The departments next door to the compound poked their heads out one after another, and they didn't need to ask much, and congratulated them again and again. And the craftsmen in charge of the leaf springs, like those who improved the spinning wheel and the loom, held their heads high and shouted to the people next door: "Keep busy!" We're going to take a break! ”

The few people in the departments with brands such as "Iron Sharpening Knife", "Filigree Xuanlin Tube", "Silver Mirror", and "Gun Bed" looked envious, and after envy, they returned to their compounds.

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It's night.

More than 100 people chartered the largest liquor store in Peiyi, and the internal security forces with red armbands and subordinate to the Supervision and Inspection Department patrolled the streets seemingly normally, but in fact at least 30 people were deployed near the liquor store.

It seems that everything is normal, there is a lot of traffic, but some businessmen who are ready to eat here leave in a huff.

This is the most lively area of Peiyi, not only because of its proximity to Surabaya, wine shops, gold shops and exchanges, but also because of the "People's Theater" in Peiyi.

With the improvement of the productivity of Sishang, a large number of industrial and commercial deformed development, and the market culture began to be enriched.

The Mo family is not happy, but after Mozi died, the person in charge of the Xuanyi Department was suitable, and many things were corrected greatly.

From "non-music" as the result to "non-music" as the means, from non-happiness to why non-music, since he put forward the statement that "the different means of the stage are for the purpose of benefiting the world", many things naturally become unlikely.

At this time, the level of music in the world was already very high, the five tones of the palace and the Shangjiao Zhengyu, plus the twelve equal laws had appeared, and the Mo family had actually "destroyed" a lot of countries in Sishang, and all kinds of musical instruments were complete.

Someone once said that to see how arrogant the Mo family is, just go to the "People's Theater" in Peiyi.

In addition to verbal and rational paper-and-pencil propaganda, activities such as "singing" and "drama" that the people like to see have also become propaganda means.

The People's Theater was built under this premise.

Wouldn't it be a shame to waste so many musical instruments? It is used to cast cannons, but it is not suitable, so the most polite scene in Sishang often appears in the people's theater.

There is not only acting, but also organizing large-scale symphonic music performances such as chimes, sheng flutes, and ocarinas from time to time.

It was a very interesting place, and there were always many people from various schools of thought who came and went to Sishang to debate, study, and find faults, but when Confucian disciples came to Sishang, they always bypassed the most prosperous urban areas, let alone entered the theater.

The theater can accommodate a lot of people, which is also a landmark building of Peiyi, and what is even more interesting is that there is a half-picture "couplet" pasted on the door of the theater.

Shang Yan wrote "Eight hundred dance in the court, is it tolerable or unbearable".

Two years ago, several Confucian disciples wrote such a big-character poster on paper and posted it at the door of the theater to show their anger, which seriously hurt their faith and feelings, and organized people to protest at the door of the Xuanyi Department.

The people of the Xuanyi Department were also interesting, and they came forward to issue a musket to each of these protesting Confucian disciples, and gave them four hundred yuan, saying that the three families of the Jin and Tian clans were more serious than this, and the Mo family respected your beliefs very much, and hereby decided to issue you guns and gunpowder and travel expenses, and you can also send you to Linzi, Anyi, Zhongmu and other places, if you feel that guns are not a gentleman's art, you can also send you a bow.

As a result, someone really dared to take it, and immediately scolded: "There is a matter of importance, you are lighter than the three families and the Tian family, but you can't prove that you are doing the right thing." ”

The rest of the people didn't dare to go, but there were three people, who were in a good position, and immediately received the money and gunpowder and went to Weidu on their own.

Wearing a high crown, knowing that he would die, he was still dressed properly, chanting the slogan of "Wei Zong's disobedience", and stabbing Wei Hou's car.

As a result, he was arrested, and then he was divided by five horses, which was really singing and crying.

At that time, it was a delicate period of the relationship between the Mo family and the Wei state, and the Wei state was very afraid that the Mo family would fully intervene in Wei Chu to interfere in the battle of Chen Cai, so after killing the person, he hurriedly sent someone to Sishang with gifts, saying that this matter was determined to be the self-action of Confucianism after careful interrogation, and Wei Hou believed that this matter had nothing to do with the Mo family, and would never think that it was sent by the Mo family to assassinate because of this, and hoped that the Mo family would rest assured that this matter would not affect the signing of the covenant between the two sides on Yangcheng and Xiaqiu.

As for the big-character poster posted on the wall of the theater, the Mo family did not pick it up, but kept it.

This is equivalent to someone scolding the Mo family for not being a face, but the Mo family was overjoyed, saying that not only did they lose face, but also hoped that the world would be shameless together, so that the current shamelessness is the future face, isn't it beautiful?

And think that it was not suitable to learn words back then, but to teach others to read, so the original "not" literacy has become the "most" literacy suitability, which is also the same reason.

With the advent of paper, the "couplet", which originated from the poetry and the scriptures but was different, has also appeared, especially when the Mohists pasted couplets in various public offices - when they were in charge of the Xuanyi Department, they did a lot of what he thought Zhuxia should look like, and pasting couplets was also one of them.

It is also to make Sishang couplets everywhere, and set off firecrackers during the New Year, so that people from other places feel like the unknown Yidi when they come to see it. The rumors of the Mo family Yidi are not all groundless, why did Yidi post couplets? At this time, there was no such custom in the world.

The big-character poster was regarded as the upper rhyme of the theater couplet, and the Xuanyi Department spent ten gold to beg for the next que, and it was rumored to be beautiful for a while.

Those who are willing to ponder may not care about the ten gold, but care about the fame, but until now, there is no suitable Xiaque, but from time to time someone writes it and sticks it on the wall on the other side, and hangs a lot.

At this time tonight, Ximen Yan, who had a falling out with his father and came to Sishang from Yedi to study, also carried a piece of Xia Que written by himself, signed his name underneath, and made some paste with a few classmates, and took advantage of the time to watch the play tonight, ready to paste it.

"Jiuling plays on all stages, and if it is true, it is also fake."

A few people who were there to read the rest of the posts read Ximen Yan's lower que, nodded and shook their heads.

At this time, the performance of Zhuxia Guan is called Lingyou, and the Mojia is not musical, and it is suitable to engage in revisionism in the matter of non-music, and simply sing, play, perform on the street, and perform...... Collectively known as Ling, there are nine types, known as Jiuling, which is not an insulting title, but a normal title along with workers, merchants, farmers, soldiers, etc.

The people in Sishang like street handouts and like to show off in front of everyone, but Ximen Yu didn't care about the eyes of the attention next to him, but the person next to him said: "It's not neat, and the idea is not high, and the realm is insufficient." ”

"I've also thought about this, it's best to use Confucianism's sentence of dancing in the court, whether it is tolerable or unbearable, and the idea should be similar to the artistic conception of 'everyone is equal'."

"Your pair seems to be good, but it's not a good match. This is in line with the theater, but not in the 'abolition'. ”

Ximen Yu smiled and said, "It's just a whim, written and played." ”

The man who was talking next to him looked at Ximen Yan, looked at the clothes he was wearing, it was Qingqing Zijin, and asked with a smile: "Xuxu's students?" Which department? ”

Ximen Yu hurriedly said: "Academy of Liberal Arts, Western Regions language family." Dare to ask? ”

The man on the other side smiled and said, "Are you going to learn from Mr. Solu to travel thousands of miles to the west to envoy the Western Regions?" I'm from the chemistry department. Listen to your accent, you came from a foreign study, right? ”

Ximen sighed, a little envious, but also smiled: "We came to study, where did we get admitted to the Academy of Physics?" I'm from Yecheng. ”

The man sighed and said, "That's not the place where Simon Leopard ruled Hebo?" I learned it when I was in school. ”

Ximen Biao didn't say that Ximen Leopard was his father, but just nodded and said enviously: "I heard that the people in the Department of Chemistry all followed the first few disciples of the giant, how do you feel after studying for this time?" ”

The man sighed and said sincerely: "When you hear about it, you can die at night." It turns out that the very large and the very small are so similar. The sun, moon and stars, the atoms of all things, are really interesting. Addicted to it...... I think this department I studied is the most interesting, if you have time, you might as well go and listen to it, discipline you to open your eyes, it turns out that this is what happened. ”

Simon smiled and said in his heart, I have seen a lot of such people, including me, who thinks that the knowledge they have learned is the most interesting, and when they arrived in Sishang, they realized that the world they knew was not right at all, there were too many shocking things.

Moreover, I can't finish learning the Chinese languages of the Western Regions, where can I have time to listen? The gentleman of the Persian and Greek languages, now Sishang speaks well, but it is still troublesome to learn, and it is both negative and positive, and it gives me a headache when I think about it.

While talking, the previous performance should have ended, and a group of people poured out of the theater, and a few came out shoulder to shoulder, talking about eating and drinking together, and talking about the performance just now.

"Hey, that Handan Ji is really hard, and I feel itchy when I dance."

"I've heard before that this woman who dances on tiptoe wears very little, and she doesn't wear it inside, but once she turns around, she can see the meat inside, and she wears a lot!"

The man next to him laughed and scolded: "This is not in the South China Sea, this winter." If you want to be itchy, just find someone to marry, you who have made a fortune in the South China Sea are the current good sons-in-law. This time, you have brought back so many 'long-term workers' and made a lot of money, and you have also shared a lot, right? ”

When Ximen Yu heard the word "long worker", he couldn't help frowning......

Changgong is the name of the "people" brought back by those who went deep into the trade in the southern region of Chu Yue.

It is said that it is a long-term worker, but it is more like a plundered slave, but it does not have the status of a slave and is equal on the surface.

There is a shortage of people in Sishang, what is lacking is cheap people, and what is lacking is cheap ...... Workforce.

For the sake of soldiers and stability, we can't touch the basic plate of farmers.

However, in order to develop industry and commerce, a large number of cheap labor is necessary.

Those who went to the south of Chu Yue to engage in "trade" had heard of the means of making a fortune.

More than 400 people once shouted "There is slavery in the city-state of Nayidi, which is not good for people and harms the world", so they went to war with cannons and muskets to knock down a state that was still in the early civilization of bronze...... "confiscated" the gold in the palace, and by the way, all the cultural classes in that small state, the nobles and priests, were shot in the name of harming the world, completely destroying the culture, writing, legends, history, and all the bronze rubbings that recorded civilization and smelted them all.

This incident has long spread in Sishang, and it has sparked an extremely heated discussion.

The South China Sea Trading Company led by the Mo family continued to colonize and immigrate, which inevitably caused some dirty transactions, and the above turned a blind eye.

"Changgong" is the kind of thing that needs to be closed, there are many states and tribes in the South China Sea, collectively known as the Bound Lou, and the colonial trading companies in the South China Sea are doing such things there: selling guns, swords, and handicrafts, and then the slaves captured in the battles between the various states are collected by the trading company at a low price: the price is relatively not low, but the price is ...... One musket for two people, and whether you can hire someone to do half a year's work when you get a musket in Sishang.

Now the states of the South China Sea, which have just emerged as city-states, are at war all day long, and those merchants sit and collect the profits, waiting to receive them.

After redeeming the person, he said that we paid for you to buy it back, you have to sign a contract, work hard, work for ten years, and you will be free.

After freedom, they will give you land and farm tools, and they will give you a sum of money for reclamation, why didn't they give you money every month before?

The main thing is to "save money", I'm afraid that you will spend all the money and have no principal to make a living in the future, so I will save it for you first......

As a result, the coastal areas of the South China Sea relied on such "long-term labor" to build plantations, rice fields, and minerals.