Turbulent Times Chapter 529: Unexpected

After a while, more than a hundred people with extremely pious faces came out of the courtyard and gradually disappeared in the four directions around the house.

Yuehu took Zhao Mi'er out of the inner courtyard, looked at the female envoy that day, and asked, "How many believers does our Tiannv Sect have now?"

That day the female envoy bowed and replied: "Reporting to the sect master, the Tiannv Sect already has at least 30,000 congregants in Guanzhong. In addition, there are 20,000 congregants in the Central Plains, Hedong, and Hebei each. Only there are Maitreya Sect and White Lotus Sect in Jiangnan. Our believers are developing slowly, and if they make any progress, they will be destroyed by these two masters."

Yuehu murmured for a while, and said: "Pass my order, the Jiangnan side will lie down first, and wait for the opportunity. The Guanzhong side should increase the speed of expanding our Tiannvjiao."

The celestial envoy bowed and replied: "The humble post will follow the order of the sect master."

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"Xiao Yu, you must keep your word. I'll invite the most famous painter in the capital to come and paint your portrait." After Pei Yuanqing finished speaking, he turned around and ran out.

Pei Yuanqing heard about the trick of "a good girl is afraid of being entangled" from somewhere, so these days, he has been pestering Nie Xiaoyu all day long. The things she was asked to do were things that should not be known to outsiders, so he said not to let Pei Yuanqing pester her. Pei Yuanqing also found that this method didn't seem to work for Nie Xiaoyu, and he still hasn't gotten a good face from Nie Xiaoyu even once. So he settled for the next best thing, saying that as long as Nie Xiaoyu gave him a portrait of himself, he would stop pestering each other all day like this. Nie Xiaoyu thought about it and agreed to him.

"No, wait for me for a while." After Nie Xiaoyu finished speaking, he found a pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

In front of Pei Yuanqing, I saw her waving the pen in her plain hand, and she drew a portrait of herself in ten breaths, and Pei Yuanqing was taken aback. Looking carefully, the person on the portrait and Nie Xiaoyu exactly the same.

While he was staring at the portrait dumbfounded, Nie Xiaoyu had already left. She was going to the Wulin Guild outside the city today. The upsurge has greatly increased the influence and popularity in the Jianghu, among the powerful and aristocratic, and among the people. It has developed rapidly and has recently attracted many people. training.

Because her appearance is so beautiful, in order not to attract attention, she travels in and out of the carriage these days, and Wang Junlin specially sent her a team of guards to follow her.

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The weather today was fine. Wang Junlin was lying on the rocking chair, basking in the sun, watching Pei Yuanqing roll up Nie Xiaoyu's portrait obsessively, and left in a hurry without saying hello to him. When he thought about Pei Yuanqing's pursuit of a non-human woman, he felt that this matter was really interesting.

At this time, Zhang Jinzhong, the housekeeper, ran over and told him that Jing Tian of the Red Knife Society brought an old man surnamed Sun to secretly ask for an audience from the side door.

"Bring them here." Wang Junlin was a little surprised. Under normal circumstances, if Wang Junlin hadn't summoned him, in order not to expose the relationship between the Qin Anhou Mansion, the Red Knife Society and the Xiaoyu Theater, Jing Tian and Old Man Sun would not come looking for him.

"Did the theater encounter any difficulties?" Wang Junlin and the two of them saluted, then looked at them and asked.

Speaking of the theater, Jing Tian and old man Sun grinned, and the former said: "Don't worry, Lord Hou, everything is going well in the theater, and the business is much better than we imagined. We have opened seventeen Xiaoyu theaters in the capital. Every day, each theater will perform five performances on a staggered time, but every performance is full of seats, and the supply of seats is still in short supply. We are hurrying to gather more checks to get them Change it to our Little Rain Theater.”

"You have done a good job, you have worked hard." Although Wang Junlin knew that after Goulan was reformed according to the performance and business model of theaters in later generations, the benefits would definitely be much better than the current Goulan, but he did not expect that the theater would be popular in this era. The extent is far beyond his imagination. Of course, the premise is that there are popular stories one by one, and then they are adapted into good-looking dramas, and there must be appropriate props, such as the 3D background painted by Nie Xiaoyu himself.

Old man Sun and Jing Tian said in unison with joy on their faces: "Your Majesty, this is what we should do."

Before Wang Junlin could speak again, Jing Tian said again: "Master Hou, it has been a month since the opening of the first Xiaoyu Theater, and all the theaters are currently profitable after deducting the five thousand taels of silver we invested in. Seven thousand taels of silver, the humble position has just been handed over to Steward Zhang."

Although seven thousand taels of silver was already a huge sum of money, it was nothing to the current Wang Junlin, but this figure still surprised him a bit. You must know that this is already the annual tax revenue of a smaller county in the Sui Dynasty. Wang Junlin once calculated with Nie Xiaoyu. According to the current price, one thousand taels of silver is equivalent to about one million yuan in later generations, seven thousand taels That is seven million yuan. And this has only opened seventeen theaters. If all the planned plans are realized and Xiaoyu theaters are opened in every state, county, and county town in the country, even if there is only one theater in each city, how much profit will it make every day?

Wang Junlin found that he still underestimated the popularity of drama in this era, presumably it has a lot to do with people's lack of spiritual food at this time. From this point of view, there is still a lot of room for exploration in this industry. You must know that in the entertainment circle of later generations, it can be called a treasure trove of money. A well-known heavyweight idol, doing nothing, doing business shows all over the country, and holding a concert or something, can't he still make a lot of money?

Thinking is a bit beautiful. After calming down, Wang Junlin knew that he was thinking too much. After all, this era is very different from later generations, such as people's ideas, value orientation, speed of information circulation, people's living standards, Especially the hierarchical concept that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In this era, the status of actors is really too low. To put it bluntly, their status is not much higher than that of prostitutes in brothels, otherwise they would not be called Geisha.

Although Wang Junlin wanted to change some things, such as preventing the human tragedy of the late Sui Dynasty from happening again, he still had self-knowledge and knew that no matter what he did, it would be impossible to subvert it in his lifetime The hierarchy of this world.