And while Meng Yi and the others were discussing crabs and delicacies with the emperor, Chen Jiang, Shui Qingrou and others, who were playing by the river, were also escorted back to the house by the guards.

Two large pots of fried crabs were specially reserved for Chen Xu, and Chen Xu naturally couldn't finish eating them, so he asked people to take one pot and distribute it to the people of the Hou Mansion.

What made Chen Xu happy was that he also brought back several large potted snails with the carriage, all of which were the size of chestnuts, and they were twenty or thirty catties.

Chen Xu immediately stopped eating the crabs, and instructed the servants to clean these snails with a brush, rinse them a few times, soak them in a large wooden basin with clean water, and put some salt in them to stir.

"Engong, this thing can really be eaten!" Looking at Chen Xu's busy appearance, Yu Wuya felt that Chen Xu's idea of wanting to eat snails was already fixed and could not be changed.

"Naturally, how can you not eat such a delicious delicacy, it is better than spicy crayfish, spicy snails, gently suck a mouthful of delicious sauce, drink some cold beer, add some other lo-mei, sit and chat in the night, it is an incomparable refreshing ......"

"Hiss~" The two of them took a sip of saliva almost at the same time, Yu Wuya looked at this large pot of black snails, and suddenly felt that the diaphragm had not started.

This snail has to be soaked for a day and can only be eaten after spitting out the sediment in the shell, so Chen Xu told the kitchen workers to pay attention to changing the water and cleaning, and went to the newspaper after lunch.

In addition to helping to design the typesetting of the special issue, he can also guide a group of pens in the newspaper to revise the war report, and strive to write a great victory with flowers, so that the people who read the newspaper can be immersed in the blood.

Two hours passed in a flash, and in a blink of an eye, it was time for Shenshi.

Under the guidance of the collective wisdom and Chen Xu, after repeated deliberation and revision by a group of celebrities such as Chen Pingqiu and Fu An, more than ten pieces of battlefield news have been revised on the basis of Li Shun's war report, and although Chen Xu is still dissatisfied with most of them, but now the time is pressing, and he can only settle, so he will let people take it to the typesetting room for proofreading.

In order to make the news of the victory more popular, Chen Xu decided to distribute it for free in this issue, but at the same time, a message was also published at the bottom of the front page of the special issue: Qinghe Theater specially rehearsed a new repertoire and song and dance in order to welcome the soldiers who returned triumphantly, and the soldiers who were rewarded will be invited to watch it for free on the day of the victory!

"The masthead can remain the same, just use Daqin Metropolis Daily, but in the back to add two big characters in handwriting, marked as a special issue, and, the front page of the center of the blood to build a monument, heroes immortal these big characters are even bigger, to account for a quarter of the entire layout, this with a separate engraving, quickly let the craftsman to make ......"

Although it was already Shen Shi, everyone was hungry after a busy day, and Chen Xu had been staying in the typesetting room to guide how to make this special issue, but the people in the entire newspaper were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they were busy and noisy, and the kitchen workers in the canteen didn't care about eating the hot meals, so they took a few bites and continued to work.

It was not until the time of the unitary that this special issue slowly took shape, and all the articles had been arranged in place, just waiting for the typesetting and proofreading to be officially published if there was no problem.

Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief, and his face was a little pale and he came out of the newspaper in a car.

At this time, the sun has completely set, the busy and noisy Xianyang City has slowly fallen silent, because of the curfew, the street has been sparsely populated, of course, the curfew is only for the general public, for the princes and princesses and officials, the curfew begins, but also when their nightlife begins, one by one after eating and drinking, ride a horse and ride to some Quyuan miscellaneous houses, dice and play and drink to make my sister have a pastime, and will not go home until about the hour.

"Go to Qinghe Garden!" After the carriage drove out of the street where the newspaper was located, Chen Xu ordered directly.

"Yes, Master Hou!" The horseman whipped up and drove to the east of the city, followed silently by a group of guards and Yu Wuya.

Since January, since the opening of Qinghe Garden, the first act of Tianxian Pei and the Legend of the White Snake has been performed in Xianyang for more than three months, and many people are full of interest and don't know how many times they have brushed it, but no matter what their interests and hobbies are, if one thing is repeated too much, one day it will be unappetizing to the point of wanting to vomit, so under Chen Xu's arrangement, Qinghe Theater also went to some Quyuan to buy seven or eight dancers who are good at singing and dancing to intersperse some other songs and dances, but in general, These songs and dances without scripts are similar to those in other song gardens, and they don't have much special features, so there are many fewer people who come to the Qinghe Theater to watch the play recently, and many times they only sit less than halfway, and if they don't have a new repertoire, the Qinghe Theater has a sign of collapse.

However, Chen Xu came back from Nanyang and brought back several plays behind the White Snake Legend written by Shui Qingrou, among which the second act of the thief fairy grass has been revised and handed over to the theater with the help of Chen Xu, there is Bo Daocheng, the half-hung director plus Shi Xuan, the music and rhythm everyone, plus the White Snake Legend has been acting for more than a year since Wancheng, and the people in the theater are already very familiar with reading the script, making props, designing costumes, and arranging fireworks curtains, and Chen Xu and Shui Qingrou have only come to give instructions twice. This second-act play is already ready after a few rehearsals.

And that theme song has now spread all over Daqin, and this popular love song is being sung in the song gardens of the east, west, north and south.

In order to cooperate with the new repertoire, Chen Xu wrote the second classic theme song in the legend of the New White Lady "Waiting for a Thousand Years" as a soundtrack, and after Chen Xu gently hummed this song, everyone in the theater, including Shui Qingrou, was stunned by this more melancholy and tactful song, and in order to achieve the best effect, Chen Xu carefully explained and guided the background dubbing and musical instrument performance of the strong rhythm of the opening part of the film several times.

Although these soundtracks and harmonies are extremely strange, because of the foundation of the first love, after a few days of rehearsals, the orchestra and choir of the theater were also able to perform decently, and the lead singer of this song, Chen Xu, handed him over to the silver moon pavilion's Wanwan.

Since pretending to be a ghost and trying Yan Le, Chen Xu has not broken his promise, and sent someone to Yinyue Pavilion to redeem Wanwan, and also asked people to go to the Yamen of the Inner History Mansion with a certificate of slavery to change Wanwan's household registration to a civil registration, Yinyue Pavilion was afraid that Wanwan would say some bad things in Chen Xu's ear, and even sent someone to send 20,000 yuan and a large number of clothing and accessories.

Chen Xu gave all these money and items to Wanwan without moving, and Chen Xu also inquired about Wanwan's identity by the way, and then was a little surprised, because Wanwan was still a princess of Qi, after the destruction of Qi, Qi Wangjian A large number of young and beautiful concubines and unmarried princesses were plundered into Qin and filled into Qin Shihuang's harem, but married princesses like Wanwan were arrested and sold as slaves, and after removing the slave status, Wanwan also changed back to his original name Tian Hui.

Seeing Chen Xu come in with Yu Wuya, the staff of the theater all stood respectfully and saluted.

"Master Hou, why did you suddenly come here today?" Shi Xuan and Bo Daocheng, who were stepping up rehearsals, also hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"You continue, I'm just here to see, tomorrow I will invite people from the newspaper to come and enjoy the second act of the White Snake Legend in advance, and wait for the winning soldiers to return to the court in a few days, and the theater will also give a free performance for the soldiers who have won the award, and maybe Your Majesty and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs will be invited at that time, so don't go wrong with this play" Chen Xu waved his hand and said with a smile.

"Don't worry, Hou Ye, we have to rehearse two or three times a day these days, and the actors, songs, soundtracks, and props are all familiar, and there will be no mistakes!" Bo Daocheng hurriedly said.

"That's good, I won't watch you rehearse anymore today, in order to perform for the soldiers, I wrote a new song, I need some personnel to cooperate with a simple performance, you all sit down and listen carefully, I will sing it for you twice, you write down the tune, and take time to rehearse well these days......"

Under the command of Bo Daocheng and Shi Xuan, the orchestra members hurriedly sat down and looked at Chen Xu together, Chen Xu took out a piece of mahjong paper from his pocket and unfolded it, cleared his throat and began to sing.

"The wolf smoke rises, the rivers and mountains look north, the dragon flag rolls the horse, the sword breath is like frost, and the heart is like the Yellow River......"

This song of loyalty to the country, Chen Xu has never sung it since he sang it once to the drunk Wang Jian in Qinghe Town, and what he has heard is only Wang Qian, Shui Qingrou, Bai Zhen and Wang San and Wang Si and several other guards, even Yu Wuya has never heard of it, so this heroic song was sung, and the rehearsal room of the entire theater was extremely silent.

Shi Xuan, who is usually taciturn, limped in front of Chen Xu with a handful of pulp-covered pan flutes, and said hoarsely and excitedly: "Master Hou, this song is majestic and heroic, with music and dance, it will inevitably make the audience's blood boil." ”

"Yes, yes, Master Hou, we have to rehearse this song well, and the performance for the victorious soldiers will definitely boost morale!" Bo Daocheng's face also turned red and nodded again and again.

After following Chen Xu for more than a year, Shi Xuan and Bo Daocheng's concept of music and song and dance is completely different from that of other musicians and musicians in Daqin, although they also like the classical music left over from the Great Zhou, but they also like the popular songs and dances and elements that Chen Xu added on weekdays, these exquisite songs and dances are like a new window that suddenly opened, and they saw a completely different beautiful scenery at once, making their understanding of music and dance completely beyond this era.

Human civilization has been constantly developing and progressing beautiful things, such as poetry, such as clothing, such as singing and dancing, such as food, and so on, everything is changing all the time, and it is this constant change that promotes human society to continue to progress towards a better life.

Although there is a time and space gap of 2,000 years from the later generations, music comes from nature and is higher than nature, human beings initially began to imitate from the sound of wind and rain, the sound of water, the sound of birds and beasts, and then slowly formed music, and then sorted out the rhythm, made musical instruments, music has become an indispensable existence in human life, and music has become an important part of Chinese civilization, and it can be seen that the importance of music in life has risen to the moral level, and has become a spiritual need and enjoyment.

Some people may think that the ancient people two thousand years ago will never agree with the music after two thousand years, but this statement is completely untenable, human appreciation of beauty is beyond the times and races, just like we now listen to the chime music more than two thousand years ago, we can feel its beauty, Chinese heard Western rock music for the first time, the kind of noise, shock and hoarse roar of course make many people dislike, but it is undeniable that rock music has aroused the resonance of countless Chinese, There are countless people immersed in it and fascinated by it, the emergence of rock music in China, in fact, is no less than a new thing that comes across thousands of years of time and space, but it is not completely rejected by people, but in the eighties and nineties inspired and gave birth to a large number of China's own rock groups and rock music, this is the charm of music, it will ignore the differences in time and space, countries, races and even civilizations.

At the request of a group of musicians, Chen Xu sang this song again and said: "This song needs to find a man with a heroic and rough voice to sing, and also find some burly men to play the scene of the soldiers and the Huns, of course, the soundtrack must be arranged, the opening film uses sonorous drum music, and at the same time there are majestic harmonies of the soldiers......"

For this song, Chen Xu is even more familiar with it than "Waiting for a Thousand Years", because this song is a must-order track every time you go to KTV.

And this time Jiang Hu led only more than 2,000 horsemen to dare to sweep the Hebei Xiongnu, and also attacked the royal court to kill the head Mandanyu, captured his wife, nearly 500 soldiers stayed forever on the endless grassland, loyal to the bones of the homeland, and the lyrics of this song are also extremely suitable, so when Chen Xu tutored the publication of this special issue in the newspaper today, this song immediately came to his mind again, and decided to change this song into a MV to perform in the theater, hoping to inspire more people's patriotic enthusiasm.

The word patriotism is not very popular in the current Great Qin, not that people in this era are not patriotic, for example, Qu Yuan is very patriotic and loves the Chu State, but this kind of patriotism only stays in a part of the scholar class, and the people who can't eat enough ordinary food are not in the mood to love.

Moreover, the people of this era are still very vague about the concept of unified China, the concept of the Chinese nation has not appeared at all, and the word China only refers to the Central Plains in general.

If you want to change this situation, it is certainly not possible to achieve it overnight, but the various policies of Daqin today do not have the slightest way to resolve this contradiction, moving 120,000 households of wealthy merchants to live in Xianyang, moving copper and iron merchants to live in Nanyang, driving millions of soldiers to the northwest to build the Great Wall to resist Huhu, arresting a large number of prisoners from the land of the Six Kingdoms to build the Lishan Mausoleum, and even a large number of ordinary people in the Six Kingdoms were sold into slavery, these measures were indeed a great suppression of the resistance forces of the Six Kingdoms. But it also greatly damaged the image of Qin in the minds of the people of the six countries, and the antagonism became more and more serious, and the current Great Qin was like an active volcano, constantly accumulating hatred and power, just waiting for a day to suddenly erupt.

If this terrifying pressure cannot be channeled, once the volcano erupts it will inevitably lead to the collapse of Great Qin.

Therefore, Chen Xu proposed to Qin Shi Huang last time to release the soldiers of the Six Kingdoms, although not all of them were released, but this partial release can also make the people of the Six Kingdoms begin to feel a trace of the emperor's kindness.

Then it is to resolve the hundreds of scholars who jump up and down, and slowly form a new public opinion orientation under the influence of the newspaper, so that the eyes of the hundred scholars are no longer just focused on the court, but can have a place where learning is useful.

As long as more measures to defuse antagonism are gradually promoted, the resentment accumulated by the people may gradually subside, and then continue to hype up such patriotic remarks against foreigners, and slowly attract the attention of the people to foreigners, so that the domestic contradictions can be transferred abroad.

The best way to resolve a contradiction is to create a new contradiction and then transfer the contradiction.

At present, Chen Xu is using newspapers and songs and dances to constantly divert domestic contradictions, although he is working hard, but fortunately, the emperor is still vigorously supporting him, and Chen Ping and a group of people are also sparing no effort to help incite, although they are all passive, but the direction is under Chen Xu's control.

Many times, many things don't need to be explained too clearly, the naked performance is far worse than half-covering and half-covering, holding the pipa and half-covering the face is the most beautiful realm, and the companion who is enthusiastic and in the dark is the best comrade-in-arms.

Although it was already dark, Bo Daocheng, Shi Xuan and the entire orchestra couldn't wait to rehearse this majestic song.