Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 270 Drama Theater

Everything in the theater is novel to the people of Xue Yantuo's department. As long as there are performances, it will definitely become the most lively place in Shanyang City, especially those from aristocratic families who have a lot of money and have nowhere to spend. This gathers.

It was a big event for Yi Nan's men to enter Shanyang City. To Sun Xiangfu's surprise, the family members who spent the winter in Shanyang City wanted to see him very much.

At the entrance of the theater, Sun Xiangfu and his wife got out of the carriage when they saw Wang Xu, who was wearing a fiery red sable fur coat.

"Yo, they are old acquaintances, which is interesting."

Sun Xiangfu broke his sentence, and stepped forward side by side with Yu Xiuer, and Wang Xu, who had greeted Yi Nan, also looked at him.

"Brother Zhengming, it's really disrespectful not to invite Mr. Wang to accompany you when you have a distinguished guest!"

"Look at you, you seem to be more familiar with me than me, so stop joking around hypocritically, let's talk inside!"

After meeting with Wang Xu, Sun Xiangfu bowed his hands and walked into the theater together with the flow of people. As for today's director and performer, Yu Xiuer and Dongzhu, they had already walked through the staff passage to the backstage by themselves.

Among the people from five surnames and seven families, there are quite a few legitimate sons, and there is a senior eldest son like Lu Wenzhong, but he doesn't think that today's protagonist is Wang Xu or Sun Xiangfu, he walks side by side with Yi Nan We got together and started talking.

Sun Xiangfu, who was half a step behind, asked Wang Xu in a low voice, "What's going on?"

"Isn't that obvious? The business system you've built in Shanyang City has already violated the interests of several of us, but we all need you to help us open up the land outside the customs, so you can't be moved for the time being, then We had to find other profit points.”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu frowned, and suddenly understood a little.

Before Shanyang City was built, the businesses of the grassland ministries were controlled by these aristocratic families in the north. The Wang family of Taiyuan and the Lu family of Fanyang had the most trade with the Turkic and Xue Yantuo tribes, and there were also many other families. In terms of business, but each has its own focus, Qinghe Cui and Boling Cui are mainly Silla, Baekje, Goguryeo, Yubu, Khitanbu, etc. in the east.

The Li clan in Longxi belonged to the Tuyuhun and Qiang tribes in the northwest, and the Zheng clan in Xingyang and the Li clan in Zhaojun, who were more in the middle, had all aspects.

They were probably the ones that Dongzhu said before, who earned Xue Yantuo's money with more than ten times the profit.

Now, Shanyang is shipping out a large number of various commodities at low prices, which will inevitably lead to a reduction in the original transactions with them. As the situation of Shanyang opens up, their interests in this aspect will become less and less.

However, compared with the great farming industry, the benefits of this kind of trade are still far behind. Therefore, under the circumstances that Sun Xiangfu, who can help various farmers, is in charge of Shanyang, each family also knows how to choose. After all, Shanyang City Most of the shops in the market are opened by them, and the transaction volume is large, and they also make money.

However, after the centralized shop opening, it is inevitable to compete with each other and fight price wars. This has led to the increasingly low prices of the goods sold in Shanyang City. The good thing is that there is his own store anyway, so no one can monopolize and raise prices on one type of goods.

"Why, what did you guys see in Xue Yantuo's department?"

"Population! Yinan is now claiming that Xue Yantuo has 20 string-controlling people, and the population is more than one million. In my opinion, even if it is not 100 million, it is not far behind! Most of the Turkic people were recruited by you to Shanyang to become the Great Tang. The people of Xue Yantuo, you should let us get some people to supplement the shortage of labor!"

When Wang Xu said that, Sun Xiangfu immediately understood.Five surnames and seven families have taken so much land, plus their original land, even if they bought some serfs from small and medium-sized families, there are still some shortages. Moreover, now that Jieli has been destroyed, the entire Monan area is in the Tang Dynasty. The rule has only come down, and the land that Sun Xiangfu sold is less than one-fifth of the entire area!In case, Sun Xiangfu starts a larger land auction in the future, they must have the strength to continue to expand.

The sons of the aristocratic family all have their own think tank groups, which are extremely shrewd, but Sun Xiangfu would rather see that they eat up all the bones of the Yi men. This is the beauty of his plan.

Bringing the conflict between the imperial court and the aristocratic family to the outside, now, these aristocratic sons who are obsessed with interests are much more obedient in front of Li Shimin, and this way of external expansion not only does not require the imperial court to send people, effort, and Money can also help the court earn a lot of money, and, after a few years, they can get a complete set of built and developed cities and fields. The court did not consume any money during the whole process, and only picked up ready-made ones.

In addition, it can also make the fields in the Central Plains recuperate. Such a strategy can achieve multiple goals at one stroke. It is good governance, and even Li Shimin is envious of it.Didn't he ask Sun Xiangfu to implement a plan to enrich the people in Guanzhong before? Naturally, Sun Xiangfu made a bold statement, and the first strike was on Weinan County, which is now basically a wasteland.

Sun Xiangfu suggested that all the original things in Weinan County should be overthrown and rebuilt, and it should be built into a huge industrial zone, and about half of the people in Guanzhong should be turned into workers. It is best to let their production work within five to ten years. The capacity is reached, and it can produce porcelain, ironware, woodware, clothing, etc. for people all over the world.

Moreover, it is also suggested that a large area of ​​Guanzhong be converted to forestry, plant trees along the Yellow River, and continue to extend upstream, and even abolish more than [-]% of the death penalty in the Tang Dynasty, and change all punishments similar to exile to labor reform. The project is to plant trees and build roads.

The flooding of the Yellow River in the early Tang Dynasty was actually not serious, especially in the upper reaches, where the river water was relatively clear. If great efforts were made to protect water and soil erosion, perhaps he would not be like the Song Dynasty hundreds of years later, who would be flooded every few years. Threatening the safety of the people in the entire middle and lower reaches of the region.

It is also because Sun Xiangfu has read some history books of previous dynasties in this world that he discovered some problems. Before the early Tang Dynasty, the number of Yellow River floods was very small, and at most it was harmful to the Shandong area, while the vegetation in the upper reaches of Guanzhong He also has some understanding of the situation. It is not that bad now, and it is entirely possible to make this river more docile through some efforts.

Of course, his idea is a bit too advanced, and Li Shimin still can't understand it for a while. Although he now has some awareness of putting government work in front, it is not a matter of a day or two to amend the criminal law. Slow research and come again, these are things for later.

After analyzing Wang Xu's words in his mind, Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "This is possible, have you thought about how to persuade Yi Nan?"

"I knew you would agree, so I didn't intend to hide it from you. No, I want to talk with you."

Wang Xu said something casually, but it made Sun Xiangfu feel a little vigilant. Have the family members figured out the context of their actions?This is not a good phenomenon.

Entering the theater with a little worry, he found that the best front row viewing position has been circled out. He didn't have such an arrangement before. This is the rhythm of being booked in advance!

Sun Xiangfu, who was invited to be the host in the middle, was a little depressed. This is because he invited Yi Nan to watch a play, and ordered the theater to make preparations one day in advance. In the end, he seemed like a guest.

It seems that the Yangzhou theater troupe in charge of today's performance is not very reliable. Of course, this does not mean that Li Xiangdie is not reliable. Simple, anyway, the sons of several families in Yangzhou are also present today.

The auditorium of the theater is actually no different from the theaters of later generations. There are rows of seats. On the left of Sun Xiangfu is Wang Xu, on the right is Yi Nan, and on the right of Yi Nan is Lu Wenzhong. There are several seats on each side. , are all seated sons of five surnames and seven families, as for the second and third rows, there are some sons or stewards of other families who want to make a fortune with them.

"The Shanyang Drama Theater has just been repaired this year. In many respects, it is incomparable with the Wangjianglou drama stage in Chang'an, but it will be a more professional theater in a year or two at most. In the performance venue, when the leader of the barbarians spends the winter, he must come to join us often!"

In later generations, Cantonese film and television dramas and songs spread the southern culture to the whole country and even the whole of Asia. For Shanyang in this era, this drama performance is completely equivalent to the cultural products of Hong Kong Island film and television in later generations. Promote the culture of Tang Dynasty.

No wonder Sun Xiangfu attached great importance to it from the very beginning, and Li Shimin in history also attached great importance to it. He set the rhythm, composed music and dances, and promoted our Central Plains culture to foreigners. It can be seen in the book that it is precisely because of this kind of cultural promotion that countries all over the world have come to later generations, and the places where Han people gather are called Chinatowns.

Sun Xiangfu has also met people who have become a common practice in later generations, so he naturally knows what methods to use to enable them to learn Chinese better and faster, and get in touch with Han culture. The people who have been doing it have been doing it, not only to meet the needs of several major branches of Wangjianglou, but also to make it a trump card of cultural aggression.

Li Shimin is simply an enlightened emperor, and he himself has this hobby. After Sun Xiangfu explained the importance of cultural propaganda to him, he immediately set the rank of court musicians, and mentioned their status as doctors and painters. At the same time, the duties and tasks of Jiaofang Division have been greatly changed, and they no longer have anything to do with brothel prostitutes. Their duties are to train singing and dancing artists for the court and help the court complete some political tasks.

Because "The Legend of the White Snake" is popular with the whole people, Li Shimin, who prefers to follow the public opinion, abolished all the laws about music and music made by the former Sui Wendi Yang Jian. You know, in ancient times, especially in the Sui Dynasty, It’s not that just anyone has the power to play music recklessly and lead the trend. In history, Emperor Taizong lifted some restrictions on music, which made the literature and art of the later Tang Dynasty flourish and reach a peak. Now, this lifting of the ban has been brought forward , prosperity will also advance.

"Hehe, I'm also curious. What is the drama you're talking about? Is it a song and dance performance?" Yi Nan smiled and said to Sun Xiangfu.

"You can think of it as a singing and dancing performance with more things added! But speaking of singing and dancing performances, today's opening singing and dancing performance is specially prepared by Lingmei Dongzhu for you!"

Sun Xiangfu's tone made Yi Nan look forward to Dongzhu's performance.

However, since the aristocratic family members participated in this purely singing, dancing and drama activity, things were not so simple. Soon, Lu Wenzhong, who was sitting next to Yi Nan, interrupted bluntly, "I'm afraid, in the future With the status and status of the leader of the barbarians in the future, it will be difficult to visit our Shanyang City in person again in the future!"

(End of this chapter)