allendalepharm Chapter 245 Candidates
Chapter 245 Candidates
Chapter 245 Candidates
The transformation of the printing presses was very simple. It only took half a month for Zhang Qingfeng to spend money to rebuild several printing presses.
The most troublesome thing is the manufacturing of movable lead type. A printing workshop must have at least tens of thousands of movable lead types, large and small.
These lead type are very time consuming to make.
Zhang Qingfeng used the copper mold casting method.
If you want to cast lead movable type, you must first make a copper mold.
To make a copper mold, Zhang Qingfeng had to make a convex steel mold for each character and symbol, and the steel mold was pressed on a soft copper block to form a concave copper mold, so that a large number of convex lead characters could be cast.
Fortunately, the steel molds do not need to be carved by hand. As long as the casting method is used, steel molds can be produced one by one.
After casting and polishing, lead movable type can be mass-produced.
The reason why it is said that making movable lead type is troublesome is that it is different from English, which only needs to produce more than 50 large and small letters.
There are thousands of commonly used Chinese characters, so Zhang Qingfeng needs to make thousands of steel molds.
In order to make these steel molds, Zhang Qingfeng spent money to find several master craftsmen who had cast copper coins. It is estimated that it will take half a year to make a set of molds that can be used.
With a set of molds, Zhang Qingfeng can produce as many lead type as he wants in the future.
If he can popularize the movable lead type technology, the steel and copper molds he makes will become money-making machines, and he can easily earn back the cost by selling the movable lead type.
Of course, this is something.
Time passed, and soon, it was May.
Just a few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, the magistrate Wang Buzhi called Zhang Qingfeng over.
"Yang Sanlang, how are you preparing?" Wang Buzhi asked Zhang Qingfeng.
"Go back to the magistrate, everything is ready." Zhang Qingfeng nodded and said.
"Very good, I have won you the opportunity to perform in the palace. The time is three o'clock in the unitary hour. You perform the first scene of The Legend of the White Snake first. If the performance is good and the officials like it, you may continue to perform later. If you don't like watching it, you can only remove it, do you understand?" Wang Buzhi said to Zhang Qingfeng.
"I understand, thank you for your recommendation, I will definitely not embarrass you." Zhang Qingfeng said in a reassuring tone.
"That's good!" Wang Buzhi nodded.
Afterwards, after the two had some conversations, Zhang Qingfeng left the magistrate's yamen.
Back home, Zhang Qingfeng called all the theater troupe together again.
"The performance time has been confirmed. It's the third quarter of the unitary hour on the night of the Dragon Boat Festival. Everyone, be prepared. I don't want everyone to be unable to go due to various reasons."
"I don't designate who will be the lead actor this time. The two teams will compete for the job. We will have a selection in the past two days. Whoever performs well will be selected." Zhang Qingfeng said to everyone.
The performances in the palace this time, the two teams performing the Legend of the White Snake have a lot of people, and there will definitely not be so many people at that time.
It is not good for Zhang Qingfeng to let anyone go and not to go, so he decided to let the guests vote to decide who will go in the end.
The first team, starring Xin Yaoqin, Liu Jiang, Hua'er, and Da Niangzi.
The first team was excellent, but the second team was no less impressive.
The leading role of Bai Suzhen is Zhou Xiaoya, a well-known beauty in Goulan circle, from the Zhou family drama troupe.
When Zhang Qingfeng invited Zhou Xiaoya to play Bai Suzhen, Zhou Xiaoya's father insisted on being Zhang Qingfeng's father-in-law, but Zhang Qingfeng refused.
Later, after seeing that the drama The Legend of the White Snake was so profitable, and Zhang Qingfeng wanted to recruit a second cast, Father Zhou immediately sent his daughter over, and at the same time sent many other actors in the cast.
Old man Liu told Zhang Qingfeng that the Zhou family must want to learn drama secretly, and then go back and do it by themselves, so that Zhang Qingfeng will not accept the Zhou family members.
However, Zhang Qingfeng thought about it and agreed. Even if the Zhou family wanted to learn from his master, he would not cherish it.
In drama, the more people perform it, the bigger the cake will be. He hopes that everyone will come to learn drama.
"Yang Sanlang, does our Mei Niang want to compete?"
Just after Zhang Qingfeng said to let everyone compete for posts, afterward, Mama Liu from Cuiwei Pavilion approached Zhang Qingfeng and asked quietly.
Xin Yaoqin originally only planned to perform [-] performances at the beginning. Later, after seeing how profitable the drama was, and Zhang Qingfeng took the initiative to increase her wages, she continued to perform for several months.
According to Xin Yaoqin's words, she prefers acting in dramas rather than accompanying customers in the brothel every day.
This time, having the opportunity to perform in the palace, Cuiwei Pavilion attaches great importance to this matter, and Mother Liu even came to act as Xin Yaoqin's "broker" in person to strive for more benefits for Xinyaoqin.
"It must be, I can't be partial to anyone." Zhang Qingfeng said to Liu's mother: "However, with Xin Yaoqin's acting skills and popularity, I believe she will definitely win."
The next day, Zhang Qingfeng discussed with the owner of the tea garden shed, and planned to let the two troupes perform in the tea garden shed and let the audience vote for the election.
The fire in Lin'an City a month ago burned down half of Lin'an City, but the tea garden shed, elephant shed and lotus flower shed were not affected by the fire, so Zhang Qingfeng mainly performed in these three places.
The owner of the tea garden shed has always had a grudge against Zhang Qingfeng's plays not being performed in the tea garden shed. After Zhang Qingfeng agreed to form a third performance troupe to perform in the tea garden shed, the owner of the tea garden shed immediately agreed to Zhang Qingfeng's performance activities.
This time, Zhang Qingfeng did not hold the actor voting in the Elephant Pendant and the Lotus Pendant. The main reason is that these two Goulan are the home venues of the two teams, so he found a third Goulan. This is not the home field, and the audience can give it to whoever they like. vote.
A few days is enough for the audience to choose the people who can perform in the palace in their minds.
Zhang Qingfeng planned to let the two teams perform five performances in the tea garden shed.
Voting is very simple, as long as the audience who bought the ticket puts the bamboo ticket of the ticket into the box with the name of the actor after the performance, it is considered a vote.
Two days later, the results came out.
Bai Suzhen, Xin Yaoqin got the most votes.
Xin Yaoqin's acting skills have improved rapidly in the past few months, plus she is pretty, so she has many loyal fans.
This time, in order to get Xin Yaoqin selected, Cuiwei Pavilion did a lot of tricks behind the scenes, such as canvassing and so on.
The actor who entered the palace to play the role of Xu Xian was surprisingly not chosen by Old Man Liu's grandson Liu Jiang, but by an actor named Sun Yue.
Sun Yue is an actor in Zhang Qingfeng's second performance troupe. She was originally an artist in a drama troupe that performed in restaurants, and was later borrowed by Zhang Qingfeng.
Although Liu Jiang was very disappointed that he was not selected, it only proved that he did not work hard enough.
Compared with Xin Yaoqin, his acting skills have improved very slowly in the past few months.
The role of Xu Xian's sister and brother-in-law was still chosen by the eldest lady and his wife.
Needless to say, Fa Hai's role, Old Man Liu's popularity is not a lie.
Generally speaking, the first set of actors has a greater advantage than the second set of actors, so the main actors are mostly the first set of actors.
But those who lost the election don't have to worry, Zhang Qingfeng is going to bring everyone into the palace to experience it.
Although many people can't play important roles, it's not a problem to play a cameo.
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhang Qingfeng had already made all the preparations. Under the arrangement of the magistrate Wang Buzhi, Zhang Qingfeng had all the props moved into the palace, and he got acquainted with the stage for the performance.
(End of this chapter)