[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

One of the most amazing things about traveling is that no matter what industry you are in, whether you are a management leader who scolds Fang Qiu in the enterprise or a social animal of 996, you may sit together because of a common topic.

Of course, this is the same in ancient times.

Because of the waiter's words, the group of four looked at Mr. Luo who was sitting in the corner.

Perhaps because he was indoors, the middle-aged man who was writing at his desk was only wearing a cyan outer shirt that didn't look too cold. This person's life is a little bit tight.

But while financially hard-pressed, this man was extremely rich spiritually, as evidenced by his piercing eyes and trimmed goatee.

A spiritually rich person must not be too difficult to get along with.

The Mubai squad, who firmly believed in this, sent two brothers from the Mu family who were best at interpersonal communication to negotiate.

Mr. Luo, who was recommended by the waiter in the shop, was a little surprised when the two boys visited. After the two explained their intentions, he showed a helpless smile, then closed the book and followed the two boys to them.

After scanning the attire of this group of people, Mr. Luo fixed his eyes on Halati, apparently regarding the oldest young man as the leader of the team.

After the two parties met the ceremony, Mr. Luo said: "Xia Luoben, in the word Guanzhong, is a scholar who roams the rivers and lakes. He can only speak a little bit about historiography. Most of what I talk about is folk unofficial history from hearsay. If you don't know If you dislike me, I will show my ugliness."

The four-member team immediately applauded enthusiastically. For them, no matter the official history or unofficial history, they listened to it as a story. As long as the story is wonderful, who cares whether it is true or not.

Robben sat down.Originally, the four of them happened to occupy one side each, but now Mu Bai hugged his younger brother on his knees and gave his place to the middle-aged scholar.

Before Robben began to tell the story, Mu Bai, who speaks the best Chinese among the four, first introduced him: "My name is Mu Bai, and this is my younger brother Mu Wen. These two are my friends A Tu and Halati, we are all candidates for the provincial examination in Yunnan this year, and we will go to Yingtianfu to take the examination in the spring of next year."

"Because we are all from Yunnan, we don't know anything about the history of the Three Kingdoms, so I ask Mr. Luo to start from the beginning."

"So..." Robben pondered for a moment, his eyes glanced at the warm wine brought by the shopkeeper, and he flicked his fingertips, "Let's start with this altar of peach blossom wine. Four gentlemen, Shu people love peaches because of everything. The source of the story all starts from this peach grove.”

In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government was corrupted, and natural disasters caused man-made disasters, causing frequent chaos among the people.

Yizhou Mu Liuyan intended to help the world, so he published a list to recruit volunteers. The list went to Zhuo County, leading to the meeting of three young heroes in Zhuo County.

The three got acquainted due to a misunderstanding, and later found that they were congenial to each other, just as the peach blossoms were in full bloom. Therefore, the three brothers made a life-and-death covenant for Taolin.

This opening attracted the four teenagers into the story, and they didn't even notice that the waiter came to serve them food.

For the four young people, such a passionate and passionate story is too much for their appetite.

All four of them listened engrossed. They didn't even care about the taste of the rabbit meat that they were so curious about before, and just listened to Robben's narration with all their attention.

However, only from the beginning, we can get a glimpse of the vastness of the whole story, which cannot be explained clearly in a few words.

Even Mr. Luo's speaking speed is not slow.However, until a table of dishes is eaten by five people, the whole story is only a prologue.

The simple and honest teenagers in Yunnan who have never experienced the life of chasing a newcomer suddenly looked at each other in blank dismay, some of them didn't know what to do.

They used to eat together as an excuse to exchange other people's stories, but now they are addicted to listening, what should they do?People's stories are infinite, but their belly capacity is limited. They can't treat people to another meal.

Because his husband was there, Mu Bai knew more about the situation in the Central Plains than his friends, so he asked with little hope: "Mr. Luo, how many people in the Central Plains know the story you told me?"

The explanation of this sentence is: Do we still have a chance to hear the follow-up?

Robben sneered, and poured the last drop of nectar from the jug into his mouth, and then he showed a regretful smile to Mu Bai: "I'm not being arrogant, the story I told came out of this sword gate, today At present, there is no second one who knows the follow-up."

Although he said the words proudly, there was no arrogance on his face, and under the catalysis of alcohol, he seemed full of bitterness.

Mubai rolled his eyes, and asked the shopkeeper to drink another altar of peach blossoms to get drunk.After filling the wine for someone, Mu Bai asked, "Could it be that this story is a family biography of Mr. Luo? Or did Mr. Luo do it?"

Robben shook his head and took the wine glass, "It's my clumsy work. Just looking at the situation, it will soon become a family heirloom in my family."

Mu Bai gasped suddenly, this is going to be bad, if it is a story passed down from generation to generation, Mr. Luo's family must be engaged in cultural dissemination work, this kind of work is to make money by telling stories, then they will It is certain to find someone who knows or has heard of this story, but if it is written by hand, the person who knows this story best in the world is right in front of them.

This, this is the rhythm of the update!Stop updating as soon as you start a hole, this is something that even the most famous Gu Wang on that green website would not do!

Damn it, I don't know if he can finish this story with money ability?

Atu and Halati didn't quite understand the difference between the two, but the two of them could tell something bad from Mubai's face, and each of them became serious.

Maybe it was alcohol that touched people's desire to express, or maybe Robben just happened to be looking for a channel to vent, he drank the full cup of peach blossom wine, sighed and said the reason why he was here come out.

It turns out that Robben, like Mu Bai and the others, went from Chengdu to Hanzhong on the Jinniu Road. However, unlike Mu Bai and the others who left Chengdu with great ambitions, he was like a bereaved dog with a broken heart. Leaving Chengdu.

He used to be a scholar with a heart to help the world, but because of some things, he missed the political arena in his life, so he became a novelist, integrated his full of ambition and ideas into the words, and wrote a book "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" ".

Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, with the popularization of paper manufacturing technology and the application of printing techniques, and the increasing number of folk literacy people, the demand for books has increased. In response to market demand, folk book printing has gradually appeared. It is unique to the great Confucians of the time.

And because of the explosive development of drama novels in the Yuan Dynasty, people nowadays no longer have the same disdain for reading novels as in the past. As long as the works of private novelists like Luo Ben can be liked by the shopkeeper of the bookstore, they may be published Volumes filled the novel market.

Although for the author, the remuneration he can get is actually quite limited, but for a book writer, his work is no less than his own child. If one day, he can see it published from draft to book, and Some readers are willing to buy it and talk about it. This is already the greatest honor and happiness of being an author, and how much money you can make is not that important.

Robben also thought so, but the bad thing is that the novels written by this Mr. Luo are completely different from the novels that are common in the market today in terms of content, format, and length.

What he wrote was a full-length novel, and he still focused on describing the historical trend of the war-torn period.

Unlike the youths in Yunnan who lived in a stable environment most of the time, after nearly 30 years of melee at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the people in this land now yearn for peace, and the topic of fighting and killing is not in their liking Inside.

Therefore, the mainstream sales in the market today are the love stories of gifted scholars and beautiful human beings, followed by stories about investigating cases and judging cases. Stories about historical combat such as Robben are completely unsuitable for market demand.

"If you want to compare it, others are elegant and light koi, but my "Three Kingdoms" is like a dragon with a bloody mouth in the water. It makes people have no desire to buy it." Robben said bitterly. said.

This statement is not an exaggeration, and Robben himself knew this, so he turned to a large bookstore for his contributions. For this reason, he had to leave Jiangnan, where he had lived for a long time, and went to Fujian to seek opportunities.

Today, the more famous publishers and printing bases in China are all in Fujian. The printing institutions in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas have gradually declined after encountering Emperor Zhu’s blockade and suppression of the Jiangnan economy. In the early Ming Dynasty, the review of words and ideological management were extremely strict. Books like "Three Kingdoms" that overthrow the rule of the old dynasty have absolutely no chance of being published in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which are adjacent to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Fujian, on the other hand, has a relatively loose publishing policy because the sky is high and the emperor is far away.

But Robben's manuscript was returned.Although the shopkeeper of the bookstore was very optimistic about the trial copy he presented, he shook his head and rejected the manuscript after learning that his novel was a long novel with 120 chapters left in the full text.

120 chapters, it is conservatively estimated that ten books will be needed. It is not that the bookstore is unwilling to try new things, but the problem is that he writes too long.

If it is a short story, it can be put on the market to test the waters, but for a long story like his, the cost of typesetting, printing, and binding is self-evident. Could lead to bankruptcy of a medium-sized bookstore.

If it becomes popular, unless the bookstore is extremely optimistic and promotes the book on a large scale to seize the market, otherwise it will encounter the event of being targeted by pirates just after making a wave of money, and the risk is too great.

In this kind of thing, they can only seek no merit but no fault. Although the owner of the bookstore is helpless, he also gave Robben a new suggestion, that is, don't take the road of commercialization, and take a small but refined collection.

In the past, a lot of literature in North Korea and China followed this route. To put it bluntly, they posted some money and published it by themselves. However, if the manuscript was considered by the shopkeeper of the bookstore to be of great value for further development, they would help to print it for free. Condition.

For this tiny possibility, Robben came to Sichuan.

"As a result, you have also seen that my book has not been taken a look, but the other party rejected it after seeing the quantity." The middle-aged scribe smiled wryly, "The bookseller said that I have to pay [-]% of the amount in advance, so... "

"Is it very expensive?" Atu, who had no idea about the publishing industry, looked at Mu Bai with some doubts on his face.

Mu Bai's expression is a bit solemn, his concept of this aspect is still in the years of his birth, the writing tools in his era did not have paper, and he has no concept of the value of books.

But from his perspective of life, the textbooks he learned before were silently written by his husband, and Ah Chun helped him correct the typos after he changed them from Kunming... In this way, the books should be quite expensive, right?

The scholar said a number, and Ah Tu exchanged Daming's currency with Yunnan's currency, and couldn't help but gasped. Obviously, this fee was not something that Ah Tu, who was rich in the local family, could afford easily. It is even more difficult for middle-aged scholars who are short on cash.

"Then what are you going to do now?" Halati looked left and right at the stalemate, and decided to break the silence by himself.

Robben shook his head with a wry smile, he is now caught in a dilemma.

As an author who takes history as the theme, he is too aware of how small a book is in the long river of history. From the pre-Qin period to the present, how many people like him have left their own works in more than two thousand years, But how much is actually passed down to this day.

If he only relied on his handwritten manuscripts and did not publish them, he might not have to wait until the future. It would only take a year or two before anyone would remember his story.

How does a book survive?The only way is to see enough people.

He has entrusted too much in this volume of "Three Kingdoms", including his political and ideological ambitions and life dreams.If more people can't see his book, Robben always feels like he never existed in this world.

A person who reads history books, doesn't he want to leave his name in the history books?Even if there is only a small corner, he can be extremely satisfied.

"Next..." Robben cast his gaze out of the window.

Even though the window was covered with paper, he seemed to be able to see three young men knelt facing the sky in the ten-mile peach forest, laughing heartily at him.

He withdrew his gaze: "I want to visit the places where those stories happened, listen to what the locals say, and then revise my manuscript. So, if I can find someone who is willing to publish my book in the future The bookseller is the best, if I can’t find it, I can write my story to the most satisfactory point, and I am worthy of bringing it to this world.”

This kind of topic of entrusting the meaning of one's life in a book is too heavy for the four young people who have just left their hometown, and this feeling is beyond their comprehension now.

But although they can't understand it, it doesn't prevent them from respecting this persistence and pursuit.The four of them exchanged glances, and after getting the support of his friends, Mu Bai sent him an invitation: "Sir, do you want to go with us?"

The young man smiled brightly: "Next, we will go all the way to the north to visit Chang'an and Luoyang in the story. Most of the journey overlaps with yours. Although we can't help Mr. publish books, we all feel that you wrote The story is very interesting, and I am willing to walk with Mr.

"Of course." He smiled a little shyly, "It would be even better if you are willing to tell us local stories on the way. We are all from Yunnan, and we don't know much about the Central Plains."

Robben pondered for a moment, his eyes passed over the faces of the three teenagers inch by inch, and fell on the wine in his glass after a while, and suddenly he laughed: "According to the rules of our business, stories can't be free. explain."

He raised his eyes and said to the four young people who were all laughing, "How about a few glasses of water and wine if I use my story?"

The three of them were overjoyed when they heard the words, and Mu Bai poured another glass of wine for him: "Sir, not only is there good wine, but also we will accompany you all the way."

The author has something to say: In front of the screen, a cat lost its color because of jealousy.

How ignorant are fearless!If an ordinary traveler meets a big boss, he will probably offer him respectfully, but a traveler like Mu Xiaobai will treat him as a free tour guide and story provider when he meets a big boss, listening to historical novels while traveling The first ancestor told you the stories that happened here, it makes people jealous beyond recognition!

The "Three Kingdoms" novels basically did not get everyone's attention at the beginning of its birth. Apart from those in the text, Zhu Yuanzhang's ideological control was quite strict in the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, the publishing industry was hit hard. That wave of ideological control is GG.

Although from our point of view, it feels inhumane and affects social development, etc., but it is not incomprehensible. The thinking of the Yuan Dynasty was not controlled, and because of certain actions of the Yuan government, it led to ups and downs. In our view today Violations of law and discipline are very common in their eyes, which can be seen in "Water Margin"

The interesting thing about ancient novels is that they write about ancient times, but in fact, the events that happened and the people they met basically belonged to the era in which the author lived. After all, they don’t have museums, open classes, and historical TV dramas like us. , so most of the historical writers lived in their own time and imagined the events of that year. (So ​​there are many settings in the Three Kingdoms that have bugs)

"Three Kingdoms" was written almost in the early years of Hongwu, or earlier, but "Water Margin" was written earlier than "Three Kingdoms", so many settings in Water Margin and the situation of officials and people are the real situation of Yuan Dynasty. Lao Zhu took over Such a world is what it is, and it is inevitable to use heavy codes in troubled times.