Han, the twenty-ninth year of Jian'an, the beginning of summer and April.

The amphitheater, one of the iconic buildings in ancient Roman architecture, is shining brightly in this early summer night, and the theater is full of melodious singing and music, but it is staging a song and dance drama from the ancient East. As for the female number one in the play, it is naturally Lu Lan, who is known as the "Flower of Yizhou". But now here in Rome, Lu Lan has another name given to her by the Roman people: Venus of the East.

It is said that Lu Lan started in the late autumn of the 28th year of Jian'an, after "finishing" Lu Ren in Yangon. After a few days in Ceylon and three small-scale performances, Lu Lan left for Rome's eastern province in the Red Sea region, entered the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal, and finally arrived in Rome at the end of the 28th year of Jian'an.

At the beginning of the arrival, Lu Lan immediately realized that both himself and Lu Ren obviously belittled Lu Lan's popularity index in Rome, at least in the aristocratic circle of Rome, anyway, the Roman emperor came to the dock with a large group of people to greet Lu Lan in person.

The grandeur and scale of the welcome ceremony are said to have been matched with the pomp and circumstance caused by Cleopatra's ceremonial guard when she went to Rome to find Caesar. The difference is that Cleopatra was not very popular with the Roman nobles of the time, and it can even be said that Caesar's assassination is inseparable from Cleopatra; But Lu Lan is indeed very popular with Rome.

Lu Lan also learned later that in recent years, all the wealthier aristocrats in Rome will basically try their best to buy a gramophone produced in Yizhou, and Lu Lan's records are even more essential. This thing, I really like it, but it's just that it's a vassal elegance, anyway, it's already a kind of ...... in the aristocratic circle of Rome What's trending? Speaking of fashion trends, there are actually ancient and modern Chinese and foreign things, so there is nothing surprising about it. Anyway, in the current circle of Roman aristocracy, if you are "insulated" from Lu Lan, the "Venus of the East", you will be looked down upon by other Roman nobles.

Don't say much about the next messy rhetoric or anything, and these are not Lu Lan's jobs, so after Lu Lan completed the necessary social interactions at the beginning, he proposed to the Roman emperor that in order to prove Lu Ren's sincerity, he would perform a few performances on behalf of Lu Ren in Rome. How could the Roman emperors and nobles, who had long been looking forward to this, disagree? Not only agrees, but also meets all the required requirements of Lu Lan.

By the way, the Roman emperor would agree to Lu Lan's request so readily, in addition to the fact that the Roman emperor himself was indeed a loyal fan of Lu Lan, in fact, there was also a political purpose. In fact, the rulers of ancient Rome had such a characteristic, that is, from time to time, they would pay for some entertainment to please the people. Is it actually useful, but at least it seems to show the Roman people the generosity of the ruler? Anyway, that's what later generations of scholars commented.

This kind of thing Lu Ren has confessed to Lu Lan, and Lu Lan doesn't bother to care about these things. In short, for Lu Lan, all those messy things can be put aside, and she just needs to concentrate on doing a good job in Rome.

According to Lu Ren, ancient Greece and ancient Rome should be the birthplace of modern stage plays, and at this time in Rome, stage plays were relatively developed at that time. Then Lu Lan went to Rome with the mission given by Lu Ren, wanting to conquer Rome on a spiritual level, and it was a better way to make a lore in the stage play that the Romans were relatively good at, and Lu Lan was also doing it according to Lu Ren's line of thought.

However, since I was going to play a stage play, the biggest problem was the difference in language. This is in the third century A.D., and it is not in the modern society with the developed Internet, and you can read subtitles if you can't understand a video in a different language. Of course, you can also type subtitles, and Lu Ren can do it if he really wants to do it, but you also have to consider the literacy rate in Rome, right? After all, in that era, whether it was the East or the West, reading and literacy basically had nothing to do with civilians, so you couldn't understand the subtitles.

In order to complete the performance, Lu Lan proposed to the Roman Emperor to select personnel from among the actors raised by the Roman Emperor or nobles for rehearsal...... You can't expect Lu Lan to bring a performance team to Rome that can learn to speak Latin fluently like Lu Lan, right?

But it should also be made clear here that it is still the troupe members that Lu Lan brought to Rome to perform on stage, and the work of Roman actors is actually to dub the microphone in real time under the stage. Lu Ren asked Lu Lan to go to Rome for "cultural exchange", how could he not take these issues into account? For Lu Ren, who has watched a lot of cartoons and anime and played a lot of games in modern society, the easiest and probably most effective way to think of is to play "dubbing".

But seriously, if you pick out the Roman actors and then follow the normal process, it will take a lot of time, not to mention, and you may not be able to act well. Let's put it this way, although the Roman stage drama at that time was at the forefront of the world, and the Roman actors also had good quality, could they compare to the actors who came out of the art academy on Lu Ren's side? Not to mention anything else, the teaching materials made by Lu Ren alone are the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people, and the students have received systematic training on this basis.

To put it a little further, Lu Ren's purpose was to show Rome the culture and art of the East. There is no way to do anything about language, but if you let those blonde and blue-eyed foreigners wear Han costumes, and then engage in Han manners, singing and dancing...... What others think Lu Ren didn't know, Lu Ren himself felt quite awkward anyway. And under such an awkward feeling, how to show the "originality" of oriental culture and art?

Okay, that's all for now. After three months of choreography, Lu Lan finally successfully put the "dubbed" version of the stage play on the stage of the Roman amphitheater. Because of the three months of painstaking choreography and mutual running-in, the stage actors and the "Roman voice actors" also cooperated with each other very well, so the performance of this stage play was almost perfect. And the princess played by Lu Lan, the duet with the king at the end of the year, also completely conquered all the Roman audiences present...... Oh, and the songs don't need to be dubbed, but they are all original songs from the actors, but the lyrics have been changed to Latin. Not to mention professionally trained actors, even if they are ordinary people, can't they still sing foreign songs after listening to them a lot?

Afterwards, Lu Ren's own evaluation of this was that after putting aside those political and diplomatic problems, he reached a cultural exchange of historical significance between the East and the West in his own hands. I just don't know how historians in this time and space will evaluate this event? However, Lu Ren knew that the wild girl beside him, after this successful performance, was likely to become the first world star in the real sense of the word in this world of time and space, and its significance was not ordinary.

After this incident, Lu Lan's already high popularity in Rome skyrocketed again, so that in the streets and alleys of Rome, people would pop up a few clips from song and dance dramas from time to time. And the Roman emperor and a large number of nobles earnestly expressed their hope that Lu Lan could stay in Rome for a while and teach some song and dance repertoire from the East to Rome.

Lu Ren's evaluation of this was joking, saying that he was a typical example of selling articles in front of Confucius, but he was shocked by Old Man Kong...... Ancient Rome may be the birthplace of modern musical and dance dramas, but I was shocked by the birthplace here, but didn't I sell articles in front of Confucius but shocked Mr. Confucius?

On the political side, Lu Lan successfully conquered the upper echelons of Rome on a spiritual level, and as Lu Ren expected, the Roman side completely recognized Lu Ren's strength and sincerity. At this level, Lu Ren was right, these Romans had always believed that people with military power but no artistic atmosphere were just a group of reckless men, so they should be considered more when cooperating. And those who have both military strength and artistic flavor will be as powerful as them, and they should be compatible with each other...... In its practical Chinese language, it is nothing more than "people gather by like, and things by groups".

In short, it was not long before the Roman side issued a formal alliance agreement, which was brought back to Lu Ren by the regular diplomatic envoys sent to Rome by Lu Ren. It's just that the Roman side didn't know, in fact, on the day the alliance agreement was issued, Lu Ren learned about it through the communication device on Lu Lan's landing craft. And after learning this news, Lu Ren was also completely relieved, because this would show that the Roman side would completely contain the rest, so that he could let go of some hands and feet to fight against Guishan here......

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After the beginning of the summer of the 29th year of Jian'an, the Central Plains Continent was still a calm scene, at least although there were still some verbal battles between the three families of Cao, Liu and Sun, no one launched any military action. On the one hand, the Cao, Liu, and Sun families are all working hard to restore and accumulate national strength, and on the other hand, they can't find any excuse to raise troops. These three are not fuel-efficient lamps, so where can they easily give each other an excuse to raise troops?

At this time, Yizhou was also quiet. Although it is said that Lu Ren is engaged in the war in Central Asia, because he is far away from Lu Ren's roots, the war has not caused any damage to the people under Lu Ren's command. Of course, it is not completely nothing, Lu Ren is now fighting outside the supply of more than 100,000 troops, so it will have a certain impact on the economy. However, it was at this time that the role of the solid foundation that Lu Ren had worked hard for 20 years was completely reflected. At least at least, the normal life of the people has not been affected.

In a corner of Mangjia, a weak-crowned boy was hiding on the lawn under the shade of a tree. I saw that he was wearing a broken straw hat on his head, a dog's tail grass in his mouth, his clothes were slightly tattered, and a pair of rotten straw sandals were on his feet. Looking at the past, the first impression of this kid is that he is an idle lazy man. And his gaze swept over the bodies of the girls on the street:

"Well, that's good, big chest...... That's not bad, the waist is thin enough! I really want to go over and hug it. It's still summer! The girls are dressed coolly...... Belch! That's a lot worse......"

Just as the girls were arguing, an old man in cloth stood beside the young man, and his face also showed a little anger: "Qinglan! What kind of body do you look like this? ”

The weak-crowned young man who was called "Qinglan" was startled, and quickly turned his head to look at the old man, but he still had that kind of evil smile on his face: "Sir! I'm also stealing half a day of leisure, okay? "After the summer of the 29th year of Jian'an, the Central Plains Continent is still a calm scene, at least although there are still some verbal battles between the three families of Cao, Liu and Sun, no one has launched any military action. On the one hand, the Cao, Liu, and Sun families are all working hard to restore and accumulate national strength, and on the other hand, they can't find any excuse to raise troops. These three are not fuel-efficient lamps, so where can they easily give each other an excuse to raise troops?

At this time, Yizhou was also quiet. Although it is said that Lu Ren is engaged in the war in Central Asia, because he is far away from Lu Ren's roots, the war has not caused any damage to the people under Lu Ren's command. Of course, it is not completely nothing, Lu Ren is now fighting outside the supply of more than 100,000 troops, so it will have a certain impact on the economy. However, it was at this time that the role of the solid foundation that Lu Ren had worked hard for 20 years was completely reflected. At least at least, the normal life of the people has not been affected.

In a corner of Mangjia, a weak-crowned boy was hiding on the lawn under the shade of a tree. I saw that he was wearing a broken straw hat on his head, a dog's tail grass in his mouth, his clothes were slightly tattered, and a pair of rotten straw sandals were on his feet. Looking at the past, the first impression of this kid is that he is an idle lazy man. And his gaze swept over the bodies of the girls on the street:

"Well, that's good, big chest...... That's not bad, the waist is thin enough! I really want to go over and hug it. It's still summer! The girls are dressed coolly...... Belch! That's a lot worse......"

Just as the girls were arguing, an old man in cloth stood beside the young man, and his face also showed a little anger: "Qinglan! What kind of body do you look like this? ”

The weak-crowned young man who was called "Qinglan" was startled, and quickly turned his head to look at the old man, but he still had that kind of evil smile on his face: "Sir! I'm also stealing half a day of leisure, okay? ”