Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 37 Occam
Chapter Subtitle: There Are Atheists in Foxholes
"Master Ball, is there anything wrong with it?!"
"I am still the elder of Comrade Jianfeng and his brother who is from a different father and mother. I don't want to be a pioneer of armored vehicles or a mentor to Patton!"
This is not wrong. He is not much older than Chuanlin Beitui, Tianmo Chuanren, Jundao Shaquan and other people. They are of the same generation and can be called brothers. And it is absolutely not an exaggeration for him to call Xiao Jiang and Xiao Dai "nephews".
"Host, do you want to refuse this temporary mission? Well, I will subtract three points of your strength..."
"Master Ball, wait!"
Our Master Yuan was thinking in his mind, if I really only have seven points of strength, then I would be powerless, because the chicken is stronger than me, how can I eat chicken in the future?
If you don't do it, you will lose three points of strength. If you do it and fail, you will also lose three points. So you might as well give it a try.
The question is, in what ways can I be a mentor to others?
Armored clusters, deep assaults, air-ground integrated warfare, and blitzkrieg that combines all three into one... Stop kidding, the military science program in the Master Ball is not open right now!
Of course, a fake military fan like him could speak a few words, but that was all. Yuan Yanshu didn't know what the armored forces at all levels were like, whether in World War I, World War II, the Cold War, or the post-Cold War era.
Who is Major Patton? He is one of the founders of the first tank unit in the United States. He also served as the brigade commander of one of the brigades with the rank of brigadier general (temporary rank). He personally fought on the French front and currently serves as a member of the U.S. Army Tank Commission. He can be called a true tank warfare expert of this era.
A time traveler can't conquer everything. If someone asks him a few basic military knowledge, he will be exposed immediately. In this way, he can still be a mentor to others.
What should I do if this road is blocked?
As Master Yuan quickly browsed through Major Patton's detailed resume, his heart was moved...
"Neo? Brother Hongjian!"
"Ah, what's the matter?" Yuan Yan, who was immersed in thought, asked in confusion.
Major Cao Linsheng asked with concern: "Neo, are you okay?"
It turned out that the three West Point alumni were chatting for a while and noticed that the Chinese writer next to them seemed distracted, so Major Cao couldn't help but call out to him.
Yuan Yan suddenly took a look at her Haute Horlogerie watch. This train would reach its destination, Washington, in just over two hours. It seemed that time was a bit tight.
"Me? I'm fine." He looked up at the inquiring eyes of the three officers and immediately made up an excuse : "Major Patton just mentioned my "Detective Dee" and we are on the train now, so I thought of a detective story about trains."
"Hahaha, Mr. Yuan is indeed a writer. He can be creative anytime and anywhere." Captain Arnold said with a smile: "Well, this is the first time I have seen a novelist burst with inspiration."
Major Patton also asked with great interest: "Mr. Yuan, can you tell us about your idea? I have always been very interested in detective novels. Hey..."
He didn't know why he suddenly sighed and said sadly, "Even I want to write one myself."
This guy must have been too idle recently, so he had such an idea. But Patton's writing style is really good, and he is also a master of quotes. His most famous quote is that one drop of blood saves ten drops... Well, a pint of sweat can save a gallon of blood!
"No problem. Since you are interested, I am naturally happy to have an officer as my audience. By the way, do you know Express d'Orient?"
His "creativity" is naturally Agatha Christie's most famous "Murder on the Orient Express", but because this novel is not yet in his database, he just roughly talked about the idea.
Captain Arnold was the quickest to react. After listening to the story, he asked, "Mr. Yuan, do you mean that all the people in this carriage are murderers? Did they conspire to kill the villain?"
Yuan Yan nodded and said, "Bingo! You are right."
Major Cao Linsheng then asked, "So what should the protagonist do ? Arrest them all?"
"Well..." Master Yuan glanced at Major Patton meaningfully and said, "God may be absent, but justice will not..."
"Gentlemen, would you like to order dinner?"
The four of them looked up and saw that it was already dark outside the car window. It was indeed time for dinner. So they naturally started ordering food.
"What do you want, sir?"
Finally, it was our Master Yuan's turn. He took the menu, glanced at it and said, "Waiter. Let's have Set A. Oh, and the main course, seafood pasta, for five... Never mind, let's have three servings."
The other person asked very naturally, "Sir, are you eating alone?"
Yuan Yan rolled her eyes and said, "Of course, I didn't have lunch."
"Oh well……"
After ordering the dishes, Major Patton said thoughtfully: "Mr. Yuan, I think your story of the murder on the Orient Express and The Case of the Bronze Bell have the same idea..."
"The Case of the Bronze Bell" tells the story of a group of lewd monks in a Buddhist temple called Puci Temple, who used tricks like pretending to be gods to harm many female believers.
As we all know, Empress Wu Zetian of the Zhou Dynasty was a die-hard fan of Buddhism in order to fight against the Li Tang Dynasty. She even kept a monk as her lover. Therefore, even if the case was reported, these bald monks would not be punished.
So after Di Renjie used his clever memory to capture the lecherous monk, he deliberately sent all the town troops out to suppress the bandits, giving the angry people the opportunity to rush into the temple and kill all the captured monks.
Finally, he obtained the forgiveness of his superiors by submitting official documents in a timely manner, and took all the blame for his own dereliction of duty. This not only allowed the monks who overturned the verdict to be successfully executed, but also cleared the rioting masses of their charges.
The real author of "Detective Dee" Robert van Gulik, indeed has the bearing of a Chinese scholar-official. The Di Renjie he created not only adheres to the principle of "righteousness is more important than life", but is also good at making compromises.
For example, in "Chaoyun Temple", the protagonist Di Renjie actually killed the highly respected Taoist priest Sun Tianshi himself, and lied to the outside world that he had fallen and escaped unharmed. This is a very rare plot in Seres' case novels and early Western detective novels.
"Oh, I haven't realized this myself." Yuan Yan hesitated for a moment and said, "Major Patton, you are right. The ideas of my two novels are indeed consistent. The law is just a means, and justice is the real goal."
“As for God and Buddha…” He shrugged and said a sentence in Latin, “Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.”
"Don't add entities unless necessary!"
