Recently, many authors have written summaries, and editors have also asked me. I am lazy and haven’t even written a review before publishing, so I’ll summarize them here.
Beginning in 2013, he covered his head and wrote a book about colonizing the world. He established a country in South America and "annihilated it" (404). Among the 20 million people before the country was founded, Chinese accounted for more than 80%, and the footprints of the Chinese expanded to five continents.
, white people were restricted to the European continent, their luck in rising was interrupted, and concessions were established (laughs), and they were reduced to wage earners from then on.
After writing for a full seven years, my writing habit has solidified into a grand simulated country and social operation perspective, which may not be suitable for the starting point's writing style.
The past is over, the country on the east coast has been destroyed, so I won’t mention it anymore.
I have added a lot of author groups. What the masters constantly emphasize is to establish the characters, establish the characters, establish the characters. They have emphasized it N times. Once the characters are established, nothing else matters, because the readers will be attracted by the characters of the protagonists and supporting characters.
Attract and ignore other things.
I am lagging behind, I have to admit this, and I don’t know the new trend of online writing.
The starting point has a list of characters. I should have been alert, but I ignored it. When I filled it out, I actually filled it all out with the protagonist’s woman. How narrow-minded this is! (laughs)
Many readers may be turned away at first sight, but this is not ten years ago. Readers who leave when they see that there are many women in the protagonist are considered polite, and there are not a few who stay and complain.
In recent years, a new generation has gradually emerged, with particularly upright views. They cannot accept things that are not in line with modern values, even if they are in line with ancient values. I have offended their poisonous point.
The first readers of this book are old readers of my last book.
They may be familiar with my writing style, and I deeply suspect that they all like to play PlayStation games such as "Victoria 2".
Human society is three-dimensional, and of course the society of the late Tang Dynasty was also three-dimensional.
People live on that land, farming, grazing, doing business, serving as officials, fighting wars, etc. Everyone has their own joys, sorrows, and joys, and everyone is playing their own role and engaging in various social activities.
activities, and then constitute the past events that happened in our history.
During this period of time, there was not only competition for hegemony, but also life, culture, and economy, all of which were interdependent.
The economic base determines the superstructure, and war also relies on various social activities. How many people do you have, how much food you produce, how much ordnance you make, how much fiscal revenue you have, how much your expenditures are, how your diplomacy is, and the people's war weariness (name of P company)
High or not, etc.
Society is three-dimensional, and of course war is also three-dimensional. War and hegemony that only exist on the killing field are pale, powerless, cannot withstand scrutiny, and are irrational. This is my point of view.
Our ancient writers focused on highlighting the romance style when writing such historical hegemony articles. What is the romance style is to highlight heroic characters and use epic war actions performed by heroes to heighten a mood of heroism.
For example, I particularly enjoyed watching Angel Oscar's "The Return of the Song Dynasty" back then. New readers may not know much about it, but old readers have probably heard of it.
The part where the protagonist entered Youzhou, fought against Yelu Dashi, and fought against Yin Keshu (I don’t remember the name). Although I knew that the protagonist would definitely win, the process was so fucking thrilling!
There were so many surprises, twists and turns, ups and downs, and in the end, the protagonist and supporting characters exploded and successfully captured Youzhou. The heroic atmosphere almost filled the screen. Of course, our old readers jokingly called it "spreading blood", and this "splashing the sky" seems like
The bloody thing”.
Okay, I'm going too far. What I want to write is a simulated society based on reasonable deduction. This must include not only war, but also agriculture, animal husbandry, commerce, industry, transportation, diplomacy, politics, culture, society and other aspects.
, otherwise, I feel it is too pale and unreal.
Isn’t the pleasure of eroticism the most satisfying when it is close to reality and finally achieves the goal? I find it boring to be mindless.
Some readers may say, I’m just here for fun, so I might as well read a history book when you write this.
But let me show off for a moment. A lot of the knowledge in this book may not be found in history books. I have a handwritten book by Huang Bulaji at home, which talks about all the eunuch families in the Tang Dynasty. The research is so detailed that it is simply outrageous.
.But I searched all over the Internet and found no such information.
Baidu Encyclopedia, let me show off again, I have corrected more than a dozen mistakes, some of which are still too lazy to correct.
Going back to the topic, the history books actually only wrote about one possibility at that time. What I want to simulate now is another possibility with the participation of time-travelers.
When I play games, I always like to choose different forces and experience various possibilities. This book is another possibility of the late Tang Dynasty. I simulated it for everyone's entertainment.
To simulate well, it must appear real, so where is the reality? Fill in various details to make everyone feel that this is a real society. This society is not only about heroes and armies, but also all kinds of other life.
It can be said that this book has just begun. After the protagonist no longer fights everything personally, he will spend more energy on internal affairs such as construction, diplomacy, and politics.
From a writing technical point of view, this is not advisable because readers will find it boring, but I want to be as truthful and reasonable as possible without being too brainless.
For readers who feel that the story of this book is weak and boring, let me first apologize:
① You all probably know the character of the protagonist. He is relatively stable and conservative. He will never take risks if he is not sure.
From the perspective of the story of the novel, it is best to let the protagonist take risks, even if it is unreasonable, because it is easier to set up various unexpected factors, have more dramatic conflicts, and can better arouse the readers' emotions and make them have a sense of expectation.
, you can continue reading.
Today I was in an author group and saw some advice from the masters. The main line of emotions must be tight. The emphasis is on emotions from beginning to end, mobilizing readers’ emotions. Don’t worry about other things. If you master the readers’ emotions, you will succeed. Whether it is playing
Stuffing the whole thing or setting off the atmosphere all serve this purpose.
As far as this book is concerned, setting up various surprises during the protagonist's battle to create suspense in a completely win-win battle will successfully arouse the readers' emotions, but I think it is too intellectual...
Another way that is not too intellectually depressing is to let the protagonist participate in some very difficult and risky actions. For example, let the protagonist who has developed to the current stage attack Hedong. The strength is about the same, and the outcome is suspenseful. It is convenient to set up various
Accidents (such as the participation of other forces), and finally the biggest fruit is harvested at the critical moment, making the enemy regretful and slap them in the face.
But IMHO, this is unreasonable...
From a serious point of view, this is a wrong strategic decision, and normal people would not do it. Although it is very interesting in terms of writing and arouses the readers' emotions, I think it is too intellectual.
In the final analysis, it is unreasonable.
Why should the protagonist be involved in making unreasonable decisions and participating in higher-risk actions? Is it just to attract readers and arouse readers' emotions?
This is not how we attack Hedong. The mountain people have their own clever plans.
②A big secret of mine: writing without an outline...
It’s 920,000 words, and I’m writing without an outline. In fact, the previous book had more than 10 million words, and I didn’t even have an outline...
For readers who say they are bored, what should I say? I will make an outline based on the principle of reasonableness first, and try to set up some ups and downs. But don’t expect too much. I am an old man, with a conservative personality and reasonableness first. Although I can’t do it.
It's completely reasonable, but I will try my best to be reasonable (laughs).
A summary actually lasted more than two thousand words...I am very grateful to the readers who have tolerated me until now, and I hope you will continue to support me.
I will continue to simulate this late Tang society.