zhen swallowed and said, "They were all suppressed by the Ministry of Education. Are you so bold?"
"Otherwise." Luo Guanzhong said with a smile: "Being able to believe some people's lies and easily shut down various shipping companies means that you guys have been kept in the dark for so many years."
"Fuck..." Lao Liu couldn't help but also cursed.
In fact, he had already made a guess. Otherwise, how could his father, who wanted to pluck the goose's feathers because he was short of money, easily let go of the money tree of Shibosi?
He suddenly thought of something else: "Such a blatant large-scale smuggling cannot be hidden from the chief Japanese officer on Chongming Island, right? As well as the commanders of various coastal guard posts, these people cannot be bribed."
, how can you happily smuggle?"
"I don't know about this, and I don't want to talk nonsense." Luo Guanzhong said calmly: "It's just that in the past, looking at the past, it was really inconvenient to smuggle if we didn't bribe the officers and soldiers."
"Yeah." Zhu Zhen couldn't sit still anymore, got up and walked back and forth: "It doesn't matter if they are wrong, it is always right to show mercy to the enemy."
"In other words, the whole Jiangnan has boarded their pirate ship. From the local government to the imperial court, from the government to the army, they all have their protective umbrella. The entire system is so complete that no needle can be inserted and no water can be poured in." He said.
Mian Xian smiled bitterly and said:
"So, sir, there is no chance of reopening the shipping department."
"Exactly." Luo Guanzhong nodded and said: "This system has extremely strong vitality, so it was reborn very quickly in the Ming Dynasty. Anyone who wants to seize food from the tiger's mouth will have to face the counterattack of the entire system. An imperial envoy will definitely be shattered to pieces.
.Of course, as a prince, His Highness will not suffer any serious consequences. At most, he will suffer a bloody head."
"Sir, you are too ambitious for other people and destroy your own prestige!" Zhu Zhen stopped, raised his thick eyebrows, raised his round eyes and said:
"When you say Po Tian, you are just helping shady smugglers! At most, you can add a few protective umbrellas! It's like you are invincible? How is that possible? I don't believe in this evil!"
As he spoke, he said to Luo Guanzhong: "I have asked people to invite all the big families in Jiangnan to Zhenjiang. I will meet them for a while when I get back!"
"Really?" Luo Guanzhong couldn't help but be surprised. If His Highness hadn't deceived him, it meant that he had already realized the crux of the problem and was really planning to solve the problem.
"No one dares not to give me this face. Everything that should come has come." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "When the time comes, I will have to accompany you, my old acquaintance."
"Oh, okay." Luo Guanzhong nodded helplessly. Now I don't know how many old acquaintances there are, and they want to poke his spine.
"If they don't give me a pair of chopsticks, then I won't even eat this bowl of rice from Hai Mao!" Zhu Zhen hit the table with his fist and said firmly.
