Urban Sims

Two days later.

A fine day.

Cui Yunhua stepped onto the carriage and entered the carriage with a complex expression on his face, with mixed feelings in his heart.

There is relaxation, relief, emotion, and deep down in my heart, there is actually a trace of reluctance.

Especially after receiving a set of 54 books such as "Story Club", "Collected Works of Zihua" and "Comics" as gifts from that person, as well as three of them with his own signature, the surprise at that moment almost made me sad. She forgot about the restraint of a wealthy lady and almost shouted with joy.

In the past two days, Mr. Zihua's "free and uninhibited", "majestic and handsome" and "humorous" image has also turned her inner aesthetic concepts upside down. Although she didn't feel cold at first, she just got along with him. In a day or two, although I really didn't want to admit it, I had interacted with that person a lot. Anyone would like the feeling of being next to him.

A figure was lightly imprinted on her heart. With the coachman's shout of "drive" and the carriage slowly starting, the seal seemed to be pressed hard by someone again, and the imprint suddenly became extremely clear.

"Mr. Zihua, can I still see you?"

She murmured to herself as she caressed a copy of "Collected Works of Zihua" with her jade fingers.

…

Sending a set of books to the noble daughter of the Cui family of Qinghe from Zhongzhou was not because Zhou Ming wanted to pick up girls and pursue her, nor was it a whim to show off in front of girls... He naturally had a deep meaning in doing so.

Zhongzhou, where this girl is located, is a land of literati, wealthy families, and royal families. How many reputation points are waiting for him there?

However, now Zhou Ming is not yet 18 years old. He has become famous too early and is too evil. People cannot accept it yet. He has to build momentum step by step and slowly make plans.

How to build momentum?

He is trying his best to let more people know about his works, especially those in the upper class, and then use the friends of these celebrities to spread his works like a meager repost.

In Qingzhou, he is already known as "Haiping Literary Immortal", but not many people in other states and counties of the Zhou Dynasty know him. In many places, people may not even have heard of his name. You must know this It is not a modern era with developed Internet and convenient transportation. In this ancient world where more than 80% of the people may have never left a hundred miles around, the famous ones may be ancient figures from hundreds or even thousands of years ago...

Want to be famous in this era? Unless you are an emperor who has just sat on the dragon throne and changed his name and title, people will know that when the emperor changes, the calendar should also change.

Therefore, whether he is visiting relatives and friends or attending a party, Zhou Ming will carry several sets of books with him and give them to guests who are worthy of the gift, especially those who come from other states and counties. He will take the initiative to give a set of books to them. sets to expand influence.

However, this kind of influence is still limited to the upper class society, and in the small circle of romantic people, the influence is limited after all.

What Zhou Ming values ​​most is the "Deyun Society" plan that follows the mass line.

…

In the twenty-third year of Tiansheng, it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In Haiping County, near a fishing village near the sea, on a flat highland, a majestic and tall building rose from the ground.

This brick and wood building is shaped like a Bagua, with tall archways and an area of ​​five acres. In the center is a square covering an area of ​​two acres, surrounded by ring-shaped conjoined wooden buildings. It is supported by hundreds of red lacquered columns and has three floors. The layout includes hundreds of rooms including teahouses, restaurants, snack shops, small theaters, backstage dressing rooms, and training rooms. The total construction area exceeds 5,000 square meters.

In order to build this building, Zhou Ming mobilized thousands of workers, sent out sea ships, and imported a large amount of century-old golden nanmu from Gaoji State. After a year of construction and overtime work, he finally built this theater that can accommodate up to 3,000 people ( In extreme cases, it can reach 5,000 people), and it was built.

Even, in order to make this theater have good lighting and internal echo characteristics, Zhou Ming led people to bake transparent glass to cover the roof of the theater; he personally participated in the design of the square stage, and in the design of the Temple of Heaven-shaped stage The ground was paved with marble with good echo performance, and 18 echo walls were built around the square; amplification devices were installed on the roof of the ring-shaped wooden building... After racking their brains, they came up with various methods, and finally in this place without speakers and In the ancient times of the loudspeaker, standing in the center of the stage and speaking loudly, thousands of people in the audience can hear clearly.

Deyunshe!

Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief after the gilt plaque with the flying and phoenix fonts was hung up. Whether the Deyun Club plan that takes a mass approach will come to fruition depends on how the audience's ticket purchases go after the theater opens for operation.

The hardware is ready, but software support is needed!

Therefore, in the first few months after the theater was built, Zhou Ming sent a large number of "talent scouts" to various counties and counties in Qingzhou, offering high salaries and recruiting folk artists.

Not to mention, in this prosperous era, when the middle class has more leisure and money, various folk cultural and performing arts, such as Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, have also become very prosperous.

For example, in teahouses and restaurants, there are storytellers and storytellers in every county, with varying levels of skill. It is not very unusual. Zhou Ming offered a monthly salary of five guan, including food and accommodation, as well as rewards and commissions. Fifteen storytelling masters were recruited. The average age was around fifty years old and their language expression level was very good. Zhou Ming trained them for a few days and taught them a few unique skills. After a few enlightened storytelling masters, After a period of retreat, it seems like a different person after coming out. The storytelling I uttered gives people a feeling that I can’t stop listening to it, and I can’t get enough of it.

These storytelling gentlemen were organized into the "storytelling group" by Zhou Ming.

In addition to Mr. Pingshu, there are also a group of young and beautiful musicians, singers, dancers, etc. who claim to be performing arts without selling themselves. They make a living by playing the flute, playing the piano, chanting poems, singing, and dancing. Zhou Ming also hired hundreds of people (most of these people He redeemed himself from the land of Goulan), and they were all incorporated into the "Song and Dance Troupe".

There are also some acrobats who perform juggling magic, knife and gun routines, chest-breaking boulders and other projects on the streets. Zhou Ming also recruited more than 30 people to join the "acrobatic troupe".

There are also some "animal experts" who play monkeys, snakes, chickens, dogs, and various small animals. Zhou Ming recruited more than a dozen people and incorporated them into the "circus group."

In addition, Zhou Ming also saw the origin of some traditional dramas. Some trends also emerged in this era, such as shadow puppetry, string puppetry, hand shadow puppetry, etc. Although there are very few folk artists who can perform these dramas, Zhou Ming still felt like he had found a treasure, and offered extremely high wages to recruit all these drama artists and incorporate them into the "drama troupe".

There are also some old artists who play strange instruments, "imitation masters" who can perform ventriloquism skills, and some people who are really good at drilling throats with silver spears, chopping heads with machetes, not afraid of stepping on hot coals with their feet, and not familiar with frying in oil pans. Strange folk and heroes on the road, these people can only be described by the sentence "I can go through mountains of swords and seas of fire, and I am not afraid of anything but steel and iron bones."

Zhou Ming also accepted all these strange heroes and recruited them and incorporated them into the "Superpower Group".

Let me say here that the "Superpower Group" also recruited a strong man named Li Dazui. This man was over two meters tall and weighed over three hundred kilograms. He had dark skin, a body like a black tower, and amazing strength. But He could easily lift a thousand kilograms of millstone and eat an astonishing amount of food. He could eat fifty kilograms of wheat rice in one meal, and he said he was only half full... So this man, who was only eighteen years old and was kicked out of his home by his family, heard that When asked how Zhou Ming could have a full meal, Li Dazui almost didn't hesitate for a moment and became Zhou Ming's personal bodyguard.