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When Sun Xin and the others arrived at the intersection of Liangdian Street, they heard the sound of several gongs coming from the street.

Sun Xin immediately realized that with the approach of the war, all places are actively selling war bonds. This work is specially entrusted to the Bank of the Supervisory Committee. The Bank of the Supervisory Committee is the most active organization in the Supervisory Committee. , came up with a lot of tricks, and it is said that the sales in various places are quite good.

Sun Xin had only seen the sale of government bonds in reports before, but had never seen what it looked like in practice.

At this time, he also felt very interested when he heard the sound of the gong, so he said to Hu Sanniang beside him, "Let's go and have a look."

Hu Sanniang was willing as long as she was with Sun Xin, and she didn't care where to go, so she nodded, and the two squeezed into the crowd under the protection of the guards.

Surrounded by the center of the crowd was a small podium, the wooden platform was erected temporarily, just in front of the most conspicuous shop on Liangdian Street, because it was the business of the Supervisory Committee, so the merchants on both sides of the street They are very supportive.

But at this time, it was a group of shadow puppet artists from the propaganda unit of the Supervisory Committee who were beating gongs on the stage and shouting to sell public bonds.

The status of shadow puppetry was particularly emphasized in the propaganda work carried out by the Supervisory Committee after the establishment of its rule in various places.

Shadow puppetry can perform many repertoires, and has been popular in Dengzhou for several years. It has trained a large number of shadow puppet creators, has rich resources for drama production, and the most important thing is that the investment cost is relatively low.

If you want to use real people to perform a play, counting the extras, a small troupe needs more than a dozen people to make up, and a shadow puppet troupe, even if it has a complete system, is enough for seven people. Three people can act, and there is even a one-man show performed by one person in the Taishan area. Even playing and singing with a little simple soundtrack, one person can sing a big play.This is very much in line with the supervisory committee's need to spend a small amount of money to do big things and get the greatest publicity effect with the least cost.

At this time, the slightly affluent people in Shandong had a great demand for cultural works, and the shadow puppet troupe was also the most popular organization among the dealers in every local supervisory committee.

Now the cadres who leave Dengzhou go to a place to set up a supervisory committee and write reports to Dengzhou. When they need resources, they often not only have a group of clerks, but also ask Dengzhou to send them a few shadow puppet artists in the report.

These shadow puppet artists are very useful. In addition to promoting the policies of the supervisory committee, they can also be regarded as a kind of welfare for the local farmers by the supervisory committee at all levels.

The Supervisory Committee does not collect agricultural tax, but it will implement a unified purchase and marketing policy. All the grain grown by the farmers must be purchased by the Supervisory Committee, which can be regarded as a tax in disguise. The price of grain on the Internet is lower, because the supervisory committee strictly checks, so they can only sell the grain to the supervisory committee, but it is inevitable that there will be sneaky sales and missed delivery.

Every year, the Supervisory Committee purchases two seasons of grain. This is the focus of the local work and the most troublesome thing for the local officials. The unit borrowed the shadow puppet troupe and went on tour in various rural areas in turn. Firstly, it helped everyone work hard to relieve the distress in collective labor. Second, it also reflected the meaning of the Supervisory Committee to have fun with the people, so that the people can actively pay for their food.

There are even places where the performance of shadow puppetry is specially used as a reward.

Nowadays, during the holidays, the shadow puppet troupes of supervisory committees in various places are also the busiest time. As long as you hear that a troupe from a supervisory committee performs a big play for several days in a row at the head of a certain village or at the gate of a certain factory under its jurisdiction Needless to say, this village or factory was a big profit and tax household of the Supervisory Committee back then.

And even the performance of such a beautiful and beautiful show can not only attract farmers from four villages and eight shops to watch, but also become something that farmers or workers in a village or a factory enjoy talking about all year round.

At this time, the shadow puppet show was sung in Dongping Mansion, which naturally attracted many merchants working in the vicinity of Liangdian Street.

When Sun Xin and Hu Sanniang squeezed in, they saw a curtain on the stage. Shadow puppetry can also be performed during the day, as long as the shadow puppet curtain is facing the sun, people who stand close can see it clearly. The shadow puppet artist who had just finished the play was arranging the shadow puppets behind Ming Huangzi.

And a smiling entertainer came out from behind the shadow puppet stage, stood in front of the stage with a gong in his hand and said loudly: "The previous name was called "The Story of the Ten Miles of Qionghua in Sui Yang Emperor". Everyone can see it." Yes, Emperor Yang of Sui ordered [-] river workers to open canals for Yangzhou, [-] boatmen to build boats, [-] trackers to pull tows, and [-] women to dance on the shore. What a waste of people's energy? What happened in the period of Emperor Sui Yang, that is, a hundred years ago, We have never seen it, but this story is not very new to us.”

Hearing this, Sun Xin couldn't help laughing.

The plays performed by the shadow puppet troupe of the Supervisory Committee are determined by the upper management of the Supervisory Committee. Every year, an approved script of about a dozen plays will be published and sent to the shadow puppet troupe of the Supervisory Committee to study.

Most of the scripts were created by the art workers in the Supervisory Committee, and some of them were actually written by Sun Xin himself. In addition, plays that the Supervisory Committee considered suitable for publicity were selected from the market and included in the annual approved scripts. middle.

Of course, these scripts have certain political requirements, and the selection criteria either meet a certain value promoted by the supervisory committee, or the supervisory committee thinks it is suitable for most people to watch.

When Sun Xin established the propaganda outlet of the Supervisory Committee, he had already formulated the rules. The troupe of the Supervisory Committee could only perform the scripts reviewed by the Supervisory Committee.

Because of the backwardness of information dissemination channels in this era, Sun Xin can’t control what the folks want to do, that is, they are not allowed to perform plays that publicly slander the Supervisory Council and boycott the Supervisory Council’s policies. Generally, the people have to report the Supervisory Council to know. Then check and deal with it.

However, as the official performance troupe of the Supervisory Committee, Sun Xin still has to control the public opinion of the theater troupes under the Supervisory Committee.

Because the supervisor will have a core creative team, the creative ability is undoubtedly the strongest in the entire Song Dynasty at this time. The scripts adapted from the novels written by Sun Xin alone can crush most of the dramas on the market at this time. The depth is not necessarily strong, but it must be cool enough.

Therefore, the core policy of literature and art of the Department of Supervisory Committee has been implemented quite well in various places. Under the implementation of the Supervisory Committee, shadow puppetry is now popular in the whole Shandong.

Different regions have also adapted different genres based on their own popular ditties, and more than a dozen branches of genres have emerged in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Committee alone.

(End of this chapter)