Chapter 1075 Keep your word
""Silent Night Thoughts"" Meng Chong knelt on the ground in response to the order and read aloud Zhu Pingan's revised "Quiet Night Thoughts" starting from the title.
Emperor Jiajing sat on the lawn and concentrated on petting the cat. He was focused on pleasing the cat's owner. He didn't pay any attention to it. He seemed to just regard Meng Chong's reading as the background music for petting the cat.
"There is bright moonlight in front of the bed, and it is suspected to be frost on the ground." Meng Chong read out the first two sentences revised by Zhu Ping'an.
Emperor Jiajing, who was concentrating on petting the cat, couldn't help but stop petting the cat when he heard these two sentences read by Meng Chong.
The fat tabby cat purred lowly and rubbed his head against Emperor Jiajing's hand twice, urging Emperor Jiajing to continue.
"Look up at the bright moon and lower your head to miss your hometown." Meng Chong then read out the last two sentences.
After hearing this, Emperor Jiajing closed his eyes involuntarily, as if feeling something, and completely forgot about petting the cat.
In the mind of Emperor Jiajing, the bricks and tiles of Prince Lu Zhouxing’s Mansion began to slowly emerge, and the scenes of his past life also began to flash in his mind.
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When the fat tabby cat saw that Emperor Jiajing had neglected him, he meowed dissatisfiedly and kept rubbing his head against Emperor Jiajing's hand.
"Haha, my General Longhu is jealous." Emperor Jiajing came back to his senses and smiled, gently touched the fat tabby cat's head and teased him, "If there is a chance another day, , I took General Longhu to visit my hometown, Prince Xing’s Mansion in Luzhou. It’s not as big as here, but there are A rockery with many caves, the general will definitely like it.”
Meng Chong, who was kneeling on the ground with his head lowered in anticipation of the order, felt his heart swell. This was because the Lord heard it from Master Xiao Zhu. The revised "Quiet Night Thoughts" touched the scene and made me miss the Luzhouxing Palace during the Long Qian period.
"Transcribe several copies and send them to Wuyi Hall. Comment objectively and report them to me."
After Emperor Jiajing teased the fat tabby cat for a while, he said calmly to the man who was kneeling in anticipation of the order. Meng Chong gave an order.
"I obey the order."
Meng Chong touched his head to the ground, stood up after the order, lowered his head and walked backwards.
Soon, Meng Chong copied several copies of "Silent Night Thoughts" and sent them to Wuyi Hall for comments from the ministers on duty.
"Huh? It turned out to be a rewrite of "Quiet Night Thoughts" by the poet Li Taibai. I dare to ask Eunuch Meng, who wrote this "Quiet Night Thoughts"?"
Before starting to comment. , a worthy minister asked Meng Chong who wrote this revised version of "Quiet Night Thoughts".
"This "Quiet Night Thoughts" comes from."
Meng Chong was about to tell the ministers that this "Quiet Night Thoughts" was written by Zhu Pingan, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he suddenly thought of Emperor Jiajing. As for the "objective review" commanded, as for the objective review, if the ministers knew that the author was Mr. Xiao Zhu, wouldn't it be easy for them to bring in their personal subjective feelings towards Mr. Xiao Zhu when commenting?
It is better to do less than to do more. If you do more, you will make more mistakes. If you do less, you will make fewer mistakes. If you do less, it will be better.
The Miscellaneous Family cannot interfere with the Lord’s errands.
Thinking of this, Meng Chong closed his mouth, smiled, and said to the ministers on duty: "Haha, my lords, please let the Zajia family show off for a while. After you have finished your comments, the Zajia family will tell you. .”
Although I don't know who the author is, I know that Emperor Jiajing asked them to review this "Quiet Night Thoughts". Based on this, most of the ministers use praise when they comment.
"Well, you actually rewrote Shixian's "Quiet Night Thoughts"? How bold is the artist? The first sentence "Looking at the moonlight in front of the bed" was rewritten as "The moonlight is bright in front of the bed", which makes it read more It’s so catchy,” You Zhichen couldn’t wait to comment.
"More than that, if you read it carefully, it makes sense to remove the word 'look'. The version that was circulated before was 'look at the moonlight in front of the bed'. The moonlight is an invisible thing, so it's not good to go out of your way to look at it. ', and if you go to 'see' it, it's not easy to mistake 'moonlight' for 'suspicious frost on the ground', and change it to 'moonlight in front of the bed', which means 'moonlight' is not there. The words "suspected to be frost on the ground" came into my eyes accidentally, and it felt much more natural when I read it. "Yuan Wei has always been active and enthusiastic about this kind of thing, so he can show off his talents. He took over the words of the previous minister, further explained, dug into the considerations behind the change of words, and sang praises for the revised version, "Especially 'raise your head' was changed to 'raise your head', It can be said to be the finishing touch of this poem. Raising your head always gives people a feeling of relaxation, while raising your head makes you feel heavy, which further highlights the weight of homesickness."
"Yes, what Master Yuan said is true. Yes. Strictly speaking, there are dozens of versions of "Silent Night Thoughts" that have been handed down, and the version that is popular today is only the one collected and published by the Song Dynasty. Is it the same as the original work by the poet Li Taibai? No one can tell whether it is different or not. This revised version of "Silent Night" is more catchy and easy to understand than the Song version. The gospel of Meng Tong in the Ming Dynasty should be vigorously promoted and recited."
All the ministers in Wuyi Hall rushed to speak, and there were endless comments praising the revised version of "Silent Night Thoughts".
Of course, it is not without criticisms, saying that this "Quiet Night Thoughts" is "tampering" with the masterpiece of the poet, and is suspected of "blaspheming" the masterpiece of the poet. Also, the original "Mountain Moon" is more elegant, and the revised version "Ming Yue" is much more tacky, but these voices were soon criticized and then submerged in the human voice. Compared with the wave of praise, it was just a small ripple, not even a wave.
While everyone was commenting, Meng Chong and several young eunuchs were taking notes, especially Yuan Wei’s comments. After everyone finished commenting, Meng Chong fulfilled his promise before commenting and wrote "Quiet Night" Zhu Ping'an, the editor of "Thinking", informed everyone, and then went to return to Emperor Jiajing.
After hearing that "Quiet Night Thoughts" was composed by Zhu Pingan, Yuan Wei, who had sang the praises most enthusiastically before, was stunned. His mouth opened as if he had swallowed a mouse, feeling uncomfortable, diarrhoea, Regret and wait All kinds of emotions came one after another. If I had known that this song "Quiet Night Thoughts" was changed by Zhu Ping'an, I would have sung his praises and praised him. Damn, I wouldn't let him cheat. I don't even have the surname Yuan. Yuan Wei My intestines turned green with regret.
Unfortunately, there is no if, time is hard to turn back, and it is hard to recover after overturning the water.
In the Imperial Garden, Meng Chong truthfully replied to the cat-loving Emperor Jiajing’s comments from the ministers in Wuyi Palace.
"That being the case, I must keep my word. Are you right? My Dragon and Tiger General."
Emperor Jiajing raised the fat tabby cat with both hands and held up its The two fat claws were flying in the air and he said teasingly. (End of this chapter)