Little Detective of the Tang Dynasty: What to do if you are beheaded at the beginning?

"Shouzheng, what do you need me to do?" As soon as Li Zhi heard the name and origin of the song, he immediately became interested and wished that Song Zhen would arrange the song the next day.

"Your Majesty, you may need to use the Nei Jiao Fang."

The Jiao Fang in the Tang Dynasty was known as the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the musicians in it were the best in the whole country.

Song Zhen did not plan to bring in the musicians from the Shangchun Fang.

Who would want to drive a tractor when they can drive a Lamborghini? Although Lamborghini started out as a tractor.

Li Zhi nodded: "In this way, I appoint you as the Nei Jiao Fang Jianxiao Xielülang, who is fully responsible for arranging the musicians of the Nei Jiao Fang to cooperate with your work."

The position of Jianxiao usually has three meanings in the Tang Dynasty.

The first is that a high-ranking official concurrently holds a low-ranking official position, such as Changsun Wuji, who was the Taiwei (first rank) and the Jianxiao Zhongshu Ling (third rank), and gained real power.

The second type is that officials need to temporarily take charge of work outside of their duties. Song Zhen is in this situation. Another example is Li Yuanfang in "Detective Di Renjie", who is the inspector of Qianniuwei General, used to bluff people. It is an honorary position and has no real power.

Of course, Li Yuanfang is a fictional character in the TV series and does not exist in history.

The third type is that in the late Tang Dynasty, they were basically private staff members of important officials and high-ranking officials, and they were given political identities to facilitate their activities. However, they could not have real power, so they served as inspectors and concurrently held empty positions. For example, Du Fu was the inspector of the Ministry of Works, but in fact, he had never worked in the Ministry of Works in his life.

Song Zhen stood up and saluted: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Okay, you go and get busy."

Song Zhen saluted Wu Meiniang again and turned to leave.

After he left, Li Zhi exclaimed: "I didn't expect that Song Zhen was so young and handsome."

"What? Your Majesty is moved?" Wu Meiniang's tone was a bit weird.

"Haha, that's not the case. After all, he's just a musician. We have to wait and see."

The last painter Yan Liben now sits in the position of Minister of Works.

Who can guarantee that Song Zhen, a musician, will not have the opportunity to sit in the position of Minister of Rites?

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Song Zhen left the East Palace and came to the Baixi Hall in the northwest of Ziwei City under the introduction of the eunuch.

Baixi Hall, as the name suggests.

This place supports the musicians of the Neijiaofang.

Generally speaking, the musicians of the Neijiaofang live outside the west gate of Luocheng. Today is different. When Song Zhen came, Li Zhi arranged for everyone to gather in Baixi Hall in advance.

The eunuch looked around and shouted in a shrill voice: "This is the Chief Musician of the Imperial Academy, appointed by the Saint himself. In the days to come, you must cooperate with his work."

"If there are those who disobey, I don't need to say anything more, right?"

"Yes." More than 150 female musicians bowed their heads and responded.

After the eunuch left, they looked at the newcomers curiously.

They whispered: "This young official is very handsome, and very young."

"Can he be the Chief Musician at such a young age?"

"It's just a position of an eunuch. Whether he can stay in office for a long time depends on his ability."

The position of Musician is not something that anyone can take up. He must understand literature and have musical talent.

The great poets Han Yu and Li He, who are familiar with music, have served as Musicians.

Song Zhen took everyone's gaze into his eyes. He smiled slightly and bowed first: "Everyone, my name is Song Zhen, and my courtesy name is Shouzheng."

"In the next few days, I will rehearse the music for everyone. I hope everyone will cooperate."

[Everyone: People who are close to the emperor or his attendants are called "everyone". 】

When everyone heard it, did they all call him "everyone"? This shows that this young man has a deep relationship with the saint.

However, it can be seen that some people are still unconvinced. Everyone is one of the best in the field of music, and it is normal to be arrogant.

"How many kinds of musical instruments are there in the Nei Jiaofang?"

Miss Tianxian smiled and replied: "We have the sheng, flute, pipa, konghou, xiao, jiugu, and fangxiang used in Yan music. Of course, we also have the qin and zheng commonly used by the people."

Song Zhen nodded, he walked through the crowd and looked at the various musical instruments placed behind.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he pointed to a wooden frame in the corner and asked, "What is this?"

"This is called a square chime, also called a bronze chime."

Isn't this a small chime?

Square chimes are mostly made of jade pieces, iron plates, etc., suspended in two layers, with the pitch determined by thickness, and struck with a small hammer.

Song Zhen first tried to strike it, memorizing the pitch of each piece of jade.

Then, everyone was shocked!

The first time he played, he could strike out a complete piece of music?

Wait, where have I heard this song before?

The fairy girl exclaimed, "This is the song "Crossing the"Missing across time and space"? "

She liked this song very much. The faint sadness in the song made her, a young girl in love, yearn for it very much. She had also thought about adapting it into a square sound version, but she encountered the ultimate problem.

That is, she didn't know how to transition each audio segment. In simple terms, it is to transition harmoniously to the next segment of music.

When you listen carefully to guitar performances, you will find that usually when connecting the previous and the next, the musicians will have a process of alternating plucking and sweeping, which is the transition sound.

No matter how the fairy girl creates, she will never have that taste.

But Song Zhen did it, and no transition sound was redundant.

She suddenly thought of a possibility. Could it be that this is the legendary creator of the original song?

Then, Song Zhen picked up a bi4 li2), the 筚篥 is a nearly lost instrument in later generations. It is played in a similar way to the flute and is a double-reed instrument. Its timbre is probably like a less noisy and low-pitched version of the suona + erhu.

In the "Tongdian" written by Du You in the Tang Dynasty, it said: "The 筚篥, originally named the sad 篥, comes from the Hu people, and its sound is sad."

"Whose is this 筚篥?"

Miss Tianxian blushed and said: "I, I used it."

"You don't mind?"

I really want to say that I mind, but I'm embarrassed to say it out loud. I think to myself, I'll give it to you.

Song Zhen knew what she was thinking when he saw her expression, and then he gently put it down and turned to another instrument.

He tried to play "Missing Through Time and Space" with about five or six instruments, which made everyone numb.

The last person who was proficient in various instruments was Miss Tianxian, and everyone's eyes turned to her.

Miss Tianxian shook her head helplessly: "I'm not as good as him. ”

The biggest difference between her and him is that she plays in a formulaic way, while he can create and adapt.

Song Zhen's performance convinced the 150 musicians in the Jiaofang.

Generally speaking, if a person can make good use of a musical instrument throughout his life, he is already a genius. As the saying goes, everyone has his own specialty. Not everyone is like the fairy girl, who learns so many things.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and let's officially start rehearsing."

"I'll arrange 20 people for Fangxiang, 10 people for Dagu, 50 people for Dizi, 20 people for Zheng, 10 people for Qin, 10 people for Jiegu, 2 people for Gong, 10 people for Daban, and the rest will play Pipa."

"Please, all musicians, step out!"

The Tang Symphony Orchestra! Officially launched!

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