Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 343
After sending Su Yuanjing away, Sun Xin began to use his brains.

After the protection party incident, he still wanted to expand his influence in Shandong. It was not safe to just take the road of Zongze. If he had this opportunity, he should make friends with Song Huizong as soon as possible.

According to Su Taiwei's description, it is impossible for him to please Song Huizong with telescopes and microscopes. This person does not like science and engineering, but a student of literature and art.

Thinking about it, this person is the master who makes the corners of the world precarious for the sake of the Huashigang, so the content of the Huashigang includes all kinds of rare things, but the main delivery objects are really exotic flowers and plants and all kinds of strange stones.

At least he knew Song Huizong's preferences, and he would definitely be willing to help him lead the way after listening to Su Taiwei's tone. went.

Sun Xin thought for a while, then asked the dealer to find Ma Ziliu.

Sun Xin thought that the first way to please Song Huizong, a literary and artistic youth, was to ask Ma Ziliu to help him. Sun Xin asked him to organize a troupe as soon as possible to sort out the mature operas that had been rehearsed recently.

Since ancient times, it has been a common thing for a powerful troupe to be presented to the emperor. Otherwise, how did the Hui troupe enter Beijing in the previous life?
Ma Ziliu was pleasantly surprised and excited when he heard that Sun Xin was going to dedicate the opera he composed to Zhao Guan's family.

He is now a master craftsman in Dengzhou, and his shadow puppetry is so superb that people from all over Shandong and even Hebei will come to see his shadow puppetry.

Ma Ziliu was very confident in his own art and had a lot of money. As an artist, he naturally hoped to have higher opportunities to perform. Now that he finally has the opportunity to perform in Beijing, he can't express his excitement.

Ma Ziliu nodded again and again, expressing that he would do it when he got back.

After Yang Jiajiang, Sun Xin and Ma Ziliu also created many operas, but most of them have certain educational significance. For example, "Mulan Joins the Army" customized by Hu Sanniang's Women's Federation, which teaches children to study hard "Since ancient times, heroes come out of youth", there are also "Su Wu Shepherd", "Three Arrows Set Tianshan Mountain" and so on.Plays that promote national pride.

But these plays are mainly for missionary purposes. Although they are very good-looking for the bankers who lack entertainment, it is obviously almost meaningless to attract Song Huizong.

There are also those with richer entertainment value, "Yang Jiajiang" and "Bao Gongan", one promotes the idea of ​​protecting the country and the people, and the other blackmails the officialdom of the Song Dynasty.

These two plays are very popular in the touring troupe, but after discussing with Sun Xin and Ma Ziliu, they both decided that it would be fine to perform these two plays in Dengzhou. Something went wrong.

In the end, Sun Xin and Ma Ziliu decided to present "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the most popular series among Ma Ziliu's theaters.

Sun Xin had read the story of Romance of the Three Kingdoms several times in his previous life, but it was difficult to tell it from beginning to end, and he had always been pragmatic. The main purpose of the theater troupe in his hands was to do policy propaganda. He has shares, but the hundreds of dollars he earned are nothing to Sun Xin, so he didn't take the initiative to come up with this play before. I begged for it.

Sun Xin told some of the stories he remembered, and Ma Ziliu asked his disciples to complete the rest.

Although Sun Xin only remembered part of the Three Kingdoms, it was enough to amaze Ma Ziliu.

The stories in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are all ingeniously arranged by the Ming people in the original history after sorting out the most exciting passages of the storytelling stories of many people in the previous generation. Many plots are still only scattered fragments, and have not even appeared yet.

The unrestrained imaginations of several generations were put together, and Ma Ziliu couldn't help but admire just a single scaly claw.

Although Sun Xin repeatedly told Ma Ziliu that he had heard these stories from other sources, but Ma Ziliu himself was an entertainer, and he basically knew all the stories of the Three Kingdoms that had been passed down, but he hadn't heard many wonderful stories told by Sun Xin. However, after careful analysis of the plots of those stories, they are extremely consistent with the personalities of the characters of the Three Kingdoms, which makes sense.

A large number of these stories were concentrated in Sun Xin's mouth, so Ma Ziliu would naturally think that these stories were all made up by Sun Xin himself.

As an opera worker, he understands the difficulty of making up stories best, and he has long admired Sun Xin who can make up so many wonderful stories.

The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" sorted out on the basis of Sun Xin's dictation is simplified, but all the wonderful passages are retained: capture and release Cao, Sanying battle Lu Bu, cross the river with the people, battle of Changbanpo, tongue battle against Confucianism, meeting of heroes, dragon and phoenix Chengxiang is all the popular dramas that are often performed in theaters.

Many foreign artists even went to Ma Ziliu's theater and listened to it for several days in a row, just to memorize these jokes and take them to other places for performances.

But even so, this set of complete and wonderful Romance of the Three Kingdoms is only circulated around Dengzhou for the time being, and has not left Shandong and entered Hebei.Song Huizong of Bianliang has never heard of it.

Ma Ziliu is confident that this complete set of Three Kingdoms dramas alone is enough to shock the audience in Bianliang.

Ma Ziliu went back to organize the manpower, thought about it and told Sun Xin in the afternoon that he decided to stay in Dengzhou, and sent his son Xiao Liuer to form a theater troupe with his most proud apprentices to Bianjing to perform.

In this troupe, Sun Xin holds [-]% of the shares, Ma Zi holds [-]% of the shares, and the remaining [-]% ​​is handed over to the supervisory committee.

And Ma Ziliu reluctantly stayed in Dengzhou in order to show Sun Xin his absolute loyalty to Majiaban.

Sun Xin went to ask Su Yuanjing about sending the shadow puppet troupe to Beijing. Su Taiwei was very sure of Sun Xin's direction of efforts, but he also told Sun Xin that today's officials still prefer literature and art. Like but not keen on.

"Like literature? This guy is too troublesome..."

Sun Xin went back and thought about it for a long time, then suddenly slapped his head, his face beaming with joy.

"How did I forget this?"

He hastily called the farmer to call Ma Ziliu, but this time he didn't want to move his troupe, but borrowed two playwrights from him.

The playwrights in Maziliu's troupe are basically unsatisfactory scholars in Dengzhou City, who make a living by copying for others.

They went to Sunjiazhuang to find a way to survive, and because they had some literary talents, they were recruited by Ma Ziliu to write scripts for them in the class.

Hearing that Sun Xin wanted to hire someone, Ma Ziliu quickly invited two masters who were very good at writing.

Sun Xin directly asked the two of them to spread out their pens and paper, and he dictated it himself, and the two of them immediately copied it.

There is already a storybook circulating in this dynasty. In Dengzhou, because of the simple wax printing technology released by Sunjiazhuang, the price of inferior printed matter has dropped sharply. A large number of young people with basic reading and writing skills have created a consumer market for novels in Dengzhou in addition to their work. Therefore, there are already rough-quality novels on sale in Dengzhou at this time.

The two playwrights were quite interested when they heard that Sun Xin wanted to copy the novel with him. But they had heard Ma Ziliu say that the wonderful script of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was basically the creation of Sun Xinguan, and they had long been against Sun Xin in their hearts. I admire him very much, and I want to see what stories he can tell this time.

When Sun Xin opened his mouth to tell the story, the two hurriedly recorded:

"The name of this book is "Chuan Xiaolang's Resurrection of the Tang Dynasty."

The two were taken aback: What's the name of this?But the owner of the villa didn't dare to disobey the order, so he quickly wrote it down, and then listened to Sun continue to say:

"There is a poor scholar named Kawagoe in this dynasty, who failed the imperial examination."

The two playwrights were even more confused: these days, the stories usually involve princes, dukes, or at least famous generals from ancient times, while Sun Xin's story begins with a scholar named Kawagoe. A name I have never heard of before, this name was made up by Sun Xin.

How can the story of a nobody be well written?

The two were in doubt, so they listened to Sun Xin's narration.

"This Kawagoe has learned a lot of literary talents, and he has been acting as an official with others in his function, and he is quite shrewd."

It turned out to be a clerk with a long name in Yaqian... Both of them nodded in their hearts, probably able to imagine the image of a shrewd and talented, but somewhat depressed scholar.

"He is over forty years old, and this time he went to Fucheng to rush for the exam, in order to fulfill his long-cherished wish, and borrowed a lot of money for this. Unexpectedly, he fell ill in the exam room and finally failed to get the first place."

The two felt the same in their hearts and thought of their identities.

"Traveling through the heart was depressed, and the wind and cold happened by chance on the road, and he died of depression and illness."

The two of them were all stunned after copying here. Did Kawagoe die within two paragraphs of his appearance?
The protagonist is dead, so what else is this story about?

When the two of them didn't dare to ask, they continued to write vigorously.

"Kawagoe felt that he had passed the gate of hell, and he only felt that he must die, but the next moment he opened his eyes, he found himself lying in a dilapidated house, and a woman's cry came from the ear of the family."

The two of them didn't understand: Kawagoe came back from the dead?What's the situation?
Sun Xin's plot quickly explained to them that Kawagoe did not come back from the dead, but his soul traveled directly for more than a hundred years, and entered the body of a poor scholar with the same name and the same appearance in the prosperous Tang Dynasty!

The two playwrights were stunned by Sun Xin's imagination.

And Sun Xin continued to narrate: This Kawagoe who was born in Datang had a serious illness just after marrying his childhood sweetheart. At this time, the new soul just woke up to understand the situation, and suddenly the creditor came to the door.

It turned out that in order to treat him, his childhood sweetheart's wife had already owed a huge amount of money. The creditor was a local villain with a savage face and a fiery personality. Weeping again and again...

(End of this chapter)