Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

If Yu Xiangcheng can help the rest of the storytellers, he will definitely lend a helping hand without hesitation.

Fortunately, the situation in the general environment has become much better with His Royal Highness Chu's entry into Youzhou. Naturally, people also have the spare money to come to the restaurant to hear about the book, which barely makes the storytellers a little better.

Regarding this, Yu Xiangcheng is very grateful to Li You, and even in the spare time of storytelling, he will praise Li You greatly. This is the only way he can express his gratitude.

However, Yu Xiangcheng could not have imagined that the opportunity to repay his kindness would come so quickly.

Yu Xiangcheng was still telling stories in the restaurant that day. Although the guests had improved, they were still a little deserted. At this moment, Yu Xiangcheng discovered that the shopkeeper of the restaurant seemed to be leading someone in.

To be honest, Yu Xiangcheng has never seen the shopkeeper so servile as he is. After all, as the shopkeeper of one of the largest restaurants in Youzhou, he is still very arrogant, which makes Yu Xiangcheng wonder, what is the identity of the visitor? status?

"Don't drive, please take a seat, you are here to find someone, right? Anyone who wants to find a villain will fully assist!"

Don't drive adults! ?

Yu Xiangcheng's pupils shrank when he heard the words, and soon he saw a gentle and elegant middle-aged man walking in, his sharp eyes searching everywhere.

Soon, Ma Zhou's eyes locked on Yu Xiangcheng, and he strode over without hesitation!

"What... what's going on?"

This made Yu Xiangcheng startled, so he could only hurriedly come down to greet him: "The villain has seen Mr. Doujia before."

Ma Zhou said straight to the point: "Are you Yu Xiangcheng?"

"Yes……"

Ma Zhou smiled and politely motioned him to sit down.

"How's business going recently?"

not good.

Although Yu Xiangcheng wanted to answer like this, after thinking about it, he forced a smile and said, "It's okay, probably to the extent of being able to live."

"Is that really the case?" Ma Zhou smiled slightly, "Why is this different from what this officer heard?"

Yu Xiangcheng's heart tightened when he heard the words, and he quickly knelt down and said: "The villain dare not deceive the adults! To be honest... Because of the smallpox epidemic, the number of guest officials who listened to the book has been greatly reduced, and it is indeed difficult to maintain! "

"That's right."

Ma Zhou nodded, giving Yu Xiangcheng an illusion, why did he feel that Master Biejia wanted to hear that the storyteller was in a terrible situation?

Just in a daze, Ma Zhou has already said: "I have something I want to discuss with you."

"Don't be too serious, if there is anything, just say it!" Yu Xiangcheng said quickly.

"It's like this, as you just said, the situation of storytellers has been extremely bad recently, causing a large number of storytellers to be displaced, and they can't even support themselves." Ma Zhou sipped the tea that was brought out, "Add more The last restaurant couldn’t hold a few storytellers, but a large number of restaurants closed down, which made the situation worse.”

Yu Xiangcheng was silent when he heard the words, this is indeed the bad situation of the storyteller who was pointed out in a straight line.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu also heard about this, so he decided to help the storytellers. First, establish a Youzhou Storytellers Association. You are responsible for developing members through your connections. It is best to let all the storytellers in Youzhou join it! "

Yu Xiangcheng's face was blank. Although he was very happy when he heard that His Royal Highness King Chu planned to rescue them, he still didn't quite understand what the storyteller's association was doing.

"Sir, please forgive me for asking, does this storyteller association have anything to do with the rescue of storytellers? Could it be that His Royal Highness Chu King intends to rely on the government to provide money to support all the storytellers association?"

"Of course not, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has his own plans..." Ma Zhou paused, "The current instability of the storyteller profession is the biggest problem, so the storyteller industry needs to change!"

After all, Ma Zhou took out Li You's "Youzhou Storytellers Association Development Plan" from his arms and looked through it.

"The so-called change is to change the status quo of the professional vulnerability of storytellers..."

After reading it, Ma Zhou himself was confused and didn't quite understand it.

Fortunately, Ma Zhou understood what Li You wrote later: "At present, storytellers can only rely on restaurants, and each restaurant can only support two or three storytellers at most, and ordinary small restaurants can only support at most two or three storytellers. It's an unhealthy business to have a storyteller."

"This also leads to the situation that once there is a problem in the restaurant, the storyteller will also be destroyed. For this reason, the storyteller must break away from the dependence on the restaurant!"

Yu Xiangcheng blinked and asked dumbly, "But...how can storytellers get out of the restaurant? Isn't this a fantasy?"

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Once you leave the restaurant, where else can a storyteller survive?This is simply impossible!

For a moment, Yu Xiangcheng even began to doubt whether His Royal Highness the King of Chu wanted to mess around with nothing, and was deeply worried about the future of Youzhou storytellers.

Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu is not just talking about it, but storytellers who have specific solutions can jointly set up a theater to support themselves, instead of relying on government money to support them!"

"theater?"

This is the first time Yu Xiangcheng has heard of this term. Originally, in the Tang Dynasty, there was nothing similar, and even the relatively similar goulan was only formed in the Song Dynasty, so it can be said that this was never seen in the Tang Dynasty. brand new business!

"That's right, it's the theater." Ma Zhou nodded and said, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu wrote it. Storytellers pay attention to talking, learning to sing, and adding a good story. With the combination of these, if we continue to develop it, we can Form a crew by yourself to play the drama!"

Yu Xiangcheng understood a little now, but he was even more puzzled because of it.

"His Royal Highness means... let's act like the jugglers for the guest officials? But where do we have such skills as jugglers?"

Chapter 209 Entertainment beyond the age!

"His Royal Highness also said about this point, acting in a drama requires acting skills, and these can be achieved by storytellers who are committed to telling stories in a eloquent manner, with a little training." Ma Zhou replied.

Li You already had a deep understanding of the fact that successful storytellers are all comedians when he was in Chang'an.

It's no wonder that when the quality of the script is so low, the storyteller wants to bring the story into it, and has the urge to give a reward, and he must rely on the rest to make up for the lack of quality of the script.

This is also the reason why many storytellers are good at ventriloquism. In Li You's view, this is a huge advantage innately, because it even has sound effects!