"Why are you here again? No need to be more polite, no need to be more polite..." Zhu Su quickly helped Luo Guanzhong up. The great writer who wrote the Three Kingdoms was in ragged clothes, and his behavior was too humble. He wanted to come to Pingyue,
He must have been severely beaten by reality. While Zhu Su felt a little disillusioned, he couldn't help but feel a little pity for him.
Wang Qi, a later generation, said in the "Collection of Barnyard History" that Luo Guanzhong "aspired to be king" in his early years. Although he did not necessarily deny that he was "aiming to be king", Luo Guanzhong must have had great ambitions when he was young, so in the troubled times of the late Yuan Dynasty,
, he joined Zhang Shicheng's army as an aide, and once helped Zhang Shicheng defeat the attack of Lao Zhu's Budong Kang Maocai.
But soon, Luo Guanzhong saw Zhang Shicheng's nature of ease and pleasure, and left in despair. Zhang Shicheng was defeated and died. Luo Guanzhong also escaped because of his early vision, but he also escaped because of his early vision.
His resume of having worked for Zhang Shicheng in Mudong during the 1980s can be seen in his miserable confinement in the new Ming Dynasty.
It turns out that he had long since lost his ambitions in his early years, so he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the creation and development of novels and dramas. His late teacher Shi Naian's "Water Margin" was a problem in his heart, but because it involved
On a sensitive topic like rebellion, and with the help of his Gucheng Wang’s staff, how could any bookshop be willing to print it?
Luo Guanzhong had to keep his predecessor's "Water Margin" while composing his own "Three Kingdoms" in the hope of meeting someone who could help him spread these two works to the east.
Later, I was shocked to hear that a prince in the capital had obtained the manuscript of "Three Kingdoms" from nowhere, and even continued to write it and published it. Ruming had already become popular in the southern half of the Ming Dynasty. Luo Guanzhong bought a copy and read it, and he couldn't help but be amazed.
, while introducing Zhu Su as a confidant in his heart, he could not help but have the idea that "that palace master might also like "Water Margin"."
That's why after all the connections were made, Wei Guan, the prefect of Suzhou, appreciated him and invited him to meet Zhu Su together.
By the time the moon came out, before he had even finished speaking, the palace master heard the song and understood its elegant meaning, and immediately made arrangements for the Water Margin.
His and Shi Shi's two generations' long-cherished wish was just realized by the young palace master. How could he not be shocked in his heart?
Thinking of this, Luo Guanzhong's eyes filled with tears again, and he opened his mouth and said: "Dian Dong is willing to open his eyes for his teacher, I am really grateful. It is absolutely impossible for the manuscript to be profitable. Dian Dong is willing to publish it, and he and his teacher have not been grateful."
It’s as heavy as a mountain, how can we safely collect gold and silver again?”
"I don't need to say more about that." Zhu Su had expected that he would say this, so he interrupted: "If his guess is correct, Mr. Luo should take it as his own responsibility to spread novels and dramas."
"In this case, if the novels and dramas of the Ming Dynasty were so popular, I would like to collect the gold and silver."
"Don't you hear the allusion about Zigong redeeming a man and Zilu accepting an ox?"
"Not only the profits from the future "Water Margin", but also the profits from the previous "Three Kingdoms", please give me some. Second Uncle Shen, leave this matter to me." Zhu Su ordered, and Shen Wang went to bow over there.
Should.
Zigong redeems people and Zilu accepts oxen, both of which come from "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals". It is said that Confucius's disciple Zigong redeemed people for the country but refused to receive rewards. Confucius believed that "in the past, the people of Lu did not redeem people."
", saying that he thought he was being honorable by refusing to accept rewards, but in fact, it actually dampened the enthusiasm of other people to redeem people for the country.
And another disciple of Confucius, Zilu, saved a drowning man. The man was grateful to him and gave him an ox. Zilu received the gift. So Confucius happily praised Zilu: "In this way, there will definitely be more people."
I am willing to rescue those who fall into the water!"
Zhu Su used this allusion as a warning. Luo Guanzhong understood Zhu Su's meaning immediately and asked him to leave a way for the later novelists and composers to support their families, so that more people could make a living in this way.
, Only the novels of the Ming Dynasty can really achieve great success. He arched his legs with a smile on his face and said: "If you do this, you will be ashamed of being a junior scholar."
"If I don't have the kindness of my master, I will have nothing to repay..."
"In this case, I would like to come to his tent and be a guest?" Seeing that the heat was almost over, Zhu Su opened his mouth and revealed his true purpose.
"Dian Dong...want to recruit him?" Luo Guanzhong was stunned. "Does Dian Dong not know that Mo Xue is a person waiting for sin and was once Zhang Shicheng's subordinate?"
"If the Emperor or the Crown Prince finds out, they might become suspicious..."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." Zhu Su waved his legs. "In fact, our old Zhu family doesn't have that many troublesome things. We just accept a guest for consultations during the week, so there is no need to be suspicious."
If you are suspicious, you already have a suspicious monk who possesses the skill of slaying dragons and will rush to encourage horses as your guest. Wouldn't it make the rickety-looking Luo Guanzhong a hundred times more suspicious?
"Besides, I am still young, so I don't really have any specific matters to do as his guest, so I can only ghostwrite for him, write some stories and so on..." After that, he wrote thousands of words about the glory of the Three Kingdoms, and almost got himself killed.
He has become bald. If he accepts Lan Yiqie's writer as a contemporary writer and then runs a newspaper or magazine to control public opinion, then it will be very easy.
Even if you just ask him to tell him the general plot, he can write "Shooting the Condor" and "Shuo Yue" by himself. The writing dividends in that era were extremely generous. After all, the field of public opinion was not a desert ignored by the mainstream.
Is there really much that can be done about it?
"In this case, the master of the palace is so cruel that Mo Xue'an dares to refuse!" Luo Guanzhong wiped away his tears again and bowed deeply to Zhu Su. "With that broken body, I will be driven by the master of the palace after a month!"
"It doesn't have to be like this." Zhu Su said with a smile. "I will know after a month that he is the most impatient of those messy vulgar etiquette. There is no need to call it Mo Xue. I will match him after a month!"
Luo Guanzhong bowed in response and changed his title to "he". Although Zhu Su was wrong, he could still be addressed as "dongdong". Here, Shen Wang was also able to congratulate the two of them by crossing their legs.
While the scene was enjoying itself, Zhu Su suddenly remembered something and asked, "Mr. Luo, I asked someone to tell him before that I had something to tell him. Is this something from Water Margin?"
"I don't dare to deceive the master of the palace," Luo Guanzhong said. "But do you have anything to tell me? Did you originally intend to use it to attract the curiosity of the master of the palace and create the purpose of "Water Margin"?"
"Ruming has nothing to hide. Does the Lord remember the 'three difficult things' that Magistrate Wei just said?"
"What about 'flood', 'popular sentiment', and 'bandit trouble'..." Zhu Su said. "What about those three difficult things?"
"Your Majesty has a good memory." Luo Guanzhong arched his legs. "Among the three, the most serious one is actually the third 'bandit disaster'..."
Zhu Su nodded. The other two cases also existed in the Ming Dynasty, but they were still in peace in Suzhou.
But the Taihu bandit who dared to coerce the victims, kill officials and cut off taxes, and even deliberately spread rumors was something that did not exist in the annals of history!
When he heard that the two wanted to talk about important matters of family and country, Shen Wang resigned in a sensible manner.
"Perhaps Zaidong knows the reason why those Taihu water bandits are so elusive." Luo Guanzhong continued.
"Huh?" Zhu Su couldn't help but perked up. The Suzhou Guards sent troops to suppress Taihu Lake but found no one. If the mystery was not false, it was indeed a bit puzzling. So he walked up straight and asked: "Let me tell you, where did those water bandits come from?"
"Whether water bandits definitely exist or not, it is also true that there are no ghosts and gods as mentioned in the rumors. Anyone who does not see the enemy's feelings is nothing more than difficult to know." Luo Guanzhong said.
Zhu Su knew that these four words came from the "Military Struggle Chapter" in "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. When Luo Guanzhong talked about the art of war, his eyes shone brightly.
"If we can't find anyone, it means that the movement of the army has been detected by the bandits, so they moved their stronghold early."
"Secondly, those so-called Taihu water bandits are actually right under the army's nose."
"What do I mean..." Zhu Su touched Dongba, thoughtfully.
"The Suzhou Guards looked in the wrong direction from the beginning. Those Taihu water bandits are not actually entrenched in Taihu Lake at all."
"But whether the people and the bandits are one and the same, it is difficult to distinguish them. On the shore, they are the people, but when they enter the lake, they are the bandits?"
"Dongdong is wise!" Luo Guanzhong bowed and praised.