Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 16 The Grand Opening of the Royal Entertainment Center

A series of good dishes are continuously delivered to the boxes with the loud singing of the waiter in the shop. The wine table culture in the Ming Dynasty has been approaching maturity after the Song and Yuan dynasties. It's a matter of rules.

Liao King Zhu Qi was the host, and his status was also the highest at this banquet, so everyone naturally wanted to have a drink with Liao King Zhu Qi.

Xu Miaoyun was dressed in the clothes of a maid, standing against the wall, carefully observing Liao King Zhu Qi.I thought that this prince who wrote such exquisite poems as "Drinking Wine under the Flowers" in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, not to mention as unrestrained as Liu Sanbian, but at least he should be full of bookishness, or in other words, talent.

But after watching it for a long time, it turned out that Li Jinglong was full of bookishness, spoke in a polite manner, and from time to time even made a few lines of poems, quoted scriptures, and so on.

As for Liao King Zhu Qi, he looked quite handsome on the outside, but Xu Miaoyun felt very strange in his conversation.

After a round of eating and drinking, Liao King Zhu Qi, who was drinking rice wine from beginning to end, stood up, raised his hand to signal the second generation of officials to calm down, and then gave Zhu Di a look.Zhu Di quickly took out the small notebook and the small writing brush handed over by others, with a serious expression on his face.

I saw Zhu Qi took out a speech that he had prepared long ago, and said:

"The reason why King Ben and King Yan invited everyone to a banquet today must be known to everyone. The two of us, no, we are still the crown prince. Our three brothers are responding to the emperor's call, implementing the project of inheriting and developing Chinese excellent traditional culture, and building the Great Ming Dynasty. The important strategic task of cultural power, in order to inherit the Chinese culture and comprehensively improve the cultural literacy of the people, our three brothers are actively preparing and have injected 3000 taels of capital to establish the Daming Royal Entertainment Group. The first phase of the project is the Royal Entertainment Center..."

His Royal Highness Liao Wang was reading over there, and everyone waited with serious faces. After reading, there was only one point: I, Liao Wang Zhu Qi, opened a shop and made money.

Then what else could they say? They all applauded and expressed their views. They said so well, we will definitely be there.

I thought the business would be over here, but I saw His Highness Liao took out another book, put it on the table, and said:

"This thing is called a comic book, and it is the first business launched by our Royal Entertainment Center. When you arrive at our Royal Entertainment Center, you only need a small entrance fee, and you can have a special seat. You can sit down and watch comics quietly. .”

All the meritorious children, where have you heard of such a thing as a comic book, and look at the exquisite cover, the capitalized three words "Ming Shanhe", author: Zhu Qi!

Good guy, this is the picture book drawn by His Royal Highness Liao Wang?
Xu Miaoyun also stretched her neck to look at the comic book on the table. She never expected that His Royal Highness King Liao would be so talented, not only able to compose poems, but also draw pictures?It's a pity that if you go to a place like Xiaoxiang Pavilion at a young age, and still write poems there for girls, you can't help but feel that you have gone astray.

It’s not that these meritorious children have never read such things as picture books, they have even seen the adult ones, but this is the first time they have seen such exquisite ones. Xu Zengshou was relatively close, and took the lead in picking up the comic book , turned it over with a hippie smile.

Just because of this one glance, he missed his whole life.

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Yingtian, Duke Wei's mansion.

The servants of Wei Guogong's mansion thought it was very strange that Xu Zengshou, who usually likes to run outside when he has nothing to do, went into his study for the first time after he came back from the outside!
Good guy, since it was determined that Xu Zengshou did not have the ability to take the imperial examination, and Wei Guogong no longer asked the teacher to educate Xu Zengshou, places like the study room are insulators for Xu Zengshou. The sun is coming out from the west today?
This is not the only strange thing, since Xu Zengshou entered the study, several groups of people have come to visit the house, without exception, they are all those noble descendants, and they all come to look for Xu Zengshou.

Naturally, the servants did not dare to stop them. After the notification, they respectfully invited them in. They thought that Xu Zengshou would go out with them, but after these honorable disciples came, they followed Xu Zengshou into the study at the first time go!

Not only that, but when he left, his face was full of red, and he was full of energy. When asked by others, those honorable children only said:
"Reading makes me happy."

Good guy, this is no longer a question of the sun coming out from the west, this is Houyi's rebirth, ready to shoot the sun, right?

Wei Guogong Xu Da, who is busy with official duties, is very relieved that his son suddenly became fond of reading.

On this day, he was so busy that he came back very late. When he saw that the lights were still on in Xu Zengshou's study, Wei Guogong's eyes were red at that time, and he said to the people around him, "Did you see how hardworking my son is? What time is it now?" It's really my Xu family's luck that I'm still reading at night with the lights on!"

The more Xu Dana thought about it, the more moved he was. Fearing that Xu Zengshou would be hungry, he asked someone to cook a porridge, and then delivered it in person. Then he saw Xu Zengshou sitting on a chair, grinning at a book while pointing his toes. Little by little, looking very happy.

Xu Da was also very happy, he leaned over, wanting to surprise Xu Zengshou, when he got closer to him, Xu Zengshou turned around with a feeling of panic.

That night, Xu Zengshou was beaten so badly that he couldn't live.

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As for the fact that Xu Zengshou couldn't come to the opening ceremony because of the comic book beating, Zhu Qi only sighed for three seconds after hearing about it, and the grand opening of the Royal Entertainment Center would not be affected in any way.

On this day, the weather was clear and cloudless, and the Royal Entertainment Center, which had been renovated for nearly twenty days, finally had its grand opening.

Because it was the first time it opened, Zhu Qi didn't hold any opening ceremony, and made it too grand. After setting off two strings of firecrackers at the door, he opened the door to welcome customers and do business.

The common people like to watch the excitement. Seeing that the shop that has been renovated for more than [-] days has finally opened, they gather around to watch the excitement.

The people of Yingtianfu are well-informed, and they have never seen any kind of shop, but when they got closer, they saw, my good guy, I have never seen this shop before!
I only saw the words [Royal Entertainment Center] hanging on the door, don’t care about the last four words, the first two words are impressive enough, Royal!The shop opened by Emperor Zhu's family?
Looking at the decoration again, everyone was shocked.

There are two gravel roads in front of the door, there is a trickle of water flowing under it, and there is a small rockery built beside it. A small windmill-like thing is erected in front of the rockery, turning around, and the water flows from the rockery. When I came down, the little thing at the door made many people stop and watch, it was fresh and never seen before.

This is an artistic bonsai, of course I have never seen it before!
Although there have been bonsai in ancient times, the popular bonsai at that time were just very rigid plants. The bonsai that Zhu Qi personally made with windmills, rockery, and plants in one is definitely an epoch-making thing.

Not to mention the flowing water system, which creates a scene like a small waterfall, and the children next door can play here all day long.

Of course, what attracted the attention of the common people was the girls with red silk ribbons standing at the door, all of them had beautiful facial features and looked fresh. Whenever someone came in, the girls would all shout loudly: "Welcome."

Good guy!Look at this hospitality attitude, it's better than the girls in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion!

No need to ask, looking at this posture, this must be a new store opened by Jiaofangsi, right?But didn't the emperor order that the staff of the Fengyue place should not be dressed too coquettishly?Forget it, the whole world is the domain of the old Zhu family, how come it is not up to the old Zhu family?

Those honorable disciples who arrived at the scene early, naturally paid their money to enter the arena immediately, and the common people thought it was a romantic place, otherwise these honorable disciples could run so fast?Besides Fengyuechang, can there be such an attraction?

Seeing this posture, a wealthy businessman in rough linen stopped pretending, took out his money bag and walked in. He thought that there would be a bustard coming to lead him like Xiaoxiang Pavilion, but he didn't expect to be greeted by a gentle "Welcome to the shop" "After that, a little boy who pretended to be like a calf came over and asked with a smile:

"Guest officer, please, may I ask if the guest officer is on the first floor or the second floor?"

The wealthy businessman was taken aback for a moment. He thought that the first floor would be the same theater stage as the Xiaoxiang Hall, and then it was filled with tables and chairs, and there were girls playing tea circles with him. I saw some accompanying girls and stage actors.

The wealthy businessman hesitated and asked:
"What is this floor, and what is the second floor?"

The shop waiter took out a sign with a detailed price list on it and said:

"This floor is an ordinary seat. One person pays two liang of silver. You can only read books, eat and watch theaters. There are no other items. The second floor is the member seat. One person enters the venue for five liang of silver. In addition to reading books, there are also new products launched by the store. Comic book "Ming Shanhe", you can also listen to cross talk!"

"Comic books? Tingshu Pavilion? Crosstalk?"

The wealthy businessman hesitated for a moment, considering whether this was a new jargon of Fengyue place, he still took out five taels of silver, got a membership card, and then went up to the second floor with a feeling of apprehension.

I only saw small private rooms on the second floor, and some large rooms I don’t know what they are used for. The waiter said that it is a place for cross talk and storytelling, but the cross talk artists are still training, and currently there are only storytellers.

The wealthy businessman nodded after hearing this. He knows storytelling, and it is indeed very interesting, but what is cross talk?Forget it, let's go to the small room first, and let a girl drink flower wine.

The wealthy businessman entered the small room with a calm expression, only to see two books placed on the table, one is the first chapter of the comic book "Ming Shanhe", approved by Prince Zhu Biao himself, and specially craftsmen masters, flower The painting book was printed after a month of work, and the other book was the novel version of "Ming Shanhe". Three hundred copies were printed, which was enough.

At this time in the early Ming Dynasty, he already had the ability to print picture books, and he could even print colors, which is a bit useless, but Zhu Qi only needs black and white paintings.

The wealthy businessman hesitated for a moment, thinking that he had to wait for the girl anyway, and the cover of this book is quite interesting, so he picked up the comic book and opened it first to read.

This time, it took a whole day.

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