Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 400 Generalist Ruan Dacheng

It was less than a year since the army started, and Zhu Yihai was already proud of achieving such an achievement. In fact, in the hearts of civil and military officials, and even the gentry and common people, this Emperor Shaotian was like a revived emperor.

Many people even believed that if Chongzhen had half of Shaotian's abilities, he would not have led himself to a dead end.If Hongguang had half of Zhu Yihai's abilities, Daming would have sent the Tartars back to Liaodong long ago, wasting ten years of good time in vain.Fortunately, the sky never dies, my Ming, came out with such a holy son.

And under the public opinion propaganda of Fuxing Daily and other official media newspapers, Zhu Yihai even became a god directly. The Fuxing News written by the four princes of Fushe is really good, and they are directly creating gods.

Although Zhu Yihai felt that this was a bit exaggerated and portrayed too tall and wise, the ministers all felt that under the current situation, this kind of publicity was really needed to give the gentry and common people confidence.

Of course, it's not just The Renaissance that's promoting it these days.

Ruan Dacheng is now promoted to the governor of Zhejiang. This man who was once called the first genius in the 300 years of the Ming Dynasty was later denounced as a traitor and sycophant for betraying Donglin. However, Ruan Dacheng's attainments in poetry and drama are indeed remarkable.Even if he doesn't focus on this, but this guy who has regained the appreciation of the sage, while in charge of the military and political affairs of a province in Zhejiang, he has not forgotten to be loved by the sage, using his genius mind and top level of drama to use the night In his free time, he wrote several big dramas in one breath.

Each play ranges from tens of thousands of words to 10,000+ words, but this world genius generalist can write [-] words a day to produce countless excellent plays.

When his plays came out, troupes in Jiangnan rushed to rehearse his plays, and bookstores all over the country rushed to publish his plays.

What's even more amazing is that although the plays written by Ruan Dacheng are all closely related to the theme of current events, and even have the obvious intention of praising Emperor Shaotian, the problem is that his plays are really well written.

Anyway, once a few major plays were released, they received rave reviews from all over the world, and countless people scrambled to spread them. Every time the troupe performed, it attracted countless people to watch.

Even the published scripts are the most popular books at the moment, and countless people rush to order them, even the girls in the boudoir can't put it down, even the dock workers, the street guys, and the old farmers in the field all love it.

The major newspapers also competed for a lot of money to request manuscripts and publish them serially.

If your newspaper publishes this play, another newspaper will definitely compete for the copyright of another good play.

At that time, the master of contemporary sketches who was a tour guide in Sichuan and a bachelor student at the Imperial Academy, and Zhang Dai, an equally famous literary master, both contributed articles and comments in newspapers, saying that the plays he created were better than those he was famous for before.

'The books are excellent, the feet are excellent, the writing is excellent, the sentences are excellent, and the words are excellent. '

Compared with the traditional playwrights of the Ming Dynasty, who liked to recreate Tang and Song legends as blueprints, Ruan Dacheng has a higher level. These new plays he wrote do not follow the predecessors at all, and most of them are closely related to current events. Based on his own real experience, coupled with his personal perception, he scolds the world seventeen times and explains ridicule thirteenth, creating a new chapter and presenting his own artistic style with originality.

His new play is loved by people all over the world, and even the emperor personally commented and praised it. The most important thing is not only the high level of art, but also the content. Next, the salvation of the family, the country and the world, and the positive transmission of the values ​​of loyalty, benevolence and filial piety.

The content of each play is very exciting, not false and empty.

The theme presented is basically the collapse of the country, the world is in danger, the country is in chaos and the people are in danger, some of them are greedy for life and fear of death, some are unprincipled, but they pay more attention to praising some saviors.

For example, Zhu Yihai, emperor of Shaotian, Zhang Mingzhen who served his country with tattoos, Shen Wenzhong, a beggar and scholar, Yang Boxing, a loyal woodcutter, and those righteous gentry and heroes who raised their flags to fight against the Qing Dynasty, such as Zheng Zunqian and Liu Dadao of Shaoxing, etc., and Huizhou uprising Jin Sheng et al.

Every story is a true story under current events, and the characters in it are all praiseworthy heroes, especially many characters, such as Zheng Zunqian, Zhang Mingzhen, etc., are the most respected people today. The well-received heroes, after such a creation by Ruan Dacheng, will be even more extraordinary.

And what makes Ruan Dacheng superb is that he not only writes about heroes, but also shows many details in his dramas, such as the various accumulated abuses of Daming over the years, etc., all of which are portrayed in detail, whether you are an official or a gentry, or a trafficker. , military household soldiers, and even merchant servants, you can feel familiar things in his plays, and there are also things that can resonate with you and make people clap their legs.

Ruan Dacheng's plays, even the bigwigs in Donglin today, have to admire them. Several people even said that in terms of the artistry of plays, Ruan Dacheng's works even surpassed Tang Xianzu's.

The shortcoming of Tang Xianzu lies in his ignorance of rhythm, which is a recognized fact. Although his dictionaries are brilliant and readable, the actors seem to be awkward when performing.Moreover, Tang Xianzu didn't have many opportunities to communicate with famous actors, and he lacked stage experience.

But Ruan Dacheng has none of these shortcomings. Ruan Dacheng's family is already a well-known drama master, and even his family's private troupe is famous all over the world. He is very familiar with stage experience and so on.

He not only has his own Ruan family troupe, but also has rich stage experience, and the invention and novelty of stage art stunts are also unprecedented.

In the final analysis, drama is actually an art form that is quite different from poetry and poetry. It ultimately focuses on performance effects. It is a highly comprehensive art that integrates music, dance, and art. Fan, music, and performance are all different.

Ruan Dacheng himself is a well-known master of poetry in the world. He was once known as the No. 300 in the 1 years of Ming Dynasty. He has more family traditions in drama.

So although Ruan Dacheng has been scolded by many people for many years, his plays have always been applauded by everyone.

His new play shows the undying state of the Ming Dynasty, the appearance of the sage, the loyal ministers, the sufferings of the people, the joys and sorrows of the people, and more importantly, what he brings to people is hope.

Whether it is suffering or loyalty, these portrayals are ultimately to express the theme of hope.

So Zheng Zunyi called out Yixing, Qian Sule called out Restoration, Gu Yanwu called out that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, and Zhu Yihai called out one hundred thousand youths and one hundred thousand soldiers, every inch of the country and every inch of blood.

When Zhu Yihai's New Deal reforms and the establishment of the imperial camp for the Northern Expedition, all of these are expressing hope and salvation.

And this theme is also the one that most touches people's hearts in today's troubled times, allowing people who are suffering and wandering to see a ray of light in the darkness.

No matter how hard and tiring, no matter how chaotic the current situation is, after watching Ruan Dacheng's drama, people can feel incomparably encouraged and can generate infinite hope.

This is the genius of the master.

He is indeed flattering Zhu Yihai, such as infinitely exaggerating Zhu Yihai's martial arts and sages, and comparing various advocacy of various New Deals, but he is not dry and flattering directly. This flattery is unknowingly.

Regardless of whether it was the former Eunuch Party, Donglin, Fushe, or the former Zhejiang Party, Chu Party, traitor Party, etc., everyone has to admit that Lao Ruan is a talent, and he is also a peerless generalist.

No matter who it is, it is impossible to say that his drama is not good.

In today's era, this kind of inspiring and hopeful drama is really needed.

So Ruan Dacheng's dramas are blooming everywhere, they are being rehearsed everywhere, and they have inspired countless soldiers and civilians. Even Zhu Yihai said in private that the propaganda effect brought about by Ruan Dacheng's dramas is not less than [-] imperial masters.

Of course, Ruan Dacheng is actually a generalist. Not only is he good at writing poems and screenwriters, but he is also a very good official. Even though Donglin has always scolded him before, that was after Ruan Dacheng betrayed Donglin. Known as the most outstanding young handsome man in Donglin.

Presiding over the reform of the New Deal in Yanzhou has accumulated a lot of experience and received a lot of personal guidance from Zhu Yihai. Therefore, when he was the governor of Zhejiang, he was very active and powerful in implementing the New Deal for the entire eight prefectures of Zhejiang Province.

Coupled with the help brought by his dramas, and the fact that his daughter and niece have all entered the palace as concubines, Ruan Dacheng has done a good job in this governor's post. Don't talk about Donglin, Wei Dang, etc., and don't think about it anymore , and be pragmatic.

He knew that the emperor was a pragmatic person, so after he took office, he went from prefecture to county to forcefully promote the New Deal, and he would not be soft on anyone who dared to obstruct it.

And Zhu Yihai also strongly supported him.

Therefore, the performance of Zhejiang Province is also very strong now, and the land clearance and household registration statistics are basically completed. The new policy of dividing the land into acres, likin collection, and industrial and commercial tax collection are also performing well.

With a boss who desperately wants to do practical things, who would dare to be lazy?

Ruan Dacheng is not easy to deceive, he is a genius, no one can fool him, if you don't work hard, he will directly transfer you away.

Zhejiang is very stable now, and it has received a large number of refugees from the south, but there is no chaos, and there is not even a single field left. No matter who owns the field, they must first find a way to grow food.

Even if it is a dry land on a hillside, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corns must be planted. Ruan Dacheng got the emperor's order to fully promote the planting of these foreign miscellaneous grains in Zhejiang.

In fact, Ruan Dacheng knew better than anyone else the bad government in the past, and the emperor also knew it very well. Now that the emperor supports him, Ruan Dacheng has done a good job in reforming Zhejiang.

A large number of fields were cleared, and a large number of people were also surveyed. Taxes were levied on an acre-by-acre basis. Under the strong promotion of Ruan Dacheng, these were very good. Customs taxes and so on are also collected very well.

The reported figures even made the cabinet think that Ruan Dacheng was deceiving the emperor, but the cabinet, together with the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, sent a joint investigation team to investigate, and the final result was that Ruan Dacheng was telling the truth.

After Ruan Dacheng's full efforts, the eight prefectures of Zhejiang Province re-cleared and obtained various detailed and accurate data. There are 560 mu of cultivated land, 610 mu of garden land, and 1909 mu of forest land. Nine hundred acres and 41 acres of grassland.

It even paid off 540 million mu of urban and rural residential areas, factories and mines, more than 800 million mu of water area, and more than [-] million mu of other land.

Among the cultivated land, 700 million mu of paddy fields and 870 million mu of dry land were also measured.

All the land has been uniformly measured in terms of acres, and has been strictly graded and classified. Whether it is cultivated land or woodland, gardens, grasslands, detailed land tax collection standards have been set out in accordance with the new regulations, and unified records have been compiled.

Ruan Dacheng sent officials to urge all the prefectures, counties and villages to cultivate all the land so that it would not go barren. Some landlords’ fields were short of manpower. Ruan Dacheng asked the officials to help organize the refugees who went south to rent tenants, or to work as hired workers.

Many people have no land to cultivate, and Ruan Dacheng arranged for them to rent land. When faced with some landlords who were too harsh and the rent was too high, he also ordered to implement a new policy of reducing rent and interest, and drew a red line for rent and interest. Crossing the border, excessively oppressing the people.

Anyway, if there is a field, it must be cultivated, and it must not be barren, otherwise the government will confiscate it.

Ruan Dacheng didn't even let go of those wastelands, and asked the refugees from all over the country to organize southward, or local people, to reclaim wasteland everywhere, even the islands. For wheat, if you cannot grow rice and wheat, you can plant potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, radishes, peanuts and rapeseed.

At the same time, ore mining was organized, handicraft workshops produced goods, and market trade was resumed in various places. It has to be said that under the full efforts of Ruan Dacheng, Zhejiang itself has a good foundation, and Zhu Yihai has personally grasped it, and now it is advancing by leaps and bounds.

Last year's autumn harvest in eastern Zhejiang was not bad, but this year's spring plowing has already started, and there is a busy scene everywhere.

There are also imperial battalion and Beijing battalion stationed in Zhejiang, plus the provincial battalion in Zhejiang. Now there are no thieves and bandits in Zhejiang, and few hungry people and beggars.

The army divides the defense area and strictly keeps an eye on their own defense area. Wherever there is looting and chaos, they will never let go of such an opportunity to suppress bandits and make meritorious service. Moreover, if they cannot solve it by themselves, they will still be severely punished.

Local officials will not let go of any hungry beggars, because these are labor forces, and they will forcibly take these refugees and beggars away, either to the government's official farms for farming, or to mines, or to saltworks Dry the salt, or send them to the landlords to do long-term or short-term work.

The government will provide relief, but it will not be in vain. The so-called relief does not help the poor, first give you food and clothes, but then you have to accept the government's arrangement to go to production and work.

Although the New Deal touched a lot of landlords and gentry, and even had a huge impact on the original subordinates of the local government, who was Ruan Dacheng?

He was originally a person who dared to fight against the Donglin Party, the elite representative of the gentry in the world, not to mention the fact that he now has the emperor as his backing, and he even has a bid of 3000 people in his hand, as well as the imperial camp, the Beijing camp and the provincial camp. Backing, who is he afraid of?

Who dares to oppose measuring the land and clearing the land, who dares to oppose the sharing of land into the mu, who dares to oppose the government and gentry paying grain together, and who dares to oppose the transfer of fire consumption to the public?
It is useless to oppose it. Today is different from the past. The whole world has changed. Behind Ruan Dacheng is the emperor, and the army supports him. On the one hand, he cooperates wisely, and the emperor will find compensation and preferential treatment in other places. His iron fist and sword smashed over.

Things that Zhang Juzheng couldn't fully do back then, but now the situation has completely changed. A governor, Ruan Dacheng, has been able to take care of this three-acre land in Zhejiang carefully.

Anyway, it is useless for the gentry and subordinates to object. As long as the emperor praises and supports him, Ruan Dacheng will continue to forge ahead.

Although there are opponents, there are already quite a few who support Ruan Dacheng in Zhejiang, the emperor's stronghold.

(End of this chapter)