After broadcasting the ancient times live, I handed the system over to the state.

"And the fact is, the wheels of time keep turning forward, and new history is constantly being forged. How can anything remain unchanged? When you don't change, you will fall behind, and if you fall behind, you will be attacked, and if you are attacked, you will be swallowed up, or even your country will perish and your race will be wiped out."

Zhu Qinggu thought of the foundation laid by the martyrs of the last century for their current happy life, and felt a surge of emotion.

Her words have inspired many people.

Yes, are methods from a thousand years ago still applicable today? The Zhou Dynasty used the well-field system; is it still in use now?

So change is still necessary!

Wang Anshi's gaze was fixed on the sky. Judging from the comments on the sky earlier, his reforms had ultimately failed.

But it's not the end yet. He can use the celestial screen to see where he failed later and then make improvements.

The words "national subjugation and racial extinction" made many Song Dynasty subjects nervous. Suddenly, more people supported the reforms. However, many others still felt that Wang Anshi's reforms would cause endless harm. No matter how many facts were presented to them, they would not believe it. They only believed in the benefits they could obtain. As for the rest, what did it have to do with them?

"Returning to the topic, besides these, the most direct reason why Wang Anshi was called 'Stubborn Prime Minister' is because of what was written in 'Stories to Awaken the World': when Wang Anshi retired and returned to his hometown, he saw the dissatisfaction and resentment of the people towards the reforms, which made him very depressed. After returning home, he regretted it for many years and finally died in depression. The book says: 'Because of his stubborn nature, even Buddha and Bodhisattvas advised him not to change his mind, so everyone called him 'Stubborn Prime Minister'.'"

"It undoubtedly has a tragic element to it."

Zhu Qinggu was initially expressing his feelings, but then he changed the subject, "Ahem, Feng Menglong wrote 'Stories to Awaken the World,' so it seems that Feng Menglong really did have a deep love for the literati of the Song Dynasty."

Feng Menglong, who was called out, was speechless.

The Song Dynasty literati under the sky: "..." Who exactly is Feng Menglong? Can they really storm his door and kill him?

They felt that such deep love was worse than no love at all!

Su Shi, especially, who was deeply affected by Feng Menglong's misfortune, was also filled with helplessness, and Wang Anshi was speechless for a moment.

It is unknown who Feng Menglong's ancestors were in the Song Dynasty. Feng Menglong must have been a descendant. They could not defeat Feng Menglong, but they could defeat his ancestors first.

Even the comments section went silent for a moment when she mentioned Feng Menglong, and then started flooding with messages again.

[Old Feng, you're going to get your ancestors cursed if you keep doing this.]

[It's alright, I enjoy reading. Write more. I'll burn paper money and pray that you write more about Su Shi and Su Zhe, and... cough, will you write about the wives of the Three Kingdoms? Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and their son Sun Quan...]

[Goodness, omitting just two words is equivalent to skipping ten thousand words in a novel website.]

[Ahem, actually I'd like to see it too, please, authors, produce some content!]

The people in the Three Kingdoms era froze.

Cao Cao suddenly shook his rice bowl, splattering the entire bowl of rice onto the table. But after realizing what had happened, he quickly shoved the rice back into the bowl.

"Liu Da'er, this is outrageous! How can you put me and this Liu Da'er together?" Cao Cao was furious and felt even more disgusted.

Meanwhile, Liu Bei choked on his own saliva and coughed, thinking, "These people of later generations really know how to think."

Sun Quan was utterly disgusted. If this ancestor surnamed Feng were here, he would surely kill him!

The strange looks from the surrounding civil and military officials were quickly averted when he swept his gaze over them, and they all lowered their heads.

Meanwhile, people from other timelines were asking around if anyone wrote short essays or short stories. Those who wrote short stories quickly went into hiding, but these kinds of things were very popular in the market. So what could they do?

This has led to the emergence of many people like 'Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng' who adopt a pen name and whose whereabouts are unknown.

But there are still risks, such as having your bookstore or printing workshop shut down. But fortune favors the bold!

For a time, pairings like Su Qin (Su Shi and Qin Guan) and Cao Liu (Cao Cao and Liu Bei) flourished everywhere.

If they don't write about the scholars of their time, then they can write about the ancient times, right?

Emperor Wu of Han and Wei Qing, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu...

The joy in the live stream almost made Zhu Qinggu laugh, but he really wanted to laugh. Jia Guose, Yu Tianxiang, and Heroic Mother Cao Cheng, how about they meet?

The memories of her past began to attack her again.

Zhu Qinggu dug his toes into the table.

To escape the awkwardness, she quickly changed the subject, "My wife has already retired from the biological world. Maybe burning some paper money in the ground can urge her to update her blog."

[This reminds me of something: the government caught neutrinos, and they joked that they'd caught a ghost, then turned us into ghosts and made us work.]

[What an utterly unjust situation! So, we, this generation, are treated like cattle in life, and even in death, we're dragged back by the state to continue working?]

[Tears streaming down my face.]

Those under the canopy of the sky wondered why they couldn't recognize these characters when they were separated, but when they were put together.

Ying Zheng's eyes immediately lit up. "Is there really a way to achieve immortality in this world? Since later generations have already caught ghosts, does that mean there are also immortals who can change the world?"

Liu Che was also very interested, "I wonder if I could see what this ghost looks like?"

Even more eager to see ghosts than they were the monks and Taoist priests. They paid closer attention to the sky than ever before, hoping to communicate with Miss Zhu and have her show them the ghosts.

Zhu Di looked at the sky and murmured about ghosts. "Ten years have passed, and we are separated by life and death. Unknowingly, my wife has been gone for a very long time. If there really are ghosts in this world, and I can see them, can I see Miaoyun?"

Countless people have tried to contact Zhu Qinggu, but all their efforts have been in vain.

At this point, the system's stored energy had already jumped to 10%, meaning there was still a long time before the system could repair itself and awaken.

"Next, we're going to talk about a figure who appears in our Chinese textbooks. He is hailed as the founder of the Huajian School of Ci poetry in the Tang Dynasty and had a great influence on the development of Ci poetry. In the history of Ci poetry, he is known as 'Wen-Wei' along with Wei Zhuang and 'Wen-Li' along with Li Shangyin. He is Wen Tingyun!"

"He was a descendant of Wen Yanbo, a prime minister in the early Tang Dynasty. He came from a declining official family. He was intelligent, but because of his ugly appearance, he was nicknamed 'Wen Zhongkui'. He was also known as 'Wen Bacha' because he could compose eight rhymes by crossing his hands eight times."

"Many scholars believe that Wen Tingyun made pioneering contributions to the formation, improvement and development of the new literary form—ci (lyric poetry), which had a far-reaching influence and opened up a new era of spiritual and artistic expression for the prosperity of ci poetry in the Song Dynasty."

Such high praise fell upon Wen Tingyun, and poets and lyricists after him had a lot to say, such as his narrow selection of subjects and his feigned illness, but they also acknowledged that Wen Tingyun made an indispensable contribution to the development of lyric poetry. However, poets and lyricists before him were somewhat dissatisfied, wondering why Wen Tingyun deserved such high praise.

What is the "Huajian Ci" (花间词)?