To be honest, the feeling I felt after posting the last chapter was not excitement, joy, or relaxation, but emptiness.
Well, very empty.
In fact, when I said I was going to finish it more than ten days ago, I had been happily thinking about what to write after finishing this essay, but at this point, I felt that there was nothing left to write.
Let’s talk about this book.
First of all, is this book considered a eunuch? Is it bad?
Readers have their answers, and I have my answers.
I don't think it counts.
I have written everything that needs to be written. This book was not very professional from the beginning because of my unprofessionalism.
I don’t understand many things about reform, and I don’t dare to write about them in depth.
I don’t understand many changes in science and technology. I don’t understand them, and I don’t dare to write about them. I can only describe them in one stroke, through the great waves of the times, and through the lives of the Guizhou leaders one by one.
Let people see what kind of life this kind of reform has brought to the leaders of Guizhou.
When I started the book, I actually planned to have about 1.6 million to 1.8 million words. Now it is more than 1.3 million, which is a difference of about 200,000 words, but not much.
After all, everyone knows that outlines are useless as soon as they are written.
Secondly, from the perspective of the overall structure of the book, the initial reform must be cautious, but later on when more and more changes are made, and as they get bigger and bigger, they will become faster and faster. It is normal to take big steps.
This feeling of an abrupt end has been something I’ve loved since the beginning.
Especially the last sentence and the last scene of the book, I had been thinking about this scene since the beginning.
Chen Ke sat in the room and looked at the pear blossoms outside the courtyard.
There is a faint fragrance coming from afar.
What secret fragrance?
On the surface, it is the fragrance of pear blossoms, but secretly it also refers to the renewed vitality of Daqin under Fusu's reforms, and the "fragrance" of Daqin's overall hope.
This is called "there is a secret fragrance coming from afar".
Secondly, although I think it is complete, readers may not have read enough, but for me it is really enough.
I am a newbie to sweet and sour, to be honest, really a newbie.
I wrote a book before, but it collapsed after about 400,000 words. It belongs to Lu next door. Writing a long novel this time is also a challenge for me. My ability and strength can only go so far.
Simply put, I personally think my ending is okay, right?
At least it didn't leave a mess or a big hole.
The things of the future are left to the people of the future.
How do you say that?
Each generation has its own long march.
When Wang Jian and Li Si were old, the Long March belonging to the First Emperor's generation had ended.
They achieved peace in the world.
What happened next was actually the next generation when Chen Ke became the Prime Minister of the Left and Xiao He and others occupied the position of Jiuqing.
Scientific and technological reforms are bound to bring pain, and too-rapid reforms and reforms will only bring destruction.
The road must be walked step by step, and the meal must be eaten bite by bite.
Also talk about the plans for the new book and the extra chapters.
First is the extra.
There are five short stories, similar to the question-based extras in Historical Records. There is no charge and free chapters are distributed.
Then there are several hypothetical extras and later episodics, probably four or five.
There will be one episode every three or four days, for a total of ten episodes, which will last until the new book is released.
If the new book is about the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, it will probably be released on Children's Day, July 1st, or the Party Founding Day, July 1st? It depends on my situation at the time.
I have already released the copy before, so I won’t release it anymore. I will release it when I open a new book. Please don’t move the collection out yet.
In the next month or two, I first need to cultivate my body. I also said it when this book was put on the shelves. My emotional and physical state have not been very good in the past few years.
Only when your health is good can you serve everyone better.
The other thing is to read, read more.
In this book, I realized my shortcomings. There were many places I wanted to write about, but I couldn’t write them out because I was too busy and had no information. When I was writing, I wished I could go back to the Qin Dynasty and then write again.
I bought a lot of books, maps, and geography about the late Han Dynasty, and read them bit by bit.
I hope that in the next book, I can really achieve my goal and write a book that can be praised by others, and a book that can be praised by myself and that I can name without hesitation.
We meet in mountains and rivers, and we will see you in the next book.
