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

Ye Shaoyuan was quite disdainful of Wang Wenlong's recommendation. He thought to himself: You, Wang Jianyang, are a returnee from overseas. Your family has no property, and you are just a supervisor. Although you have gained some fame by working as an aide, but now The eunuch who was his backer also died, and he was kicked out of Fujian by the senior officials. He could only go to Nanjing to work as an adviser to a scholar.

It's not even enough to go out and pay for it, but they have to drag the originally humble Jiangnan Physics Club into making inventions to make money.

It happened that this family married two more beautiful wives and concubines. The wife was born in a famous family, and the concubine was also the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Fujian. Moreover, he was more than ten years older than his wife and concubines, so he must be despised by his wives and concubines in daily life.

You, Wang Jianyang, have lived like this, why are you still trying to save face in front of me? What is my identity? There is such a huge difference between you and me. How can you, Wang Jianyang, still lose your dignity in front of me no matter how much you pretend?

"You, listen to my little brother, please clean up your bad temper in the future." Ye Shaoyuan was quite disdainful, thinking that Wang Wenlong lived like this for no reason. This temper was not good in the first place!
Wang Wenlong also frowned slightly when he heard this. He had been polite to Ye Shaoyuan for most of the day on the boat, but he didn't expect that Ye Shaoyuan, a young man, would get carried away when being polite. The original courtesy seemed to be gradually worn away. .

Sure enough, young people cannot be spoiled.

Wang Wenlong coughed and deliberately revealed: "I live at the foot of Jilong Mountain. If he has time in the future, Zhong Shao will definitely come to my dormitory at Guozixue Middle School as a guest."

Jilong Mountain, Guozixue, Wang Wenlong's meaning has been revealed very clearly.

"Can I live in the master's house as a staff member?" Ye Shaoyuan immediately got distracted and asked subconsciously.

Wang Wenlong couldn't laugh or cry.

At this time, I saw a small boat in the distance, saw the lantern on Ye Shaoyuan's boat, and rowed over from the shore.

"Brother Anshi!" Ye Shaoyuan quickly handed over his hands when he saw the young Confucian scholar in his twenties standing on the boat.

This was the person he had arranged to pick him up when he came to Nanjing, Tongcheng student Bai Yu.

Although Bai Yu is only in his twenties, he is a well-known scholar in Anqing Prefecture. He has a lot of talents throughout Jiangnan. For Ye Shaoyuan, dating him is far more important than arranging Wang Wenlong's accommodation. When he arrived at Bai Yu, he immediately put Wang Wenlong down and turned to greet Bai Yu.

Wang Wenlong's ship had already docked, and Bai Yu's boat came to the side of the ship in a few seconds. The bow of the boat was slightly lowered. Bai Yu walked onto the gangplank and boarded Wang Wenlong's ship. He first greeted Ye Shaoyuan with a smile: "Zhong Shao Tell me to wait."

"I met a friend on the road and was delayed a bit." Ye Shaoyuan pointed to Wang Wenlong beside him and replied with a smile.

Following Ye Shaoyuan's finger, Bai Yu saw Wang Wenlong standing next to Ye Shaoyuan. He was stunned for a moment, and then said with disbelief and surprise: "Mr. Jianyang! Zhong Shao, it turns out you and Mr. Jianyang We came from the same road, so lucky!”

Wang Wenlong had never seen Bai Yu before, so he returned the courtesy and asked, "Who is your Excellency?"

"The student is Bai Yu, a scholar from Tongcheng, whose courtesy name is Anshi. Now I have paid tribute. I once heard my husband lecture on the study of writing and chronology at the Imperial Academy. At that time, I was convinced and wanted to pay a visit to my husband. However, my husband was busy with his affairs and he never responded to his post. "

When Wang Wenlong heard this, he thought about the name and asked, "Does my friend have another word called 'Xia Zhong'?"

Bai Yu said happily: "How did Mr. Jianyang know that? I only picked up the Chinese character Xiazhong last year. When I first started using it, many friends only knew me as Anshi."

Wang Wenlong nodded, that's right.

Ye Shaoyuan said before that the person who picked him up was named Bai Anshi. Wang Wenlong couldn't remember who it was at the moment. There were too many people who remembered the name Anshi, but when he mentioned "Bai Xiazhong" Wang Wenlong came to his senses.

Bai Yu, also named Xiazhong and Anshi, was from Tongcheng, Anqing Prefecture.

Historically, the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties were generally a period of change and decline in exegesis. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that exegesis was revived and famous scholars emerged in large numbers.

In the original history, there are not many figures and works that can be counted in exegetical studies in the late Ming Dynasty, but those that cannot be bypassed include Fang Yizhi, one of the "Four Young Masters in the late Ming Dynasty" and his book "Tongya".

This book can be said to be the culmination of the exegesis of text and phonology in the Ming Dynasty. One of the main teachers who taught Fang Yizhi, a great exegesis scholar, was Bai Yu and Bai Xiazhong. This gentleman was famous for his thorough knowledge of classics and history in later generations. Later generations of scholars called Mr. Jingshi “Mr.

However, the current Bai Yu has not yet reached the academic level of Mr. Jingshi. He is just a beginner in exegesis, but his ambition and talent have already been revealed.

Bai Yu was very excited when he saw Wang Wenlong and said with admiration: "When will Mr. Jianyang be able to teach exegesis in the Imperial College again?"

Wang Wenlong waved his hand and said with a smile: "The course is still being prepared, we will talk about it in a few days." "How many more days do we have to wait?" Bai Yu asked.

Bai Yu was sent to Nanjing to study last year. At that time, Wang Wenlong gave a lecture on chronology in the Imperial College. Bai Yu heard about the reputation of this lecture and attended several lectures, and then he highly praised Wang Wenlong's knowledge.

In the past half year, he has almost torn through Wang Wenlong's "Explanatory Evidence of Ancient Chinese Prose in Shangshu" and "Lecture Notes on the Dating of Texts".

"Letter dating? Lecture?" Listening to the conversation between the two, Ye Shao and Yuan looked confused. Mr. Liao Fan and Yuan Huang were good at miscellaneous subjects such as astronomy, mathematics, and Confucian classics. They really didn't have a deep understanding of elementary studies such as exegesis. Yuan Huang read Wang Wenlong's "Lecture Notes on Physics" more times than Wang Wenlong's exegetical research.

Even Ye Shaoyuan only knew that Wang Wenlong had written a book called "Explanation of Classical Texts in Shangshu" that had caused some publicity. The "Lecture Notes on Text Dating" published here in Nanjing originally had a small print run, and it was newly published last year. These two Ye Shaoyuan, who has been living in seclusion in the countryside and studying behind closed doors for many years, has never heard of it.

But when he saw Bai Yu looking at Wang Wenlong with admiration and asking him about giving lectures in the Imperial College, Ye Shaoyuan was even more confused.

Didn’t Wang Wenlong go north to Nanjing to seek a way out after losing his staff position in Fujian? How can I go to the Imperial College to give lectures again? Could it be that now even a staff member can enter the Imperial College to give lectures?

Ye Shaoyuan was wondering when he heard Bai Yu say: "Zhong Shao didn't come to Nanjing last year. I guess he didn't know how big the scene was. Last year, Mr. Jianyang was promoted as an assistant to the Imperial College. He gave a lecture on the study of writing and chronology in the Imperial College. The listeners There are probably not five or six hundred students coming to a lecture. People say that the scene is something that has never been seen in Nanjing Guoxue after the Yongle period."

"Assistant teacher? Academic officer?" Ye Shaoyuan was completely confused and looked at Wang Wenlong stupidly, his eyes full of surprise.

Wang Wenlong smiled, Wang Pingbao had already ordered the maids and servants to carry all the things in the house ashore, and the carriages had been hired. Wang Wenlong raised his hands to Ye Shaoyuan and said, "Zhong Shao, next time you go to the Imperial College, you can come to my house and sit down." After that, we got off the boat and left.

"Brother Ye Shi... you should not be too impetuous in the future..." Shen Yixiu walked to the gangplank holding the hem of his skirt. He couldn't help but say something to Ye Shaoyuan, and then he and Li Guoxian got off the boat one after another.

Wang Pingbao came back again and directed the two porters hired by Wang Wenlong to lift a large box from the ship. The box was quite heavy and the ship was small. They were crowded together on the pier. One of the two porters was unsteady on his feet, so the box fell to the side. He tilted his head and heard a dull crashing sound in the box.

Wang Pingbao yelled at the two porters, but Ye Shaoyuan was shocked again when he heard the sound and saw the weight of the box on the ship.

Fenhu's Ye family also used such a large box every year when they collected money and grain from the farm by water. Ye Shaoyuan had seen this scene many times at home when he was young. Judging from the weight of the box and the sound of rolling inside, Ye Shaoyuan had no doubt. I knew that the box contained silver, and it was a large piece of silver worth ten taels per ingot.

Just this one box, are you afraid that there will be thousands of taels of silver? Ye Shaoyuan was completely stunned.

Wang Wenlong returned to Suzhou this time and made part of the profits from the "Suzhou Xunbao", as well as the expressions of local officials and eunuchs, and the dividends from the coin making machine. He also bought several thousand taels. When he returned to Nanjing, he naturally had to bring some money to his home in Nanjing for use.

At this time, Ye Shaoyuan saw Bai Yu hurriedly follow him, asking Wang Wenlong like a star chaser when he would start a new lecture on ancient training in the Imperial College, and what direction the next lecture would be.

Ye Shaoyuan was stunned on the boat, being blown by the river wind for a long time before he came back to his senses:
For most of the day, he has been showing off his family status in front of a big boss like Wang Wenlong with official status!
Thinking about how he had been showing off how much grain his family harvested in a season since yesterday and how rich he was, Ye Shaoyuan was so embarrassed that he wished he could jump into the Qinhuai River and never see anyone again.

Wang Jianyang, you are obviously so rich, why didn't you tell me?
But he thought about Wang Wenlong's performance this day, and it seemed that no one had ever said that he was poor. It was all because he wanted to show off, and Wang Wenlong just didn't tell the truth.

Comparing the demeanor and background between himself and Wang Wenlong, Ye Shaoyuan felt more and more ashamed. How could he dare to feel any jealousy or resentment towards Wang Wenlong? Thinking about it, he would blush just thinking about this name for a long time.

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Chengxian Street, Nanjing Imperial College.

Wang Wenlong returned to Nanjing to settle down, and in the afternoon he quickly returned to the Imperial College to cancel his leave.

After the newly appointed Guozi Secretary Office finished writing the cancellation documents, Wang Wenlong gave him a gift, which made the other party very happy.

During the time when Wang Wenlong went to Suzhou, Ye Xianggao had already been promoted to the rank of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Nanjing. He still could not leave Nanjing because of Shen's consistent suppression. However, he could no longer suppress the official position and was finally promoted to the rank of Minister of Civil Affairs. Ye Xianggao has not left officialdom for so many years, and his qualifications are sufficient. It can be said that he is ready to join the cabinet and is just waiting for an opportunity.

After exchanging pleasantries with the new Si Ye for a while, the Imperial Prince Si Ye got down to business:
"Jianyang, don't be busy writing speeches these days. How about going to the market with the supervisors to inspect the supervisors?"

"Inspection?" Wang Wenlong was quite puzzled. He was an academic officer at the Imperial Academy, and not the leader of the Military and Horse Department. What did the inspection of the ground have to do with him? (End of chapter)