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 78: All Wearing
Subtitle of this chapter: No book can be written without clothes!
As an online literature enthusiast and a street writer, our Master Yuan naturally wants to copy online literature. Of course, most online literature is not worthy of his high standards, but there are still a few pearls in the ocean that are worth copying.
For example, "Lin Gao Qiming" and "Red Dawn"... these two Xiao Ming books are of course impossible, don't even think about it.
In fact, Godzilla's "Rules the World" is not at all inconsistent or abrupt when placed in the 1920s. Instead, it is very in line with the pulse of that era.
First of all, the protagonist of this book, Han Dachui, does not behave out of line in the eyes of "modern people" at that time. For example, in the love story of the book, Han Gang does not deliberately refuse to take a concubine to add fragrance to his life, nor does he deliberately oppose arranged marriages due to political needs, which is very consistent with the mainstream view of marriage and love in Seres at that time.
As a time traveler, Han Dachui is a Song Dynasty man who follows the local customs, but in fact he does not take the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues seriously, otherwise he would not have wielded a sledgehammer in the court. This naturally won praise from new intellectuals.
Secondly, Han Dachui has been tinkering with it for most of his life but has not been able to make my Great Northern Song Dynasty surpass the level of the First Industrial Revolution.
On the contrary, the "Industrial Party" idea of overall industrialization of society was a refreshing change for the Seres who were ignorant and couldn't find the direction to move forward at that time. Especially for some people with aspirations, it really opened the door to a new world.
Finally, and of course most importantly, there are no overly advanced social theories in "Zaizhi Tianxia".
For the Seres at this time, democracy and republic were no longer just slogans, but a universally accepted social consensus. The republic with a nominal monarch and representative government still had a large market.
In addition, the compromise solution of using "Qi Xue" to reform Confucianism instead of completely abandoning it was very much to the taste of old-style intellectuals. It was a tradition for intellectual elites and political elites to discuss politics. Restoring the rule of the Three Dynasties was an excuse that no one could find fault with. Therefore, old-school intellectuals like Yuan Yanshu's father could also accept this book. Kang Nanhai even felt that it was "plagiarism" of his "A Study of the New Learning and the False Classics" and "A Study of Confucius' Reforms".
Unfortunately, "Xiao Yuan has no regard for his dignity at all" and bluntly accused "that old fool who still has a braid" of trying to ride on his popularity.
Old Kang was so angry that he fainted. In a rage, he wrote a time-travel novel about himself traveling back in time to assist Emperor Guangxu in reviving the Qing Dynasty. The name of the novel was "Wan Qing". When it was serialized in the "Ta Kung Pao", it received unanimous praise from the old and young in the north. The former Qing emperor Aixinjueluo Puyi was a big fan of this book. Every time a chapter was read, he would "reward" a good thing to "Master Kang".
Our Master was not vague. In response, he immediately "wrote" a book "Attack the Qing Dynasty" and serialized it in Shenbao. For unknown reasons, he used the pen name "Huafeng" in this book. "White elephant" is not a good word in the Western context, and "Wugu Daochang" is too easy to remind people of the place where the five grains are reincarnated, so he chose Huafeng.
In fact, this novel is not Gray Panda's "Attack the Qing Dynasty", but his "Stealing the Ming Dynasty". However, as a Hongmen sage who is determined to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, the title "Stealing the Ming Dynasty" is too politically incorrect.
However, "Master Kang" was old and in poor health, and he died in 1927 without finishing "Wan Qing". The battle between Ming and Qing was won by the young and energetic "Huafeng".
In a word, just as Mr. Hongjian expected, "The Prime Minister of the World" became an instant hit. Even though the book was never completed, he firmly established himself as the number one writer of vernacular Chinese.
This was not a title that our "Mr. Hongjian" proclaimed himself, but was recognized by all sectors of society and both left and right factions at that time.
Why was it that Master Yuan could criticize anyone he wanted in the next twenty or thirty years without being affected by those he criticized? In addition to his own black technology system, his name also made those who wanted to deal with him very fearful.
Not to mention his other identities, just based on his reputation as the first person to write vernacular Chinese, whether he was killed or arrested, the political consequences would be something that not only the Serbian political leaders, but even the world powers might not be able to afford.
However, what he did not expect was that the influence of this novel was so great that it led to a deviation in the development direction of the entire Chinese literary world. After that, there was no book without a travelogue!
For example, Zhang Henshui, the leader of the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School", was inspired by "Zai Zhi Tian Xia" and actually specialized in the Red Mansion time travel literature...
Like the original timeline , he wrote a novel called "True and False Gem" in 1922, but the original novella became a long time-travel novel.
The general idea of " True or Fake Baoyu" is similar to the later time-travel novels of the Dream of the Red Chamber, which is the story of a "modern person" who travels through time to Jia Baoyu to revive the Jia family and open a harem. Of course, this novel was well received, even more popular than "Prime Minister of the World", making him a lot of money.
When Yuan Yanshu saw this novel, her mood was very, very, very complicated. She had to find an opportunity to personally persuade Zhang Henshui not to be obsessed with writing time-travel novels about the Dream of the Red Chamber , and not to care too much about monetary interests, but to shoulder her social responsibility and write some "realistic" novels that reflect real life.
Fortunately, Xiao Zhang was quite obedient, and he finally wrote "The Story of a Noble Family" and "Tears and Laughter", but his famous work "Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ming Dynasty" "disappeared" on this timeline.
Unfortunately, our Master Yuan could only control Zhang Henshui of the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School", but not others, especially the new-school martial arts novelists.
These guys already think that writing martial arts novels is a bit of a loss, so when they see such high-end and classy subject matter as time-travel novels, they might as well pounce on it like wolves and tigers.
After returning to China, Yuan Yan soon discovered that there was a character who looked like a time traveler in the book "Legends of Jianghu" written by Pingjiang Bushoushen in the early 1920s. You should know that this book is the pioneer of modern martial arts novels, and some people even call it the first authentic martial arts novel in China.
Mr. Hongjian had no choice but to write a personal letter to him, urging him to remove the role. However, Pingjiang Bushoushen refused, saying that even if Mr. Yuan didn't like it, he was unwilling to change it. Mr. Yuan had to give up in dismay.
This is nothing. What is more exaggerated is that in the late 1920s, Huanzhu Louzhu did not write "The Legend of Swordsmen of Shu Mountain", but wrote "The Legend of the Righteous Hero of Dianchi Lake".
This is actually a historical time-travel novel with elements of fairy tales, with the main theme of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. It tells the story of five time travelers and immortal practitioners, "Three Heroes and Two Clouds", who assisted Prince of Jin Li Dingguo in rebuilding the country, restoring the Ming Dynasty, wiping out "you know" and "you know", and fighting against the European Church... A certain time traveler could not help but admire this man's imagination.
When Yuan Yanshu saw in the late 1930s that the male and female protagonists of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Luo Xiaohu and Yu Jiaolong were a pair of college students who committed suicide to resist arranged marriage and traveled through time, he was so accustomed to it that he didn't even have the energy to complain.
By the end of the 1940s, Mr. Hongjian finally realized that because of his appearance, the Chinese novel world had collapsed beyond repair.
At that time, he simply gave up and tried his best to reach 99.99% S value, and copied the most indescribable time-travel novel in history. Of course, he did not publish it under his real name, but used the pen name "Shen Ji".
This book also became "the first strange book in the Republic of China" and "the first banned book in the Red Dynasty."
Who is the God Machine? This question has also become a major unsolved case in the Seres literary world.
