Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 1075 Keep your word

  ""Quiet Night Thoughts"" Meng Chong knelt on the ground in response to the order, and began to read Zhu Pingan's revised "Quiet Night Thoughts" aloud from the title.

  Emperor Jiajing sat on the lawn and focused on petting the cat. He was so focused on pleasing the cat owner that he didn't pay any attention to it. He seemed to just regard Meng Chong's reading as the background music for petting the cat.

   "The moon is shining brightly in front of the bed, it is suspected to be frost on the ground." Meng Chonglang read out Zhu Ping'an's revised first two sentences.

   Emperor Jiajing, who was devoted to stroking the cat, stopped stroking the cat involuntarily after hearing these two sentences read by Meng Chong.

  The tabby fat cat grunted in a low voice, and rubbed its head against Emperor Jiajing's hand twice, urging Emperor Jiajing to continue.

   "Raise your head to look at the bright moon, and lower your head to think about your hometown." Meng Chong then read the last two sentences aloud.

   After hearing this, Emperor Jiajing involuntarily closed his eyes, as if feeling touched, he completely forgot to pet the cat.

  In Emperor Jiajing's mind, the bricks and tiles of the Luzhouxing Palace began to slowly emerge, and the scenes and scenes of his previous life experience also began to flash in his mind.

   "Meow~"

  Seeing Emperor Jiajing neglecting him, the tabby fat cat meowed in dissatisfaction, and kept rubbing his head against Emperor Jiajing's hand.

"Hehe, my dragon and tiger generals are jealous." Emperor Jiajing came back to his senses and smiled, and lightly touched the head of the tiger-spotted fat cat to tease him, "If there is a chance someday, I will take the dragon and tiger generals. The general will go to my hometown Luzhou Xing Wang Mansion for a walk, it is not as big as here, but there is a rockery with many caves, the general will definitely like it."

  Meng Chong, who was kneeling on the ground with his head bowed and waiting for the order, heard the words of Emperor Jiajing, and his heart was ups and downs. It was because the Holy Majesty listened to "Thoughts in a Quiet Night" revised by Master Xiao Zhu.

   "Copy several copies, pass them to Wuyi Hall, comment objectively, and report to me."

   After teasing the fat tabby cat for a while, Emperor Jiajing lightly gave instructions to Meng Chong who was kneeling and waiting for orders.

   "The slave obeys the order."

  Meng Chong touched his head to the ground, led the order to get up, lowered his head and walked backwards.

   Soon, Meng Chong copied several copies of "Quiet Night Thoughts" and sent them to Wuyi Hall for comments from all the ministers.

   "Huh? It turned out to be a rewrite of "Quiet Night Thoughts" by poet Li Taibai. Dare I ask Eunuch Meng, who wrote this "Quiet Night Thoughts"?"

  Before starting to comment, a minister asked Meng Chong, who made this revised version of "Quiet Night Thoughts".

   "This "Quiet Night Thoughts" comes from."

Meng Chong was about to tell the ministers that this "Quiet Night Thoughts" was written by Zhu Ping'an, but just as he opened his mouth, he suddenly thought of the "objective evaluation" ordered by Emperor Jiajing. I know that the author is Master Xiao Zhu, wouldn't it be easy to be subjective when commenting on Master Xiao Zhu?

  It is better to do less than to do more. If you do more, you will make more mistakes. If you do less, you will make fewer mistakes. If you don’t do it, you will be good.

  Miscellaneous households can't do miscellaneous errands with the Holy One.

  Thinking of this, Meng Chong closed his mouth, hehe smiled, and said to the ministers in charge: "Hehe, my lords, please let the miscellaneous family play tricks, and the miscellaneous family will tell your lords after your lords have finished their comments."

  Although I don't know who the author is, I know that Emperor Jiajing asked them to comment on this "Quiet Night Thoughts". Based on this point, when the ministers commented, most of them used the language of praise.

"Well, you actually rewrote Shixian's "Thoughts at a Quiet Night"? What a bold artist, the first sentence 'look at the moonlight in front of the bed' was rewritten as 'bright moonlight in front of the bed', which makes it even more catchy to read. "You valued minister can't wait to comment like this.

"More than that, after reading it carefully, it makes sense to remove the word 'look'. The previous version was 'look at the moonlight in front of the bed', the moonlight is invisible, it is not good to 'look', and if you go If you look at it, it is not easy to mistake "moonlight" for "suspicious frost on the ground". Instead of "moonlight in front of the bed", it is "moonlight" inadvertently caught in the eyes, leading to the next sentence of "suspicious" It's frost on the ground', it feels much more natural when you read it, and it can be said to be natural." Yuan Wei has always been enthusiastic about this kind of thing, and he can show his strengths, so he took the words of the previous minister and went a step further. Interpretation, digging into the considerations behind changing the words, and singing praises for the revised version, "Especially the change of 'raise your head' to 'raise your head' is the finishing touch of this poem. Looking up always gives people a relaxed feeling." , and the head looks heavy, which can highlight the weight of homesickness."

"Of course, what Mr. Yuan said is true. Strictly speaking, there are dozens of versions of "Quiet Night Thoughts" handed down, and the current popular version is only the version collected and printed by the Song Dynasty. Whether there are discrepancies or not, no one can say for sure. This revised "Quiet Night Thoughts" is more catchy and easy to understand than the Song version. "Quiet Night Thoughts" is a work of elementary school, so it is more suitable for early learning , is the Gospel of our Ming Mengtong, and should be vigorously promoted and recited.”

   All the ministers in Wuyi Palace rushed to speak, and there were endless comments praising the revised version of "Quiet Night Thoughts".

Of course, it is not without criticism, saying that this "Thoughts in a Quiet Night" is a "tampered" masterpiece of poetry, and it is suspected of "blaspheming" the masterpiece of poetry, and the original "Mountain Moon" is more literary, and the revised version "Mingyue" was much vulgar, but soon these voices were criticized, and then drowned in the human voice. Compared with the wave of praise, it was just a little ripple, and it couldn't even turn the waves.

When everyone was commenting, Meng Chong and several young eunuchs were on the sidelines recording, especially focusing on recording Yuan Wei's comments. After everyone finished commenting, Meng Chong fulfilled his promise before the comment, and the editor of "Quiet Night Thoughts"—— Zhu Pingan told everyone, and then went to report to Emperor Jiajing.

After hearing that "Quiet Night Thoughts" was written by Zhu Ping'an, Yuan Wei, who sang the most vigorously before, was stunned, his mouth opened as if he had swallowed a mouse, and various emotions such as discomfort, shock, and regret came one after another. If I had known that this song "Quiet Night Thoughts" was changed by Zhu Pingan, I would have sung praises to him. Pooh, I wouldn't give him a bad name. I don't have the surname Yuan Yuan. Regret green.

  Unfortunately, if there is no if, the time will be hard to turn back, and the water will be hard to recover.

  In the imperial garden, Meng Chong truthfully replied to Emperor Jiajing who was licking cats about the comments made by the ministers in Wuyi Hall.

   "Since this is the case, then I must keep my word. Are you right, my Dragon and Tiger General?"

  Emperor Jiajing raised the fat tabby cat with both hands, raised its two fat paws in the air, and said teasingly.

  (end of this chapter)