The conspiracy in Nanjing is still continuing, but in Zhejiang, Haimao unfolds in full swing with Zheng Tai's arrival.

From Quzhou, through Chuzhou, and using Songyang pole to carry Chuzhou Prefecture City, you can go east along the Oujiang River and reach Wenzhou Prefecture City; and from Yanzhou, in addition to following the Lanjiang River and Qujiang River, and then traveling to Chuzhou, you can also transport it to Xianju through Wuyi, Yongkang, using a load, a trolley, and a donkey cart, and then send it to Haimenwei along the Lingjiang River.

Since the news that the Zheng family fleet arrived in Taiwen and Wenzhou had spread widely in the occupied areas of the Ming army in Zhejiang, the merchants from these six prefectures began to move and transport goods to Wenzhou Prefecture City and Haimen Guards as crazy as if they were.

The previous blockade order and the relocation order caused the inevitable sluggishness of the commercial activities of the four governments of Jinquyan. A large number of goods originally shipped to Jiangxi, Jiangnan and Fujian were stopped in the warehouses. Even after recovering Taiwen, there was no good improvement at first. Until the Zheng family, a big financial owner, who claimed that there were no local tyrants who could swallow up any goods, came, the merchants of these six governments seemed to be stimulated.

In half a month, this also involves the cost of passing the message to various prefectures and counties. The newly established Tijue Maritime Office collected more than 10,000 taels of silver, and the momentum did not even mean that it would start to decline.

This situation is very abnormal. According to the "Guangzhou General Records", in the 30th year of Wanli, the tax revenue of the Maritime Bureau of a giant city like Guangzhou was only more than 40,000 taels of silver, which was called "the southern treasury of the emperor" by people at the time. According to the current situation, when the Zheng family's large-scale purchase ended, the tax could collect tens of thousands of taels of silver alone, and this did not include the income from the two trades of prisoners and arms, as well as the bulk goods sold exclusively for self-defense centers.

If nothing unexpected happens, after the Zheng family's large-scale purchase, the revenue of the Maritime Corporation will decline to a certain extent. However, Chen Wen also purchased some sea ships from Fujian, and the goods are also produced by their own products, with a huge quantity. He can always make business available to Japan, North Korea, Ryukyu, and even European maritime merchants.

The sea trade in Taizhou and Wenzhou is in full swing, but a big drama is being staged in the newly built Jinhua Theater in Jinhuafu City.

"This little lady Bai hasn't passed the door yet, isn't it ridiculous to say that Kefu!"

The performance of the stage was Chen Wen who wrote an outline for Li Yu to fill in the love of the city. The performance was not a folk opera troupe, but an art troupe under the Missionary Department. This department was formed when he went to Quzhou. The leader was Chen Chen, and almost all the actors were from the Education Office.

"Fu Ren, is this Shaoxing manager the Huating Chen Zilong from that time?"

“That’s right.”

The timeline of this story is between the Jiashen Kingdom and the Slaughter of Jinhua. It is just a story that happened several years ago. Some of the characters, such as Chen Zilong, the Shaoxing Manager who was entrusted by Fan Liuyuan to defend Bai Liusu, and Zhu Meixi, the governor of Jinhua, are still remembered by many people, so that Zheng Tai, who came to watch this first official performance, could still vaguely remember that the Shaoxing Manager named Chen in the story was Chen Zilong, known as the last great poet of the Ming Dynasty.

As the story continued to unfold, Bai Liusu's dowry was recovered, but the cold eyes at home made her feel heartbroken and she was forced to move out of the Bai family's house to live in the courtyard where his father studied. In the days that followed, because it was not far from the Fan family, we met several times, thanks, misunderstandings, and misunderstandings, and finally the tragic slaughter broke out...

"Dog Tartar!"

After a long time, the story came to an end. As soon as the three actors wearing helmets and the costumes of the Qing army took the stage, a burst of anger broke out from the audience, especially those officers, who glared at each other. Even the "Boluo" on the stage, "Ma Jinbao" and "Liu Guangbi" couldn't help but tremble, and they did not dare to continue the subsequent play.

"What are you guys? You three fools, hurry up and continue acting!"

Hudumen revealed a corner. Seeing these three actors playing Tartars looking trembling, Chen Chen immediately became angry. However, this was a formal performance, not a rehearsal, so he had to reveal a corner and shout in a low voice.

Hearing Chen Chen's anger, the three of them knew that the leader was not a good-tempered person. They looked at each other and swallowed. The leader "Boluo" continued to sing in a trembling voice.

"Breaking Jinhua, sealing a knife for three days, and children's jade and silk, you can get it yourself. Hahahaha."

The lyrics of the opera are quite imposing, but the timid actor was already staring at by the officers in the audience just now, and he said one sentence of the opera, coupled with the last crying laughter, God knows whether the person who is about to be slaughtered is the supporting actor who plays the people on the other side of the stage, or the Qing army commander.

"Damn, I want to kill our Jinhua. I'll ruin you, the dog Tartar!"

An angry officer stood up suddenly, shouted and wanted to run to the stage, so that these Tartars could know the power of the Ming army in Zhejiang. For a moment, several officers who were also so angry that they wanted to go up together, and even the anger of the others present became louder and louder.

According to the order of the plot, after the crazy laughter of "Boluo", "Ma Jinbao" and "Liu Guangbi" shouted loudly and wanted to rush over, and the scene was over. But now, "Boluo" has finished laughing. The other two dramatists watched the officers angrily rushing to the stage, and together with the crying "Prince Duan Chong" kept slipping back, as if they were about to retreat from the door to the stage.

If this drama continues like this, it will be impossible to continue. But at this moment, only two "cough cough" sounds were heard, and the few guards around Chen Wen rushed towards the officer in understanding.

After restraining it, Chen Wen shouted: "The ones who play the Tartars above are also the robes of our Zhejiang King's Army. If someone plays it well, you will be angry and remember more deeply what the Tartars have done. What is the ability to bully your own people? If you have the game, you can kill more Tartars' heads back!"

The time point chosen for the finale of the story is the Jinhua Slaughter. For the Ming army in Jinhua, whose native place accounts for a considerable proportion of the officer corps, it is the place that can hurt their hearts the most. Especially among them, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty such as Chen Zilong and Zhu Meixi, Boluo, Ma Jinbao and Liu Guangbi are all familiar figures. Among them, Ma Jinbao was executed by Zhong Lingchi the year before yesterday. In Jinhua Mansion, even the child knew that these guys were the murderers of Jinhua. They felt extremely strong and naturally became furious.

Chen Wen had long expected this situation. In his memory, in later generations, actors were repeatedly stabbed for playing domestic violence, even beaten in public, and even beaten to death because of playing landlords. This drama was chosen at this point in time, especially when Shi Tingzhu almost came to Jinhua again not long ago. The shock and touch of the audience was really unimaginable, and at the same time, the psychological quality and life safety of the actors were also a big test.

The three operas on the stage are actually not very good, but the lyrics of the opera make the audience below so angry that it is because the background of the story is too real.

After asking the guards to take the officers down, Chen Wen signaled the stage to continue playing the show, sat down again before saying to Zheng Tai: "I'll make my brother laugh."

"Nothing happens, nothing happens. Fu Ren's subordinates are all bloody men. No wonder they can defeat the Tartars repeatedly."

After this episode, the play on the stage continued, and soon the Qing army broke through the city, Zhu Dadian died for his country and the tragic massacre. The male and female protagonists in the story are a couple who love each other. They were born in such an era, and their fate was often like fallen leaves floating in the autumn wind, and they were involuntarily. This is precisely this, but it can also affect the mood of the audience.

In the theater, almost everyone was immersed in the story on the stage, but there were two people who were obviously not here.

As a representative of the Fujian Ming Army, Zheng Tai came this time, in addition to laying the foundation for trade, he actually had a further observation of the ally of the Zhejiang Ming Army. These days, he has watched the exercises of Dongyang Camp stationed in Jinhua, the Military Industry Department Workshop, and the Zhejiang Di Daily News. Now, he has looked at the performance of the newly compiled art troupe. The God of Wealth of the Fujian Ming Army is obviously as simple as thinking. His whole mind has flown to an unknown place, but he has ignored the more exciting performances later.

Chen Wen, who was sitting next to Zheng Tai, seemed to be infected, and his mind had already flown to other places.

The story called "Love in the City" was originally a work that he had made a largely revised based on Zhang Ailing's novel of the same name. It was originally used to recruit Li Yu to use him as a horse bone to attract more talents. However, Li Yu came later but did not continue his drama creation career and became a local official. Chen Wen used this to recruit talents and his effectiveness was far less than that of the influence caused by the repeated defeat of the Qing army. More talents were also because the Ming army in Zhejiang won many battles and many victories.

I thought it was just a useless effort to put the cart before the horse, but when he watched the story on the stage with his own eyes, he found that it was just a little bit of a relationship between planting flowers and planting willows without intention.

Let’s not talk about the version of "Love in the City", which has a strong local atmosphere. Zhou Jingting once gave Chen Chen another script, which was the Song Dynasty version of "Titanic" originally written by Chen Wen, named "The East Sea Resentment" written by Li Yudai. He just came to see them filming two days ago. Although the scenes and props on the stage were as appropriate as possible, they still forced Chen Wen’s embarrassment.

The set of blue paint symbolizing waves is probably a "sea boat" that can be squeezed out with four or five people. Especially when he passed by, he happened to see the last scene of the story. Bai Zihua and Zhen Huan's uncle were fighting in the waves, which made him jump all over the floor with goose bumps, and his mind was full of the idea that the script must be sealed to appear before it can be on the stage after something like special effects appears.

In comparison, the effect of "Love in the City" is quite good and can be greatly promoted. The prefectures, counties, various war barracks and garrisons in the occupied areas must be performed. It is better to change the mentality of the soldiers and the people than simply talking about the ancients. The only thing to note is that the art troupe must be equipped with some guards to prevent situations similar to today.

The performance on stage soon came to an end. On the third day of the massacre, hunger prompted Fan Liuyuan to go out of the dry well to find water, while Bai Liusu stayed alone in the well. Separation, all the audiences present were worried about the ending of the infatuated man and resentful woman in the troubled times, but Chen Wen seemed to have discovered something else.

"Who is the woman who plays Bai Liusu?"

Seeing Chen Wen asking this, Zhou Jingting, who was sitting next to him, changed his face slightly, and then replied in a low voice: "If you return to the country, this woman is the daughter of the offender Yan Zhiheng."

It turned out to be Yan Zhiheng's daughter. If it weren't for Zhou Jingting today, Chen Wen would have almost forgotten her father who participated in the Cao Conglong Rebellion in the depths of his mind. In such an era, the head of the family was guilty and his wife and daughter would be affected, as if the legitimate granddaughter, who Xu Jie promised to be a concubine to Yan Shifan's son, was not spared in the end, let alone a real person who was like the woman's father.

"No wonder I looked familiar. I led the army to cover the people's evacuation from the Simingshan area and once walked with their family. I remember that at that time, Yan Zhiheng also followed Governor Wang and Governor Sun to help me maintain the order of the people going south, but when I arrived in Jinhua, I ended up parting ways. It's really sad."

"The Duke of the State is kind and takes the blame for his own fault, and even implicates his family. This is a sin that deserves."

“It’s true.”

Chen Wen knew that Wang Jiang's mother and the young wife of the Sun family had been willing to introduce him, but time had passed and the two had no relationship. However, Zhou Jingting's expression had not changed, but Chen Wen was not missed by Chen Wen. In addition to being the head of the Mission Department, this guy is also Zhou Yueying's legitimate brother. And this woman's fate is already like this. Being able to enter the art troupe is better than being in the Education Department forever. He didn't want to knock her back to her true form because of an inexplicable question.

"A woman like this can better arouse the audience's desire to protect and increase her hatred for the Tartars. Chen Chen is indeed worthy of being a talented man. This actor is chosen very well, and your vision is indeed worthy of my expectations."

"The Duke of the State praised it, but the subordinates were just foolish."

"It's just those actors who play Tartars, they're still a little too immature."

"What the Duke of the State said was that when he went back, he would go to discuss with Captain Chen."

Regarding Chen Wen, Zhou Jingting never relied on his identity as Zhou Yueying's biological brother and was a little arrogant. Even his two cousins ​​who had just entered the officialdom seemed to have been admonished by him. They were quite respectful when they met Chen Wen. They were completely a public attitude and did not involve personal relationships. This is what Chen Wen was happy to see, and because of this, they should prevent selfishness from affecting the public.
Chapter completed!