Well, don’t get me wrong, this book has no promotion, no traffic resources, no backend boss, no funder, and no PY transaction. I am very pleased with the current results.
What makes people depressed is not the grades, but what is written in the books.
Many people should have noticed that I deliberately did not choose those at the bottom of society to write about.
Because the things written in this way may be very artificial. The author himself never plowed the fields when he was a child, and he never plowed when he grew up, so I can't write the desperate cry of the bottom farmers. I don't want to just copy a paragraph from Zizhi Tongjian
The translation inside is used as the plot.
It does not mean that the more miserable the writing is, the better it can express the style of the times. It is indeed more shocking to readers to pick up a farmer, quote his words, and roar at the protagonist or someone else.
But that is false, or most of it is false. Real farmers are probably people who cannot express themselves clearly in words or sentences. When I was a child, I met fellow villagers in Guizhou. Many of them were harsh and did not speak much.
Use the knife if you don't get along. Not many people are angry and like to yell at others.
The working people at the bottom have their own special way of expressing anger. I guess they don't like to talk too much, and it's even harder for them to speak clearly and clearly so that readers can understand.
So I think the chaos in the prosperous age should not be expressed in this way.
Why do you say this? Because this expression will make readers think that the problems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty are just a few corrupt officials. If these people are eliminated, the world will be peaceful.
If I write like this, then after the copyright is sold in the future, I will clearly tell the readers that I wrote a hot chicken book and it has no reading value at all (after all, I want to eat, and the copyright belongs to me)
When inside, you can’t dismantle your own platform).
The depression of the prosperous Tang Dynasty was not due to the fact that people were starving and dying everywhere, but because society had lost its vitality due to various reasons.
The upward passage for ordinary people has been completely blocked. Each has its own operating passage and various unspoken rules to arrange everything clearly.
What’s even more frightening is that many of the celebrities and good people in the history books are staunch supporters of unspoken rules and senior lickers.
Their image is, to some extent, ugly. Of course, this is a limitation of history.
The prosperous Tang Dynasty was great, but many people actually did not want to return to the prosperous Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion. These people were not the only ones from Hebei.
Even if they didn't live well later.
For example, for some lower-level scholars, the commander-in-chief of the feudal town gave them a chance to get ahead, and their salary was at least three times that of the same official position in the court. Their mentality was very contradictory.
On the one hand, they hope that the feudal town will disappear, but on the other hand, they also understand that if the feudal town disappears, they will most likely transform from human beings into dogs again.
In the plots related to the first and second volumes, there is no "miraculous results from great efforts", nor is there any "turning over from the bottom".
Because there is no so-called "miracle" in this era, no matter whether they are Lao Fang or Xiao Fang, they are not ordinary people. To put it clearly, they are out-and-out powerful people.
The difference is that what Lao Fang wants to do is to maintain this stall that flourished in the Tang Dynasty for generations to come.
But Xiao Fang felt that the fire of the Tang Dynasty was cooking oil, and death was not far away.
In the book, I did not deliberately vilify the scenery and characters of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Even Ji Ge, that was pretty much the case in history.
So this is what really makes people depressed.
There are no "purely damned" people in the book. Everyone is trying to do serious things, and they don't do anything all day just to fight for power and gain.
Li Linfu, the right minister of the Tang Dynasty, was also doing business. He only spent a small amount of time calculating people every day and spent the rest of his time at work!
But even so, the decline and solidification of society is almost visible to the naked eye, appearing between the lines of the article. I don’t know if you feel suffocated when reading it, but I feel suffocating when I write it.
Most of the events in the book, including the robbery by the Hexi frontier army, are based on historical prototypes. In other words, the internal logic and rationality of these events far exceed the estimates of ordinary readers. Even if it is said to be super fancy, it cannot be worth the sentence:
It happened before”.
This is the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty that Xiaofang observed as an "observer" in the early stage. There was the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, but also the atmosphere, and even more despair.
There are good ones and there are bad ones. I try to restore the truth.
In such a society where classes are deeply entrenched and there is almost no respite, what observers can do is also very limited.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, a society full of vitality and despair, everyone was struggling to swim upstream to avoid falling into the waterfall downstream.
But in the end they will find that the deep pool under the waterfall is the beginning of the second round of life!
Every day I have to write this kind of plot that appears to be generous and high-spirited, but actually has hidden troubles, which makes me schizophrenic.
Updates have been slow lately. In addition to family matters to deal with, the specific details of plot selection every day also take up a large part of the time.
I want you to know that the prosperous Tang Dynasty was very powerful. You can fight whoever you want, and you can build any canal you want. I also want you to know that this prosperous age is hopeless. There is no An Lushan, but there is also Li Lushan. It is a contradiction.
There will always be an explosion one day.
The scale and emotional expression behind it often make me hesitate before writing.
It seems that this book cannot be written quickly, so I can only give it more time to write. I strive to make the content of each chapter worthy of the subscription fee, and not use boring plots to cheat money.