Chapter 59 Resurrection
Uncle Chang is Wang Jiang's name, so the two accompanying intelligence personnel naturally knew it.
As soon as the man walked towards him, he was already confused, and the two began to be alert unconsciously. After the man did not react abnormally, but the two did not relax their vigilance, and even reached out to the dagger in their arms. When the scream came, the two immediately held the dagger in their hands and tried to pounce. However, Wang Jiang's reaction was much faster than them.
"Tai Chong? You are Huang Tai Chong!"
The person who came was Huang Zongxi. He was originally going north to visit Qian Qianyi, but unexpectedly he met Wang Jiang, who was familiar with him, and was really surprised. However, someone else was even more surprised than him, that was the two intelligence personnel.
Wang Jiang said surprise, and the older intelligence officer among the two was stunned on the spot, quickly stopped attacking and killing, and grabbed his colleagues, explaining a little.
"It turns out that it was Mr. Lizhou, who was rude and rude."
Huang Zongxi was one of the supporters of the Ming army in the Qing army occupied by Zhejiang. This was actually more or less a little secret. But the older intelligence officer knew about the other thing, that is, Huang Zongxi was also a matchmaker for Chen Wen and Zhou Yueying. If he offended such a person for nothing, it would probably cause Chen Wen and Zhou Yueying to be unhappy. Moreover, being able to become Chen Wen's matchmaker must be an extremely firm and loyal person. Naturally, it is impossible to do something that is not conducive to the Ming army in Zhejiang, so there is no need to be too careful.
"Uncle Chang, aren't you here?"
Speaking of this, before Wang Jiang could explain, Huang Zongxi was stunned at first, and then stepped forward to bow to the two intelligence personnel.
Huang Zongxi is a well-known scholar in eastern Zhejiang. Huang Xiaozi is famous all over the world when he saw that he was so polite, and they hurriedly replied, not daring to lose the slightest etiquette. Unexpectedly, as soon as the two bowed, they saw Huang Zongxi flashing, turning his palm into a knife and slashing on the necks.
As the rabbit rose and falcon fell, two intelligence personnel with some martial arts were slumped to the ground as if they were discharged, and Wang Jiang was stunned on the spot.
"Taichong, they escorted me south, you are..."
Wang Yi and Huang Zongxi are relatives of children. Wang Jiang also knows some of Huang Zongxi's past. He was very popular when he was young and practiced internal martial arts. He was not very clear whether he had continued to practice for so many years, but when he saw him today, he obviously never left it behind, and he used it on his own people.
"Uncle Chang, if you believe me, Huang Zongxi, I will follow me today. I will explain the matter to you on the way."
Huang Zongxi actually knew nothing about whether Wang Jiang was really in Cao's camp, and Chen Wen and Qian Qianyi had never told him. However, when he saw Wang Jiang changing his clothes and walking in this remote place, he almost instantly understood the strangeness and made further decisions.
Huang Zongxi was originally a talented man and was quite decisive. On the contrary, Wang Jiang was weak in character. At this moment, he was attracted by Huang Zongxi's aura and had to drag the two of them into the house and go with him. However, he did not continue to go north, but instead returned with Huang Zongxi's way.
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Wang Jiang was kidnapped by Huang Zongxi, Bai Jinghe, who was still lurking in Jiangning, didn't know, and Chen Wen, who was in Jinhua Mansion, also didn't know. If it were calculated based on the distance, it would take more than half a month to know about this matter. However, at this time, he not only did not associate this possibility, but also did not have the time to think about Wang Jiang's affairs.
Huang Zongxi's turn of his sleeves increased his psychological estimate of the possible impact of measuring the land, so he ordered Zhou Jingting to arrange his work to further expand the voice of the Ming army in Zhejiang.
Nowadays, the missionary department under Zhou Jingting has two strong subordinate departments, one is the newspaper of Zhejiang Dibao and the other is the art troupe.
In order to expand the voice, Zhejiang Dibao first wanted to expand its circulation. In Chen Wen's words, even if the people are not afraid of getting dirtyer and dirtyer, they will use newspapers to wipe their butts, at least they will be fond of them to pass the time. Zhejiang's literacy rate is already among the best in the country, and even ordinary people will know a few commonly used words, such as Chongzhen Tongbao, and numbers. As long as they read it, they will definitely be affected in this era when the news spreads extremely slowly and subtly.
In addition, in order to expand its influence, Chen Wen instructed the Publicity Department to establish another newspaper to publish another reading material. The name has not been decided yet, but the content can be relatively relaxed. In addition to practical matters, some reading materials such as novels and vernacular books can be published. However, the published things must undergo strict review, and some political decrees in Zhejiang Dibao should be quoted to further expand the influence of Zhejiang Mingjun while opening up the market.
Newspapers expand their circulation and enrich their content, and the same is true for the art troupe.
It has been nearly three months now. After completing its premiere, the first art troupe formed last year started to perform in Jinhuafu City for several days, and then started a tour of the six governments, more of which were to perform in the military camp to enrich the soldiers' spare time.
As the first team set off, the second team's establishment task was raised to the agenda. According to Chen Wen's intention, even the third team and the fourth team must be formed together to further expand the coverage, and even to the countryside.
In addition, the premiere of "Love in the City" was successful, and the performances of ordinary people in the city were also praised in the city. The news reported from various places over the past few days was also the same. There were even art troupes who were surrounded by local people and asked to perform in additional performances. The private opera troupes also began to rehearse the performances. However, the pirated prints of "Zhejiang Dibao" aroused the awareness of copyright in the missionary department. If you want to perform, you have to go to the county government to purchase a license first...
Of course, it is obviously not possible to rely on just one drama. Over the past few months, Chen Chen has been developing new plays with those professional and non-professional "screenwriters". However, it is necessary to have the atmosphere of the times and show the justice of the anti-Qing Dynasty. It is best to show the glorious image of the Ming army in Zhejiang, which seems a bit troublesome.
"Captain Chen, how about we write the Simingshan Palace Battle into a script?"
"Fight behind Simingshan Palace?"
Chen Chen recalled and looked at the notes he made when Zhou Jingting issued the mission. It looked really good. At that time, the Tartars washed the mountains and massacred the people of Siming Mountain without any difference. Chen Wen covered the people with the main force of the coalition forces and finally fought a bloody battle with the chasing Tartar general for one afternoon and was defeated. The justice of the anti-Qing Dynasty was, and the glorious image of the Ming army in Zhejiang was even more obvious. In fact, even Chen Chen knew that this battle established the self-confidence of this army and its own justice, so in subsequent battles, this army was far more tenacious than the army of the same era.
"It's really good." Chen Chen nodded, and then said, "You guys study first, I'll go and report to Director Zhou. If possible, we will start planning the script."
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Huang Zongxi robbed Wang Jiang and quickly convinced him. To be precise, Huang Zongxi's momentum completely overwhelmed Wang Jiang, which forced this capable official who was not very determined to participate in Huang Zongxi's plan.
"If you want to accomplish this big thing, you must first find more scholars to participate. However, in order to keep it confidential, it is best to just inform those who are more determined to fight the Tartars, gather their strength to set up the village first and then expand their influence."
Huang Zongxi originally planned to widely publicize his ideas among scholars, but when he thought about it carefully, especially when he remembered the Six Gentlemen's Battle of the War, he still had to worry about the potential scum who might inform the Qing government of this conspiracy. In fact, he had to be more conservative.
"I was under house arrest in Nanjing for many years, and I had no way to contact the likes you mentioned."
"No, I know a few people, you can definitely convince them."
"Who?"
"Chu Jiuru, Shen Diaolun and Zou Xiaonan."
The three people mentioned by Huang Zongxi were all colleagues who helped Wang Yicheng's army together on Dalan Mountain, so they were particularly familiar with each other. When Huang Zongxi mentioned it, his eyes lit up.
"Do you know where they are now?"
“That’s right.”
Chu Jiuru left the Ming army of Dalan Mountain after Chu Su was executed, and Shen Diaolun and Zou Xiaonan disappeared in the battle of Siming Lake. Wang Jiang had thought he would never see them again in this life. Who knew that Huang Zongxi knew where they were, so he was naturally very excited. But then he thought that since Huang Zongxi knew where they were, these people never went to Jinhua to join Chen Wen. Not to mention anything else, at least Huang Zongxi must have never persuaded him.
"Tai Chong, you've been on guard against Fu Ren for many years, right?"
When Wang Jiang asked this question, Huang Zongxi did not refute it, but said righteously: "It is precisely because since Wanxun's letter came to me, since I knew that Chen Wen was inclined to eunuchs, I was guarding against him. Today, it seems that I have read it right."
Hearing this, Wang Jiang couldn't help but sigh. Originally, this was just a very ordinary conversation between Wang Yi and Chen Wen. After learning that it was useless to go to Japan to beg for a master, Wang Yi turned to persuade the supporters Huang Zongxi and Feng Jingdi. As a result, both of them regarded Chen Wen as a remnant of Yu Huang's kind and the eunuch party.
If Feng Jingdi had not been used by Wang Sheng, the thief in Zhejiang's anti-Qing trend would not have been delayed to this day. Now Huang Zongxi once again brought out the eunuch remarks out of his boycott of Chen Wen's measurement of Tianmu, which made him suddenly have a hint of doubt about Huang Zongxi's plan.
However, Wang Jiang also knew that Huang Zongxi was definitely not so easy to convince, and some places were even more stubborn than Wang Yi. Seeing this, he stopped mentioning this matter and simply turned the topic back.
"We're going to find them now?"
Wang Jiang stopped mentioning it, and Huang Zongxi did not continue to be interested in this issue. "That is, as far as I know, after Shen Diaolun fled back to his hometown, Shen Qiuru let him stay in the countryside to study. I happened to know the place, we will arrive tomorrow."
"Well, I haven't seen each other for many years, and I miss these old friends very much."
The next afternoon, Huang Zongxi and Wang Jiang rushed to the Shen family's house in the countryside as scheduled, and Chen Tiaolun lived here.
"The king!"
"Your order!"
Since they went to war that year and parted on Dalan Mountain, they have never seen each other again. They could meet again today, and they immediately started talking freely, hoping to tell them all about their experiences over the past few years. During this period, Huang Zongxi also talked about his plan with Chen Tulun. Unexpectedly, Chen Tulun's reaction was much more enthusiastic than Wang Jiang. In a trance, Huang Zongxi even felt that even if he didn't mention this matter, maybe Chen Tulun would do it himself one day.
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“The script is well written.”
A few days ago, Chen Chen talked about Zhou Jingting about the script creation plan for adapting the Simingshan Palace Battle, and immediately received high recognition from the boss and urged him to make the script as soon as possible and hand it over to Chen Wen for review.
In this way, Chen Chen took several screenwriters of the art troupe for a few days, and finally broke the script today and handed it over to Zhou Jingting after passing the initial review, he handed it to Chen Wen.
This script that took him a few days to make it work was his hard work. Chen Chen was naturally very happy to receive praise, but he was still so humble. Unexpectedly, as soon as he said the words of praise, Chen Wen changed his mind.
"Adapting the Simingshan Palace Battle is indeed a good note, but if you think you have something to do with my perspective?"
"Sister? Please make an announcement from the country."
Not only Chen Chen, but also Zhou Jingting was surprised and even thought of the fact that he was a venerable. However, according to his understanding, Chen Wen is not a person who would mind these things.
"Where is the breath of the times?"
"Then, tell me what the Duke saw and heard along the way?"
"Just talking alone lacks shock and sense of inclusion."
"Shocking power? Feeling of inclusion?" Chen Chen thought for a while, then there was a flash of inspiration. "So why not make up a character who was oppressed by the Tartars' taxes and the bad gentry who were accused of rebellion. He fled to the foot of Dalan Mountain. He happened to catch up with the Duke's recruitment and joined Nantang Camp. What do you think of writing these stories based on his experience?"
"very good."
Professionals are professionals. Chen Wen knew that such things were actually very common in the Nantang camp, which had only a few hundred people. It would be okay to take a veteran as the perspective, but no one could determine whether this person would make any mistakes in the future, which would damage the established heroic image. It is far better to establish a fictional image. This image can be anyone. It is best to enrich its experience to further enhance the audience's sense of inclusion.
"In this way, to enrich the characters' images, it is best to find a few veterans who participated in the war to learn about the details."
"As for the order." After being affirmed and determined, Chen Chen was immediately full of energy, but some things still need to be asked clearly in advance: "I dare to ask the Duke, what is the name of this drama?"
What's the name? Shouldn't this be the job of a screenwriter or director?
Chen Wen thought about it and found that it was probably the prototype of this drama that he personally directed, so Chen Chen didn't want to take too much responsibility. Of course, it was also possible that Chen Chen wanted a name, which was a symbol of honor in this era.
"That's called "Three Hundred Siming Mountains, no, the Five Hundred Warriors of Siming Mountains!"
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At this moment, neither Chen Wen, the name of the script or the main creator Chen Chen, they knew that the "Five Hundred Warriors of Siming Mountain" was not only put on the screen in later generations, but even the production cost of almost every remake was a big deal in the industry at that time, including the world's first 3D movie, and it was a star-studded production at that time.
In addition, several of them were remade by Chen Wen's descendants as investors. However, according to the investors' wishes, the male lead in one of the scripts also changed from a soldier from Nantang Camp to Chen Wen, and for this was criticized by some historians and film critics. Not only did it go against Chen Wen's wishes, but it was also similar to one of another series of movies at that time, and wasting the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies.
Back at this moment, while the script of "Five Hundred Warriors in Siming Mountain" was launched, another history that was also on the screen in later generations was quietly happening, and its location was different from this drama.
On the sixth day of the third month of the eighth year of Yongli, on the ruins of the former Ming army in Dalan Mountain, Wang Jiang, the former governor of Zhejiang who was in charge of logistics and common affairs in Dalan Mountain, the two civil servants of the central camp of the army in Dalan Mountain, Shen Diaolun and Zou Xiaonan, the anti-Qing people in eastern Zhejiang, Huang Zongxi, Huang Zongyan, Wan Sicheng, Wan Sida, and Jiang Han, the former governor of the Ming army in the Lu State System, reunited here. Among them, nearly a thousand people from Shaoxing and Ningbo came with them.
"A few years ago, here, Wang Yi, the left assistant minister and left deputy chief of the Zhizhe Military Affairs Department, built the Dalanshan King's Division. Since then, he has defeated Shangyu twice and defeated the enemy troops several times. Even the Zhejiang King's Division that is now rampant in Jinquyan and Taiwen, also comes from the Dalanshan King's Division at that time. Chen Wen, the Duke of Xiuguo, who is now famous all over the world, was also a general of Duke Zhonglie."
Many people present knew about this history, but when Huang Zongxi told the Ming army of Zhejiang and Chen Wen, there was still a surprise sound from the newly restored soldiers.
Chapter completed!