Chapter 250: Mulberry Forest

After some unpleasantness with Yan Guo, the countries can be regarded as knowing Dai Yan's strength in Taoqiu. The state of Wei, which advocated the king of Xiang, inevitably had many dreams at night, so he accelerated the process.

Since Wei and Korea have already claimed the king, and Zhao is not king, the steps of the five kings are to first let Ji Cheng, the monarch of Zhongshan and Ji Xu, the monarch of Yan, be kings. Dai Yan had already seen the king of Xuzhou in Weiqi in his early years, and there was nothing different from the steps of this time to become king and that time.

First of all, worship the god of Haotian, so that the god knows what he wants to do first. Subsequently, you can eat the gizzard meat, and then change the crown to the crown of Jiuhan, and then let the ministers of the two countries pay homage, and Zhongshan Jun and Yan Jun will begin to become Zhongshan King and Yan Wang.

Compared with the last Xuzhou Xiangwang, Wei and Qi were still a large number of big countries in the world at that time, and their influence on the world was extremely strong, so Zhou Tianzi knew that this matter was to damage his prestige, and he had to send a messenger to give him meat, which was a disguised recognition of the status of these two kings.

However, this time, the king of the five kingdoms is very different from the king of Xuzhou. This time, King Xiang wanted to completely eliminate Zhou Tianzi's influence, so Zhou Tianzi's rare "hardness" refused to participate in this alliance and refused to give him a grunt.

Of course, Zhou Tianzi can have such confidence, in fact, it is indispensable for Qin Guo to support him behind his back. Qin Prime Minister Zhang Yi spoke directly, not supporting the move of the Prime Minister of the Five Kingdoms, and Zhou Tianzi had a reason to use this as an excuse to send the invitation of Han and Wei.

Of course, in today's era, it really doesn't matter whether the king has the participation of the Son of Heaven or not. Anyway, there are already so many kings in the world, and there is no shortage of recognition from this one king.

After Zhongshan and Yan were proclaimed kings and accepted the worship of the courtiers of the two countries, the next step was to fight against Wei and Han, which was regarded as the official recognition of the thrones of the two countries by Wei and Han. Of course, there are naturally congratulations from Zhao Xiang, Zhao Cheng and Tao Qiujun.

After the thrones of the four kingdoms were recognized, another grand meeting after the prime minister was immediately launched, which was the unity of the five kingdoms.

The alliance of the five kingdoms was the most desired goal of Wei at such a great cost, and its influence was greater than that of Zhongshan and Yan, so its ceremonies were more solemn. Such an alliance was also the most powerful alliance in history, and the alliance was announced under the joint blood oath of the kings and Zhao Xiang Zhao Cheng.

The Five Kingdoms were also modeled after the previous Xuzhou Prime Minister, Dai Yan once put forward a proposal to sign a treaty, and signed a treaty that represented everyone's common wishes.

First of all, the five kingdoms recognized the kings of Wei, Han, Zhongshan, and Yan as kings, while the kings of Zhao no longer directly called Zhao Hou, but were replaced by the vague Zhao Jun.

Second, the alliance is the union of the five countries, and in this alliance, there must be a head. In today's alliance, the highest status and strongest is the king of Wei, so the king of Wei has become the chief of the alliance.

In the end, the five nations joined forces and concluded an offensive and defensive alliance with each other. When any of the five nations are attacked, the other four countries have a responsibility to help the other four countries defend against the threat of the other state. As the commander of the joint column, Wei could command the armies of the other four countries in a unified and coordinated manner when allowed by each country. However, each country is still responsible for the number of troops to be sent, the supply of logistics, and even the specific tactical command of the four countries.

In general, such a conspiracy is nothing more than maintaining a nominal offensive and defensive alliance. And each country has no control over its own internal affairs, whether it is Wei or other countries. Such a combination, in the evaluation of Dai Yan and even Guiguzi in Taoqiu University, is that this is purely a "courageous" alliance, not a truly offensive alliance.

In today's world, it is a world of great contention, how much strength can an alliance that only thinks about defense and does not want to make progress play? At least Dai Yan is very optimistic about the future of this alliance.

However, the other countries don't see it that way, in their eyes, now that the most powerful alliance in history has been born, they can punch Qin Chu, kick Qi Guo, and do a big job!

And Dai Yan will not show any disoptimistic attitude in front of people like this, but he welcomes the formation of the combination. In order to show his heart, he prepared a variety of wonderful performances for the five countries!

First of all, there are sports performances. Before the arrival of the monarchs of various countries, Dai Yan organized a number of exhibition matches of Keju, so that the monarchs of various countries continued to make friends. However, after watching too many such activities, I became a little aesthetically tired, and Gongsun Yan found Dai Yan, hoping to replace it with some more exciting activities. Dai Yan did not hide his selfishness in this regard, and moved polo directly out.

Polo, a thrilling sport played directly on a horse, has been evaluated differently from country to country. Korea and Wei were not very enthusiastic about horseback riding, and they were slightly disliked. And countries like Zhao, Yan, and Zhongshan, which have strong animal husbandry and a strong tradition of horseback riding, are not opposed to this movement!

After that, Dai Yan moved out of such performance projects as archery, fencing, and even individual fighting. These performances are very suitable for today's martial arts atmosphere, and have been well received by all countries in the world.

Then, the second kind of performance begins. This time, the performance is no longer a sports performance, but an entertainment performance.

Due to the fact that there are many alliances held by the Song State in history, the Song Kingdom actually has a finale for the entertainment performances at the alliance, which is Sanglin.

Mulberry forest is a large-scale, national-level sacrificial music and dance, which was first invented by Shang Tang, the founder of the Shang Dynasty, and is also known as the music of Yin Tianzi.

Legend has it that at the beginning of Shang Tang's accession to the throne, there was a great drought in Shang Wangji for five consecutive years, the sun was like fire, the river wells were dried up, the fields were tortoise, and the grasslands withered. Tang ordered the historian to burn the accumulated salary in the suburbs, and sacrificed cattle, sheep and pigs as sacrifices to God. As he prayed, he blamed himself, listed six possible mistakes he might make, and begged God to bless the rain, but to no avail. When the drought lasted until the seventh year, Tang set up an altar in the land of mulberry forests to pray for rain. After divination, the historian said that God would not rain until the living were sacrificed.

Shang Tang believes that praying for rain is for the people, so how can it hurt the people in the sacrifice? So he decided to sacrifice himself as a sacrifice, cut off his hair and nails, bathe himself and pray to heaven: "I am guilty of one sin, and I cannot punish all the people, but all the people are guilty, and I am alone, so don't hurt the lives of the villagers because of my fault!" When he had finished praying, he sat down on the pyre. Just as Wu Zhu lit the fire and lit the firewood, the heavy rain came suddenly, and all the people cheered and sang a song to praise the virtue of the soup, and the music was named "Mulberry Forest" after the place of sacrifice.

The mulberry forest has a long heritage, and it is the oldest music and dance in the Song Kingdom, and such music and dance can definitely be regarded as the world's intangible cultural heritage in later generations. And even this music and dance, in the entire history of the Song Kingdom, among the guests of the Song Kingdom, only the early Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, and even several overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period could have the privilege of watching.

In today's Warring States Period, because the Song Kingdom began to be suppressed by the great powers, it had to adopt a policy of neutrality, and there were indeed many guests who received it, and there were indeed many alliances held in the Song Kingdom, but there was no one who could enjoy the mulberry forest!

However, there was only one music and dance held in such a national-level sacrificial activity in the entire Song Kingdom, and it was in the hands of the monarch. When Dai Yan returned to Suiyang to participate in the once-in-a-decade festival, he was fortunate to appreciate the mulberry forest once. Even if Dai Yan is so wealthy now, it is not possible to form a music and dance team that can play a complete mulberry forest.

Because in the mulberry forest, the most crucial part is actually its music. Such a huge music and dance has extremely high requirements for music, and its vocal range is very wide, and the musical instruments of this era are actually not very developed, and there are only a few limited ones. To play a piece with such a wide range, it would take hundreds of musicians to play!

And these hundreds of musicians are not like the three hundred people of King Qi Xuan, they need to cooperate with each other, and one or two less will have an impact on the sound quality! Even if Dai Yan has no shortage of financial resources and has found enough performance talents, it is absolutely impossible to get so many people to cooperate without a long time of rehearsal and integration!

However, Dai Yan, as a traverser, still has his own vision. In his opinion, the biggest problem of Sanglin is in the aspect of musical instruments, which is actually caused by the underdevelopment of musical instruments. And if you can improve the instrument and make a sufficiently developed instrument, then the problem will be solved!

And the instrument he wanted to build and improve was the piano!

The piano has been called the "king of musical instruments" in later generations, not only because of its large size and complex internal structure, but more importantly, it has a wide range, grand volume, beautiful timbre, accurate rhythm, convenient transposition, sensitive and free playing, rich expressiveness and other excellent performance. Especially the wide vocal range, which allows it to be able to replace a lot of instruments in one to ten!

Dai Yan had seen a piano teacher before he crossed over, the front foot could play the ambush on all sides, and the back foot could play the Tianxian match in the Huangmei opera, and the conversion was not violated!

Dai Yan himself is not good at the piano, but he has never eaten pork and has seen pigs run. The general structure of the piano is the structure of pulling the hammer to strike the strings by striking the keyboard, and he naturally knows it. The most difficult thing in piano manufacturing is to make its sound-generating device, the strings, that is, the steel wire.

In the first few years of Taoqiu's iron and steel industry, Dai Yan invested heavily in the research of steel, and obtained a lot of by-products, and steel wire happened to be one of the products! With the tightrope and the structure of the piano, Dai Yan just gave the several composers of Taoqiu a rough structure and asked them to try to debug it themselves, and within a year, an original piano was successfully manufactured.

This primitive piano is very similar to the plucked piano that has appeared in history, and its sound quality is not very good due to the poor quality of the wire, but it has the prototype of the king of musical instruments after all, and during the rehearsal of the mulberry forest, the head of the orchestra easily reduced the number of people who played the music tenfold. What took hundreds of people to play can now be played by dozens of people. And because the number of people has decreased, it has become easier to cooperate.

Not long before the Prime Minister of the Five Kingdoms, Taoqiu already had a mini copycat team that could play mulberry forest music and dance!