Chapter 32 Liaocheng
After passing Jining, the sand ship continued to move forward, crossed the Yangtze River and entered Shandong, and stopped in Liaocheng.

When people first heard of Liaocheng, many people, like Ou Zanghua, felt a little unfamiliar.

When he was walking on the street with Qu Yang and Qu Feiyan, Qu Yang suddenly told him that Yanggu County was in Liaocheng.

When Qu Feiyan heard this, she asked excitedly, "So this is where the traveler Wu Song's hometown is! Sir, can we go take a look?"

"I'm afraid it won't work!" Ou Zanghua shook his head and said with some regret: "Yanggu County is a little far from here, and it will take too much time to go back and forth. I'll take Feiyan with me when I have time in the future!"

"Okay!" Qu Feiyan looked a little depressed, but she recovered immediately and asked with a smile, "Sir, can you tell me the story of Wu Song?"

Ou Zanghua stopped and saw a bookstore. He walked in and asked, "Boss, do you have the complete collection of "The Water Margin"?"

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Sir, there is no "The Water Margin of Loyalty and Righteousness", only "The Legend of Heroes in the Jianghu".

"'Legends of Jianghu Heroes'? Sir, I want to watch this too!" Qu Feiyan pulled Ou Zanghua's sleeve excitedly, looking very excited.

"Stupid, 'The Legend of Jianghu Heroes' is 'The Water Margin of Loyalty and Righteousness'!" Ou Zanghua knocked Qu Feiyan's head helplessly and explained, "It is rumored that Emperor Taizu didn't like 'The Water Margin of Loyalty and Righteousness', so the people used the name 'The Legend of Jianghu Heroes' in order to publish it."

"Sir, this is not just a rumor."

The shopkeeper said with a serious face: "It was because of his writing of "The Water Margin" that Shi Gong was arrested by Emperor Taizu and imprisoned in the imperial prison for more than a year. In the end, it was Liu Bowen who interceded for him and finally released him. Unfortunately, Shi Gong suffered in the imperial prison and his body became weak. He died not long after he was released."

After hearing this, Ou Zanghua just smiled and had no intention of arguing with the shopkeeper.

The reason is simple. When Zhang Shicheng rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty, Shi Nai'an participated in his military activities.

After Zhang Shicheng occupied Suzhou, Shi Naian participated in his planning and had a close relationship with his general Bian Yuanheng.

Later, because Zhang Shicheng was greedy for pleasure and refused to accept loyal advice, Shi Naian, Lu Yuan, Liu Liang, Chen Ji and others became very disappointed and left one after another.

Judging from Zhu's temper, it is hard to imagine that if he caught Shi Naian, he would let him go so easily.

For example, judging from the experiences of the Four Heroes of Wuzhong who were also living in Jiangsu at the time: Gao Qi, Yang Ji, Zhang Yu, and Xu Ben, if Shi Nai'an was really arrested, he would most likely not have been able to get out.

As for why ordinary people like bookstore owners dare to discuss Zhu Yuanzhang in the street, we have to thank Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son, the commander-in-chief of the Jingnan Campaign, and Ming Renzong's General Zhu Di.

After all, Zhu Laosi did not come to the position in a legitimate way, and could not be as confident as his father and tell everyone directly that he had built his empire with just one bowl.

So, the fourth brother came up with some concepts about destiny being in my hands to fool the common people.

After working on it for a while, Zhu Laosi discovered a problem.

He has so many destinies, how could his father have no destinies at all?
This logic doesn't make sense!

So, Zhu Laosi started to buff his father.

The first is his unusual appearance.
In the eleventh year of Yongle, when the Monument to Divine Merit and Sacred Virtue was being built for the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Zhu Laosi began his outrageous operations.

The sentence "The dragon's beard is long and thick, and there is a strange bone protruding from the top of the neck" gives Lao Zhu a protruding forehead.

When the people below saw that the boss was playing like this, they had to follow suit.

The first to take action was the Ming Dynasty talent Xie Jin. He wrote in "Tianhuang Yudie": A strange man saw Zhu Yuanzhang and said that he had an extraordinary appearance, with a majestic appearance, and looked like a god.

Then in the second year of the Jingtai reign, a silly guy named Yuan Zhongche appeared out of nowhere. No one knew what he was thinking, but he wrote a book specifically introducing the peculiar appearances of celebrities from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the Ming Dynasty.

When writing about Lao Zhu, it is described as "Heaven and earth facing each other, the five mountains are all attached, the sun and the moon are bright in the sky, and the bones are sticking to the temples."

Thus, there was the shocking portrait of the shoe-horn face. To be honest, this was also due to the encounter with Zhu Qiyu.

Not only did he write about Zhu Yuanzhang's extraordinary appearance, he also mentioned all the celebrities from all dynasties.

If it was Ou Zanghua who went up, he would be considered a clean beater if he didn't beat Yuan Zhongche to death.

As the saying goes, what the superiors like is what the subordinates will follow. People have made Old Zhu look like this and it's nothing to worry about, so everyone should...right?

Therefore, although the Ming Dynasty had a lot of troubles, speech was not as strictly controlled as later generations thought.

The peak of literary inquisition was during the Hongwu reign. Most of the so-called literary inquisitions by later emperors were means of factional struggles among civil officials, and were rarely used, let alone involving ordinary people.

Ou Zanghua looked around in the bookstore and found that in addition to "The Story of Heroes in the Jianghu", there were also Guan Hanqing's "The Rescue of the Wind and Dust", "Wangjiang Pavilion", and "Baiyue Pavilion", as well as Luo Guanzhong's "Chronicles of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", "The Romance of the Late Tang and Five Dynasties", and "The Story of the Three Sui Emperors Suppressing Demons".

From this we can see that the literary life of the people in the Ming Dynasty was quite rich.

Qu Feiyan picked out four books: "Saving the Wind and Dust", "Wangjiangting", "The Story of the Three Suis Suppressing Demons", and "The Story of the Heroes in the Jianghu", and looked at Ou Zanghua with a smile and asked, "Sir, can I buy these four books?"

"Okay!" Ou Zanghua nodded and immediately paid for it.

Qu Feiyan held the book in her arms and laughed foolishly.

Afterwards, the three of them found a tavern to sit down and have a hearty lunch, then went to the dock market to buy various daily necessities and asked the waiters to help deliver the supplies onto the ship.

When they returned to the boat after a walk, they found Zhixue and Hanyun doing horse stance on the deck, with Xiang Da Nian supervising them.

"Senior brother."

Seeing Ou Zanghua coming back, Xiang Danian immediately came over and said with a silly smile: "I want to teach Zhixue and Hanyun martial arts, so that if they encounter danger in the future, they will have the ability to protect themselves."

"Very good, then what do you plan to teach?" Ou Zanghua nodded and asked.

"When I was doing chivalrous deeds with my master, I got two secret manuals. My master said they were my spoils of war and told me to do with them as I pleased."

As he spoke, Xiang Danian took out a book from his pocket, handed it to Ou Zanghua and continued, "One is called "Throwing Boxing and Free Fighting", and the other is called "Miaoshou Kongkong"."

Ou Zanghua took it and asked casually, "Haven't you practiced it before?"

Xiang Danian smiled and said, "I have practiced a little, but my energy is limited. If I practice this, I won't have time to practice Hengshan swordsmanship. So I just got the basics and didn't delve into it any further."

"That's right. Since the master has said so, then you should do it according to your own ideas!" Ou Zanghua shook the secret book and asked with a smile: "Let me take a look, is it ok?"

"Brother, please feel free to do as you please!"

Ou Zanghua returned to the room and started reading "Throwing Fist and Free Fighting", which is a set of martial arts that combines palm techniques with fist techniques. Strictly speaking, this martial art is not suitable for women to practice.

The name of "Empty Hands" suggests that it is not serious, but the truth is a bit surprising. It is actually a rare and exquisite martial art, which combines punching, palm, tapping, hitting, grappling, body movements and footwork, and the moves are very exquisite.

Suddenly, Ou Zanghua thought of a scholar with a bit of a bad taste.

He picked up the secret book and examined it carefully, and found that the ink marks of the two words "Miaoshou" and "Kongkong" were slightly different, as if they were added later.

He lifted the cover and looked at it towards the sunlight, and saw that behind the word "Kong Kong" there was indeed the word "Quan".

"Haha" Ou Zanghua couldn't help laughing: "It's you, the brilliant scholar Zhu Cong"

(End of this chapter)