Chapter 30

Master Zhou, as a powerful official of the six grades, let alone a mere boy to ask him for a preface. Even if a scholar publishes a book, he will not write a preface, but Fang Yun is different. In case it is widely spread, his preface maker will follow.

"Let me see first."

Fang Yun handed the manuscript paper written these days to master Zhou.

When Zhou looked at the master's book, he was surprised and asked, "I heard that you almost lost your double armour because of your poor handwriting, but although your word is slightly immature, it's not bad. The structure and font have everyone's style. If you insist on practicing for a year, you won't be worse than those who have the guidance of famous experts."

"After the county test, I knew my shame and then became brave. I worked hard to practice calligraphy, so now I can write decent words." Fang Yun said.

Zhou Zhushu didn't go deep into it. He continued to read the manuscript of Fang Yun's Romance of the west chamber.

"You've improved your sentence reading? It's easier to read. It's good. The two empty spaces at the beginning of each paragraph are also very novel and easy to read. Your writing method is very suitable for lazy people and Recreation..."

Master Zhou's voice suddenly stopped and looked up at Fang Yun with strange eyes.

The new sentences delivered by the other party in master Zhou's book were not particularly concerned, and even it was easy to understand the segmented spaces. He didn't pay much attention to them, because at the level of scholar, the book can be read quickly even if there were no novel sentences, otherwise he didn't deserve to be a scholar. He raised people and didn't care whether there were sentences or not.

However, children or ordinary literate people will be particularly bothered when they read books without sentences.

Master Zhou asked seriously, "do you use this new sentence and new paragraph to popularize the novel? Is it so that people who can read can understand your book quickly without obstacles? Is your book really aimed at the common people?"

Fang Yun said, "Your Excellency is wise. I didn't expect that you are not only willing to accept this way, but also see my intention at a glance. The students admire it!"

Master Zhou smiled and said, "I'm the master of the Academy of Arts. Learning for practical use is the foundation of our Confucian students. How else can we deal with demons and barbarians? Don't treat me as a few corrupt scholars. However, your idea is feasible, but the premise is to match it with a popular and good-looking story. However, since you dare to use it, the story naturally has something extraordinary. Let me have a look."

Master Zhou began to read the romance of the West Chamber carefully. After only three pages, he raised his head, took a deep look at Fang Yun and said: "The beginning is novel, the structure is tight, and the words are beautiful. The most important thing is that the story is very smooth. There is no show of literary talent, no long speech, and people can know what to say at a glance. If the new sentence is strange, then your story is positive, the combination of positive and negative, and there is no disadvantage!"

"Thank you for your praise," Fang Yun said.

Zhou's main book continued to read. Fang Yun thought he would gradually comment on the story of the west chamber, but he never opened his mouth and kept reading it.

Fang Yun was worried at first, but when he looked carefully, he understood that master Zhou was fascinated by the book. He completely forgot that there was still a person sitting next to him who wanted to hear the evaluation, and his face changed with the plot in the book.

Fang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that the biography of YingYing and the romance of the west chamber had been popular for thousands of years and were still praised by later generations. Even master Zhou, who despised popular novels, was fascinated, indicating that the new romance of the west chamber would be accepted by hundreds of millions of readers in the wilderness of popular novels in Shengyuan mainland.

Master Zhou turned to the last page of Yingying biography. After reading it for a while, a satisfied smile appeared on his face, but there was still a trace of meaning. It seemed that he was reluctant to let a good article end.

"When I was young, I also liked to read strange novels. I thought I wouldn't be interested in such novels after the mid-term promotion, but I read the story of the west chamber." Only then can I understand how big it is. Well, if you don't write about strange things, people's hearts, temples and men and women, this is the real popular novel. Both refined and popular tastes enjoy it! If you don't let me write this preface, I'll rush to write it. Maybe in hundreds of years, the only thing I can let people know is your preface to the story of the west chamber. "

"My Lord, it's ridiculous." Fang Yun said.

"I'm afraid you wrote the romance of the west chamber with anger those days? The Liu family is too much." master Zhou looked at Fang Yun sympathetically.

"Alas..." Fang Yun didn't answer, lowered his head, afraid that he couldn't cover up enough and was found. In fact, the experience between the romance of the west chamber and Fang Yun was really hard to beat.

Master Zhou sympathized with Fang Yun more and more.

"Another one?" master Zhou asked again.

"That's right. That's my old idea. It's revised these days. Although it's not as good as the story of the west chamber, it also has some advantages. Please correct it." Fang Yun said that the literary status of the story of the west chamber is much higher than that of the story of the pillow. He only took it as an addition and didn't pay much attention to it.

Master Zhou nodded and continued to look at the book in the pillow.

Seeing the appearance of half saint, master Zhou smiled and said, "you are bold. Even half Saint dares to write."

After reading the scholar's dream of entering Jingguo, he praised: "wonderful! Wonderful!"

After reading the whole chapter of the story of the pillow, master Zhou did not immediately open his mouth, but pondered seriously, far more solemnly than after reading the story of the west chamber.

Fang Yun was surprised. Isn't it the story of a scholar waking up after a dream and giving up fame and wealth to pursue the holy way? How did master Zhou respond so much?

"Good! This article has a lofty intention and is thought-provoking! How can it be compared with the holy roads? Everyone knows this truth. There are countless classics and meanings, which have been repeated for thousands of years, or quoted classics or famous people's allusions. However, it is unprecedented that self-made novels carry forward the holy Road, take into account the story, and warn future generations with a beautiful dream! Glory is like a dream, and the holy road is true Great righteousness! This article may only be able to reach the government, but its great contribution to carrying forward the holy way must be above the town and country. This article will be spread all over the world. "

Fang Yun was confused. In order to cater to the mainstream thought of Shengyuan mainland, he changed the pillow in mind a little. How could it become "lofty and thought-provoking" in the eyes of master Zhou? "Romance of the West Chamber" is so good that it is not as good as "pillow in mind" which "carries forward the main melody" in the eyes of master Zhou? The former was written for three days, while the latter was only filled with pages in one afternoon.

Fang Yun recalled the famous novels of the Shengyuan continent. Indeed, few of them had the theme of "carrying forward the holy way". Even if they did, they mostly passed by. Their intention and story were also relatively poor. What was worse than the story of Huangliang's dream was not a few streets, but thousands of years.

Fang Yun suddenly realized that it was not how good the pillow in mind was, but that it just filled the gap in "politics, education and thought" in this era.

On the contrary, although the literary status of the romance of the west chamber is much higher than that of the romance of the pillow, it can never compare with carrying forward the holy way in the eyes of Confucianism.

Fang Yun was a little ashamed. The evaluation of "tiny words and great righteousness" was too heavy. These four words were originally the evaluation of Confucius by the great Confucianism of the Han Dynasty. Later, they generally only evaluated the saints.

Master Zhou said, "put your manuscript with me first, and I will present it to Lord yuan in person tomorrow. The holy word of next month has been determined, so this one will be the holy word of last month."

Fang Yun is helpless. Now he really doesn't want to be in the limelight. He just wants to calm down and make money wholeheartedly. How can he go to the holy way again?

"You don't think highly of this book, do you?" Fang Yun asked tentatively.

Master Zhou said solemnly, "I've read the holy word of all dynasties, and I know the value of the book in the pillow. I'm sure that within three years, there will be a semi holy society to designate this article as a required article for students of ten national arts colleges. This book in the pillow is more than ten times more important than your previous National Poetry. Novelists have been declining for hundreds of years, and the latest one appears in the holy word." His novel is the famous song Dingbo catching ghosts in the book of SouShen written by the great Confucian Gan Bao more than 200 years ago. "

Fang Yun can only be silent, but he is secretly happy to pick up a big bargain.

In the holy way, there are not only reputation awards, memorial archways, but also holy pages. The number of articles published in the holy way determines the opportunity to go to places such as the forest of sacred steles and holy towers in the future, and the highest reward is to go to Confucius' closed place or the holy meteorite place, which is not only of great significance, but also of great benefits.

This is the fundamental reason why the great scholar Qu Zhengxiang of Qingguo obstructed Fang Yun.

Master Zhou said, "wait first. I'll get Cai he's gift for you." his tone was full of envy.

Not long after, master Zhou returned with a brown paper bag in his hand and said, "the holy page inside is a gift from county magistrate CAI. Although your poems are published in the holy way, the two places are far away. The holy page belonging to you will not arrive until at least a month later."

Fang Yun quickly stood up, surprised and pleased, and said, "Lord Cai is really willing to give me holy pages? He doesn't have many of them himself?"

Master Zhou envied: "there are only two of them in total. They were sent by Wen before he came to Jixian County, or they were grinded by him from Wen Xiang. However, your manuscript of Zhenguo poetry is worth the price."

Fang Yun carefully took the kraft paper bag, opened it, and slowly pulled out a page of paper from it.

The paper itself is as white as snow, but it emits a faint orange halo, like being wrapped by orange light. Fang Yun gently stroked the paper and had a strange feel, like small waves churning between his hands and the paper.

This piece of paper has an inexplicable attraction and naturally makes Fang Yun feel close.

Zhou explains: "this is the legendary sacred page, which acts as legendary. It improves the power of simultaneous interpreting poetry. If the poetry is exquisite and talented enough, it can also turn the false into reality. The holy page is one of the most powerful forces that our race can resist, and it is also the most valuable asset left by Kong Sheng."

"How much is the annual output of holy pages?" Fang Yun asked.

"In the Ming Dynasty, the annual output is 10000. Some of them are given to the authors who publish poems and articles in the holy way, some to the living semi saints, some to the holy families, and finally to the ten countries. It has been rumored that the Confucius government secretly makes holy pages, which can produce an additional 2000 pieces a year. I don't know exactly."

"How many tickets does Jingguo get a year?" Fang Yun asked.

Master Zhou sighed and said: "Holy pages are allocated to each country according to its size, population, number of great scholars and great Confucians. Jingguo lost three houses last year, and another great scholar was killed in battle. The holy pages are a little less than in previous years. Now Jingguo says there are four states and one capital, but actually there are only one capital and three and a half states. In order to ensure the security of the border, Chen Sheng took out some of his holy pages this year. I don't know This country...... "