However, this screenwriter did not satisfy Tintin because his "political consciousness" was too poor - of course, it is difficult for this scholar who had taught in a rural private school for thirty years and was so poor to escape poverty to have any political consciousness. He just wrote
He just copied and rewritten various dramas about talented men and beautiful women. This could not satisfy his idea of using literature and art as a means of propaganda. He performed traditional stories about talented men and beautiful ladies, emperors and generals, gods and ghosts all day long, although they were very popular with the masses.
, but it has no combat effectiveness at all. The executive committee approved the establishment of a theater troupe not to enrich the amateur life of the people in Lingao, but to convey the spirit and philosophy of the Chuanchuan Group.
Tintin used to dismiss and sneer at the idea that "literature is a weapon" but now he highly respects it. As the saying goes, one's butt determines one's stance.
It is necessary to write some new plays to promote the policies of the Time Travel Group in order to reflect the significance of the Puppet Theater in the propaganda department. It is not feasible to continue to entrust this matter to screenwriters or actors - these people are full of talents, beauties, emperors, generals, cows, ghosts, and snakes.
, can’t even understand this basic spirit.
You must first engage in political study and change your thinking. So Ding Ding went to Wei Aiwen of the General Political Department of the army and asked for a month of military training for his puppet troupe team, plus ideological study.
"Give them a complete transformation from body to mind!"
However, his Yangma girlfriend could not understand his spirit. Instead, she became very interested in the new version of Lingao Puppet Show full of 17th-century Chinese characteristics, and often went to watch it - which fully reflected the foreigners' love for this puppet show. She
I am very dissatisfied with Ding Ding for sending all the artists to military training.
"Artists don't need to hold guns." She suggested to her boyfriend: "We can't let politics contaminate art."
"Of course the puppet show troupe established by the executive committee is not to perform little dramas about me and me, but to be our mouthpiece, um, yes, mouthpiece." Ding Ding thought of this word with satisfaction.
"Dear, you said last time that newspapers are our mouthpieces..." His girlfriend Pan Pan didn't have a good command of this Chinese vocabulary.
"All of them."
"Puppetry should be literature and art——"
"Literature and art must serve politics." Ding Ding quickly put the concept into his girlfriend's mind, "Just like the Times." Ding Ding looked at his girlfriend's confused blue eyes, "I am in charge of the Propaganda Department, not
Ministry of Information or Ministry of Culture.”
"Like Goebbels?"
Ding Ding was so angry that he almost fell to the ground. This metaphor was too harsh. He waved his hand and said: "I can't explain to you. You have to study hard to avoid being unable to keep up with the situation."
Pan Pan was so angry that she burst into tears. She didn't expect that the Chinese media person she liked had now degenerated into a complete bureaucrat, and he was the worst kind.
Tintin didn't have time to understand his girlfriend's feelings. He had too many things to do. When the members of the puppet troupe were performing "one, two, one" and "turn left, turn right" with iron-filled wooden guns in the training camp,
In order to cooperate with the Time Travel Group's policy of measuring land and clarifying taxes, he personally wrote the outline of a puppet show script.
Wu De called him here to prepare for public opinion propaganda in cooperation with the Qingzhang Operation.
"Recently, we will publish articles on modern tax issues and reforms in newspapers." Wu De took out a document bag. "This is the information obtained by the Grand Library and the Intelligence Committee. It is very comprehensive. You can publish it after a little processing.
hair."
"Publish a main review every two or three days, and then publish a few background information and the like." Ding Ding wrote a few words in the work manual, "Too much is not good."
"Most of the articles here are compiled and compiled from the papers and works of famous scholars at home and abroad. The positions and opinions are different - they are all classified, so you should pay attention when publishing them," Wu De said, "It is necessary to
Try to give people an atmosphere of discussion.”
Newspapers were meant for the gentry and scholars, but for the majority of indigenous people, the method used was to send literary and artistic propagandists to the countryside to publicize policies. This method was cheap and effective, compared with posting easily destructible notices everywhere in rural areas where the literacy rate was very low.
To spread faster. In addition to the civilian personnel under Ding Ding's jurisdiction, those who perform such propaganda tasks also have interns assigned to publicity posts by national schools. Their propaganda situation is more modern. In addition to street propaganda, they also use posters.
Comic style.
"I still have this," Ding Dingzhi proudly handed the outline of his script to Wu De. Using puppet shows to promote public opinion was a new thing. Wu De looked at it for a few minutes.
The outline of the newly written script is "South China Sea Wind and Thunder". The story is based on the historical facts of Hai Rui measuring acres of land in the south of the Yangtze River and cleaning up the hidden land of the Jin gentry. Hai Rui is a celebrity in Hainan and is known for his integrity. It is very convenient to use his story as the subject.
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"This is a good idea." Wu De nodded repeatedly, "Hurry up and line up. After arranging, I will send several oxcarts to perform in one village after another."
The members who returned from military training immediately started rehearsing the new play without taking a breath. Because the script was very simple, it was arranged in a few days. Ding Ding worked non-stop and specially invited the main members of the executive committee to watch. In this way, this is also a time-traveling group.
The first play he produced was of epoch-making significance in Tintin's opinion.
"This play will also be released in Mandarin." Wen Desi gave instructions after observing, "It will be performed on the mainland in the future."
"Okay." Ding Ding was very happy, this meant yes.
"The other thing is that the contradictions and conflicts should be more intense." Ma Qianzhu proposed modifications. "All kinds of opposites must be involved, and the suffering of the people under the old system must be added. I think it is necessary to arrange for a poor peasant family to be oppressed by the grain tax and have its family destroyed.
The plot is pretty good.”
"The scope of the poor peasants alone is too small and cannot represent the reality that the entire Ming Dynasty is gradually collapsing under the old system," Wen Desi said. "Are the small and medium-sized landowners also victims of the unreasonable system? Their experiences must be included.
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"Okay, it involves a wider scope, the broad masses of the people and so on..."
"Stop it, the storyline of this book is too simple and boring. There is nothing that the public would like to see. Will it really be performed and people will like to watch it?" Wu De questioned.
This is a problem, and Tintin admits that Wu De is right.
"We need to add some spice," Ding Ding stroked the sparse beard on his chin, "The drama is not enough, love is added..."
"In addition to the main story line of Hai Rui's land clearing, how about adding a sub-line of the love story between the young master of a small landowner's family and the tenant's daughter?"
"This is good, but isn't it a bit off topic?"
"No, not digressing," said Xiao Zishan, who made the suggestion. "Love across classes is not likely to have good results, but individual fates are affected by the tide of the times, and they both perish in the end..."
"What are you talking about..." Ma Qianzhu was confused.
"Anyway, the ending is that everyone dies, right?" Tintin said.
"That's right, Shakespeare's death. But they died due to the unreasonable system problems of the Ming government. Whether they were landlords or tenants, everyone was going to die. This is what it conveys."
"It's interesting." Wen Desi said.
"Should we add the plot of the common people's rebellion? Bankrupt landowners, frustrated scholars and poor farmers who were about to starve to death were oppressed and came together to raise the banner."
"You can add more, but isn't this a bit of blatant advocacy of rebellion? At least we are still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. What should the common people do if they see it and are afraid?" Wu De asked.
"It doesn't matter," Ma Qianzhu said thoughtfully, "anyway, this kind of spontaneous peasant uprising cannot escape the fate of failure because they lack correct theoretical guidance."
"Okay, let's revise it." Ding Ding nodded repeatedly and wrote quickly in his notebook.
"Well, I think we can add a scene at the end. Hai Rui was very effective in cleaning up the fields, but he was transferred away by corrupt officials in collusion. His measures gradually lost their effectiveness. In the end, the people who failed in the armed struggle reunited after experiencing a bloody massacre.
I was mourning my dead brothers on the top of the mountain, and at this time, the dawn was slowly rising on the sea in the distance..." Ma Qianxu said.
"Lao Ma, this is a puppet show, not a movie. Isn't it a bit difficult to carry so much content?"
"It doesn't matter." Ding Ding said, "The plot of the puppet show in southern Fujian is much more complicated than this, and it can still be performed. I think this plot will not trouble the artists."
"Then let's arrange it, and be quick." Wu De said, "The Qingzhang activity has already begun. If there is no time to publish the full version, we will make a simplified version."
The activity of the Propaganda Department quickly spread the content and significance of the work of clearing the land to the entire county. The propaganda of clarifying taxes through clearing the land has brought hope to many small households, many of whom have been suffering from "flying".
I hope to get rid of this predicament through clearing the land. Some people heard that this time the land deed can be reissued for free. It is very common to reclaim wasteland here in Lingao, but it is very difficult to establish a land deed for the reclaimed land.
Difficult - the subordinate officials will find any excuse to continuously extort "fees", and every step requires money. Now there is a free lunch to eat, and everyone is very enthusiastic.
In order to prevent the common people from thinking that this was the "pseudo-regime" issuing land deeds, Wu De deliberately placed the place where land acres were declared at the grain collection bureau office in the county town.
This brand-new yamen is an out-and-out official agency of the Ming Dynasty, run by the Lingao County Yamen of the Ming Dynasty. Although it is not a formal agency, it has a strong official flavor - Wu De specially chose an empty yamen in the county to serve as the official agency.
Grain Recruitment Bureau.
Lingao County, like all counties in the Ming Dynasty, was built according to the unified standards of Zhu Yuanzhang. In addition to the county government, there are many government offices. All the county schools, yin and yang studies, Taoism, medicine, and Yangjiyuan in Zhongyuan County
All kinds of things are available. The so-called sparrow is small but has all five internal organs.