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

Chapter 207
"Why are you worshiping again? You don't need to be too polite, you don't need to be too polite..." Zhu Su quickly helped Luo Guanzhong up.The great writer who wrote the Three Kingdoms was dressed in rags, and his performance was too humble. Thinking about it, he must have been beaten by reality a lot.While Zhu Su was somewhat disillusioned, he couldn't help feeling a little pity for him.

Wang Qi, a later generation, said in the book "Compilation of Barnyard History" that Luo Guanzhong "aspired to become a king" in his early years.Although not necessarily the "Picture King", Luo Guanzhong must have had great ambitions when he was young. Therefore, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he devoted himself to serving as an assistant under Zhang Shicheng's curtain, and once helped Zhang Shicheng defeat Lao Zhu's subordinate Kang Maocai. attack.

But soon, Luo Guanzhong saw Zhang Shicheng's nature of being comfortable and seeking pleasure for a while, and left in disappointment.Later, Zhang Shicheng was defeated and died, and Luo Guanzhong also escaped because of his early vision, but also because of his experience of working under Zhang Shicheng's curtain in his early years, he could only live a depressed life in the new dynasty of Ming Dynasty .

Now he has long since lost the ambitions of his early years, and he has only devoted himself to the creation and development of novels and dramas.The "Water Margin" written by the former teacher Shi Naian is a heartache in his heart, but because it involves such a sensitive topic as rebellion, and it is a manuscript in the hands of him, an aide of King Chengcheng, how can any bookstore be willing to publish it?
Luo Guanzhong had no choice but to stick to his predecessor's "Water Margin" while creating his own "Three Kingdoms", hoping to meet Bole who was capable of helping him spread the two works to the world.

Later, I was surprised to hear that a prince in Beijing got the manuscript of "Three Kingdoms" from nowhere, and even continued to write it and then published it. Now it has become popular in the south of the Ming Dynasty. After reading it, Luo Guanzhong bought a copy and was shocked. While drawing Zhu Su as a confidant in his heart, he couldn't help thinking that "this His Highness may also like "Water Margin"".

That's why he tried his best, and finally won the appreciation of Wei Guan, the prefect of Suzhou, and led him to meet Zhu Su together.

Until today, before he finished his words, His Royal Highness heard the string song and knew the elegant meaning, and directly arranged the matter of Water Margin.

His and Shi Shi's two generations of sad wishes were fulfilled by this young Highness, how could it not be shaken in his heart?

Thinking of this, Luo Guanzhong's eyes filled with tears again, and he opened his mouth and said: "Your Highness is willing to open eyes for my teacher. I am really grateful. But it is absolutely impossible to benefit from the manuscript. Your Highness is willing to publish me and my teacher. , how can you collect gold and silver again?"

"You don't need to say more about this matter." Zhu Su had expected that he would say so, so he interrupted: "If my guess is correct, Mr. Luo should take the responsibility of spreading novels and dramas."

"Since this is the case, in order for my novels and dramas of the Ming Dynasty to flourish, you have to collect these gold and silver even more."

"Haven't you heard the story about Zigong redeeming people and Zilu receiving cattle?"

"Not only the profits from "Water Margin" in the future, but also some of the profits from "Three Kingdoms" before. Second Uncle Shen, I will leave this matter to you." Zhu Su ordered, and Shen Wang hurriedly bowed over there. should be.

Zigong redeeming people and Zilu receiving cattle are both from "Lushi Chunqiu", which talks about Confucius' disciple Zigong who redeemed people for the country but refused to receive rewards. Confucius believed that "from now on, Lu people have not redeemed people. ", saying that he thinks that not accepting rewards is a high-spirited, but in fact it discourages other people's enthusiasm for redeeming people for the country.

Zilu, another disciple of Confucius, saved a drowning man. The man thanked him and gave him a cow.Zilu accepted it.So Confucius praised Zilu happily: "In this way, more people will be willing to bravely rescue those who fell into the water!"

Zhu Su used this allusion as a wake-up call, and Luo Guanzhong understood Zhu Su's meaning in a daze. He wanted him to leave a way for the later novelists and Zaqu writers to support their families. Only more people can make a living by this way. , Ming Dynasty novels and the like can truly flourish.He had no choice but to bow his hands with Hao Ran's face: "In this way, I will be ashamed to learn at the end of my studies."

"It's just that His Highness is so kind, there is no way to repay it..."

"In that case, would you like to come under my curtain and be a guest?" Seeing that the heat was almost ready, Zhu Su opened his mouth to reveal his real purpose.

"Your Highness...want to recruit me?" Luo Guanzhong was stunned. "Your Highness may not know that Moxue is a person who treats crimes, and was once under Zhang Shicheng's command."

"If His Majesty or the Crown Prince find out, maybe they will become suspicious..."

"It's okay, it's okay." Zhu Su waved his hand. "Our old Zhu's family actually didn't have so many bad things. It's just a guest who usually discusses with you, so there's nothing suspicious about it."

If he was suspicious, he already had a suspicious monk who possessed dragon-slaying skills and even ran to fan horses as a guest. Wouldn't he be a hundred times more suspicious than this hunchbacked Luo Guanzhong?
"Besides, my king is still young, and I don't have any specific affairs to be my guest, that is, I usually ghostwrite for me, write some stories and so on..." Before I wrote the Three Kingdoms Huanghuang Wanyan, I was almost boiled down. bald.If you accept a contemporary writer like Lao Luo, and run a newspaper or magazine to manipulate public opinion in the future, wouldn't that be easy?

He even needs to tell him the general plot, and he can write "Shooting the Condors" and "Shuo Yue" by himself.The bonus of writing in this era is still extremely rich. After all, the field of public opinion is still a desert ignored by the mainstream, and there is really a lot to do in it.

"Since this is the case, Mo Xue'an dares to refuse, His Highness loves you so much!" Luo Guanzhong wiped away his old tears again, and bowed deeply to Zhu Su. "This crippled body will be driven by His Highness in the future!"

"That's not necessary." Zhu Su smiled. "You will know in the future that I am most impatient with these messy etiquettes. It doesn't need to be called a low school, in the future you and I will just get along!"

Luo Guanzhong bowed and changed his name to "I", but he still addressed Zhu Su as "His Royal Highness".Over there, Shen Wang also cupped his hands to congratulate the two.

The scene was full of joy, when Zhu Su suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Mr. Luo, you sent someone to tell you that you have something to tell me. Was it about the Outlaws of the Marsh?"

"Don't dare to lie to Your Highness." Luo Guanzhong said. "But there is a word to tell. It was originally intended to attract His Highness's curiosity, so as to create a purpose for "Water Margin."

"Now there is nothing to hide. Your Highness, do you still remember the 'three difficult things' that Wei Zhifu said just now?"

"What do you mean by 'flood disaster', 'popular sentiment', and 'bandit disaster'..." Zhu Su said. "These three difficult things, so what?"

"Your Highness has a good memory." Luo Guanzhong cupped his hands. "Among these three, the most serious one is actually the third 'bandit disaster'..."

Zhu Su nodded, and the other two incidents happened in the Ming Dynasty in history, but in Suzhou in history, it was safe and sound.

But the Taihu water bandit who dared to coerce victims, kill officials and intercept taxes, and even deliberately spread rumors of gods and gods, did not exist in the annals of history!

Hearing that the two of them were going to talk about important family and country affairs, Shen Wang resigned in a sensible way.

"I may know the reason why those Taihu water bandits appear and disappear like ghosts." Luo Guanzhong continued.

"Huh?" Zhu Su couldn't help but feel refreshed.Suzhou Wei raised his troops to suppress Taihu Lake but found no one. If this mystery is not a false report, it is indeed a bit confusing.So he sat up straight and asked, "Tell me, where did those water bandits come from?"

"Water bandits definitely exist, and they are not ghosts and gods as the rumors say. Anyone who does not see the enemy's situation is nothing but difficult to know." Luo Guanzhong said.

Zhu Su knew that these four characters came from the "Military Struggle Chapter" in "Sun Tzu's Art of War".When Luo Guanzhong talked about the art of war, his eyes shone brightly.

"I can't find anyone. One is the movement of the army, which was already detected by those bandits, so they moved their base early."

"The second is... those so-called Taihu water bandits are actually under the nose of the army."

"You mean..." Zhu Su stroked his chin thoughtfully.

"Suzhou Wei looked in the wrong direction at the beginning. Those Taihu water bandits are not actually entrenched in Taihu Lake at all."

"It's the people and the bandits, it's indistinguishable. Going ashore as a citizen, going to the lake as a bandit?"

"Your Highness is wise!" Luo Guanzhong bowed and praised.

(End of this chapter)