I fought back after reselling my engagement

During the Dragon Boat Festival, people were busy planting yam. Because there were many people on the farm this year, Su Zhen went around but did not go to the fields. Only farmers who had done these jobs before would teach those who were learning.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, a Peking Opera troupe performed the first Peking Opera at the Yueyang Grand Theater, and the tickets were sold out early.

Because it was a festival, Su Jingzhai brought his whole family to sit in the private room that he had reserved all year round. The room was located on the second floor with a wide view, from which one could see the stage. The costumes for the Peking Opera Legend of the White Snake were specially made, all of which were paid for by the troupe members themselves.

Cui was very excited when watching the play. In the past, she could always find a lot of faults with it, but this play had a large cast, with different appearances, including all kinds of weird appearances, and the singing style was different from that of Huangmei Opera.

The first performance of the Peking Opera "The Legend of White Snake" was a great success in Yueyang Prefecture. On the second day, the Peking Opera troupe returned to the capital under the escort of court officials and soldiers.

On the first day of June, the Kunqu opera "The Peony Pavilion" was performed for the first time. Tickets were also hard to get. This time the style and appearance were different. In addition, it was Chun Xiao's first appearance after changing to Kunqu opera. Her moving voice and beautiful figure brought the performance to climax again and again.

After the successful performance, the Kunqu Opera troupe returned to the capital.

Chunxiao stayed, and there were other Kunqu opera troupes in Baixianzhuang.

Due to the emergence of Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera in the capital, the early Huangmei Opera moved from being performed in large theaters to temple fairs and teahouses. The geishas who came out of the palace music houses quickly mastered the drama and many "stars" emerged.

As the major official music houses also expanded their theatrical business, more and more people began to sing operas. In order to change their fate, the courtesans studied hard and several "famous actors" with special styles emerged. Mao Wuniang, who later took the stage name "Yingge", also stood out from the crowd.

Su Zhenzhen devoted himself to writing "Mathematics for Children", which covers the most basic mathematics, from addition and subtraction to multiplication and division. It is divided into five volumes and introduced Arabic numerals and the symbols for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in mathematics.

It took several months to complete it. After the revision, the book was handed over to the printing house for typeset printing, with a total print run of 10,000 copies.

By the time she finished revising the fifth volume, the first four volumes had already been printed.

When the fifth volume was printed, 100 copies were sent to the palace, 60 copies to Su Jingzhai, 10 copies were kept for himself, and the rest were distributed to various cities: Beijing, Luoyang, Jinling, Yueyang, Kaifeng, Jinyang, etc. 3,000 copies were sent to Beijing, 1,000 copies to Luoyang, 1,000 copies to Jinling...

This time, she did not ask Su Jingzhai to proofread the "Mathematics for Children", but instead asked the masters from the weaving group and printing group to help with the proofreading. Their names were compiled into "Reviewer: So-and-so". She was the editor, so they were listed among them. She couldn't let others contribute without even leaving their names.

Printing houses and paper mills will be removed, and paper mills will spring up like mushrooms after rain. There will be not only royal and official paper mills, but also aristocratic and private paper mills. The two masters from earlier, because of Su Zhen's strong recommendation, will go to Beijing to work as special papermaking masters and special printing masters in the royal paper mill, enjoying the treatment of the fifth rank, and they are also the best masters in these two industries.

The people from the two neighborhoods had not left yet, and Su Wulang brought Su Sanlang and Su Silang to Baixianzhuang to visit Su Zhen.

After a round of small talk, Su Wulang said, "Princess, my uncle wants to buy the tools from the printing and paper mills, and then transport them to the Su family's bookshop and paper mill in the capital for use."

There are quite a few movable type here, and even some book engravings: engravings of "Thousand Character Classic" and "Three Character Classic", and they are the first editions. These children's books can be used in the future. When Su Zhen went to the printing house to take a look that day, when his hand touched these two sets of engravings, he discovered the special spiritual power in them. Even the music score engravings, although they were just blank music scores without notes on them, also had special spiritual power.

She stored the engravings with special spiritual powers in the study room of the Golden Bead Space. She had a feeling that these things would be of great use in the future.

Chinese characters printed using movable type do not have these special powers.

Su Zhen asked, "Earlier, the Zhou, Li, and Xie families wrote to mention this matter. The Xie family offered thirty thousand taels of silver."

They offered such a high price without even seeing the items. In fact, those items were not even worth three thousand taels of silver. Without craftsmen and masters, the items at that time would have been worthless.

Su Silang was surprised, "Princess, you want money?"

"Okay, I won't take thirty thousand taels of silver, just give me two thousand taels of silver. Master Zu and Master Lu are leaving. They have helped me a lot in the past few years. I want to give you a farewell red envelope."

Someone offered thirty thousand taels, but she only charged two thousand taels, which was a very fair price.

Su Zhen saw off Master Zu and Master Lu, and gave each of them 10,000 taels of silver.

From now on, they will be prominent figures in the capital. This money will be used for them to buy houses and property in the capital. Although they have some savings after coming here, they all have their own intentions.

Master Zu clasped his fists and said, "Princess, now that you are in the capital, you can come to me if you have anything to ask!"

"The princess has given us an order, and we have no choice but to obey!"

"You are technical officials, and you are usually not found in official circles, but you still need to be cautious and think twice before you act. Think more, do more, and talk less."

"Thank you for your parting words Princess."

Zu and Lu, along with their sons and disciples, boarded a large ship bound for the capital. Also leaving with them were disciples and servants from various families who had come to learn the techniques of papermaking and printing.

The day after they left, the servants of the Su family's main branch packed up all the tools used in the paper mill, the templates used in the printing house, movable type blocks, etc., and took away everything that could be taken away. The mud pool of the paper mill had not been dug, but Su Zhen discovered that the mud pool of the paper mill had an indescribable spiritual aura.

That night, when she was sure that no one was around, she entered the paper mill and put the two pools with the most spiritual energy into the open space in the golden bead space. She just thought that they might be of great use in the future.

The paper mill and printing workshop were empty, so she planned to convert them into a carriage workshop, selecting carpenters and blacksmiths from the craftsmen to work here to improve the carriages and vehicles.

She only told the craftsmen about her plan, and the next major project was to "improve vehicles and solve the travel problems of the people."

The workshop had not yet started its reconstruction when Su Jingzhai led his group into Baixian Manor.

Su Zhen was dressed neatly. When he returned to the main courtyard, the flower hall was full of people, and there were several people escorting him outside the courtyard.

Lu Yan clasped his fists and saluted, "I pay my respects to Princess Jiaxing!"

Su Zhen returned the greeting: "Greetings to His Royal Highness the Second Prince! Greetings to Grandfather!"

Su Jingzhai said, "The Second Prince is here to take you to Jiangnan. This time he will take the craftsmen of the loom group to Jinling to make looms, spinning machines, etc. You still need to review what's going on over there."