"Brother Ximing, what do you know about this thing?" Li Wen pointed to a plate of exquisite dishes that had just been served, and smiled at a young scholar beside her.

Zhang Pu looked intently and found that in a large porcelain plate, a hideous-looking, colorful animal head was erected on the head of the plate, and in the plate behind him were stacked pieces of meat shaped like snowflakes, and there were bursts of cold air.

Several people at the table were amazed by the food, but most of them didn't know what it was. Zhou Zhong, who was sitting on Zhang Pu's right, said with some surprise: "It turns out that the ice cubes stacked under these meat slices, no wonder there is a cold." This one looks like the head of a shrimp, but the two horns on the head are really majestic, could it be a different species in the sea? ”

Zhang Pu smiled slightly, and explained the confusion for Zhou Zhong beside him: "This thing is seen in ancient books, in the first year of Song Tiansheng, the fisherman got to be in the sea, more than three feet long, the first two pincers can be two inches, and there is a red beard at the end. The large rate is colorful, and the shape is particularly different. The Chinese envoy Wu Zhonghua painted his portrait to smell, and the edict was named the god shrimp. Brother Yunsheng, is this thing? ”

Li Wen suddenly laughed and clapped her hands and said, "It is worthy of Brother Ximing, but it is just like that." This thing occasionally appears in the waters near Zhoushan, and the local fishermen also call it: Qinglong. Today, however, these are from the Sea of Japan. It was a fishing boat returning from Japan, and the things that came with it happened to be caught up by us. ”

Zhu Wei, who was sitting opposite Li Wen, seemed to hesitate a little when he looked at the lobster head, and he asked Li Wen in a low voice: "This thing is called the green dragon, and I won't be a taboo when I eat this thing, right?" ”

Li Wen shook her head and said with an unchanged smile: "This thing was originally brought back by the eunuchs in the palace to see the hunt in Japan, and specially brought it back to be appreciated by His Majesty, wanting to win His Majesty's favor."

However, His Majesty said that this thing was just a kind of food, and it was not worth seeing, and only a few were left, and the rest were taken out and sold.

The owner of this Yantai Tower recently sold a share to Tian Guozhang, so he got the moon first near the water tower and got most of the Qinglong. It is said that His Majesty also gave this thing a name, called Splendid Lobster. ”

Zhou Zhong was suddenly a little surprised and said: "This thing is so rare, wouldn't this seat tonight cost Brother Yunsheng a lot of money?" ”

Regarding Zhou Zhong's surprise, Li Wen just didn't answer. However, he was disdainful in his heart, after all, Zhou Zhong was born in a small family, how could he talk about money on such an occasion.

It costs about 10 taels of silver to buy a table of ordinary swallow wing seats in Suzhou.

But if you want to buy a southern-style swallow wing seat in the capital, it will cost about 12 taels, and today this green dragon alone is worth 10 taels, and it is estimated in bits and pieces that tonight this table alone is about 25 taels.

However, Li Wen, who has countless fertile fields at home, does not feel that there is anything wrong with a table of banquets eating up the income of a semi-ordinary farmer.

For him, as long as he can befriend these scholars and literati present and let him establish a good reputation in Shilin, this banquet will be quite worthwhile.

All of you here today are members of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance. The alliance of the ten sons of Yantai is to go to Beijing to participate in the Wuchen examination and some tribute students, because they are dissatisfied with the rampant ugliness and the decline of despair, they are deeply knotted, and they invite their colleagues to form an alliance for a hundred years.

Several scholars led by Du Linzheng and Zhang Pu invited 28 people, including Mi Shoudu, Chen Zhaogong, Yang Tingshu, Luo Wanzao, Ai Nanying, Zhang Shichun, Zhu Jian, Zhu Wei, Zhang Cai, Song Cunnan, Xia Yunyi, and Wang Chongjian, to form an alliance of the ten sons of Yantai.

Although these scholars formed an alliance with the allusion of King Yanzhao building Yantai, everyone did not go to the hometown of Yantai in Yixian County to form an alliance, but in the Yantai Building, a restaurant in Beijing, calling friends and friends to have a lively time, which can be regarded as forming an alliance of comrades.

The members of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance had a close relationship with Qian Qianyi, Huang Daozhou, Zheng Zheng and other Donglin Party members, and often wrote articles to each other to praise each other, and they were able to express their feelings. These scholars have not hesitated to openly say that if they are given a chance, they will overturn the situation and will not be able to support it.

The meaning of their words is to inherit the will of Donglin, expel the eunuch members in the court, and restore the situation of righteous men and gentlemen in charge of the court.

These scholars supported the Donglin Party members politically, and believed that they should have the heart of the ancients and learn from the ancients.

Zhang Pu's proposition is: the text must be six classics, and the poetry must be six dynasties. When the Alliance of the Ten Sons of Yantai was first established, because the people who joined the society were all famous people in the south, plus Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai, who were known as "Lou Dong Erzhang" in the society, they were indeed outstanding in literature.

Therefore, the alliance of the ten sons of Yantai became known as the romance of Jinghua for a while, and it was often sought after by scholars from Dumen. It's a pity that although they did their best in the lift, they fell behind one after another in the examination, and only Zhang Cai and Du Linzheng and other three people won the test.

Many scholars who were disgraced in the examination, but they did not lose their ambition, and agreed that after returning to their hometowns in the south, they would contact each other's hometown scholars and establish their own literary societies.

But there are also some scholars who stay, wanting to study some knowledge in the past Taixue and now Yenching University. These scholars may have been attracted by the new school pioneered by Yenching University, and wanted to learn about this kind of knowledge that they had never heard of. Or because they are disgusted with new learning, and they want to understand the basics and then refute them one by one.

However, no matter what, Yenching University has actually become a battlefield where old and new ideologies collide. Confucianism, who took the Six Classics as the foundation, the sages as the right, and the sages as the wrongs, and the curious people who were opened their eyes by the new school and began to re-understand the world, launched a fierce confrontation.

At Yenching University, young scholars began arguing with each other, which soon turned into invincing and then group fighting. The literati of the late Ming Dynasty were indeed a very strange group, and most of the scholars who studied all the year round were not physically strong, but they were not lacking in blood.

This was quite surprising to Chongzhen, it turned out that the literati of the late Ming Dynasty were not the sour and rotten literati who dipped in bad wine in the tavern and showed off to others, and there were four ways to write fennel.

Maybe there will be some among them, famous people in the literary world who shout that the water is too cold and their scalps are cold, and there are also people who kneel down in front of the enemy. But at least no, the walking dead who are so numb that they have lost even the courage to fight.

Several fights between scholars and scholars occurred in Yenching University, which led to the impeachment of many Donglin Party members, and the officials who managed Yenching University and the excessively bad academic style in the university, even pointed the problem to Xinxue.

However, Chongzhen did not pay attention to the impeachment of these officials, but ordered an additional auditorium to be built in the school, so that the scholars who disagreed with them could debate every seven days, and the content of the debate could be published for the students to read, and naturally a copy should be sent to the palace.

In addition, a student council composed of the students themselves was established to manage the various student groups, punish those who brawl in the school, and increase the staffing of the school medical office.

For the imperial court, whether it was disaster relief, war with the Mongols, or dealing with the rebellion in the southwest, it was far more important than the brawl between the scholars in Yenching University. In addition, with the presence of scholars such as Xu Guangqi, who had always been respected by scholars, the debate between Xinxue and Confucianism at Yenching University was eased.

Of course, this is also because of the decline of Taixue, which led to the students recruited by Yenching University after the restructuring because most of the scholars had no hope for the imperial examination. These people have little respect for Confucianism, and they have a lot of grievances.

Those who have opinions about the professors of Yenching University are often the ones who take the Beijing entrance examination, and these scholars will naturally go around after the examination when they arrive in Beijing.

After the name of the country was changed, many rules that outsiders were not allowed to enter and leave at will were abolished, and these scholars from other places would naturally go shopping.

Although there are indeed a lot of contradictions between the two sides, most of them still have to return to their hometowns, except for some of the people who will continue to stay in the capital. There was no numerical advantage in the first place, and the emperor gave a channel to vent, so this contradiction naturally did not intensify so much.

Although most of the members of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance dispersed and returned to their hometowns, leaders such as Du Linzheng and Zhang Cai were unable to participate in the activities of the Cultural Society because of the Zhongju, and Zhang Pu, who was as famous as the two of them, became the leader of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance in Beijing.

And Zhang Pu is not only famous for his articles, but also outstanding in organizing the literary society and handing over officials. Although he was only in white clothes, he did not succumb to the advantages when he interacted with Qian Ge Lao and other Donglin leaders.

Such a person, as long as he is promoted to the office, there is no accident, and he will inevitably be a candidate for direct entry into the cabinet. Li Wen saw this in mind, so she devoted herself to associating with her.

Although Li Wen focused most of her attention on Zhang Pu, with a character like Zhang Pu with raised eyebrows, the scholars present did not feel that they were left out.

However, Zhang Pu saw it, and a young scholar opposite him seemed to be silent after sitting down, and he couldn't help but put down his wine glass and said, "Brother Yi Zhong, why is he so unhappy, could it be that he is still thinking about this morning's debate?"

That's just a momentary ambition of the villain, these people are not Kong Bomeng, they only value the Mo family, but they have been poisoned by Li Zhen. As long as we uphold the right path, we will surely be able to purge these evil ways. ”

The reason why Zhang Pu attaches great importance to this scholar named Xia Yunyi is because this person is so ancient and erudite, he is literate, and he is a native of Songjiang, which is adjacent to Taicang, and is quite famous among the clouds. He wanted to make friends with Xia Yunyi and form a bigger literary society together in the future.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, the Zhang family in Taicang is a prominent family of eunuchs for generations, Zhang Pu is naturally also a noble son with literary style.

But Zhang Pu himself knew that the Zhang family in Taicang was not his backing, or he would not support him on the surface.

Because he was born to a concubine and his rank was small, he was not valued by the clan, and his uncle Zhang Fuzhi especially looked down on him.

This is also the motivation for him to study hard since he was a child, but if he wants to make a difference in his career, it is not enough to have talent and learning, and the reputation that can reach the emperor's ears is the most important thing.

Zhang Pu has a generous appearance, but he is very keen on power. Otherwise, it would not have been 11 months after the Suzhou Civil Rebellion, after the direction of the imperial court was determined, he wrote the article "The Tombstone of Five People" to invite fame.

Zhang Pu claimed to be the heir of the Donglin Party everywhere, but now the Donglin Party has not completely died out despite repeated blows, and Qian Qianyi and other leaders of Donglin still stand above the court.

If he really loves Donglin, why does he have to start a new stove and divide the power of a righteous man and a gentleman.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is just that it is better to be the head of the chicken than to be troubled by the thoughts of the queen of the ox. Zhang Pu hoped to borrow the momentum of the Donglin Party and entangle the young scholars in the world, but he did not want to become a lackey of the Donglin Party.

From the beginning to the end, he wanted to take everything into his own hands, and he didn't want to be manipulated.