Chapter 488: Let's Get Something Fresh
Li Shimin was worried about the change, so he wrote the deed at the moment and used the emperor's jade seal. This kind of behavior is somewhat unpleasant, but at the moment, I can't take much care of it. After writing, Li Shimin looked at the font on the deed, and suddenly felt that his calligraphy had improved.
"Li Mu, take it! Is that reassuring? I can't go back on it. ”
"Huh." Li Mu squeezed out a smiling smile, took the deed, folded it twice and stuffed it into his arms, and sighed: "Jiang is still old and spicy, this time the minister is planted." ”
Li Shimin immediately answered: "Didn't you say that you won't lose money?" I gave you the cheapness, how can you plant it? Are you deceiving me? ”
Li Mu sighed again and said, "The minister calculates not to compensate because the minister will work hard to do a good job." But in any case, this is a matter for the state, and it is up to the court or His Majesty to take the risk, even if this risk is only a little bit, and the minister feels that this is the rule. But today, Your Majesty and the Princes, even though the ministers have tried their best to ensure that they will work hard, are still unwilling to take even the slightest risk, and choose to impose these risks on the ministers, who have nothing to say but to kneel down and thank our emperor Longen. ”
Li Mu knelt down and kowtowed, and Li Shimin's face became a little ugly.
"Your Majesty, the minister is tired, please retire." With that, Li Mu turned around and left.
"Stop!"
Li Mu turned a deaf ear and walked out of the Liangyi Hall by himself. Li Shimin looked at Li Mu's back, and felt very uncomfortable. The joy he felt because he 'won't' Li Mu was instantly washed away, and everyone standing beside him was also embarrassed. This matter is troublesome, although it is a wish to fulfill Li Mu and let Li Mu take it, but why is the result so awkward? It seems that there is no one in the Tang Dynasty and no one in the wilderness, and the monarchs and ministers are bullying a child.
From the point of view of the heart, although everyone does this, they really don't think about it that way. Maybe there was a little schadenfreude in it, but there was really no intention of bullying Li Mu. It's just that he is used to seeing him flying and domineering on weekdays, and he wants to frustrate his sharpness.
But in this situation, seeing Li Mu leaving with a decadent atmosphere, everyone is not happy. Think about it, Li Mu, this kid, has nothing to say except for having a bad mouth and being a good one. Whether it's someone who deals with him or not, as long as he finds him in business, he basically does it. Even the Shandong Shi clan he hated the most, he didn't refuse it, at most he just derogatory a few words.
Thinking about it this way, what the monarch and ministers are doing today seems to be really a bit excessive.
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Five days passed, and it was the thirteenth day of the first month.
On the past five days, Li Mu went to Pingkangfang to rehearse the play after breakfast, and returned home in the afternoon to start dealing with the affairs of the Turkic market. But he himself didn't go to the palace, as if he was angry.
He deliberately wrote the folds in great detail, so detailed that Li Shimin wanted to find a fault and ask, but there was nothing to ask. At the same time, Datang Insurance was also established, because it was Li Mu's own assets to endorse, so it was not listed in the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a courtyard was cleared opposite the bank of the craftsman's workshop, even if it was established. Since it hasn't officially started business yet, there are not many people in it. Li Mu asked Wei Yingluo and Pearl to move in, and on the third day after the year, Wei Yingluo consciously went to work, when Li Mu was not in the Ministry of Industry, thanks to her secretary's contribution, the internal affairs office was able to coordinate smoothly.
Many businessmen have figured out the way, although Li Mu has the final say in the Internal Affairs Office, he is not often a director of the Internal Affairs Office, and the actual key person is still this so-called secretary. The strange thing is that this person is Li Mu's nemesis, Wei Zheng's daughter. It's somewhat confusing to understand what the hell is going on.
Li Mu is not without doubts, but so far, Wei Yingluo has done a very good job. Public is public, private is private, she has never been confused. Li Mu also used people without suspicion, and he didn't bother with it.
The Shangyuan Festival, that is, the Lantern Festival in Li Mu's previous life, can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, and it is also a big festival in the Tang Dynasty. Datang implements a curfew, and in Chang'an City, except for Pingkangfang, which is special and can stay all night, the other one hundred and seven squares are subject to curfew. Only three days before and after the Shangyuan Festival are the legal holidays of the country, and they can be lit up all night.
There are only these three days of carnival in a year, and the people naturally want to join in the fun. This is also the best opportunity for the rich people of Chang'an City to show off their wealth. Light wheels, lamp trees, lamp towers, etc., all kinds of new lanterns are designed to be ingenious and exquisite. Each house not only innovates in the production of lanterns, but also the singing and dancing under the lanterns is even more dizzying. The show girl wears a flower crown and wears a xia veil, which is expensive, and the costume alone costs a hundred times.
Although each workshop will prepare lanterns, Pingkangfang, the flagship of the Datang entertainment industry, will always be the most eye-catching. The other squares are all big households in the workshop, and it is rare to prepare giant lanterns, lantern trees, songs and dances, etc. But in Pingkangfang, at the door of every green building, there is a light tower, a stage, and a song and dance. And on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, the Oiran will also be selected. The owner of the Qinglou who owns the Oiran has become the Fang Zheng of Pingkangfang this year by default, representing Pingkangfang to deal with the government.
Don't underestimate this small Fangzheng, in the territory of Pingkangfang, although Fangzheng's official position is small, the oil and water are not small. Usually, there are thousands of times a year, plus the blessing of the Oiran. Whoever wins this game will be considered full for the year.
This year's situation was different, and Li Mu, the Marquis of Zhulu, bought half of Pingkangfang. In this case, even the Qinglou who came out of the Oiran would never dare to fight with him. So this year, before the Shangyuan Festival celebration, all the owners came to Lichun Courtyard to listen to the rumors. There's no way, half of Pingkangfang is from other people's homes, and if you don't nod here, this Oiran competition is meaningless.
Li Mu knew this rule for a long time, and he didn't want to change it, because he was confident that he would win. He asked Ergou to meet with these Qinglou owners, and agreed that this year, as usual, everyone will rely on their abilities. The proprietors got Li Mu's promise, and then they went back to their respective homes to start preparations.
Li Mu's Dou E's grievances are almost in line, but on such a festive festival as the Shangyuan Festival, it is still not good to play such a sad scene. So Li Mu temporarily changed his mind and postponed Dou E's debut to after the Shangyuan Festival, and in the past few days of the Shangyuan Festival, he prepared a new killer weapon to deal with this Oiran competition.
When Li Mu was in college, he took a course called the History of Chinese Literature, which talked about the evolution process of literary carriers.
In the earliest days, it was called "Feng Ya Song", that is, "Book of Songs". Wind, folk songs, Ya, music of dynasty nobles, odes, temple sacrifices, and speeches praising the gods.
In the Qin and Han dynasties, it was the world of "Yuefu poems". Yuefu was set up in the Qin Dynasty to manage music, and its name was used in the Han Dynasty. Yuefu poems are mainly narrative, accompanied by music, and can be sung and danced.
During the period from the end of the Han Dynasty to the unification of the Sui Dynasty, due to factors such as successive wars and Hu and Han rivalries, a large number of Yuefu music scores were lost, which directly led to the decline of Yuefu poetry. Some have songs but no words, some have words but no songs, and very few have been preserved intact. Therefore, when singing and dancing, most of the time there is only music, not lyrics. The part of singing lyrics has become a preserved format, and the poet creates in this format, gradually forming "Tang poems".
A careful study of the evolution of literature shows that the evolution of literature is a process from simple to complex. For example, in the era of the Book of Songs, a pillow-length poem often narrated a very simple thing. At this time, the poems are mainly "four characters", such as: the leaves are pale, the white dew is frost, and the so-called Yiren is on the water side.
Most of the Yuefu poems are "five words", with one more word, which greatly improves the narrative ability. Such as: chirp and chirp, Mulan is a household weaving. I didn't hear the sound of the machine, but I heard the woman sigh.
In the Tang Dynasty, it first inherited the five words of Yuefu, and then evolved into more complex seven-character quatrains. This process is becoming more and more complicated with the number of words.
The Tang Dynasty was followed by the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty regained the soul of Yuefu poetry, not confined to five or seven words. The text is used to match the tune, so the iconic long and short sentences of "Song Ci" are formed.
Later, the Yuan Dynasty was not satisfied with the formatted narrative of "long and short sentences", and added elements such as scenery, performance, singing, chanting, and playing, forming miscellaneous songs. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, literati and scholars developed on the basis of the storytelling of miscellaneous songs. All of this is moving in the direction of more words, stronger narrative skills, and more complexity.
It is now the early Tang Dynasty, and the poems are more in the five-character Yuefu format, and the seven-character quatrains are mostly means for "high-level poets" to show off their skills. Li Mu can recite 300 Tang poems, but whether it is wordless or seven words, it is not suitable for the occasion of the Shangyuan Festival. This is like the Spring Festival Gala of the Chinese New Year's Eve, suddenly the host announces the curtain, and the next program is a poetry recitation, not impossible, but will be very embarrassing.
On the occasion of such celebrations, the most appropriate thing is to sing and dance.
Dancing is very simple, Lichun Yuan is from the Teaching Workshop Division, singing and dancing is their old business, just use it, just rehearse it casually. The same is true for songs, although there are not many complete Yuefu poems, but the background of the teaching department is still somewhat proficient.
But these, other Qinglou will be more or less. Everyone is the same, obviously can't be brilliant.
Therefore, the killer feature prepared by Li Mu is to take another step forward in the process of history.
When everyone is playing Yuefu, I'll give you a song word. Isn't that a novelty?
Li Muhui does not memorize as many Song poems as Tang poems, but there are dozens of them. There is one of them, which is more or less related to the Shangyuan Festival. The fifteenth month of the first month is full, and this song poem happens to also say the moon.