This sudden attack on Zhang Juzheng by the imperial power represented by Empress Dowager Li is like a stage play with a prologue and climax.
Zhang Juzheng's side could be said to be in danger at first. With the help of Feng Bao's secret reminder and help, Zhang Juzheng saw the mystery clearly, kept his position psychologically, and regained the initiative in the Ganqing Palace. He finally controlled the extremely unfavorable situation. In the end, both sides made concessions and ended the confrontation with a situation where both sides came to Taiwan.
The result of the mutual concessions between the two sides was that the imperial power continued to support Zhang Juzheng's reform plan and overcome all difficulties for him. Zhang Juzheng needed to personally plan a reward plan for the relevant personnel of the original Buddhist tribute to the original Buddhist scriptures, and then handed it over to Emperor Wanli to implement it in detail when he was in court. As for Wang Shizhen, he would give it a light reward, which would not affect the change in the power structure in the court.
Although he responded to this sudden attack well, the keen Zhang Juzheng understood that this was a warning.
From Zhang Juzheng's perspective, if Zhang Juzheng fails to deal with it this time, the price he paid may be tragic. Once the imperial power no longer fully supports his reform, the conservative forces that counterattack will completely submerge him like a tide. Not to mention the previous efforts that have been in a critical moment, the new situation that has just been reflected in the reform will retreat retaliately, and the situation will become more uncertain. Wang Shizhen will return to the court and receive support from the imperial power. The conservative forces that have been suppressed by Zhang Juzheng will unite and resolve their past grudges together, and first target Zhang Juzheng. A generation of famous ministers will be in a slump. In addition, he is in a bad state. After this blow, there will be no time to make a comeback.
However, in fact, did the imperial throne really want to completely bring him down as Zhang Juzheng thought?
In fact, this is not the purpose of Empress Dowager Li's purpose is not to completely defeat Zhang Juzheng using this original Buddhist incident, because Zhang Juzheng is the best candidate in the court to serve the highest authority. It takes time for the imperial power to establish a trust relationship with an important minister. If Zhang Juzheng falls, the imperial power will have to be pulled back and forth with the new top leader until a new power relationship is formed, and the stable relationship between the government and the opposition and the political environment are disrupted and reorganized. The royal family will have to pay the price and cost.
The purpose of Empress Dowager Li is actually very simple. The point she focuses on is not the result, but the process of tempting and attacking each other with Zhang Juzheng.
As a modern Chinese, it is very simple to understand this principle. Those who have worked in the company should have some understanding of this. The leader in the company needs to promote a position. There are two choices in front of him. The first is a company employee who is good at dancing. He will curry favor with his leaders and unite his colleagues, but his work efficiency is not high. The other is a silent practical worker. He can't socialize and slap the table with his leaders, but he is extremely efficient and has strong professional business. Which one should this leader choose?
Obviously, leaders are more likely to promote the first one.
In fact, for a company, or an organization, or even a political party, the first factor that leaders pay attention to is not efficiency, but maintaining the company's existing power structure. Although the second employee is very efficient and may bring more benefits to the company and leaders, such an employee will openly challenge the authority of the leader, and losing authority means losing all efficiency.
The second company employee, for efficiency, will naturally act in the most efficient way. In order to be able to work clearly the next day, he will quit the leader’s banquet that night. He will bluntly point out the wrong plans proposed by the leader. He will lead his subordinates to follow efficiency, making interpersonal relationships in the company more indifferent, and business relationships will be more strong. To put it bluntly, he cannot cooperate with the leader to act because acting is inefficient. The most important thing for a company is to accompany the leader to act. What kind of play?
Of course, it is the role of you being the boss, I am the younger brother, I revolve around you, I succumb to your drama, which can maintain the ideological structure of the entire company.
We can give an example that is closer to life. One day, as a company employee, I got off work and met a leader in the corridor. The leader smiled and patted my shoulder and asked me kindly how you are doing these days?I heard that your home has been renovated, but is it still being renovated?I quickly answered the leader with a smile and said to me that I have been busy these days. After the renovation is completed, I will definitely invite the leader to the hot pot meal in my new home!
In this way, a simple drama is completed. On the surface, this is really a warm and healthy relationship between superiors and subordinates, but in fact?
Does this leader really care about the decoration of my home?No, he didn't care, and he wouldn't take the banquet I promised to treat him to a meal seriously, but he cared about my attitude very much.
We make a simple phenomenological restoration of this drama. When I met this leader, it was my son who met his father.
The leader greeted me cordially, asked me questions, and restored it was the father who expressed such an attitude. You are my son, I am your father, I care about you very much, and then I smiled and agreed to it, just to recognize such a power relationship between superiors and subordinates. Yes, I publicly admit that you are my father, and I obey you in front of you.
So, such a small scene of getting off work is actually a pressure or persecution of a modern slave by a more advanced person, and through such a performance, the company's power order is demonstrated. That is to say, the leader is completing the rape and being raped with the employee through the personality of rape, thus claiming his own power to all employees.
This may be difficult for modern people who often live in this scenario. In people's eyes, this is just a normal greeting after get off work, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that in the entire company, only leaders or bosses can ask employees so casually, and only employees can give such respectful and humble answers to their leaders. Therefore, this conversation itself demonstrates the status gap between the two, which is a way to claim power.
Almost all scenes in a company can be restored like this. In fact, there are very few leaders and they don’t even care about efficiency. The meaning of his life in a company is to enjoy the pleasure of becoming a father. Efficiency is second-hand. What is important is that the son’s surrender can even be said like this. He doesn’t care whether his son really surrenders, as long as he can cooperate with him on the surface to act.
The scene that Zhang Juzheng faces is the same.
Will Empress Dowager Li really care whether Zhang Juzheng's reforms will bring Daming a new look?
Maybe she cares, but only cares a little bit. The imperial power she represents cares about whether Zhang Juzheng still recognizes her identity as a minister. Resistance is also a kind of recognition. Zhang Juzheng racks his brains to resist the imperial power, which is also a manifestation of obedience. Resistance means admitting that he is a leader and enslaved role. As long as it is not a violent resistance, the resistance within the rules is enjoyed by the imperial power. If a person keeps a pet, if the pet completely obeys, even endures when he is hungry, and doesn't shout when he urinates, the person will soon get tired of it. However, if the pet causes some trouble for the owner from time to time, the owner will enjoy the process of training the pet more.
This is the true connotation of the so-called power relationship. What this relationship is truly related to is the father-son relationship, or the patriarchal relationship.
When Zhang Juzheng had the idea of danger, the imperial power represented by Empress Dowager Li had already won. As for the subsequent mutual game, it was a performance by both parties to make this relationship between the monarch and the minister, which is essentially a father-son relationship, continue.
This principle is what Empress Dowager Li really wants to teach Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun. Regarding the truth about the relationship between the monarch and the ministers, she wants to use examples of the game between the monarch and the ministers to tell her son that Emperor Wanli will never get absolute and 100% surrender. The emperor and his ministers are just playing a game of play seriously. As long as both parties get into the play, the play can last for a long time. However, both parties cannot be too serious. The emperor can be a father at most, but the tiger will not eat his son. The father cannot force his son to be anxious. You can be furious, you can even beat his son, but you cannot cut off the relationship between the father and the son, nor can you kill his son. As a son, a minister can have a small relationship and can give advice to the old father, but he cannot refuse to admit his son's identity.
Later Zhu Yijun obviously did not realize this truth.
After the incident of Wang Shizhen tribute to the original Buddhist scriptures, nothing seemed to have changed. Wang Shizhen failed to enter the power center of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Juzheng continued to implement his reforms. However, one person benefited quietly. Moreover, all the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty will regret the result of today's struggle in the future, because after the entire incident, the only beneficiary was Chen Zhao himself.
Under Zhang Juzheng's correction, the royal family finally decided to reward the first discoverer of the Heart Sutra. This first discoverer was naturally Chen Zhao himself. In order not to let this great contribution fall on Wang Shizhen, Zhang Juzheng had to choose this way. However, what he didn't know was that this reward became an important inducement of Chen Zhao's rise in Hangzhou Prefecture. Chen Zhao was originally subject to the lack of the power to publicly organize social activities. After this reward, Chen Zhao became a person that no one in Jiangsu and Zhejiang wanted to offend.
The Ishise Yamen in the core area of the White Lotus area has actually been alert to the activities of the White Lotus Sect. When Ishise Yamen was clearing the land of the local acres, it found that the local arable land had not increased significantly, but the grain output increased at an astonishing rate. They also discovered that the Ishise area was doing some things in an organized manner, and even heard rumors that a servant formed a private army. All clues pointed to the figure Chen Zhao. The Ishise Yamen wanted to further investigate these abnormal situations. The county magistrate who did not go out of the door wanted to take action personally, but because Chen Zhao was the eldest son of a famous landlord in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he did not act easily.
This time the reward was issued layer by layer. When the news came to the Ishise Yamen, all the accusations of Chen Zhao's seemingly present and nothingness disappeared completely. Chen Zhao suddenly became the Tai Sui awarded by the local emperor. Who dared to make ground on Tai Sui's head?
Moreover, Chen Zhao's reputation has reached a certain level. His various identities have made the Ishise Yamen dare not act rashly. First, he was a single disciple of the gods who developed anti-dysentery drugs, and second, he was a friend of his relatives from the superior unit, Hangzhou Prefecture Censor Wang Shizhen, and now he has become a meritorious person personally awarded by Emperor Wanli. Wouldn't offend him to himself unhappy?
Moreover, even if the Ishise Yamen had thought about it, they would never dare to think that Chen Zhao was about to rebel. Such a promising young man was rewarded by the emperor at a young age and became a person of concern to major politicians. He would definitely have a bright future in the future. Sooner or later, this koi jumped out of this small Ishise Prefecture and became a high-ranking official in the future. How could he rebel?
Since it was not a rebellion, he turned a blind eye to the things he had caused. Moreover, having such a person helps deal with the relationship between the government and the people is unsuccessful. The taxation is being collected year by year, and the people are getting less and less complaints in the yamen. Giving such a person who is at least a great gentry in the future is also given a little autonomy.
The royal family thought they were stable in the market. Zhang Juzheng breathed a sigh of relief. Wang Shizhen sighed regretfully. This incident that shocked the court was later written into jokes and storytellers by the good people at that time. It originated from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The son offered the Heart Sutra to listen to the sky and deceived the court. Zhang Wang hurriedly fought against the fisherman to gain profit. This incident was also the beginning of the signs of the White Lotus sect that were recognized by the world history community in the future. It is known in the Heart Sutra event in the fifth year of Wanli (1577 in the Western calendar). The leaders of the White Lotus power were recorded in the written history at this time.
However, no matter how Chinese and foreign historians and archaeologists in later generations traced the origin, they could not find the original Heart Sutra, which was described by Zhang Juzheng as the first strange book of the original text. In addition, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of official Ming Dynasty books, including the "Yongle Encyclopedia" and the "Heart Sutra", were confiscated by the White Lotus Cult. The White Lotus official's carefulness in preserving historical materials was well-deserved by the world's first in that era. Countless historical materials taken over by the Ming Dynasty were divided into two parts and were properly kept by the White Lotus Social Research Institute and Dinghai University. They were basically all open to the public in later generations. However, strangely, the records about the "Heart Sutra" are very rare, and people generally suspect that this history has been deliberately erased by the White Lotus Official.
The description of the original text of the Heart Sutra is even more difficult to find. According to folk rumors, the Heart Sutra looks quite modern. There are even rumors that the strange book is a laser printed book. Such folk legends only stop at folk legends. Historians are just laughing at this statement. Why does Bailian official hide this history?
The original text of the Heart Sutra must have existed, but where did it go and what did it look like?This problem has become one of the major unsolved mysteries in history. As time goes by, perhaps only Chen Zhao, the founder of White Lotus, can know the whole story.
Return to Chen Zhao's perspective.
During these two weeks, Chen Zhao sent away a group of senior executives of the original Bailian Sect and went to the Bailian Hospital to build it and wrote a letter to Qian Youxi to invite her to come. Something happened in the middle, which was the banquet held by the Youlong Chamber of Commerce.
The last time Chen Zhao met Gao Ningqin at He Minglou, he gave him the redeemed champagne wine and entrusted him to a major task, asking him to find eleven people. Gao Ningqin did put this matter in his heart. He was worried that he would give it to his servants. These servants did not know the importance of these wooden boxes at all, nor did they realize that these eleven wooden boxes are related to the future of Chinese civilization. Only those with insightful people like Gao Ningqin can get the real weight of the wooden box after taking these eleven wooden boxes. This is the method of cowpox cultivation, the general outline of Neo-Confucianism, engineering design drawings, and mathematical problems, which are valuable things that are valued by the medical community, the academic community, and the academic community.
Therefore, Gao Ningqin felt a great responsibility and personally watched the progress of this matter. He asked his subordinates who set out to find someone to send the wooden box. He checked the wooden box every day, tried to walk the road and pass the famous city, and wrote back to report the itinerary in three days. If there was an emergency, he could entrust the escort at any time. The gold and silver needed were paid by the Youlong Chamber of Commerce. Safety is the priority. At the same time, he paid more attention to making friends with Chen Zhao, a genius. He wrote three letters to deliver them to the Chen family, reminding him not to forget to come to the banquet.
Of course, Chen Zhao would not miss the opportunity to meet various merchants at the banquet. After dealing with the visit of senior officials of the former White Lotus Sect, he went to Hangzhou Prefecture to attend the banquet in advance. The specifications of this banquet exceeded Chen Zhao's imagination.
He Minglou was originally decorated very elegantly. He put a lot of effort into this grand banquet. He Minglou's backyard was a Jiangnan garden. Because there were a lot of people gathering and the famous prostitutes from all walks of life, the largest banquet hall in He Minglou also seemed crowded. After Gao Ning and Qin thought for a while, he decided to hold a banquet in the open-air garden behind He Minglou.
The rocks in the garden are ancient and simple, and there is no need to talk about the clear streams and ponds. Although there are not many flowers, they have a very elegant style. A small pavilion is surrounded by the rocks and forests. This pavilion is naturally the central place for gatherings. The open spaces around the pavilion are also placed on wine tables. With the wine tables in the pavilion, there are nine tables alone. In this environment, I am naturally extremely proud.
The paths in the garden have a sense of winding paths, connecting three other open spaces, which are also used, namely the string sound place for folk art performances, the elegant place for poetry, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the leisure place for private conversations. These three places have also been decorated and facilities for people to rest and have been arranged, such as the string sound place, and various musical instruments are placed, waiting for famous prostitutes to show their skills, and the elegant place is the chessboard that is indispensable in this era.
Chen Zhao came to He Minglou early, and Gao Ningqin personally greeted him on the platform outside He Minglou early in the morning. He Minglou also decorated his clothes with great fanfare, with a festive atmosphere. In addition, it was approaching Qingming Festival, so it was reasonable to hold a banquet at such a time. Gao Ningqin saw Chen Zhao's carriage and immediately put down his airs and hurriedly brought people to greet him. This face was enough. Chen Zhao and Gao Ningqin exchanged some greetings outside the door, and the two entered the house hand in hand. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Chen Zhao was also a VIP guest who Gao Ningqin could entertain, so he naturally would not come empty-handed. He brought exquisite pastry gift boxes and the Longjing Mingqian tea that had just come down to express his feelings.
Chen Zhao put down the gift, and Gao Ningqin couldn't wait to lead him to a look at the garden banquet venue behind He Minglou. As soon as he entered the garden, Chen Zhao understood Gao Ningqin's intention. The entire banquet venue was spacious, bright, elegant and exquisite, which actually made Chen Zhao, a modern person, feel that he was in the most physical and mentally pleasant place in the entire Hangzhou Prefecture.
Chen Zhao came too early, and Gao Ningqin could not let go of the work of welcoming guests in front of the door, so he had to let Chen Zhao have fun in the garden. He hurried back to He Minglou to welcome guests. When he returned to the door, Gao Ningqin always felt that he had forgotten something. It seemed that he had just remembered to explain something to Chen Zhao, but now he can't remember it.
Chen Zhao had just been walking around the garden and heard the sound of the guqin coming from the string sound. He thought that he was not early enough, and someone had already come in advance. He was still playing the guqin in the garden. So he thought about going to meet him. When he passed through the deep forest path and arrived at the String sound, he found that he knew the person who played the piano.
A gorgeous woman in ancient costume sat in front of a guqin, her legs were placed together and her long skirt covered under the piano table. As she focused on playing the guqin, the shiny steps on her head swayed, and her slender hands jumped back and forth on the strings of the guqin. It was Bai Qingcheng, who had a relationship with Chen Zhao. Her cheeks were thinner than the last time she met, and her silk skirt and plain clothes on her body were a little too hung on her shoulders.
In fact, what Gao Ningqin forgot about his busyness was that he forgot to inform Chen Zhao that the famous prostitute he ordered had arrived.
Chen Zhao did not disturb her, and stood beside her and listened quietly to her playing. After the song ended, Bai Qingcheng raised his head intently and found that Chen Zhao had come to her side.
Looking at Chen Zhao's smiling face, Bai Qingcheng suddenly felt the illusion of going back and changing the world. For a moment, he was speechless and choked, and two lines of clear tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.
Since Bai Qingcheng parted with Chen Zhao last time, he has stopped picking up customers when he returned to the Mèi Xianglou. At first, the madam in the Mèi Xianglou thought that Bai Qingcheng's menstrual period had come, so he didn't say much. Later, after a long time, the madam naturally realized that she was mentally unnatural. She began to care about her condition and tried to chat with her to untie her heart. After all, this kind of thing is common in brothels. The mental state of prostitutes is easily affected. They have to face all kinds of clients, and they will feel listless due to messy reasons.
For example, if you encounter a tough-minded client, physically and mentally exhausted by being harassed, or offend someone when serving a powerful man, he will suffer from a shocking and sudden shock. If you are not able to complete the entire sexual process smoothly when you pick up a customer, you will have psychological shadows, etc.
Therefore, on the one hand, the madam is the father of the prostitutes, who encourages them to move forward in their careers, and on the other hand, they also have to serve as their mothers and care about them in life. A qualified madam must do this level to be considered qualified.
However, this time, the madam in the Mèi Xianglou worked with Bai Qingcheng for a long time, but still failed to make progress. Bai Qingcheng's condition is different from other prostitutes who have mental problems. Generally, prostitutes are under great pressure and do not accept customers. They must be noisy and riots, vent their emotions, or cry in a tsunami. They wish they could hear their grievances next door, and no one could see them.
But the madam can see Bai Qingcheng every time she sees Bai Qingcheng and speaks well. She can't even feel Bai Qingcheng's emotions fluctuations. It seems very normal on the surface, but when she talks about picking up customers, she refuses.
Bai Qingcheng's performance made the maid of the Mèi Xianglou feel very difficult. He is not afraid of prostitutes crying. After crying enough and making trouble, he will naturally come back to work, fearing that the reason cannot be found. However, this maid is a maid of the top brothel in a top wealthy area like Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Hangzhou Prefecture. Naturally, it is well-informed. It is not a psychological trauma, but it is caused by women. It is probably a lovesickness.
In his early years, the madam in the Mèi Xianglou brought a girl who was only fifteen years old and had just entered the industry. The girl's parents died of disaster. She went to the houses of several relatives and couldn't eat or sleep. It was not that the relatives were not good to treat her, but that she had no support and felt empty. So she signed her own contract to sell her body, voluntarily fell into the world, and became a prostitute. As a result, she met a young scholar who was well-read and talented when she received a customer for the first time.The two of them fell in love as before when they saw each other, and when they met again, they were already deeply in love. The madam knew that the girl in the brothel had too much affection, and it was her who hurt her after several persuasions. After all, she had no effect. The scholar later passed the exam and promised to redeem her. Unexpectedly, she was a loving person. After embarking on the official road, she never returned. The girl was in a state of beauty in brothel, waiting for the person she loved for life and death, and eventually died of depression before she was eighteen years old.
There have been too many such situations in history. The madam immediately guessed what went wrong with Bai Qingcheng. She checked Bai Qingcheng's last pick-up and knew that the guest might be the guest of Lord Wang Shizhen. Being able to become Wang Shizhen's guest was obviously a young hero in the Jiangnan area. She slightly tested it out.
The madam once tried to tell Bai Qingcheng in a chatty manner that Wang Shizhen in Hangzhou was going to hold a poetry meeting again. Bai Qingcheng really responded to the news, which made the madam more certain that Bai Qingcheng fell into a love network and had a lovesickness.
This kind of pain is of course fatal to affectionate people. The madam confronted Bai Qingcheng and told her many women who had lost their wickedness due to lovesickness in history. There are so many examples of this, and so many unfaithful people. Why is it hard to wait for a lifetime if you make an empty promise?
Bai Qingcheng could also hear it, but her answer made the madam even more incredible. Bai Qingcheng was just unrequited to a young boy. Moreover, he had a family long ago and clearly refused Bai Qingcheng's invitation to spend a spring night together. This is unfaithful. He didn't mean to vow to you, but Bai Qingcheng couldn't get out of the corner.
Whether it was from the interests of the brothel or the concern for Bai Qingcheng himself, the madam repeatedly advised her to let go of the young man. She was not interested in you anymore. She was still such a family-friendly person. Why bother with you?
The reason is this, but if the emotional matter can be explained by reason, then the person will no longer be a human being. Bai Qingcheng naturally understands these principles, but the following sentence of Bai Qingcheng makes the old madam who has experienced a lot of time and has moved him.
Have you ever had a deep thought of you, which almost brought physical pain, isolating you from all around you, the lighter and fainter the scenery around you, and finally faded slowly.Sometimes, I feel that it seals you up too bitterly and can hardly breathe. After all, I want to pierce it with a needle, even if it is pierced a small hole, at least let you breathe.Strangely, he was both that needle and the pocket that wrapped me.
In this way, after hearing such a heartfelt confession, the madam understood that all the persuasion was useless. Only time could heal the beautiful heart or completely kill her.
The day after that heart-to-heart talk, there was a roundabout way. At the Hangzhou Youlong Chamber of Commerce held a cocktail party. Gao Ningqin was the helm to invite big merchants from all directions. Naturally, singing and dancing were indispensable, and geisha accompanied him. When the invitation was delivered to the Mèi Xianglou, Bai Qingcheng wanted to turn it off habitually. When he saw the invitation, Chen Zhao's name was on the invitation, he was shocked. There were so many people in the world who called Chen Zhao, but there were probably only the young man. Bai Qingcheng was holding a red paper bag in his hand. It was like holding the needle, the needle that could pierce her pocket that had been suppressing her, and she burst into tears.
When the madam saw Bai Qingcheng's appearance, she understood and sighed. How should this evil fate end?
She was pessimistic and seemed to have seen Bai Qingcheng's miserable ending. She wanted to stop it, but why did she stop it?
She only hoped that the young man could give up completely through this meeting.
Time returned to Chen Zhao's side. Seeing Bai Qingcheng's unforgettable tears, he was at a loss and hurriedly took out the handkerchief from his arms and handed it forward. He thought that the girl had remembered something sad when she was playing the piano.
If it were an ordinary woman, she would naturally thank her absolute kindness. She used a long sleeve towel to cover her face so that the guests would not see her tears flowing. Bai Qingcheng cried openly, insisting that Chen Zhao see her face with tears flowing like a spring. She also took his handkerchief naturally, wiped her tears but refused to return it, and held it tightly in her hand.
Even with the red eyes, the beautiful city is still beautiful and charming. The harmonious and delicate facial features bring people a sense of intimacy and possessiveness that always touches Chen Zhao's heart.
Chen Zhao was not sure, so he had to ask Bai Qingcheng what sad things were. Bai Qingcheng spoke just like a straight ball riddle: It is far away in the sky, close in front of him!
This made Chen Zhao even more confused. He thought he had ordered this girl to accompany her, which made her unhappy. No matter how much he was to bow and apologize, he himself didn't understand what the crime was.
Bai Qingcheng stood up and hid next to him, not accepting Chen Zhao's greeting. Chen Zhao didn't hear someone's reply, and did not look up. He still bowed. Bai Qingcheng turned his head and walked to another guqin and started playing again. Chen Zhao realized that she had already run away.
The song played by Bai Qingcheng this time is different from the previous song. It is a piano piece that expresses lovesickness. At this time, even if Chen Zhao is slow, he still vaguely feels Bai Qingcheng's meaning. Could this girl blame herself for not ordering her for a long time and patronizing her business?
Chen Zhao's soul comes from modern people. As a modern person, especially the citizens living in modern cities, the so-called story of a vow of love and a stronger love than gold can only be seen from the novel. The relationship between people becomes more and more indifferent, and such a sincere longing is even more impossible to see. When Chen Zhao saw the behavior of the hundred girls, he even doubted whether this was the operating strategy of the brothel. The prostitutes showed a deep thought of missing each other, and kept thinking about it and spending a lot of money on them. This idea was a big misunderstanding. Chen Zhao thought about it again and felt that it was wrong. If it was a hypocritical attitude, he should not give the customer a face. This Bai Qingcheng did not give Chen Zhao face from beginning to end, and the people cried so emotionally, if it was said that it was a performance, it would be unreasonable to guess.
Chen Zhao had already figured out a little of the smell at this time. He sat on a stone bench and listened quietly to Bai Qingcheng playing the piano. After Bai Qingcheng finished playing the song, Chen Zhao stood up again and walked to her and bowed to the side. Bai Qingcheng stood up again and hid next to him, saying in a trembling voice: Mr. Chen doesn't have to do this. The maid is asking for trouble. She wants to pick the stars in the sky, and she wants to be greedy for the Mid-Autumn Festival moon. She wants to pretend and cry in front of the young master, which makes Mr. Chen laugh.
Bai Qingcheng's agitated words made Chen Zhao laugh and cry. He straightened up and said generously: Miss Bai, you only see the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, but you don't know that the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, and the moon becomes more and more petty and stingy, and becomes less and less, turning into a petty and petty-minded look. The tragic and carefree appearance is very annoying; you also see the stars shining in the clear sky, but you don't know that the stars in the sky are here and there when they are there. The Magpie Bridge has to be given to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on the seventh day of the seventh day of the lunar calendar. I don't know how uncomprehensible it is!
Bai Qingcheng was surprised for a moment when he heard Chen Zhao's self-damagedness and immediately couldn't help but cover his mouth and laughed. Chen Zhao saw that it made her laugh, and he felt relieved and relaxed a lot.
In fact, both of them understood the riddle-like communication between them very clearly. Bai Qingcheng said that you are the star in the sky and the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival. I don’t think you can. After seeing you for so long, why don’t you let me cry enough?
Chen Zhao immediately said, "I am not the star and moon." I am a petty person, petty, and unkind. You only see my good side. I am very bad. Miss A hundred people, don't recognize the wrong person!
Bai Qingcheng has seen countless people who put gilds on his face, but he rarely sees Chen Zhao who is abusive and damaging himself as soon as he meets him. However, Chen Zhao didn't know that Bai Qingcheng is a woman who just takes this trick. You are poetic and picturesque, respect each other as guests, and behave properly, but she doesn't like it. If you joke with her, put the defense between men and women aside, or even laugh and scold, and do not abide by the rules, it will attract her.
Chen Zhao's last performance at Wang Shizhen's poem and drink party actually had this meaning. He was unwilling to show his strength and did not show his strength. He was so restrained at the cocktail party that everyone was talking about. He was neither happy nor angry, nor humble or arrogant, but instead attracted Bai Qingcheng's attention. In addition, he talked to Bai Qingcheng, never talked about elegant things such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and talked about daily trivial matters, even mundane things, which made Bai Qingcheng even more relaxed in talking and chatting with him, and his body and mind were both comfortable.
In modern language, this is the toxic side of political correctness. Some people attach too much importance to political correctness and do not even talk about pork in front of Hui people. On the surface, this is a kind of respect, but in fact it is a kind of rejection, which builds a thick wall of heart. The more you pay attention to the differences between nations, the more it shows the differences between nations. The famous philosopher Zizek once met a black reader at a book signing and sale meeting. He naturally made a racist joke with the black man. This is simply incredible to the white man and a great insult to the black man. However, the black man laughed, hugged him and said to him that you can call me nigger. In fact, the true intimacy is the intimate relationship that even if you joke too much.
It's still the example of Zizek. Once in a meeting, he sat on the podium and found a deaf and mute man below, so he wanted to communicate with him with gestures. He thought for a long time and finally made a vulgar gesture that implied sexual intercourse, with a vulgar smile on his face. The deaf and mute man was so funny by his irregular gestures. The two looked at each other and became friends in that moment, but an expert next to him criticized him for not respecting the deaf and mute man. Zizek widened his eyes and said: He is a mute, you are probably a blind man. Have you not seen the two of us gestures and gestures have become friends?
The same is true in ancient times. When a person is very kind and polite to others, is he really expressing closeness?
That only makes people feel polite, but Chen Zhao and Bai Qingcheng get along completely differently. The two seem to be completely unruly and polite. In the eyes of outsiders, Chen Zhao is not like a gentleman. However, it is this unruly that reflects the closer distance between the two. Chen Zhao sincerely expresses his simplest kindness, and even puts the political correctness of men and women aside in order to express this kind of friendship. Isn’t this the cutest part of him?
This is also the deepest reason why Bai Qingcheng really misses Chen Zhao.
Zhang Juzheng's side could be said to be in danger at first. With the help of Feng Bao's secret reminder and help, Zhang Juzheng saw the mystery clearly, kept his position psychologically, and regained the initiative in the Ganqing Palace. He finally controlled the extremely unfavorable situation. In the end, both sides made concessions and ended the confrontation with a situation where both sides came to Taiwan.
The result of the mutual concessions between the two sides was that the imperial power continued to support Zhang Juzheng's reform plan and overcome all difficulties for him. Zhang Juzheng needed to personally plan a reward plan for the relevant personnel of the original Buddhist tribute to the original Buddhist scriptures, and then handed it over to Emperor Wanli to implement it in detail when he was in court. As for Wang Shizhen, he would give it a light reward, which would not affect the change in the power structure in the court.
Although he responded to this sudden attack well, the keen Zhang Juzheng understood that this was a warning.
From Zhang Juzheng's perspective, if Zhang Juzheng fails to deal with it this time, the price he paid may be tragic. Once the imperial power no longer fully supports his reform, the conservative forces that counterattack will completely submerge him like a tide. Not to mention the previous efforts that have been in a critical moment, the new situation that has just been reflected in the reform will retreat retaliately, and the situation will become more uncertain. Wang Shizhen will return to the court and receive support from the imperial power. The conservative forces that have been suppressed by Zhang Juzheng will unite and resolve their past grudges together, and first target Zhang Juzheng. A generation of famous ministers will be in a slump. In addition, he is in a bad state. After this blow, there will be no time to make a comeback.
However, in fact, did the imperial throne really want to completely bring him down as Zhang Juzheng thought?
In fact, this is not the purpose of Empress Dowager Li's purpose is not to completely defeat Zhang Juzheng using this original Buddhist incident, because Zhang Juzheng is the best candidate in the court to serve the highest authority. It takes time for the imperial power to establish a trust relationship with an important minister. If Zhang Juzheng falls, the imperial power will have to be pulled back and forth with the new top leader until a new power relationship is formed, and the stable relationship between the government and the opposition and the political environment are disrupted and reorganized. The royal family will have to pay the price and cost.
The purpose of Empress Dowager Li is actually very simple. The point she focuses on is not the result, but the process of tempting and attacking each other with Zhang Juzheng.
As a modern Chinese, it is very simple to understand this principle. Those who have worked in the company should have some understanding of this. The leader in the company needs to promote a position. There are two choices in front of him. The first is a company employee who is good at dancing. He will curry favor with his leaders and unite his colleagues, but his work efficiency is not high. The other is a silent practical worker. He can't socialize and slap the table with his leaders, but he is extremely efficient and has strong professional business. Which one should this leader choose?
Obviously, leaders are more likely to promote the first one.
In fact, for a company, or an organization, or even a political party, the first factor that leaders pay attention to is not efficiency, but maintaining the company's existing power structure. Although the second employee is very efficient and may bring more benefits to the company and leaders, such an employee will openly challenge the authority of the leader, and losing authority means losing all efficiency.
The second company employee, for efficiency, will naturally act in the most efficient way. In order to be able to work clearly the next day, he will quit the leader’s banquet that night. He will bluntly point out the wrong plans proposed by the leader. He will lead his subordinates to follow efficiency, making interpersonal relationships in the company more indifferent, and business relationships will be more strong. To put it bluntly, he cannot cooperate with the leader to act because acting is inefficient. The most important thing for a company is to accompany the leader to act. What kind of play?
Of course, it is the role of you being the boss, I am the younger brother, I revolve around you, I succumb to your drama, which can maintain the ideological structure of the entire company.
We can give an example that is closer to life. One day, as a company employee, I got off work and met a leader in the corridor. The leader smiled and patted my shoulder and asked me kindly how you are doing these days?I heard that your home has been renovated, but is it still being renovated?I quickly answered the leader with a smile and said to me that I have been busy these days. After the renovation is completed, I will definitely invite the leader to the hot pot meal in my new home!
In this way, a simple drama is completed. On the surface, this is really a warm and healthy relationship between superiors and subordinates, but in fact?
Does this leader really care about the decoration of my home?No, he didn't care, and he wouldn't take the banquet I promised to treat him to a meal seriously, but he cared about my attitude very much.
We make a simple phenomenological restoration of this drama. When I met this leader, it was my son who met his father.
The leader greeted me cordially, asked me questions, and restored it was the father who expressed such an attitude. You are my son, I am your father, I care about you very much, and then I smiled and agreed to it, just to recognize such a power relationship between superiors and subordinates. Yes, I publicly admit that you are my father, and I obey you in front of you.
So, such a small scene of getting off work is actually a pressure or persecution of a modern slave by a more advanced person, and through such a performance, the company's power order is demonstrated. That is to say, the leader is completing the rape and being raped with the employee through the personality of rape, thus claiming his own power to all employees.
This may be difficult for modern people who often live in this scenario. In people's eyes, this is just a normal greeting after get off work, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that in the entire company, only leaders or bosses can ask employees so casually, and only employees can give such respectful and humble answers to their leaders. Therefore, this conversation itself demonstrates the status gap between the two, which is a way to claim power.
Almost all scenes in a company can be restored like this. In fact, there are very few leaders and they don’t even care about efficiency. The meaning of his life in a company is to enjoy the pleasure of becoming a father. Efficiency is second-hand. What is important is that the son’s surrender can even be said like this. He doesn’t care whether his son really surrenders, as long as he can cooperate with him on the surface to act.
The scene that Zhang Juzheng faces is the same.
Will Empress Dowager Li really care whether Zhang Juzheng's reforms will bring Daming a new look?
Maybe she cares, but only cares a little bit. The imperial power she represents cares about whether Zhang Juzheng still recognizes her identity as a minister. Resistance is also a kind of recognition. Zhang Juzheng racks his brains to resist the imperial power, which is also a manifestation of obedience. Resistance means admitting that he is a leader and enslaved role. As long as it is not a violent resistance, the resistance within the rules is enjoyed by the imperial power. If a person keeps a pet, if the pet completely obeys, even endures when he is hungry, and doesn't shout when he urinates, the person will soon get tired of it. However, if the pet causes some trouble for the owner from time to time, the owner will enjoy the process of training the pet more.
This is the true connotation of the so-called power relationship. What this relationship is truly related to is the father-son relationship, or the patriarchal relationship.
When Zhang Juzheng had the idea of danger, the imperial power represented by Empress Dowager Li had already won. As for the subsequent mutual game, it was a performance by both parties to make this relationship between the monarch and the minister, which is essentially a father-son relationship, continue.
This principle is what Empress Dowager Li really wants to teach Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun. Regarding the truth about the relationship between the monarch and the ministers, she wants to use examples of the game between the monarch and the ministers to tell her son that Emperor Wanli will never get absolute and 100% surrender. The emperor and his ministers are just playing a game of play seriously. As long as both parties get into the play, the play can last for a long time. However, both parties cannot be too serious. The emperor can be a father at most, but the tiger will not eat his son. The father cannot force his son to be anxious. You can be furious, you can even beat his son, but you cannot cut off the relationship between the father and the son, nor can you kill his son. As a son, a minister can have a small relationship and can give advice to the old father, but he cannot refuse to admit his son's identity.
Later Zhu Yijun obviously did not realize this truth.
After the incident of Wang Shizhen tribute to the original Buddhist scriptures, nothing seemed to have changed. Wang Shizhen failed to enter the power center of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Juzheng continued to implement his reforms. However, one person benefited quietly. Moreover, all the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty will regret the result of today's struggle in the future, because after the entire incident, the only beneficiary was Chen Zhao himself.
Under Zhang Juzheng's correction, the royal family finally decided to reward the first discoverer of the Heart Sutra. This first discoverer was naturally Chen Zhao himself. In order not to let this great contribution fall on Wang Shizhen, Zhang Juzheng had to choose this way. However, what he didn't know was that this reward became an important inducement of Chen Zhao's rise in Hangzhou Prefecture. Chen Zhao was originally subject to the lack of the power to publicly organize social activities. After this reward, Chen Zhao became a person that no one in Jiangsu and Zhejiang wanted to offend.
The Ishise Yamen in the core area of the White Lotus area has actually been alert to the activities of the White Lotus Sect. When Ishise Yamen was clearing the land of the local acres, it found that the local arable land had not increased significantly, but the grain output increased at an astonishing rate. They also discovered that the Ishise area was doing some things in an organized manner, and even heard rumors that a servant formed a private army. All clues pointed to the figure Chen Zhao. The Ishise Yamen wanted to further investigate these abnormal situations. The county magistrate who did not go out of the door wanted to take action personally, but because Chen Zhao was the eldest son of a famous landlord in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he did not act easily.
This time the reward was issued layer by layer. When the news came to the Ishise Yamen, all the accusations of Chen Zhao's seemingly present and nothingness disappeared completely. Chen Zhao suddenly became the Tai Sui awarded by the local emperor. Who dared to make ground on Tai Sui's head?
Moreover, Chen Zhao's reputation has reached a certain level. His various identities have made the Ishise Yamen dare not act rashly. First, he was a single disciple of the gods who developed anti-dysentery drugs, and second, he was a friend of his relatives from the superior unit, Hangzhou Prefecture Censor Wang Shizhen, and now he has become a meritorious person personally awarded by Emperor Wanli. Wouldn't offend him to himself unhappy?
Moreover, even if the Ishise Yamen had thought about it, they would never dare to think that Chen Zhao was about to rebel. Such a promising young man was rewarded by the emperor at a young age and became a person of concern to major politicians. He would definitely have a bright future in the future. Sooner or later, this koi jumped out of this small Ishise Prefecture and became a high-ranking official in the future. How could he rebel?
Since it was not a rebellion, he turned a blind eye to the things he had caused. Moreover, having such a person helps deal with the relationship between the government and the people is unsuccessful. The taxation is being collected year by year, and the people are getting less and less complaints in the yamen. Giving such a person who is at least a great gentry in the future is also given a little autonomy.
The royal family thought they were stable in the market. Zhang Juzheng breathed a sigh of relief. Wang Shizhen sighed regretfully. This incident that shocked the court was later written into jokes and storytellers by the good people at that time. It originated from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The son offered the Heart Sutra to listen to the sky and deceived the court. Zhang Wang hurriedly fought against the fisherman to gain profit. This incident was also the beginning of the signs of the White Lotus sect that were recognized by the world history community in the future. It is known in the Heart Sutra event in the fifth year of Wanli (1577 in the Western calendar). The leaders of the White Lotus power were recorded in the written history at this time.
However, no matter how Chinese and foreign historians and archaeologists in later generations traced the origin, they could not find the original Heart Sutra, which was described by Zhang Juzheng as the first strange book of the original text. In addition, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of official Ming Dynasty books, including the "Yongle Encyclopedia" and the "Heart Sutra", were confiscated by the White Lotus Cult. The White Lotus official's carefulness in preserving historical materials was well-deserved by the world's first in that era. Countless historical materials taken over by the Ming Dynasty were divided into two parts and were properly kept by the White Lotus Social Research Institute and Dinghai University. They were basically all open to the public in later generations. However, strangely, the records about the "Heart Sutra" are very rare, and people generally suspect that this history has been deliberately erased by the White Lotus Official.
The description of the original text of the Heart Sutra is even more difficult to find. According to folk rumors, the Heart Sutra looks quite modern. There are even rumors that the strange book is a laser printed book. Such folk legends only stop at folk legends. Historians are just laughing at this statement. Why does Bailian official hide this history?
The original text of the Heart Sutra must have existed, but where did it go and what did it look like?This problem has become one of the major unsolved mysteries in history. As time goes by, perhaps only Chen Zhao, the founder of White Lotus, can know the whole story.
Return to Chen Zhao's perspective.
During these two weeks, Chen Zhao sent away a group of senior executives of the original Bailian Sect and went to the Bailian Hospital to build it and wrote a letter to Qian Youxi to invite her to come. Something happened in the middle, which was the banquet held by the Youlong Chamber of Commerce.
The last time Chen Zhao met Gao Ningqin at He Minglou, he gave him the redeemed champagne wine and entrusted him to a major task, asking him to find eleven people. Gao Ningqin did put this matter in his heart. He was worried that he would give it to his servants. These servants did not know the importance of these wooden boxes at all, nor did they realize that these eleven wooden boxes are related to the future of Chinese civilization. Only those with insightful people like Gao Ningqin can get the real weight of the wooden box after taking these eleven wooden boxes. This is the method of cowpox cultivation, the general outline of Neo-Confucianism, engineering design drawings, and mathematical problems, which are valuable things that are valued by the medical community, the academic community, and the academic community.
Therefore, Gao Ningqin felt a great responsibility and personally watched the progress of this matter. He asked his subordinates who set out to find someone to send the wooden box. He checked the wooden box every day, tried to walk the road and pass the famous city, and wrote back to report the itinerary in three days. If there was an emergency, he could entrust the escort at any time. The gold and silver needed were paid by the Youlong Chamber of Commerce. Safety is the priority. At the same time, he paid more attention to making friends with Chen Zhao, a genius. He wrote three letters to deliver them to the Chen family, reminding him not to forget to come to the banquet.
Of course, Chen Zhao would not miss the opportunity to meet various merchants at the banquet. After dealing with the visit of senior officials of the former White Lotus Sect, he went to Hangzhou Prefecture to attend the banquet in advance. The specifications of this banquet exceeded Chen Zhao's imagination.
He Minglou was originally decorated very elegantly. He put a lot of effort into this grand banquet. He Minglou's backyard was a Jiangnan garden. Because there were a lot of people gathering and the famous prostitutes from all walks of life, the largest banquet hall in He Minglou also seemed crowded. After Gao Ning and Qin thought for a while, he decided to hold a banquet in the open-air garden behind He Minglou.
The rocks in the garden are ancient and simple, and there is no need to talk about the clear streams and ponds. Although there are not many flowers, they have a very elegant style. A small pavilion is surrounded by the rocks and forests. This pavilion is naturally the central place for gatherings. The open spaces around the pavilion are also placed on wine tables. With the wine tables in the pavilion, there are nine tables alone. In this environment, I am naturally extremely proud.
The paths in the garden have a sense of winding paths, connecting three other open spaces, which are also used, namely the string sound place for folk art performances, the elegant place for poetry, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the leisure place for private conversations. These three places have also been decorated and facilities for people to rest and have been arranged, such as the string sound place, and various musical instruments are placed, waiting for famous prostitutes to show their skills, and the elegant place is the chessboard that is indispensable in this era.
Chen Zhao came to He Minglou early, and Gao Ningqin personally greeted him on the platform outside He Minglou early in the morning. He Minglou also decorated his clothes with great fanfare, with a festive atmosphere. In addition, it was approaching Qingming Festival, so it was reasonable to hold a banquet at such a time. Gao Ningqin saw Chen Zhao's carriage and immediately put down his airs and hurriedly brought people to greet him. This face was enough. Chen Zhao and Gao Ningqin exchanged some greetings outside the door, and the two entered the house hand in hand. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Chen Zhao was also a VIP guest who Gao Ningqin could entertain, so he naturally would not come empty-handed. He brought exquisite pastry gift boxes and the Longjing Mingqian tea that had just come down to express his feelings.
Chen Zhao put down the gift, and Gao Ningqin couldn't wait to lead him to a look at the garden banquet venue behind He Minglou. As soon as he entered the garden, Chen Zhao understood Gao Ningqin's intention. The entire banquet venue was spacious, bright, elegant and exquisite, which actually made Chen Zhao, a modern person, feel that he was in the most physical and mentally pleasant place in the entire Hangzhou Prefecture.
Chen Zhao came too early, and Gao Ningqin could not let go of the work of welcoming guests in front of the door, so he had to let Chen Zhao have fun in the garden. He hurried back to He Minglou to welcome guests. When he returned to the door, Gao Ningqin always felt that he had forgotten something. It seemed that he had just remembered to explain something to Chen Zhao, but now he can't remember it.
Chen Zhao had just been walking around the garden and heard the sound of the guqin coming from the string sound. He thought that he was not early enough, and someone had already come in advance. He was still playing the guqin in the garden. So he thought about going to meet him. When he passed through the deep forest path and arrived at the String sound, he found that he knew the person who played the piano.
A gorgeous woman in ancient costume sat in front of a guqin, her legs were placed together and her long skirt covered under the piano table. As she focused on playing the guqin, the shiny steps on her head swayed, and her slender hands jumped back and forth on the strings of the guqin. It was Bai Qingcheng, who had a relationship with Chen Zhao. Her cheeks were thinner than the last time she met, and her silk skirt and plain clothes on her body were a little too hung on her shoulders.
In fact, what Gao Ningqin forgot about his busyness was that he forgot to inform Chen Zhao that the famous prostitute he ordered had arrived.
Chen Zhao did not disturb her, and stood beside her and listened quietly to her playing. After the song ended, Bai Qingcheng raised his head intently and found that Chen Zhao had come to her side.
Looking at Chen Zhao's smiling face, Bai Qingcheng suddenly felt the illusion of going back and changing the world. For a moment, he was speechless and choked, and two lines of clear tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.
Since Bai Qingcheng parted with Chen Zhao last time, he has stopped picking up customers when he returned to the Mèi Xianglou. At first, the madam in the Mèi Xianglou thought that Bai Qingcheng's menstrual period had come, so he didn't say much. Later, after a long time, the madam naturally realized that she was mentally unnatural. She began to care about her condition and tried to chat with her to untie her heart. After all, this kind of thing is common in brothels. The mental state of prostitutes is easily affected. They have to face all kinds of clients, and they will feel listless due to messy reasons.
For example, if you encounter a tough-minded client, physically and mentally exhausted by being harassed, or offend someone when serving a powerful man, he will suffer from a shocking and sudden shock. If you are not able to complete the entire sexual process smoothly when you pick up a customer, you will have psychological shadows, etc.
Therefore, on the one hand, the madam is the father of the prostitutes, who encourages them to move forward in their careers, and on the other hand, they also have to serve as their mothers and care about them in life. A qualified madam must do this level to be considered qualified.
However, this time, the madam in the Mèi Xianglou worked with Bai Qingcheng for a long time, but still failed to make progress. Bai Qingcheng's condition is different from other prostitutes who have mental problems. Generally, prostitutes are under great pressure and do not accept customers. They must be noisy and riots, vent their emotions, or cry in a tsunami. They wish they could hear their grievances next door, and no one could see them.
But the madam can see Bai Qingcheng every time she sees Bai Qingcheng and speaks well. She can't even feel Bai Qingcheng's emotions fluctuations. It seems very normal on the surface, but when she talks about picking up customers, she refuses.
Bai Qingcheng's performance made the maid of the Mèi Xianglou feel very difficult. He is not afraid of prostitutes crying. After crying enough and making trouble, he will naturally come back to work, fearing that the reason cannot be found. However, this maid is a maid of the top brothel in a top wealthy area like Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Hangzhou Prefecture. Naturally, it is well-informed. It is not a psychological trauma, but it is caused by women. It is probably a lovesickness.
In his early years, the madam in the Mèi Xianglou brought a girl who was only fifteen years old and had just entered the industry. The girl's parents died of disaster. She went to the houses of several relatives and couldn't eat or sleep. It was not that the relatives were not good to treat her, but that she had no support and felt empty. So she signed her own contract to sell her body, voluntarily fell into the world, and became a prostitute. As a result, she met a young scholar who was well-read and talented when she received a customer for the first time.The two of them fell in love as before when they saw each other, and when they met again, they were already deeply in love. The madam knew that the girl in the brothel had too much affection, and it was her who hurt her after several persuasions. After all, she had no effect. The scholar later passed the exam and promised to redeem her. Unexpectedly, she was a loving person. After embarking on the official road, she never returned. The girl was in a state of beauty in brothel, waiting for the person she loved for life and death, and eventually died of depression before she was eighteen years old.
There have been too many such situations in history. The madam immediately guessed what went wrong with Bai Qingcheng. She checked Bai Qingcheng's last pick-up and knew that the guest might be the guest of Lord Wang Shizhen. Being able to become Wang Shizhen's guest was obviously a young hero in the Jiangnan area. She slightly tested it out.
The madam once tried to tell Bai Qingcheng in a chatty manner that Wang Shizhen in Hangzhou was going to hold a poetry meeting again. Bai Qingcheng really responded to the news, which made the madam more certain that Bai Qingcheng fell into a love network and had a lovesickness.
This kind of pain is of course fatal to affectionate people. The madam confronted Bai Qingcheng and told her many women who had lost their wickedness due to lovesickness in history. There are so many examples of this, and so many unfaithful people. Why is it hard to wait for a lifetime if you make an empty promise?
Bai Qingcheng could also hear it, but her answer made the madam even more incredible. Bai Qingcheng was just unrequited to a young boy. Moreover, he had a family long ago and clearly refused Bai Qingcheng's invitation to spend a spring night together. This is unfaithful. He didn't mean to vow to you, but Bai Qingcheng couldn't get out of the corner.
Whether it was from the interests of the brothel or the concern for Bai Qingcheng himself, the madam repeatedly advised her to let go of the young man. She was not interested in you anymore. She was still such a family-friendly person. Why bother with you?
The reason is this, but if the emotional matter can be explained by reason, then the person will no longer be a human being. Bai Qingcheng naturally understands these principles, but the following sentence of Bai Qingcheng makes the old madam who has experienced a lot of time and has moved him.
Have you ever had a deep thought of you, which almost brought physical pain, isolating you from all around you, the lighter and fainter the scenery around you, and finally faded slowly.Sometimes, I feel that it seals you up too bitterly and can hardly breathe. After all, I want to pierce it with a needle, even if it is pierced a small hole, at least let you breathe.Strangely, he was both that needle and the pocket that wrapped me.
In this way, after hearing such a heartfelt confession, the madam understood that all the persuasion was useless. Only time could heal the beautiful heart or completely kill her.
The day after that heart-to-heart talk, there was a roundabout way. At the Hangzhou Youlong Chamber of Commerce held a cocktail party. Gao Ningqin was the helm to invite big merchants from all directions. Naturally, singing and dancing were indispensable, and geisha accompanied him. When the invitation was delivered to the Mèi Xianglou, Bai Qingcheng wanted to turn it off habitually. When he saw the invitation, Chen Zhao's name was on the invitation, he was shocked. There were so many people in the world who called Chen Zhao, but there were probably only the young man. Bai Qingcheng was holding a red paper bag in his hand. It was like holding the needle, the needle that could pierce her pocket that had been suppressing her, and she burst into tears.
When the madam saw Bai Qingcheng's appearance, she understood and sighed. How should this evil fate end?
She was pessimistic and seemed to have seen Bai Qingcheng's miserable ending. She wanted to stop it, but why did she stop it?
She only hoped that the young man could give up completely through this meeting.
Time returned to Chen Zhao's side. Seeing Bai Qingcheng's unforgettable tears, he was at a loss and hurriedly took out the handkerchief from his arms and handed it forward. He thought that the girl had remembered something sad when she was playing the piano.
If it were an ordinary woman, she would naturally thank her absolute kindness. She used a long sleeve towel to cover her face so that the guests would not see her tears flowing. Bai Qingcheng cried openly, insisting that Chen Zhao see her face with tears flowing like a spring. She also took his handkerchief naturally, wiped her tears but refused to return it, and held it tightly in her hand.
Even with the red eyes, the beautiful city is still beautiful and charming. The harmonious and delicate facial features bring people a sense of intimacy and possessiveness that always touches Chen Zhao's heart.
Chen Zhao was not sure, so he had to ask Bai Qingcheng what sad things were. Bai Qingcheng spoke just like a straight ball riddle: It is far away in the sky, close in front of him!
This made Chen Zhao even more confused. He thought he had ordered this girl to accompany her, which made her unhappy. No matter how much he was to bow and apologize, he himself didn't understand what the crime was.
Bai Qingcheng stood up and hid next to him, not accepting Chen Zhao's greeting. Chen Zhao didn't hear someone's reply, and did not look up. He still bowed. Bai Qingcheng turned his head and walked to another guqin and started playing again. Chen Zhao realized that she had already run away.
The song played by Bai Qingcheng this time is different from the previous song. It is a piano piece that expresses lovesickness. At this time, even if Chen Zhao is slow, he still vaguely feels Bai Qingcheng's meaning. Could this girl blame herself for not ordering her for a long time and patronizing her business?
Chen Zhao's soul comes from modern people. As a modern person, especially the citizens living in modern cities, the so-called story of a vow of love and a stronger love than gold can only be seen from the novel. The relationship between people becomes more and more indifferent, and such a sincere longing is even more impossible to see. When Chen Zhao saw the behavior of the hundred girls, he even doubted whether this was the operating strategy of the brothel. The prostitutes showed a deep thought of missing each other, and kept thinking about it and spending a lot of money on them. This idea was a big misunderstanding. Chen Zhao thought about it again and felt that it was wrong. If it was a hypocritical attitude, he should not give the customer a face. This Bai Qingcheng did not give Chen Zhao face from beginning to end, and the people cried so emotionally, if it was said that it was a performance, it would be unreasonable to guess.
Chen Zhao had already figured out a little of the smell at this time. He sat on a stone bench and listened quietly to Bai Qingcheng playing the piano. After Bai Qingcheng finished playing the song, Chen Zhao stood up again and walked to her and bowed to the side. Bai Qingcheng stood up again and hid next to him, saying in a trembling voice: Mr. Chen doesn't have to do this. The maid is asking for trouble. She wants to pick the stars in the sky, and she wants to be greedy for the Mid-Autumn Festival moon. She wants to pretend and cry in front of the young master, which makes Mr. Chen laugh.
Bai Qingcheng's agitated words made Chen Zhao laugh and cry. He straightened up and said generously: Miss Bai, you only see the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, but you don't know that the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, and the moon becomes more and more petty and stingy, and becomes less and less, turning into a petty and petty-minded look. The tragic and carefree appearance is very annoying; you also see the stars shining in the clear sky, but you don't know that the stars in the sky are here and there when they are there. The Magpie Bridge has to be given to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on the seventh day of the seventh day of the lunar calendar. I don't know how uncomprehensible it is!
Bai Qingcheng was surprised for a moment when he heard Chen Zhao's self-damagedness and immediately couldn't help but cover his mouth and laughed. Chen Zhao saw that it made her laugh, and he felt relieved and relaxed a lot.
In fact, both of them understood the riddle-like communication between them very clearly. Bai Qingcheng said that you are the star in the sky and the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival. I don’t think you can. After seeing you for so long, why don’t you let me cry enough?
Chen Zhao immediately said, "I am not the star and moon." I am a petty person, petty, and unkind. You only see my good side. I am very bad. Miss A hundred people, don't recognize the wrong person!
Bai Qingcheng has seen countless people who put gilds on his face, but he rarely sees Chen Zhao who is abusive and damaging himself as soon as he meets him. However, Chen Zhao didn't know that Bai Qingcheng is a woman who just takes this trick. You are poetic and picturesque, respect each other as guests, and behave properly, but she doesn't like it. If you joke with her, put the defense between men and women aside, or even laugh and scold, and do not abide by the rules, it will attract her.
Chen Zhao's last performance at Wang Shizhen's poem and drink party actually had this meaning. He was unwilling to show his strength and did not show his strength. He was so restrained at the cocktail party that everyone was talking about. He was neither happy nor angry, nor humble or arrogant, but instead attracted Bai Qingcheng's attention. In addition, he talked to Bai Qingcheng, never talked about elegant things such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and talked about daily trivial matters, even mundane things, which made Bai Qingcheng even more relaxed in talking and chatting with him, and his body and mind were both comfortable.
In modern language, this is the toxic side of political correctness. Some people attach too much importance to political correctness and do not even talk about pork in front of Hui people. On the surface, this is a kind of respect, but in fact it is a kind of rejection, which builds a thick wall of heart. The more you pay attention to the differences between nations, the more it shows the differences between nations. The famous philosopher Zizek once met a black reader at a book signing and sale meeting. He naturally made a racist joke with the black man. This is simply incredible to the white man and a great insult to the black man. However, the black man laughed, hugged him and said to him that you can call me nigger. In fact, the true intimacy is the intimate relationship that even if you joke too much.
It's still the example of Zizek. Once in a meeting, he sat on the podium and found a deaf and mute man below, so he wanted to communicate with him with gestures. He thought for a long time and finally made a vulgar gesture that implied sexual intercourse, with a vulgar smile on his face. The deaf and mute man was so funny by his irregular gestures. The two looked at each other and became friends in that moment, but an expert next to him criticized him for not respecting the deaf and mute man. Zizek widened his eyes and said: He is a mute, you are probably a blind man. Have you not seen the two of us gestures and gestures have become friends?
The same is true in ancient times. When a person is very kind and polite to others, is he really expressing closeness?
That only makes people feel polite, but Chen Zhao and Bai Qingcheng get along completely differently. The two seem to be completely unruly and polite. In the eyes of outsiders, Chen Zhao is not like a gentleman. However, it is this unruly that reflects the closer distance between the two. Chen Zhao sincerely expresses his simplest kindness, and even puts the political correctness of men and women aside in order to express this kind of friendship. Isn’t this the cutest part of him?
This is also the deepest reason why Bai Qingcheng really misses Chen Zhao.
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