Shahe adjusts the old thing - ten oceans sell a play

In the feudal society where artists were regarded as "lower nine streams", the rules of the pear garden industry that followed Ruo Guigao were not worth anything in the face of all authority. Sometimes even the ugly deeds that have some privileges in the drama team have to lower the head that is not arrogant.

The ugly "Son of the Old Bird" (whose real name is unknown) of the "Fifth Class Opera" almost lost his job because he sang a play that the audience liked very much, fortunately, he also performed his profession to the fullest in his life and finally escaped the disaster, but his good play was never seen again.

It is said that it was a singing in Gaocheng once, and the "son of the old bird" played a county official in a certain play. Only to see him wipe the squares on his face, wear a black veil on his head, and read the lines in the play in his mouth on stage: "This county, since taking office, first sell cypress trees, and then sell barn grain..." That means that it is a satire on the county officials' corruption and bribery, looting the people's fat and people's ointment, and even the cypress trees in the yamen and the official grain in the granary. The audience originally liked the play of "Old Bird Son", and coupled with the fact that he showed the ugly face of a corrupt official to the fullest, the applause from the audience was naturally incessant. It just so happened that Tong Mou, an official in Haocheng County at that time, also went to see the play, perhaps because he had a ghost in his heart, or he felt that this play was insinuation to himself, and he couldn't hang up on his face. Therefore, without waiting for the "old bird son" to remove his makeup, Tong Mou ordered someone to call him to the backstage. When he met Tong, he deliberately greeted him with courtesy and gave him to the supreme seat: "You are the county grand master who should be seated!" At this moment, he frightened an "old bird son" and immediately fell to his knees and said, "Lord, you are real, I am fake, you can't do this!" Tong Mou said: "You didn't say that since the county took office, first sell cypress trees, and then sell barn grain!" The old bird's son hurriedly prostrated his head: "Lord, isn't that singing?" "Well, how much is this play worth I bought!" Tong Xianling said and ordered the people to throw ten pieces of ocean on the ground and continued, "In the future, this play is not allowed to be sung again!" ”

The "son of the old bird" did not get these ten oceans, I don't know, but he has never sung this play since then, and only left the story of "ten oceans selling dramas" in the industry. Today, when this story is used as a talking point and is eaten by people, how can it not make people sigh that "there is art under the power"?