Chapter 891 887 [Zhao Han Is the Heroine]
(The content of this chapter is nonsense and generous, please raise your hands high.)
"Your Majesty, we have found the manuscript copy of "Treasure of Wind and Moon", and the title of the book has been transcribed as "Story of the Stone"."
"Leave it alone."
Li Xiangjun has been promoted to the junior supervisor of the Rites Supervisor, and he usually doesn't follow Zhao Han very much, but is busy with other official duties.
The maid in front of me is named Wu Qiufeng, from Jurong, Jinling.
Zhao Han picked up the manuscript curiously. He heard about the novel "Fengyue Baojian" from Liu Rushi. The names Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu must be related to "A Dream of Red Mansions", but the author of the original book is definitely not "Cao Xueqin".
In another time and space, Taoist Kongkong, Qingseng, Wu Yufeng and Kong Meixi all changed the title of the novel. Zhiyanzhai, Jihusou, Tangcun, Songzhai, and Qiyuan have all annotated novels. Moreover, the above-mentioned people all use pseudonyms, and none of them are real names.
What "Cao Xueqin" did was read the novel for ten years, added and deleted it five times, compiled it into a catalog, and divided it into chapters.
According to the mainstream view of Hongxue, "Cao Xueqin" is Cao Zhan, the grandson of Cao Yin.
Let's just say, "Cao Xueqin" is a pseudonym anyway, and it can be placed on anyone.
What really matters is how much "Cao Xueqin" deleted or changed the original novel when adding or deleting. If the amount of deletions and revisions is extremely large, it is equivalent to a second creation, and it can also be regarded as the real author of "Dream of Red Mansions".
What Zhao Han sees now belongs to the initial version.
Without the opening two paragraphs of "Dream of Red Mansions", it starts directly from Nuwa refining stones to mend the sky, and then there is no Kongkong Taoist, just the words "the earth is sinking in the southeast".
As he read it, Zhao Han noticed something.
Compared with "Dream of Red Mansions" hundreds of years later, the content of this first edition is rough. The writing is procrastinated and boring, and its literary quality is far inferior to "A Dream of Red Mansions". In addition, words such as "rogue bandits" are mentioned.
It took a few days to finish reading the manuscript in his hand. Zhao Han was annoyed and funny: "These big headscarves are always hidden! As long as I don't criticize Tian Zheng, I will ransack my house and behead me because of a novel? "
This is a political metaphor novel.
Jia Mu can be understood as Zhu Yuanzhang, or the ancestor of the Ming royal family. Jia Baoyu is the Zuo of the Great Ming Dynasty and the Jade Seal of Chuanguo. He likes to eat rouge, and rouge is ink pad. "Don't lose, don't forget, live forever" engraved on the jade is exactly the same as "Ordered by heaven, live forever" on the jade seal.
Lin Daiyu is Chongzhen, suspicious, credulous, straightforward, and selfish.
Why did Zhao Han decide that Lin Daiyu was a metaphor for Chongzhen?
In "Dream of Red Mansions" in another time and space, Lin Daiyu died on the day of Baoyu's wedding, but this is a version of the dog tail sequel.
Lin Daiyu's birthday is February 12th, which is the Huachao Festival (Birth of a Hundred Flowers) in Wuzhong. Then her death date should be April 25th (the abdication of Baihua), or April 26th (the day to bid farewell to Baihua). And Emperor Chongzhen just died on April 25!
The version that Zhao Han got now directly changed the date of Daiyu's death to the Chongzhen Memorial Day in this time and space, and they were all hanged under the tree.
More obvious is the change of Xue Baochai's character.
Xue Baochai's name was changed to Xue Yuanjin, and "Jin" is next to the word earth, which is a metaphor for the new dynasty of Datong. And "chai" is next to the word gold, which is a metaphor for the Qing court.
In addition, a new character named Lu Baochai was added, which probably alludes to the Qing Dynasty in this time and space. Born in a small family, he wanted to win Jia Baoyu's favor (to fight for the world), but he was beaten to death.
Xia Jingui, who was used as a metaphor for Wu Sangui, was renamed Xia Jinyu. It is estimated that in this time and space, Wu Sangui is not a big disaster, but Zuo Liangyu is more important. The author uses a sinister, cunning, and back-and-forth character to insinuate.
Yuanyang, Yuchuan, Jin Rong, etc. are still there, but a few more characters have been added. Anyway, similar marginal characters are either accompanied by the characters of soil (Datong officials) or by the characters of gold (Jianzhou Tartars).
Jia Jing is Jiajing, not only homophonic, but also loves alchemy, no matter what the business is.
Mrs. Wang is the emperor of Tianqi, who died of illness by accidentally falling into the water, and entrusted Jia Baoyu (Daming Guozuo) to Lin Daiyu (Chongzhen).
Jia Huan is a homonym for family troubles, alluding to Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, who repeatedly framed and hurt Jia Baoyu (Daming Guozuo). Jia Rong, Jia Qiang, homophonic for Rong and Qiang, alluding to the various barbarians around Daming.
Jia Zheng, the Ming state government.
Wang Xifeng, Wei Zhongxian.
Yuan Chun, Yuan Chonghuan.
There are all kinds of metaphors.
That's why Zhao Han laughed angrily. When he read the unedited "Dream of Red Mansions", he immediately knew what the author was writing.
On the night before the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhao Han came to Liu Rushi's room, took out the manuscript of the novel and said, "Let's see, Mr. Liu, how well I annotate it."
Liu Rushi had only read the serialized part, and when he saw the whole book now, he immediately smiled happily, but he was soon dumbfounded after opening it.
When Jia Yucun appeared on the stage, there was Zhao Han's red annotation next to it: Jia Hua, whose name is Shifei, and whose name is Yucun. The remnants of the eunuchs!
Liu Rushi continued to read, and when he introduced the people in Jia's house, there was another pile of red letters: Yuan Chun, Yuan Chonghuan. To welcome the spring, to warm the body and benevolence. Tanchun, Yang Sichang also...
In the original version of "Dream of Red Mansions", Tanchun should be a metaphor for Zheng Chenggong, or a certain minister of Nanming who fled to sea. But this version of the story has changed, and even Tanchun's personality has changed, becoming anxious and approaching, and not listening to advice, which is very similar to Yang Sichang's situation, and his "centipede theory" is to scold rogues.
Liu Rushi flipped through more than twenty pages in a row, feeling his scalp tingling. Zhao Han's red-letter comments were too scary.
"Your Majesty has approved the book like this, and I won't be able to read any novels." Liu Rushi put down the book, her tone seemed to be coquettish, but she actually wanted to persuade Zhao Han not to make a fuss.
Zhao Han said with a smile: "I didn't even think about finding out who the author was. I wrote a novel and kept the beginning and end hidden. How can we still start a rebellion? Let them miss the past."
Liu Rushi immediately complimented him: "Your Majesty is magnanimous, and the wise kings of ancient times were only like this."
Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The princes and princesses born to Liu Rushi came back from school in the evening and hung wormwood with the maids.
Zhao Han teased his children for a while, and then talked about novels with Liu Rushi.
The author is indeed ingenious. The struggle for supremacy between dynasties can be written as a love triangle between two women and one man. The man is Jiangshan Guozuo, and the women are Chongzhen and Zhao Han. In the end, Zhao Han's mistress succeeded in taking over.
The Jianzhou Tatar became a maid from a humble background who was beaten to death for seducing a young master.
Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were even worse. They didn't even get into the supporting female roles and became villainous supporting actors inexplicably.
Hahahaha, the more Zhao Han thought about it, the happier he became.
The next day.
Zhao Han went to attend the court meeting first. During the festival, the court officials did nothing but wish the emperor a happy holiday, and the emperor rewarded the ministers with holiday gifts.
When the ministers left the Forbidden City, they were carrying a bunch of rice dumplings.
After three days of vacation, everyone was very happy except those who had to be on duty.
Fei Rulan, as the queen, summoned the concubines in the harem and met with the female dependents. Only Mrs. Gaoming is qualified to enter the palace and receive the queen's rewards and blessings.
Dozens of ministers' wives sat with the concubines and watched the performance on the temporary stage.
"good!"
Zhang Tieniu's wife screamed the loudest. She stood up and applauded at the highlight of the show, instantly becoming the focus of the audience.
The lady had already figured it out. Zhang Tieniu would neither go home nor take her to live with her, so she would just have to make do with it. Since she is the wife of Emperor Gaoming, it is impossible to divorce her anyway. In the future, it will be enough to have a son to take care of her in old age.
After watching a program, she came up to Fei Rulan, wiped her tears and said, "Mother, my brother Xun, I heard that he went to the ice and snow. Can you please ask the emperor to transfer brother Xun back to Nanjing? That's not Nanjing. , it’s okay to be transferred to Hebei or Shaanxi. This is the only one I gave birth to. Brother Xun will have three pros and two shortcomings. How will I live for the rest of my life!"
Fei Rulan smiled and said: "Brother Xun has great ambitions, and your Majesty often praises him. We women should not interfere with men's affairs."
The conversation was blocked, and the wife of the Zhang family didn't know how to continue. Moreover, she was very unsociable, and other female relatives shunned her.
Take the wives of Fei Chun and Chen Maosheng, both of whom came from relatively ordinary backgrounds, but as their husbands rose through the ranks, they behaved more solemnly and calmly. Only Zhang Tieniu's wife has never changed in temperament and taste, and she will always look like a country shrew.
Fei Rulan didn't feel any disdain, she just felt a little headache and often couldn't laugh or cry.
When Zhang Tingxun was young, he was once taken into the palace to celebrate a festival. Because of the fight between the children, Mrs. Zhang got angry on the spot, pushed Zhang Tingxun to the ground and beat her. Just spank him, and even take off his pants and spank him in front of many female relatives. Later, when I asked her why she had to take off the child's pants, she replied that the fabric of the pants was expensive and she was afraid they would be damaged by a stick.
It was almost noon when the ministers and their wives left with gifts.
Brother and sister Zhu Yuluo and Zhu Cizheng, as well as other princes and princesses, were called together to have a meal and celebrate the festival.
"Why didn't you bring your wife and children?" Fei Rulan asked.
Zhu Cizheng replied: "It's a little inconvenient."
Fei Rulan said: "Bring them together next year and don't let them stay at home alone."
Zhu Cizheng said: "Thank you for your grace."
Since the younger ones of the Zhu family came to Nanjing, they had to go to the palace every year and festival, and Zhao Han did not treat them as outsiders.
"The emperor has arrived!"
Everyone quickly stood up to greet him.
Zhao Han walked into the courtyard with a smile: "Everyone, please sit down."
There were four tables in the courtyard. Zhao Han's children alone numbered 17, and the youngest one was still nursing.
Zhao Kuanghuan brought several wives, two of whom were pregnant.
Of course Princess Elizabeth was also there. It was her first time meeting the emperor, so she took a few more curious glances.
This kind of royal family gathering was probably only possible during the founding of the People's Republic of China. After one or two generations, dozens of tables would have to be set up.
The number of Zhao Han's concubines is really small, and they are all here today. Not only are there princesses from Brunei, but the North Korean princess is also there. She is 18 years old this year and gave birth to a son last year.
The conversation was about family matters, mainly focusing on the marriage of Zhao Furong, Zhao Hanjin, and Zhao Kuangli.
"Fu'er hasn't chosen yet?" Zhao Han asked.
Zhao Furong's face turned red with embarrassment: "I already like it."
Fei Rulan smiled and said: "He is the son of Dr. Chen's family. He is studying at Jinling University. He has an upright appearance and a good personality. I met him at the racecourse last month. Fu'er felt satisfied. I have asked the Ministry of Rites to choose an auspicious day."
The eldest princess's marriage has been settled. Zhao Hanjin and Zhao Kuanglui can take their time, since they are not too old anyway.
Zhao Han looked at Zhu Yuluo at the next table. Judging by her hairstyle, he knew she was still single.
Chongzhen betrothed his daughter to Zhao Han. This matter has long been spread throughout the world. Who dares to compete with the emperor for a woman?
Zhao Han suddenly remembered the novel again. He and Chongzhen were both heroines, competing for the man who represented the country, the country, and the country. Some people still can't let go. Maybe if they marry Chongzhen's daughter, this matter can truly turn around.