Section 14: The Sprout of Quyi

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, Chinese people could not move casually, at that time, if you wanted to do a self-guided tour or something without a valid reason, then the destination would definitely not be where you wanted to go, generally speaking, there were two options: confiscation or exile. There are only two kinds of people who can wander around the map without control, one is an official, and the other is a scholar with a meritorious reputation, even if an official is not able to be absent from work casually because he has official duties, so in the end, there are only opportunities and leisure left to show talents and people who have no official to do. Zhu Yuanzhang himself was born as a homeless person, so he knew the importance of letting the people settle down on the land. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, this rule was useless, because Zhu Chongba obviously forgot the phrase that those who have no permanent property have no perseverance, and the land annexation of Yan zhòng and the development of industry and commerce throughout the country have forced the society to no longer implement such an inhumane household registration management system, and there are more and more farmers who can still work in other places without road guidance, and only scholars will hang around with identity certificates, and when traveling, you can also go to the post station to eat and drink according to the regulations, otherwise you think Li Shizhen, How much silver should Xu Xiake and others carry on the road?

Jiang Tian is a showman, there is a pass for national travel, and it is delusional to get the food and lodging of the post station, so there is no record of this show talent in the post station along the way, plus there are few official cards after the end of the Ming Dynasty to check the road guide at the intersection, so there is no record of his passage in the official mansion. When I found out here, the perverted father blew his beard and glared, how can you say that these guys who are vegetarian in the corpse position can not give up the country to the Manchu Qing. However, he is a bit of a bull temper, and he is described in the northern dialect as a Hui character, since he Jiang Tian can speak fluent military dialect, and he also makes a quill pen to write military characters, then there must be people in his family who have joined the army, and it is okay to check how many people surnamed Jiang are in the whole army?

What a simple solution...... Only he thought so, and those who worked at the bottom scolded him countless times in their hearts, and later Tian Yu also mixed in, and passed his authority in the Ministry of Officials, and transferred some officials surnamed Jiang and at the same time met Jiang Tian's conditions, and finally they streamlined the list of tens of thousands of candidates with the eight most likely people, including Jiang Tian's father, Jiang Hu, a veteran who retired with the rank of regiment commander! Then they sent fast horse spies to the location of these eight people, as time passed, today's last horse is about to return to Beijing, the first seven have been proven not to meet Jiang Tian's characteristics of the family is out, if this today is still bad news, but really can only personally ask him to make it clear. It's not that they haven't thought that the name Jiang Tian may be a pseudonym, but they can only try their luck in front of this only clue, but fortunately, in the end, this person lives up to expectations! Name, age, physical characteristics, these conditions are all on the right number, it is certain that this Jiang Tian in the capital is the stupid Xiucai in the countryside of Beizhili, since his true identity has been clarified, all the questions should be able to be answered, right? The three old foxes had to frown, according to the information obtained from the investigation, this kid not only had never seen the saint, but also had not learned military characters and Hu Ren numbers since he was a child. It's even more lacking in heart and eyes, and I actually wanted to go to Beijing to petition! If it weren't for his father's clear mind and didn't let him do stupid things, he would have been working as a coolie in some corner now. Later, it was because he was repented of his marriage and felt disgraced, so he went out to study...... Don't look at the old man of the Jiang family who has been hiding it, but good things don't go out and bad things spread thousands of miles, since Jiang Tian ran away from home, there have been more and more rumors in the village, and in the end, the truth is not far from the rumors.

So the practical question is, where did Jiang Tian learn these Taixi knowledge? It was definitely not learned during the period of running away from home, because there was no gentleman who could teach him along the way, and even if this kid was a genius, it was impossible for him to succeed in such a short period of time, because even those personal disciples selected by the Holy Lord, even if they only reached this level in arithmetic, it was impossible for them to work for a year or two. The final conclusion is that this kid not only did not show any clues, but became more and more mysterious! So they discussed, didn't Jiang Tian want to be a private school teacher? Well, we've got you covered! So, among those who are idle and like to string their wives' tongues in the alley, it suddenly spread that Jiang Tian is actually teaching the three sons to learn a new school! Otherwise, why do people come to this small teahouse every once in a while? The evidence is also very simple, don't you see that people earned two hundred taels of snowflake official silver with a leaky jar? Maybe there's something else left unrevealed! At the same time, the news that Jiang Tian was recruiting students from the society was also disseminated, and it also showed that Shu Yu was negotiable.

A few days passed, and the imaginary scene of admiring and enthusiastically apprenticing did not appear, and in fact no one came.

"Brother Jiang, don't be discouraged, I think ordinary people don't know about your talent, so ......" Tian Xuhai wanted to find an adjective to cover up his ugliness, but all that went around in his mind were some unpleasant derogatory terms, so he had to stop talking for the time being.

Jiang Tian has long been mentally prepared for this situation, even if he is famous, he is only a little famous in these nearby alleys, and he has not yet reached the well-known Cheng dù of women and children. Moreover, although the imperial court is obviously biased towards technical officials, it has not been able to introduce a policy of popularizing science education on a large scale, so the attitude between Confucianism and Xinxue in the market is very ambiguous. In case one day the imperial court changes the order and reinstates the scientific examination, then learning the knowledge used for accounting can be used to gain fame. In fact, he blurted out at the beginning, he had a flash of inspiration, he didn't expect that this young master would really promote it everywhere, and now that the words have been spoken, none of the students have been recruited, and everyone else is watching how Jiang Tian ends.

Song Yi smiled confidently at this time: "Actually, there are still a lot of students, but they don't know how capable you are, Brother Jiang." As long as you show your talent a little, you can attract students from all over the world. ”

Liu Baokai asked rhetorically according to the set routine: "Seeing that Brother Song is confident, he must have already had a belly case?" Don't sell it. ”

Song Yi still smiled slightly: "I can't talk about the belly case, but you don't think about it, you said that it will be the day of the big exam in the middle of the year, how many people in our academy are like you who don't learn and want to hold on to Buddha feet temporarily?" As long as we reveal a little bit of Brother Jiang's situation to them, these people are still not allowed to rush here to ask for advice? You said that if thirty percent of the sons and daughters of Xun Qi in the capital come here to study, then this reputation is not famous all over the world? Besides, there are not a few of these people who have good hands and eyes, and it may not be difficult to ask them to sell their personal favors to Miss Xiyun at that time. ”

Things have developed to this point, Jiang Tian has completely fallen into the mercy of others, but he didn't find out himself, if Jiang Tian is most worried about now? Naturally, Xi Yun's status as a pariah can't be turned into a regular, as long as she grasps this key point, it's not how the two of them can arrange it. This is because he is really mysterious, so that those bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods in the background do not dare to act rashly, otherwise, according to Liu Baokai and his father's temper, he would have already let the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses find a reason to be arrested and put in prison, and I am afraid that you will not tell the truth?

Let's not mention how to operate this matter for the time being, just talking about Jiang Tian's side, he has really become a busy person in the past few days, first of all, he has to wait for the two people to come to the door to write his homework as soon as he wakes up in the morning, and then he has to do some physical work for the store in the afternoon, and then from the evening until closing, he has to make a cameo appearance as a cross talk actor in front of the shopkeeper. The peak of passenger flow at night has also changed from chasing willows at the beginning to listening to cross talk. In this process, Jiang Tian gradually changed from imitating the storyteller to standing behind the desk and talking with the audience, and it seems that he has the demeanor of cross talk in later generations. For this reason, two hundred years later, there was a fierce debate between the cross talk and the storytelling circles over which faction Jiang Tian belonged to. The storytelling industry believes that Jiang Tian's performance originated from storytelling, so cross talk should be a branch of storytelling. The cross talk industry has a completely opposite attitude, when our ancestor began to perform, your storytelling is still called Pingdan, if there is no old man, maybe there will be no storytelling in the modern sense, so the storytelling that relies purely on language performance should be borrowed from the art form of cross talk......

How did the later people put gold on their faces and desperately pull their ancestors, let's not care about him, let's just say that Jiang Tian's scientific attainments are not yet known, but this cross talk performance has become famous, and it has the meaning of starting a sect with its own style, Old Man Liu also put away his original arrogance, and hid in the background every day after his performance to carefully observe Jiang Tian and study his performance routines. Not to mention that the professional is different, it didn't take long for him to find that the two art forms have a lot in common, such as the "set poem" at the beginning is to let the audience concentrate, and the subsequent "pad words" are to lead to the key twists in the plot. These performance skills are not so much borrowed from storytelling, but rather figuring out both, whether it is storytelling or cross talk, after such interpretation, they can tug at the heartstrings of the audience and make them deeply trapped in it. It's hard to imagine that a Xiucai who only knows how to read the words of a saint will find a wonderful performance routine in such a short time, no wonder the sharp-eyed old man will acquiesce to Jiang Tian's blind toss, it turns out that he has long seen that this son will soon live under the people, and the future future is limitless...... How did he know that these cross talk jokes that Jiang Tian said were all classics among the classics that were passed down to the world after being refined again and again in later generations, and the ups and downs and the setting of the burden have become textbook-like storage, otherwise let Jiang Tian grope for himself to create zào cross talk, even if he devotes himself wholeheartedly, I don't know how many years of work it will take.

Just because Jiang Tian's reputation is getting louder, there are more and more audiences who come every night, and the small teahouse has long been unable to accommodate such people, but fortunately, it is summer at this time, and people can hear what he is saying when they open the door and crowd on the side of the road. So you can't control me selling dim sum and cakes in the crowd, so every time the sun sets, three or five vendors will pop up in front of the teahouse, carrying baskets and shouting in the crowd: "The buns are hot...... Sugar steamed buns...... Candied fruit ......"

Jiang Tian looked at this messy scene and thought, isn't this a copy of the cross talk of the teahouse in the late Qing Dynasty? In addition to the fact that no one in the audience dragged a big braid, and when acquaintances met, they did not play thousands but made a move, the only fly in the ointment was that there were too few actors who could perform on stage, and there was no stage where folk slang songs shone in the late Qing Dynasty. Jiang Tian didn't notice that in the process of increasing the number of guests, a half-sized man in shabby clothes was a young man who sold food every time he carried a rattan basket and covered it with a sheet, but as soon as he got into the crowd, he hid the basket behind him, hid to the side and stared at Jiang Tian tightly.