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The sensation of the first performance was undeniable, and the audience responded enthusiastically after the performance. They don't understand how the bizarre effects in the theater are made, and they don't understand why it's so shocking and touching when it's just an ordinary story. They seem to have experienced everything in the plot themselves, just like a character in the play watching from the sidelines, and they feel a lot of feelings.

Of course, they don't understand that Lin Jue has combined an ordinary performance with many viewing experiences, no longer just using words and phrases in the plot and using actors' performances to move people. Rather, it is supplemented by a variety of means. In fact, that is already some of the techniques used in stage plays and even movies on the earth in later generations. This attempt to emerge from the era proved successful in Hangzhou, and the capital was no exception.

After the performance, all the cast and crew took the stage for more than ten curtain calls, and the audience gave up. When they walked out of the theater with satisfied smiles and discussions, they immediately took the initiative to share their admiration for the performance with the people around them. After three consecutive days of free performances, in fact, the Jiangnan Grand Theater has become famous in the capital. In the streets and alleys, teahouses and restaurants, and even the lazy and idle Yamen government offices in spring, the grand occasion of the performance of the newly opened Jiangnan Grand Theater has become an extremely hot topic. Its enthusiasm is close to the upcoming spring exam.

However, it is interesting that although those who have seen it will be foaming at the mouth of the mouth, describing those gorgeous and fantastical scenes seen in the theater. But because they don't know why, they say that they are lively, but they are vague. This piqued the curiosity of others. Some people don't believe in such evil, so they want to see it. Some people are attracted to the depictions of others. In particular, almost everyone who has seen it has expressed the same meaning, that is, if you don't go to see the play of the Grand Theater, you will regret it. So, after three days of free screenings, the official opening of the Grand Theater went surprisingly smoothly.

Originally, when Lin Jue set the ticket price, even Xie Danhong, a financial fan, was taken aback. Lin Jue set a price of 800 Wen to 125 for an ordinary 500 seats. Depending on the location, the price point will vary. In this way, on average, each ticket is about one or two lines of silver. In other words, just an ordinary seat ticket will have an income of 500 taels per game. This ticket price has exceeded the ticket price of Hangzhou Jiangnan Grand Theater by more than three times.

In this regard, Xie Yingying and Xie Danhong both expressed their worries, how can such a high ticket price be affordable?

Lin Jue was very optimistic, and Lin Jue told them that with the income of the people in the capital, the ticket price of one tael of silver only accounted for between one and two percent of their monthly income. They have the power to spend at all. And they don't come to the play every month, maybe two or three times a year, and the overall consumption proportion is even more insignificant. The people of the capital are very generous in dressing up to eat and drink, which is enough to show that in the past hundred years of peace, in the absolute peace of the capital, the people still have a solid pocket. But that's just one of them.

Lin Jue's second reason is that the population of the capital is about 1.5 million, but the Grand Theater is the only one. So, in fact, the market is more demand than supply anyway. Even if the Grand Theater rotates continuously, performing 30 performances a month, and more than 500 people enter each performance, it will only have an audience of 16,700 people. And for the huge population and needs of the capital, this number is insignificant.

For Jiangnan Grand Theatre, one month is the basic period for the performance of a play, and it will not exceed one month at most before the next new play will be performed, which is also a guarantee that the theater can maintain its long-term attractiveness and meet the needs of the audience. In this case, the audience's choice must be chosen. How to choose, is through the high ticket price filter. This can not only ensure that you can get a hardcore repeat customer with a solid family, but also allow Jiangnan Grand Theater to get more benefits, why not do it?

As for the slogan that art should serve the general public and meet the needs of the general public, Lin Jue does not intend to abide by it. Earning silver is the first thing, and silver is too important to Lin Jue.

In addition to ordinary seats, the price of nearly 30 seats is even more staggering. There are two kinds of boxes, one is the ordinary box, which is slightly smaller in area, generally only two or three chairs and a table. The other is the luxury box, which is huge in size and luxuriously decorated. Equipped with a special person to serve. Seven or eight people can sit inside at the same time without being disturbed by the outside world. Both boxes have some common features, such as a clairglass that can be sharpened thin above the eyes, allowing you to see the lighting props of the actors on the stage in detail. In the summer, for example, there is a specially made wooden fan, which is a device that uses a rope to pull the fan and turn it rapidly. There are also a variety of facilities for private room guests. Each represents a privilege in the Grand Theatre.

These boxes are so important for a place like the capital. There are many families of wealthy and high-ranking officials in the capital. These people want privileges everywhere they go, and they don't want to sit with ordinary people and watch the play. Therefore, the number of boxes in the Beijing Grand Theater is also twice as many as that of the Jiangnan Grand Theater in Hangzhou, and the degree of luxury is incomparable.

The price of such two boxes is naturally expensive. For ordinary boxes, the ticket price for each game is 50 taels to 100 taels. This is the price based on the angle and location. The price of the luxury box starts directly from 120 taels, to the most luxurious box located in the middle of the second floor, facing the stage, which is as high as 300 taels.

This kind of price is ten times higher than the overall price of the box at the Hangzhou Grand Theater. Therefore, Xie Danhong and Xie Yingying both felt that Lin Jue's price was set too high.

However, from the morning of the fourth day, the facts shattered Xie Danhong's worries. More than 560 tickets were all sold out, and the box was full of ordinary seats, and there were no vacancies. There are many noble guests with mysterious identities sitting in the luxury box, and they enter from the VIP passage at the side of the low-key and go directly to the second floor to enter the luxury box. These men are all richly dressed and magnificent. The woman's demeanor is elegant, covered with a thin veil. Obviously, they are all nobles in Beijing.

At the end of the official paid performance on the first day, Xie Danhong settled the income, and after one game, the income was 2,400 taels. This achievement made Xie Danhong go crazy with joy. happily wanted to lie on the ground and lick the soles of Lin Jue's shoes.

Of course, this is only gross income, but after all expenses, the net profit can be half of it, which is also a staggering figure. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a daily progress.

Lin Jue could finally relax a little. Although there is still a lot to be done in the future, since you plan to develop in the capital, you need to recruit actors for training according to the model in Hangzhou, so that the actors can rotate, increase the number of performances or start a new semicolon. In addition, the division of labor and refinement of theater management should be carried out as expected. A cadre must also be more proficient in business, this series of problems are not perfect, need to worry about it. But after all, now that we have made a good start, we have begun to make a lot of money, and the rest of the things will be done slowly.

But at this time, Lin Jue had to temporarily give up the matter about the Grand Theater and turn his mind to another more important matter. That is, the spring exam is imminent.

The large area around the royal street in the south Xunmen of the outer city of Bianliang is the place where the highest imperial examination learning institution of the Great Zhou Dynasty is located. On the west side of the royal street is the martial arts museum, which occupies a small area. However, in a large area on the east side, there are three imperial examination institutions: Taixue, Guozijian, and Gongyuan. It is a quiet and elegant place with lush trees. Compared to the noisy noise and chaos of other parts of Bianliang City, this is a quiet place in Bianliang City.

Usually, the people who come and go here are some scholars and Confucians with status, those students who are of noble birth in Taixue, and those talented prisoners who are qualified to enter and exit this place with an elegant atmosphere. There is no noise of trivial bargaining in the market, and the people here exchange poetry and literary experiences, classic opinions and elegant arguments, and it is a place where the fireworks of the world are not eaten.

However, every three years, it is bustling with activity, because the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy, which has the highest specifications in the whole Zhou Dynasty, is located on the east side of Guozijian and Taixue, which is surrounded by a huge wall and covers an area of more than three miles.

In Bianliang City, where every inch of land is valuable, it is useless to be able to specially open up such a huge site that is usually useless and can only be used once every three years, which shows the importance that the Great Zhou Dynasty attached to the imperial examination. A responsible dynasty will naturally spare no effort for the long-term stability and talent accumulation and selection of its own dynasty. The Great Zhou Dynasty has done exactly this in the past 100 years, which is also one of the important reasons why the Great Zhou Dynasty has flourished and prospered over the past 100 years.

The Tribute Academy in Bianliang was not the largest Tribute Academy in the Great Zhou Dynasty, at least compared with the Tribute Academy in Hangzhou, it was far inferior in terms of the number of candidates accommodated. However, there is no comparison between the two in terms of specifications. One is the venue for the local examination, and the other is the examination place for the imperial court and provincial examinations, and this difference has also created a huge difference in specifications and treatment.

Because of the large number of people in the local examination, the examination room area of some state capitals is even much larger than that of the Bianliang Rite Tribute Academy, and the number of people accommodating it is also tens of thousands. But just like the nightmarish three-day exam that Lin Jue once experienced in the Hangzhou Fugong Academy, the number house in the local Gongyuan was in disrepair, dilapidated, and cramped. Cramped, damp mildew, mosquitoes, scorpions, snakes, and snakes are everywhere. Going through a three-day exam in such a place was like spending three days in a hellish place. Even if it is as wealthy as Hangzhou Mansion, it is the same. Not to mention those poor state capitals, it must be even more unbearable.

But the Bianliang Rite Tribute Academy is very different. Although it can only accommodate a few thousand people to take the exam, the size and degree of decoration of the building are very different from the place. The local house is just a small narrow corridor-like area, and eating, drinking, and sleeping are all in this small space, which is as dirty and cramped as a pigsty. But here, the house is divided into two rooms, with a table below, a bed above, and a small hidden compartment where you can put things such as a bucket of feces and urine.

Although the place is not much bigger, it is more human. Sleeping, exams, eating, drinking, and Lazar can all be divided into different places, giving people a kind of psychological stability. All the houses are also absolutely free of any problems such as rain leakage, mold and dampness. There is a special person to manage the repair of the Beijing Rite Tribute Courtyard, and the furniture of the house and the ground and walls inside are well managed.