Chapter 85 "Ming Dynasty" completed
In Wu Bin's opinion, Liu Hongmin was making a fuss by hiring more than a dozen bodyguards. But in Liu Hongmin's opinion, it was completely necessary.
He had always suspected that there were foreign forces behind that group of people, and now they were slandering him as a traitor, which was completely a case of the thief crying "stop thief". In addition, there were strangers near Shichahai, and Liu Hongmin was afraid that they would do something to prove his crime of collusion with foreign countries.
This may seem uncommon, but it is a very good means for those truly valuable goals.
Liu Hongmin has already won over a group of people in the school. After they graduate, many of them will work in various departments and units, which will definitely affect the thinking of these departments and units.
Since China swept the world's 17 sects, the cultural front has always been the top priority. They have been suppressing Chinese culture, using various means, and there are countless cultural spies. During the Republic of China period, there was a famous person named Hu, who was hailed as the ancestor of modern public intellectuals.
Hu advocated total Westernization, and was willing to give up Chinese and switch to English. He studied in the United States with the Boxer Indemnity, which made him pro-American. He supported everything the United States wanted and opposed everything the United States did not want to see.
There are many public intellectuals like Hu in modern times. Even in special periods, these people are still very active.
The reason why Liu Hongmin's two papers caused such great hatred is because they touched the interests of this group of people. As Liu Hongmin's influence grew, they wanted to destroy him immediately. Slandering Liu Hongmin for colluding with foreign countries was only the first step. Who knows how many tricks are waiting for him later!
In order to crack the enemy's tactics, Liu Hongmin had to ensure his own safety first, so he hired more than a dozen bodyguards. Protecting his own safety is one aspect, but guarding the house is the main thing. The ancient books in the basement are all precious cultural relics. After a year of research, Ge Chaoguang and his team have found many places that are different from the records in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
After ensuring his own safety, Liu Hongmin will work hard to improve his reputation. On the cultural front, fame is the biggest umbrella of protection.
Look at Mr. Hu. Many people look down on him. Chiang Kai-shek, the big comprador, even called him a comprador. But because of his fame, he could easily fly from Beijing to the United States and transfer to Green Island.
Although Liu Hongmin is now quite famous, there are still many people in the literary world who think that his writing is not good enough and his works are not ideologically advanced enough. If it were not for the two official endorsements, "The Song Dynasty" and "The Tang Dynasty" would hardly have become bestsellers.
In the era of scar literature, other types of novels were criticized. For the officially endorsed novels, they dared not criticize them in the media, but they would criticize them in private. Liu Hongmin encountered this many times, when students from other schools came to his door and criticized him in front of him for not writing scar literature. If Liu Hongmin hadn't stopped them, these people might not have left the Peking University campus.
Liu Hongmin doesn't care about these criticisms. He writes scar literature, but you just don't agree with it!
Therefore, Liu Hongmin currently needs a work that can silence those who have complaints against him, and this work is "The Ming Dynasty 1566".
Last semester, Liu Hongmin had already written more than 300,000 words. When he was in Hong Kong, he wrote nearly 100,000 words and had already reached the end.
Hai Rui was imprisoned and Jiajing secretly visited the prison. Hai Rui made a statement to Jiajing, which made Jiajing realize that all the officials wanted to kill Hai Rui. At this moment, Jiajing regretted killing Yan Song and his son. Xu Jie, whom he used to replace Yan Song, was a complete undercover agent of the civil service group. Once Yan Song fell, Xu Jie's true colors were revealed, and the court was once again controlled by the civil service group.
After Hai Rui was convicted, Jiajing was filled with sorrow and anger, and became depressed and died in the winter of 1566. He used his death to obtain a chance for Hai Rui to be pardoned, and left this "Great Sword of the Ming Dynasty" to his son, which opened the prelude to the -year-long Longqing Reform!
Just after I finished writing the last tens of thousands of words, He Qizhi came to visit me.
"Hongmin, please bring the manuscript to me!"
Liu Hongmin said speechlessly: "You are too well-informed, aren't you? I haven't even revised the manuscript yet! And you come to my door?"
He didn't even stay in the dormitory at night, but He Qizhi still came to his house so punctually, which made Liu Hongmin suspect that one of Ge Chaoguang and the others had been "bribed".
He Qizhi said with a smile: "I came here at the right time."
He removed the informant with one sentence, but Liu Hongmin didn't believe him. "How much did you pay Zhao Zhizhong?"
"We are from the same hometown, it's vulgar to mention money."
"You got a free ticket?"
"How can you speak so harshly, young comrade?"
While joking, he took the manuscript in his hand. Putting the manuscript aside, He Qizhi didn't say much and immediately read it with full concentration.
Liu Hongmin shook his head, got up and went outside, asking his aunt to make a pot of tea and bring it over.
More than two hours passed. Seeing that He Qizhi had no intention of stopping, Liu Hongmin knocked on the table and said, "Teacher He, is that enough?"
He Qizhi then looked up, closed his eyes and recalled what he had just read. He gave a thumbs up and said, "Hongmin, this novel is really amazing."
"What's so amazing about it?" Liu Hongmin asked jokingly.
He Qizhi said: "Every character in this book is very vivid. Even a minor character has his own personality. What they say not only fits their identities, but also contains metaphors, which are obscure but pleasant to the ear. The struggles in the court are also very treacherous and wonderful."
Liu Hongmin raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is there nothing that needs to be modified?"
He Qizhi: "Of course there are some changes, but they are just some details and do not affect the overall evaluation of the novel."
"Really? Then I'll change it first!"
"It will take a long time for you to revise it by yourself at home. You should go to the guesthouse to revise it. I will find a few people to help you review it."
"Didn't you say it was just some details?"
"The more details you have to make, the more careful you have to be when making revisions. This is a novel that will be passed down from generation to generation. You have to take it seriously."
Hearing He Qizhi's praise, Liu Hongmin couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Teacher He, you are a cultured person, how can you be so flattering? And you want to pass it down? Why don't you say that there is no one before and no one after?"
"If you want to hear it, I can satisfy you."
He Qizhi said shamelessly that he had lost all his dignity in order to get the manuscripts.
He was so willing to give it his all, what else could Liu Hongmin say?
In this way, Liu Hongmin once again lived in a guesthouse, but this time it was not the guesthouse of "Beijing Literature and Art".
Oh, by the way! "Beijing Literature and Art" has been renamed "Beijing Literature".
(End of this chapter)
