A few days later, Wang Yuan entered the cafeteria to eat, and the new classmates suddenly became very enthusiastic about him.
Needless to say, "Bamboo and Stone" and "On Poetry" have already spread, and soon spread into Wenming Academy from outside.
Wang Yuan could only return the greetings all the way. Although he was too annoyed, he could not get angry at others. After all, everyone was saying hello out of goodwill.
"You are famous." Song Ling'er smiled.
Liu Yaozu said: "That's right. The bookstores are already selling copies of the Poetry Society. Each copy costs half a penny. Your two poems are at the top of the list."
Wang Yuan shook his head and said: "I don't want to be famous, if..."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Wenxu suddenly came over to sit down and took out a piece of paper: "Ruoxu, look at this poem I wrote when I visited Tonghua Temple last year."
Wang Yuan was speechless for a moment and composed the poem honestly.
"Ten miles away from Zhaoti in the north of the city, the mountain gate is quiet and the grass is fluttering. The skypox is suspected to be close to the clouds and the flowers are falling. The cypresses are frequently moving and burning. The sound of chimes in the morning is accompanied by the rain of pine trees. The fragrance of afternoon tea is attracted by the osmanthus wind. The staff and quinoa are leisurely climbed up,
The infinite dusty heart will disappear on its own.”
The writing is good, at least a hundred times better than Wang Yuan's own poetry.
"What a poem!" Wang Yuan praised.
Chen Wenxue smiled and said: "Unexpectedly, Ruoxu also likes poetry. While you and I are studying, we can learn from each other."
"No, no," Wang Yuan hurriedly shied away, "I have never learned to compose poetry at all, and I don't even understand the rules of rhythm. Moreover, the teacher said that poetry is a small way, and it should be based on the time and context. From today on, I will
I will study behind closed doors and will not write poetry again for three years."
Chen Wenxue had no doubt that he was there, and said in awe: "If you are so eager to learn, I admire you so much that I should study hard behind closed doors!"
"call!"
Finally fooled, Wang Yuan hurriedly ate, planning to return to his room immediately after finishing the meal.
Ancient academies also had canteens, with tables for eight people and tables for four people. The standard was that two people shared one meat and one vegetable.
Tuition fees, book fees, room and board... all add up to a very high price, and ordinary scholars cannot afford it. This is equivalent to a private school in ancient times.
Therefore, those who studied in the academy with Wang Yangming basically came from affluent families. Ordinary families did not dare to live in the academy, so they only went to the street in front of the academy to attend free of charge when Wang Yangming gave open classes.
Among the new scholars, Qin Yue, Zou Mu, Li Weishan, Wang Yuanming, Gao Fengming and others quickly became the super fans of Uncle Wang. Especially Wang Yuanming, whose family was extremely rich, not only sent rice, flour, oil and salt to the teacher, but also
He also often helps other students.
While Wang Yuan was eating, several more people sat over and asked him to discuss poetry. He used the excuses he had made before to shirk the conversation.
Not only did this not offend anyone, but it actually won the respect of all living beings. After all, poetry is indeed a minor path.
Suddenly, everyone stood up one after another, and Wang Yuan also stood up.
Wang Yangming and an old man walked into the cafeteria, talking and laughing. The old man's entourage was carrying a jar of good wine.
"Wang Erlang, come and sit down quickly!" the old man shouted to Wang Yuan.
Wang Yuan immediately went over and greeted him: "Sir, Zhang Zhitai, the students are polite!"
This old man's name was Zhang Guan. He was also pushed out to serve as an official in Guizhou because he offended Liu Jin. He shared the same fate as Wang Yangming. However, Zhang Guan's official position was greater. As the envoy of Guizhou, he was in charge of the administration of justice in the province.
Since Wang Yangming came to Wenming Academy, Zhang Guan often brought his own wine and food to visit. He did not discuss knowledge with Wang Yangming, but simply chatted to relieve his boredom. When he was drunk, he would curse Liu Jin in the distance.
This old gentleman never stopped and wrote many times to complain to the court. He said that Liu Jin had let the eunuchs guarding Guizhou to collect money for him, invaded countless military fields, and caused a large number of military households to flee - it would not be long before he would be demoted again and be sentenced to death.
He was demoted to Shanxi as a councilor.
"Sit down," Zhang Guan asked his entourage to open the wine jar, and said to Wang Yuan with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a few days, and you have become a child prodigy. Even the two chief envoys have read the poems you wrote."
Wang Yuan said with shame: "I just composed two random songs, so I can't be called a child prodigy."
Zhang Guan slapped the table and said: "Your two sentences, 'Stand strong after a thousand blows, despite the winds from east to west, north and south', are really well written. When he enters the court and becomes an official, he must retain the character he has today and cannot be raped.
You are too frightened to be brave. As long as you uphold your integrity, what do those eight tigers in the capital mean to you? Don’t look at their arrogance now, they will be wiped out by all the princes in the court in the future!"
Here we go again, this old angry young man will always criticize Liu Jin and the Eight Tigers.
"What Nie Tai said is true, young man, please remember your teachings." Wang Yuan agreed with a smile.
Zhang Guan said to the young man next to him: "Xiang'er, fill up the wine for Wang Yuan."
The boy's name was Wang Xiang, who was also brought by Wang Yangming from his hometown. Because he was too young, only fourteen or five years old, he did not take him to Longchangyi, but stayed at Zhan Hui's house in the city. Later generations studied Wang Yangming's letters and letters.
"Xiang'er" often appears in "Xiang'er", which refers to this Wang Xiang.
Wang Xiang is smart and quick to pour wine for everyone.
Wang Yangming didn't dare to touch a drop of it, he ate the food honestly, and casually asked Wang Yuan about his homework.
While chatting, Zhang Guan talked about his glorious past: "In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, the Hami rebels invaded the border. At that time, I was just the inspector of Shaanxi Province, but I also knew how to prepare the army and quell the border chaos in one fell swoop. Your Majesty
I will be rewarded with colorful coins based on my merits and promoted to deputy envoy of Sichuan." As he said this, he suddenly slapped the table and said, "Guizhou is just a bunch of wimps and a few thieves who have rebelled. It has been almost a year since they not only failed to pacify them, but they have also gone to hell.
Make the fuss bigger!"
"Zhang Zhitai is brave," Wang Yangming poured him a drink and said with emotion, "not everyone has the same responsibility as you."
This flattery made Zhang Guan very happy, and he really deserved it.
The minister of the Ministry of Justice was only a fifth-rank official, and he did not have the power to command the army. He mainly engaged in local judicial work. However, Zhang Guan was able to train troops in Shaanxi in this capacity and lead troops to quell the border chaos. In comparison, he really has
I'm qualified to say that Guizhou military officers are a bunch of trash.
According to Zhang Guan's idea, as long as he is allowed to command the troops and train in person for a month or two, the Guizhou rebels can be wiped out.
Unfortunately, Zhang Guan didn't have any soldiers, so he could only go to Wang Yangming to drink and complain every now and then.
After scolding the Guizhou officer and then turning around to scold Liu Jin, Zhang Guan finally vented his resentment. He had a drink with Wang Yuan and asked Wang Yangming: "What has Bo'an been busy with recently?"
Wang Yangming replied: "While I was giving lectures, I was reading the Medicine King Bodhisattva's True Sutra of Transforming Pearls to Preserve Life."
"Bo'an is still devoted to Buddhism?" Zhang Guan couldn't help laughing.
Wang Yangming explained: "This "Medicine King Bodhisattva Transforms Pearls into Life-Saving Sutras" should not come from India, but is an apocryphal scripture written in China."
Wang Yuan asked: "Since it is against the scriptures, why do you still read it?"
Wang Yangming said: "This scripture specifically talks about how to treat acne."
Pox is smallpox.
Yungui is an area prone to smallpox, and this sutra is also very rare. Under the guise of the Medicine King Bodhisattva, the theory of traditional Chinese medicine was combined with Buddhist thought to create a sutra specifically for the treatment of smallpox.
When Wang Yangming was teaching in Longgang Mountain, he often wandered around the area and found the "Medicine King Bodhisattva's Sutra of Transforming Pearls to Preserve Life" in an abandoned temple, as well as a narrative left by his predecessors.
From the narrative, we can know that in a certain month of a certain year, a smallpox epidemic broke out in Guiyang. The Miao people were helpless. Whenever a child fell ill, they would abandon the child in the wilderness and take it home after a few days without dying. A wandering monk came to the Miao land.
, living in an abandoned temple, as long as people go to the temple to worship, they will no longer be infected with smallpox.
After the plague ended, the wandering monk disappeared without a trace. The local people regarded him as the Medicine King Bodhisattva who came to the world, so they renovated the abandoned temple. After that, when people got sick, they could be cured without medicine as long as they went to the temple to worship.
Effective.
Hearing Wang Yangming's narration, Wang Yuan was surprised and said: "This Buddhist scripture records the method of treating acne?"
Wang Yangming shook his head: "The Buddhist scriptures say that if a child suffers from acne, his family members should burn incense and bathe, refrain from killing or having sex, and pray to Buddha in the morning and evening, and then they can be cured. But I think these are just nonsense and the real way to treat acne.
It should be the pox vaccine mentioned casually in the narrative. I have been researching for many days, but I still don’t know what a pox vaccine is. Is it possible to inoculate a cure for pox? This method is unknown and has never been used in ancient times, so I find it very strange."
Wang Yuan was shocked by these words. The time of the smallpox outbreak in the narrative should have occurred in the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, there were monks who actually knew about vaccination therapy.
As for the family members of smallpox patients, they should burn incense and bathe, and worship Buddha in the morning and evening. The former is to emphasize personal hygiene, and the latter is an opportunity for monks to spread Buddhist beliefs.
Wang Yuan received this reminder and suddenly wanted to study how to vaccinate against smallpox so that he could be prepared for smallpox epidemics in the future.
Historically, detailed records of vaccination were recorded during the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty. However, the vaccination was done with variola, not cowpox. Due to the high failure rate, people thought that only relative vaccinations would be effective - one family had a survival rate of vaccination exceeding
Gao, others thought that this family's pox inoculations were very good, so they went to great lengths to steal the pox inoculations.
Wang Yuan reminded: "Perhaps it's to fight poison with poison. Plant the pus from the acne of a healed person into a healthy person."
Zhang Guan scolded: "Don't talk nonsense, this method can only make healthy people get sick!"
Wang Yuan continued to explain: "I heard from the elders in the village that every time there is an outbreak of pox, the livestock will get sick but not die. Can it be confirmed that the pox disease in livestock is milder than that in humans? If cowpox is inoculated into humans
, by actively contracting milder forms of acne, will we no longer be afraid of getting acne? After all, people who have had acne will never get it again in this life."
Wang Yangming's eyes lit up: "This method may be feasible!"
Zhang Guan also thought it was reasonable and said: "If I am an official in the future and encounter a pox epidemic in the area under my jurisdiction, I will vaccinate the death row prisoners with cowpox. Maybe it can be verified and it can also benefit the people in that area."
Khan, aren’t death row prisoners human? They were actually used for human experiments.
After Mr. Zhang Guan finished talking about the smallpox epidemic prevention work, he suddenly got involved with Liu Jin. He drank wine and slammed the table and cursed that the eunuchs deserved to die.
After drinking too much, Zhang Guan dipped his fingers in wine again, drew a simple map of Guizhou on the table, and analyzed the war situation for Wang Yangming and Wang Yuan: "The most urgent task is to mobilize Bozhou soldiers and horses to attack Xifeng from the north and south with the Guizhou army.
Open up the official road to Guizhou from Bozhou. In this way, Huguang only needs to mobilize 5,000 troops to block the rebels' eastward route, and then they can attack from the east and west and defeat them in one fell swoop! Old friends from the DPRK and China wrote to me, saying that the Ministry of War is now
All the military intelligence in Guizhou has been suppressed because they are Liu Jin’s party members, and the emperor has no idea that there is a rebellion in Guizhou!”
"Alas, eunuchs are a disaster for the country." Wang Yangming could only sigh.
Although Wang Yuan is a historical idiot, he also knows that Zhu Houzhao likes to fight, and he never shows mercy to foreign enemies and internal invaders. The war in Guizhou has dragged on for nearly a year, and the Ministry of War has not yet mobilized a large army to quell the chaos. Zhu Houzhao must be really unaware.
And the Ministry of War was controlled by Liu Jin. It was probably Liu Eunuch who deceived the emperor. An Guirong must have secretly spent a lot of money.
Mr. Zhang drank himself into a mess and scolded Liu Jin's eighteen generations of ancestors. He patted Wang Yuan on the shoulder and told him to study hard, and then he was helped by his entourage to stagger away.
In the evening, Lu Jian, the deputy inspector general of Guizhou Province, also came to chat with Wang Yangming. Wang Yuan took the initiative to buy some wine to keep him company.
Uncle Wang is really good at mixing. He has only been in Wenming Academy for two months and has already become good friends with Guizhou civil and military officials and chieftains. Historically, on the first day of the new year next year, Lu Jian, the deputy inspector, even personally accompanied Wang Yangming on a tour of Guiyang's famous places.
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Wang Yuan took the opportunity to hitchhike, and gradually became acquainted with Guizhou officials. Everyone regarded him as a nephew-the name of prodigy was still useful. Civil officials who held local posts especially liked to support prodigies.
The Guizhou officials of this term all have some grudges against Liu Jin. They were either demoted or promoted overtly and secretly. When Liu Jin falls, these officials will definitely be promoted.
For example, Mr. Zhang Guan will be the governor of Liaodong in a few years and will hold military and political power in the Liaodong region.
(ps: The Buddhist sutra about smallpox was not a random fabrication. Wang Yangming later printed the sutra and wrote the preface himself. In the preface, he mentioned vaccination: "But the seeds of pox are not found in scriptures and have never been found in ancient times.")