During the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, the entire Liangzhou Prefecture in Chengtian, Xijing, almost became a world of flowers and fruits.
Grapes and pomegranates from Anxi and the river are as eye-catching as precious gems.
Dried candied plums from Jiangnan Province, and dried longans from Lingnan.
The big duck pears in Hebei are yellow and clear, and the red ones in Guanzhong make people drool when they see them.
At this time, the four doors of Liangzhou Mansion were wide open, and all the citizens were wearing their most colorful clothes.
The Tubo, Qiang and local Han people who came down from the mountains built bonfires outside the city and started dancing and singing songs from dusk.
The encouragement group from Qiuci performed hard in all four gates.
Orchid from Persia and Ningyuan, her dancing skirts flew up, causing the men nearby to stare at her white legs under her long skirt, wishing they could put their eyes on them.
Hu Ji didn't take it seriously at all. In their understanding, beauty is a woman's best weapon.
If you don't have a beautiful face, you have to use your other strengths. If you don't even have this ability, how can you gain a foothold in this foreign country.
However, the troublemaker soon arrived. A fat businessman from Hebei passed by. He felt as if his talent had been triggered. He quickly tightened his belt and was not far away from Hu Ji, dancing to the drums. So fast.
Bursts of cheers, drumming and dancing attracted a large number of onlookers, and soon they were dancing together in the vicinity.
When I'm thirsty, I take a sip of the wine I don't know who passed it to me, and I don't know whose wine it is. When I'm hungry, someone offers me fruit cakes.
Music and dance are one of the best ways to convey emotions. Whether they are businessmen from the East and West who have just arrived in Liangzhou Prefecture, local residents, or young athletes who have come from the city, everyone's face is filled with sincerity. An inner smile.
Suddenly, there was a burst of joy. It turned out to be the sage announcing that the people who were in Liangzhou Prefecture at the moment were rewarded with one hundred coins each. With their household registration and road guide, they could go to the government to exchange for a designated ticket worth one hundred coins.
Although this kind of designated ticket can only be used to purchase designated products at merchants designated by the Hexi Chamber of Commerce, one hundred dollars is a lot of money. You can buy more than 20 kilograms of mutton.
Long live! Long live! Long live!
Cheers suddenly spread throughout the city, and those outsiders who had just arrived in Liangzhou were even more excited. They felt that their coming was worthwhile, and they immediately bathed in the emperor's favor.
The locals in Liangzhou were even more excited, but they pretended to be indifferent and told these outsiders with a calm and calm demeanor that saints are very generous and we are often rewarded. This is just a sprinkle!
Even though Zhang Gao was able to throw out 60,000 to 70,000 guan at a time, it was actually not 60,000 to 70,000 guan. Now the Hexi Chamber of Commerce is almost the same as Zhang Gao's private property.
These designated tickets just help him digest his inventory. They seem to be worth 60,000 to 70,000 guan, but in fact the cost is only more than 10,000 guan.
And because of his wealth, wealthy merchants, big households, honorable ministers, temples, and even ordinary vendors inside and outside Liangzhou City began to hold big sales and giveaways.
A fat sheep was sold for a hundred yuan, and Khotan purple wine, which used to cost a dime, now only costs four hundred yuan.
Other Persian blankets, Da Shi pearls, Da Qin olive oil, fragrant leaves, Tianzhu brown sugar, Sichuan brocades and silks, and Jiangnan silks and satins are also sold for three coins instead of two coins.
For a time, the men were very drunk, the women were holding colorful brocades and satins with faces full of joy, and the children were eating with their mouths full of oil and running around excitedly with bulging bellies to digest the excess energy.
Someone set up an arena in the south of the city, attracting many athletes to compete.
Someone built a stage in the north of the city and performed "The Supreme Sage's Journey to Suppress Demons and Protect Dharma", "Lingjiu Mountain Gains Taoism and Slays Demons" and "Tiangang Disha One Hundred and Eight Generals", which attracted the whole city to go to watch the movie.
Among them, "The Supreme Heaven's Loud Voice to Suppress Demons and Protect the Dharma" tells the story of Saint Zhang beating up various heretics in Tianzhu who did not respect the Buddha, and then made them cry and repent.
"Acquire the Way and Slay Evil Demons at Lingjiu Mountain" tells the story of Saint Zhang who, after receiving enlightenment from the Buddha at Lingjiu Mountain, flew to the ninth heaven to slay all kinds of evil demons and restore peace and purity to the world, winning the praise of all people.
"Tiangang Disha One Hundred and Eight Generals" tells the story of Zhang Shengren's one hundred and eight Yuan generals.
Zhang Yan intervened slightly and did not allow the story of the still existing general Yuan Cong to be written, so there are generally only three stories in this collection of stories.
Among them, the first scene is called "Shi Shi Wei Jie", which makes people sigh. It tells the story of Zhang Yan's first sacrifice, Yuan Congjiang Huo Sheng'er.
It is said that he was an evil star who descended to earth, but was assassinated by a villain. He was born in the wrong fetus when he descended to the lower world, and even broke his head. His life was extremely difficult.
Later, he was awakened by Zhang Shengren Erlang Zhenjun, and he embarked on the journey to the west. However, his training was delayed due to the wrong birth, and his martial arts had not yet recovered, but he was still fearless. He defeated the bandits in the battle of Loulan, and unfortunately died in the battle.
After his death in the battle, Master Zhang Shengren Erlang did not hesitate to use his own essence and blood as a guide to build the fire-born son tablet into the Dragon Tongue Zhang family temple, so that his soul could eventually ascend to the ninth heaven of bliss and return to the earthly evil star Yongxing.
The second scene is called Polu Prefecture’s final return to the throne. It tells the story of Zhang Shengren’s first tough battle in Anxi. Polu Prefecture’s subordinates were able to withstand Karakhan Saktu’s 10,000 cavalry with just one hundred yuan as a general. .
In this battle, one hundred yuan was used to fight one against a hundred, and the Karakhanids were killed and abandoned their armor. Just when they were about to win, the Karakhanids summoned a magician who ate magic to cast a spell. Harm me Zhang Shengren.
As the personal guard of Zhang Shengren, Luo Crazy Horse of the Sky Crying Star used his body to block the hidden arrow that was shot at Zhang Shengren.
At the time of his death, Luo Crazy Horse could only worry about Gaotang's parents, so Zhang Gao vowed to take care of Luo Crazy Horse's parents until they die. Only then did Luo Crazy Horse return to heaven.
The third scene is called Heaven and Earth Crying Outside Suiye City, which tells the story of Qu Wulang.
This person is Zhang Xianyuan, the fourth general immediately ranked only after Bai Congxin, Ma Yaozi, and Ma Shacai. He is known as Xiao Luocheng because of his outstanding bow and horse.
However, during the Battle of Suiye, his horse accidentally slipped and fell him, and he was eventually killed by the swarming Persian infantry.
His deeds in this opera were changed to Qu Wulang's beautiful appearance, invincible bow and horse. The Persians who had been killed long ago were frightened. Seeing that they could not defeat him, the Persians secretly bribed a traitor to poison his horses, and in the end they unfortunately fought. died.
After hearing the news of his death in battle, Zhang Shengren went without food for many days, buried him with his own hands, and vowed to make the Persians pay the price.
These three stories can actually be regarded as a whole. The characters range from Huo Sheng'er, an ordinary person who lives around the common people, to Qu Wulang, a strongman with both bow and horse, which gradually enhances the sense of substitution.
At the same time, Zhang Yan's presence is very strong in these three stories.
The story of Huo Sheng'er Zhang Zhao reflects Zhang's benevolence. The story of Luo Crazy Horse reflects Zhang Zhang's trust and filial piety. The story of Qu Wulang embodies Zhang Yan's righteousness.
The halo that surrounds me, Saint Zhang, is also advancing layer by layer.
When ordinary people read these three stories, in addition to lamenting the fate of the heroes, they can also think of a story of benevolence and righteousness towards their subordinates. After fighting, they will support their parents and raise their children, and treat their subordinates like brothers. The image of the Holy Lord who was in pain after their death in battle.
I would like to ask those men who put their heads in their waistbands to fight, who doesn’t want to have such a king?
And there are many things implied in it, such as the Thirty-six Heavenly Gangs and the Seventy-two Earthly Evils. These things are not Buddhist, but Taoist. Zhang Shengren’s Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun is not Buddhist either.
This is Zhang Zhang's intention to promote the interaction and even integration between Buddhism and Taoism, and realize his idea of using Buddha as the skin and the core to contain Chinese culture.
Otherwise, when the Six Methods Sect grows stronger, it might backfire. In Zhang's vision, the Six Methods Sect will even be integrated with Confucianism in the later period to achieve a unique Chinese culture based on the skin of Buddha and the bones of Confucianism, combined with Taoist thoughts.
At the same time, in Qu Wulang's story, there is a traitor in Suiye City, and the blood feud of the Persians has not yet been avenged.
This is the tail left by Zhang Zhi, leading hatred to the Persians and the Broken Leaf traitors.
This is called a triple win! I, Zhang Shengren, won three times by myself!
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The six tribes of Dafeichuan, the eight tribes of Qiang and Tubo in Xishan, and the thirty-one Dongdai of Songpan Mansion all arrived together.
Zhang Gao sent the Longyou Provincial Inspector to greet them personally, and when entering the city, he also specially let them go through the north gate.
At this time, Zhang Zhou's opera level improved by leaps and bounds with the support of Zhang Yan.
Prior to this, the early stage of opera had already appeared, originating from the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms period. It was called military drama, performed by many people, and the plot was relatively complex.
This kind of military drama does not have as many elaborate and fancy costumes as Peking Opera.
After all, although Peking Opera is called the quintessence of the country and is indeed the master of Chinese drama, its costumes and colors are largely influenced by the tastes of the upper-class aristocracy of the banner people. For example, the Shamat agricultural heavy metal style enthusiast ten Full support for the elderly.
The form of joining the army drama is closer to the Errenzhuan of later generations in the Northeast. It emphasizes storylines, gags, dance moves, and chanting to introduce the plot. However, the number of participants is far more than that of Errenzhuan.
Before Zhang Zhang came up with this drama, the more popular religious dramas about joining the army were "Da Mu Qian Lian Saves His Mother in the Underworld" and the historical "Wu Zixu Bian Wen" as well as "Looking at Shu Nu Zhuan" created by Master Ji. "Zhaojun Change" and so on.
These various forms of opera, which are formed by the fusion of military drama and Bianwen, are the early forms of Goulan Wase drama in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
Before Zhang Yan began to vigorously promote it, although it was popular with all walks of life, compared to poetry and poetry, it was still at a stage where it was not looked down upon. It is a bit like the attitude of later generations towards social rock and DJ music.
Affected by this trend, coupled with the social chaos in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, literati did not receive enough respect or even attention. As a result, almost all those who were willing to create such Bianwen were tied to the lower classes of society.
Their knowledge and experience were limited, and the things they created were even less acceptable to senior leaders, until Zhang Yan began to vigorously promote them.
Because Zhang Hao, who comes from a later generation, has deeply felt the impact of cultural products. As a post-80s generation who was impacted and washed away by Japanese animation and American blockbusters, Zhang Hao thought that Japan and the United States were paradise before he went to college. His power can be seen A spot.
Therefore, Zhang Chang changed the name of Joining the Army play to drama, and changed the name to Romance after changing the text.
In one fell swoop, special theaters were set up to perform dramas in more than ten cities including Luoyang, the capital of China, Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo, Chang'an Prefecture in Jingzhao, Liangzhou Prefecture in Chengtian, Xijing, Taiyuan Prefecture in Beijing, Shuntian, and Zhengding Prefecture in Hebei, and they even wrote scripts by themselves.
If the superiors do something good, the subordinates will follow suit. Just as the whole world is beginning to talk about loyalty, drama has also begun to develop vigorously because of Zhang Yan's promotion.
Top literati such as Feng Dao, He Ning, Zhao Ying, Wang Pu, and Xue Juzheng all wrote dramas to cater to the emperor's preferences, and the status of drama finally soared.
Especially in places with rougher folk customs such as Longyou, Shuofang, Ningxia, Hedong and Hebei in Hexi Province, it is popular among all classes. Correspondingly, the plot, costumes and singing standards have been greatly improved.
The drama on the left is reaching its climax. A tall and stooped magic-eating wizard who looks like a ghost is cursing loudly.
In the distance, the actor who plays the role of the Supreme Heavenly Saint Zhang is still riding a tall horse made of a wooden stick, galloping back and forth to kill the enemy.
The audience below the stage is anxious!
Some people yelled crazily to ask the saint to be careful, while others yelled and shouted to the people around him to come up and protect him.
There were also a few people dressed as Qiang people who knelt down on the ground and muttered, as if they were cursing the sorcerer who was eating the law.
Whenever they see this, the Hu merchants or Hu warriors from the Western Regions feel inferior and use their sleeves to cover the parts of their bodies that bear the characteristics of the Hu people, to avoid being beaten.
Then in the midst of everyone's expectations, the wizard of the Great Food Dharma suddenly exhaled a puff of green poisonous smoke from his mouth and went straight to me, the Great Sage Zhang. Amid a burst of exclamation, the burly warrior playing the role of Luo Crazy Horse rushed to Zhang Gao.
His huge body was suddenly hit by the poison, but he fell to the point where he could not fall down, and at the same time he started chanting.
It is nothing more than chanting that he was descended from the stars and was demoted for no reason. Fortunately, he was rescued by a saint, and he vowed to repay the king with death.
In the eyes of later generations, this is not only a protracted plot, but also seriously watered down, and it is even more unreasonable.
But at this time, the plot is compact and exciting. Many people were even moved to tears by Luo Crazy Horse's sacrifice on the spot.
After that, I, Zhang Shengren, came to his senses and shot the wizard who was eating the law with one arrow, and then rushed towards Luo Crazy Horse. Luo Crazy Horse just landed on the ground and fell into Zhang Shengren's arms.
The two began to sing together again, and Luo Fengma couldn't worry about Ye Niang who was far away in Shazhou, so he sang.
"I am a star in the sky. The purpose of the lower realm is to rebuild the country so that the people will be less oppressed. I want all the people from all directions to come under the rule of the Holy Dynasty. However, this has not yet happened, but my soul will return to the underworld.
In order to repay the kindness of the Holy Lord, I should not have worried about it, but I regret that my mother has not yet repaid her kindness in giving birth. I don’t know where my parents will go to settle down in the future. "
The actor playing the role of Zhang Shengren also sang after hearing this: "I blame Kara Khan for being ungrateful, and I hate that the big food country is coming to destroy our country. I should have received this curse, but you were killed right now."
The sky is full of gods and Buddhas, please help my good man to return to paradise and enjoy immortal blessings forever. Your mother-in-law will definitely let him wear silks and satins and eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, as if you were repaying your favor. "
The actors sang from above, and the people sang along below. Sometimes it was even difficult to hear the actors' voices clearly. The sound waves undulated like tangible waves.
If the people of Hexi and Longyou don't have many cultural products to appreciate, then the tribes on the Qingtang Plateau have nothing to appreciate.
These people followed Zhang Zhou's officials in from the north gate and directly saw the real drama being performed, and were immediately attracted.
And they can understand some of it, because at this time, Longyou in Hexi Province had experienced hundreds of years of tug-of-war between Tang and Tibet and more than a hundred years of Tubo rule. Even Zhang Zhi's ancestors had been Tubo people, and the brand of Tubo was unparalleled. Everywhere.
The reflection in language is that the Chinese in Longyou, Hexi Province is mixed with a large number of Tubo words, and the Tubo words contain an astonishing amount of Chinese.
Even as early as the Zhenyuan period when the Yan Dynasty guarded Shazhou, Tubo Zanpu Chisong Dezan could speak fluent Hexi Chinese mixed with Tubo words.
The envoys sent by the Yan Dynasty can also use this mixed language to answer the Zanpu envoys. Although it is awkward, they are very familiar and can communicate with each other six or seven points.
This is a typical case of the integration of the Han and Tibetan tribes over hundreds of years of alliance and struggle. And even if they don't understand it, it doesn't matter. They can roughly understand it just by watching the actors' performances.
What's more, I, Zhang Shengren, had anticipated this situation earlier. Under the stage, I had equipped a large number of Jinyi guards who could speak Tubo as good Samaritans. 'Explain it to them personally.
So as soon as these Tubo and Qiang envoys arrived in Beicheng, they were immediately attracted and couldn't walk at all.
During the first play, they still didn't understand it. By the second play, when the great magic-eating wizard was about to cast a spell, there were already Tibetan and Qiang warriors trying to climb up and block the spell from the Supreme Heaven themselves.
When Luo Crazy Horse sacrificed his life to protect his master, the whole audience roared with thunder. When Zhang Shengren promised to support Ye Niang for Luo Crazy Horse, countless people shed tears.
The officials who greeted them had already received the instructions. When they saw that these Tubo and Qiang people could not walk, they did not rush them, but instead started watching them with them.
A Tubo man from Songpan Prefecture was moved to tears when he saw at the end of the play that Luo Fengma's mother-in-law wore silk and satin and ate meat to live a long life. When Zhang Shengren fulfilled his promise, he was moved to tears.
Er suddenly someone shouted, "There's also Qu Wulang making a mistake outside Suiye City over there!"
Immediately afterwards, many people were shouting, "Look at Ronaldinho, look at Ronaldinho!"
"The white horse and silver gun are better than Zhao Zilong!"
"Qu Wulang is so powerful. Even Lord Jiuquan said that he is no match for Qu Wulang!"
At this moment, the crowd became completely agitated. Langjie Jiangcuo's daughter, Langyi, was so upset that she couldn't bear it. She gently pinched the horse's belly and followed the crowd in the direction where they were said to be performing.
Langjie Jiangcuo quickly asked several guards to follow his daughter Langyi to protect her safety.
Who knew that the guards under his command had never seen this scene before, and they had already been fascinated by it.
You must know that on the Qingtang Plateau, the population of their Songpan Mansion Thirty-one Dongdai site is not as large as that of Liangzhou City now. They have long wanted to watch the excitement.
Now I saw Langjie Jiangcuo waved his hand, and dozens of guards rushed out in a coaxing manner. They all rushed to protect Langyi, but in fact they wanted to watch the excitement.
In the end, even leaders like Langjie Jiangcuo and Su Shangzhi couldn't help but wander around with the flow of people.
Watching plays, watching various lantern festivals, eating delicious food, drinking fine wine, competing in dancing skills with strangers, and competing in bow and arrow, boxing, listening to Bianwen and other entertainment activities, directly made these Tibetan and Qiang people completely lost.
They felt like they were in heaven, and the joy they felt today would be etched in their minds forever.
In this extremely lively and joyful city, everyone is extremely happy. Compared with the competition for the Qingtang Plateau and the two hundred years of chaos in the Central Plains, it is really no different from paradise now.
Many years later, people in Chengtian Liangzhou Prefecture still said that during the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, a nobleman from Songpan Prefecture was drunk. When he was found, he was dancing with his little mare in the stable of an inn. !
(End of chapter)
