Do you want to copy——Second Battalion Commander, bring me some of my spaghetti?
Of course, "Bright Sword" won't work. It's still too early for the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Even other classic anti-war novels can't be copied because the full-scale anti-war has not yet broken out.
If we were to write anti-Japanese war novels now, they would have to be related to the four northeastern provinces, which would be particularly difficult.
Therefore, Zhou Hexuan must create his own creation this time.
After thinking carefully for a moment, Zhou Hexuan decided to play a big game. He wanted to write a magnificent masterpiece, not just Anti-Japanese War literature.
Zhou Hexuan asked: "Jingping, do you know anything about breaking into Guandong?"
"Yes, Sir, you want to write a work about the invasion of Guandong?" Duanmu Hongliang suddenly became excited. His ancestral home is in Hebei, and his great-great-grandfather had no choice but to travel to the Guandong due to lack of livelihood. By the time of his great-grandfather, he had developed into a famous landowner in Changtu.
Duanmu Hongliang has grown up listening to stories about breaking into Guandong. How could he not understand?
Zhou Hexuan explained: "I plan to write a long novel about the Northeast, about three families and four generations, from 1850 to the present."
"That is truly a masterpiece!" Duanmu Hongliang exclaimed.
Three families, four generations, a time span of 80 years, is equivalent to a modern history of changes in Northeast China. Once this kind of book is written, it will be a major event that shakes up the Chinese literary world. As long as the writing is not too bad, it will definitely become a classic.
do.
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "I have roughly thought about the content and divided it into five parts. The first part is called "Crossing the Guandong", the second part is called "The Russo-Japanese War", the third part is called "The Storm of Xinhai" and the fourth part is called "
"May 4th Revolution", the fifth part is called "September 18th". I don't know much about the customs and customs of Northeast China, so I need to ask you, Jingping, for advice."
"No problem, I promise to tell everything I know." Duanmu Hongliang said excitedly. He was very honored to be able to participate in the creation of such a masterpiece.
Although Zhou Hexuan made the titles of the five parts of the book so grand, in fact, what he really described was the experiences of three families during the decades of changes in the Northeast. He had even thought about the general structure of the content.
It started in the 1850s when there was a great famine in Shandong. The Qing government at that time had not yet opened up the Northeast, so two poor families from Shandong were forced to travel to Guandong.
The two families were neighbors. One was named Zhong and the other was named Ma. They had a very good relationship.
On the way to Guandong, due to hunger and cold, the Zhong family killed two brothers from the Ma family, took away the remaining food from each other, and fled.
The Zhong family later made their fortune through gold mining, gradually reclaimed wasteland, became famous local landowners, and controlled hundreds of mine protection teams. However, the Ma family froze to death and starved to death, leaving only a pair of orphans and a widowed mother.
After being rescued by a horse bandit, the widow became the wife of the horse bandit leader. She taught her young son every day to avenge his father and uncle.
These are the two families in this book, the Zhong family and the Ma family.
Another family is the Guan family, originally the Guarjia family, one of the eight major Manchu surnames.
The Guan family was originally a general stationed in the Northeast, and was initially ordered to wipe out the gold-mining Zhong family. Later, the Qing government lifted the ban and allowed people in Guan to immigrate to the Northeast. The Guan family quickly colluded with the Zhong family, and even promoted people from the Zhong family to become officials.
Among the contents of the first "Crossing Guandong" are the history of the Zhong family's fortune, the history of blood and tears of the Ma family, and the history of the rule of the Guan family.
At the end of the story, the son of the Ma family who was bent on revenge grew up and fell in love with the daughter of the Zhong family. The daughter of the Zhong family was betrothed to a son of the Guan family. In the end, the Ma family eloped with the daughter of the Zhong family.
The Guan family was so furious that they led the army and the Zhong family's mine protection team to suppress the bandits with all their strength, killing Ma Jiazi's adoptive father and biological mother. The three families formed an inextricable feud from then on.
In the second part of "The Russo-Japanese War", the sons of the Ma family and the Zhong family who eloped have grown up. Because they have accepted new ideas, they do not want to continue to live in the mountains and forests as horse bandits, so they go eastward without telling their parents.
Studying in Japan. As a result, he suffered discrimination in Japan. When he heard that the Russo-Japanese War broke out, he resolutely returned to Northeast China and encouraged his father to help the Russians fight the Japanese.
Because the Zhong family was deceived by the Russians, they spontaneously helped the Japanese and formed a team to support Japan and destroy Russia. The Guan family strictly maintained their neutrality and allowed themselves to be oppressed by Japan and Russia. As a result, they still caused "diplomatic conflicts" and were severely punished by Cixi.
He was reprimanded and his family fortune declined rapidly.
At the end of this part, the Ma family accepted the court's invitation and transformed from bandits into officers and soldiers. Although the Zhong family had been helping the Japanese, their gold mines were looted by the Japanese who won the war.
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In the next three parts of the novel, the three families are hostile to each other due to various conflicts, and are bound by blood and marriage relationships. Each of them embarks on a different path of military, political, and business.
Until the "September 18th Incident" broke out, the Guan family and the Zhong family unanimously defected to Japan and became traitors. But even so, their factories and mines were arbitrarily "requisitioned" by the Japanese, and they could only continue to exploit the poor people with tears.
I want to find what I have lost in the people.
A pair of sons and daughters of the Zhong family were full of patriotism and decided to leave the family. The son took more than a dozen police officers to join the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. After being defeated and injured, he was rescued by the Ma family;
The government arrested and executed him.
Because the Guan family was involved in the struggle for the "imperial throne" of the Puppet Manchukuo Kingdom, their homes were confiscated and exiled. The accumulated family property for hundreds of years was divided up by Puyi and the Kwantung Army. And because the Zhong family helped the Kwantung Army to collect grain, the unbearable farmers joined the Red Spear Association.
, burned the Zhong family's large manor to the ground.
All three families fell due to the fall of Northeast China. The patriotic children of the Ma family and the Zhong family are still galloping on the anti-Japanese battlefield behind enemy lines. Some of the remnants of the Guan family and the Zhong family continue to be traitors, some go to Guan to seek refuge with Zhang Xueliang, and some go south to seek refuge with Zhang Xueliang.
central government.
The Guan family who took refuge with Zhang Xueliang went crazy and wanted revenge, and finally defected to the 29th Army Saber Team. The two families who went south to join the Central Committee had their ships hijacked by Japanese warships due to the Battle of Jehol.
They were all captured and sent to Heilongjiang to work as coolies building anti-Soviet fortifications.
Zhou Hexuan's creative ambition this time is very ambitious. He wants to write a modern epic of the Northeast. Through the rise and decline of three families, four generations, and 80 years, he outlines a picture of the changes in the Northeast, which not only includes the hatred between the country and the family, but also the hatred between the country and the family.
Emotional entanglements also need to show the richness, poverty, and disasters of the Northeast, as well as the spiritual outlook of various classes such as bureaucrats, farmers, workers, and intellectuals.
This is a huge project, with at least 2 million words written down.
Zhou Hexuan didn't even dare to start writing right away. He had to write a complete outline first, as well as the genealogy of the three families, as well as the background information of various classes and various supporting characters. Not only did he have to ask Duanmu Hongliang for help, he also wanted to learn a lot about the journey to Guandong.
stories, but also to understand other aspects of the Northeast.
Fortunately, Zhang Xueliang lived in Zhou Hexuan's home, and the lieutenants and guards around him came from all walks of life in the Northeast. They could become Zhou Hexuan's story library and database.
