Win the Ding 1617

"The general only loves money, but the emperor only eats wine. Sweep all the money in the south of the Yangtze River and fill the mouth of the horse."

A group of urchins on the alley beside the main road sang a newly popular nursery rhyme with a crisp boyish voice while playing.There is no distinction between Ni and Li in Jiangnan's accent. The urchins sang about Ni Ma, but passers-by knew clearly that it was actually Li Ma.Anyone with a heart will smile when they hear this.

Today's son was supported by Li and Ma, which is well known in Nanjing.Some people secretly compared Emperor Hongguang to Song Gaozong Zhao Gou who was in a corner of peace.Coincidentally, when Song Gaozong was still His Royal Highness King Kang, there was a legendary miracle of a mud horse crossing King Kang and crossing the Yellow River to escape the pursuit.However, some people have also verified that it was actually a commoner named Li Ma who helped His Royal Highness Kang cross the Yellow River to escape the pursuit. cross over.

Now that Li Ma is called a mud horse, there may not be an insinuation in which Emperor Hongguang is compared to Zhao Gou.Anyway, this emperor with "seven musts" is also an emperor who does not meet their standards in the eyes of a gentleman.

On the other side of the road, in front of the ink shop that sells books, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, the clerk quickly wrapped the purchased pens, inks and papers for the customers, and put away a very exquisitely printed book, and handed them to the customers: "Mr. ,Your."

The scholar in the green shirt looked at the pen, ink, paper and the book in the bamboo basket with some doubts, "Dude, is there a mistake? I didn't buy a book."

"That's right. Mr. Xianggong." According to the current custom, the buddy called Xiucai Mr. Xianggong. "The books sent by the trade guild the day before yesterday, it was agreed that anyone who came to buy pens, inks, papers, books, calligraphy and paintings will be given a copy of "Hong Wenxiang Gong Sacrifice Collection" written by Emperor Daxing himself. Mr. Xianggong, you go back and try to figure it out. It’s the master’s wonderful pen, maybe Qiu Wei has one!”

After hearing the man's eloquent tongue, the scholar left happily carrying the bamboo basket.At the entrance of the shop, a middle-aged scribe with a beautiful beard came over and looked at the bookshelf behind the clerk: "My little brother, what do you want to buy, can I get this book as a gift?"

"Sir, are you going to have this book?"

"Of course! I've heard for a long time that there were many beautiful writings in the sacrificial texts that day. I only regret that I was not in the capital at that time, so I didn't have the chance to read them. There are wonderful writings that can't be missed."

"Since my husband is a reader, I will present one as a gift. Anyway, this old man is also generous to others." The old shopkeeper who was writing behind the counter came over, ordered someone to take one, and handed it to the old man. Bearded scribe.

The bearded scribe took the book and greeted the old shopkeeper a few more times before getting up to take his leave and leave.After waiting for a long time on the corner of the street, I took a sedan chair for four people and headed for the city.

"Strange, why do I think this person looks familiar?" The old shopkeeper shook his head, but he couldn't remember who this person was, so he could only sigh inwardly.

"Shopkeeper, isn't that Ruan Dacheng and Ruan Yuanhai! Back then we read Mr. Zhang's play "Old Disciple" in his garden, and you forgot?" I once saw this Ruan Dacheng with a very eye-catching beard from a distance during the play.

The Mr. Zhang he mentioned was Zhang Dai, who was a great opera connoisseur at that time. Although he had a lot of opinions on Ruan Dacheng, after watching the performance of Ruan Dacheng's troupe, he praised him in "Tao An Meng Yi" for his "cluster ability". New, those who don’t fall into the old pattern”, said: “Ruan Yuanhai’s family is excellent, he talks about eyesight, reason, and tendons, which is different from his class Menglang. It's different from the reckless ones in other classes. So the acting is excellent, the script is excellent, the feet are excellent, the writing is excellent, the sentences are excellent, and the words are excellent." Later, he used five "excellent" in one breath, which can be seen It is indeed excellent, and it is by no means a polite word out of affection.

"Hey! If I knew it was him, why didn't I talk to him!" Although the old shopkeeper was a few years old, he still had the same gossip for star chasing as before.

Ruan Dacheng got into the sedan chair, ordered to go to the Governor's Mansion, and then just opened the letter to read.

White and exquisite paper, beautifully printed pages, not to mention the article, the appearance alone makes people feel good.On the title page is a pair of couplets, "The kindness of the king is as deep as the sea, and the knot of ministers is as heavy as a mountain."

Behind the title page is a list of articles for the whole book, which is eye-catching.The catalog contains hundreds of sacrificial texts, nearly a thousand poems, and more than a thousand elegiac couplets. The catalog also lists the volume and page of the book, who the author is, what his official position is, and his academic qualifications. Names, etc., are almost a personnel file.

The one that ranked first was naturally the sacrificial oration written by Daxing Emperor Chongzhen for Governor Hong.Followed by dozens of adults and gentlemen listed in order of sacrificial rites.

From a cursory look, Ruan Dacheng felt relieved, "This book is just as effective in treating headaches as Chen Lin's essay!"

This collection of sacrificial texts collected and edited by Li Peiting and ordered to be distributed in Nanjing and surrounding cities, like the nursery rhyme, belonged to the weapons of their respective camps to launch public opinion attacks against the enemy.

The gentlemen of Donglin ordered people to compose nursery rhymes, and organized children to sing them inside and outside the city, while the Southern Guangdong Army moved out the sacrificial rites to Hong Chengchou with great fanfare and presented them to bookstores and paper shops everywhere.In addition, in the column of the author of the article, list your native place, academic qualifications, official position, etc., so that people can know it at a glance.

Today, the Ming Dynasty’s Governor Hong has already become the Qing’s Mr. Hong, but the authors of the sacrificial texts and elegiac couplets are still in the court. They are from the same sect, but many of them work in Nanjing and various places in the south of the Yangtze River.This undoubtedly crackled the faces of these people. "What is your intention to flatter a person who is shy and surrenders to the enemy and who has failed the king? Do you all want to follow him and become the second Wang Meng?"

As a person who had made a big enmity with Donglin Fushe, Ruan Dacheng looked at the familiar names on the catalog of sacrificial articles with great joy. "Jie Tie" is inextricably linked.

In fact, the incomparably great and upright "Liudu Anti-Chaos Public Exposure" that has been touted in history has nothing to do with loyalty and justice at all.In the final analysis, it was just a group of young masters who were jealous of each other, trying to avoid each other.

Because Ruan Dacheng is good at writing, he is good at poetry and opera, and his family's theatrical troupe is the best for a while, so it is inevitable that he will be too popular in Nanjing.Therefore, no matter whether it is the fourth son of Fushe or the fourth son of Qinhuai, he is not pleasing to the eye.

Sitting at home behind closed doors, misfortune comes from heaven.This time he provoked the well-known "Four Princes of the Late Ming Dynasty" - Chen Zhenhui, Hou Fangyu and a large group of romantic sons who wandered along the Qinhuai River, as well as Gu Gao, the grandson of Gu Xiancheng, the founder of the Donglin Party, Huang Zongxi, the great scholar, Member of the Ministry of Rites, Wailang Zhoubiao and other celebrities in the ruling and opposition circles.

Ruan Dacheng thought he was frustrated in his official career, and at the same time, in order to avoid the war in the Central Plains, he moved from his hometown in Huaining, Anhui, to live in Nanjing, the capital of Liu, compose and perform new plays, make friends, and entertain himself with singing and singing. This was also very common in Liudu at that time.Although there is no shortage of famous people in the dynasty, they all rely on their own talents to get into the eyes of Zhang Dai, Wen Zhenheng and others, including Shi Kefa, Fan Jingwen and others, who also make friends through poetry.Even in the operas he created, there is no arrogance of "intimidation and drinking" as Chen Zhenhui, Wu Yingji and others said. Instead, he used this to beg for mercy repeatedly.Unexpectedly, Gu Gao, Wu Yingji, and Chen Zhenhui, the young masters, were not pleasing to the eye. They thought that Qinhuai singing prostitutes and Yingge Yanwu were our generation's patent, so why Ruan Huzi came to join in the fun.

In August of the 11th year of Chongzhen (1638), they wrote an article "Revelation to Prevent Chaos in Liudu" and widely collected signatures to attack Ruan Dacheng. The article was full of alarmist and untrue words.Ruan Dacheng was named "Imperially Decided Against the Case", and he was hard to argue with, and suffered a crushing defeat; Chen Zhenhui and others thought that beating the dog who was in the water had done a lot of good deeds.

Chen Zhenhui, one of the four sons, also made it very clear about the cause of this incident. "I just don't like you!"

In his "Seven Books of Books", there is a chapter "Fang Chao Gong Jie Bo Mo" which narrates for a long time, which says:

In the 11th year of Chongzhen's reign, Wu Yin, Wu Ciwei (Wu Yingji) published "Staying in the Capital to Prevent Chaos", and publicly discussed Ruan Dacheng.Dacheng used the case of Dang Cui and Wei to discuss Chengdan, and the crime was violent to the world.At that time, the courage was still able to run around the four squares, and Nanzhong was in charge of many affairs, and they actually played their hands up and down, holding their threats and drinking.At the end of the second day, he was angry at his attachment to rebellion, and he sat down in public opinion, and he was as usual;One day, I talked to Gu Zifang (Gu Gao), and Zifang said: "Gao didn't hesitate to take the ax and the hammer, to get rid of this big one for the southern capital."Yu said: "There is no record of the crime. Although the scholar-bureaucrats and fellows are not completely unworthy, there is no word to remind them of the reverse case. If it is broken a bit, it will be like a pile of paralyzed manure. It may not be helpful to people's hearts to fight for a quick solution. .” The next time under the taillight, a draft was cut, and Zifang resolutely initiated it.

In fact, Chen Zhenhui made it very clear that what the Fourth Young Master, Wu Yingji and the others disliked was not a bullshit rebellion, nor anything else, but Ruan Dabeard, a mere Anhui countryman who had been abolished for many years and went to Nanjing to be old. He stayed at home honestly and contentedly, but made friends everywhere. The lyrics and music he wrote were popular in various song and dance seats all night long, and everyone was still unhappy with it; ", Bai, and horse go hand in hand", and "respected by those who know it, it is said... that they are the authentic lineage of the Ci family". Yuyou... 喜驺 sits in the public house, and the siege is the same as before; the scholar-bureaucrats are lingering, fighting to send their hearts", the limelight is unparalleled for a while.

What I heard in my ears was the opera aria compiled by Ruan Dacheng, and the guests were all discussing which one was the most exciting, and even the beauty in front of me was performing an excerpt written by this bearded man, which made them hang out on the Qinhuai River all year round How embarrassing are the great talents here, how can they keep their face, how can they swallow this breath of birds?

So they are upset.

So to put it bluntly, the case arose because Ruan Dacheng was too talented, too popular, and too popular.

After exposing Nanzhong, Shizhi knew that there was the word "rebellious case", and he yelled out hateful words: "Ni X!Cheng was discouraged, and his heart became more and more hated... When he reached Jimao, he fled to Jingxi Xiangjun (referring to Zhou Yanru), a friend behind him, drinking and singing, and his clothes were untied, and he whispered: "Who is Zhenhui, what is it like? I want to kill someone , why do you complain?" Yuxu and weeping... Cheng Gui sneaked to the Niu Shou Mountain at the south gate, and dared not enter the city; Xiang Zhi's fur horse galloped, Lu'er's cub, Kun Yao's thoroughfare, so far he was dying! (Chen Zhenhui: "Seven Books")

The last two sentences can be regarded as telling the truth. "You're a son of a bitch from Luzhou, Anhui. Why do you wear a famous brand every day, drive a sports car with a girl in your arms, and make a fuss in front of our Fourth Young Master?"

In Chen Zhenhui's remarks, the self-satisfaction of self-conscious meritorious deeds is palpable, and Wu Yingji's "Anti-Rebellion Public Exposure" even said at the beginning that this move was "for the sake of sacrificing one's life and throwing tigers and throwing jackals for the country". event.Of course, Chen Zhenhui would not forget to carefully describe the embarrassment of Ruan Dacheng, the "little boy", and severely ridiculed him.The Donglin-Fushe lineage's killing of Ruan Dacheng, but how can anyone with a bit of blood and bones swallow this breath?

Do you think that if you dare not enter Nanjing City and hide in Niu Shou Mountain, it will be over?Tell you, there are no doors!

Ruan Dacheng is a smart man, of course he knows the reason why a strong dragon does not overwhelm a local snake. Besides, he is not a strong dragon, but a stranded little water snake; Young master, there are few of them that he can afford.

So he first went to seek Hou Fangyu, who was also one of the four youngest, because he had an old relationship with Hou Fangyu's father, Hou Xun, and Hou Fangyu was the son of an old man.He paid and paid for Yang Wencong, one of the "nine friends in the painting", that is, Yang Longyou who painted Li Xiangjun in "Peach Blossom Fan". The one who stopped me.) He invited Li Xiangjun and Hou Fangyu to go out every day, while trying to match Hou and Li Qingyuan, while trying to ask Hou Fangyu to be in the middle, to say a few good words for himself, but Hou Fangyu refused. (Hou Fangyu: "Collected Works of Zhuanghuitang? Guiwei Went to Jinling Day and Ruan Guanglu Book")

According to Chen Zhenhui's son Chen Weisong's "Preface to Preface to Life in Frontiers" and Wu Weiye's records, at that time, the so-called "children of high families, those who were talented and self-appointed" gathered in Nanjing to "carve altars () and establish their names", among them Chen Zhenhui and Hou Fangyu , Maoxiang are three people, because they are "all noble sons".Whenever the three of them travel, they "must buy wine and call for singing and dancing. Jinling's singing and dancing department is the best in the world, and the singer of Huaining (Ruan Dacheng) is the best, and the lyrics are all from his master." These noble sons also know the name of Ruan Dacheng's singing and dancing team. , So "man call it".From the word "manzhao", one can imagine the arrogance of the three people at that time.Basically it's like this: "Who is that, we brothers are drinking on the Qinhuai River! You bring your girls to give our brothers a drink."

Ruan Dacheng knew that he "has always been criticized by all the gentlemen. He wanted to redeem himself day and night, but he couldn't find a way out of his deep thoughts, so he urgently ordered the singer to come, and let his old slave lead the way. This is the "Swallow Notes" written by Huaining. ", which is the song that Mr. Chen Yinke said, "Painfully express the meaning of mistaken recognition, and the words are sympathetic".

Ruan Dacheng eagerly ordered his troupe to come and perform this play, and his begging for mercy was beyond words, so what is the attitude of Chen Zhenhui, Hou Fangyu, and Mao Xiang?Wu Weiye's record of this matter is relatively comprehensive, but he said: (Ruan Dacheng) knows that gentlemen despise him, and there is never a time to beg for a favor in his life.Those who meet three people will set wine and cocks under the cockpit, call their family who are good at singing, and sing new lyrics made by the master, they will be overjoyed and say: "These gentlemen want to be good to me." Then what do the detectives say?It is also called good when you see the kings playing in a skip and listening to their music.In the middle of the night, drunk, the crowd cursed and said: "If you are the son of Wei Zhongxian and the son of the Hakka family, do you want to redeem yourself with a poet?" (Wu Weiye: "Meicun Anthology? Preface to Pijiang's [-]th Birthday")

As the saying goes: "You have to forgive others and forgive others." Several young masters were very happy and wanted to call other people's private theater troupes to sing and dance for themselves. When other people's troupes came, they also sang ditties, and the whole stage sang with the intention of apologizing. In the middle of the night, after hearing and enjoying it, that's all.Who knew that these people were not the same, but clapped their palms and laughed wildly, and began to yell at the other party as "Pang'er Naizi" in public, saying that you thought it would be fine to use this tune to redeem yourself?He also yelled and scolded all night.This kind of practice is unavoidably too harsh, it is too humiliating and too provocative. No wonder Ruan Dacheng later got angry and never forgot, and finally retaliated wantonly after he came to power.If it were anyone else, he would be pointed at his nose and scolded all night, "You are the son of a eunuch and a nanny, you son of a bitch." As long as there is a chance, you must take revenge.Ruan Dacheng's revenge was very civilized.It is already very graceful that Lao Tzu, who pursued Hou Fangyu's death, surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Ma Shiying is well aware of the deep enmity between Ruan Dacheng and Donglin.Now, facing Donglin's yelling and barking, Ma Shiying recommended his old friend to Li Shouhan.

As for this famous playwright, Li Shouhan had only heard of it in the Kunqu Opera Excerpt of "Zhong Kui Marries a Sister", but since it is a character recommended by Ma Shiying, it is not bad to think about it.Not only can he use his feud with Donglin to deal with Donglin, but he can also use his strengths.According to the news of the current situation, some popular dramas were compiled and sung in various places.

Before he finished reading the first volume of the collection of sacrificial texts, the sedan chair had already arrived outside the gate of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

Under the eyes of everyone, Ruan Dacheng straightened his clothes and ordered his accompanying servants to go to the gate to deliver the famous invitation card, and then a Chengqi official came out to welcome him.

"But Mr. Yuan Hai in person?" Cheng Qiguan saluted Ruan Dacheng very politely.

"If you don't dare, you will be Ruan Dacheng."

"My lord and Chief Assistant Ma have been waiting in the mansion for a long time, sir, please follow me."

In a word, Ruan Dacheng immediately felt as if he was in a fairyland.

The fact that two powerful figures in Nanjing City were waiting for him together was nothing compared to being pointed at by a group of half-drunk sons and scolded all night. (~^~)