"It's just a way to attract customers." Someone knows this very well: "A folk opera troupe like them, although they only sing for big families earn a lot, but they are always like this, and their fame is getting smaller and smaller." How much worse can the most famous teams sing? How many of those uncles can hear this difference? Or it doesn't look at the fame of the team! Therefore, these teams have to sing to the people for the sake of fame. ”

"What's more, this team is still from Fengyang. Although there are many people in Fengyang in the capital, in the end, it is more grounded. ”

"Zhang Yuan, I am very familiar with the opera team after listening to you, and I like to listen to dramas on weekdays?" Yun Xi smiled.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister likes to listen to plays, so he listens to them when he has time. The family couldn't afford to hire a team, so they looked around for a play garden. Fortunately, there are a lot of money for His Majesty as a guard, and His Majesty also rewards him from time to time, so it is enough to spend. The guard named Zhang Yuan said.

"This is how good it is?" Yoon-hee was skeptical. Although he occasionally listens to plays, but mainly to listen to the book written by the Propaganda Division, he doesn't really like it very much, and it's better to play Kaos with his wife and concubine occasionally, or dress up as a child. People who have watched modern entertainment may like opera, not to mention that the opera of this era is still relatively primitive.

"Your Majesty, such things vary from person to person, just like tofu brain, some people like to eat salty, some people like to eat sweet, and there is no right or wrong. It's just that the minister likes this mouthful. Zhang Yuan could only say this.

Yun Xi realized that what he said just now was quite disrespectful to a ticket holder, but Zhang Yuan didn't dare to offend himself, so he smiled: "That's true, it's just a difference in preferences, it's good for theater fans, and it's not good for people who don't like to listen to dramas." Feng Xishan, still didn't point out the location of the opera garden to Zhang Yuan, and asked him to listen to it after he got off duty. can be invited by the noble family in the capital to sing at home, and the singing should be good. ”

Feng Xishan hurriedly pointed to the place, and said with some excitement: "Lao Zhang, I didn't know that you also like to listen to operas. I'll listen here later. I haven't heard the play that this team sang just now, but I don't think I've heard it, it's about a newly rehearsed play. ”

"You're also a fan of drama, just right, come over together after duty. A new play, what play? ”

"It seems to be related to anti-yuan. In the past few years, such dramas have emerged in an endless stream, listen to what new tricks he has. ”

After listening to Feng Xishan's words, Zhang Yuan was about to echo his words, but at this time, Yun Xi suddenly asked: "That drama troupe just now sang a play related to the anti-Yuan Dynasty?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The two of them were a little surprised when they heard the emperor speak, and they hurriedly said: "It's a play I've never heard of about Emperor Taizu's army. "Speaking of which, the two of them understood a little: 'The emperor is probably interested in the folk anti-Yuan opera.' In the past three years, the Department of Culture and Propaganda has continued to compile all kinds of opera and storytelling books that destroyed the Jin and Song dynasties, resisted the Yuan Dynasty, and smeared monotheism, from good books that make people stunning, to shoddy books that have been sung once and then no team sings, which everyone knows.

Yun Xi raised his head and looked at the sky, feeling that it was still early, so he said to Feng Xishan: "Lead me to watch this opera." ”

All the guards glanced at Song Qingshu with their afterglow for the first time. Song Qingshu himself subconsciously wanted to glance at others with his peripheral vision, but immediately reacted: he is now the leader of the guards.

He had to think for himself. After thinking about it, Song Qingshu felt that the emperor had decided to go to the opera garden to listen to a play, and thought that the safety of a room upstairs in a place like the opera garden was quite guaranteed, and even if he wanted to stop it, he probably couldn't stop it, so he ordered seven or eight guards to follow Yun Xi closely, and the others were far away.

After a while, when they came to the gate of the theater, the gatekeeper saw so many people coming, all dressed in fine leather clothes, and did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly bowed and saluted: "I have seen a few officials. ’

"Excuse me." Song Qingshu said: "But there is still a compartment upstairs? ”

"Yes, yes." The doorkeeper said in a loud voice, and immediately turned sideways, pushed open the door and said, "Please ask a few officials to go upstairs." Then he greeted the runners: "Come and greet the guests." ”

The men who ran the hall hurried over to serve them. Song Qingshu said again: "Quickly take a few of our brothers to the compartment." After walking for so long, my legs are sore, so I just took a break. ”

The guy agreed, and then said, "I don't know if the officials want the compartment in the middle, or the compartment on both sides?" "This kind of theater garden is a courtyard, one side is a stage, and the other three sides are two or three stories up, all of which are compartments for rich families to watch plays; Inside the courtyard is a place where middle-class families sit and watch plays, or people who have no money stand to watch plays.

"Of course we're going to be in the middle of the cubicle, what else do you ask?" Song Qingshu said this, and suddenly realized: "Is the price different?" How much is the compartment in the middle? ”

"Thirty dollars a piece. On the side is a twenty or fifteen one. The guy said.

"Are you still worried that we can't afford to pay these thirty yuan? Take us with you! Song Qingshu scolded.

The guy then took them to the compartment in the middle, served another pot of hot tea, a stack of fruits, a stack of peanuts, and asked them if they had any other needs, Song Qingshu waved his hand, and he retreated.

After sitting down, Yun Xi quietly asked Zhang Yuan: "The price of listening to the drama in this opera garden is so expensive?" ”

"Childe, this is the most prosperous street in the capital, naturally everything is expensive, if it is a theater garden on the street in the north or south of the city, the private room above is about ten to twenty yuan." Zhang Yuan explained.

"That's not cheap." Yun Xi said.

Don't look at what Song Qingshu promised just now, in fact, thirty times is already a lot, which is about equivalent to the monthly salary of a sixth-grade official in the Ming Dynasty after being raised by Yunxi, which is higher than the monthly salary of the seventh-grade Zhi County, which exceeds the annual expenses of a family of five in the countryside. Song Qingshu is now in the fifth grade, if he is allowed to spend these thirty yuan, even if it is his favorite thing, he has to think twice; Zhang Yuan is now in the sixth grade, and usually never comes to the upper compartment unless he is accompanying a guest.

So Zhang Yuan immediately continued: "It's really not cheap." The minister never dared to go to the cubicle when he came to the opera garden to listen to the drama on weekdays, and when he was rich in money, he found a seat downstairs, and he had 200 yuan per person. If you are not rich, you will stand and listen to the play, and it will be almost the same if you have one or twenty yuan. ”

"It's so cheap to stand and listen to the play?"

"Yes, Childe. In order to attract guests and popularity, it is very cheap to stand and listen to the play, and some once charged one or two pennies for the people to listen. ”

"That's good." Yun Xi said approvingly. At present, the major cities and various dialects of the country have the most Yuan to destroy the Jin Song Dynasty, resist the Yuan Dynasty, and discredit the monotheistic religion compiled by the Wenxuan Division, and there are many opera troupes that sing, and it is good for him to attract guests in this way.

Yun Xi wanted to ask again, and suddenly there was a martial arts scene on the stage, and Zhang Yuan's eyes couldn't help but look at the stage. Seeing this, Yun Xi didn't ask, and turned his head to watch the play.

But the more he watched it, the more familiar he felt, and he hurriedly called the guy when the actors went down to change their costumes and rest: "Do you have a book for this play?" ”

"Yes." The guy agreed, ran down with a smoke, and soon ran up with another smoke, handing Yunxi a thick joke.

Yun Xi opened it and looked at it roughly, and finally concluded: Isn't this "Heaven and Dragon Slayer"! It's just that the protagonist is not Zhang Wuji but Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, and he doesn't have a background in Mingjiao.

It turned out that this play was about Zhu Yuanzhang, after he unified Jiangnan, he raised troops to the Northern Expedition, recovered Lu, Henan, Hebei, Jin, Shaanxi and other provinces, and canonized his second son Zhu Fan as the king of Qin and guarded Xi'an. The sister of the famous general Wang Baobao wanted to help her brother recover the Central Plains, so she went deep into Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, pretending to be the daughter of the Han people to spy on intelligence. And Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, is a good prince who is compassionate to the people, and he often visits the people in private visits to the people, and he met her. After learning his identity, she tied him back to the Mongolian steppe, but in the process, she secretly fell in love, and finally betrayed Meng Yuan and took refuge in the Ming Dynasty.

After reading this story, Yun Xi couldn't help but glance at his guard Zhang Wuji: "I can't marry Zhao Min in reality, and I can't marry Zhao Min in the story." And there are no three beautiful women here: Zhou Zhiruo, Xiao Zhao, and Yin Li as substitutes. ’

Zhang Wuji was very inexplicable by his glance. I just listened to the play honestly, well, I didn't listen to the play much, I just chatted quietly with the people next to me, but why did the emperor look at me with such eyes?

And although it is impossible for Zhang Wuji to marry the Mongolian county lord or the head of the Emei faction, the market is very good now, his parents have written to say that the brothers and sisters of the same family are willing to marry their daughters to him, and the wealthy families under Wudang Mountain are also very enthusiastic.

Yun Xi read the book and put it on the table casually; Zhang Yuan loves drama very much, so he picked up the book and read it.

But before he read half of it, he said to Yun Xi in a little panic: "Childe, this book is a little disrespectful to His Royal Highness King Qin Han, but let them change it?" Zhang Yuan himself likes this kind of story very much, and this team sings well, but he is worried that Yunxi will not be satisfied, so he said this.

"This doesn't have to be." Yun Xi smiled: "It's not a bad thing for people to write such a book. There is no need to discredit King Qin Han, so there is no need to modify it. ”