The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

Regardless of the superficial form of a general literati gathering, under normal circumstances the general process should be as follows.

When a work comes out, everyone comments enthusiastically based on each other's status, mostly complimenting it, or making some innocuous comments, and then the next person sings the chorus.

In addition, there is a special person responsible for transcribing and slowly circulating it during the banquet for those in attendance to savor it carefully.

Afterwards, the poems were compiled into a collection, and those who were able to publish and distribute them were able to expand their influence, while those who were not able to privately copied and collected them for souvenirs.

This is why the mixed literary world also needs someone to guide it. If there is no one to guide it, there is no point in breaking into the gathering.

Just like Lin Tailai now, he boarded the ship and even climbed to the third deck, and published his works in the name of writing poems for Hai Rui. It can be said that he has exhausted all his tricks.

But what? No one cheered, and everyone ignored it.

Even if someone jumps out to criticize and belittle him, it is better than treating him coldly.

Alliance leader Wang Lao has grasped the essence of fighting Lin Tailai. Compared with quarreling, the more powerful weapon is silence. Of course, the main reason is that "noisy" cannot be achieved.

Lin Tailai could only take the initiative to attack, and directly went to the old alliance leader Wang Shizhen, and asked with hidden murderous intentions: "Dangzhou public opinion, what do you think of this poem?"

As long as you, Old Leader Wang, dare to say a bad word, you will have ten times the firepower in return, unless you pretend to be deaf.

Wang Shizhen seemed to have predicted Lin Tailai's behavior. She calmly turned to Hai Rui and asked, "What do you think of this poem, Dazhong Cheng?"

Since this poem is said to be dedicated to Hai Rui, let Hai Rui do the talking.

Hai Rui was very disrespectful to the lyricist and replied: "This is a pretentious piece of work put together to please."

Lin Tailai: "."

I have never seen such a tired tool person like Hai Rui. Can't you say a few words that are in line with the world?

This poem praises you, can't you happily accept the praise for you?

Wang Shizhen lowered her head and chuckled a few times. If Hai Rui didn't answer like this, it wouldn't be Hai Rui.

A few bursts of laughter immediately echoed around the building, echoing on the boat.

Lin Tailai said to Hai Rui angrily: "After all, I worked hard and rescued the boss from danger.

As a human being, if you don’t say you should repay your kindness, at least you should have a few kind words, right? "

Normally, Lin Tailai would never dare to talk to Hai Rui so boldly, but tonight was special.

After all, with the "life-saving grace" in hand, Hai Qingtian won't really do anything to him!

Hai Rui was unmoved and replied: "One is two, two is two, flattery is just flattery and has nothing to do with saving lives.

If you feel it is not worth saving, our hospital will give you your life back.

If the hospital is allowed to do something bad in character because of the grace of saving lives, then it is absolutely unacceptable. "

In fact, objectively speaking, this article still has merit, and its level is above the level of daily entertainment.

But because it praises himself, Hai Rui will never say anything good about it. On the contrary, he will try his best to belittle it.

At this time, Lin Tailai felt as aggrieved as a child weighing more than 200 pounds, and said to Hai Qingtian with an angry face:

"If you really feel that this Mid-Autumn Festival poem I have is useless, then please write a better Mid-Autumn Festival poem to open your eyes!

Now that you are sitting at the elegant gathering seat, Sir, don't hide and tuck me away. "

Hai Rui snorted coldly, "You, Lin Tailai, are deliberately making things difficult for us!"

It's okay to ask him to write political papers, but not poetry. He doesn't have this romantic gene in his bones.

It's about the same level as "the sun on the top of the mountain is turning yellow, and the trees on the river are beginning to turn green".

At this moment, Lin Tailai did not continue to persuade Hai Rui. Instead, he faced the crowd, raised his arms and shouted: "Let us invite Haizhong Cheng to sing a song!"

After everyone was stunned for a moment, they suddenly shouted with great enthusiasm: "Let's play one song! Let's play one song!"

After all, that was Hai Rui, and there were not many opportunities to tease Hai Rui openly!

Besides, Hai Rui has the highest political status among the people present, so it is natural for Hai Rui to sing first.

It would be even more fun if the poems written by Hai Rui, an upright official destined to go down in history, were not very good - maybe this is what everyone is looking forward to the most.

Even the old alliance leader Wang Shizhen himself almost waved and started to boo, but he held it back.

He was very sensitive. Why did he let Lin Tai lead the rhythm without knowing it? I am the host of the gathering!

But everyone's interest had already risen at this time. Under the unanimous call, he, the old alliance leader, could not forcefully stand up to spoil everyone's interest.

A successful gathering must not fail when everyone is in high spirits.

And if Hai Rui, who never entertained, sang, or entertained, could write poems, wouldn't this gathering have a very special meaning?

The well-informed and well-informed host of the Yaji, the old leader, could not stand this temptation and decided to wait and see what would happen.

Hai Rui's face turned even darker, and his mood at this moment was roughly equivalent to the embarrassing feeling of a tone-deaf person who was unwilling to show off his humiliation but was forced to sing in public at a party four or five hundred years later.

But in this world, there is never a shortage of righteous people.

Everyone was teasing Hai Qingtian like this, and some people couldn't stand it anymore. They stood up and said impassionedly: "I am willing to do it for Haizhong Cheng!"

And it wasn’t just one person who stood up, but two.

Lin Tai came to look and saw that one of them he knew was Wei Yunzhen, the backbone of the Qingliu forces. He was one of the three direct ministers of Nanjing along with Li Sancai and Zou Yuanbiao.

Before the provincial examination, when Lin Tailai, as a sweeping student, had a heated debate on the Spring and Autumn Classics with Gu Xiancheng, Wei Yunzhen was there to protect Gu Xiancheng, so he knew about it.

As for why Wei Yunzhen, the backbone of Qingliu, appeared at the gathering of literary circles dominated by the retro school, Lin Tailai was not surprised.

Because Wei Yunzhen has a younger brother named Wei Yunzhong, who is one of the five sons of the previous generation of the retro sect, Wei Yunzhen can be regarded as a peripheral force of the retro sect, and the literary world is so intricately connected.

Regarding Wei Yunzhen, in fact, he may not be particularly famous in history, but he has a famous son named Wei Guangwei, who is also a figure that cannot be avoided in the history of party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty.

The other person who stood up was younger and looked to be in his early twenties. Not to mention Lin Tailai, many people at the table did not recognize this young man.

The young man did not have the demeanor of a disciple of everyone. He bowed to everyone without being humble or arrogant, and introduced himself: "Ruan Zihua, who was born in Tongcheng late."

Someone immediately exclaimed: "It turns out that he is a descendant of the famous Ruan family in Tongcheng! Could it be that your father was the governor of Zhejiang, Fujian and Ruan during the Jiajing period?"

Ruan Zihua replied: "Exactly."

Lin Tailai was a little speechless when he heard this young man announcing his family status. Tongcheng, Anqing Prefecture, now indeed belongs to Southern Zhili.

It was this Ruan family that later gave birth to a famous person named Ruan Dacheng. If you guessed correctly, Ruan Dacheng should be the grandson or grandnephew of Ruan Zihua.

So the current situation is that Wei Guangwei's father and Ruan Dacheng's grandfather have stepped forward and want to write poems for Hai Rui and Hai Qingtian?

This sense of absurdity can only be felt by time travellers.

For the sake of Hai Qingtian's posthumous reputation, Lin Daguanren decided to stand up bravely and prevent such ridiculous things from happening.

"I said, I am the only one who understands Haizhong Cheng best, so if you want to represent him, I will do it for you!" Lin Tailai, who had no seat so far, stood on the edge of the railing and said proudly to everyone.

People who knew Lin Tailai well suddenly realized that Lin Tailai's angry decision to ask Hai Rui to write poems just now was definitely intentional, and this was probably not his purpose!

Then Lin Tailai came closer to Hai Rui and asked, "If the elder has any inconvenience, I can help you. What do you think of me?"

Hai Rui did not respond to Lin Tailai's request. Instead, he looked at Wei Yunzhen and asked, "You are the one who directly remonstrated with the emperor and banned the imperial examination privileges for the children of the Prime Minister?"

Wei Yunzhen replied respectfully: "Exactly."

Hai Rui appreciated this very much and decided to give him the opportunity. He nodded and said, "Then, it's up to you."

"Wait a minute!" Lin Tailai shouted to Hai Rui: "I have saved the old man's life for once today. I don't want to repay the kindness. I just want to draft the Mid-Autumn Festival poems for you. Is that okay?"

Hai Rui: "."

The subtext is, if you don't even give this opportunity that does not involve issues of principle, what is the difference between being less than an ungrateful beast?

Official Lin no longer pretended, and said everything openly.

It is impossible for people like Hai Rui to become truly one of our own, there is no need to win over people's hearts, just moral kidnapping will do!

Hai Qingtian had no choice but to point at Lin Tai and say, "Then do it!"

Alliance leader Wang Lao has been "waiting and watching the changes." When he got here, he suddenly realized that the situation might be a little out of control?

He predicted Hai Rui at the beginning, and Lin Tailai also predicted Hai Rui's next steps!

But there is still a chance. No matter what poems Lin Tailai writes, he will be treated coldly just like before!

As for saying "any conspiracy is useless in the face of absolute power", that is even more impossible!

After the Song Dynasty, there will no longer be an absolutely outstanding Mid-Autumn Festival poem that will last for hundreds of years, and neither can Lin Tailai.

Lin Tailai seemed to be afraid that Hai Rui would regret it, so he hurriedly said: "The next poem I'm going to write is called Mid-Autumn Night!"

Then he recited in one breath: "The lady is like a pair of flower slaves, first awakening Chang'e in the Gui Palace, performing a new song of colorful clothes, the pipa strings are dancing, the singing and the sheng are bright, and the music is soft and delicate."

Everyone at the banquet was speechless after hearing this. Although they were not allowed to comment on Lin Tailai's poems due to the ban of the old leader, they were all complaining crazily in their hearts.

This poem is full of scenes of people celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with orioles, orchestral songs and dances, and drunkenness and dreams. It was really made up with your eyes open!

Tonight's gathering is so plain, how could there be the scene mentioned in the poem? Creation is not nonsense and cannot be divorced from reality!

Only the old alliance leader Wang Shizhen, who was very sensitive to Lin Tailai, felt uneasy and had a vague feeling of something bad.

"This is nonsense!" Hai Rui and Hai Qingtian were furious. He stood up and waved his sleeves, about to leave the table!

I asked you, Lin Tailai, to draft Mid-Autumn poems for you, but what kind of nonsense is your poem?

Can we use words such as "Shen Ru Shuang Xia Hua Nu Cao", "Neon Shang New Song", and "Wu Yin Delicate" about Hai Rui?

Lin Tailai asked quickly: "What? Boss, are you not satisfied? Just say so if you are not satisfied. How do I know you are not satisfied if you don't tell me?"

Sir, please sit down, I will correct you now, there is also a song "Shui Tiao Ge Tou"! "

Then Lin Tailai recited the poem: "The autumn moon suddenly shines, and the clogs are everywhere in front of the mountain. Looking from a distance, there are lanterns and pavilions, and thousands of little stars are hanging."

Princes and grandsons of each team were gathered around, singing and dancing girls were sitting around, watching the crowd. There is only a sad autumn guest, who looks at the sky with blank eyes. "

Everyone is an expert. The first half of many Mid-Autumn poems are mainly about scenery, and the second half begins to express emotions. This article seems to be no exception.

Then I heard the next line: "Things of the ages, a dream, are always pitiable. Whether the moon in the Wu Palace is there or not, how many years has it been up and down."

There are infinite rich families and beautiful households, and there are also bamboo fences and thatched cottages, which are as bright and beautiful as ever. Don't wait for Yu Xiaoche, I want to lie down on the fishing boat. "

After everyone listened, they felt that the first wonderful thing about this poem was that the perspective of the scene was very far away, as if a bystander was calmly watching the Mid-Autumn Festival from a distance.

The second wonderful thing is that from this macro perspective, it naturally leads to the rise and fall of the ages, and the pattern suddenly rises.

This Mid-Autumn Festival poem is definitely not as good as the Song Dynasty's masterpiece, but the artistic conception is enough to overwhelm the people present, and the works they prepared are obviously inferior.

How could an eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy riding a horse write such an artistic conception?

Lin Tailai looked slightly satisfied and asked Hai Rui, "How do you think this article was written for Mr. Boss?"

Hai Rui's face twitched. He really didn't want to say good things about Lin Tailai, so he said, "It's too empty. I'm trying to create an artistic conception."

Lin Tailai patted his thigh without hesitation, "It doesn't matter, there's more! Listen to my song "Niannujiao·Mid-Autumn Festival Poems for Gangfeng Haigong" again!"

The old alliance leader Wang Shizhen's heart skipped a beat as he read another very long word card!

Lin Tailai, that bastard, all the ci cards he used today were long, and none of them were less than a hundred words!

Forget about four-line quatrains, don’t even write eight-line rhyme poems!

Each article takes a long time. How long is the total time for the gathering?

If there were ten or eight lyrics of this length, others would just be the audience!

Lin Tailai has already recited the new words Shangqiu: "At the beginning of the round, the universe is full of autumn colors, divided into half. The fog gathers and the clouds gather innumerable, and the stars are scattered.

The jade sky is soaring high, the Milky Way is clear and shallow, and it floats on the endless shore. Guanshan is thousands of miles away, and it is as bright as Qiongbi. "

Everyone had nothing to say about this. The upper column was still about scenery, and the scenery of the Mid-Autumn Festival was written over and over again in these patterns.

I also heard the following sentence of this article: "It's a pity that the beautiful scenery made me fall asleep early, and many Handan officials gave it to me all night long, leaving only one person awake to watch it."

Gu Ying wandered around, wondering who would accompany Yuan Hong tonight. Several bagpipes are playing by the Wuding Bridge. "

Sure enough, the drama is all in the second half, which is really interesting.

From it, we can hear the ridicule of the current dynasty, the worry about the hidden dangers in the prosperous age, and the resentment of underappreciated talents.

Again, Lin Tailai's words are indeed not as good as those of the Song Dynasty, but they are much better than them.

Lin Tailai said loudly to Hai Rui: "This article expresses worries about current affairs, but it is completely tailored to your taste, sir! Just tell me if it works!"

Hai Rui: "."

He didn't know how to answer. He felt that the article was quite good, but he didn't want to admit that Lin Tailai had written it well.

Lin Tailai didn't wait for Hai Rui to answer, patted his thigh again, and said tenaciously: "It seems that the boss is still not satisfied?

But it doesn’t matter, I have a lot more here! Each article is a long word, and must be written until the boss is satisfied! "

Wang Shizhen, the old alliance leader, finally realized that Lin Tailai's behavior was really about suppressing conspiracies and conspiracies with absolute power.

It's just that this "absolute power" does not refer to the absolute quality of the poems, but the number of pieces and words!

Hold high the banner of Hai Rui, and then flood the area to occupy the elegant gathering.

Listening to Lin Tailai's eloquent lyrics, Leader Wang looked at the quatrains he had prepared in advance and couldn't help but fall into self-doubt. Is the number of words the king?

This kind of drama is the most labor-intensive. I have to think of new scenes every time. Please give me the last monthly ticket this month! ! !