In the afternoon, Yang Ji saw that his mother had forgotten her daughter-in-law and was only talking to Xiao Ying. He was sitting on the side like a wooden body, which was really boring. Moreover, with him sitting beside him, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talked in a secretive manner. Avoiding taboos is very uncomfortable. He simply asked Liu Rumei to help him do some makeup, and then took the two tough men Xue Ju and Yu Chigong to Dongshi Brush Shop, which specialized in selling pens, inks, paper and inkstones. There were twenty guards following him secretly, and they watched the surroundings vigilantly. Condition.
Although Yang Jian forcefully rejected the request of the Shandong gentry and Guanlong nobles to ban books, and the aristocratic families seemed to be at peace, Yang Jian, Yang Guang, and Yang Ji all knew that this was the calm before the storm. Otherwise, how could Yang Jian do it for " The "small gang of thieves" went to war and issued a series of military appointments?
Wangfu also has two stores in Dongshi Bi Store. Books and new paper from Liangzhou were also on the market yesterday, but I don’t know how the market is.
When a group of people arrived near the store, they saw a large number of people lining up in several long snakes at the door. But if you look carefully, you can see clearly separated queues. The scholars in luxurious clothes are in one row, the boys in green clothes are in another row, and the humble scholars in simple clothes are divided into two rows. In addition to these people, you can also see traders, footmen, farmers and craftsmen mixed in the queue of poor people, but no one dared to join the row of luxuriously dressed people.
Yang Ji was wearing a white folded cloth. When he saw that the queue was in the pattern of "boys - nobles - poor men - poor men", he stood behind the row of humble men near the nobles. After waiting for a while, he saw a man in the row next to him. The famous scholar turned to the humble scholar in front of him and said: "Yesterday Wen Hanxuan sold "The Great Learning", "The Analects of Confucius" and "Education". Today it is "The Doctrine of the Mean", "Mencius" and "Idiom Stories".
Although this man looks ordinary, he always maintains the demeanor of a Confucian scholar, unlike others who are timid. Not only that, he also wears a horizontal sword at his waist.
"That's a pity." The person in front of Yang Ji showed disappointment. They hoped to buy some more profound books and go back to study. As for "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Mencius", although they are not as common as "The Analects of Confucius", Han Shi In fact, they are no strangers to the Four Books, and many people even have manuscripts at home. The "Mencius" and "Idiom Stories" which collect the Thousand-Character Classic and the Three-Character Classic are all children's books. They are not very attractive to these young people. I heard What was on sale today turned out to be "The Doctrine of the Mean", "Mencius" and "Idiom Stories", and I was immediately disappointed.
"Brother Xu doesn't know something." The person who spoke before said with a smile: "As far as I know, the Doctrine of the Mean and Mencius sold today are different."
"Oh?" His words immediately attracted the attention of many people, who hurriedly asked: "What's the difference?"
"I was chatting with the store owner yesterday evening, and then I learned that in addition to the original texts of "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Mencius" on sale today, there are also righteous essays by 'Er Liu'. How can their value be measured in money?" The man said with a smile: "It was King Wei who argued hard and was benevolent and righteous, which caused the immoral request to ban books to be abandoned by the saint. Otherwise, let alone us humble scholars, even though we are the children of aristocratic families, we may not be able to read the righteousness of the two Mr. Liu. However, there are people who repeatedly ask the saints to burn books and humiliate Confucian scholars, and even threaten them with riots, which is really a big joke in the world!"
He obviously wanted to be heard by the aristocratic family members nearby, so he spoke loudly.
The row of family members turned their heads and glared at him, but Han Shi stood proudly and ignored the glares of these people.
A gentle and graceful young man with a high crown turned his head and said coldly to the rather magnanimous young man: "My dear fellow, if you have something to say, you might as well say it directly. It is not the behavior of a gentleman to hide your head and show your tail like this!"
The ordinary young man raised his hand, and when he saw that the young man had Wang's unique "rosacea", he said with ease and fearlessness: "I'm in Julu Wei Zheng, Xingzhou, you must be a descendant of the Wang family, right? May I ask what the person below is saying? Say, what’s wrong with that?”
"I am Puzhou Longmen Wangtong!" The young man with a high crown returned the gift, frowned and said to Wei Zheng: "Since the Han Dynasty, the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats have co-ruled the world. We, the nobles, do this to maintain the stability of the world. Besides, knowledge It is a noble and elegant thing, how can it be defiled by soldiers, peasants, industrialists, merchants, traders and foot soldiers?"
Wang Tong came out today to relax. Since his father Wang Long, Cui Zhongfang, and Zheng Shanyuan proposed a ban on books, and Zhang Jin threatened Yang Jian with military force, these people have become completely notorious, although not everyone is shouting for beatings. , but was also scolded as "Cui Wang Zheng Zhang" (Cui Wang Zheng Zhang).
Although Wang Tong was not directly implicated, Wang Long's mansion in the capital was thrown into jars filled with feces from outside the wall every day. The jars were smashed into the house, and feces and water splashed everywhere, making their whole family restless and smelly. , Wang Tong knew in his heart that it was the work of angry Hanshi, traders and pawns. At this moment, when he heard Wei Zheng's cold words again, he felt even more uncomfortable and dissatisfied.
"It's really ridiculous." Wei Zheng sneered: "Hundreds of years ago, your ancestors were not prominent people. They were just traffickers and lackeys, killing chickens and dogs. What qualifications do you have to look down on others now?"
Wang Tong's eyes turned cold and he said in a deep voice: "However, our ancestors have gone through many tests and worked tirelessly to achieve our current status. You are just opportunistic people relying on us, but you want to overthrow the number of nobles in one generation." A hundred years of savings is simply ridiculous.”
"Relentless efforts?" Wei Zheng looked up to the sky and laughed, and sneered: "Yes, it was after hundreds of years of hard work by your nobles that the Han Dynasty fell apart; it was also after hundreds of years of hard work by your nobles in the south that the world fell apart." Years ago, the Han family was almost wiped out. If it weren't for the sage's majesty, talent, and ability to unify the world, I think you would have shamelessly welcomed the new lord, and then worked tirelessly for hundreds of years to destroy the new dynasty."
"Presumptuous!" Before Wang Tong could say anything, the people from the aristocratic families who were queuing up were already staring and shouting, because Wei Zheng's remarks were not only heart-breaking words, but also captured the most disgusting and shameless side of the nobles. Almost no one was present. The nobles couldn't bear it, and many of them even ordered the followers in the crowd to surround Wei Zheng and a few of his friends.
Wei Zheng was fearless and sneered: "You can't explain it in words, so you want to take action? Come on! If Wei Zheng is afraid of you, I will change my surname."
Wang Tong's face was so gloomy that he seemed to be dripping with water. He looked at Wei Zheng coldly and said in a cold voice: "If you apologize now and retract your previous fallacies, I will forget about it, otherwise..."
"So what if I don't apologize?" Wei Zheng said with a hint of unruliness in his expression, "Everyone knows the dirty things you have done, is what I said false?"
Yang Ji looked at him sideways when he heard this. This Wei Zheng was not handsome, he was the kind of person who would not be found in a crowd, but he was tall and tall and did not look like a scholar at all. At this moment, he was passionate and majestic, quite impressive. The fearless feeling of a second-grade youth. This was really beyond his expectation.
In fact, there are many things that Yang Ji could not think of. This Wei Zheng has never been a good man and a believer. His benevolence, morality, and unconventionality have nothing to do with him. Wei Zheng in history said a lot of truth after Li Jing and others destroyed the Eastern Turks. Finally, we strongly demand that the East/Turks be completely exterminated, eradicated, and eliminate future troubles forever.
His boldness and cruelty in killing scared even the generals of the Manchu Dynasty who were good at fighting.
Wang Tong took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Catch this rebellious person who is inciting the people!"
With a "zheng" sound, Wei Zheng suddenly drew his sword in his hand. He looked at it with a fierce aura, which made the disciples and servants around him feel timid. Facing the public, Wei Zheng still talked eloquently: "Although I, Wei Zheng, am a weak scholar with no power to tie a chicken, but when I live in the world, I do things according to the method of a scholar; the method of a scholar is to criticize with words and writing, write books and establish arguments, Pass it on to future generations; if you can't kill me today, I, Wei Zheng, will definitely use my pen to record in detail your actions of burning books and humiliating Confucian scholars, and pass them on to future generations forever. Now that books are common in the world, I don't believe that you can destroy them all."
"(￣︶￣)" After hearing this, Yang Ji was 100% sure that Wei Zheng was the "human mirror" and not a person with the same name.
But with such a burly figure, such a bad temper, and even a knife shown, he claims to be "unable to tie a chicken", which is nonsense.
Xue Ju, who stepped forward, said softly: "Master, looking at his evil spirit, I dare to conclude that he has killed many people, and there are many."
"Not bad." Yang Ji also noticed that they were all people who had been on the battlefield and were very sensitive to this kind of evil spirit.
"This guy is quite talented, should we help him?"
"Wait and see how he ends up."
"Here."
"Who dares to make trouble here?" At this moment, a roar came from the crowd, and a big man in plain clothes strode over with several tall and strong followers. At first glance, he seemed to be highly skilled in martial arts. man of.
Yang Ji recognized him at a glance. The big man at the head was his direct subordinate in the court, the right-guard general Shi Xiang.
Shi Xiang, courtesy name Shixiu, was from Ganzhou. He was the son of Situ Shining of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he was also a brave and skilled man with both civil and military skills. He served successively as the governor of Jiaozhou and the general manager of Qizhou. He was quite beneficial to the local government. He not only participated in the Sui Dynasty's battle to destroy Chen led by Yang Guang, but also followed Yang Guang to defeat the Turkic army in the 19th year of the founding of the emperor. He was promoted to the right guard general. This is also One of the core figures of the princelings.
His sharp eyes swept over the green-clothed servants surrounding Wei Zheng, and instantly silenced these green-clothed servants.
The servants of these aristocratic families have suffered a lot from right guards recently. Since Yang Guang was appointed to take charge of the military affairs in Guanzhong, Shi Xiang has become Yang Guang's sharp knife in maintaining public order in Daxing City. As long as there are children of aristocratic families and evildoers, If a slave dares to do evil in Daxing City, Shi Xiang will definitely detain him without hesitation. Although he will not go to jail for a small fight, it is not so easy to get out easily after entering the Youwei or Yongzhou Prefecture. Why? It also had to be raised on the bed for more than ten days.
"It turns out to be General Shi! I'm..." Wang Tong was shocked when he saw Shi Xiang. This is an unkind person. For now, only Yang Guang can touch him.
"I don't know you, don't tell me this," Shi Xiang interrupted Wang Tong with a wave of his hand, and asked coldly: "Are you in an official position?"
"This..." Wang Tong blushed and said in embarrassment: "My name is Wang Tong, and I was granted the title of Shuzuo, Secretary of Shu County. Because something happened at home, I resigned from my post and came back on my father's orders."
"Since you have resigned from office, you are no different from ordinary people and have no power to enforce the law at all. And even if you are still Shu County Sihu Shuzuo, you are not qualified to control the order of Daxing City." Shi Xiang swept away those shrinking heads. The boy in green glanced at him and said coldly to Wang Tong: "Abuse of lynching, you should know what the crime is."
"General Shi, this man named Wei Zheng is the first to speak arrogantly. You should arrest him!" A young man from an aristocratic family pointed at Wei Zheng and said angrily.
Shi Xiang asked: "Has this person insulted the saint, or is he inciting the people to rebel?"
"That's not true, it's just that he insulted the nobles..."
"I, the Sui Dynasty, do not commit crimes with words. As long as they do not insult the saints or incite the people to rebel, they are not guilty. If you want to buy books, just wait here honestly. Otherwise, don't blame Shi for being ruthless!" Shi A led his men. After walking a few steps, he turned back to Wang Tong and said, "Wang Tong, right? I will remember you. If someone makes trouble here, you are the only one to ask."
Shi Xiang didn't give Wang Tong a chance to speak at all. After speaking, he left without looking back.
Act resolutely and without hesitation.
"..." Wang Tong was dumbfounded. There were so many people here, and troubles could easily happen. If someone made trouble, could it be blamed on him?
It's so dark!
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