Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 538
The Longevity Festival in Hongwu's tenth year was particularly grand.First, it has been more than ten years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The world is peaceful, foreign affairs are peaceful, and people's families have plenty of food, unlike the precarious days of the Yuan Dynasty. Second, the Ming Dynasty has abundant money, and the tax department oversees commercial taxes. Every year, the commercial tax office The collection has gradually reached a point where nearly half of the grain tax has been collected.Moreover, the officials should be clear in their administration, all officials should be united, and the officials would encourage your majesty to chant, so that they can relax some of the prohibitions and have fun with the people; third, the great power of tomorrow will spread far and wide, and so far, many foreign vassals are vying to rely on it.Since there are foreign vassals here, it is natural not to be too frugal. Organizing a grand Wanshou Festival is also to let the foreign vassals know that our Ming Dynasty is strong.

Autumn is getting stronger in October, and the sky is filled with yellow leaves.In the market place, there are colorful lanterns, which drive away the desolate feeling in the autumn without a trace.On this day of universal congratulations, the Qinhuai River, which is already bustling on weekdays, is even more crowded today. There are countless theater troupes and storytelling stalls on the river bank alone.

But today, something strange is that not many of these opera troupes are singing the most popular dramas such as "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" on weekdays, but most of them are singing new operas.

"Yungong, it's almost time. It's time to go back home and get ready." Li Jinglong, dressed in a sexy moon-white robe, looked at the new opera being sung on the stage with a bored look on his face.This play tells the story of a family in the Han Dynasty. It tells the story of a high-ranking lady who originally had a happy family and loving husband and wife. However, due to years of war, her husband and son were dragged out of adulthood by the court, and she died without one. Sad story.

"Singing a tragic play on the Longevity Festival...isn't someone's idea. Moreover, the repertoire and lyrics are rough and have no meaning at all."

"It's strange today. On the banks of the Qinhuai River, most of them are singing tragic operas. It's either the Anshi Rebellion or the tragic songs of the former Song Dynasty."

"It's obviously a big day, and it really adds to the trouble. If it weren't for me, I would have to go to the palace to attend the banquet. I should have upset these bird theater troupes in one fell swoop... This show is so boring, but you are still watching it with gusto?"

"It is indeed boring, the play is boring, and the plot behind it is also boring." Xu Yungong has become much more mature, with a new beard under his chin, and he looks like two or three points of Xu Da.Today, he had just returned from the shipyard, and there was still a bit of tiredness under his eyes.However, his eyes were extremely shrewd, even showing a bit of contempt.

"I'm trying to imitate others, but I don't know how to seek death..."

"What did you say?" Li Jinglong tugged at him again. "Is it possible that the tinkering with the Nalaoshizi treasure ship in the shipyard has made everyone stupid?"

"Come on, hurry up, your Xu family is here to celebrate your birthday today. How could we miss the time... Are you ready for the holiday celebrations?"

"Of course." Xu Yungong withdrew his gaze. "It's rare for His Majesty to be willing to live a long life, so our Xu family will naturally prepare a big gift for His Majesty...I heard that your family prepared a coral tree for His Majesty? As a wise king, I'm afraid you won't like such extravagance. thing."

"What do you know? What is the relationship between my family and His Majesty? The Lao Shizi coral tree is just a cover-up. You can't even guess the real etiquette. By the way, I heard that His Highness the Crown Prince gave birth to a second son, named Yunxi. It sounds like he is related to Your names are similar..."

The two of them talked and left with their entourage.It doesn’t matter if you don’t watch the tricks of these troupes. They use storytelling and drama to manipulate the current situation. This method has been witnessed a few years ago.

I was originally thinking about when those people would take action, but now it seems that it will be today.

I think the palace is the main stage today.

In the Imperial College, Song Lian and Liu Bowen also took care of things.Taking advantage of the gap between the coachman and the coachman, the two were sitting together to discuss.

"Everyone in the market performs new plays written by literati from the old school. They either talk about the militancy of the Han Dynasty, or the disasters caused by the feudal lords during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong. Or they sing the praises of Cheng, Zhu, Zhao and Song..."

"This method is undoubtedly imitating the method used by the Fifth Highness to restrain the public opinion of the old school... Tu Qiong Ding saw it, brother Jing Lian, it seems that Yan Shenggong is ready to take action."

"Sigh. We didn't compete with him. If it's really for the great road, why do we need to use these methods again?" Song Lian shook his head, with a strange expression on his face. "It seems that there will be a debate in front of the emperor today. But I don't know what confidence Duke Yan has to dare to do such a disastrous thing on the Longevity Festival."

"Doesn't he know that the new learning was founded by His Majesty's own son, His Majesty the Fifth Highness? Even though His Highness is not here, His Majesty is still able to let him hurt the reputation of his descendants in full view of the public?" "I think there is some other help. It's just that I have little talent and knowledge, so I can't imagine it." Liu Bowen shook his head and smiled bitterly. "In short, since His Highness is not around, you and I are the new pillars of our school. We must not be refuted in public today."

Song Lian nodded. At this time, the coachman had already hitched up the vehicle, and the two of them got into the vehicle. They happened to see Yang Shiqi and others running towards him with several new supervisors, with worries in their eyes.

"Two gentlemen, outside..."

"It's okay, let's go, let's go." Song Lian waved his hand outward. "The truth becomes clearer with more debate."

With that said, the two of them took the car and headed towards the imperial city.

Yang Shiqi watched the two old chariots and horses go away, with a look of sadness in his eyes.This turmoil started because of him, Meng Lang, but the two teachers had to bear it.This made him feel very uncomfortable, and he saw the menacing troupe storytellers outside. How could he not know that the enemies he faced this time were far more than he expected?

These remnants of the old school, the teachers could have slowly peeled them off, but they were united again because of their own words of "reviving hundreds of schools of thought".

There is even a tendency of resurgence.

This is all his own fault, and now he has no room to interfere.

"Brother Yang?" a classmate called.

"It's okay, I don't mind..." Yang Shiqi came back to his senses and gave this classmate a smile, but the feeling of powerlessness in his heart was even worse.I heard my classmates verbally criticizing the opera troupes, "Those people have gone too far. They actually set up the opera stall in front of the Imperial College... Since the Confucius family is rich, is it going to use money to bribe the world? Everyone on the left and right is planning to use money to bribe the world. It’s the people’s fat and people’s anointing collected over thousands of years…”

"Hush, be quiet. After all, the Kong family is the descendant of a saint. We can't speak nonsense... Alas, it is a good thing for Lord Jijiu to reaffirm the saint's words. But if the Kong family does not recognize Lord Jijiu's interpretation, then what? It’s really difficult.”

"After all, we are our ancestors. If we don't even recognize the Kong family, how will our new school convince the public in the future?"

"They are still making a big show outside like that...don't they just want to deny that my pioneering new learning is Confucianism, and then throw my new learning into dust..."

"But I can't revive a hundred schools of thought and stand on my own...sigh."

"Nothing, today's world is wise after all..."

"Hey, what are you doing here with your heads down?" A voice suddenly came. Yang Shiqi and others were stunned and turned around in shock.

But I saw a young man standing there with a candied haws in his hand...

(End of this chapter)