Chapter 170 Lao Zhu’s openness to all rivers impressed Chen Han! ! Hearing Chen Han's comments, Zhu Youdou was quite proud.
In fact, he wanted to engage in drama, not just as a hobby, but also as a wise way to protect himself.
Because he also understands the struggle for imperial power very well, and he never knows when a storm will come and disaster will befall his family.
And if you show that you don't have any covetousness for power.
That big guy won't pay attention to his head.
So he focused more energy on drama.
And his father, like him, is a man who keeps a low profile.
His father focused more on medicine.
The ambitions of both father and son were not very conspicuous in this environment.
And his father was very supportive of him pursuing opera.
To be honest, for ordinary readers, writing drama scripts is a waste of energy and lack of knowledge.
Because they spent all their time studying the Four Books and Five Classics.
They were all used to cope with the imperial examinations, so there would be no cultural innovation at all.
Only those losers sometimes had to write scripts for the theater troupe to earn a meager income in order to make ends meet.
Even having to teach in a private school is out of the question.
Once they saved a little money, they would immediately devote more energy to the imperial examination.
Zhu Youdou has an innate advantage. He doesn't have to worry about food and drink, and his family is very wealthy.
Moreover, with his family's influence, he was able to get acquainted with great folk opera artists.
Everyone sat together and discussed with each other. Others did not dare to hide their cooking skills, so they could only tell him everything.
The most important thing is that since they are the sons of princes, they will not really go out to sing and steal their jobs.
So they won't shy away from their abilities.
Under such circumstances, Zhu Youdun can certainly receive more essence and learn the essence.
Therefore, he has accumulated much more experience in play writing than the average person.
And because he spent more time on research in this area, his achievements are certainly not comparable to those of ordinary people.
Even though he is still so young, he still cannot be underestimated.
After all, in the 24th year of Hongwu, his father offended the Emperor for meeting his father-in-law in Fengyang Mansion without permission. For more than a year after he was demoted to Yunnan, he owned all the huge family property by himself. Come and get some.
From this point of view, it can be seen that he is young and mature, and he is quite pragmatic. He is already quite mature at a young age.
It can also be seen from this that there is a reason why he is able to write such a good script now.
Chen Han is very supportive of him engaging in this kind of drama creation in the academy.
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard Chen Han's words, he chuckled and said, "We thought you would think this was heresy."
Chen Han quickly shook his head: "Your Majesty, please don't feel this way.
This is not just heresy, it is a powerful tool to promote new ideas and reforms, Your Majesty.
Didn’t you just want to embrace all rivers and embrace cultural undertakings where a hundred flowers can bloom?This is part of the reform.
It even created one of the most important aspects of reform. "
When Chen Han said this, eleven or twelve-year-old Zhu Youdou's face turned red with excitement.
He just wanted to fight for his husband.
I just want to compare the situation after the reform of the world with that before the reform.
Let the people and officials more intuitively see the changes before and after the reform.
Let everyone know how important and effective our reform is.
But I didn't expect that Chen Han would give such a high evaluation.
Zhu Yunwen next to him hissed with disdain.
In his eyes, these are just heresy.
These things are just things that those unpromising scholars among the people can do, and it is difficult to reach the level of elegance.
As for those who are promising, they must study hard in their humble beginnings, then become famous in the imperial examinations, enter the officialdom in one fell swoop, and use the principles of sages to govern the world.
As for the so-called operas, they are just inferior things.
Those opera singers are all low-class.
Mixing with the lower class, let alone the heir of a prince.
Even if you are an ordinary scholar, you have to be secretive.
Even if you write a good book, you cannot sign your name, because if word spreads like this, you will definitely lose face among the scholars.
But I didn't expect that my cousin, a noble son of the royal family, would actually engage in such a thing.
But his uncle, King Zhou, did not stop him. It was as if both father and son had fallen into the same trap.
Unexpectedly, Chen Han gave such a high evaluation here and said that he was one of the most important links in the reform.
Doesn't that mean those actors are also part of the reform?
So he scoffed.
Zhu Yuanzhang is really, as Chen Han said, an emperor who embraces all rivers.
Although he seems to be the least able to accept any change among the history books, he hopes that all power will be in the hands of the emperor.
Remove all the prime ministers and centralize power to its peak.
But when Chen Han came, he made a lot of changes, and the old man knew that his Ming Dynasty had mixed reviews in later generations, especially after so many ridiculous emperors were born.
Great changes have taken place in my thinking.
The reforms that I feel are positive are those that I can realize that the systems I have formulated can still be effective in the Hongwu Dynasty.
But as time goes by, it will definitely become an old disease and many problems will break out.
So he accepted his flaws and saw the problems he caused.
Therefore, he is quite tolerant and can understand the reforms mentioned by Chen Han.
I understand even more clearly that if I don’t take the lead in changing things, then no one can save Daming.
Furthermore, Zhu Yuanzhang was very receptive to opera, because he originally came from the bottom and saw too many things that opera could convey.
That's why he was able to support his grandson so much.
And now that Chen Han said this, it made him feel even more proud.
The fact that his children and grandchildren can participate in the reform is actually a driving force for him.
Chen Han said that one way to change the way his descendants are too dependent on the court and eventually become a burden to the court is to involve all his descendants in the able to participate in various practices so that your children and grandchildren will not be raised like pigs.
Only by allowing your children and grandchildren to participate in the reform and become an important part of the reform can your children and grandchildren not fall into that situation.
But now he didn't expect that his grandson would be so highly regarded by Chen Han for making these things.
At first, he thought that his grandson could use this kind of platform and have a chance to show off.
But now it is discovered that it is not only that, his grandson has performed this so-called drama, which not only makes the people of the capital feel fresh, but also makes the people of the capital feel powerful.
I didn't even expect that Chen Han would give such a high evaluation.
For a moment, he was even prouder than Zhu Youdou.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Okay, okay, since you have given such a high evaluation, let them rehearse more.
They even asked the Ministry of Rites to find actors to rehearse, let them travel all over the world, and let them follow the officials of the Ministry of Rites to promote it all over the world.
What do you think about letting the court pay for this? "
Chen Han even clapped his hands: "Your Majesty, I didn't expect you to have such advanced awareness. Isn't this a kind of condolence in the countryside?
Going to the countryside to express condolences is a very good way to publicize policies, and it is both educational and entertaining.
The people can't understand the written materials we distribute, but they like to watch the theater. As long as the people watch the theater and the people like it, it can promote our current reforms and play a very good role.
Your Majesty, although you are an ancient person, I have to say that your mind is really admirable. "
There were many officials nearby. After hearing such words, they felt that Chen Han was really too bold.
What you mean is that you didn’t think His Majesty the Emperor was a very powerful person from the beginning.
Are you blaspheming when you say such things? If ordinary people said such things, they would have been dragged out and beheaded long ago.
After all, countless officials were killed by the emperor because of what they said.
But what shocked the officials was that even so, the emperor was not only not angry at all, but actually laughed.
"That's natural. Do you think we are really that kind of old-fashioned person? We accept new things very quickly, faster than you think.
So monkey boy, just come up with all your new things, and we will definitely let them flourish. "
Perhaps this is really what makes Zhu Yuanzhang different from other emperors.
Because other emperors always adopt a kind of exclusion when dealing with the knowledge of the lower level.
It was because of the origins of these emperors that they were unable to be tolerant of the lower classes.
Even though they have the mind to accommodate the world, deep down, they are discriminatory towards things that are derogated as low-level things in the social atmosphere.
The emperor would never let his children and grandchildren learn.
After all, there are only a few emperors like Li Longji who like to sing.
After all, not every emperor likes to recruit actors into the palace to sing operas.
Because he also has to consider what the civil officials say.
When Li Longji summoned the actors into the palace and indulged in debauchery, he was already middle-aged and old, and he was no longer afraid.
He felt that his achievements were enough to overwhelm everyone's impeachment against him.
He had some capital to say this at the beginning, after all, the Kaiyuan era was no joke.
But he didn't expect that his collapse in his later years would lead to An Lushan and Shi Siming launching the Anshi Rebellion.
So this is why everyone hopes that he will die soon.
But Zhu Yuanzhang is different.
Zhu Yuanzhang came from the bottom, it can be said that he is the bottom.
When he was young, he worked as a traveling monk, wandering and begging in the world. He came into contact with too many religions and the sophistication of the world.
We also understand how difficult life is for ordinary people, and we should also understand that not everyone wants to be an actor when they are born. They should also be forced by life.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang can understand these things and understand the intensity of their spread.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang may have liked listening to operas in his early years, and he also hoped that in reality there would be those powerful civil servants on the stage to punish corrupt officials, give justice to the people, and make their lives better.
This should also be the biggest thought in his heart when he was not successful.
So he knew exactly how useful these plays could be.
Otherwise he would not support his descendants.
Especially rehearsing such a play in front of so many civil and military officials.
And let him carry it forward.
On the contrary, if other officials heard that their grandson was doing something like this, their legs would be broken.
Zhu Yuanzhang could accept it. This is what makes him different from other emperors.
This is what he was able to say just now. In fact, ordinary people don't care about the so-called thoughts or the so-called form of rule. They only care about whether they can live a better life.
The fact that he can say this shows that he can tolerate drama and believe that these things can be carried forward.
This is already a rare opening of the mind.
The reason why he was so paranoid in the first place was not that he couldn't accept things, but that he didn't have anything new to accept.
And it can only be said that the Yuan Dynasty produced too many dim-witted officials, which led to a bad atmosphere and made officials feel that corruption was appropriate.
So they thought it would be the same after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but what they didn't expect was that Zhu Yuanzhang himself was persecuted by the landlords. How could he allow this kind of trend to exist? Of course he had to fight against it.
So he killed so many officials, so he left a violent impression on those civil servants.
In fact, this was because Zhu Yuanzhang dared to stand up and go against the entire officialdom, so he was secretly poked and said bad things by the civil servants behind him.
To be fair, Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many corrupt officials and reversed the trend of official corruption. This is also one of his achievements.
Chen Han admired Zhu Yuanzhang very much.
It is really not easy for an emperor to do this, and he should be encouraged.
This is what made Chen Han look at the emperor with admiration again.
He once read history books, and his superficial impression of Zhu Yuanzhang was basically that he would kill innocent people indiscriminately. When he got angry, he would kill anyone, including those who were harmful to his descendants.
But after arriving here, I realized that it was not the case at all.
This is a person who is open to new things and who has really experienced it from the bottom, the middle, the top, and the top.
His experience and vision are no longer comparable to those of ordinary emperors.
Let's just say that his life is much thicker than that of ordinary people.
Even those emperors did not have the thickness of life like him.
So he can accept these things, but other emperors may not be able to accept them. This is also Zhu Yuanzhang's advantage...
(End of this chapter)