The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 30: Wang Wenlong

After Gao Yin's birthday banquet, Wang Wenlong and Lin Shiqing were seeing off the guests at the door together. Suddenly, a long shift came to call them and said it was Gao Yin who was looking for them.

Gao Yin was sitting in the flower hall. He was still wearing the dress he had worn at the previous banquet. At this time, he had taken off his crown and was serving tea while being served by a maid.

Seeing Wang Wenlong and Lin Shiqing enter the room, he glanced at Wang Wenlong and asked, "How was your discussion with Li Guozhu today?"

Wang Wenlong smiled quickly and said: "Then Li Guoshu thinks very highly of me and invited me to have tea at his house in two days."

"Well, don't delay what I asked you to do!"

Wang Wenlong had already guessed this afternoon that Gao Yin wanted to punish Li Dan in order to snatch Zhang Yi's trade to Luzon.

But today Zhang Yi's matter has been settled. Wang Wenlong thought that Li Dan's troubles were over, but he didn't expect that Gao Yin would still miss him.

After thinking about it again, Wang Wenlong understood that although Zhang Yi's matter had come to an end, Li Dan was indeed rich. With Gao Yin's character, he had caught the opponent's hand. How could he give up taking advantage of him? Any chance of the next piece of meat coming?

Cursing this eunuch for being greedy in his heart, Wang Wenlong quickly smiled and said: "I will definitely do this well for my father-in-law."

Gao Yin nodded and said:

"What you said in the flower hall today was really insightful. Why didn't you say it before?"

Wang Wenlong thought to himself: I clearly said that you didn’t understand, yet you still told me to go back.

Gao Yin glanced at him and waved his hand: "That's all, give me a copy of your manuscript after you finish it!"

Wang Wenlong repeatedly said yes.

"Father-in-law, Xiong Qingbo is going to ask me to publish the article I wrote about the Portuguese in the flower hall today."

"I know this."

Wang Wenlong rolled his eyes and smiled again: "Father-in-law, today Prefect Han said that he plans to promote me to the position of supervisor."

Gao Yin looked at Wang Wenlong after hearing this.

Wang Wenlong hurriedly continued: "This matter was brought up by Long Guolu. The prefect said it himself. I can't refuse at the moment..."

Lin Shiqing was instantly furious and said: "Eunuch, this guy is trying to steal everything. He knows that Long Guolu is my father-in-law's mortal enemy, but he actually colludes with Long Guolu to make you unhappy!"

"Shut up!" Gao Yin looked at him with disgust, narrowed his eyes and said to Wang Wenlong, "What do you think?"

Wang Wenlong looked candid: "Based on students' private thoughts, it would be good to have someone with the title of supervisor..."

Gao Yin thought for a while and laughed loudly: "Don't eat it inside and out."

Wang Wenlong said quickly: "How dare Wang Wenlong forget your father-in-law's great kindness?"

Gao Yin said: "In that case, you don't want to violate Prefect Han's good intentions. You don't need to tell me about this matter. Do you still want me to help you decide?"

After Wang Wenlong left, Lin Shiqing said to Gao Yin: "My father-in-law, be careful, Wang Wenlong is very cunning and may join forces with those civil servants."

If Wang Wenlong was here and heard Lin Shiqing's words, he would definitely think that this guy is extremely stupid. Does he need to be reminded about this?Isn't this inappropriate for treating your boss as a fool?

Sure enough, Gao Yin rolled his eyes when he heard this.

"You idiot, take care of your own business and don't talk too much about other things! Go home early, it's an eyesore!"

Lin Shiqing was scolded by Gao Yin and was so frightened that he ran out quickly. Only when he got outside the house did he feel aggrieved. This man only felt that he was loyal to Eunuch Gao but could not be reused. It was all flatterers like Wang Wenlong who deceived Eunuch Gao. Eye.Wang Wenlong was inexplicably charged another amount by Lin Shiqing.

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Since Gao Yin allowed Wang Wenlong to be a prisoner, Wang Wenlong took Li Bajin out early the next day. He brought a set of "The Scholars" written by himself as a gift to visit Han Zao.

Han Zao also had his own purpose in promoting Wang Wenlong.

Based on Wang Wenlong's speech at the banquet yesterday, this guy has a wide range of knowledge and will probably become famous in the future.

In particular, Wang Wenlongming said that it would be better if he could not take the imperial examination.

If Wang Wenlong cannot become an official, it means that there will be no big problems. If Wang Wenlong becomes famous in the future, Han Zhuo will also be able to gain the reputation of selecting talents.

Even if Wang Wenlong could not gain fame, leaving such a favor would be a free favor for him.

So Han Zhuo was very happy to see Wang Wenlong come to his door, so he prepared a meal in the back office and asked some Qingke staff to come out and sit with him.

After a banquet, Han Zhuo asked his officials to take Wang Wenlong to go to the palace in person. Although he got the quota of prisoner, since it was a tribute, it was impossible not to pay the money.

In the next two days, Wang Wenlong took Han Zhuo's letter and rushed to Fuzhou. He first went to Li Guangjin's study cabinet to pay a deposit of more than 180 taels, then went to the Fuzhou feudal treasury to pay the money, asked for the receipt as a voucher, and then took the gift. I wrote to Fujian to study.

Of course, Master Tixue could not see his face, but the officials were still quite enthusiastic about Wang Wenlong because of Han Zhuo's face.

The quota that Han Zhuo gave to Wang Wenlong was for this year's posthumous examination. Most of the people who could join the posthumous examination and serve as supervisors were those with some power and wealth in their families. Han Zhuo's name was indeed very useful. After two days of waiting for the results of the Academic Affairs Examination, Wang Wenlong discovered that Ti Xue had directly included him in the first volume of this year's Fujian tribute prison.

Wang Wenlong was already a supervising student after he was released from the list. Li Bajin was beaming with joy and immediately shouted "Master" at the gate of Gongyuan.

Needless to say, Wang Wenlong really felt a lot more relaxed.

These days, those who have fame are those who are superiors. From then on, he could go wherever he wanted in the Ming Dynasty. When he met officials in the yamen, he did not have to kneel with his buttocks sticking out. When low-level officials saw him, they had to sit on a stool to show their respect for scholars.

After changing his identity, Wang Wenlong quickly returned to Zhangzhou.

As for the Imperial College students, they were supposed to go to Nanjing to study, but these days, the students did not have this rule, especially Wang Wenlong was still paying tribute, and it didn't matter whether he went or not after paying the money.

If you really want to compare it, it is estimated that only [-]% of the supervisors in the world can write a neat eight-legged essay.

When Wang Wenlong returned to Zhangzhou, he felt that the world was much deserted than when they first arrived.

He knew that this was all because of Gao Yin. This guy was really ruthless and wanted to make trouble in Zhangzhou within a few days.

I really need to find a chance to leave early.

But the good thing for him was that Gao Yin was busy collecting taxes and his supervision was not strict. Wang Wenlong was just waiting for his article to come out to see if it would arouse a response. He also took advantage of the reputation gained at Gao Yin's birthday banquet to make friends everywhere. powerful people.

He planned to find connections to escape from Gao Yin's mansion as soon as he had the chance.

A few days later, Wang Wenlong asked for a skateboard at the gate of Gaoyin Mansion, sat down and went straight to Zhishan in the west of Zhangzhou City.

After Li Guozhu invited him again and again, Wang Wenlong finally had time to go hunting with Li Guozhu. According to Li Guozhu, those who came to hunt today were not only his brothers and sisters, but also several of his uncles.

When Wang Wenlong arrived at Li Guozhu's villa at the foot of Zhishan Mountain, he saw many servants at the door of the tall house. Among the crowd were four figures on horseback. In addition to Li Guozhu's brother and sister, there were also two middle-aged men, one tall and one short.

(End of this chapter)