Leaving the area around the Yangtze River basin, the weather is finally no longer raining.

In fact, for southerners, the continuous rainy season has long become a part of life, after all, they have lived in such an environmental climate since childhood, what is not used to?

Now, for those who have adapted to the weather in the south, how to adapt to the weather in Guanzhong is a big problem, especially for those civilians who choose to move to Guanzhong with the royal family.

Yes, the royal family is going to move into Guanzhong, and many businessmen and some wealthy families also choose to move with the royal family and hundreds of officials.

The choice of businessmen seems to be very normal, they know what advantages the political center has, and they know more about the business opportunities that will be brought with the move of the royal family and hundreds of officials into Guanzhong. They regarded this shift of the political center as a new business opportunity, and began to buy industries in Guanzhong, especially near Chang'an, as early as when they received the news, and I don't know how many people were waiting to use the new economic center to establish a good job.

The idea that the wealthy chose to move with the royal family is a bit bizarre, and they may also have financial interests in mind, but more because they can't adapt to living without living "at the feet of the Son of Heaven". Even if they live at the "feet of the Son of Heaven", they will not even have the opportunity to see the emperor with their own eyes, but they are eager to follow the imperial power to transfer.

How so? Probably it's all vanity? Even if they are one step more than others from the emperor, their hearts can feel extremely satisfied, when they go out or meet outsiders, they say "Uncle, how can I also live in the imperial city", does it feel like they have face?

Well, if a person has one thought, if he doesn't break the law, who can limit whom? In fact, they are quite wealthy, they like to move with the emperor, and they can at least see what activities are held in the political center at ordinary times, and they don't need to describe them to those who are not "at the feet of the Son of Heaven" literally or by hearing. For those who have been able to witness it with their own eyes, let them only listen to people, and the envy will not mention how uncomfortable it will be.

"That's a lot!" Lu Yang looked more ...... How so? It's a kind of ruffian. After he climbed into Lu Yi's car, he crossed Erlang's legs, and then kept shaking and shaking. He raised his hand and pointed to both sides of the road: "Look, look! Why do I think there are more people going north? ”

Nanling has a national highway from Guanzhong to the northwest, which is the kind of avenue that is at least 20 meters wide on each side, and now the road to the north is really a bit congested.

In fact, the emperor was not in this migration, some of them were the children of the royal family and the children of nobles and hundred officials, counting the samurai and guards who protected them, and the number of people in the team exceeded 20,000.

20,000 people, including vehicles, took the "Emperor's Special Road", and the length of the procession was definitely more than ten miles. Because it was on foot, on horseback and by car, the speed of the procession was not very fast, and there was enough time to enjoy the scenery along the way.

This official convoy is to see the scenery and people along the way, in fact, they also use them as scenery along the way.

"It's the first time I've seen a royal convoy!" A middle-aged man who looked chubby, he was standing on the edge of his shop, holding a bowl of **** in his hand, and said after sipping: "The car is really big!" ”

That's right, because of the construction of the national highway, new towns began to form next to the national highway, because there were residents, and then there were people walking the national highway every day, and some locals opened shops on the side of the road. Those shops sell everything, but they sell more food.

The emperor's decision to transfer the seat of governance of the empire to Chang'an, Xijing, Guanzhong, had a different meaning for those along the way from Nanling to Chang'an, especially for the merchants who opened their shops next to the national highway, and the recent period was almost the peak of their trading.

Take that shop that sells **** as an example, Lao Wang used to be able to sell about 150 catties of **** every day, taking 5 copper coins per catty as an example, it is about 750 copper coins a day. Since the number of people taking the national highway has increased, his store has risen to a **** that can sell about 400 catties a day, and the turnover has increased by about twice all of a sudden.

Other shops that sell food, such as steamed buns, steamed buns, cakes and the like, used to be a family working by themselves, but the number of passengers on the national highway has increased, and their family is no longer busy, so they can only ask for a buddy.

Open a steamed bun shop, steamed bun shop, and cake shop, before you said that you need to invite a guy, no one believes it, after all, if you steam the noodles or something, a family of five or six people can steam dozens or hundreds of cages. However, after the increase in footfall, it became clear that the goods that were supposed to be sold out in the evening were gone by noon. At first, they worked overtime, thinking that they could cope with it, but then they found out that they didn't have anything to do at all, and after a little total, they thought that the money they spent on the guys would definitely get more returns, so why were they stupid?

In addition to some regular stores, some casinos find that they don't seem to be able to expand anymore.

The empire does not prohibit prostitution and gambling...... It seems that there really aren't too many things forbidden?

Prostitutes, I haven't seen anyone ban them, the former Qi State still thinks that prostitutes are the main source of tax revenue for the country, not only did they not prohibit it, but they encouraged it? After all, you and I are willing to do things, the existence of skin and meat trading always has its reason, it is better than not having a reasonable outlet channel, and then forcing people to use it! How much does that increase the crime rate?

Gambling is indeed not prohibited, this is actually controversial, thinking that gambling will lead to the destruction of people, will make people take risks or something. Lu Zhe knew that gambling could not be prohibited at all, and prohibiting it on the open side was just breeding for gambling in the dark, and gambling on the open side had at least one set of supervision measures and means, and the gambling house in the secret was actually more harmful. People who can gamble can still gamble regardless of whether they are prohibited or not, and they should be forced to commit crimes or do it, so it is better to set up a set of frameworks, at least what kind of usury finds one and kills one.

By the way, the most prosperous economy in the Chinese dynasties is the Song Dynasty, which is the most gambling dynasty, the famous poetess Li Qingzhao is a fanatical gambler, wrote "Horse Fighting Preface" and "Horse Fighting Picture Sutra", and some poems describing gambling. In fact, she is just a relatively famous person in the Song Dynasty, and the "gambling style" of the Song Dynasty is something that the common people from the emperor to the emperor are extremely fond of, and there is even an official gambling day.

Of course, the entertainment industry in the empire is not only prostitution and gambling, in fact, prostitution extends a bit more than the entertainment industry, such as singing and acting are two categories.

The "singing" of the empire was inherited from the ancient pre-Qin era, and was improved on the basis of the original vassal states, and there were also "music styles" of various countries that retained the original flavor, such as the high-pitched music of Qin, Zhao and Yan, the euphemism of Wei and Han, the grievances of Chu, and the debauchery and debauchery of Qi.

From the style of music, you can also see some situations in various places, most of the places that like high-pitched music style are more strong, not only have a strong personality, but also have a strong height and physique, giving people a feeling of "tiger and tiger"; To put it bluntly, it is "straight" or "modest", which is actually quite good as a lullaby; Grief is a characteristic culture of the Chu people, and the driving person is Qu Yuan, who committed suicide by throwing himself into the river; The so-called "debauchery" is not a derogatory term, it means bold and daring, and the sound of debauchery is better understood, just imagine modern music with a relaxed rhythm.

It's not funny, the source of the beautiful sound is in Weiguo, I heard that Nanzi, the wife of Weiguo Guojun, likes this kind of light music very much, but when she entertained Confucius, she thought that Kong Qiu would like it too, and the arrangement was that kind of light music. Who is Kongqiu? Although he was expelled from the Lu State at that time, he was also a person who had served as an archon of a country, and he was known for his rigidity in terms of beliefs and personality.

Confucius was very unhappy to see Nanzi entertaining himself with that kind of brisk music, and according to Confucius's personality, he did not leave on the spot, because when he was expelled from the Lu State and wandered, only Nanzi was willing to entertain with high-standard courtesy, so he endured it.

Nanzi didn't know that Confucius would be unhappy, after all, women, especially beautiful women, when they think they like it, they will think that everyone will like it, and they sincerely want to share what they like, and it is estimated that there is no other special meaning.

Confucius didn't think so! He probably felt insulted, because Lu is a very traditional country, and it attaches importance to the sound of Daya.

What is Daya Sound? It's a grandiose sound, a kind of music that sounds very boring.

The ancients believed that the sound of the country was music that would lead to the death of the country, but the music has never had anything to do with whether the country will die, for example, the Wei Guo, who likes the sound of the country, has always been alive when the first emperor ruled the world, but the Lu State, which only prefers the sound of elegance, was destroyed by the Qi State first. Oh! The State of Qi is also a country that likes the sound of glamour, so it is actually ironic that the State of Lu was destroyed by the State of Qi.

Music is only related to the progress of society, heavy and sad music basically appears in countries where life is not satisfactory, and light music mostly appears in countries where life is peaceful, after all, music can be regarded as an expression of the soul, and happiness naturally belongs to happy music.

Most of the popular music of the empire is of the more majestic category, which is the most direct embodiment of militaristic culture. In addition to majestic music, light music is also extremely popular.

The journey from Nanling to Chang'an is very long, and when you are tired of finding a place to sing songs, spend some money to order wine and food, and shake your head to watch the servants on the stage sing small songs, which brings the greatest relief to the fatigue of the journey.

Any entertainment can only exist if it is based on stability, and if it is a war-torn environment, who has the heart to entertain anything?

"It's time to play next, right?" Lu Yi and his friends didn't do anything about chartering, but it was a matter of course to be in a private room. He looked condescendingly at the people who were setting up the stage and said, "Do you know what the play is?" ”

Lu Yang just stuffed a mouthful of ice cream, because it was frozen, he kept grinding his tongue and said inarticulately: "I read the catalog, what drama is it from Parthia?" ”

Lu Yi raised his eyebrows, Parthia is called a drama, it is not the same as the name of the empire.

The empire has established diplomatic relations with some countries in Central Asia for some years, and the trade between the two sides has been increasing every year, and cultural exchanges are spreading along with commerce, such as the empire's porcelain culture, tea drinking culture, and samurai culture...... And so many cultures will be spread to Central Asia, and then some of the art and culture of Parthia will also be transmitted to the empire.

Relatively speaking, the culture of the empire spread relatively quickly in Central Asia, and it was also more popular with Central Asian countries, for example, silk, porcelain, and tea became indispensable trade goods for all superior people as soon as they entered Central Asia. On the contrary, the things and cultures that came to the empire from Central Asia did not form a trend.

To put it very bluntly, only the culture of a strong country will have the soil to spread, not how advanced or anything that culture is, all because that culture belongs to a strong country, and the weak party will subconsciously think that everything from a strong country is a good thing, and the degree of acceptance will be relatively high.

It should be said that it is more difficult than a weak country to send troops to occupy the land of a strong country, after all, as a member of a strong country, there will always be a variety of arrogant psychology, and subconsciously you will feel "We are the world's first power, what good things are not?" If a country is so weak, what it produces will definitely not be good" and so on.

"What are those things?" Lu Yang stood up directly and pointed to some people who entered the periphery of the stage with musical instruments: "Why are you holding a hammer?" ”

Lu Yi turned his gaze and saw a Persian woman with her whole body almost wrapped in cloth, and she was indeed holding something that looked like a hammer in her hand, but it was not a hammer at all, it was a musical instrument called a "sand ball".

In addition to the sand balls, the Persian musicians also prepared a qin, a tongluo, and a flute that resembled the erhu but was called the change (Persian upright curved harp). Instruments such as small drums and big drums are played only by men, otherwise all of them are women.

The sound of a flute came first, and in the midst of the flute, a dancer holding her body in black gauze appeared on the stage with small steps, and she frequently made some gestures of anticipation, and then four women in white sand also appeared on the stage, they all had one thing in common, they all covered their faces, and then their bodies did not show a piece of flesh except for the eyes.

"I'm looking forward to it!" Lu Yi muttered: "I thought it was a performance with Persian characteristics. ”

What is a Persian performance? It's belly dancing, whirling dance, glamorous dancing and the like.

Lu Yi didn't pay much attention to the stage at first, but looked at the crowd watching in the venue...... (To be continued.) )