At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 511: The protagonist of the cool novel Liu Bi and the popular opera
On April 12, the 22nd year of the Han calendar, Kuaiji County.

"Uncle, how long does the court want us to rest? I don't want to make up stories endlessly." Liu Bi said somewhat dissatisfiedly.

After Liu Bi and his expedition team returned, the three-year exploration had consumed all their energy and physical strength. Now that they were back in the Han Dynasty, Liu Bi and his men really needed to rest. Many of them slept for several days and nights, and even Liu Bi slept for three days and three nights.

But Liu Bi and his companions thought that they would go to Chang'an City after they had rested, but they did not expect that they had been resting in Kuaiji County for more than a month and had not yet gone to Chang'an City.

Xiahou Ying smiled calmly, "Look at you, you are so anxious. The court cannot do without you for your contribution. The meeting of princes will not be held for more than half a year. We have to wait even if we go to Chang'an. The court specially sent a drama troupe, a patent order, and even sent two of the Nine Ministers. This shows how much the court values ​​you."

Liu Bi said: "The emperor always rewards meritorious deeds and punishes faults. My nephew is not worried, but I don't understand. There is a logbook on the ship. They ask me about the New World every day. What's more important is that they want to guide me to make up stories, but I have been at sea for most of the past three years. How many stories can happen in such a small space?"

Xiahou Ying said: "You are too insensitive. Why did the court send out these two expedition teams? Is it just to find out how big the world is and how many continents there are outside the Han Dynasty?"

Liu Bi said: "Of course not. Nanyang has now been divided up by the princes of our Han Dynasty. If we want to continue to maintain our Han Dynasty's feudal system, we must have new land. That's why the emperor sent us two expedition teams to explore the world."

Xiahou Ying nodded and smiled, "That's it, but discovering a new continent and new land is not enough. The emperor must send new princes. If the princes want to gain a foothold in the new continent, they must recruit the people of our Han Dynasty as minions to suppress the new continent."

"Think about it. Nanyang is only separated from the Han Dynasty by a sea. The imperial court has tried every possible means, but only a few hundred thousand Han people are willing to go to Nanyang every year. This population is far from meeting the needs of the Nanyang princes. As a last resort, they can only migrate the Indians to open up Nanyang, but such a move is full of hidden dangers. Now the New World is about tens of thousands of miles away from me by sea. If there is not enough publicity, how many people in my Han Dynasty do you think are willing to go to the New World?"

Liu Bi thought about his experiences over the past three years and shook his head, saying, "Even I don't want to experience a voyage like this again."

Then he thought about the more prosperous Kuaiji County that he had not seen for three years and said, "It is understandable that the people have this idea. Judging from what I have encountered overseas, the countries in the world are not even one-tenth as good as our Han Dynasty."

Xiahou Ying smiled and said, "So the court has a comprehensive plan. Masters Shusun Tong and Fusheng brought hundreds of students with them. They have read the logbooks you brought with them more than a dozen times. They have even started to compile mythological stories in the Han Dynasty. They will spread them in the Han Dynasty first, and then influence the New World from the Han Dynasty."

Liu Bi was stunned and said, "Isn't this just deceiving yourself before deceiving others?"

Xiahou Ying said, "How can you say that education is a lie? Look at the desert now. Although there are still small groups of bandits, there are no major disturbances. In the pre-Qin period, the Qin Dynasty had to spend 300,000 troops to suppress the border. But in the Han Dynasty, only two generals and one governor's office, less than 30,000 people, were needed to defend the Han Dynasty's 10,000-mile northern territory."

"Now the Hu people on the grasslands can graze peacefully, and their lives are more than ten times better than before. The people in the Central Plains don't need to guard against the Hu cavalry going south. The two sides do not interfere with each other and can live a stable life. If you say that they are not Han people, they may beat you up. This is the merit of education. The New World has a population of tens of millions. If the Han people want to take root in the New World, military force alone is useless. Education must also keep up. It is not a merit to kill people in large numbers, but to be able to defeat the enemy without fighting is also a great merit."

"So you can rest assured and recuperate now. The court is preparing how to publicize your deeds. You are gone now. Future generations may not know who Xiahou Ying is, but they will definitely know who you, Liu Bi, are."

Liu Bi thought for a moment and asked, "Prince Guyu, what is the court's plan?"

Two years ago, Liu Bi and his expedition team landed on the land of the Mayan country at that time. The Mayan people's reaction was similar to that in history. When they saw the fleet of the Han army that looked like a city, they thought that Liu Bi and his team were messengers of gods. They were extremely respectful to Liu Bi and his team along the way, giving them food and drink. Liu Bi and his team were not Spanish robbers. These Mayan people were so warm and hospitable that Liu Bi also gave them silk, porcelain, tea, sugar and other gifts from the Han Dynasty. He also built salt fields for them and brought them some small inventions from the Han Dynasty to improve their lives.

These are gifts that could be presented even in the industrial age, let alone the Mayans who were still in the primitive age. Not to mention those little inventions, which were a complete defeat of the primitive age by the feudal age.

The gifts of Liu Bi and his companions caused a sensation in the entire Maya. The nobles of the Mayan city-states vied with each other to invite Liu Bi and his companions, showing the hospitality of the Mayan people. In addition, Liu Bi and his companions had crossed 20,000 miles of sea, and the ship needed repairs and the crew needed rest. So they stayed in the Mayan city-state for three months, which can be regarded as a trip in the Mayan country.

During this period, the prince of Maya learned that they were sailing around the world to prove that the earth is a sphere. He became very interested and boarded Liu Bi's exploration ship with ten servants. He followed them on the expedition and the two sides developed a deep friendship. Even the name Guyu was given to him by Liu Bi, as he was worried that the court would be unfavorable to Guyu.

Xiahou Ying smiled and said, "Don't worry, Prince Guyu has a special status. The emperor will probably find a way to let him recognize his ancestors and give him a title. Guyu is a good name, very Han-style."

Liu Bi smiled awkwardly: "He couldn't remember Prince Maya's name at all. It just so happened that the time when he met the prince was the Grain Rain Season of the Han Dynasty, so he gave the prince this name."

However, after listening to Xiahou Ying's explanation, Liu Bi finally felt at ease to rest in Kuaiji County. From time to time, he would visit Chen Lianlushu to tell him what happened in Maya and collect materials for them to compile operas.

On April 15th, the 22nd year of the Han calendar, Kuaiji County.

Xiahou Ying invited Liu Bi to watch an opera, which surprised Liu Bi a little, but he went anyway.

In the private room on the second floor of the theater, Xiahou Ying smiled and said, "I guarantee you will like today's opera?"

Liu Bi was surprised and asked, "Is it The Butterfly Lovers?"

This is Liu Bi's favorite opera, but he hasn't listened to it for three years.

"You'll find out later."

"Ding ding ding!" the gong sounded.

Liu Bi saw the words "The Adventures of Liu Bi" written on the curtain. This made him touch his nose in embarrassment. The imperial court's propaganda offensive had begun, but was it necessary to be so direct?
Of course, the people in the theater cheered when they saw Liu Bi's name. After more than a month of fermentation, Liu Bi's name became known to everyone in Kuaiji County. Just by hearing the name, they knew that this was a story about the New World.

The first one started soon, first introducing Liu Bi's identity, saying that he had worked hard on the Japanese island for ten years and became the youngest and most outstanding captain in the Han Dynasty.

At this time, the emperor issued an order to form an expedition team for a round-the-world trip. Liu Bi, with his outstanding abilities, defeated numerous opponents and finally became the captain of the expedition team. He took three ships to explore the unknown ocean.

Then in the second scene, Liu Bi and his companions went through many storms and dangers, crossed tens of thousands of miles of ocean, and finally arrived at a strange continent. The people of this continent were very hospitable, and they also warmly entertained Liu Bi and his companions and helped them repair their broken ships. Liu Bi and his companions gave them special products such as Han silk in return. As a result, Han silk caused a sensation in the country and even attracted the attention of the local king.

The following story is like Xu Fan's later novels. He saw that the people of this country had no salt and had to buy it from far away, so he asked them to build salt fields. When salt was really produced from the salt fields, the people of the New World went crazy and they directly regarded Liu Bi as a god with supernatural powers.

Even the local king respected him and regarded Liu Bi as a wise man, and even wanted Liu Bi to be his prime minister. The king's prince regarded Liu Bi as a teacher, and the princess also liked Liu Bi.

Later, the prime minister of this country disliked Liu Bi very much and often set difficult problems for Liu Bi, but they were all easily resolved by Liu Bi. The prime minister of this country became a clown under Liu Bi's command and was constantly slapped in the face by Liu Bi.

After that, Liu Bi took out some very common inventions of the Han people, such as making cars, spinning wheels, textile machines, etc., but each time it would cause madness among the people in the New World. It was basically a routine of pretending to be cool and then getting slapped in the face and then being shocked.

Even a war scene was added deliberately, in which a country more powerful than the Maya brought an army of 10 to crush the Maya, but Liu Bi summoned craftsmen to build 100 chariots, and then led these 100 chariots and 10 Mayan soldiers in a chariot charge, directly defeating the -strong Honduran army.

This great victory made Liu Bi accumulate great prestige. The king also wanted to recruit Liu Bi as his son-in-law, and even planned to hand over his country to Liu Bi, but Liu Bi remembered the mission of the emperor and was not trapped by his personal feelings. After the ship was repaired, he resolutely left the country called Honduras.

"Well, Liu Bi is truly a great hero of our Han Dynasty!" After the opera ended, everyone applauded wildly.

Although they have watched many classic operas in later generations over the years, the time-travel operas like this one have added a lot of pretentious and face-slapping routines. The most important thing is that the sense of substitution is too strong. Who doesn't know how to do carpentry work? Salt fields, making spinning wheels, and textile machines are a bit difficult, but not too difficult. Basically, they know how to make them after watching them once. They put themselves in Liu Bi's situation and found that they can do what Liu Bi can do.

The reason why time-travel novels have become the most important genre of online literature in later generations is because of this strong sense of immersion. Everyone is an ordinary person in modern times, but when they go back thousands of years to ancient times, they can rely on modern knowledge to pretend to be cool and get slapped in the face.

Although Liu Bi's time travel is not a time travel, it is no different for the natives of the New World. They can easily find that their insignificant skills in the Han Dynasty will become unique skills in the New World. The knowledge of the Han Dynasty can be used in the New World to become a great scholar, and even marry a princess. This is too tempting for ordinary people in the Han Dynasty. Just think about how tempting online novels that can even help people quit drug addiction are. Although the plots written by Xu Fan are later the plots of third-rate time travel dramas, it is the first time for the people of the Han Dynasty to come into contact with them. It is no exaggeration to say that they are shocked.

Liu Bi was somewhat embarrassed. It seemed that he had done these things, but they were also different. He had built salt fields for the natives who helped him repair ships in the New World, and had asked the natives to make wheelbarrows for transporting wood, but there was absolutely no such pretentious and face-slapping plot as mentioned above. The nobles of the Mayan Kingdom entertained him very warmly, and no princess wanted to marry him. He didn't even sleep with the local women, because their expedition team also had special medical regulations, prohibiting the crew from having casual contact with the New World to prevent diseases in the New World (Xu Fan remembered that syphilis was found in this continent.)
Of course, not all crew members controlled their pants. There were still more than a dozen crew members who did not. As a result, three of them were infected with the plague and were eventually quarantined. They died miserably, and this also taught Liu Bi and his men a very profound lesson.

So the subsequent wars were even more ridiculous. The New World was made up of a few small countries, and they had not yet manufactured cars, so it was difficult to transport food. Not to mention an army of 100,000 people, even an army of 10,000 people would be difficult to assemble. Moreover, the Mayan country was on a plateau, and it was useless to use chariots to attack them.

"It's too much. It's not like what is performed in opera. Especially the latter part is just random extra scenes." Liu Bi explained.

Xiahou Ying smiled and said, "But there are always things that happen. It's not too much to beautify it a little. Operas always need conflicts to be interesting, so this war scene was added. This is how propaganda is done. You are so fascinated by this story. I think The Adventures of Liu Bi will definitely become a classic opera of our Han Dynasty."

Then he asked enviously, "Who do you think wrote this script?"

Liu Bi was shocked and asked, "Could it be His Majesty?"

Xiahou Ying nodded and said, "That's right, Your Majesty. You should know that all the fine operas of our Great Han were written by Your Majesty. However, after the Great Han Dynasty established its capital in Chang'an, Your Majesty has not written any operas for more than ten years. Writing operas specifically for your subjects now is unprecedented. You should know that when the Duke of Ying captured Xingyang and obtained Ao Cang for our Great Han, he only received a poem from the emperor. Now the emperor has personally written an opera for you. From this aspect, your status in the emperor's mind is higher than that of the Duke of Ying back then."

Liu Bi was also shocked and said excitedly: "I will do my best and will not let the emperor down."

As soon as Liu Bi finished speaking, the audience below shouted loudly: "We haven't seen enough, let's do it again."

Other people who were eager to watch also shouted in unison: "Let's do it again."

Many people even threw money onto the stage, and soon the stage was covered with copper coins and even a lot of silver. Kuaiji County was wealthy, and the citizen class was very large, and they had a very high demand for this kind of culture. The Adventures of Liu Bi fits the atmosphere of Kuaiji County's maritime trade, plus the time-travel and pretentious style. People of this era who have not experienced such operas can't help but want to watch it a second time after watching it once.

Seeing this, the opera troupe naturally met the audience's demands. Several men shoveled the copper coins to the side of the stage. The gongs rang out, and the Adventures of Liu Bi began again.

The Adventures of Liu Bi became a hit, and it spread like wildfire. From the beginning, audiences kept coming to sing it over and over again. It is said that one obsessed audience watched eight shows in a row, staying in the theater for a whole day and night. In the end, the two troupes led by Chen Lian had to end the performance because their voices became hoarse.

But this still caused a lot of dissatisfaction among many people, because there were still too many viewers who came to watch the new drama "The Adventures of Liu Bi" after hearing about it, but ended up not watching it. They could only learn about the plot from the old viewers.

But the story, which was passed down by word of mouth, attracted a lot of people's interest, and they wanted to watch "The Adventures of Liu Bi" even more after listening to it. But the opera troupe had only so many people, and even if they wanted to sing, the actors' voices couldn't bear it.

Fortunately, Lu Shu and his colleagues soon came up with a solution to the problem, which was to authorize "The Adventures of Liu Bi" to the twenty-four opera troupes in Kuaiji County and allow them to perform the opera.

None of the twenty-four troupe owners was unenthusiastic. They had noticed this trend a long time ago, but they did not dare to act recklessly because it was a court opera. However, many of their spies had already listened to the play several times and even wrote the script. But after reading the content of the opera, they realized that this was a new fine opera of the court, and it even had the potential to become a drama king, and could be sung for a lifetime like "The Butterfly Lovers" and "The Legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl".

But after the authorization was obtained, all 24 opera troupes in Kuaiji County performed "The Adventures of Liu Bi" the next day. A large number of Kuaiji County citizens flocked to the theaters in Kuaiji County. Everyone who had seen "The Adventures of Liu Bi" was attracted by it. Many people even watched it two or three times. This trend quickly spread to the entire Kuaiji County and even caused a huge sensation, a bit like when Xu Fan made "Chu Zhaonu". Many people who didn't watch opera even knew about this opera and then stepped into the theater for the first time. There were even factory workers who skipped classes to watch "The Adventures of Liu Bi".

Xu Fan obviously did not expect that the time-travel routine of later generations would be so popular even in the current Han Dynasty, and it could even be said to be very popular.

This would be very beneficial for the Han court to settle in the New World, so he asked Lu Shu to give up the patent of "The Adventures of Liu Bi", and any opera troupe in the world who wanted to perform "The Adventures of Liu Bi" could do so without charging script fees.

As a result, the last restrictions on the play were lifted, and it quickly became popular across the Han Dynasty, and even in Liaodong, the Great Wall, the Western Regions, and Southeast Asia.

(End of this chapter)