Wang Shizhen said some lofty words such as "a righteous man will die for justice" or "a scholar may be killed but not humiliated", but his body was very honest.
After some sincere persuasion from Wang Shimao, Wang Shizhen had no choice but to turn in. In fact, Feng Bao had already checked all of Wang Shizhen's history before trying to break him.
Wang Shizhen's rise to prominence in the literary world and the formation of his personal literary theory were certainly part of a genius, but they were more about "stepping on the shoulders of the elders." When he was young, he first joined the "Tianjin Academy" established by Li Xianfang and others in the capital.
"Xingbu Poetry Club", from which it drew retro concepts and nutrition.
According to Feng Bao's investigation, it was Li Xianfang, Li Panlong and others who first formed the society and later introduced Wang Shizhen. This literary society held high the banner of retroism and eventually influenced the entire Ming Dynasty. There were always six core members, and the struggle for leadership began successively.
A battle ensued between Li Xianfang, Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen, and Wang Shizhen finally won.
After Wang Shizhen joined the club, he first teamed up with Li Panlong to squeeze out Li Xianfang. Li Xianfang was a veteran who left the team before enjoying the fruits of victory. He was also relatively open-minded and eventually returned to his hometown to cultivate his hometown ambitions.
After ousting Li Xianfang, Wang Shizhen proposed that six core members, headed by Li Panlong, form a formal retro poetry club, and formulated club disciplines. Members were carefully selected and members were not allowed to join other poetry clubs. They must maintain their understanding of the original poetry club.
Clauses such as social loyalty and so on—already have the embryonic form of later caucuses.
After the establishment of the Poetry Society, internally, it "responsible for each other's duties strictly, ensures that others do not do well, and insists on doing what they say." Externally, Wang Shizhen paid for it, and spent all day hanging out with prostitutes. He regarded himself as a madman and hyped it up.
Specific hype methods include: asking the great painter Li at the time to create a "Picture of Six Sons", calling himself "Zi", and creating a "madman" character; then, the six people wrote poems and essays to praise each other, and published "Collection of Six Sons"
Wait for the reputation to be boosted.
When "Liu Zi Collection" was published, the old poet Xie Zhen in the club quit. He became famous very early and was already a top figure in the poetry world at that time. Without the need for hype, he was unwilling to sing poems with them and praise each other. In the end, he
He was jointly excluded by Wang Shizhen and Li Panlong and left the poetry club.
Therefore, the so-called "Six Collections" should actually be the "Five Collections". The Ming Dynasty literary world gave Wang Shizhen a clear place? When encountering the "Six Collections", you basically have to go around.
After Xie Zhen left the club, Wang Shizhen introduced Wu Guolun, who was still the sixth son. But what is speechless is that these six people still brought Xie Zhen, who had left the club, with them when publicizing to the outside world, and called him the "Last Seven Sons"? This trick will be followed by later generations.
It has been used extensively in the entertainment industry, but in the Ming Dynasty at that time, this trick was still very new.
The retro slogan they proposed? Although it shocked the literary world, in the eyes of people like Feng Bao, it was not fundamentally different from the literary ideas of the first seven Jiajing disciples headed by Li Mengyang and He Jingming.
How do the latter seven sons evaluate the first seven sons? "The traces of imitation are too exposed"! Wang Shizhen criticized the articles and poems of the first seven sons that were too full of traces of the restoration of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. However, the poems and essays they wrote were even more imitative than those of the first seven sons.
The final struggle started between Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen? Did Li Panlong come from a poor background? There was no way he could defeat Wang Shizhen, a second-generation official. First of all, Wang Shizhen was very good at being a good person, and he paid for every gathering.
Secondly, Wang Shizhen was a free and easy man, tolerant of brothers with different temperaments, and very loyal, which can be seen from his attitude towards Yang Jisheng.
In the end, the leadership transitioned peacefully, and Wang Shizhen finally took the lead in the Retro Poetry Society. With this as the core, he put his personal mark on the literature and poetry, art appreciation, history and other literary directions of the country, and was eventually recognized as the world's literary circle.
Leader.
Therefore, Feng Bao, who learned this information, seemed to be taking a risk, but actually had Wang Shizhen in his heart.
And why did Feng Bao spend so much time? In fact, he was interested in Wang Shizhen's influence in Shilin. By winning Wang Shizhen, he was able to twist the nose of the Ming Dynasty's literary world.
As for Wang Shizhen, her son and nephews were all held in the palm of the court. She was not a strong person, and Feng Bao had already seen through it. Therefore, in the end, she honestly sent the article to the daily newspaper.
These two articles were painstakingly crafted. If they directly advocated "anti-annexation", although they were politically correct, the consequences in the literary world would be extremely unpredictable; if they directly praised the emperor and eulogized the saints, they would be afraid of being considered by "Feng Bangning" as a "high-level gangster".
The two brothers studied for a long time, and finally took out "Feng Bangning's" letter and read it carefully, and found that there was really no prompt or requirement for the content. Wang Shizhen finally realized it, and found two articles about literary theory that he had not yet circulated.
An article was sent.
When Feng Bao saw that he was on the road, he didn't do anything for himself. The four articles by the Wang brothers were published in the daily newspapers at intervals. Considering the current situation, it was just right. Those who understand will naturally understand what is going on, and those who don't understand
——Feng Bao doesn’t care whether he understands it or not.
Moreover, this kind of thing is difficult at the beginning. Based on Feng Bao's knowledge, once these people lose their moral integrity, their bottom line will probably fall faster than a prostitute taking off her skirt.
When I have free time in the future, I will slowly become the leader of the altar. This sense of accomplishment will be much more satisfying than when I was doing palm seals in the Ceremony Supervisor. I have to say that if Feng Baoneng feels this way, his psychology may have gradually become distorted and darkened.
The literary world in the south of the Yangtze River was stirred up by newspapers and the "Songjiang Slave Rebellion". At this time, the capital's best friend, Wang Zongmu, a good friend of Wang Shizhen, also made the imperial court a mess.
It turned out that in August, the imperial water transport governor Wang Zongmu once again mentioned the use of sea transport for water transport.
This guy once continuously petitioned Emperor Longqing in October of the fifth year of Longqing to revive the sea and water transportation that had been suspended for 160 years, claiming that it would "bring endless benefits to the country for tens of millions of years."
At that time, Emperor Longqing agreed, and Gao Gong also admired him very much and supported him in completing the matter.
Wang Zongmu lived up to expectations and made preparations. In March of the sixth year of Longqing's reign, he used sea transportation to transport 120,000 shi of grain from the south to Tianjin.
These 120,000 shi of grain were then transferred from the dredged Dagu River (Haihe River) to the North Canal, and finally arrived in Beijing, which made Gao Gong extremely happy.
At that time, due to his contribution to the restoration of maritime transport, he was promoted to the governor's level, and the imperial censors Liang Menglong and Wang Zongmu were promoted to one level each; Pan Yunrui, who participated in political affairs, was promoted to one level; Li Shi, who was the inspector of Zhili at that time, also praised Gao Gong and praised all the ministers for his work.
Lao, the assistant minister praised the power of decision.
However, Zhang Huan in Nanjing impeached Wang Zongmu during the incident: "I heard that eight boats were lost, and 3,200 stones of rice were lost. Wang Zongmu expected this, so he privately ordered people to buy rice to make up for the loss. The rice can make up for the loss, but human lives can be saved."
Make up for it?"
Wang Zongmu called Qu at that time and asked the court to send personnel to verify. However, Mu Zong was seriously ill at that time and later died, so the matter was shelved.
After Mu Zong's funeral was completed, Gao Gong supported Wang Zongmu to continue his work. However, in the spring of the first year of Wanli, when the second sea voyage reached Jimo, it encountered a hurricane and seven ships sank.
At this time, Jia Sanjin, Yushi Bao Xiyan, and the governor of Shandong came to the rescue, saying that since shipping was not possible, the matter was over.
After Zhu Yijun traveled across the country, he was not clear about the situation of shipping across the country. When he heard about it later, he even read the memorial that Wang Zongmu reported to Mu Zong at that time. However, it was all very literary and fantasy descriptions.