Chapter 2384 Don’t bully young people into poverty
Chang''an.
Zui Xian Tower.
??If there is any place in Han Dynasty that is the busiest at the moment, it is of course Chang''an.
??And in Chang''an, which place is the most lively, naturally it is Zuixian Tower.
Chinglong Temple?
Qinglong Temple is lively during the day and almost empty at night, but here in Zuixian Tower, it is bustling and crowded no matter day or night.
Such a big piece of meat, flowing like a bucket of gold every day, naturally attracted the eyes of the surrounding wolves, but no one dared to touch it, because some people said that Zuixian Tower had a backstage, a very solid backstage, and some said it belonged to the Fei family. , some people say it belongs to the Huang family, and others say it belongs to the Webster family, but there has never been any confirmation, and no one has seen the real owner of this Zuixian Tower.
It''s not that no one wants to move or give it a try, but since those people who want to move or give it a try, or their families, have fallen into something more troublesome than opening a restaurant for various reasons, or After that, gradually no one dared to mess around.
At the beginning, some people had some worries and doubts about Zuixianlou, but food, sex, and human preference for delicious food can be said to be common at all times and in all countries. As long as you can''t help it for the first time, there will be follow-ups. After countless times, only the word "True Fragrance" was left. With many fresh dishes, Zuixianlou has gradually become a super-large restaurant collection that integrates food, accommodation, entertainment and leisure.
Moreover, people themselves have a convergence effect. Even if some people resist, they will be more or less attracted when they see a large number of others going to Zuixian Tower. After going there once, they will be very excited. It’s hard to say that I still have the strong willpower to refuse.
This is true for the children of the gentry, as well as for ordinary people.
??Zui Xian Lou is not like some restaurants in later generations that insist on being on a certain level. If the waiter cannot speak a perfect Xi Rong accent, he will lose face.
??In Zuixian Tower, there is a jar of Zuixian wine worth tens of thousands of dollars, and there is also an all-you-can-eat hot noodle soup for three big dollars.
?Well, of course, two years ago, a bowl of hot noodle soup only cost two big bucks.
Generally speaking, the tall building in Zuixian Tower belongs to the children of the gentry, and ordinary people will not go there. In that tall building, there are female recruits, bearded girls, spinning colorful skirts, and snow-white bellies. Mellow wine, of course, also represents a hefty price.
On the other side, around the courtyard on the second floor, there are more ordinary people coming. Those who had some money to spare would just go into the courtyard or wait to go up to the second floor, sit down at a table, order a drink for 20 cents, a plate of three taels of beans, and eat and drink slowly, and no one was holding a timer or anything. After urging you to eat well, you can still get a warm greeting before leaving, and the long shouts are not much quieter than those in the tall buildings.
It is also convenient if you don’t have much spare money and just want to fill your stomach. Along the corridors and walls of the small courtyard, there are mats and benches. Even when there are many people, those who can’t wait to find a seat will pick up a bowl bigger than their face, find a corner, half-squat, half-sit and eat. Holding the soup cake, when the last mouthful of hot soup was taken down, the internal organs also groaned with comfort.
?The reason why many people who don’t have a meal at home are willing to come to Zuixianlou to eat is because Zuixianlou is willing to use oil. Even the cheapest hot soup noodles always add a small spoonful of hot oil at the end.
?These oils are all by-products of cooking the dishes of the gentry children. For those gentry children, fresh and delicious ones are the best, but they don''t like the fishy and greasy ones.
Like their eating habits, the entertainment methods favored by gentry children were also different from those of ordinary people. Various fighting games that were popular among gentry children were not suitable for ordinary people.
Ordinary people still prefer simpler entertainment.
For example, books.
There were also storytellers in the early Han Dynasty, but at that time there was no fixed model, and there was no so-called storybook. Most of the time, stories were compiled by the storytellers themselves, and more of them existed in the form of myths...
These myths and stories, Fei Qian thinks, are not suitable for storytelling.
Storytelling, to put it simply, is just a simple form of entertainment among the people. But if you stand taller and take a longer view, you can clearly see that this is actually the most convenient and least expensive way to open up people''s wisdom and spread the word. cultural approach.
The opening of people''s wisdom and the spread of culture are not like electrified wires. Press a switch over there, and then there will be current here. This process of dissemination is very long, and it is also accompanied by uncertain changes. , so Fei Qian''s decision was a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, through various books, some superficial scientific knowledge was spread among the gentry and poor disciples, which was generally limited to the elementary schools of later generations, and at most it did not exceed some basic knowledge of junior high schools. On the one hand, it is to disseminate knowledge and culture to ordinary people through storytelling, especially those who are inconvenient for centralized learning.
Under such requirements, the mythological storytelling templates were naturally reduced.
Although the public still has a high demand for fairy tales, due to the fear of life and death, many people like these stories of gods and ghosts even in later generations, but these contents are very important for the progress of science and the development of humanities. It''s not very effective.
Just like Liaozhai in later generations, many people are interested in it and think it is good. However, more people learn about Liaozhai not to study the principles reflected in it and the process of good people getting good rewards and evil people always getting bad rewards. More tuts at the female ghost, succubus and vixen...
? ? Fei Qian has been printing and selling superficial popular science books under the names of various people. In particular, the names of Fei Qian''s two masters, plus Pang Degong, who studied abroad, almost cover most of the basic subject areas.
As for astronomy and mathematics, it was Liu Hong who took the name and Xu Yue made the annotations. Almost no one can refute it, especially for the recording and analysis of star constellations. With the promotion of the new calendar, there are also many noblemen who have such "profound" knowledge. People are interested in knowledge, whether they are really interested in astronomy, or simply want to make a "beep" sound at a party, they all promote the transfer of this knowledge invisibly.
Those about geography and world humanities are named after Cai Yong and annotated by Cai Yan. They are printed and sold in the form of exotic chronicles, and the sales are not low. This made Fei Qian feel somewhat relieved. The current situation of the Han Dynasty may be due to the influence of some people like Su Wu Banchao, or it may be stimulated by Fei Qian''s reopening of communication and trade in the Western Regions. Anyway, books of this type are widely sold, and some have even become the first The third or fourth edition...
Physical and chemical aspects were triggered by the name of Pang Degong. Pang Degong''s academics belong to the Huang Lao school. Although there are many ideas of doing nothing and hiding from the world, there are also many things involving basic physics and chemistry, such as the cultivation of golden elixirs. After a little improvement, it has become A rough manual of physical chemistry…
Some simple diffusion of knowledge and technology will not pose any threat to Feiqian under current conditions.
Because any scientific progress requires basic prerequisites. Under the material conditions of the Han Dynasty, much of the knowledge and technology that spread out has no prerequisites at all, and it was completely unrealized in the original social environment of the Han Dynasty. possibility.
Comparatively speaking, this relatively mild diffusion of knowledge will actually lead to many people who are interested in studying this to discover that the only place where they can truly realize their ambitions and ideals is—
Chang''an.
Simply put, it means exporting limited technology and exporting a large amount of culture. This was also done by many countries in later generations, and they used these exported things as bait to mobilize more manpower from other regions...
Just to train the children of noble families, the number of students from poor families as a technical force is still somewhat insufficient, so a large base, that is, ordinary people, is needed.
One characteristic of agricultural society is that news is mainly spread by word of mouth. The more sensational it is, the faster explosive news spreads. And whether it is the government or the gentry, when the news spreads like a wave, no one actually has enough means to stop it. Stop the spread of rumors immediately. In many cases, you can only let the rumors dissipate on their own.
The same goes for the promotion of storytelling.
After a period of experimentation, words that are more popular with ordinary people have gradually emerged. There are two major categories...
One category is naturally "the book has its own golden house", and the other category is of course "the book has its own beauty like jade". When these two items were brought together, Fei Qian was a little bit dumbfounded. Because of these two contents, Fei Qian actually knew it from the beginning, and then went in a big circle to prove that there was not much difference between the common people of the Han Dynasty and the common people of later generations in terms of entertainment and gossip.
?Hence, the task of compiling the new storybook was handed over to someone living in the Zuixian Tower Villa, such as Zhang Sheng.
Anyone who writes a book knows that sometimes I can’t write a sentence for a long time, and sometimes I want to finish it in one breath and don’t even bother to eat. I want writers like Zhang Sheng to write it as soon as possible. It’s centralized like a factory or The dormitory model obviously allows these writers to concentrate on writing books without being affected by the trivial matters of life.
Zuixian Tower is convenient for food and lodging. Not to mention anything else, the kitchen can cook at any time for twelve hours. This standard is at least the treatment that only the local wealthy people of big aristocratic families have. There is always food when you are hungry. It is rich and frugal. It’s up to the person, anyway, it’s deducted from the remuneration, and if you don’t know yourself and exceed the standards, you won’t be approved, and the contract may be terminated directly, so generally no writer will use the excuse of lack of inspiration, lack of ideas, etc. Covet for pleasure and deliberately procrastinate.
After all, the previous model was all about receiving a question and eating your own food when you returned home, which was not as good a treatment as the current one.
Although the previous model may save costs, it is less efficient. After all, the people in Sanfu area of ????Guanzhong have basically left the hunger line and have begun to have some spiritual needs. If they are not replenished in time, these spiritual needs will be lost. Demand is likely to be seduced into some twisted aspects...
What’s more, in addition to Guanzhong Sanfu, there are other areas that are in urgent need of storytellers and newspeak books.
At this moment, Zhang Sheng looked at the densely written manuscript paper in front of him, took a long breath, and moved his sore wrists. The paper he used was specially approved. As a price, all the papers were numbered, and you had to register how much you received and how much you used. And you couldn''t even throw away the waste paper, otherwise you would be in trouble.
The brush and ink are also used. You need to send it back with the old bald brush to get the new pen.
??Including the table in front of him and the mat under his buttocks, they are all finely crafted and high-end goods, and they are all for personal use.
Zhang Sheng picked up the manuscript, read it again in order according to the number, and then thought about slightly changing some words and words to make it closer to colloquial language, so that ordinary people can understand it without effort. Understand.
?This is not an easy job. Those children of the gentry who are used to "it''s all about it" simply don''t bother to write such rough words, and may even feel that it is an insult to them...
This article is not long, about ten days. It tells the story of a young farmer who accidentally got a medical book from the field while farming. Then he discovered that this medical book could actually identify materia medica. And the identified plants and trees happened to be able to cure his father''s disease, so he became more and more out of control. He traveled all over China, got to know various herbal medicines, and cured many difficult diseases. Finally, he discovered that this book was actually his. He wrote it because after his father died of illness, he vowed to cure all the diseases in the world, so he suffered endless hardships and spent his whole life finally writing a book and giving it to himself who didn''t understand anything at the time.
This story, which seemed particularly old-fashioned in later generations, had extraordinary charm in the Han Dynasty. Even Zhang Sheng praised him repeatedly when he came up with this idea. In order to make the plot of the story more vivid and realistic, he even I also went to the Hundred Medical Clinic and asked the doctors a lot of questions to make sure that the medical methods written down were correct.
Zhang Sheng was born in Moriyama Academy, but his family background was not good, so he missed the golden memory time of children. When he was older, he got the opportunity to study, but found that his memory could not compare with those younger than him. He was a child, and was laughed at because of it. He wanted to give up at one point, giving up on himself and eating and drinking all day long without wanting to study.
?Later he met Cai Yong and was scolded by Cai Yong. Then he repented and cried bitterly...
While writing this story, Zhang Sheng even had the idea of ??having the old self in the book come and give a book to his current self...
After being in a daze and sighing for a while, Zhang Sheng tidied up the manuscript papers, then packed them up again, put all his pen and ink tools in his small bag, checked that there was nothing left behind, and then got up and left the guest room. Walking along the corridor to the door of the first room, he showed his wooden tag to the guard standing at the door.
The guard glanced at it and stepped aside.
Zhang Sheng nodded slightly and then walked in.
In the room, there was a middle-aged man sitting.
“Third brother…” Zhang Sheng handed the manuscript paper in his arms to the middle-aged man, “It’s written…”
The middle-aged man smiled and said, "You are smarter and can write faster..."
The small courtyard behind Zuixian Tower has been taken over. The houses in this corridor are sometimes empty and sometimes full. Of course, most of the time, they are full. There are several people like Zhang Sheng, who are responsible for writing some short stories into scripts.
Those who come out in advance and write well will receive additional rewards in addition to the basic remuneration. Of course, if they fail to write after the time limit, the basic remuneration will be halved, and additional time will be given. If you still pay If you cannot write it out, in addition to losing all rewards, you will also lose follow-up opportunities.
?For people like Zhang Sheng, they are naturally more popular, and it will be easier for them to obtain subsequent cooperation opportunities.
Zhang Sheng is responsible for writing, and the middle-aged person is responsible for preliminary review.
There are actually two things that the middle-aged man is responsible for. One is to find a suitable writer to turn the story outline into a script, and the other is to do a preliminary review and then submit it. If everything is OK, then In about three days, this new word will begin to spread to the outside world.
The purpose of review is mainly to prohibit excessive criticism and slander, so that the text will not attack someone or something, or directly point the finger at the court and the emperor.
After all, Hua Ben faces more people who are illiterate. These people are more susceptible to some negative influences and instigation than ordinary gentry children. If you are not careful, troublesome changes may occur.
?The quality of a storybook often depends on the progression of each story, and leaving some buttons at the end of each key section to be uncovered the next day...
After browsing through it briefly, the middle-aged man nodded slightly.
?Zhang Sheng is a veteran and did not touch on some sensitive issues, such as the gap in status between nobles and common people, the difference in medical resources, etc. He only expressed a beautiful story of working hard to change himself, and even implicitly changing the fate of his "descendants". Hard work may still not change anything, but if you don’t work hard, there will definitely not be any change. This is also Zhang Sheng’s personal experience, and the person who gave him the adventure in the story is still himself, not some wild monster. Millennium Fox…
Cultivation in this life!
This is also consistent with and mutually supportive of the teachings of the five gods.
The middle-aged man smiled and accepted Zhang Sheng''s storybook, which meant that Zhang Sheng completed the business, and Zhang Sheng received his reward immediately.
Holding the hard money bag in his arms in one hand and carrying the remaining pen and ink instruments in the other, Zhang Sheng walked down the second floor of the small building, walked out of the courtyard gate and walked home. After passing through the streets and alleys, he saw in the open space in the inner square, Then there was a storyteller, who banged the bamboo board with a bang, then banged the tambourine twice, and said a short opening paragraph, which attracted the surrounding people to gather together unconsciously...
Zhang Sheng slowed down his pace slightly and smiled slightly.
The storyteller saw Zhang Sheng and recognized him, so he nodded.
Zhang Sheng also responded, walking in and out of the small courtyard, nodding.
?Zhang Sheng continued to walk forward, and vaguely heard the storyteller beating the tambourine again and saying loudly: "Today I want to talk about it, Changping Liehou scolded the evil slaves, "Don''t bully young people to be poor...""
(End of this chapter)