Chapter 486: The Gathering of Literati

When Chutian was attacking Hebei, in Xiacheng in the rear, Sang Hongyang, the chief financial minister, was collecting money in various ways to maintain the financial balance.

Fighting requires money, and the Chutian forces pay more than one million in military salaries every month.

In addition to the main land tax and city tax, the government also monopolizes the trade of some commodities, such as salt and iron, land trading, and personally intervenes in certain industries, such as tea, silk, official kilns...

In any profitable industry, in order to obtain funds, the government is more or less involved.

The tenth-level building Jixia Academy was completed. Sang Hongyang gathered literati and actors in Jixia Academy to hold a grand ceremony. Everyone who wanted to participate in the event needed to pay 10 taels of silver.

At the same time, Sang Hongyang took this opportunity to raise funds. Anyone who raised more than a certain amount of donations could leave their names on the stele and booklet of Jixia Academy.

Sang Hongyang has a thorough understanding of the Eastern Han family and the psychology of the players. When he announced this decision, he soon received donations from various well-known families who valued reputation.

The Mi family represented by Mi Zhu and Mi Fang donated 10,000 taels of silver in one go!

The Mi family took the lead, Chen Gui, Chen Deng's Chen family, Chen Qun's Yingchuan Chen family, Donghai's Wang family took the lead, and Qiao County's Cao family took the lead. The government collects millions of silver donations!

In order to look justifiable, special talents from Han Yuefu and Du Fu's Thatched Cottage gathered at Jixia Academy and invited major families and families to attend the event.

Cai Yong, Cai Wenji, Diao Chan, who usually do not show much publicity in Han Yuefu, and Du Fu, Su Shi, Lu Zhi, Zheng Xuan and others from Du Fu Thatched Cottage, all participated in this event.

Not only that, Sang Hongyang took the opportunity to attract literati and writers from various states. Literati writers can bring a lot of bonuses to the territory. Therefore, with the reputation of Du Fu, Zheng Xuan, and others, literati writers from various states are attracted to Xiacheng, and they are all wiped out.

"The Mi family gave 10,000 taels of silver, the Cao family 8,000 taels, and the Wang family 3,000 taels... I didn't expect the Cao family to be so rich, it seems that the Cao family will be squeezed more in the future."

Sang Hongyang saw the list of donations and found that Cao Song had donated 8,000 taels in one go.

Cao Song made a fortune by speculating in real estate, and became a big businessman in Xiacheng.

Cao Song, the father of Cao Cao, began to manage his son's future, thinking that donating Jixia Academy would help Cao Cao be promoted in the future. In addition, Cao Song also wants to be famous in history,

Carve your name on the stone tablet of Jixia Academy, honor your ancestors!

To build an ancestral hall in the countryside, the squires are willing to donate their capital, let alone a tenth-level building like Jixia Academy.

"I heard that both Cai Wenji and Diaochan will appear at Jixia Academy."

"If this is the case, the cost of twelve taels of silver is not expensive at all."

Many male players flocked with the idea of ​​seeing Fangrong. Twelve taels of silver is already a lot of money for many players, but male players still flock to it.

"I've been digging ditches and dredging rivers all this time, and I haven't been this comfortable for a long time."

Su Shi came back to participate in this literati grand meeting.

Now Su Shi's official position is the prime minister of Jinan, and he controls the local floods, while at the same time combating local feudal superstitions and weakening the influence of local tyrants.

In order to enhance the influence of Jixia Academy and make money better, Sang Hongyang, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, was naturally also on the invitation list.

Du Fu and Su Shi became good friends because they exchanged poetry from time to time.

Various families were also present.

The Music Square of Han Yuefu specially organized performances, and the summer city was very lively for a while, attracting many literati to come.

One of the literati came here, but was stopped by the city gate guards because he had a sword on his waist.

According to Xiacheng's ban, unless they are officials, they are qualified to wear swords in the city, and they can only be used as decorations.

This poor man, in order to avoid being thrown into the dungeon, was forced to hand over his saber and whispered: "I didn't expect that I, Qinglian layman, could not even carry a sword, but this sword cost twenty taels of silver. ."

Xiacheng's city defense army saw that this man's words and deeds were a bit extraordinary, so they said: "What Qinglian layman? If you have some skills, you can register, and special talents also enjoy the privilege of sabre."

The literati said: "I have some understanding of poetry and prose, if I can exchange a little wine for this..."

Among the people present at the Han Yue Mansion, Cai Wenji and Diao Chan were talking. One of them was in charge of the musical instruments of the Han Yue Mansion, and the other was the dance, so they were colleagues.

The functions of the Han Yuefu were more complicated than before. Poetry, poetry, painting and calligraphy, musical instruments, and dance were all under the jurisdiction of the Han Yuefu.

If the Taixue is an institution for cultivating officials, then the Han Yuefu is an institution for the management of literature and art. Officials in charge of poetry and songs usually meet in Du Fu's Thatched Cottage.

Under the protection of a team of soldiers, the two of them entered Jixia Academy with other officials of Han Yuefu, attracting the attention of countless players and civilians.

"There was a woman who claimed to be Li Qingzhao, who was displaced in Xiacheng and presented two poems, hoping that she could concentrate on studying poetry and calligraphy and painting in the Han Yuefu."

A clerk of the Han Yue Fu presented two poems to Du Fu, Su Shi, Cai Wenji and other literati who were named in the Han Yue Fu.

"This word makes good use of line drawing, the language is beautiful, and the handwriting is beautiful. It is indeed from the hand of a talented woman. This person can use it."

Among all the literati in the Han Yuefu at present, Su Shi, who came from the Song Dynasty, has an absolute right to speak. He can see the quality of Song Poetry. Without seeing Li Qingzhao, he immediately recognized Li Qingzhao as a special talent.

"Call her to come and test to see if this word is really written by her. There are too many foreigners posing as literati recently."

Cai Yong couldn't help but have a headache.

Some players pretend to be writers because they know some Tang poetry and Song poetry, but as long as they specify the title and let them write poetry in seven steps, these players often reveal their level.

The clerk said, "There is also a poet who claims to be Qinglian layman, who wants to join Han Yuefu in exchange for some wine money."

Cai Yong frowned again.

These people think that Han Yuefu is where...

However, it is not surprising that some literati are uninhibited and sometimes rhetoric.

"Let him come to see us, and if he doesn't have any real talent, he will be kicked out."

"Yes. There is also a literati who calls himself Ouyang Xiu. This is his parallel essay. He hopes to enter an official career and plead for the lives of the people, not only to be named in the Han Yuefu..."

The clerk presented an article.

"If you want to enter the official career and ask for orders for the people, you can go directly to the lord's mansion to recommend yourself. How can you come to our Han Yue mansion?"

Du Fujie took over the article, and his eyes gradually brightened: "This article is indeed extraordinary. This person has the ambition and talent to educate the people. Maybe he can recommend it to Li Cao."

The literati under the name of the Han Yuefu can also educate the people and manage water conservancy, such as Su Shi, who is both a literati and a prefect.

The usually unknown Han Yuefu took this opportunity to attract talents crazily, and more and more talents gathered in the Han Yuefu.

Xiacheng's teleportation formation, Chu Tian brought several generals back to Xiacheng to rest and prepare to participate in the Battle of Jingkang.

He could not help frowning when he saw that Xiacheng was decorated with lanterns, singing and dancing.

Why is there an atmosphere in his territory where business girls don't know how to hate their country and still sing backyard flowers across the river?

Yecheng, Hefei, and Bowang were all at war, but Xiacheng seemed like a peaceful and prosperous age.

"Who is presiding over this? I must..."

Chutian intends to severely punish those who hold this event.

Zhang Hong, a civil servant, and Jia Sixie, an agronomist, presided over the affairs of Langya: "Sang Hongyang organized this event to collect donations from the soldiers. So far, a total of 870,000 taels of silver have been raised."

"I must... give him a good compliment."

Chutian heard that 870,000 taels of silver had been raised, and immediately changed his tone.

If every grand event can raise so much gold and silver, how about the flowers of the backyard across the river.

Bai Huahua's silver is the most practical.

With the finance minister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in charge of the overall situation, as well as the gold mines in Jiaodong, Chutian does not need to worry about the financial crisis for the time being.

At this time, Chutian did not know that a group of literati such as Li Bai, Li Qingzhao, and Ouyang Xiu had appeared in Xiacheng.