Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 203

The sun is shining.

Walking in Shaoxing, in a rather elegant garden, Ruan Dacheng yawned but just woke up.

Stretching and yawning, she turned around but leaned against the pillow and squinted again.

Two beautiful 14-year-old girls heard the noise, came in on tiptoe like cats, peeked at the door, and saw that the master was already sitting there, so they came together to help get up.

Qing Qiu brewed a pot of tea, "The master wrote the script until midnight last night, why did he wake up so early today?"

Ning Dong brought a silk shirt to put on for Ruan Dacheng, "How was the master thinking last night, how many plays did you write?"

Ruan Dacheng opened his eyes, took the tea and rinsed his mouth first.

"My lord, I'm getting old and I can't do it anymore." He took another cup of tea to moisten his throat, "I still remember that in the spring of the sixth year of Chongzhen, I wrote a special spring lantern riddle script to welcome my uncle to return to his hometown. , The Spring Lantern Riddles script with more than 39 words was completed, and my uncle, Mr. Yuan, appreciated it very much after reading it."

Ruan Dacheng was very proud when talking about the past.

Looking back on the past, in the sixth year of Chongzhen, although he was still never hired, he was still young, with a smart head, and a wide network of contacts, and he got along very well.

"That's not it, Mr. Ziyuan is also a master of opera, but the master's Spring Lantern Riddles was highly praised by Mr. Ziyuan. Many booksellers and theater troupes rushed to buy it. Afterwards, after rehearsals and performances, it was even more attractive. Countless spectators praised it, and everyone applauded." The girl Qingqiu skillfully poured tea, and at the same time flattered the master just right.

The Duke of Ziyuan they are talking about is Ruan Zihua, the uncle of Ruan Dacheng. The Ruan family is a famous gentry in Anqing. The relationship between father and son is good and avoids serious treatment.

Ruan Zihua, a Jinshi in Wanli, returned to his hometown as the magistrate of Shaowu, Fujian Province at the beginning of Chongzhen. After returning to his hometown in Anqing, he recruited actors and founded a family troupe. He entertained himself with Kunqu Opera and Yiyang Opera, and became the most famous private troupe in Jiangnan at that time. .

In order to please this uncle, Ruan Dacheng spent more than a month creating the script of Spring Lantern Riddles.

Ruan Dacheng was indeed capable. To him, writing opera scripts was just a leisurely work after he was dismissed from office, but he reached the top level of screenwriting at that time. His masterpiece Munihe was completed in only 46 days.It only took more than [-] days for the [-] double gold list.

Other scripts such as Yanzijian and Zhongyihuan were all completed in one go, and the books were sold well. Once they were staged, they became the most popular new dramas at that time.

But for Ruan Dacheng, drama was just a hobby he used to entertain himself after he was demoted, and earn some royalties by the way. When he was young, he devoted himself to imperial examinations and was able to write poems and fu.

When he was very young, his poems were already known as the masters of the Ming Dynasty poets. Many people said that to read Ming poems, you must first read Ruan Dacheng's poems.

Even at that time, many people praised Ruan Dacheng as a peerless genius who had not been seen for 500 years, and his poems were even praised by many people, including Wang Wei and Meng Haoran.

He was simply praised as the first poet of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this is not all flattery, although Ruan Dacheng's famous family and eunuchs have produced many Jinshi Juren, many of them are officials in the court, and he also worshiped the leaders of Donglin as his teacher, and he was called a hero in the Donglin Party.Scholars are naturally praised by everyone, but there are indeed some real skills.

Ruan Dacheng's poems, from young to old, are written more and more levelly. In his poems, there are early poems about the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, the leisure life of the literati, and later about the endless wars in the north. Due to the tragic situation of the war, it can be said that his poems describe the entire scene of the late Ming Dynasty with great depth.

However, Ruan Dacheng's greatest dream in this life is to be an official, a high official, and a chief assistant.So no matter whether it is poetry or opera, they are just his hobbies. At most, they are used as a stepping stone to improve his reputation in scholarly circles and official circles. He has no ambitions for this.

It's just that the young and energetic Ruan Dacheng finally ran into a wall in Beijing and suffered a lot. In order to fight for a position in the official department, he finally turned himself from the heir of the Donglin Party to the traitor of the Eunuch Party.

But after he was demoted, he was not idle. He wrote poems and dramas, established poetry clubs, opened bookstores and opera troupes, printed and sold books, even used his extensive contacts to litigate others, and even worked as a political broker. Official comprador.

While using poems, operas to gain fame, and using it to earn money, he made friends with scholars, took in knight-errants and swordsmen, and talked about military affairs everywhere. Although he tried to come back several times in the Chongzhen Dynasty, he finally made a successful comeback in the Hongguang Dynasty.

It's just that the Hongguang court was destroyed too quickly, otherwise, with his ability, he would definitely not stop at the Minister of the Ministry of War, and he must have entered the cabinet as a scholar long ago.

Since the death of the southern capital, Ruan Dacheng lost his energy as if his spine had been removed. He went to Hangzhou, went to Jinhua in Yanzhou with the Fang Guoan army, and was called to Shaoxing. Ambitious, frustrated.

Recently, I want to write a new play, based on the events of Jian Guo's Northern Expedition, as a gift to Jian Guo. I hope that after meeting Jian Guo, I can get the favor and appreciation of this young and enterprising Jian Guo.

After all, Lu Jianguo was able to disregard the objections of the Donglin party members, ignore their dereliction of duty in Hongguang's administration, and confer him and Ma Shiying as young ministers, and even traitors such as Liu Kongzhao and Yang Wencong were reused. There is a chance to be reused.

In the past, I could write several scripts in a day, or even write dozens of new plays in half a month, but now I can't write well.

No matter how you write it, you can't satisfy him.

Worry about gain and loss.

He has collected many of Lu Jianguo's past, but still feels that he can't see through him. Lu Jianguo's actions are always unusual, which makes Ruan Dacheng, who claims to be smart, feel very confused.

"Hey, 59 years old, old."

Next year I will be sixty years old, and when I look back suddenly, I feel old.

But Ruan Dacheng is still a bit dissatisfied with his old age. Liu Zongzhou, Zhang Guowei, Huang Daozhou, Fang Fengnian, and Chen Meng can all join the cabinet again. What's wrong with Ruan Dacheng?
In terms of ability to handle affairs, I am definitely better than them, even in terms of fighting, I am much better than them.

But there is no chance.

Zhang Guowei was the governor of Liangjiang, Huang Daozhou was the governor of Anhui, and Zhu Dadian was the governor of Huguang.

Since he arrived in Shaoxing, although he was given the post of Shaoqing, he actually had nothing to do all day long, except occasionally drink tea with Ma Shiying and listen to Kunqu Opera by his family troupe at home.

But not reconciled.

Ruan Dacheng has been looking for a chance to come back, a chance to impress Jian Guo.I wanted to write a play based on the Northern Expedition to praise Jian Guo, but I couldn't write anything satisfactory.

Maybe you can only count on Fang Fengnian and Fang Guoan. Fang Fengnian was in the cabinet. After all, he was the chief assistant of Chongzhen, and Fang Guoan was in Yanzhou with a large army.

Although Song Zhipu is a confidant of Jian Guo, but after all, he lacks qualifications and prestige. How can he be an opponent of an old fox like Fang Fengnian, not to mention that Fang Fengnian has joined forces with Chen Meng, and even He Tengjiao, who has just joined the cabinet, is very close to them. Support, this should be fine.

Just like when Ma Shiying and the four towns in Jiangbei supported King Fu as the emperor, although Shi Kefa of the Donglin Party intended to support King Lu, but in the end they had no choice but to accept it in front of the generals of the feudal towns?
Fang Guoan had worshiped Fang Fengnian as his adoptive father at the beginning, and the relationship was very close, and he had been in Fang Guoan's army for a long time before, so the relationship was also good.

Just as he was thinking about inviting Fang Fengnian to come over to listen to the play and have a good chat, there were hurried footsteps outside, and the steward came in in a panic, "Master, it's not good, Zhen Nanbo was killed in Fu'an by Jian Guo with a sword, and Yulin Chuan The first Shaoxing also."

"The Ministry of Fangge has also been decreed by the Jian Guo to resign!"

Ruan Dacheng's head thumped, and he froze on the spot.

(End of this chapter)