Summary of the second volume and a letter of apology and a small record of the opening of the book i
Come up first and report the results to everyone as usual.
I just took a look at the background. Before the new chapter was released, the average number of orders was 11,976. When it was first released, there were less than 10,000 orders. It took a week or two to catch up. In other words, the average increase was 2,000 in two months? Rounding is a bit exaggerated, because there is a dull period in the middle.
Period, I am very excited to have this result.
The 24-hour subscription is very exaggerated. Although I took a leave of absence for the last chapter and there is no latest accurate data, in fact, according to my observation, even the dull period is more than 7,000, and the climax of the chapters in the second half of the volume increases very quickly.
, as of the previous chapter, the number of follow-up orders within 24 hours has reached 8,500, which is an exaggerated figure, close to 9,000, but the follow-up orders within a week are still less than 10,000.
What is this indicating?
This shows that this book is the same as the previous book. The overall score may not be particularly popular, but once everyone reads it, they can read it. The so-called reader stickiness is quite high.
Then after talking about the results, I naturally wanted to use this to apologize.
This achievement, this renewal, logically speaking, any rubbish writer should write 10,000 words a day and die in front of the computer to repay your kindness... But in fact, I am still the same person as when I wrote this book, doing nothing at all.
Tune, I am rushing to type at night, and occasionally my schedule breaks down, which can lead to bad things.
At this time of the epidemic, the capital is still responding to the first level. 996 companies like iQiyi are fined if they want to work, and Didi also rotates working from home, so there is no need to talk about others, so I can continue to work all day long at this crappy job.
I work at home. But I don’t know anything else about working at home. This schedule is a daily routine, because I often stay up late with a compulsive compulsion to compensate.
For example, I just asked for leave this time... There's nothing to say about responsibility. It's just that I'm too loose and can't control myself.
My work and rest were reversed, and I wanted to adjust, so I updated a chapter in advance. Then, logically, everything should be fine, I should go to bed early, relax for a day, and be in a good state to end this volume. But in fact, I checked Zhihu that night and made up for it.
I bought a new game, the cheapest thing is that I bought "Mount and Blade 2" in the early morning on the recommendation of a certain boss in the group, and then played it until dawn.
After catching up on my sleep, which was the night I asked for leave, I was completely confused. The back of my head hurt after sitting for a while... It was obvious that something was not right physically and mentally, and I couldn't think of anything smoothly. I wrote more than a thousand words and stopped there.
, it was two o'clock in the morning when I opened my eyes, and then I sent a leave request note.
To be honest, it's very embarrassing. It's not good for your health. You might die suddenly. It also hurts the feelings of book lovers.
But I just can't control my undisciplined personality.
Before the master made the appointment, I had already started to take advantage of the epidemic to lay off employees with the company, but to be honest, let alone the final result, if I were to be full-time, I would probably be more unorganized.
All in all, I want to admit my mistake first. This update, these requests for leave, and my lack of laxity are all for your follow-up updates and the results you gave me.
Then, back to the content.
What is this volume about?
It's very simple. If the first volume is about the protagonist as a person, this volume is about the protagonist as an 'official'... There is a difference between the two.
The former is a person and the latter is an identity.
Therefore, despite the unpleasantness of this time-travel identity, the first volume still has a lot of sense of immersion and excitement, while the second volume is a little more focused on the situation at hand, which leads to a lot of words in the first half of the volume describing the protagonist and Nanyang.
The bureaucracy is a bit dull when interacting with it.
But this is necessary and natural, because as an official, the bureaucracy naturally operates around the protagonist, and it can best highlight the identity of the emperor...especially if the people inside are singled out, all of them are talented and speak well.
It sounds nice...it will bring an extreme sense of security and accomplishment to the protagonist.
Therefore, at the beginning, Zhao Jiu would naturally choose to rely on this bureaucracy, which he had recently seen and seemed to be very powerful, and hoped that the bureaucracy would be reformed and operate well.
Even until now, we cannot lose the rationality and sense of existence of the bureaucracy... Because compared to Han Shizhong who drank soldiers' blood on a large scale and was lustful, Zhang Jun was greedy for money, and even Fan Qiong skinned people, the personal behavior of civil servants
The moral level is relatively high... In fact, the Song Dynasty was so bad that it could not be as simple as a civil servant who harmed the country. If we really talk about average quality, under the great rout, there was no limit to the abuse of force.
The performance of the generals is worse, and the badness is more thorough, unlike the civil servants who look good when taken alone.
It can only be said that Han Shizhong, who has a bad character but is still capable and willing to serve the country, is indeed a rare animal. Even Zhang Jun, who is greedy for money and is willing to obey, can be regarded as an extraordinary general.
As for the anti-gold heroes of the Tokyo Remaining Division, they are also a very complicated group.
In the conventional view of history, because of Zongze's protection of them and Du Chong's suppression of them, as well as the halo bonus of being Yue Fei's comrade, they entered a positive narrative state... Of course, this is indeed the case,
At that time, when the Song-Army war was the primary conflict, those who could resist the Jin were of course heroes.
Then what?
After a little understanding, you will know how much these people have gone too far in losing their restraints... When Zhang Yu drove the common people to join the army in a swarm, he forced them to fight each other. This is a typical figure of the Tokyo Remaining Division.
If you look at one side, they are heroes, but if you look at the other side, they deserve to be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.
There is another rebel who is not affiliated with the Tokyo Left Behind Division, but is more typical... Shao Qing.
Just read one piece of historical information about this person, and you will be moved to tears... In history, when the Jin army crossed the river, Shao Qing, as the commander of the navy who wanted to surrender, had only one boat, and it was a small boat with only 18 sailors.
Facing the thousands of troops of the Jin Army, he had only one boat and went out to meet the enemy in a single boat. He returned with all his arrows... Compared with Du Chong and Wang Xie, who were spineless civil servants and generals at the same time, he was simply huge.
hero!
Based on this incident, who dares to say that he is not an anti-gold hero?
What next? If you check the information carefully, you will find a historical record in a nook and cranny. It records that when he was a thief, when he attacked the city, he held everyone in the villages around the city together and used a knife to force these people to fill in.
They were building a trench and paving the road, and at the same time, they were trying to find the pregnant woman trapped in it, and perform a caesarean section to remove the fetus in front of everyone... What were you doing?
It's not for eating, it's for divination.
Based on this historical data, who dares to say that he is qualified to be a hero? Can the Jin Army be more cruel and barbaric than this? Fan Qiong, who represents the lowest level of fallen military generals, is even more advanced than him in skinning people!
But this man was eventually surrendered, became the commander, and then moved forward...
Of course, Shao Qing is an extreme person, so extreme that I dare not write about him, only Fan Qiong.
But most of the rebels and thieves are complicated, and there is a mix of good and bad, and there are really all kinds of people... I only started to come into contact with the historical materials of the Song Dynasty when I started the book.
One conclusion is that, generally speaking, these rebels and bandits who have lost their restraints are really more degenerate than the official army.
Why? It’s not because the officers and soldiers are great, but because on the one hand, there is uncontrolled abuse of force, and the evil of human nature is unbridled in troubled times; on the other hand, there are some restrictions, and the court and the system are restraining these people.
So at that time, there was a reason why Han Shizhong, who had all the five evils, looked down on these people and would often trick them into killing them. There was also a reason why Li Yanxian was eager to be recognized by the court as a regular army from the beginning... Who wants to be regarded as such a person?
It is even more reasonable for civil servants to hate these people.
Of course, Yue Fei, who is roughly the same as these people and is an exiled soldier in Hebei, is a special example. He cannot be compared with others. This man has become a role model for Chinese soldiers for thousands of years because of his uniqueness.
Where... I often argue with people in the group that there are two points in Yue Fei. One is his simple but great patriotism... that is, the shame of Jingkang has not yet abdicated, and the hatred of the officials, when will it be destroyed; the other is
Breaking through the simple bottom-class perspective and feelings of the times, and at the same time truly treating the people at the bottom as human beings... He would also starve to death without looting, freeze to death without demolishing the houses.
Any one of these two things can allow a person to break through the shackles of the times, let alone two of them. And with these two things in his body, what is it about big eyes, drunkenness and beating people? It makes him come back to life from a god and become a human.
Just the elements.
In fact, the name Yue Fei itself has a certain specific situation in Chinese culture. Similarly, Gandhi and Saladin actually need two people to share the nickname "Mahatma", which seems insufficient.
When a person is great to a certain extent, the name he speaks becomes lyrical.
However, because of his halo, we cannot think too well of people with similar backgrounds to him... Returning to the historical situation, we must avoid this situation.
In short, after going back to the front, after talking about so many emotions, I have to say it again. No matter how complicated and depraved these people are, you have to admit that the situation has become like this in those years. If you want to clean up the situation militarily, there will be no remaining troops.
, Rebels, all objects that can be united militarily must be united, then restrained, and used. Only in this way can victory be achieved as early as possible.
And just as Zhao Jiu said when questioning Du Chong, only after the war ends, these things that destroy human nature will disappear, and people will be qualified to be human beings.
In fact, this is the greatness of Zongze. He sees more clearly and understands the deep-seated contradictions or the root causes of them. He knows the necessity of this force.
Relatively speaking, the people in the bureaucracy are all decent and good people when taken individually. After forming a system together, they cannot become an efficient machine in a short period of time. What's more, the Jin Army will not give the protagonist this integration
Opportunities in the bureaucracy... Or maybe, fortunately, Jin Jun came quickly and did not let him be assimilated into the comfort zone of the bureaucracy.
Therefore, in the second half of this volume, facing a realistic military dilemma, the protagonist who wakes up has no choice but to go up Liangshan in silence on a snowy night, instead of dying in silence.
So there was a sudden excitement in the second half of the plot.
But two things must be said here... One is that from a plot perspective, the protagonist is greedy for heaven. He is actually using Zongze's legacy and remaining power to complete his redemption. There is no Zongze to clean up the country.
After so many people, the protagonist didn't even have the capital, so he completely woke up when facing Zongze, and then wrote that poem, because he found the other leg he was missing, and another leg in Zongze.
the true path;
On the other hand, from the author's point of view, I would like to say that what I wrote in this paragraph is actually not very good... because it could have been better. As you all know, that part of the story has been updated on time, and it is very well done, so good that I even
I'm a little proud. But in fact, many times when it's very late, I've only written half or two-thirds of a chapter. At this time, I often rush to write the last three minutes in half an hour or an hour.
One or even half of the chapters come out, dry and without polish, which makes the plot that could have been more climax feel like it didn't reach the climax at the end of the chapter.
So I still have to apologize.
But no matter what, the Zhao Guan family found their own dimly lit place and planted so many life and death talismans, so we won’t go into any emotional analysis.
Let’s talk about a few short plots as usual.
Historically, Zhao Gou did rely on promoting Su Shi and using Su Shi as an introduction to promote his political stance. Then he roughly inherited the old party posture of Song Qinzong, but showed it in a more vague and graceful way.
of.
In addition to the political gesture of posthumously presenting Su Shi as Taishi, he also had historical jokes that revealed his true feelings by inscribing Su Shi's original works.
In history, after Zhang Jun resigned as prime minister, there was also a joke about recommending people. At that time, Song Gaozong wanted him to recommend Qin Hui. As a result, Zhang Jun, who had a good relationship with Qin Hui in the past, had already discovered that the other party was a bad person, so Song Gaozong asked
, he immediately bluntly said that this person has no virtue and cannot be a prime minister.
Then Zhao Gou asked again, actually wanting him to recommend Zhao Ding again. As a result, Zhang Jun knew the other person's intentions, but he didn't say anything... He knew that Zhao Ding was stronger than Qin Hui, but he was constrained by the confrontation between the two and did not say anything.
So Zhao Gou activated Zhao Ding, but Zhao Ding could no longer have a tacit understanding with Zhang Jun. The group of people who had escaped from the Imperial Academy during the Jingkang Incident in the past parted ways.
Then Zhao and Zhang were eliminated, and Qin Hui took advantage of the situation... I can only say that as a civil servant, his thinking in this system is very excessive...
But on the other hand, in the book, before Zhang Jun left, he finally recommended Hu Yin, who had already had a serious conflict with him. In fact, the joke was used in reverse... At least the protagonist had heartfelt feelings and trust in him, so he chose to follow the path without thinking.
Do it according to the official's wishes.
There is no historical source of the sworn alliance among the Ten Commands, but in history, after the collapse of the Tokyo Remaining Division, there were indeed scenes of cliques forming and then sworn alliances, and there were more than one scene.
Even after forming cliques, there were conflicts with each other on several mountaintops.
Among them, in history, after Ma Gao, a representative figure of loyalty to the Song Dynasty, was killed by other governors in rebellion, Yi Zhangqing should have defected to Lu Qing, because Lu Qing recognized her as his goddaughter and married him to him through marriage.
Later, Lu Qing was defeated or died in battle. Zhang Yong and her became exiled army thieves together, and Yue Fei surrendered their father and mother. It was a good result. And it can be seen from the historical narrative.
People like Ma Gao, Yi Zhangqing, and Zhang Yong have a certain bottom line, and they are definitely indispensable for coercing ordinary people into serving as soldiers, but compared to others, they still have a simple sense of morality.
But what's interesting is that after Yi Zhangqing remarried, she still called herself Madam Ma. She went into battle under the banner of Madam Ma and was known as a loyal martyr... Anyway, Zhang Yong should have no objection.
Wang Shan is also very interesting. In the chaotic stage, he had the largest number of soldiers and horses in the early stage, and was once the most powerful. Zhang Yong also attached himself to him, and many so-called sworn brothers also followed him. When he also attacked the city defended by the Song Dynasty official army, he said
He once said the words "redefining the rich and the poor, the noble and the humble".
Moreover, this person never surrendered to the Jin Army and the Puppet Qi during his early activities. He insisted on the bottom line and worked hard to climb up.
However, later, when his mother was traveling with him, she slipped and fell into the water and died. Wang Shan, who was originally very ambitious and capable, immediately lost his motivation to fight. In the end, he became discouraged and surrendered to the Jin Army or the Puppet Qi.
It has since disappeared from history.
And these people, Wang Shan, Li Kui, Li Bao after illness, Yi Zhangqing who remarried, oh, and Hu Cheng, and even Shao Qing, who killed pregnant women to obtain fetal divination, but bravely resisted gold, should be the "Water Margin" in later generations
The inspiration for "The Biography".
They are an extremely complex group that is relatively depraved overall, but they are depraved for a reason (they are forced to choose to abuse force by the world).
Therefore, the key here is that the reason for their universal and overall degeneration is simply because there is a lack of someone to replace Zongze to restrain and organize them.
In the book, the protagonist appears and even casts a life-and-death charm.
Then because of the presence of the protagonist, people who originally had regrets can let go, innocent people who would have fallen are saved from degradation, and the day will come to a brighter future... Not to mention.
This is the fundamental joy of historical time-travel novels. It should be the result of the mutual resonance between a certain simple and positive moral sense deep in everyone's hearts, history and novels.
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I wrote so many words without realizing it, why don’t I have the energy to update?