Du Zhongxiao and Bao Zheng sat down, and Zhang Qi on the side said: "Jieshuai and Long Tu are here!" The people above are anxious. That old man has come out to sue several times, saying that the two of them can't get along, how can they start acting? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "We have arrived, which of you dares to talk casually?" As long as you are happy today, it is better to arrive late than early. ”

The officials sitting around laughed together. Zhang Qi also smiled, and said: "I heard that this group of people who came here specially wrote a scene for the last time the commander won the party. The generals and soldiers sitting below are all waiting with their eyes open. ”

While he was talking, an old man came out of it, thinking that he was the head of these people who were singing. confessed to the surroundings, and bowed to Du Zhongxiao and Bao Zheng, who were sitting in the middle, and said: "The little old man Song Qigong, the Jingshi people, has always recruited people to perform some singing and dancing dramas in the tile, and earned money and rice to support the family. It was here that a big city was built, a scenic state, which was the capital state of the road. The city is very vast and prosperous. Xiao Lao'er is familiar with him to do some business here, invite Xiao Lao'er to come together, and Yan Cheng has built a new shopping mall, set up with hook bar tiles, and you can make a living by performing as before. Xiao Lao'er is a soft-eared person, and he was moved by what he said, so he bought a few train tickets, took a few artists on the train, and came here......"

Bao Zheng said to Du Zhongxiao: "The legends in the capital are much more lively than the war here. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "The legend of the market, of course, the more bizarre the better. It's like a dragon picture, a person who speaks little, what's the fun of passing it on? ”

Bao Zheng shook his head again and again after hearing this: "After tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, we have defeated strong enemies in a row, expanded the land for thousands of miles, and naturally spread in the market." I am a self-explanatory, although I can't say that I have achieved nothing, but there is nothing peculiar, what can attract the people of the market? ”

Du Zhongxiao smiled silently. The real history is one thing, the history in the books is the same, and the history circulated among the people is another. Bao Zheng is a very boring person, but he can't stand it and spread widely, who in later generations doesn't know "Bao Longtu plays Kaifeng Mansion"? This kind of thing is not clear, and there is no pattern to follow. Just like now, Du Zhongxiao is a strategic envoy, and Bao Zheng is a transfer envoy, who dares to say that future generations will pass it on by word of mouth, whether he is a strategic envoy or his subordinate of the transfer envoy?

The little old man talked for a while, and saw that the audience was a little impatient, and knew that the fire was coming. Make a gesture and step down.

"It's coming, it's coming!" There was a whisper under the stands, obviously waiting for the stage to stage the battle in Hezhou a few days ago. In that battle, Du Zhongxiao with 30,000 soldiers and horses, against the party's 120,000 army, annihilated 60,000 enemy troops, and defeated the party's right side of the army city, which was the most glorious moment for the soldiers and horses on the Hequ Road. The soldiers who went out from the Hequ Road, whether they were generals or soldiers, said that they had defeated the party's 120,000 army with 30,000 and 60,000. The 60,000 soldiers and horses that were completely annihilated actually didn't kill many people, and it didn't prevent them from telling others that all the heroes were killed.

There were five people on the stage, one pretending to be a party member, with bearded hair and clothes, and he looked funny. Another Han general dressed up with a gun in his hand, and danced on the stage with the one who was pretending to be a party member. The rest didn't know whether it was a soldier or an audience, running around, sometimes turning a few heels, which caused the audience to applaud.

Before the official acrobatic drama begins, there will be a short performance that has nothing to do with the content, mostly the things that the audience likes to see, which is used to attract the audience's attention, called "Yan Duan". Today's small scene should be the war in Hezhou that the people of the capital want to see. As for what he played, anyway, the coach at the time, Du Zhongxiao, couldn't understand it, and he couldn't even tell what roles several people on the stage were playing. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, you know that they are flattering themselves, and they will clap their palms when the time comes.

Most of the audience in the audience was happy to watch, and there were constant cheers and cheers. The most important thing about this kind of stage performance is that it is lively, and some small details are connected with the audience's heart. Neither reflecting the facts of the time, nor the mesmerizing appeal, it spreads and just tells the audience a story.

After this short performance, the audience applauded, and Du Zhongxiao and Bao Zheng smiled and applauded together.

At the beginning of the main drama, it was no longer as lively as before, and it was the popular song "Yingying Liuyu" in Beijing. It has emerged from the Tang Dynasty and has been passed down for more than 1,000 years in later generations. The tune is from the Tang Dynasty, which is cut out and sung with lyrics to interpret the story. The melody is tactful and varied, sometimes soothing, sometimes rapid, the so-called "big strings are noisy like torrential rain, and small strings are whispering like whispers". Matching with the tune, the dance is graceful, "light green waist dance".

Music and drama can roughly reflect the spirit of an era, more than 200 years of war, foreign wars and defeats, at this time the world's popular music is mostly this taste. Five generations of martial artists were in power, and words and music tended to go in two directions. The first is to write more about the boudoir, the style of words is fragrant and soft, and it is very popular. The other is the melancholy and loss in the poetry of the literati, which has become a style.

In the era of warlords in the country of Wufu, there will be no passionate and upward social spirit, and most of the time it will accelerate the degeneration. The style of words is fragrant and soft, which is a kind of performance, and the powerful martial artist likes this tone. melancholy and loss, fitting the momentary heroes who have never met Huai Cai, have become two directions. The entertainment of the people in the market, after losing the feelings of family and country, is mostly based on the things around them, or puts classic stories in the surrounding environment, revealing a witty, ironic and disillusioned style. This style is actually inconsistent with the style of Hequ Road.

What Du Zhongxiao wants to hear now is the style of thousands of miles of desert, Jin Ge Iron Horse, and brave and hardworking. It's a pity that the performance on the stage, the first war in Hezhou has become a farce, and the next thing is the love and love between men and women.

It's not difficult to write a bold word, or even a side poem, but it's hard to have no tune. Words on paper can only be appreciated or praised by literati, and cannot become the spirit of the times. The high-spirited social spirit will give birth to a number of inspiring songs. With the company of this kind of music and real achievements, the poems of Jin Ge Iron Horse will be spread among the people.

After watching the first miscellaneous play, Du Zhongxiao got up and left. Take a few retinues and go around.

Today is the opening day of the shopping mall, and the director of the shopping mall, Ruan, specially invited the famous corner of the tile goulan from the capital, one to celebrate, and the other to attract people to come. Director Ruan is a wealthy family in the capital, who has been in business for several generations and is considered a professional.

The south gate of this mall is the main entrance. In the middle is a two-story hall as a shopping mall, on the west side is the money guide, gold and silver shop, bookstore, etc., and on the east side is the largest official restaurant in Shengzhou. Behind the mall, including the middle strip of the mall from south to north, there are tiled fences that divide the entire area into several pieces. Director He has connections in the capital and has invited many artists to come, and it will be very lively in the future.

The shopping mall is owned by Changping Division, and the restaurant belongs to the state government, which is an official industry, but the official does not operate. Shengzhou is a new city, and the people are all newly moved, of course, there are no big households, and there is no way to use large households as supervisors like other places, and the official minimum profit is set every year. Director Ruan and Director He of the restaurant were both hired from the capital, and in addition to the annual guaranteed salary, there were also dividends. The people sent by the government are mainly in charge of money and accounts, and at the same time supervise the day-to-day operations, and do not participate in management. This was the case for most of the government-run industries in the Song Dynasty, except for the most important industries such as iron supervision and ordnance supervision, which were generally not directly operated by the government. Except for property rights, it is not much different from private industry and commerce. Even the iron supervisors, in addition to cooperating with shopping malls, most of the iron tools sold to the private sector were released and sold by specialized merchants.

At this time, most of the people gathered in front of the stage, some merchants were tidying up their shops, and most of the doors were closed.

Qian Yinwu closed the door, the owner of the gold and silver shop was directing a few small servants to busy cleaning up, two gentlemen from the bookstore were sitting inside, and three small servants were leaning against the door, bored to watch the scenery.

To the east, the restaurant has not yet opened, and the little servants are tying up the building together, and a few female prostitutes are laughing below.

Du Zhongxiao really didn't want to go back to the stage to watch the gags, so he walked across the street.

A big shop on the street, I don't know what business to do, and a few people dressed up are busy. I cleaned up the house, bought flowers and plants from somewhere, and hung silk everywhere.

When Du Zhongxiao was going somewhere, he suddenly heard someone say: "The festival commander is not there to watch the play, how can he come to the small shop?" ”

Du Zhongxiao turned around and saw a person standing in front of the shop next to him, saluting himself, it was Wang Pu, the little leader of Tibetan talents he knew before.

There was nothing to do, Du Zhongxiao walked to Wang Pu's shop and said, "I have seen those dramas in the capital before, and it will be boring to watch them again, wandering around." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Wang Pu's shop and said to him, "It turns out that you also bought a shop here, what kind of business do you want to do?" ”

Wang Pu said: "The small ones don't know how to do business, thinking that it is easy to sell food, even if they can't make money, they won't lose their capital." I want to learn from the noodle shop I saw in Tanglong Town before and open a noodle shop. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Okay, the location here is really good, as long as you work hard, you will be able to make money." ”

Hearing this, Wang Pu's face was full of smiles: "What the festival marshal said is true." Renting this shop is really a small luck! On that day, the little one paid 500 yuan in the house shop, and as soon as the official drew it, he drew it here! ”

Speaking of this, he pointed to the shop next to him and said: "Look, the shop next to it belongs to Jin San, a merchant from the Western Regions." He was impatient to wait with others to draw a shop, so he chose this one himself, and each one was fifty dollars more than the rent of a small one. It's funny to say, that day he thought that the road was far less than gold and silver, so he let the little errand run and earn him a hundred dollars. But I didn't want to, and when we turned around, we became neighbors. ”