The next morning, Lin Jue went to the Bianhe wharf to hire a group of coolies. In the capital, it is easy to hire coolies, and there are groups of people waiting to be hired on the docks everywhere. Either unload and load the ship, or do other manual work. Lin Jue offered a price that was two percent higher than the normal price, so that he could choose those sturdy and honest people from a group of people to work at will.

At noon, Lin Jue rushed to the construction site of the theater in the outer city with dozens of coolies, and the manpower inside the Jiangnan Grand Theater was already waiting. Then, according to the assignment of tasks, these coolies were led by their own craftsmen to start a large-scale renovation of the Grand Theater. Lin Jue personally sat here, on the one hand, to solve various things on the construction site, and on the other hand, he could also find time to create the script in the back yard.

Originally, Lin Jue had already said that he would not create all the scripts in person in the future, but this time Lin Jue still decided to make an exception. After all, this is a semicolon opened in the capital, and if it wants to be an instant hit, the script must pass. Although when I discussed this issue with Xie Yingying and the others before, I felt that it was safer to use the old plays that I had performed in Hangzhou. After all, those are already mature and proven to be successful plays.

However, the problem is that those plays are no secret now, since Lin Jue's crazy accumulation of money last year, many plays have been sold in the form of signed books, which has caused these plays to be no secret. It's hard to guarantee that the capital won't already know the content of these plays. As far as the newly opened Jiangnan Grand Theater is concerned, fried cold rice will be counterproductive.

Therefore, in order to avoid these risks, Lin Jue decided to create a play himself. Of course, there were a few people who came to Beijing with him who were unsuccessful in script creation brought by the Jiangnan Grand Theater, and Lin Jue naturally refused to let them go. Let them grind ink and lay paper on the side, and design dialogue lines according to their own story synopsis, imagine scene lighting, etc., and brainstorm ideas.

Lin Jue didn't want to make any moths, he wanted to write the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai that was rumored among the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty this time. Lin Jue once did some simple investigations, and although the story of Liang Zhu was widely circulated in the Great Zhou Dynasty, there was no long version of the story. Most of them are easy to ask, but they are puzzled when they talk about it in detail. So Lin Jue decided to write this poignant love story into a long script, as the first big play of the Jiangnan Grand Theater in Beijing.

The Great Zhou Dynasty is still peaceful and prosperous, and through the performance practice of the Grand Theater in Hangzhou, Lin Jue can also be regarded as touching the psychology of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. In these years, the people were extravagant and lived a comfortable life, so the people were not interested in repertoire such as Jin Ge Iron Horse. On the contrary, they prefer some personal emotional dramas such as love, sorrow and joy. Sadness is followed by tears, and joy is followed by laughter. They don't have any big ambitions, they just want to be able to share the joys and sorrows with the people in the play outside of their simple lives, and bring a sense of satisfaction. And Liang Zhu is undoubtedly the same as "The Legend of the West Chamber", "Dou E's Injustice" and "Du Shi Niang", all of which are stories that can make them climax.

After the story was determined, the classmates bowed, the eighteen send-offs, the balcony meeting, the anti-marriage crying spirit, the butterfly and other scenes were completely determined, Lin Jue began to bury his head in the creation. Thanks to the familiarity with the story and the love of a concerto that has been handed down to generations to come, the process is actually not too difficult. Those familiar passages and language, in fact, only need a little polish and change to make the atmosphere and lines of the entire play more suitable for the taste of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. In fact, it is a creation, but it is just an adaptation.

The hardest part is actually to design the set props according to the content of each scene, with the sound and light shadows. This is the strong point of the Gangnam Grand Theater, but it is also the most difficult.

In order to get the best effect, Lin Jue and several students, painters, set props, light and shadow craftsmen and others conducted repeated consultations, determined the plan one by one, and implemented it. In this process, several new students who have joined the company for a long time have benefited a lot. Originally, they were only recruited to write plays, but they were limited to writing plays. But looking at everything Lin Jue has done in the past two days, they realized that it is useless to just write a script, and the glory of Jiangnan Grand Theater is by no means dependent on a good script and a good story. It is the cooperation of all parties and the best results presented in all aspects after integration, which has led to the popularity of the Grand Theater.

Two days later, several transcriptions of the script were handed over to Xie Yingying, and the three houses vacated in the back garden were simply renovated as rehearsal venues, and Xie Yingying was finally able to start rehearsing with the actors. When the silk and bamboo music started in the rehearsal room and the music was flying, Xie Danhong's mouth couldn't close. All worries disappeared with the sound of the lyrics of this rehearsal. A lot of money is spent, and soon these people will get a lot of money back.

The renovation of the theater is progressing quite quickly. The layout of the theater is still two floors of stands. The difference is that the number of boxes has doubled. Lin Jue understands that in a place like the capital, there are so many dignitaries and nobles, who is willing to sit in the middle of a group of ordinary people and listen to their noise? Therefore, private rooms, and even luxury boxes, are indispensable. Although the number of private rooms has increased, a large number of ordinary seats have been occupied. But in the future, when it comes to pricing, the benefits of private rooms will definitely be dozens of times that of ordinary seats.

When he was in Hangzhou, Lin Jue's original intention at opening the Grand Theater was to let the people have the opportunity to watch the theater and make it as convenient as possible for the people. But in the capital, Lin Jue didn't think so. Lin Jue needed money, and he finally realized the benefits of money. That was wrong. After coming down from Funiu Mountain, Lin Jue's mind changed dramatically. He wants money, and he wants to make many, many dollars. Because Funiu Mountain needs money, and if you want to gain a foothold in the capital, you need money, and you need money in all aspects. The so-called 'gentleman is poor' and the like taught in the books of the sages cannot be believed at all. In these years, if you don't have money, you don't die. Just like what happened in the Barberry Mountains. Without the huge amount of money injected into two batches of thirty or forty thousand taels of silver, those people in the big village of Luoyan Valley would have died long ago. Money is life.

This time, Lin Jue thought about how to make money and how to get it. Private rooms, tea, sweets, snacks, must be a one-stop service, but also must be a one-stop high price. Lin Jue even shamelessly thought that if a dignitary fell in love with an actor in a certain play, as long as the price was right, he could also do this skin and meat business. However, Lin Jue was just thinking about it, and estimated that once he said such a thing, Xie Yingying was afraid that he would immediately feel that he was blind, how could he fall in love with such a shameless person. It's easy to take everyone out of the bitter sea of flowers, this guy actually wants to push people in, isn't that a shameless bastard?

The layout of the stage is still the rotary lifting system that Lin Jue is good at, and this system has always been a secret of the Grand Theater. In order to stimulate the viewer from all over the senses, these seemingly unnecessary installations and stages are needed. It is to impress the audience with this ingenuity and details. It is to create an immersive sense with a seemingly extravagant stage background, so as to make the people feel a sense of resonance, which is the key to the success of the stage play.

For the large-scale construction here, the surrounding neighbors felt very strange. After inquiring, I heard that this is a theater that performs plays, and I didn't laugh to death the uncles and aunts in the neighborhood.

A fat aunt who was selling cooking cakes and noodle soup across the street asserted in front of Lin Jue: "Little boy, it's not that the eldest aunt curses you, we have thousands of tiles in the capital, and the most famous ones don't bother as much as you." You've put so much effort into it, and I'm afraid you won't even have one to see in the end. I'm afraid that I will lose all my money when the time comes. The great god said, within three months, you will have to close the door. ”

Lin Jue laughed and said, "Auntie, let's make a bet, what if my business here is prosperous?" ”

The fat aunt said: "Impossible, if you don't close the door for three months, I will close the door and leave, and go back to the countryside to farm." ”

Lin Jue laughed, slapped at the fat aunt's fat palm full of flour and said, "A word is a certainty." ”

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On the morning of the seventh day of March, when Lin Jue was busy at the renovation site of the Grand Theater, a black carriage drove slowly on the street and finally stopped at the corner not far away. Two servants got out of the carriage and walked straight to the construction site.

"Lao Jia asked, is Lin Juelin Xie Yuan here?" A servant asked aloud from under the tall porch of the Grand Theater.

Someone immediately reported Lin Jue, Lin Jue poked his head out of the cloister on the second floor, and asked downward, "Who is looking for me?" ”

The servant raised his head and shouted, "Are you Lin Jue Lin Xie Yuan?" ”

Lin Jue said: "I am Lin Jue. ”

The servant arched his hand and said, "Please Lin Xie Yuan come with us, my family wants to see you." ”

Lin Jue frowned and said, "Who is your family?" ”

The servant frowned and said, "If you want to go with us, why do you ask so much?" ”

Lin Jue smiled: "Joke, I know who you are?" Do you want me to go, and I'll go? Who is the adult of your family, can't you see people? Why don't you even dare to report your name? ”

The two servants glanced at each other, then turned and left. Lin Jue watched suspiciously, as they walked to the carriage on the corner of the street to report, and soon after, the carriage door opened, and a person got down. The distance was not far, Lin Jue's eyesight was very good, and when he saw the figure of the man, his scalp suddenly became a little numb, and his brows were tightly wrinkled.

"You guys get busy first, and I'll come when I go." Lin Jue instructed everyone, dressed up and went down to the second floor, and just stepped out of the porch to the street, the person who got down from the carriage had already come to the left.

"Hey, what a big shelf, my people can't please move you Lin Jieyuan." When the man saw Lin Jue coming, he had a bright smile on his face, but his words were full of ridicule.

"I didn't know if Lord Wu was coming, I thought it was a ruffian hooligan who came to make trouble. Don't hide it from Lord Wu, in the past few days, several groups of street idlers have come to extort money, and I have been scared of them. Lin Jue smiled and stepped forward to salute respectfully.