This book is written very casually, basically I just write whatever comes to my mind.
It should be said that most of my books are of this type. If you have old readers, you should have some impressions...
At the beginning of this book, I said in the comment area that I wanted to write about the world I envisioned.
A world dominated by Eastern culture and political logic.
The situation and impact of an Eastern imperial court that was not broken by external forces and developed independently into the industrial age.
I try to think in terms of "if this thing started from the East", how would it unfold.
If Easterners were the first to discover something, how would they describe it, such as an armored fighting vehicle?
If Easterners were the first to master a certain technology, what would they do with it, such as making movies and recordings to speak the Analects of Confucius.
How do Easterners think and respond when faced with an event or a social change?
For example, marriage tax avoidance, inheritance tax and gift tax, such as the education and treatment of indigenous people, etc.
For example, issues such as monarchy, constitution, foreign relations, vassal states, etc.
For example, connect binary with Tai Chi Bagua, use Tao to name the first computer, etc.
Try to simulate a world that doesn't exist in this way.
Therefore, I deleted some fantasy pictures of Westernized Ming Dynasty that appeared in the comment section.
For example, there are pictures of the emperor wearing a Ming Dynasty dragon robe and sitting on a Western-style carriage during a military parade.
There are also pictures of men wearing Ming Dynasty prince costumes kissing the hands of Western women.
Because these things are completely contrary to the state of the world that I want to describe in my book.
What I write about is not the Ming Dynasty after the Westernization reform, but the state of the Ming Dynasty that entered the industrial age on its own.
It is the state of the world where the West is influenced by the East, not the reality of the East being influenced by the West.
Of course, this statement is not very accurate, and we cannot be completely immune to Western influence.
This is true in the book, and it is true in reality.
Our thoughts have been profoundly influenced by Western culture, and we cannot truly picture a world without Western influence at all.
I just try my best to change my thinking and think from this perspective.
It will be over when I finish writing what I want to write.
Finally, this statement actually focuses on the setting and the description of the social state.
The storyline of this book is actually very weak.
Because the author's personal abilities are limited, he doesn't quite know how to make the plot enjoyable.
Finally, I rarely read the comment section, sometimes once a week, sometimes not once a month.
Not because I don't care about reviews.
It's because I feel guilty.
I know there will be a bunch of people yelling at me.
I can't even open Writer Assistant to look at the data.
I know that my writing and story construction are actually very rubbish.
Most of the content is an expression of emotions and opinions.
I've been reading the comment section a few times recently, and I've seen some comments that make me feel helpless.
One person probably meant that he was very disappointed, saying that after the protagonist became the emperor, he expected the protagonist to show off his talents, but it turned out that he was disappointed.
I didn’t actually think about it carefully when I wrote it.
After I saw this comment, I tried to change my position and perspective and found that what this brother said was true.
According to the natural story arrangement, the protagonist becoming the emperor should indeed be a key node.
After the protagonist ascends the throne, a series of major events begin.
But I didn't do that.
However, in my own position, I did not take the initiative to get rid of the water.
The plot after the middle period of this book should be very dry, right?
Many places are just running accounts, and many things that could be written in detail are not written in detail at all.
But I did write something that would be read as water.
After the protagonist ascended the throne, I began to summarize the previous characters in the book and their development in the previous ten years.
I started sorting out the data from the previous stage.
I talked to the protagonist's subordinates and officials, the current situation of the food country, the current situation of the oil industry, etc.
So, I actually regard the protagonist as the emperor as the end of a big stage.
I do have some big things lined up too.
For example, levying inheritance and gift taxes, building new cities and skyscrapers as imperial palaces, etc.
But these things are placed before the protagonist takes the throne.
Do it in the era when the protagonist's father was the emperor.
I think logically speaking, it is better to handle these matters at the transition between two generations of emperors, with the former emperor as the representative.
If I become the emperor, I will also take the initiative to take on some big responsibilities for my son.
I also dedicated a chapter title, “Parents.”
Maybe the plot design is not good, but I think it is more reasonable, but objectively it is definitely like a running account.
Maybe it's because my way of thinking is too erratic...
I haven’t studied creative writing specifically, and I haven’t even read much.
Therefore, what is written is difficult to satisfy most readers.
I also have this understanding, so I said that this book is about the situation in the world that I imagined.
If you feel uncomfortable watching it, I can only ask for your understanding.
Also, when I read the comments, I found the one that made me most uncomfortable.
It’s not that my writing is bad, nor is it that I’m obscene.
I just pretended I didn't see them, or deleted them directly.
Although I can’t say that I don’t take them seriously at all, I don’t feel bad because of those comments.
Because those are the facts...
For example, as I said before, I felt that the plot was very watery after the protagonist became the emperor.
The comments that make me most uncomfortable are "comments that make me feel like I'm a fake author."
Some people who read it seriously analyzed in the comment area, author, your assumption is wrong and inappropriate...
But I obviously didn’t write it like that...
A few days ago, I read and left a message in the comment area.
It is said that the Ming Dynasty occupies half of the earth, so there is no need to build high-rise buildings.
In reality, if there were not enough land, some modern companies would not build high-rise buildings.
Ultra-tall office buildings are also very uncomfortable to use and very troublesome to maintain.
I don’t remember the specific content, but the general content is something like this.
According to the author's understanding, this brother wanted to express that "the author's idea of letting the protagonist build a high-rise building is wrong."
However, the protagonist in the book did not promote high-rise office buildings...
The protagonist in the book also repeatedly emphasizes that living in high-rise buildings is not the most comfortable, the key is the inconvenience.
Therefore, don’t build your palace into a tall building.
The tall building built by Zhu Jingyuan was the main hall where the imperial court held ceremonies.
It is explained in the book that the main hall of the Ming Dynasty corresponds to the churches in various countries in Europe and the West, and is not a house or an office building at all.
This kind of building does not consider the comfort of living, because no one will live there permanently.
Nor will we pay too much attention to maintenance costs, because it is a symbol of the authority of the emperor and the court, just like those cathedrals in the West.
The protagonist also explicitly limits the height of buildings in different levels of cities.
The two capitals were ultimately limited to sixty meters, which is the height of a twenty-story building. In reality, it was usually less than twenty stories high.
In reality, all buildings in the county town are on the 30th floor, which is one hundred meters long.
On this basis, the provincial capital, prefecture town, and county town are successively lowered, and the buildings in the county town and below must not exceed six floors.
The book also discusses the relationship between land prices, housing prices and building heights.
The book discusses the similarities and differences between Eastern palace architecture and religious architecture and Western palace architecture and religious architecture.
These contents were completely ignored by this brother.
I replied to this reader in that post.
But after I replied, I felt that this comment in the comment area might cause misunderstandings for subsequent readers.
I thought the author deliberately created skyscrapers in the book, as well as high-rise office buildings and residential buildings in later generations.
But there is no such plot or setting in the book...
From the beginning of this book, it has been very clear that it opposes the construction of high-rise buildings and the speculation of real estate prices.
In the very early chapters, the situation of spreading pie in the new city of Jingshi and using urban light rail for communication was described.
On the way south, the protagonist also described a city that was extremely large but had no high-rise buildings at all.
The protagonist's staff also discussed why there are tall buildings in the city.
The protagonist has always been clear in his opposition to the construction of high-rise buildings.
As an author, I will not design the protagonist to take the initiative to build commercial and private skyscrapers in future stories.
So I deleted this comment.
At the same time, I am also thinking, why do such comments appear?
The reason I can think of is that readers are jumping to subscribe to my book.
After reading part of the plot, I analyzed it in my head and completed the rest of the plot on my own.
Then, after combining these self-completed plots with the actual plots seen, I published relevant comments.
The auto-completion plot is also taken as a matter of course and is displayed in the comments.
I understand this approach very well, because this book just writes whatever comes to mind, and many things are actually boring.
I don’t mind readers doing this. I often jump to subscribe when I read books.
I don’t mind readers’ imagination. The best thing about it is that it can play a more important role in imagination than watching videos.
It is difficult for a video to show the big scenes described in words, but the brain can.
I also mind that the plots you imagine are different from the plots I wrote. Most of the plots you imagine are more exciting.
What I care about is that the plot after imagination is completely contrary to what I wrote.
Then, these contents also appeared in the comment area, or in the comment area outside the book, not in this chapter.
This chapter says that the imaginary comments in it can be directly seen by readers, and they can directly determine that they are fake comments.
As for the comments in the comment area, there is no way to directly judge.
Especially many readers, including myself, like to read the comments section first when they discover a book.
Check to see if there are any big holes, and then decide whether to read the content.
When such comments appear in the comment area, they will be very misleading to readers like me.
So I sincerely hope that all readers here can distinguish between what you actually saw and what you imagined before commenting...
If it is difficult to determine, or to be conservative, try to state it in this chapter so that other readers can correct and verify it.
Try not to throw it directly into the comment area.
In the comment area, try to discuss some clear and detailed enough details, or make general comments without details at all.
please.
Finally, the plot of this book is not over yet. There is still something to write about later.
It’s still my original idea, just write down what I think.
It's not finished yet.
There are also very important aerospace engineering, atomic energy industry, computer industry, Internet industry, mobile communications and game consoles, etc.
Although the performance has been declining...
I know that my books are like this, I write wherever I want and lack plot planning.
It doesn't look good, the viscosity is too low.
But I will finish it eventually.
I will continue to write according to my ideas.
Perhaps, trying to learn how to make stories enjoyable can make more people feel comfortable watching them.
But I am more worried that painting a tiger will not turn out to be an anti-dog.
I will still finish writing step by step according to the established plan.
Unless there are too few readers, I will write the eunuch book to the end before it is put on the shelves.
After finishing this book, summarize the lessons learned and see if there are any insights that can be used in the next book.
