Am I a scumbag?

In the next few days, Zhou Yi'an followed the emperor closely.

There are laws in the Xia Dynasty, and historians should "write straight books", "the so-called straight writers do not conceal evil, and do not pretend to be beautiful. Books are beneficial to praise and criticism, and not writing will not harm admonition." Destroy the jade, don't do it for Xiao Fu Ai Rong", even if the knife rests on the neck, you can't tell a lie.

But Zhou Yi'an didn't fully accept this truth.

Even those historians who are upright and "the emperor must write" will inevitably bring their own subjective praise and criticism in what they write.

Therefore, as long as the things he wrote down are basically true and can be referenced by future generations, it is good to have a clear conscience.

As for Lan Wang's repeated "not allowed to write"... At worst, he went back to the archives and secretly moved it to a small private notebook in a language he could only understand!

Of course, it is really impossible to write the short story of Chuwei Palace this day.

Who made the real life of the emperor wilder than the street novels?The phrase "kiss" from time to time is completely different from the "Your Majesty and King Lan will not live together" rumored outside the palace two years ago.

And that Prince Lan, who was widely rumored to be indifferent and dignified outside the palace... also stretched out his hand to circle the emperor's waist when he got tired every time he wrote a book, and even hugged and pecked him when he was resting and drinking tea.

The world is really a mystery.

There are so many rumors outside the palace, even the saying that "the emperor died and was hastily buried" has its nose and eyes, but why doesn't anyone say that "the emperor and King Lan were flirting in the palace"? ? ?

I can't remember flirting, and Zhou Yi'an can't remember some other conversations directly.

It is necessary to use one's own ability to conduct after-the-fact summarization and literary processing, so as to highlight the magnificence of His Majesty and King Lan's virtuous ministers.

Historian's life is not easy.

For example, on that day, the leader of the treason case was imprisoned in the heavenly prison, and the family members of the arrested ones were also imprisoned in Wuyiwei's imperial prison.The heads of the three thieves have already been executed, but it is difficult for the remaining family members to be punished.

King Lan went to interrogate the family members, and when he came back he laughed angrily.

Yan Yuliang: "Hey ~ Lanlan, before you go, you promised me not to get angry?"

King Lan: "Azhao will be angry if he goes! This gang of thieves and family members are ignorant and hopeless. It is hard to imagine that there are ex-emperors and ex-officials, wealthy businessmen from Jiangnan, and famous ladies among them! I don't know if they are sincerely wronged or pretend to be pretending. I don’t understand—many Jiangnan civilians in the rebel army were tricked into joining the army and died ignorantly. But they just wept and excused for the thief. Why, only the lives of their husbands and sons are their lives, and the lives of other people’s husbands and sons are not. ?”

【Lan Wang please forgive me, my family has only one grandson, but he will be in his thirties soon, and he may do a lot in the future.When he was young and ignorant, he made bad friends in a moment of confusion, and they were all killed by bad friends. 】

【Lan Wang, I am willing to donate ten thousand taels of gold and one thousand hectares of fertile land. 】

【Lan Wang was wronged!Husband, he just wrote a few strokes on his behalf, and he has absolutely no intention of treason? 】

Yan Yuliang: "There are still so many excuses, it can be seen that none of them have any regrets. It is not difficult to betray the country, and you can get a lot of money by using a pen to reveal the news. Learn to do this good business that makes money."

"It must be severely punished, together with the family."

"Since their happy life in the peaceful and prosperous age is not good, they will start from nothing for the rest of their lives and wake up!"

King Lan: "I will still do this, and it has nothing to do with Ah Zhao. And Ah Zhao, since he needs to be severely punished, it is better to simply..."

Emperor Jinyu: "No one knows me better than King Lan! Cough, in fact, I also have this intention a long time ago, let's give them a good vote!"

The two looked at each other, tacit understanding.

The sun is shining brightly outside the window, and the domineering emperor Qiao Lan in the house is difficult only for historians.

"..."

Zhou Yi'an: I can't solve this charade.

What are you voting for?He only felt that at that moment the emperor was gearing up to fight like a bandit who was about to rob his house.Even a cold and noble person like King Lan was almost taken down.

……

Two days later, a combo.

First, Dali Temple Minister Xi Xingjian was ordered to write an eloquent "Wen Xie Xiao Zhuan".

Mr. Xi is an Enke Jinshi in the second year of Jinyu, and he is famous for his poisonous tongue.The arrangement of the traitor's family background is not only bitter and sharp, citing scriptures, but also full of inexplicable jokes. The writing style is far higher than Zhang Shixian's letter to the King of Lan.There was a fire all of a sudden, and everyone rushed to read the biography, and the paper in the capital was expensive.

After Xi Xingjian finished writing the first letter, he quickly wrote the second and third letters.Not to mention being assembled into a volume and printed and published, the portrait of Xi Qing is also attached to the purchase of the book.It was a hit.Every day reprints are sold out, hard to find in the whole city.

At that time, everyone had a copy of "The Story of Wen Woxiao", and they would discuss it when they met.

"Tsk tsk tsk, I didn't expect that although this poem is good, its character is hard to describe. I felt sorry for his wife and children crying at the vegetable market last time. It seems that it is purely self-inflicted."

"Master Xi's writing makes sense. This bandit leader deceives the public with his evil words and ruins the lives of countless ordinary people in the south of the Yangtze River!"

"I used to admire Zhang Shixian's literary talents, but now that the evidence is convincing, I can only sigh. No matter how good the poems are, colluding with foreigners is really...a century-old Yanyun's shame!"

However, there are still some people who continue to sympathize with the thief leader, thinking that it is a pity to kill the talented literati after all.But soon they didn't dare to talk nonsense - I heard that the homes of the three thieves were all ransacked, two of them were stripped of all their official positions and salaries and demoted to common people, and the other was directly confiscated because of their disrespectful words to King Lan. as a slave.

At this point, the people in the capital finally remembered the fear of being ruled by King Lan and Wu Yiwei's severe punishment.

What are you talking about?Misfortune comes out of your mouth!Instead of sympathizing with the thieves, it is better to quickly stare at the friends and family around you - Daxia Jinyu Nian has a lenient law, and most of them are "one person does one thing, one person is responsible". It has been many years since anyone has committed a crime and brought harm to his family.

But collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country will implicate the whole family!

For a time, everyone in the capital was in danger, and even the cases of stealing and stealing dropped sharply that month, but Dali Temple received a lot of reports.Old man Li on the East Street thought that Luo Ergou, who sold sesame seed cakes on the West Street, was doing something sneaky, and Aunt Zhang from the South Gate thought there was something wrong with the son-in-law of Wang Dashen next door.

The Dali Temple sent people to check one by one, and they actually followed the vines to find out several spies lurking in Daxia.

Xi Xingjian: Here, unintentionally planting willows and willows? ? ?

For the meritorious work of the pickets, everyone in Dali Temple has been rewarded and rewarded. Everyone is happy, only Mr. Xi looks down!

As for his "Wen Xie Xiao Zhuan", it was written by the emperor's order, because the emperor said that he was good at swearing.

Who would have thought it would sell so well?With such a sales volume, I am afraid that in the future, he will not become famous all over the world as the number one scholar and the minister of Dali Temple, but will go down in history as the "Great Xia Literary Master".

At that time, the number one sales volume will be Xi Xingjian, and the second sales volume will be "Zaozhuang Yingyingsheng", the author of the famous romantic novel, but what can we do?

Not to mention that I heard that half of the selling point of the short story book is his various portraits? ? ?

It is all kinds, kinds, paintings, and images.Emperor Jinyu forced him, and he had to obey!

It is said that there is no business without fraud, but in Xi Xingjian's view, the emperor is really the number one profiteer in Daxia - not only did he send a portrait of him, but he also sent a court painter.As a loyal reader of street novels for many years, Emperor Jinyu knew very well that the common people didn't like to see the things drawn by court painters, but the gorgeous and gaudy style of the painters dedicated to novels can be loved by everyone!

Sometimes, Xu Qing was forced to be painted with him.

Different batches of small story books come with different portraits, some of which are so rare that there are still many idlers in the capital who would buy hundreds or even thousands of portraits in order to collect a complete set of portraits.

A small novel is not expensive, only ten copper coins.Two of them were ink costs, two were assigned to Xi Xingjian, two were assigned to bookstores, and four were assigned to the emperor's treasury.Xi Xingjian didn't want his share either, so [-]% went to the state treasury.

A lot of them were sold, and they brought in a lot of money to the national treasury every day.

The first three thieves over there also started ransacking their homes.

It is not in vain that the rich people in the south of the Yangtze River have earned their reputation.Yan Yuliang was also dumbfounded after receiving the list of properties presented by the officials: "This, really deserves to be so rich after being rewarded by the Emperor Wu as a famous official in the feudal city?"

He and King Lan conspired to "give them a vote" because they heard that the thief's family claimed to have "ten thousand taels of gold and a thousand hectares of fertile land". Used to replenish the treasury.

If you rob it, you will rob it, why don't you accept collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country?The national treasury is too poor, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat.

As a result, a lot of money!

Yan Yuliang remembered that in the history books, he saw in the history books that there were huge corrupt officials in the previous dynasty who were confiscated by the censors. The money was enough to fill the treasury for five years. Now that he saw this list, he had to believe it. Although these three people were not as rich as the corrupt officials in the previous dynasty, they This time, the national treasury will be copied for half a year, so don't worry!

In addition, Xi Qing's new book is famous all over the world, and it has been loaded from the capital to various places.Although the money from selling books is not comparable to the proceeds from confiscation of homes, Xi Xingjian's book has a miraculous effect, that is, wherever it is sold, it will trigger people to report alien spies, making them unprepared.

So, selling books, catching spies, and then following the vines to find a new wave of rebels, and then copying a new wave of houses.

The chicken lays the egg and the egg lays the chicken.

Yan Yuliang has thought of countless ways to fill the national treasury these days, but none of them have found the quick and good way to seize the rebels.In this way, even if there is a real change in Beimo, this Ku Yin is worthwhile for the time being.

It feels good to be rich.

Zhou Yi'an: The traitors in Jiangxia colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country, and they were punished with great joy, and the common people reported the details one after another. The success of "Wen Bei Xiao Biography" has nothing to do with Xi Qing's portrait, and the emperor never said "give him a vote", and he is working hard on literary processing.

……

In the same month, Jiang Xia.

The little girl Yingniang is only seven years old, and she lost her mother since she was a child.Live with grandparents.A while ago, my grandma was sick, and someone said that she would give ten taels of silver to enlist her father as a soldier, and my father agreed to relieve the urgent need.

Later, somehow, it became a capital crime of treason.

Grandma cries every day.The neighbor's mother-in-law bullied their orphans and widowed grandma for not helping them, and even tried to coax grandma to sell her to a brothel.Grandma refused, and the mother-in-law was rolling up her sleeves and yelling "I don't know what's good if I'm old", when Yingniang's father came back.

Daddy stared at her, and the mother-in-law ran away in fright.

Yingniang: "Daddy!"

She didn't believe that it was not a dream until she hugged her father.But obviously everyone said that treason is a crime of beheading, so how did father be released?

Yingniang's father didn't know how he lost his life in a daze. Anyway, everyone in the prison said that he was the emperor's kindness. When he was released, he hurriedly kowtowed to the north to thank him.But he is not all right, after all, he participated in the rebellion and was punished with five years of corvee labor.

Doing corvée is better than beheading.

What's more, I didn't know until I went there that the corvee Tian's family returned the money, not only to make a living but also to support my wife and daughter.

Working as a corvee, Yingniang's father gradually discovered that there were people who brought their families with them.The wife is responsible for cooking for everyone, and the son and daughter are actually supervised by the official wife who teaches them to read and write.

"Don't you know? This is the kindness of the emperor, and it doesn't cost money. Don't you have a mother and daughter in your family, hurry up and pick them up?"

Mother Ying quickly brought her family over.

Yingniang learned to read, read and count for the first time at the age of seven, and she studied it very seriously.

Grandma Yingniang was very happy to see that her granddaughter was smart, but she couldn't help complaining about her father: "I heard from the cooking ladies that our Daxia has a public school since the third year of Jinyu, and children can start from the age of three or five. Sending them to practice calligraphy and study, not only do you not get a penny, but you also take care of the food until you are 12 years old, why don't you say anything!"

Mother Ying was also very depressed.

It's not that he didn't say it, he didn't know there was such a good thing at all.

Grandma Yingniang: "You are stupid, I heard that the public school still eats meat every now and then!"

Yingniang's father was really confused, anyway, he conspired against him without knowing anything, and was forced into labor without knowing anything.The content of the corvee is to dig river channels all day long, and I don’t know what to dig in a good river channel without silt.

I don't understand, forget it.

If the government asked him to dig, he would dig.

The people together said in a straight line: "This is what the Ministry of Industry asked to do, not to clean up the silt, but our Jiangxia Canal section is very similar to Luoshui. Here we dug the water weir that Mr. Hu tried to make. After dug, we will open it. The sluice was released."

"If it succeeds, one will be dug on Luoshui River, and the flood problem may be resolved."

"Look at the one on the high platform over there. That's Mr. Hu from the Ministry of Industry. He came all the way from the capital."

Yingniang's father took a look from a distance, only to see that the clothes were beautiful and very young.well.People who have read books are different. Look at them, they are young and promising.

"Actually, this project was going to be done before. But at that time, the court had no money, so it stopped for half a month."

"Now I have money again."

Yingniang's father couldn't understand anyway, so let him do whatever he wanted and continue digging.