The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

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Chapter 308 The collapse of the three views of the common people in Hangzhou [3]

These bookstore owners dare to pirate Shoufu's works, so don't make a fuss, because in this era, people have no sense of copyright at all.Often a novel has not yet been officially published, and pirated copies have spread all over the sky through word of mouth.Even many official book printing workshops are themselves part-time piracy dens.

That's why all kinds of novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties spread wildly all over the world, but the authors were so hungry that they rushed to the street.Cao Xueqin’s novels are super platinum, and he wrote "A Dream of Red Mansions", but he can't even support his wife and children, and the whole family eats porridge, which is a tragedy.

Overnight, two books, "On Sea Power" - Seeing the World with Open Eyes and "The Mystery of Longevity", suddenly appeared in bookstores in Hangzhou, which sparked a heated discussion in Hangzhou.

Taking advantage of the popularity of Yan Song's topic in the victims' rebellion, heated discussions began in teahouses, bathhouses and other places.

Hangzhou is already rich and prosperous, and the folk customs are civilized. If you have nothing to do, there are three things a day. The so-called "bag water in the morning, water bag~pi at noon, and bag~p_i in the evening."

The meaning of this is that Hangzhou people like to have morning tea in the morning, take a bath at noon, and at night, ahem, understand it by yourself.

In short, in teahouses, bathhouses, and even brothels, young and old men in Hangzhou began to discuss Yan Song's "Theory of Sea Power" while drinking tea and eating soup dumplings, steaming hot baths, and discussing Yan Song's "On Sea Power". Fashion.

In a high-end bathhouse in Hangzhou, the water is dense.

A few rich bosses and landlords chatted and farted together, bragging and pretending to be aggressive.

But unlike in the past when they boasted about the skinny horse or the famous Qinhuai courtesan last night, this time it was actually a book.

"Boss Zhao, have you read the popular "On Sea Power" recently?" A landlord asked a banker while he was enjoying the bath of his servants behind him.

"Haiquan Wheel? What is that?" Qian Zhuang boss Zhao looked confused.

"You don't even know this?" A pawnbroker looked disgusted and contemptuous: "It's useless to read all the poems and books if you don't read "On Sea Power."

"That's right. This "On Sea Power" is amazing~bao, it actually says that our Ming Dynasty is not the most powerful? Nor is it the central country in the legend of our ancestors?"

"Fart!" Boss Zhao of Qianzhuang had a look of disbelief: "I am a majestic China, a vast country, and all nations come to court. Is it not the central country, or what?"

"Don't you believe it?" The pawnshop shopkeeper curled his lips and said, "In the "On Sea Power", Mr. Yan Ge clearly wrote that there are countries like Spain and Portugal~Taoya in the world. A small country, because it has built a powerful navy and mastered the sea power, it has actually controlled a huge colony in one leap, which is bigger than my Ming Dynasty!"

"What? Colony?" Shopkeeper Zhao heard a new term again: "What is that?"

"That's right. A colony is a land with no owner, or only a land with backward natives." The pawnshop shopkeeper made a learned appearance, shaking his head and selling what he learned: "According to "Sea Power", there are still many big and big lands in this world. ~~Pieces of unowned or backward land, especially across the ocean, there is a piece of land that is several times larger than Ming Dynasty. The ground is full of gold and silver, so rich that it makes people drool."

"What? On the other side there is actually a big ~pian land full of gold?" The pawnshop shopkeeper's eyes lit up, and his eyes turned into greedy ~lan money eyes.

As long as money is mentioned, these businessmen and local rich people will fall into the eyes of money.

This is exactly what Yan Song's "On Sea Power" tried to describe and emphasize.

He knows very well that if there is no motivation for profit, what motivation would the officials and gentry of Ming Dynasty have to explore the ~suo world and support long-distance voyages?

The reason why the Westerners set off the era of great voyages and spent hundreds of years, tirelessly, and traveled thousands of miles to find the routes to China and India was not because they read a book of Marco Polo's "Journey to the East" and remembered the old horse's words full of inflammatory words.

"This is a land full of gold and incomparably rich!"

These Westerners, if they hadn't read this book, their blood boiled with enthusiasm and their veins were surging, how could they scream, throw their lives into the vast sea regardless of their lives?

It is no exaggeration to say that the West was able to colonize the world, thanks to Marco Polo.

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In short, these two "On Sea Power", due to the description of topics such as gold, wealth and immortality, quickly caused an uproar in the southeast~bo, and countless scholars, gentry, businessmen, and officials rushed to read it first this book.

Even some Taoists and disciples of sages dismissed "On Sea Power" when they heard about it, and sneered that it was a theory of profit and heresy, which harmed the country and the people, so they had to take a copy and read it first before criticizing it.

"Sea Power Theory" became popular in Hangzhou. Some people praised it, some scolded it, some people supported it, and some people denounced it. In short, it was a quarrel, but its influence became bigger and bigger. It soon surpassed Hangzhou and spread to Suzhou, Huzhou, Nanzhili and other places also fell into the oil pan like sparks, and the influence is still fermenting.

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All the people, after reading this book, feel that their three views have collapsed!

Daming is not the strongest!

Yan Song ignored the turmoil from the outside world and concentrated on writing a book.

On the tenth day, Chen Yuanyuan came in and rehearsed hard day and night, making this Qinhuai Bayan a little thinner, but even more glamorous and charming, with a fairy-like aura.

"Ge Lao, our [Xiaoshan Rebellion] has finished rehearsing, and we can perform for disaster relief."

Chen Yuanyuan said with a smile, but a trace of fatigue flashed in her beautiful eyes.

Yan Song distressedly asked her to rest for a day, and he went to play to invite Jiajing, and set up a disaster relief performance tomorrow.

Chen Yuanyuan then went down to rest.

Yan Song went to Jiajing.

In the past few days in Jiajing, I have been crazy in Hangzhou. It is the West Lake, the Leifeng Pagoda, and the Xixi. I have a lot of fun.

I heard that there is another good show to watch, and it is still a performance for disaster relief. Jiajing Longxin is very happy, I didn't say anything, quickly take me to play tricks!

Early the next morning, in the south of Hangzhou City, the disaster relief charity performance "Xiaoshan Rebellion" started with gongs on a temporarily expanded open-air stage.

In order to raise as much money as possible, Yan Song can be said to have racked his brains and come up with fantastic ideas.

It really reminded him of the clever methods of charity galas and fundraising dinners in later generations.

Just selling face!

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Chapter 309 The number of charity performances, grabbing the head [4]

For this performance, Yan Song first distributed invitations in the name of the first assistant, and invited almost all the wealthy people in Suzhou and Hangzhou to attend the disaster relief conference.The invitation card had Yan Song's personal signature on it, and it also said that the first assistant invited your family XXX to watch the Kunqu opera performance led by the red card Chen Yuanyuan, and we also had a disaster relief banquet together.