In late September, the weather is getting colder, and with the grain in the warehouse, there is little to do.

I heard that it was the turn of Hongxiang to act today, and only a few days ago was the government came to check the household registration is not stronger, and I can't help my son's bitter begging, taking him and his eldest daughter fine, limping, and going to the township.

Carefully took the inspection and transmission of the three people, went out of the inner gate, and on the way to the township community, the strong son was still immersed in the opera he had seen at the beginning of the month......

"I can watch a hundred dramas again!"

Since the death of his mother without a trace, the always sullen camel is rarely happy, and he has also put on a yellow flower and changed into new clothes, this kind of gathering day is a good opportunity to go on a blind date with the young man in the neighborhood.

Xianyang is too big, across Weishui, within a radius of dozens of miles is the urban area, in order to facilitate governance, so according to the block is divided into many townships, its center is the township community that allows the people to trade, every year and festivals, there are often folk gatherings and entertainment, just like the whole township carnival.

After the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Xianyang, after the autumn harvest, let each township build a simple earthen platform in the open space outside the township......

As early as when Heifu was in Gangneung, he summoned the people from all over the country to advocate excellence, as well as the occasional home that haunts the world, and engaged in the model play "The Northern Expedition Can Enjoy Peace", which was performed in Nanjun county by county, which caused huge repercussions, and this propaganda offensive made the people of Nanjun grit their teeth and let their children go to the front line to support him in the Northern Expedition.

Propaganda cannot be stopped, and other places have no conditions to engage in it, but the public opinion propaganda in the national capital has to keep up.

So Heifu transferred all three art troupes to Xianyang, preparing for them to make a big show here.

In fact, Xianyang has long had a hundred operas, also called "Manyan opera", generally performed by a versatile advocate of excellence, and there are skills such as high silk, swallowing knives, walking on fire, and looking for a during the performance, similar to the folk street art of later generations.

It's a pity that ordinary people can watch so many times in their lifetime, and the advocates are basically raised by the emperor or nobles, performing at the banquet to enliven the atmosphere, it is said that in the mausoleum of the first emperor, there are hundreds of "hundred opera figurines" buried with different forms and tricks.

There is also a "corner play", which has a longer history, but unfortunately it was banned by Shang Jun in the Qin State for "encouraging private fighting......

Therefore, the entertainment of the old Qin people on weekdays is basically zero - group drinking is not allowed, it is illegal for more than three people to drink together, not to mention that the price of wine is so expensive, except for the New Year's holidays, where can you afford to drink, gambling and the like, in Daqin, you can't be on the stage.

If you think about it carefully, in Xianyang, there is only one thing left to make the people applaud and feel the excitement of entertainment activities.

"Look at the head!"

The cracked soil was in urgent need of rain, so in September, the model opera entered Xianyang and was performed in various townships, which immediately caused a sensation!

All it takes is a group of people dancing and screaming on stage to watch the excitement, which is enough to make the people happy, not to mention, this play still has a plot and promotes positive energy......

According to local conditions, Heifu asked the family to think about the first play according to the preferences of the people in Guanzhong, called "Zhan Xihe".

Just listen to the name, it is about the new Qin people who resisted the invasion of the evil nobles of the Six Kingdoms together.

In this play, for the first time, the actor's advocacy was put on makeup, Xiang Ji was played by a tall man, who was painted with a big red face, stained with a fake beard, four flags on his back, and a halberd.

The two protagonists who each represent Nanjun Bing and Guan Zhongbing are fictitious pseudonyms, and Wu Zhonghou personally decided after watching the premiere, called "Guan Yu" and "Qin Qiong" respectively, and the two of them have black faces and yellow faces, which look very emotional.

What's even more precedent is that there are not only self-descriptions and dialogues in Xianyang dialect in the play, which are easy to understand, but also add a unique play!

Although the horse is a fake horse, and the spear halberd in his hand is also made of wood, it is really unique to the Xianyang people, and when they watched the performance for the first time, the audience was stunned and the previous Gangneung people.

Because it happened in Guanzhong, it was easy to get into the play, and everyone was shocked when they heard the protagonist on stage say about the fall of Xihe.

Seeing that Xiang Yu and other nobles of the Six Kingdoms raised their butcher knives against the Xihe people, they were triumphant, and they immediately hated itchy.

saw that the two protagonists finally worked side by side, chanting "protect the family and defend the country", beating Xiang Yu, making him cut his beard and flee in embarrassment, he applauded.

In the end, before the end of the opera, Qin and Guan captured the white-faced traitor Zhao Gao, and the people of Xianyang were even happier, that is, happy and singing fast.

Although the protagonists in it are all fierce, they often clench their fists, purse their mouths, and then sing with righteousness and awe, even shaking their heads is very revolutionary, and regardless of the decent villain, the face is also so dull that it is shocking.

But this is enough to shock the Xianyang people who lack literary and artistic life.

Many years ago, he was a soldier and fought in the Six Kingdoms, and he was so strong that he couldn't enlist in the army anymore.

His son Huo, who didn't understand the opera very well, also sharpened a wooden stick with his playmate, rode a bamboo horse, and played the story in the play.

According to the rules, those who lose the lot must smear red mud on their faces, pretend to be a member, and then be squatted by their playmates who are painted with stove ash and yellow mud chanting "Defend the family and defend the country".

This has become the daily life of the young people in Xianyang.

It can be said that after watching the play, the people of Xianyang have been educated in patriotism, experienced the baptism of the soul, and have a heart of hatred for the enemy.

"Let's have a bowl of water."

In the words of Marquis Wu Zhong: "The advocates perform a play, which is more effective than the officials holding the mansion and reading it ten times!" ”

Therefore, whenever it is the turn of a township to act, basically the whole township will be dispatched, and officials with a doorway, and even their families, will see the date, drive and go, and watch it from ten miles and eight villages, and it is still unfinished.

Quite strong and have no official body, they can only wait for the rabbit, it is easy to wait, but it is a pity that they are still late to go out, and when the family of three arrives at the township, they see that this place has been surrounded by water, and it is full of black heads.

"The ...... that should be entered by knighthood"

Brute Qiang was stunned, with his title of not changing, he would never be squeezed to the outermost periphery, but it was a pity that there were too many people today, and the soldiers and villagers who maintained order were all crowded into the corners

"There's no room ahead." The little man had been looking forward to it for many days, and he hadn't slept all night last night, and he was about to cry, and his sister also pouted.

Fortunately, after the play began, the people in front were ordered to kneel on the ground and look up, so that the people behind could finally see clearly, and the characters on the stage in the distance were moving, red, green, and green.

There was a diminutive dwarf pretending to be a child, and he was fighting wits and courage with a man dressed as a merchant, and finally he was tied up and pressed to the ground with a group of black officials, and the harlequin rolled many times in a row, causing the people in the front row to laugh......

But the voice was completely inaudible.

Although I don't know the plot at all, the strong family of three still watched it with relish, and the people in the front row laughed, and they also laughed.

It wasn't until the sun was setting in the west that the song was over, and on the way back, I never came early, and the family of the chief in the front row of the station learned that today's play is called:

""A Good Family's Clever Acquaintance with a Treacherous Spy"!"

Lao Li was speaking in Qinyin, filled with righteous indignation:

"The old man only learned today that there are many spies from the Six Kingdoms hidden in this Xianyang City."

"They want to burn our warehouse, let us starve and freeze, want to steal the secrets of the exam, and also go to create wooden oxen and horses for the thieves of the six countries, and even want to collude with the traitor Zhao Gao's remnants to assassinate the Marquis of Wu Zhong, so that Xianyang will be in chaos again!"

It turned out that the villain still hadn't changed, and it was about the great nobles of the Six Kingdoms, the old thief Fan Zeng and other thieves who were not dead, sent spies to infiltrate Qindi, and joined forces with Zhao Gaoyu's party to destroy the economy and people's livelihood, in a vain attempt to subvert the new government......

In the end, the white-faced harlequin spy was spotted by a shrewd teenager, reported to the government, arrested, and corrected the criminal code.

Finally. Lao Lizheng also muttered: "After you go back, you must let the prison door, keep your eyes open, and guard the Lilu well, you must not let these traitors succeed!" ”

"No wonder it's played by a dwarf." The camel was full of regret, and asked Lao Lizheng again:

"Captain, what is the name of that young man from a good family?"

"What do you call it?" Lao Lizheng forgot, and turned around to ask the little grandson he was holding.

The grandson of Li Zheng was also full of reverence, as if he regarded the young man in the play as an idol, and replied crisply

"Gazi!"

……

After the end of September, in addition to continuing to ride bamboo horses and shouting "protect the family and defend the country", the teenagers in Xianyang City who did not know what to do were lying in the grass pile outside the inner wall, or riding on the trees, vigilantly watching everyone passing by......

None of the faces could escape their eyes, and Li Zheng and the village officials also received countless reports, all of which were teenagers who felt that there was something wrong with their neighbors, went out early and returned late, and their appearance was suspicious, and they were probably spies.

It also led to the Imperial History Office and Tingwei emphasizing a law to the whole people, as long as the masses are upright and enthusiastic about reporting, do not engage in anonymous letters, even if it is found to be wrong, it is not a false accusation.

This kind of atmosphere of catching spies by the whole people was soon pushed to a climax by a good news.

On the twentieth day of September, the regent sent someone to inform the townships of the news:

"More than ten people, including Wang Ren, a young official of the Imperial History Mansion, are dissatisfied with the new policy, deceived by the Six Kingdoms, and colluded with them to overthrow Great Qin and blame others, and have been captured by the Lieutenant's Mansion and sent to Yunyang Prison for trial!"

Among these people who were arrested, there were really one or two unlucky real spies who were spotted by the eyes of the people.

But most of them were old Qin officials who were dissatisfied with Heifu and secretly conspired with him to force him to "welcome back Fusu and return the great government", and they were convicted of the following crimes:

"Treason."

Some people who know can't help but mutter: "Isn't Wang Ren the grandson of Prime Minister Wang Juan?" Hu Haishi was imprisoned, how could he be a spy of the Six Kingdoms? How could it overthrow the Great Qin ......"

But this kind of voice was quickly drowned out by fanatical public opinion, and everyone didn't care at all about whose grandson Wang Ren was, and whether there was a possibility of collusion with the Six Kingdoms.

They only care about whether the person who reported Wang Ren is a little hero and whether he is really called "Gazi"!

……

"New Qin people, old Qin people, Nanjun people, Guanzhong people......"

On the way home from Xianyang Palace, Heifu listened to the cheers outside and thought silently.

"What unites you?"

"Sovereign?"

"Heavenly Emperor?"

"Money?"

"Or is it forced by force?"

"Invasion?"

"Or is it what they preach, what the people want?"

"At the end of the day, it's the story ......"

People believe that the same story, a good story, is the most powerful force in the world, and it has transformed Homo sapiens from a small tribe in ancient times into an empire of thousands of miles.

The Divine Destiny Xuanniao, the Qin Gong clan is proud of it.

Yao Shunyu soup, Confucianism chanted over and over again.

The ancestors told Yan Huang, and we will continue to sing it from generation to generation in the future.

And who in the world is a better storyteller than him?

Not only the story of the first three thousand years.

There are also stories of the last two thousand years, which can benefit him a lot.

Now, Heifu has told the story to the people of Nanjun, to the people of Xianyang, and in the future, to the people of the Six Kingdoms, and to all the clans of the unified state.

Is this deception?

"It's called the story of the Great Unification."

"I was eunuch by the descendants of the First Emperor, and I have to continue it."

But now, Heifu doesn't have to be so complicated, so grand.

"Prince, Chang Qian has reached the top of the world!" Ji Ying came to report, and the black man bowed his head.

"Now, I just need to tell one more, a little story!"

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