The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

Although the name of the literary conference contains the word "conference", it is not the kind of conference that later generations will recognize, but is more similar to a continuous social event.

The time will not be so precise, only a rough time period from the end of September to the beginning of October.

When celebrities from all walks of life arrived in Suzhou City and started socializing and partying, the literary conference was considered to have begun.

The organizer has opened three gardens, Canglang Pavilion, Qiuzhi Garden, and Beiyuan, as official venues. Anyone with a "hero ticket" can enter, and you can even bring people in.

Those who did not receive the hero post and took the initiative to come to the literary conference to join in the fun would have no choice but to cross the sea and show off their magical powers.

Of course, the heavyweight guests receive the most attention. After all, each heavyweight guest has a certain ability to guide public opinion.

In the context of the resignation of the old alliance leader, the trend of public opinion is particularly important.

Shen Li, the former minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhao Yongxian, the left minister of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, were one of the most important guests. Especially when they came to Suzhou together and were accompanied by Gong Nai, a celebrity representing Shandong's literary circles, this lineup was very eye-catching. .

As Shen and Zhao, they naturally had to stay at the Gusu Post House, the largest and most luxurious official post house in Jiangnan. This was a status symbol.

Immediately, many literary figures from various places visited Gusuyi to explore the voices of these heavyweights.

Someone directly asked Zhao Yongxian if he had any thoughts of competing for the position of leader of the literary world.

Zhao Yongxian replied unambiguously: "I have no intention of competing for the leadership of the literary world, and I have no idea about managing literary affairs.

This time I came to Suzhou to participate in the grand meeting, just to prevent the position of the leader of the literary world from falling into the hands of literary thieves. "

Shen Li also added: "We don't bother to hide our opinions and intentions. We can publicly declare that we don't want to see Lin Tailai steal the position of leader of the literary world. We came to Suzhou this time just to oppose Lin Tailai."

Shandong representative Gong Nai also said: "I completely agree with the views of the two seniors Shen and Zhao, and I am consistent with the two seniors."

These answers surprised all the visitors present. The occasion was not a private gathering, but a public conversation.

You must know that most of the other heavyweights who have just arrived in Suzhou City have vague attitudes in public, speak cautiously, and are unwilling to make their stance clear easily.

So the answers I heard just now are the first time that there has been a clear-cut public statement against Lin Tailai.

Moreover, representatives of three forces with different backgrounds jointly expressed their stance, which is even more worthy of consideration.

Of course, these news reached the ears of Lin Daguan at the first time, but Lin Daguan was very unexpected and did not make any reaction.

Only Gao Changjiang publicly said: "We here believe that the literary world can accommodate hundreds of schools of thought, and you are welcome to continue to express your opinions and speak freely."

This statement is even more shocking than someone's opposition to Lin Tailai, because this generous tone is so unflattering to Lin Tailai.

At this time, Lin Tailai and his uncle Wang Zhiyou were already standing at Fengqiao Pier, preparing to welcome Wang Shizhen, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment of Nanjing and the leader of the world literary circle.

From a courtesy point of view, there is no need for Mr. Lin to come. But "Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone", so Lin Daguan wanted to show off as his successor, so he came to greet him.

While waiting, Lin Daguan complained to Wang Fuzun: "I am not surprised that Shen Li and Zhao Yongxian expressed their opinions like this, but why did Gong Nai, one of the three great families in Shandong, get involved with them?

As a Shandong son-in-law, I was stabbed in the back by you Shandong people. It is really unreasonable! "

Wang Fuzun wiped his sweat and said helplessly: "It can't be said to be a backstab, right? Your relationship with Shandong Shilin is not good to begin with."

Lin Tailai said angrily: "I married a Shandong woman. Isn't this relationship good enough? Besides, I am also a disciple of Qi Shaobao from Shandong!"

Wangfuzun reminded: "Yang Wei, the Minister of Civil Affairs, is from Shandong. You have repeatedly ruined Yang Tianguan's face in order to help others fight for official positions. Although Yang Tianguan is old and kind, he can't say that he likes you very much, right?

Yu Shenxing, the Minister of Rites, is also from Shandong. How many times have you made trouble and ridiculed others in the Ministry of Rites?

Also, the late Li Panlong, the former leader of the literary world, the first of the Seven Rebellionists, and a close friend of Duke Wang Danzhou, was also from Shandong.

Therefore, Shandong is also the base of the retro school. When you trample and destroy the retro school, do you still expect the Shandong literary world to look good on you? "

By simply citing a few examples, Wang Fuzun successfully broke Lin Daguan's illusion that "I have a very good relationship with Shandong."

At this point, even Wang Fuzun, one of his own, couldn't understand. With Lin Tailai's radical style of making enemies everywhere, how could he have the confidence to compete for the leadership of the literary world?

How can I say that the position of the leader of the literary world does not necessarily belong to the person with the most supporters, but it definitely belongs to the person with the fewest opponents.

"So, am I just on good terms with your Wang family?" Lin Daguan said uncertainly, "At least I helped all of you, the Wang family, rise to the first rank!"

"I'm very grateful." Wang Fuzun said.

Lin Tailai then said: "Then you go talk to Gong Nai as a fellow countryman and persuade him to return from his lost ways! I need the support of the northern literary world!"

In today's literary world, apart from the Jiangnan region, Shandong and Hubei are the most important.

If you want to be the leader of the world, support from these three places is indispensable.

At the beginning, the Seven Postmen of the Restoration School dominated the national literary world, largely because Li Panlong, Wang Shizhen, and Wu Guolun were from Shandong, Jiangnan, and Hubei respectively.

Among them, Shandong is an important town in the northern literary world, and apart from Shandong, Lin Daguan cannot count on the support of other northern provinces.

There are people like Wang Jiaping and Yang Junmin in Shanxi, Shen Li in Henan, and Zhao Nanxing in Beizhili. Who can give Lin Tailai a good look?

Wang Fuzun agreed, "I'll try my best, but I heard that Gong Nai admires Qingliu very much, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with him."

While they were talking, the ship of Alliance Leader Wang and Lao arrived, and the two of them greeted it.

There was no problem with the etiquette procedures, but there was something unexpected about the arrangement of the residence of the old leader Wang.

"It was agreed in advance that Duke Yanzhou would stay at Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou, so why did he suddenly change his mind?" Lin Daguan asked in surprise.

Leader Wang, who was still very sick, said calmly: "I think it is more appropriate to live in Gusu Yi, isn't it allowed?"

At this time, Lin Daguan also used force to capture the old alliance leader and forcibly brought him to Canglang Pavilion.

The main reason is that he is afraid that the old leader Wang will die suddenly on the spot, and he will not be able to explain clearly.

After all, in the original history, the old alliance leader Wang now only had one year left to live, and Lin Tailai had to guard against it. In the end, he could only watch the old alliance leader being helped onto the boat and leaving.

Wang Fuzun sighed at the side: "Your situation is not optimistic."

The situation is obvious. Leader Wang heard the statements of Shen Li, Zhao Yongxian and Gong Nai in Gusu Yi, so he changed his mind and insisted on living in Gusu Yi.

Anyone with a little bit of understanding can understand what Alliance Leader Wang wants to express.

Lin Tailai said dissatisfied: "What do you mean the situation is not optimistic? Don't destroy your ambition!"

Wang Fuzun responded: "I'm just telling the truth. Judging from the current situation, there are not many powerful people who sincerely and fully support you.

Zhang Fengyi, a native of Suzhou, is one of them. Others, such as Wen Yuanfa, Wang Zhideng and others, are probably working hard but not contributing, right?

And among people from all over the world, Yuan Hongdao from Huguang might barely count as one, but who else is there? "

Lin Daguan was still very optimistic and said: "Isn't this situation very good?

Jiangnan and Hubei each have Zhang Fengyi and Yuan Hongdao as fulcrums. If you help me take care of Shandong, a major literary town, won't you be able to copy the path of the Seven Rebellionists to dominate the literary world? "

Wang Fuzun then reminded: "If we only focus on art, in addition to Jiangnan, Hubei, and Shandong, Zhejiang can also be called an important town.

Over in Zhejiang, you also have to think of a way. If Shandong really doesn't work, then Zhejiang cannot afford to lose anything. "

Lin Tailai replied: "Of course I know that after welcoming Wang Danzhou today, we will focus on attacking Zhejiang later.

Besides, you in Shandong can’t help it! If you can't figure it out, tell me right away and I'll allocate my energy to deal with it! "

After returning to the mansion, Lin Daguan called Zhang Fengyi over to study how to conquer Zhejiang.

There are three heavyweights from Zhejiang participating in the literary conference this time, Shen Mingchen, Tu Long, and Hu Yinglin, all of whom are extraordinary.

Official Lin crossed out Hu Yinglin first, "This should be no problem, let's not consider him for now."

Hu Yinglin is an expert on poetry theory who has emerged in the past ten years. He is known as the successor of Wang Laoli in literary criticism. He had a fight with Lin Daguan four years ago and had a feud.

However, Hu Yinglin and Zhao Zhigao and Old Man Zhao were from the same county and had received care from Old Man Zhao, so Mr. Lin had already asked Old Man Zhao to pass the message.

Anyway, Hu Yinglin should not jump out to be a target at this literary conference.

Then Senior Official Lin pointed at Shen Mingchen's name and said: "This man is the uncle of the senior Ci Lin, Shen Yiguan, and Shen Yiguan was also promoted by Shen Shoufu.

Therefore, there should be great opportunities to win over from this angle. Moreover, judging from Shen Mingchen's experience, this person is not considered aloof and does not reject association with powerful people. "

Shen Mingchen is one of the three great civilian poets in the world. He is very experienced in the literary world. He has served as an aide to the governor-general Hu Zongxian and a guest to the chief minister Xu Jie.

His status in Zhejiang's literary world is similar to Wang Laodeng's status in Suzhou.

In the end, there was only one Tu Long left, and this person was not an ordinary person. He was one of the last five sons of the retro school in the literary world, which is enough to illustrate his status.

Official Lin said to Zhang Fengyi: "I heard that Tu Long has been obsessed with opera in recent years. Is he from your opera circle?"

Zhang Fengyi nodded and said: "That's true. Brother Tu and I have a good relationship and we can talk to each other. But there is a question. Have you considered it while sitting in the hall?"

"What's the problem?" Lin Tailai asked.

Zhang Fengyi replied: "Although Tu Laodi and Shen Mingchen are fellow villagers in the same county, their relationship is very bad. They regard each other as enemies and cannot be in the same camp."

Ten years ago, Tu Long was an official in Songjiang Prefecture. As a newcomer to the officialdom, he took his work too seriously and offended the local gentry.

Later, Tu Long was promoted to the Ministry of Rites of the capital, and then he was maliciously reported by officials from Songjiang Prefecture. There are rumors that this was ordered behind the scenes by Xu Jie, the former chief assistant of the Songjiang Mansion boss.

Later, Tu Long was dismissed from office by the court on the charge of "fornication".

In this era, there are only a few reasons for officials to be dismissed, but using "indulgence" as a public reason is such a shame.

After Tu Long, who was dismissed from office in an insulting manner, returned to his hometown, Shen Mingchen taught Tu Long a lesson as a senior.

Don't forget, Shen Mingchen worked as a retainer for Xu Jie, which made Tu Long very sensitive and angry.

So Tu Long and Shen Mingchen, two big figures in the Zhejiang literary world, turned against each other directly, so much so that when Shen Mingchen fell ill, Tu Long shouted that this was retribution.

Zhang Fengyi analyzed, "So the sitting master cannot win over both Shen Mingchen and Tu Long at the same time. No matter which one the sitting master keeps, the other will definitely run to the other side.

In other words, it is almost impossible to get all of Zhejiang to support the sitting master."

Mr. Lin couldn't help cursing, "They are obviously from the same county, but they can still make such a fuss. It really affects my overall situation!"

Among the important towns in the literary world, Shandong has already opposed him, and the future situation is unclear.

Hubei Yuan Hongdao can only represent the emerging Gong'an faction and count as half a force. The real boss of Hubei is Wu Guolun, who is one of the seven sons of the latter with the old leader Wang.

Not to mention the Jiangnan region, there are many people and gossips, and the Wang brothers of the Xin'an faction are eyeing them covetously.

So Zhejiang is the territory that Mr. Lin must take over, but he didn't expect that Zhejiang would be so divided internally.

After considering it, Mr. Lin instructed, "Tomorrow you invite Shen Mingchen and Tu Long to come, and I will talk to them in person."

"Call them together?" Zhang Fengyi thought he had heard it wrong.

If they meet separately, they can still win over one of them, but if they call a pair of enemies at the same time, they may fight on the spot.

In the end, if nothing is done and no one is won over, it will be a big loss.

"That's right, call them all together! I don't like fighting in my life, so I have to mediate for them!" said Mr. Lin calmly.

At the same time, in Shen Li's residence in Gusu Posthouse, Gu Xiancheng was also analyzing the current situation with Shen Li and Zhao Yongxian.

Yes, it was Gu Xiancheng, who hid his identity and sneaked in to avoid accusations of going out during the mourning period.

"At present, the situation seems to be extremely favorable, and we have the upper hand in all provinces." Gu Xiancheng analyzed after listening to the situation in the past two days.

"Among the important towns, the north is already supporting us, and Lord Shen and Gong Nai have made great contributions.

As for Hubei, as long as we get the tacit approval of Lord Wang Yanzhou, Senior Wu Guolun, who is also one of the Seven Later Sons, will definitely support us. Yuan Hongdao's Gong'an faction cannot compete with Wu Guolun for the time being.

As for Jiangnan, Senior Zhao is from Jiangnan, and he will definitely be able to share a lot of support, which is enough.

In general, the advantage is completely on my side, and the overall situation is determined!"

Zhao Yongxian reminded Gu Xiancheng: "There is also Zhejiang, which should not be underestimated."

Gu Xiancheng smiled and said: "As long as we don't let Lin Tailai get all the support from Zhejiang, then our advantage will be unshakable, it's very simple!

We told Tu Long that Lin Tailai has been in close contact with the gentry of Songjiang Prefecture recently, and he is ready to unite with the gentry of Songjiang Prefecture to do big things!

Tu Long hates the gentry of Songjiang Prefecture very much. Hearing this news, it is impossible for him to support Lin Tailai!

So there is no need to worry about Zhejiang at all. Even if Lin Tailai wins over Shen Mingchen, it will not affect the overall situation."

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