Jade Emperor: Do the three wise ministers know what is happening in the lower realm?
Three people: Tell my emperor that since we left the world of mortals, we have forgotten everything in the world.
The Jade Emperor was displeased: bold. Have you also forgotten a "masterpiece" written by each of the three?
Luo Guanzhong: Reporting back to our emperor, Wei Chen wrote "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In order to collect historical materials and examine the humanities and landforms of Kyushu, he spent decades wearing common clothes, eating rough food to satisfy his hunger, traveling through mountains and rivers, and went through countless hardships. Then he faced the wall and polished his ink and stayed in the desolate place to complete it. A hundred and two times, every word is blood-curdling, every sentence is full of tears. Even after death, I will never forget it!
Jade Emperor: The "subjects" of the lower realm tell you that you deserve death.
Luo Guanzhong: I am willing to listen respectfully.
All the ministers were stunned.
Bao Qingtian declares:
Zhou Yu's 29th-generation grandson Zhou Qiang sued Luo Guanzhong for violating historical facts and fabricating "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". He went so far as to blame his ancestor Zhou Yu's achievements on Zhuge Liang, and he did not know how much benefit he gained from the Zhuge clan.
What is even more irritating is that Zhou Yu, who is magnanimous, forthright, wise and courageous, is also described as a narrow-minded person who is jealous of talents.
Relevant historians have verified that the book contains more than 500 inaccuracies, which seriously infringed on Zhou Yu's reputation and had a particularly bad impact.
Zhou Qiang was unable to catch Luo Guanzhong, so he used Luo Guanzhong's 17th generation grandson Luo Chiyu as a scapegoat and pushed him into the dock of Jiangdong Court.
This "historical" reputation dispute case has reached the final verdict:
Gu Nian Luo Chiyu is not a direct author of the book, and is separated by more than ten generations. The circumstances are excusable and he is exempted from other legal responsibilities. However, he must additionally compensate the Zhou family for the loss of reputation and the Zhou family's related mental losses. A total of 500,000 yuan.
Luo Chiyu's family was in dire straits and his appeal failed. His wife Wu was confused and hanged herself in anger. Now she went to the underworld to find Mr. Bao for comment. She said that his ancestor Luo was unkind. He killed pigs and sheep, trimmed feet and mended pots, and it was not a good job. But he left behind random fabricated words in black and white, which made people grasp the clues and made future generations uneasy...
Shi Naian also fictionalized in "Water Margin" that Li Kui's mother was bitten by a tiger. Li Wei, a descendant of Li Kui, was furious when he checked the "Xi Gene" (organizing the family history of the faction) and threatened that there was no such thing. Ancestors often do good deeds and can only die well. How can they die unjustly? This account can be settled directly with the "Thirty-six Tiangang" on the "underworld".
Also, Cao Xueqin stirred up a scandal that happened in the Jia family in "A Dream of Red Mansions". After Wang Xifeng's descendant Wang Lingyu "awakened" and failed to sue, she harassed and threatened Cao's descendants on the phone many times: If they don't come to me for face-to-face negotiation, , don’t blame someone who came here on the 3rd or 2nd and made your Cao family very restless...
Luo, Shi and Cao all had earth-colored faces and wanted to express their opinions.
Taibai Jinxing respectfully invites the Jade Emperor to play:
According to my opinion, there is no need to pay attention to mundane matters. There are three reasons:
First, these three masterpieces are written in a literary genre and can be fictionalized. Mr. Lu Xun said: The face is in Beijing, the clothes are in Shanghai, and the mouth is in Zhejiang. (The characters in the novel) are made up of characters. To a certain extent, without imagination and fiction, there would be no art, and of course there would be no literature. The three civil servants have always contributed to literature, so how can we add a criminal inquiry lawsuit?
Secondly, although the material comes from life and is not immune to the reality of life, the work promotes righteousness and criticizes evil. The author has a good starting point.
Thirdly, some ordinary people are driven by interests and are self-centered. They do not hesitate to make things out of thin air, such as mental losses, youth losses, etc. They can describe the losses that are fictitious as infinite losses. Characters like Zhou Yu, Li Kui and Wang Xifeng were all created based on their lives. It is really a travesty of history that someone pretended to be their descendants and even used "legal" or illegal means to interrogate the descendants of three civil servants. I hope that my emperor will clearly investigate the affairs of the three civil servants and Mr. Bao will make a clear decision!
Jade Emperor: What I love makes sense. No additional culpability will be imposed on the three wise ministers.
The three of them bowed to each other: the Emperor of Heaven is sage and wise, and the Emperor’s grace is mighty.
Jade Emperor: It’s just that your descendants were innocently wronged, and the dispute was still unresolved, which alarmed the heaven. How can this matter be settled?
Bao Qingtian: My emperor doesn’t need to worry too much. How can it be difficult for this matter to be settled? All it takes is a few honest and upright judges to go down and correct the evil and suppress the evil.
Taibai Jinxing: Your Majesty, I have one more thing to report.
Jade Emperor: Speak──
Taibai Venus: The four Wenqu stars in the east sky, west sky, south sky, and north sky should have descended to earth last month, but they have not moved yet. It seems that Wei Chen's command is not working well.
Jade Emperor: Why is this?
Taibai Venus:
Nowadays, most of the literati in the lower world are impoverished, and their pure literature has high standards and few people. It is always difficult or impossible to publish it, and even if it is published, few people want to read it. Most people who engage in popular and documentary literature are wary of writing the truth or writing legal cases that are readable. Even if they are pragmatic in ninety-nine ways, one careless sentence will lead to a lawsuit and even a huge compensation of tens of thousands. If it is not done well, He will also be imprisoned.
Even if everything is true and impeccable, if you touch a suspect and make a name for yourself, you will become the target of the "forgetful man" and you will lose your money at the least, and you will lose your life at the worst.
Didn't you see that the writer Wen Fang was kidnapped by the "miraculous doctor" Hu and his like... Some literati were left with lingering fears and felt helpless. The stars of Wenqu shuddered when they heard about this, so they refused to go down to earth.
The Jade Emperor looked at the three civil servants Luo, Shi, and Cao: I have pardoned your sins, and will let you be born into the world to gain knowledge, straighten out your writing style, and promote innovative cultural undertakings. Are you willing to complete your mission?
Cao Xueqin: My emperor trusts me, and I am very lucky for you. I just have some thoughts. I once had a good understanding of people in the lower world, a clear understanding of the world, and a wealth of knowledge, but ended up with a miserable fate of being homeless and lonely. Now there is no way to recover, so I will not be able to obey my orders.
Shi and Luo said in unison: We are discussing with Brother Cao, hoping for the Emperor's approval. There are so many Chinese stars in heaven, why not choose some stars that are bright and majestic and come down to earth?
The Jade Emperor was displeased, and Bao Qingtian scolded the three civil servants for not coveting the comfort of heaven and being lazy in making progress.
The Jade Emperor turned angry: How dare you resist the decree and disrespect it? Just wait and see.
The three civil servants were then thrown into the sky prison.
At this point, the leopard-headed general with ring-eyed eyes closed his palm-wide magical mirror. Wu Congcong shook his head and sighed, the three civil servants were really unjust.
It's not unfair at all, let them get some education. When they were human beings in the human world, they worked hard for literature and were busy with literature, and only wanted to be famous for the ages.
After King Chu Jiang finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the two palace soldiers knowingly escorted the guilty soul Wu Concong out of the palace and went straight to the scissor hell under the sea. As Wu Congcong stepped out of the palace, he suddenly looked back. He heard the general with a leopard head and ring eyes say that the three civil servants were released from the prison the next day because of the Wenqu stars in the east, west, south and north sky. Su knew that the three civil servants had been made scapegoats, so they all asked the Jade Emperor for forgiveness and issued an order to descend to earth.
Wu Congcong seemed to be inspired and asked the palace guard who was escorting him, "When will I be released from the scissor hell?"
Are you not the scapegoat? You deserve it. You figured it out before you went to hell to be punished. Go ahead and dream!
Seeing the palace servant next to him roaring so indifferently, Wu Congcong felt sad and felt heavy with every step he took.
