Now that Zhu Zhishan has no manuscript to write, Cui Xie was reluctant to let him go, so he discussed with him: "I asked some farm affairs during my filial piety, and I compiled a set of agricultural books, which will be published in a few days. These articles are written a bit deep, and they are read by us scholars, and the common people may not understand or use them, so I came up with a set of books that can be read by real people who are really strong, and I want Zhishan to help me.”
Zhu Zhishan smiled bitterly and said, "I never even saw the real farming work at home. It can be said that the four bodies are not diligent and the five grains are not divided. You will have to study for a few months to teach me how to write a farming book for Brother Cui?"
Cui Xie sighed: "I should have done these things, but my articles are from the ancient literature of the Tang and Song Dynasties. They are too simple and simple, and people are afraid that they will not like to read them. Zhishan is very talented and witty in writing. "Young Jinyiwei" is liked by the people of Jiangnan and Jiangbei, so I have to use you."
He looked at Zhu Zhishan with a questioning face, and took the initiative to explain: "I printed a 200,000-character agricultural classic and published it. How many people can buy it and read it? Only those who know a few words bought it and read it. The big words are boring to look at, and they are thrown away. I want to draw this kind of method into a comic book that people love to read, or even a storyteller's book, so that people will listen to it first, and then listen to it. Maybe it's a trial run."
Although he presented these methods to the emperor, he did not guarantee that they could be implemented everywhere. But if we start from the people, let the people know this technology first, and some people will be interested and try it out. Seeing the results, they will naturally use it in the future. And those villagers who watched the trialists increase their production and income would follow suit.
Zhu Zhishan still frowned and asked, "Then how should I write it? It's okay if you want me to write the manuscript of the picture book for you, but I really never thought of writing the talking book."
That doesn't matter. There are many folk artists in the Cui family's chain of "Qingcha" shops. If you give them comic strips, they will naturally adapt them.
Cui Xie smiled and said, "Why did I make Zhishan sad? I have an idea on how to write this thing. You can add it to it. In short, it's all about attracting people."
This agricultural knowledge, even if it is painted on the best colored paper, is beautifully designed, and it is just as boring to print. He intends to incorporate the planting methods he has developed into the stories that the people like to hear and hear, and to make a set of agricultural knowledge popular science picture books similar to children's literacy picture books.
For example, a poor mountain villager was too old to marry a wife. Occasionally, he caught a few piglets in the mountains. He fed the pigs with acorns, soybean meal, cotton meal and cooked cabbage, and cleaned the pigsty every day. , Sprinkle lime outside the circle to disinfect. With such scientific feeding and disease prevention, by the end of the year, a 200-pound pig was raised, which became a wealthy family within a few years.
For example, a girl in a mountain village is hard-working and capable. She builds bamboo cages to raise chickens at home, allowing chicken manure to leak into the bamboo cages, and does not allow outsiders to easily approach the chicken coop. Lime water is often used for disinfection, and chickens will be less sick. As a result, the family was rich and noble, the brothers were able to study, and the girl married a handsome scholar.
For example, a certain place is about to have a bumper harvest, but it encounters a locust plague. The new magistrate was begging for the gods, and there was an old god who asked him in a dream in the middle of the night to instruct him on the method of eradicating locusts. Locusts are easy to lay eggs in swamps in summer, and the eggs are shallow. In winter, they are deep underground. There are pits on the surface, and the soil can be excavated to exterminate. The magistrate immediately ordered people to find the breeding grounds for locusts, burn their eggs, and hunt and eat roasted locusts together with the local people, quelling the famine. So Shoufu took a fancy to him and married his daughter to him...
Without waiting for him to give another example, Zhu Zhishan stopped him, waved his hand and said, "Isn't this the story of a strange ghost? Although I haven't written this one, I've seen a lot of it. It's much easier than "Youth Jinyiwei". However, if this is the case, dozens or hundreds of books will be published every year in Wuzhou alone, and I am afraid that not many people will read it."
well said! Comrade Zhu Zhishan already has the initiative to take the initiative to consider publishing and printing for them!
Cui Xie's eyes lit up, and he stood up and patted the table: "Zhi Shan's words alerted me! Although Zhi Shan's talent, no matter how cheesy the article is, he can write well, but we are doing this to attract more people. If you know the techniques written in the book, you might as well borrow a background…”
Borrowing the popular background of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Shuoyue or Jinyiwei, wouldn't it be enough to add these stories to celebrities
The story can be made up any way, not necessarily according to what he thinks, as long as the technical implementation process can be inserted into it. If Zhu Zhishan really doesn't know how to write popular science content, he will leave a blank paragraph for him to write, and then revise it at the end.
The Hanlin seniors cooperated like this when they wrote the script of the Jinyiwei Academy and the comic strip. Only when Zhu Zhishan came, he was able to catch up with the opening of a new project, and he always did it by himself. In the future, more new talents will join, and he has to learn to divide different plot lines according to the characters, like his predecessors, each is responsible for one or several lines, and then cooperate with his colleagues to assemble the book.
Zhu Zhishan remembered Cui Xie's so-called 200,000-character agricultural book, and sincerely hoped that Tang Yin, Du Mu, and Wen Zhengming would come to Beijing, and even more hoped that Li Mengyang, whom Wang Shouren valued, would join him immediately.
Wang Shouren didn't let him down either. He approached Li Mengyang within two days and asked him bluntly, "Brother Xianji, do you know that Duke Xianji's disciple, Cui Xie, Cui Hezhong, is the champion in the 23rd year of Chenghua?"
of course I know.
Li Mengyang has entered the imperial court since then, no, since the end of the Spring Festival in the 23rd year of Chenghua, he has not heard the name Cui Xie less often. In his dazzling life, he was the only one who was born in Wuyuan. He met the teacher as an examiner when he was solving the test, and he couldn't hold a senior who was able to understand the yuan, so that he could feel that his literary talent was in front of the other party. No place to use.
He established the world with poems and articles, but Cui Xie published books to teach this group of scholars, which is not comparable to the journey.
And Cui Xie's literary talent is not weaker than others. Those few essays on the pilot test were really beautifully written, not like the dilute and weak nowadays, quite a bit of the simplicity and generosity of the ancient writers of the Tang Dynasty, which was in line with his heart. It is a pity that this person seldom writes ancient prose, and what comes out is some time-honored literature and craftsmanship. After the pilot test, he is even more addicted to compiling imperial examination books, and he only occasionally publishes one or two paragraphs of answers or test-taking experience.
He read all those books in the five-year township examination of Hongzhi, and only then did he know why he failed in the previous township examination.
He originally thought that those famous masters' notes were just collections of works such as "Jinghua Daily Copy", "Ideas", and "Outline". He prides himself on being the best in the world, and he doesn't even bother to read other people's art-making routines. A friend once asked him to read it. He also wrote poems that satirize the set of books, causing his friends to leave in shame and anger, and he almost broke off with him.
It was not until he enrolled in Yang Yiqing's school to study and was given a set of "The Imperial Examination Must-Read Series" by his mentor, that he realized his narrow-mindedness - that was really a famous teacher, and it was the interpretation of the meaning of the scriptures by the court ministers. After the lecture notes, specific questions and answers are attached, so that people can do the questions to verify whether they really understand the content of the book.
Among those answers were Cui Xie's words, which were as neat and clear as always, concise and to the point, but they did not have the rushing and cheerful momentum of the pilot test article, which was not satisfying enough.
He wanted to see Cui Xie, but in the sixth year of Hongzhi, when he went to Beijing to take the exam, this senior had already returned to his hometown to observe filial piety, and he has not returned until now...
Li Mengyang gathered his thoughts and asked Wang Shouren, "Bo An asked this question because he had the opportunity to ask me to see this servant Cui speak?"
Wang Shouren smiled slightly: "It's not just meeting, we scholars together, don't we have to talk about articles? Brother He Zhong has written many new articles in the countryside, and the "Ode to the Field" sent to me is just one of the most inconspicuous ones. There are a few articles that are really famous enough to be handed down to the world, with novel layout and profound content, which have never been published before. I have read it again and again, and it can be called an article by a scholar!"
What he said was true and never exaggerated, but it was a thousand miles away from the masterpiece Li Mengyang imagined.
Li Mengyang had read the "Ode to the Field", and he felt that he was thinking about the mysterious and resigned, and he had a rough atmosphere. He wanted to know what kind of articles Wang Shouren praised.
With anticipation in his heart, he promised: "As long as Cui Shi talks about the appointment, Mengyang will push others away and go to his appointment." After saying a few words, he thought of a few friends who shared the same aspirations as him in poetry and prose. , asked: "Can I invite the two worthy brothers, Bian and Wang, to go with me? There is also Li Bozheng, the son of Duke Xi Ya, and he must be familiar with Cui Shijiao. Let's have a literary meeting and talk about poetry and articles together. Isn't it fun?"
As he talked, he seemed to see a trace of pity in Wang Shouren's eyes, but the emotion was like his illusion, and soon disappeared.
Wang Shouren still had a smile on his lips, and replied: "I also think that the two virtuous brothers Bian and Wang are outstanding in their studies, but Li Bozheng doesn't need to invite him. Brother He Zhong has already been to his house when he entered Beijing. If you invite him, it will be inconvenient for us to speak at the conference."
He had personally experienced the feeling of finding out that his father was the author of his favorite comic strip, and he didn't want Li Zhaoxian to experience it again.
And it's useless to call Li Zhaoxian, Cui Xie is very principled, only one father and son are used in a family, just like the ancient famous generals picking soldiers, they will never use both father and son.
Wang Shouren made this appointment with him, and he asked Bian Gong and Wang Jiusi to gather together. Among the two talents, Bian Gong has a softer temperament, but Wang Jiusi is arrogant. But Li Mengyang's talent made them fall in love, and both of them only followed his will. No matter how they felt that Cui Xie had no poetic talent, he was not their genius, so they agreed to meet.
But they agreed, but Cui Xie didn't have time for a while.
As soon as he submitted the application for reinstatement to the Ministry of Personnel, there was an edict in the palace, ordering his official reinstatement and hurrying back to work. What are three days off, and there is not a day left. Emperor Hongzhi couldn't wait to see him, and asked the eunuch of the Siyuan Bureau to come and discuss with him the new hybrid soybean technology that was being tested.