Chapter 400 Ruan Dacheng, a generalist in the world
Zhu Yihai was already proud of being able to achieve such an achievement less than a year after he started his army. In fact, Emperor Shaotian was now regarded as a holy king like the resurrected Taizu in the hearts of civil and military officials, and even the gentry and common people.
Many people even believe that if Chongzhen had half the ability of Shaotian, he would not have led himself to a dead end. If Hongguang had half the ability of Zhu Yihai, the Ming Dynasty would have pushed the Tatars back to Liaodong long ago, wasting more than ten years in vain
Good times. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty will not be destroyed, and such a holy emperor will come out.
And under the publicity of Fuxing Daily and other state-run newspapers, Zhu Yihai directly became a god. The Fuxing Daily, written by the Fourth Young Master of Fushe, is indeed a great writer. They are directly creating gods.
Although Zhu Yihai felt that this was a bit excessive and portrayed him as too lofty and sage, the ministers all felt that under the current situation, such propaganda was indeed needed to give the gentry and the common people confidence.
Of course, it’s not just the Renaissance that’s doing great propaganda these days.
Ruan Dacheng has now been promoted to the governor of Zhejiang. This man was once called the greatest genius in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty. Later, he was denounced as a traitor and sycophant for betraying Donglin. However, Ruan Dacheng's attainments in poetry and drama are indeed remarkable.
. Even if he is not focused on this, this guy who has now regained the appreciation of the saint, while responsible for the military and political affairs of Zhejiang Province, did not forget to fall in love with the saint and use his genius mind and top level of drama to use
In my free time at night, I wrote several major plays in one go.
Each play has tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of words, but this world-famous generalist is able to write several excellent plays at 10,000 words a day.
As soon as his play came out, theater troupes in Jiangnan rushed to rehearse his play, and bookstores all over the country rushed to print his play.
What's even more remarkable is that although the plays written by Ruan Dacheng closely follow the themes of current affairs and even have the intention of praising Emperor Shaotian, the problem is that his plays are indeed well written.
Anyway, several big plays received rave reviews from all over the country and countless people rushed to spread the word. Every time the troupes performed, they attracted countless people to watch.
Even the printed scripts are the most popular books at the moment, and countless people are rushing to order them. Even the ladies in the boudoir can't put it down, and even the dock workers, street workers, and old farmers in the fields all love it.
Major newspapers also paid heavily for manuscripts and published them serially.
If your newspaper publishes this play, another newspaper will definitely compete for the copyright of another good play.
The equally famous literary master Zhang Dai, who was the Sichuan Commissioner at the time and a bachelor's degree student at the Hanlin Academy, wrote articles and comments in newspapers, saying that the plays he created were better than those for which he had become famous.
'The book is excellent, the feet are excellent, the output is excellent, the sentences are excellent, and every word is excellent.'
Compared with the traditional screenwriters of the Ming Dynasty who liked to recreate the legendary stories of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Ruan Dacheng was at a higher level. The new dramas he compiled did not follow the predecessors at all, and most of them closely followed current events.
Based on his own real-life experience and personal insights, he scolded the seventeenth century, made fun of the thirteenth, and created a new chapter to express his own artistic style with originality.
His new plays are loved by people all over the world when they are released, and even the emperor himself comments and praises them. The most important thing is not only the high artistic level, but the content is also very good. It is not a story about a talented man and a beautiful woman, but about today's troubled times.
Next, the family, country and world are saved, and the values of loyalty, justice, benevolence and filial piety are positively conveyed.
The content of each drama is wonderful and never false or empty.
The theme displayed is basically the decline of the country, the world is in danger, the country is in chaos and the people are in danger, some people are greedy for life and fear death, and some people are unprincipled, but more importantly, they praise some saviors.
Such as Emperor Zhu Yihai of Shaotian, such as Zhang Mingzhen who tattooed letters to serve the country, the beggar scholar Shen Wenzhong, the loyal woodcutter Yang Boxing, and the heroes of the righteous gentry who raised the flag to resist the Qing Dynasty, such as Zheng Zunqian of Shaoxing, Liu Dadao, etc., and the Huizhou army.
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Every story is a true story based on today's current affairs. The characters in it are all praiseworthy heroes. In particular, many characters, such as Zheng Zunqian, Zhang Mingzhen and others, are originally the most respected people today.
A hero who has received good reviews becomes even more incredible after being created by Ruan Dacheng.
What's more, Ruan Dacheng's skill is that he not only writes about heroes, but also shows many details in his plays, such as the various abuses of the Ming Dynasty over the years, etc., all of which are vividly portrayed, whether you are an official, a gentry, or a trafficker and a pawn.
, military household soldiers, and even merchant servants, you can feel something familiar to you in his drama, and there are things in it that can resonate with you and make people clap their legs in admiration.
Ruan Dacheng's dramas, even the big guys in Donglin today, have to admire them. Several people even said that in terms of the artistry of dramas, Ruan Dacheng's works even surpassed Tang Xianzu.
Tang Xianzu's shortcoming was that he did not know music. This is a recognized fact. Although his dictionary was brilliant and highly readable, the actor seemed difficult to speak when performing. Moreover, Tang Xianzu did not have many opportunities to communicate with famous actors and lacked stage experience.
But Ruan Dacheng has none of these shortcomings. Ruan Dacheng's family is a famous drama master, and even his family's private troupe is world-famous. He is also very familiar with famous actors in various theater types today, and his family also has a world-famous private troupe, so
He is very clear about stage experience and so on.
Not only does he have his own Ruan family class and has rich stage experience, but his invention and curiosity of stage stunts are also unprecedented.
In the final analysis, drama is an art form that is very different from poetry and poetry. It ultimately focuses on the performance effect. It is a highly comprehensive art that integrates music, dance, and fine arts. It includes music, lyrics, dialogue, and science.
Style, music, and performance are all different.
Ruan Dacheng himself is a world-famous poetry master. He was once called the first person in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty. He also has a family tradition in drama.
So although Ruan Dacheng has been scolded by many people over the years, his plays have always been applauded by everyone.
His new plays show the continuity of the Ming Dynasty, the emergence of holy kings, loyal ministers and righteous men, as well as the suffering of the people, the joys and sorrows of the people, and more importantly, what he finally brings to people is hope.
Whether it is suffering or loyalty, these depictions are ultimately meant to express the theme of hope.
So Zheng Zunyi shouted for Yixing, Qian Sule shouted for recovery, Gu Yanwu shouted for the rise and fall of the world, everyone is responsible, and Zhu Yihai shouted for 100,000 young people and 100,000 soldiers, every inch of mountains and rivers has an inch of blood.
When Zhu Yihai's New Deal reforms and the formation of the imperial camp for the Northern Expedition were all expressing hope and salvation.
And this theme is also the one that most touches people's hearts in today's troubled times, allowing the suffering and hesitant people to see a ray of light in the darkness.
No matter how hard and tiring it is, no matter how chaotic the current situation is, after watching Ruan Dacheng's drama, people can feel extremely inspired and can generate unlimited hope.
This is the genius of the master.
He is indeed flattering Zhu Yihai, for example, he infinitely exaggerates Zhu Yihai's martial sage and wisdom, and then compares various advocacy of various New Deals. But what is great about him is that he is not flattering directly. He uses his superb screenwriting skills to portray
This flattery is so subtle that no one is aware of it.
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 a peerless generalist.
No one can say that his drama is not good.
In today's world, we really need this kind of inspiring and hopeful drama.
Therefore, Ruan Dacheng's plays are blooming and rehearsed everywhere, and they have inspired countless soldiers and civilians. Even Zhu Yihai said privately that the propaganda effect brought by Ruan Dacheng's plays is no less than that of one hundred thousand royal guards.
Of course, Ruan Dacheng is actually a generalist. Not only is he a good poet and screenwriter, he is also a very good official. Even though Donglin always scolded him in the past, that was only after Ruan Dacheng betrayed Donglin. He was also criticized before.
Known as the most outstanding young man in Donglin.
Presiding over the New Deal reform in Yanzhou, he 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 in the eight governments of Zhejiang Province.
Coupled with the help brought by his dramas, and the fact that his daughter and niece have entered the palace as concubines, Ruan Dacheng has done a very good job as governor. He will no longer talk about Donglin, Wei Dang, etc., and will no longer be pragmatic.
, and be pragmatic.
He knew that the emperor was a pragmatic person, so after he took office, he went to every government and county to vigorously promote the New Deal. He would not show mercy to anyone who dared to obstruct it.
And Zhu Yihai also strongly supported him.
Therefore, Zhejiang Province is also performing very strongly now. The land inventory and household registration statistics have basically been completed. The new policy of allotment of land and land, the collection of lijin, and the collection of industrial and commercial taxes are also performing well.
If there is a boss who is dedicated to doing practical things, who among the people below would dare to be lazy?
Ruan Dacheng is not easy to fool, he is a good person, no one can fool him, if you don't work hard, he will transfer you directly.
Zhejiang is now very stable, and has received a large number of refugees from the south. There is no chaos, and there is not even a field left uncultivated. No matter whose field it is, they must first find a way to grow food.
Even on the dry land on the hillside, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn must be planted. Ruan Dacheng got the emperor's decree and fully promoted the planting of these exotic grains in Zhejiang.
In fact, Ruan Dacheng knew better than anyone else the bad governance in the past, and the emperor also knew it very well. Now the emperor supports him, and Ruan Dacheng has carried out reforms in Zhejiang very well.
A large amount of land was measured out, a large number of people were also enumerated, the land was apportioned into acres, taxes were levied on an acre basis, and the officials and gentry paid the grain together. Under Ruan Dacheng's strong promotion, these were very good, and even the local tax, industrial and commercial tax, salt and tea tax, etc.
Customs duties and taxes are also collected very well.
The reported figures even made the cabinet think that Ruan Dacheng was deceiving the emperor. However, the cabinet, together with the six ministries 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 promotion, eight prefectures in Zhejiang Province conducted a new inventory and obtained various detailed and accurate data, including 35,669,000 acres of cultivated land, 6,159,900 acres of garden land, and 6,159,900 acres of forest land.
81,992,900 acres, including 413,500 acres of grassland.
It has even cleared 5.4 million acres of land for urban and rural residential areas, factories and mines, more than 8 million acres of water areas, and more than 1.1 million acres of other land.
Among the cultivated land, there are also 27 million acres of paddy fields and 8.72 million acres of dry land.
All land has been uniformly measured per acre and strictly classified into grades. Whether it is cultivated land or forest land, gardens and grassland, detailed land tax collection standards have been set out in accordance with the new regulations, and a unified register has been created.
Ruan Dacheng sent officials to urge all prefectures, counties and villages to cultivate all the land and prevent it from being left uncultivated. Some landowners' fields were short of manpower. Ruan Dacheng asked the officials to help organize the refugees going south to rent tenants or work as hired labor.
Many people had no land to cultivate, so Ruan Dacheng arranged for them to rent fields. When faced with the problems that some landlords were too harsh and the land rent was too high, he also implemented a new policy of reducing rent and interest, and drew a red line for rent and interest.
Crossing the line and over-exploiting the people.
Anyway, if there is land, it must be cultivated and must not be left uncultivated, otherwise the government will confiscate it.
Ruan Dacheng did not even spare those wastelands, and asked various localities to organize refugees going south or local people to cultivate wasteland everywhere, not even the islands. Anyway, he must not spare an inch of land. Those who can grow rice can grow it.
If you can't grow rice or wheat, you can plant potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, radish, peanuts, rapeseed, etc.
At the same time, the mining of ores was organized, handmade workshops were produced to produce goods, and market trade was resumed in various places. It must be said that under the full leadership of Ruan Dacheng, Zhejiang itself has a good foundation, and with Zhu Yihai personally taking charge, it is now making rapid progress.
Last year's autumn harvest in eastern Zhejiang was pretty good, but this year's spring plowing has begun in full swing, and everything is busy.
There are also imperial camps and Beijing camps stationed in Zhejiang, plus the provincial camps in Zhejiang. Now there are no bandits or bandits in Zhejiang, and few hungry people or beggars.
The army divides defense zones and strictly monitors their own defense areas. Wherever there is looting and chaos, they will never miss the opportunity to suppress bandits. Moreover, if they cannot solve the problem themselves, they will still be severely punished.
Local officials will not let any hungry beggar go, because these are laborers. They will forcibly take these refugees and beggars away, and either send them to farm in the government's official villages, or send them to mines, or to salt fields.
Dry the salt, or send them to the landlords to do long-term or short-term labor.
The government will provide relief, but it will not be in vain. As the saying goes, it will provide relief to the urgent but not the poor. First, they will give you food to eat and clothes to wear, but then you will have to accept the government's arrangements and go to production and work.
Although the New Deal had a great impact on the landlords and gentry, and even had a huge impact on the former subordinate staff of the local government, who was Ruan Dacheng?
He was originally a person who dared to confront the Donglin Party, the representative of the elite among the gentry in the world, not to mention that now he had the emperor as his backing, and even had the bidding of 3,000 people in his hands, as well as the imperial camp, the Beijing camp, and the provincial camp.
As a backup, who is he afraid of?
Who dares to oppose the clearing of land, who dares to oppose the apportionment of farmers into acres, who dares to oppose the government and gentry receiving grain together, and who dares to oppose the return of fire to the public?
It is useless to object. Today is different from the past. The whole world has changed. Behind Ruan Dacheng is the emperor, and there is also the support of the army. On the one hand, if he cooperates wisely, the emperor will also find supplementary treatment in other places. On the other hand, if he does not know the wise, he will be directly controlled by the imperial power.
The iron fist and sharp sword knocked over.
Things that Zhang Juzheng was not able to fully accomplish back then, but now the situation has completely changed, and a governor named Ruan Dacheng has been able to handle this three-acre area of Zhejiang very carefully.
Anyway, it is useless for the gentry and subordinates to object. As long as the emperor approves and supports him, Ruan Dacheng will continue to move forward.
Although there are opponents, there are already many supporters of Ruan Dacheng in Zhejiang, the emperor's stronghold.
