Ancient story

1 Ye Fangheng, a bureaucratic landlord, took a fancy to Gu's property and despicable instigated others to falsely accuse Gu of "crossing the sea", saying that he colluded with coastal anti-Qing forces and plotted to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. This was the biggest crime at that time.

As a result, Gu was arrested. After Gu's relatives and friends heard about the flood, they immediately ran around and rescued in many ways. Guizhuang, a close friend of my best friend, turned to the traitorous bureaucrats at that time for help. Qian knew that Gu was a famous scholar at that time.

He wanted to gain fame and said, "It is not difficult to save him, as long as he sends me a post of his protege and worships me as a teacher." Guizhuang knows that Gu is a man and he will never compromise in order to survive, but now he must do what he wants.

He quietly wrote a letter and gave the money. Sure enough, Gu was released on bail soon. When Gu got out of prison, he knew what had happened and his face changed color. He thinks it's insulting to worship the money of traitorous bureaucrats.

He said to Gui Zhuang, "Be sure to take back the position of your protege. If you don't come back, I'll put up a notice in the street stating that there is no such thing. " Because of Gu's insistence, Qian had to return this position to his favorite pupil. Gu's integrity made him more admired by people at that time.

2. When Gu was a child, he reviewed the classics every spring and summer. At home, he invited four loud scholars to sit around him. There is a scripture in front of the ancient times, and the annotations of the scripture are in front of the four people.

First, he asked one person to read a passage. When he met something different or he forgot it, he argued with four people or remembered it again. One person reads 20 pages, and then another person reads 20 pages. He reviews 200 pages of scriptures every day.

Gu has never put down his books since he was a child. When he goes out, he always rides a lame donkey and carries several boxes of books with two thin horses. When I met a border pass, I asked the old servant around me to buy wine at the roadside hotel. The two of them sat down to drink, asked about the local customs and studied its geography and mountains.

If it doesn't match what he has heard in his life, he will open the book to verify it, and he must find out before giving up. When riding on a donkey, he will meditate on the classics. He often can't remember who he is when meeting old friends. Sometimes when he falls off a cliff, he has no regrets.

Gu is so diligent that he finally becomes a knowledgeable person, and no one can compete with him. Gu once lived in Beijing. One day, Wang Shizhen, an official of the imperial court, went to Gu's residence and said to him, "Sir, you are very learned, remember.

Would you please recite the Butterfly Journey by Gu Yuefu? "Gu immediately recited it again, and every word was a great surprise to everyone. Although "Butterfly Journey" is only a short poem of 56 words, it is not common, and it is not easy to remember it completely in your mind.

3. In September of the tenth year of Shunzhi (1653), Zhang Mingzhen (born in Nanjing) broke the Qing army in the Yangtze River estuary and entered Chongming (now Shanghai). In the first month of the following year, he led hundreds of ships back to the Yangtze River and reached Zhenjiang.

When he went to Jinshan to pay homage to Xiaoling Mausoleum (the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, outside the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing today), Yan Wu was very excited about it. He wrote excitedly: "The east wind blows the river and flows west all night. Jinshan suddenly wavered, and the bell tower bell talked endlessly.

The water army is 110 thousand, near Huangzhou. The giant ship is the camp, and flying is the most. The yellow flag crossed the Yangtze River, and the drums went out of the mainland ... After pondering for more than ten years, I didn't see any floating. Suddenly I heard that Lv Wang was coming, so I moved to Yanyou first. He spent a lot of money, but he didn't get enough.

Zu Shengfen hit it with one blow, and he is willing to play for the prisoners in Nanguan. I am willing to tell my comrades, but I am willing to take advantage of my long stay. "("Poetry Collection "II" Jinshan ") During this period, Gu also returned to Zhuang, (Yuanxin, a native of Wuxing, Zhejiang) and (a native of Wujiang, Jiangsu).

Pan (real name Li Tian, Wujiang native) and Wang Xichan (real name Yin Xu, Wujiang native) were shocked by this secret poetry club. On the surface, he secretly carried out anti-Qing activities under the guise of "the adherents of the old country" and "Wandering around Wen Jiu" (Wang's True Records of Nanxun).

Yanwu's best friends, Lue Wang (Qitian, Huai 'an) and Wanshouqi (Xuzhou when he was a child), are also people with great national integrity. In the spring of the 11th year of Shunzhi (1654), Gu moved to the southern foot of Shenlie Mountain in Nanjing.

Shenlie Mountain is Zhongshan Mountain, which was renamed Shan Jiang in the Three Kingdoms and Shenlie Mountain in the Ming Jiajing period. Three hundred years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Nanjing (then called Qing Ji) and used it as a base for exploring the East and the West.

10 years later, the Ming Dynasty was established in Nanjing. Yanwu "traveled all over the Yangtze River to see the prosperity of the old capital" (Shinto Table), but the mountains and rivers are still completely different and quite invincible.

4. In the spring of the 12th year of Shunzhi (1655), Yanwu returned to his hometown of Kunshan. It turns out that Gu's servant's name is Luen. Seeing that his family was declining and he was away for a long time, he betrayed his master and took refuge in Ye Fangheng.

The two men also tried to accuse Yanwu of "being connected to the sea" (that is, having contact with Nanming Group along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang) and tried to kill him. After returning to Kunshan, Lu En was secretly executed, while Ye Fangheng colluded with Lu's husband and kidnapped him privately.

And forced him to commit suicide. At that time, "the same person was unfair", and Shilin was in an uproar. Fortunately, Liu Zebo (Su Sheng), a friend, had an old friendship with Songjiang soldiers, and prepared an envoy to intercede for him. The case of Yanwu was handed over to Songjiang Prefecture for trial.

Finally, the case was closed on the charge of "killing a guilty slave". At the last moment, Gui Zhuang was at a loss and had to ask Qian Qian B for help. The word "modest benefit" was accepted by him. His name is Muzhai and he is from Changshu. At the beginning of Shunzhi, he was the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites and a civil servant at that time.

Qian said, "If Ning Ren is my apprentice, I can speak for him." Guizhuang doesn't want to lose money. Although he knew Yan Wu wouldn't agree, he still regarded Yan Wu as a teacher.

When Yan Wu knew this, he quickly asked his apprentice, Zhuang Daishu, for a position, but he was not modest. He wrote a confession, stating that he had never been listed on the wall of Qianjia's gate and had it posted everywhere on the avenue. Qian Yi was greatly embarrassed and said, "It's better to be impatient!"

5. In the seventeenth year of Emperor Kangxi (1678), Emperor Kangxi opened a branch of learning, which attracted the adherents of the Ming Dynasty. Gu Zeng wrote to Ye Fan 'ai three times, saying that "this heart will not change" and refused to recommend it with death, and said, "What does a 70-year-old man want? I'm dying!

If you have to push each other, you're dead! "。 In the eighteenth year of Kangxi (1679), Gu refused, with the words of "willing to die and thank the public, willing to live in seclusion at the bottom". In the 19th year of Kangxi (1680), Mrs. Gu died of illness in Kunshan.

He wept and worshipped in front of his wife's coffin, and wrote a poem: "Gu Zhen Maxiang is in Jiangcun, seeing off your six-year-old grandson. When I met my father underground, there was a survivor. "

In the twenty-first year of Kangxi (1682), on the fourth day of the first month (10 February), he slipped and vomited when he got on the horse. He died on the 9th (15 February), a famous thinker in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.