Wang Shizhen secretly hated herself because she had long seen that the court intended to suppress the annexation - targeting the Xu family first was an obvious signal. Why do you still have luck even though lard has deceived your heart?
If it was just a matter of luck, why wasn't Hai Rui alert when he was an imperial envoy investigating the case? Moreover, when the family was deeply involved, he still acted out of anger, thinking that government affairs could be influenced by words. It was too childish and naive!
Looking at the Hua family, I found that the Xu family was not moving, so they immediately ceased their activities. The heads of the two Hua houses closed their doors to thank guests, and finally hid away.
The banker didn't have any outstanding characters, but he retreated his land, burned his debts, and paid back taxes in one go, and he was decisive in his killings, and finally he was forgiven by the court. And what did the Wang family do? He provided money and people and became a leader! Nowadays, the imperial court will not continue to engage in large-scale wars in order to stabilize Jiangnan. The big landowners, including the Hua family, can still live in peace, but the Wang family is in ruins and in ruins!
I was turning over and over in my heart, feeling extremely depressed and regretful. Wang Shimao saw his brother sighing with red eyes, blaming himself all the time, so he interrupted him and said: "Brother, don't be too self-restraint. Now the Wang family has to rely on us two brothers to support it, so don't break your body."
After speaking, he praised him again: "Fortunately, I bought some salt fields last year, and I can earn more than a thousand taels of income every year. Otherwise, it would be difficult for many families to make ends meet! This is thanks to my eldest brother's foresight."
After hearing this, Wang Shizhen's face became abnormally flushed. She was depressed and had nowhere to vent. She suddenly reached out and gave herself an ear scraper.
When Wang Shimao saw this, he quickly reached out to stop his eldest brother. Crying: "Brother, don't blame yourself. You should think about how Qi Ge and the others will survive in the bitter cold of Northeast China. The family has to work together to let them have more money."
After Wang Shizhen heard this, he smiled bitterly and said: "There is a way around this. After my father was in trouble, I went home to sort out his manuscripts and found a diary. It recorded that when the ancestor of our branch, Mr. Furuchuan, was serving in Kunshan in the Yuan Dynasty, he was in Kunshan. Some gold and silver were buried in the ancestral hall.”
Wang Shimao opened his mouth wide after hearing this. Hear his brother continue: "Later, our great-grandfather Shang Yin Gong and my uncle were both promoted to Jinshi in Chenghua, and they were both prominent officials. They buried more according to the ancestors' orders."
When it comes to our generation, I have already prepared three hundred taels of gold, and I plan to discuss it with you during the Chinese New Year this year and bury more, but I don’t want to cause such a disaster to my family! "After saying that, he raised his hand to hit himself again, but Wang Shimao stopped him crying.
Wang Shizhen sighed: "Now that the verdict has been handed down, tomorrow our brothers will take people to the ancestral hall to dig out all the ancestral remains. According to what my father recorded, there should be two urns of red gold, totaling 600 taels, and six urns of silver, totaling 3,000 taels." .”
"The two of us are not separated. I plan to keep all the gold and silver in the public house. Wait until things calm down in two years, and then quietly buy some land. In this way, the blood and food of our ancestors can be guaranteed, and we cannot become unfilial descendants. - - Take out one thousand taels of this silver and give five flowers to the exiled brother."
Wang Shimao was stunned when he heard these words. He covered his mouth and cried: "Brother, now we can see that our ancestors have foresight and long-term thinking - otherwise, how can our family ever recover!"
Wang Shizhen sighed after hearing this: "Now that our family's reputation has fallen, there is no hope of recovery for the next two or three generations of our family. We can only cultivate and study, build bridges and roads, and reshape our family name for the future."
After saying that, he straightened up and said with determination on his face: "The emperor will definitely get married within three years. At that time, the world will be amnesty, and these descendants may be able to come back. You and I, brothers, have endured the humiliation for the past two years, so pick up this burden!" "
Wang Shimao's face turned white and red after hearing this. Wang Shizhen saw it and asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"
After hearing this, Wang Shimao said: "Brother, if we want the amnesty brothers Shiqi and others to come back smoothly, I'm afraid the two of us have to do something."
Seeing the doubtful look on Wang Shizhen's face, he took out an envelope from his arms, pulled out the envelope and said hesitantly: "This is the invitation letter from the Nanjing Newspaper - please write to the newspaper from me and you." There are no restrictions on the style or content of the two manuscripts, as long as we publish them, mine has been finished.”
Wang Shizhen's face turned livid after hearing this. When he took the letter and read it, he saw that it read: "Brother Fengzhou Junjian: '...Brother's writing is dazzling. His grand essays and great arguments follow the Qin and Han dynasties, and his rich and colorful poems Dharma flourished in the Tang Dynasty. He learned from many schools of thought and was a master of craftsmanship. He was the leader in the literary world and said that he was honest and open to the public. There is no need to elaborate...'"
"However, it is better to be alone than to be happy to have everyone. I have become the proprietor of Huang Ming Nanjing Daily. Now I am sending a letter to the public, hoping to share with the public the chapter about the rich fields and fresh flowers. In less than ten days, everyone in the south of the Yangtze River will know that the public is talented... ....With publicity and fairness, we will not lose the hope of the government and the public."
"I would like to ask Brother Fengzhou to give you two poems and essays. I will hold them high and regard them as my own example. If they are not suitable for the times, I will cut them up and publish them in detail. It will still be fair and careless."
"I pay my respects to my foolish brother Feng Bangning."
Wang Shizhen looked at it and finally spat out a mouthful of old blood that had accumulated for many days. He yelled angrily and cursed: "You are a man who wins through clever tricks, a man who is obsessed with profit, you have gone too far to bully me!"
Of course Feng Bangning's letter of invitation was not written by him. The pili Yangqiu mentioned in the letter, which seemed to be a compliment but was actually a criticism, was specifically used by Feng Bao to annoy Wang Shizhen, in order to break the bones that he was most proud of and change the position of the leader of the literary world who had grown crooked.
The letter superficially praises Wang Shizhen for his well-written article, but words such as "splendid and dazzling, rich in field fresh flowers" are all high-grade black, meaning they look good but are actually empty.
Especially in the last paragraph, Feng Bao first said in Feng Bangning's tone that after Wang Shizhen's manuscript arrived at the newspaper office, he would "take a high view and follow his example." Then he changed his mind and said that if there are any inappropriate words, I will re-edit them and correct them before sending them to you.
Such words can make people live out of the coffin, Feng Bangning is not at that level. But this letter cannot let Li Zhi take the blame. Although Li Zhi looks down on Wang Shizhen, as literary people, everyone saves face for each other. If this letter is read by Wang Shizhen to other people in the literary world, Li Zhi will basically have no friendship with the literary world. .
As for the profit-seeking businessmen, it doesn't matter. In Feng Bao's view, in order to complete the task of unifying people's hearts assigned by the emperor, his nephew Feng Bangning and his own face can be ignored.
It can be seen from this that Zhu Yijun arranged for Feng Baoqian to unify people's hearts and indeed used them in accordance with his aptitude. This dirty work requires great talent with extremely high vision, and such talents basically have no shame. In Zhu Yijun's mind, Feng Bao, the former internal minister, has a lower position than Wang Guoguang, but he is definitely in the position. Above the fourth dimension.
Throughout the entire invitation letter, the sentence that best reflects Feng Bao's level and vicious heart is this sentence: "Being public-minded, we will not lose the hope of the government and the public."
What is the hope of government and opposition? The newspaper is for the public to read, what does it have to do with the court? But everyone in the world knows that behind this newspaper, there must be the emperor, Zhang Juzheng, or both of them!
Therefore, the main purpose of this letter is to threaten Wang Shizhen: "You have disappointed the court (emperor) once, now hand in your vote and express your stance!"
As the leader of the literary world, Wang Shizhen's influence in Shilin was immense. If this letter is published by him, it may disrupt Feng Bao's plan. But Feng Bao concluded that Wang Shizhen would never dare, because his eldest son and four nephews were now in the hands of the court.
Why was the verdict reached in Taicang yesterday, and why did Brother Wang Shizhen receive the letter today? The meaning is all outside the letter.
Wang Shimao saw his brother's face as angry as gold paper, and his hands trembled. Finally, he couldn't help but cry loudly: "Brother, you and I should change our ways. With Xu Jie's ability, we have handed in the certificate of surrender, what room for struggle do you and I have? From now on, only the imperial court will follow suit, and the Wang family can no longer afford to lose their family. It’s a matter of fact!”
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