Chapter 524 Drama
"What's your name?"
"Tan San."
"Is there a big name?"
"without."
The young staff member who was sitting behind the table frowned. This was the fifteenth one, two, three, and four he saw today. The resolution of this name was too low. The staff member felt that his statistical results today might be much smaller than expected.
"My family lives in Dajinjing Village and has been here for almost ten days."
The answer is very clear, but where is this Dajinjing Village?
Forget it, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, today is just a preliminary statistical analysis. Just make sure that the honest guy in front of you is a Han man.
The staff officer wrote down neatly on a wooden sign:
Dajinjing Village, Tan San, ethnic Han.
Then write it on the back of the wooden sign:
The sixth year of Longdao and Wuli Post were distributed, and they were released when they saw it.
This is actually a road sign issued by the Qi army, so they were stopped by other attacking troops as enemies when they returned home.
"Take it and get five kilograms of grain from the gate." The staff officer handed the wooden sign to Tan San, and then continued to shout: "Next!"
"I really give you food!"
Tan San held a pocket of fried noodles weighing a full five pounds, and couldn't believe the truth of the matter.
He had seen many soldiers in his life. When he was a child, he had seen the officers of the Great Zhou who passed by the door of the gate, and later went up the mountain to escape the Mengwu cavalry. If the servants and bandits on the mountain who liked to dance swords and guns at Mr. Cao's farm were also considered soldiers, he had already seen six armies of different forces.
The "robber" of Qi army in front of him was the first army to not only not rob his wife's food, but also send food to him.
Tan San quietly rubbed the cloth pockets of the fried noodles with his fingers. Such a large piece of cloth could be considered a good piece of material, whether it was making a bag and sewing clothes.
This piece of cloth alone is already a considerable wealth for poor tenants like Tan San.
"Don't rush to leave!"
A Qi military police stood at a high place and shouted at the person who had just come out of the prisoner-of-war camp:
"Get twenty people on the same road together! Don't let the wolf take it!"
What this is true is that the Taihang Mountains are connected to the mountains, wild wolves and wild boars are in groups, and leopards and tigers can be seen from time to time. If you set out on the road alone, it is hard to say whether you can walk out of one valley after another.
For this reason, the Qi army also gave each of the released prisoners a wooden stick - in fact, it was just to remove the gun tip and return the gun rod to them.
"For a while, you will be able to get together a team that is not enough to get enough people. Wait first! Go to the shed in front to have some tea and watch the show, and wait until you get enough people to get away!"
"Can you still watch the show?"
The captured Shihou soldiers quickly forgot the fear they had just now and became excited - this cannot be blamed. The northwest side is originally an entertainment desert. When the weather is good, everyone has to sprinkle all their sweat in the fields for a bite, let alone this unlucky year now.
Now even the housekeeper of the Shihou family has no entertainment on weekdays, maybe it is just that the family’s master, young master and wife can afford to support the opera troupe. Now there is no one in Shanxi and Shaanxi.
Therefore, when they heard that they could watch the show, all the prisoners, regardless of whether they could gather them together, rushed to the stage. Anyway, the soldiers of Qi State let them go and sent rations, so they would definitely not suffer because they watched the show.
But it is inevitable to get a stick - not because the Qi army soldiers bullied them, but because they didn't line up.
When we just identified the release of prisoners, it took more than an hour to just let them line up honestly. However, when we heard that there was a chance, the efforts of the military police were in vain...
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The Qi propaganda department prepared dramas for the prisoners. In the original era of Xu Shiyang, it was already the 20th century that dramas were introduced into the Central Plains. However, when the stage standards such as lighting were lowered, it was not difficult to "invent" this "new opera", especially Xu Shiyang also had a top talent in singing and dancing like Gu Hengbo.
Unlike traditional operas that mainly take the entertainment route, Qi Guo dramas mainly aim to educate people, and all the repertoire staged contain obvious political propaganda purposes.
For example, when Qi State needs to mobilize manpower to repair water conservancy projects, programs like "Dayu Flood Control" are usually staged on the construction site, and the focus is on the people's living and working in peace and contentment after the successful water control, rather than promoting how hard it is to control water.
The plot of Dayu's three-time home is compressed, but the story of his love with Tushan or fighting against various water monsters is widely promoted.
This is actually to make the audience who watch the show feel happy and add some fun.
It’s just that the Qi State propaganda department used Runyu’s silent technique to instill the audience: It’s not hard to manage floods, but on the contrary it is a good opportunity to have both good harvests in love and career!
In addition, the staff involved in water conservancy projects can receive generous rewards. In recent years, the people of Qi have not only no longer regarded large-scale labor such as water conservancy projects as a fear of construction, but also caused people to rush to work on the construction site.
The same is true for locust control and war. Every time, there is a big move that requires a large amount of manpower to carry out, the close coordination of the propaganda team is always indispensable.
This war against Shanxi is naturally the same - or, because this action has more political significance than military significance, the importance of the propaganda department has been raised to an unprecedented level.
The playhouse prepared for the prisoners not long (it would be too long and it would be too delayed). The main dish is "White-Haired Girl". This kind of play that responds to the oppression of the landlords naturally resonates with the farmers at the bottom.
However, in order to improve the excitement, Xu Shiyang still made many modifications to the story: the first half of the story basically plagiarized the classic plot in history, and the second half was directly changed to Xier being snatched by Huang Shiren (Huang Shiren's identity can be modified at any time as needed. For example, when he was fighting the Tartars, he was the leader of the Tartars. Now he became the master of a family of the Eight Great Marquis). The Qi army appeared in the posture of a platy-like people's soldiers, saving Yang Bailao's family, and rigorously liquidated the old accounts of Huang Shiren and his traitors doing evil. The last heroic Qi army soldier threw the usury account book into the fire in front of everyone.
Of course, Xu Shiyang knew that the tragedy was more deeply rooted in people's hearts. With his adaptation, the classic plays would become fast food dramas like Xiaobai's online writing, and would probably be laughed at by later screenwriters.
But Xu Shiyang believes that the lives of the lower class of people in this era are comparable to hell, and the experience of Yang Bailao's family in the play is probably not a great tragedy in the eyes of the people of this era.
Chapter completed!