My life skills in Daming Liver

The person who visited Su Ze was a middle-aged man in a Confucian uniform. Lin Qingcai also saw that he had an extraordinary bearing, so he immediately informed Su Ze.

Demeanor is very important both at home and abroad, and its function is similar to Su Ze's charm attribute. People with good demeanor are more likely to attract attention and be valued by others.

Since "Surprise" became popular, people often came to the editorial department to ask to see Su Ze.

Su Ze will also take time to meet with them, because he knows the importance of reputation.

In ancient times, transportation was underdeveloped, so if you want to rebel, you must have appeal. Throughout the ages, those who can rebel are local famous people.

It doesn't take much time to see these visitors once a day and talk to them, but it can maintain Su Ze's good reputation, so why not do it.

Although Su Ze hurried back to the county seat, he still met the visiting middle-aged man.

"Mr. Su."

The other party bowed his hands in salute, and Su Ze said quickly: "I dare not call the elder, if you don't give up, just call me Ru Lin."

Wang Daokun is more satisfied with Su Ze, Su Ze is not proud of his reputation, this is what a scholar looks like!

As a provincial inspector, Wang Daokun has naturally seen many arrogant scholars, and he is really happy that Su Ze, who is really talented and learned, is so low-key.

"My surname is Wang, and my name is Boyu. I have been doing business so far, and I read Ru Lin's article on the way, so I came to disturb the meeting."

Wang Daokun said again: "How about we talk about friendship as equals?"

Su Ze saw that the other party was in his early thirties, but he seemed a bit old-fashioned with a serious look, so he also said, "Brother Boyu."

"Brother Rulin, my family is from the Huizhou Prefecture of Nanzhili Province, and we also have a book printing business. I would like to buy the complete volume of "The Peony Pavilion" from you and bring it back for printing."

Wang Daokun is indeed not lying. He comes from a prominent family in Shexian County, Huizhou Prefecture. The big family in Huizhou Prefecture has never been in business, and his family does have a printing shop.

It turned out to be a book.

Since the Peony Pavilion became popular, there were indeed merchants from other places who offered to buy a complete set of operas. Su Ze accepted them all, asking for five hundred taels of silver, and sold "The Peony Pavilion" outright.

The reason is very simple. There is no copyright law these days. If businessmen from other places really want to print, can Su Ze go out of Nanping to file a lawsuit with them?

The awareness of copyright in the Ming Dynasty is quite weak, and there is really nothing to do when encountering plagiarism, let alone Su Ze, an ordinary scholar, even the anthology of the court elders will be pirated and printed. There is no way for Ge Lao, what can Su Ze do? .

This kind of door-to-door request for articles is nothing more than seeing that "The Peony Pavilion" on the market has not been serialized yet, and asking for a copy of the full text to go back, this is considered a conscientious publisher.

Unscrupulous publishers collect dramas from The Peony Pavilion on the market, and then go back and find someone to write them indiscriminately, making a book and publishing it to make money.

Su Ze acted like a businessman negotiating prices, which surprised Wang Daokun.

"Brother Ru Lin is not against selling books?"

Su Ze said: "There's nothing to be in conflict with. The business of buying and selling is a voluntary act by both parties. If Brother Bo Yu is willing to buy it, I am naturally willing to sell it."

Su Ze said again: "Brother Bo Yu is willing to pay for it, that is to appreciate my drama, since you are a bosom friend, why should you be ashamed to talk about money?"

Wang Daokun laughed, but he thought Su Ze was a wonderful person.

In recent years, the Huizhou area in South Zhili has a very strong commercial atmosphere, and Huizhou merchants are also famous all over the world.

Wang Daokun has been fascinated by his ears and eyes since he was a child, and he is not against business matters, but what Su Ze said suits his appetite.

When Su Ze saw the fat sheep coming to the door, he immediately said, "The price is five hundred taels, but before the serialization of "Surprise" is finished, it can't be sold in Fujian, how about it?"

On the contrary, Wang Daokun felt that Su Ze's asking price was too low.

I think that when he was a Jinshi in the imperial examination, booksellers from Fujian came up to ask for essays. At that time, the asking price was fifty taels of silver for an essay.

The buyout price of Su Ze's set of "The Peony Pavilion" with a 52% discount is only five hundred taels of silver, which can be said to be quite cheap.

Wang Daokun immediately asked the book boy outside the door to pay. Su Ze saw that he could hand out five hundred taels of silver in one go, and felt that he was a local tyrant.

Since someone else paid for it, Su Ze was more willing to have a chat with him.

Su Ze handed the copied full text of "The Peony Pavilion" to Wang Daokun, only to see him eagerly read it.

Wang Daokun is known as the most prolific and erudite miscellaneous scholar of the Ming Dynasty. He was able to read Tang poetry at the age of three, recite it at the age of five, and became a Jinshi at the age of twenty-three. He is a typical top poet in the Ming Dynasty.

In his life, he wrote a hundred essays, a thousand poems, and dramas with melody and rhythm. Five of them have been handed down to later generations. It can be said that he has covered a very wide range.

Wang Daokun's reading speed is quite fast, and he quickly finished reading the whole set of dramas. He said with unsatisfactory meaning:

"With this delicacy, I'm afraid I won't be able to read operas again in the future!"

Su Ze thought to himself, "It's not impossible." Counting the days, Tang Xianzu is already nine years old. If he doesn't continue to copy, when Tang Xianzu grows up, your brother should be able to see his plays alive.

Wang Daokun closed the book and said: "When I was young, I also wanted to study folk art, but my father and grandfather stopped me, so I didn't take this path in the end, hey."

When Wang Daokun was young, he read miscellaneous books for a while and tried to compose music, but he was beaten up by his grandfather and father.

At a young age, he was admitted as a scholar in Nanzhili, where the imperial examination competition was brutal. It was the hope of the family, so it was naturally impossible for him to read idle books.

Although he has been admitted to Jinshi now and has been an official for several years, this matter is still a regret in Wang Daokun's heart, and he couldn't help but confide it when he met Su Ze today.

Su Ze immediately said: "What's the matter, it's never too late for Brother Bo Yu to start writing."

Wang Daokun looked at Su Ze and asked, "Isn't it too late?"

Su Ze said with a smile: "It's so late. Since ancient times, there have been precocious and late bloomers. It's never too late to write a book."

Wang Daokun suddenly felt the sound, and he said: "Brother Rulin thinks, what should I write?"

Su Ze said almost without hesitation: "Novel."

"Why?"

Su Ze said: "The way of poetry has been exhausted in Tang and Song Dynasties! The prose of this famous master has been shining since the pre-Qin period! Even if it is the way of folk art, there are also pearls of Yuan opera."

"The people of the time should have the articles of the people of the time. My Ming Dynasty can be different from the predecessors and be popular in the future, only novels!"

What Su Ze said was also sincere. Novels were the dominant track for literati in the Ming Dynasty. Writing novels must have more advantages than writing poetry.

Wang Daokun even felt that Su Ze was his confidant, and he just had some vague thoughts. Su Ze pointed out the direction of Shiwen right to the point.

Wang Daokun thought of the beginning he had just written, and said worriedly: "The way of poetry was in the Tang and Song Dynasties, especially the imperial examinations. Only when the imperial examinations were banned in the Yuan Dynasty did literati compose songs to express their feelings. Is this writing novels?"

Su Ze immediately said: "What is the difference between the style of writing? There are also rural slang songs in the "Book of Songs", and Yuefu poems are even sung by the people."

"Even Qin Wenhan Fu, which was considered noble by people at that time, was just an article written by people at that time. How is it different from the stereotyped essays we write now?"

"Poets in the Tang and Song Dynasties were not ashamed of writing poetry, why should I be ashamed of writing novels?"

"Writing is used to convey the truth, and the subject matter of the article is just a different tool for conveying the truth. Poetry is a cart, folk art is a horse, and a novel is a boat. How can there be distinctions between high and low in the evaluation of later generations?"

Hearing Su Ze's words, Wang Daokun felt like he was about to cry, what is a confidant! This is called a confidant!

With Su Ze's encouragement, Wang Daokun decided to go back and write a few more chapters!

Yes, although I wrote Fengyue's book, I also came from critical education!

After firming up his creative path, Wang Daokun felt that Su Ze was pleasing to the eye, and he said:

"I heard that brother Rulin also edited a copy of "Guwen Guanzhi", but I searched all over the bookstores in Nanping and couldn't buy it."

Su Ze waved his hand and said, "One hundred more sets have just been printed, and Brother Boyu will give you a set if you want it."

The other party paid the copyright fee of five hundred taels of silver, so Su Ze naturally would not be stingy with a book. Just as a new batch of Gu Wen Guan Zhi was printed, he took a copy from the side room where the books were piled up and handed it to Wang Daokun.

Looking at the "Guan Zhi of Ancient Prose" that still smelled of ink, Wang Daokun opened the catalog, and there were several ancient prose that he had never read.

Huizhou has a prosperous culture, and there are many families with book collections. Even their Wang family has a library building, which collects many rare and rare books of the Song Dynasty.

But even a Jinshi from a famous family like Wang Daokun has not read many famous works by famous writers.

However, reading prose cannot be as casual as reading opera. These ancient prose contain extremely high information content, so you need to sit down and read slowly.

However, Wang Daokun opened the table of contents first and found an article he had read in the "List of Distinguished Teachers". The article was the same as what he remembered. The historical events are listed in detail, so that those who have not read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms can better understand the contents of the list of teachers.

Wang Daokun was even more surprised. Originally he thought that "Guwen Guanzhi" was just an ordinary anthology. This kind of thing actually existed in the Song Dynasty. As long as you read a lot, you can write it naturally. To put it bluntly, it is a matter of money.

Can you compare with "Yongle Dadian" in terms of the number of articles collected? This book is still hidden in the Hanlin Academy, and Wang Daokun read a lot when he was in the Imperial Academy.

But it is different to be able to write notes on ancient texts. This means that Su Ze has reached the point of mastering the various historical events in the list of teachers and the historical background of the articles. It is very difficult to acquire knowledge. In the case of a few years of income, it can be said that there are very few people who can do this.

"Are these notes written by Ru Lin?"

Su Ze nodded and said, "This is an annotation made by me and my mentor Hai Rui, and some of the annotations were added after my research."

Wang Daokun asked a few more notes in the teacher list, and was even more surprised to see Su Ze's fluent answers.

Although Fujian has a prosperous literary style, it is still not as good as Nanzhili. Wang Daokun has already read many books, but his understanding of "Teacher's List" is not as thorough as Su Ze's.

This is not because Wang Daokun's literary level is not good, but because his understanding of the history of the Three Kingdoms is not as good as Su Ze's, and the situation of the Shu Han at that time is not as good as Su Ze's, so his understanding of the article is biased.

Su Ze's ability to annotate so accurately is only possible with Lv6 history and Lv6 literature. You must know that in the history of Su Ze's plane, it took almost a lifetime for two generations of the Wu family to compile ancient texts. This completes the compilation of this book.

And what can be compared with this book is "Zhaoming Wenxuan" compiled by Prince Zhaoming of Nanliang. You must know that this was compiled by the official power of the Southern Dynasty, and it took many years to compile it, and it was only from the former Qin to Nanliang. Centennial article.

However, "Selected Works of Zhaoming" is a collection of poems, words, songs and prose, and ancient prose is just prose. However, after the Southern Liang Dynasty and the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, famous prose writers emerged in large numbers.

The nephew and uncle of the Wu family also commented on Guwen Guanzhi, and Su Ze only perfected part of the commentary.

Wang Daokun continued to read, and the next thing was the comment written by Su Ze.

"Brother Ru Lin made this comment?"

"Brother Boyu please correct the family's words."

In order to pass on his private goods, Su Ze used the passive skill of "Six Classics Annotating Me", focusing on the short reviews of each ancient essay.

In order to make it easier to spread, Su Ze used the method of answering and commenting on the article through the conversation between the "wise old man" and the "foolish old man".

The comments written by Su Ze are naturally carefully selected private goods. For example, in this "List of Teachers", Su Ze used a dialogue.

Foolish old man: From my point of view, the government of Marquis Wu of Zhuge is similar to that of King Anshi of the Song Dynasty. They all follow the laws of Shang and Shen.

The wise old man: There is no other, Zhuge Liang used his skills without the intention of applying for business, and Wang Anshi used the fact of applying for business but concealed his name.

Foolish old man: They all use the method of applying for business, how different is it?

Zhisou: Zhuge Liang used legalist power tactics because the Shu Han was in troubled times and could only use the knowledge of Shenshang to govern Shu. But he himself has no selfishness, can openly state his policy outline, can insist on punishing those who make mistakes, and rewards those who have made merit regardless of their background, so Shu can be governed.

Wang Anshi also knew the knowledge of Shenshang, and his reform also imitated the law of the Legalists. However, although Wang Anshi also had the same ambition to help the world like Zhuge Wuhou, there were many people who opposed him, so he could only carry out it under the guise of Zhou Li. political reform.

In order to promote the reform, Wang Anshi could not be as public-spirited as Zhuge Liang. He had to use some talented but unvirtuous villains and distribute their benefits to promote the new law. Therefore, although the new law was implemented, it soon degenerated into an evil law that exploited the people. .

Foolish old man: So Wang Anshi's talent is not as good as Zhuge Liang's, and that's why such a thing happened?

Zhisou: That’s not the case. Wang Anshi’s talent is not necessarily inferior to Zhuge Liang’s. It’s just because Liu Bei, Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty, can completely trust Zhuge Liang. Liu Bei only has a public heart to restore the Han Dynasty, and has no personal selfishness.

Song Shenzong's appointment of Wang Anshi was not firm, and the later emperors of Zhao Song appointed the new party to make money and enjoy themselves, so it resulted in completely different results.

In the end, Zhisou said: If all the emperors in the world put state affairs as the most important thing like Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty, the new law will be a sharp weapon for enriching the country and strengthening the army. If all the emperors in the world are like the emperors of Zhao and Song, then the new law is a means for the court to exploit the people. The more complete the new law, the more difficult the people will be.

No matter how rich the country is, it will be hollowed out by the selfish desires of the emperor and corrupt officials.

After Wang Daokun finished reading, he couldn't be calm for a long time.

He cupped his hands and said to Su Ze: "Ru Lin, you are a great talent!"

This paragraph was written for four hours. . .

Don't talk about water, it's so difficult to write. . .