Fang Yingwu stared at Lou Tianhua for a long time. Is this guy really true to his word, or does he come here just to get a meal?
It is said that when Fang Yingwu came out of Chun'an County, he sold three acres of land, collected the rent in advance, and collected more than thirty taels of silver. When he arrived in Suzhou Prefecture, Mr. Wang sponsored some, and in Changzhou Prefecture, he approached Deng Tongzhi again.
Borrowed some.
After spending all this time, he now has about forty taels left on hand, which is all the funds for his activities in the capital. He is not enough to do big things, so he has more than enough small money.
Fortunately, the guild hall appreciated his father's loyalty and allowed him to pay on credit, so he could still manage Lou Tianhua's meals.
Fang Yingwu then asked Fang Yingshi to run errands and ask for some cheap wine and food to be delivered to the room, while he and Lou Tianhua sat down and talked in detail.
When Lou Tianhua saw that dinner was expected, he told the news he had inquired about, and wanted to talk about the movements in the court. "Nowadays, the gentlemen in the court are generally very silent about your father's affairs, especially the ministry."
All the officials were silent.
However, the Kedao Yanguan did speak out, but the scattered memorials were as sparse as a mud cow drowning in the sea, with no response. But overall morale is still low. It is said that the morale of Xichang Eunuch Wang has been destroyed for more than half a year, and it has not recovered yet.
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Fang Yingwu nodded. What Lou Tianhua said was true. It seemed that he had inquired carefully. What he said was quite consistent with his impression of the political ecology of the late Chenghua period. That is: the top management collectively lived their lives while Ke Dao
But there are still people at the middle and lower levels who dare to speak out and try their best to maintain a sense of righteousness.
Lou Tianhua added: "As for your Majesty being in prison, he is still safe for the time being."
This is also something that Fang Yingwu is more concerned about, and he quickly asked: "How do you say this? How can you stay safe in prison?"
"Although Wu Qianshi, who was in charge of the imperial edict of Fusi, was a military officer, he liked to write and write, and he was very tolerant of literati, so he was always lenient to the ministers who were imprisoned.
In addition, Master Yuan, the commander in charge of the Jinyi Guards, is also a humble man, not as violent as the previous two. Therefore, with these two people here, your Majesty has not suffered much, but he has been imprisoned and cannot be free."
Hearing that his father would not suffer too much, Fang Yingwu felt relieved and asked carefully about the situation in the prison. Although Lou Tianhua's focus on Fang Yingwu was strange, he still answered all questions.
After sending Lou Tianhua away, Fang Yingwu fell into deep thought. Regarding his father's matter, the court seemed to be a pool of stagnant water with occasional slight ripples, but was this because no one paid attention?
Definitely not. How could such a thing not be noticed? Even shopkeeper Huang, who was far away from the temple, knew about this and praised him for his "loyalty."
All in all, you must break the situation by yourself! Nowadays, others are unreliable and everyone pretends to be deaf and dumb, so you have to rely on yourself!
However, after today's encounter during the day, Fang Yingwu felt a deep sense of powerlessness again. In the eyes of the big shots in the capital, he was so insignificant that he could even be ignored.
If you don’t even have the chance to participate, what can you do to break the situation? How can you win the right to participate?
The suffering lies in the suffering. Nowadays, there is no love and no money. It can be said that we are poor and useless. Why should we participate?
Is it possible to use the old method of using poems to gain fame first, and then move on to the next step once you are famous?
But this needs time to settle. Unless the right time, right place and right people are met, and the Zhu Zhishan trio are directly eliminated like Suzhou Prefecture did, how can it be so easy to become famous overnight!
What's more, poetry is just a way to cultivate sentiments and has nothing to do with political affairs. Even if he copies all the masterpieces of Nalan Xingde, Wang Shizhen, Huang Jingren, Gong Zizhen, Zhao Yi, Yuan Mei, etc., he will only become a talented man at most.
What can be shaken and changed?
Fang Yingwu thought about it in the room for an hour, but he didn't have any good ideas. He felt that the room was stuffy, so he walked back and forth in the courtyard.
Inadvertently, he looked up and saw the moon. Somehow, he remembered his enlightenment on the roof under the moon in his hometown. The core of his enlightenment was that "a gentleman is about righteousness, and a villain is about profit."
A flash of inspiration suddenly occurred, as if I had touched something. Favor and money are both benefits. If I have no benefit in my own hands, what can I use to express it to others?
Therefore, we still have to think about it from the perspective of a gentleman's meaning. If we can grasp a great righteousness that everyone has to recognize, then we will no longer be ignored!
Just like my father, although he was sentenced to prison, others may be forced to remain silent due to the situation. Except for the extremely shameless villain, no one would say he was wrong. This is an undeniable righteousness!
Why rely on poetry and poetry? If you have a similar righteousness, you can quickly occupy the high ground of public opinion by relying on your advantage as a free agent!
Fang Yingwu vaguely felt as if a layer of window paper was about to be pierced. His father's righteousness was loyalty, but where was his own righteousness?
Thinking of the relationship between father and son, Fang Yingwu felt that he was one step closer to the answer. As the saying goes, a loyal minister's family will produce a filial son. Loyalty and filial piety are both called together. If his father is a loyal minister, he should be a filial son.
Yes, this is it! Fang Yingwu finally found the answer he wanted, his righteousness is filial piety!
The dynasty advertises that it governs the country with virtue and governs the world with filial piety, and that filial piety is the first priority. Who among the officials in the court would dare to say that the word filial piety is wrong?
My father's loyalty comes first, and my own filial piety comes second. As long as I can grasp the situation and make myself an absolute moral model and a symbol of "filial piety", then there is no need to worry about controlling public opinion!
After thinking about this, Fang Yingwu suddenly had a flood of ideas. Here was the opportunity to break the situation!
Once the general direction is set, the rest are all details. The key is to focus on how to express the word "filial piety".
First of all, if the father is in jail, a filial son should show his attitude of going to jail for his father. If he is not even willing to suffer on his father's behalf, what is the point of being filial?
Fang Yingwu, who was familiar with the system of the country and the dynasty, immediately came up with two options. One was to beat the Dengwen drum outside the west gate of Chang'an, and then plead for his father's injustice, and at the same time request that he be imprisoned on his behalf before the case was concluded; the other was to go to the General Affairs Department Yamen
, wrote a letter to defend his father and expressed that he would go to jail on his behalf.
After consideration, Fang Yingwu rejected the method of beating the Dengwen drum. This move was too drastic and there was no room for maneuver, so he still took the form of a petition.
From the time of Taizu, the imperial court established the General Affairs Department, which was responsible for sending and receiving official documents from the court, and allowed soldiers and civilians all over the world, except for scholars, to submit letters directly. However, the word filial piety was involved, so there was no problem for Fang Yingwu and Fang Xiucai to submit letters to the General Affairs Department.
But there is also a problem in going to the General Affairs Bureau to submit a letter. The General Affairs Department has a lot of documents, and ordinary people can easily get lost in the sea of official documents even if they submit a letter.
However, Fang Yingwu immediately came up with a solution. He could go and submit a letter every day, rain or shine, and it would be impossible not to attract attention.
As he continued to think about it, Fang Yingwu thought more and more——
Every day he went to the General Affairs Department to submit a letter, and then went outside the Jinyiwei Yamen to request to see his father. If he could get a few beatings, it would be worth it.
Also, prepare a batch of poems and songs and throw them out at the appropriate time to build momentum (to be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
