Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 94

As soon as Ji Tao said this, it was just as he imagined.

A violent storm was coming.

"What does it mean to be lagging behind? It doesn't matter. Is this a backward thing? He Chen Qingsi robbed our things and wants us to lick our faces to beg them? What's the point of this?"

Ji Wen was like a wounded beast.

It's not that he doesn't know that the best way now is to give up investment in weaving and dyeing workshops, develop silkworms with peace of mind, and sell the silk in the county to the Zhaojia Workshop in Qingxi County for processing into silk, as Ji Tao said.

With the Zhao family's gold-lettered signboard here, their county's silk will have no worries about selling.

But Ji Wen was unwilling to do so.

According to his development plan, Tonglu County will take the lead, with a large number of silkworms and its own weaving and dyeing workshops, forming a people's livelihood environment that belongs only to Tonglu County.

It enriched itself, and then attracted people from all over the world to come and develop and settle, making Tonglu County the signature of Muzhou.

But now Qingxi County has become unique. In half a year, it has surpassed Tonglu County, which he worked hard for a year and a half. It is as popular as ever.

If he, Ji Wen, lets go and sells the county's silk to Qingxi County, once he develops dependence, he will live with his back up forever.

Chen Qingsi could manipulate him no matter what he wanted at that time.

The anger in Ji Wen's heart grew stronger and stronger, and she said angrily: "I, Ji Wen, will never be Chen Qingsi's vassal and make wedding clothes for him. If he doesn't make it easy for me, I won't make it easy for him. At worst, both sides will suffer, and they want to step on me to get higher." To become famous, he doesn’t have the qualifications.”

Ji Wen threw the Wen Gong in his hand heavily on the desk, flung up his sleeves and walked away.

When Ji Tao saw this, he also knew that his county magistrate was determined to continue fighting with Qingxi County. He sighed and secretly regretted that if he had known about this, he should not have reported Lei Xin's coming to the county to buy silkworm seeds. In other words, if it hadn't been for this matter, perhaps it wouldn't have been so troublesome.

When Chen Qingsi learned that Tonglu County's plan had not changed, he knew that Ji Wen, the county magistrate, was determined to kill everything.

"Since you want to seek death, let me let you die thoroughly!"

Chen Qingsi has no intention of fighting Ji Wen for a long time. This is not his ambition. In order to prevent the other party from doing such bottomless things as destroying silkworms at a critical moment, striking first is the best choice.

As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, literati and poets in Qingxi County gradually gather.

King Luo Bin, whom he had not seen for a long time, came to visit him again.

"Mr. Chen!"

King Luo Bin was now in high spirits and with bright eyes compared to the depressed state when he first went south. He bowed deeply and said, "Sir, your talent and wisdom are unfathomable and admirable."

Chen Qingsi squinted her eyes and looked at King Luo Bin who looked admiringly. She didn't know what to say for a moment.

What did I do?Is he worthy of such admiration for King Luo Bin, a romantic figure?

King Luo Bin continued: "I'm so stupid that I didn't check the deep meaning of Mr. Yuan Jing's poems for a moment. I really shouldn't have done it. Today I had a conversation with brother Yuan Jing about poetry, and when I talked about "Two Poems of Compassion for the Farmers", after careful consideration, I discovered that the two poems were actually in conflict with each other. Neat, with a combination of oblique and oblique lines, and interdependent meter. Compared with Mr.'s "Two Poems of Compassion for the Farmers," the Shangguan style is not worth mentioning at all."

King Luo Bin was somewhat dismissive of Shangguan Yi's Shangguan body.

Shangguan style has a profound historical significance, and it has a role in promoting the shaping of rhythmic poetry.It provides a new paradigm for poetry to become metrical, and builds a bridge for the transition from palace poetry to Shen Quan period and Song Dynasty rhythm poetry.

However, the Shangguan style of Shangguan Yi ultimately served the court nobles, and the subject matter and content of the poems were still limited to the chants that should be produced in court literature.

Therefore, it can only be said that Shangguan Yi laid a foundation for later generations of Tang poetry. The real innovations were the Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty, the Four Friends of Wen Zhang, and people like Chen Ziang and Zhang Ruoxu.

King Luo Bin was a member of the reformist group, so he looked down on Shangguan Yi who changed his ways but still did not change the essence of Shangguan Yi.

Chen Qingsi finally understood.The two poems "Compassion for the Farmers" are five-character quatrains. The quatrain poetry style was not pioneered by poets in the Tang Dynasty. It originated from the ancient Yuefu poems of the Han and Wei Dynasties. The style is relatively simple and ancient, advocating natural and true interest.The five-character quatrains of this period not only lacked antithesis, but also did not pay attention to rhythm. However, with the development of Tang poetry, after the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the Tang people called poems that had no antithesis and did not pay attention to rhythm and rhythm as ancient style poetry, while poems that often strictly adhered to meter were called ancient style poems. "New poetry" or "new style poetry" was later called metrical poetry, that is, quatrains and rhythmic poetry.

Quatrain poems before the prosperous Tang Dynasty did not pay attention to the pronunciation of antitheses.The two poems about pity for the peasants are standard five-character quatrains.

Chen Qingsi looked at King Luo Bin with some fear. He didn't even notice this thing himself. This man of eternal love could see it more clearly than he, the future generation.

If you don't love this way, how can you do this?

Facing King Luo Bin like this, Chen Qingsi could only say: "It's just a temporary hobby, don't take it seriously."

However, King Luo Bin looked serious and said: "Shangguanyi's charming poems can be called Shangguan style. Mr. Chen's determination of battles and tone is far better than his, so why can't it be called Chen style?"

He seemed to think "Chen Ti" was a bit unpleasant, so he added, "Or 'Qing Si Ti'."

Chen Qingsi couldn't help but burst out laughing when she looked at King Luo Bin in front of her. She was inexplicably founding a sect.

But...it seems good.

Chen Qingsi also had a smile in her eyes.

Just when the Dragon Boat Festival Poetry Festival was about to come, two uninvited guests came to the Muzhou Governor's Mansion.

"Juniors Zheng Rong and Wei Hao pay homage to Governor Xu."

Master Xu Yu looked at the two handsome Confucian scholars in front of him, greeted them cheerfully, and chatted about their parents' shortcomings.

Master Xu Yu led the two of them to chat enthusiastically, as if they were familiar with each other, but secretly sent someone to Qingxi County to inform them.

Zheng Rong and Wei Hao are the county magistrates and county captains of Qingxi County who have been vacant in Qingxi County arranged by the imperial court.

In fact, the Zheng family had wanted to arrange for people to come to Qingxi County to pick peaches a long time ago. They sent people to greet Master Xu Yun many times, hoping that he would arrange for people to come to Qingxi County.

Master Xu Yu was a good person, and he would have agreed to it if anyone else had done it. However, since the other party was Chen Qingsi, he chose to be perfunctory here.

The main reason is naturally that Xu Yushi is worried that the Zheng family has no good intentions and is not good for Chen Qingsi.

Master Xu Yu really fell in love with Chen Qingsi's poems. Although the other party kept crying about poverty, which made him very irritable, at the critical moment, he blocked a lot of disasters for Chen Qingsi.

It's just that as one of the five surnames, the power behind the Zheng family is quite amazing.

They bypassed Xu Yushi, the governor, and directly arranged Zheng Rong to Qingxi County through the court as the county magistrate.

As for Wei Hao, he is the son-in-law of Fan Yanglu.

Xu Yushi could not disobey the court's wishes, so he could only acquiesce and keep the two of them first so that Chen Qingsi could be prepared.

Zheng Rong and Wei Hao didn't notice it at all, and patiently accompanied Master Xu Yun without being anxious at all.

Rather than dealing with Chen Qingsi, they were more willing to chat with Master Xu Yu for a while.

Because there is a vacancy in the temple, Master Xu Yu is the one with the highest voice.

Even Master Xu Yu himself didn't know this.

　My nephew got married and was socializing and drinking. I drank a little too much. Sorry for the late update. The two updates will be the same tomorrow, but the update time may be delayed.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)