Chapter 189 Emperor Yongzheng

In the Songjiang Morning News newspaper, Tang Tianhao looked at Zhang Duo with a regretful face and said, "Zhang Shao, "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" has been serialized today, but it is a pity that the newspaper still failed to sell more than two million! Alas!"

Zhang Duo sat on the leather sofa, picked up the teacup in one hand, blew gently, took a sip, and then said with a smile, "Lao Tang, isn't it just two million? Are you so entangled?"

Tang Tianhao opened his eyes and said, "I'm entangled, Zhang Shao? If it's only two million, we will always be overwhelmed by the Northeast Evening News!" Only then did Zhang Duo remember that Tang Tianhao had been competing with the Northeast Evening News!

"What is their circulation?" Zhang Duo asked.

"It is said that it has risen to 1.97 million copies, mainly because Wang Cheng's current serialized "The Legend of Kunlun Heroes" is very popular."

"Oh, what are you talking about?" Zhang Duo asked. If he had put it on hold for a few months, Zhang Duo still had time to read the novels, but he was really busy during the period of shooting "East and West" and "East and West Poison". He rested for a month, and left the habit of reading novels and honestly took a month's class.

Tang Tianhao said, "It tells the story of a group of martial arts people running around against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty in the early years of the Qing Dynasty."

"Oh, anti-Qing and restoration!" Zhang Duo pinched his chin and muttered. Among the anti-Qing Fuming novels, the best written should be The Deer Tripod, but the problem is that he intends to use the Deer Tripod as the last martial arts novel he wrote in the world, so it is a little inappropriate to post it now.

"Anti-Qing and restoration, anti-Qing and restoration! Yes, Lao Tang, I simply did the opposite. Wang Cheng writes martial arts, I write history, he writes anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and I write novels about emperors of the Qing Dynasty!" Zhang Duo said with a smile.

Tang Tianhao was stunned and said, "Zhang Shao, isn't this appropriate? Now that group of readers are almost crazy when they read the "Anti-Qing Dynasty and Restoration of the Ming Dynasty". Wouldn't it be too risky for you to write novels about the emperors of the Qing Dynasty at this time?

Hearing what Tang Tianhao said, Zhang Duo suddenly remembered the extremely classic master-apprentice dialogue in the "Star Master" version of "Deer Tripod" in his previous life.

Chen Jinnan: Most of the people who have read books and reason have become officials in the Qing court. So if we want to fight against the Qing court, we need to use some stupid people. To deal with those stupid people, you can never tell them the truth. You must hypnotize them in a religious form to make them feel that what they have done is right, so "Anti-Qing and Restoration" is just a slogan, which is actually the same as "Amitabha". The Qing Dynasty has been bullying us Han people and robbing us of silver and women, so we want to oppose the Qing Dynasty.

Wei Xiaobao: If you want to take back our money and women, don't you? If you don't come back, you just take off your trousers and fart. It's a matter of people and birds! Alle, everyone is smart, understand! Continue!

This dialogue seems to be joking, but in fact, it is profound, philosophical and very sharp. Unfortunately, "The Deer Tripod" has not been written yet, and I don't know when the film will be brought to the screen.

Zhang Duo summarized this passage and told it to Tang Tianhao. Then he said, "Everyone is smart. Do you think readers really care so much about 'Anti-Qing and Restoration'? Readers reading novels are a pastime. No one will be too serious. If you are serious, you will lose!"

Tang Tianhao nodded and said, "That's true. By the way, which emperor in the Qing Dynasty are you going to write about?"

"Yongzheng!" Zhang Duo said carelessly.

"What?" Tang Tianhao was so shocked that he almost fell off his chair. Among the emperors in Chinese history, even if Yongzheng's popularity is not in the top three, he should be at the forefront. The reason why Yongzheng is famous can be said to be a great contribution.

It's just that there are almost no positive descriptions of Yongzheng's wild historical legends in the past. Folklore, the most concentrated is his three notoriety of "revising the edict to seize the throne", "harming each other's flesh and blood" and "not ending well". Since ascending to the throne, there have been rumors that he is plotting his father, forcing his mother, killing his brother, butcher brother, greedy for money, killing, drinking, *, doubting loyalty, and favoring him.

The most spoof wild history rumor is to portray Yongzheng as a martial artist. It is said that in order to compete for the throne, Yongzheng accommodated a large number of strange people in the world for his daily use. Even Yongzheng himself is extraordinary.

Tang Tianhao already knew that Zhang Duo was good at doing amazing things. After the initial surprise, his mood had calmed down and continued to ask, "Zhang Shao, do you want to overturn Yongzheng?"

Zhang Duo said righteously, "That's the meaning!"

In fact, the evaluation of an emperor mainly depends on his political achievements rather than his personal qualities. Yongzheng has been in thirteen years. It can be said that he has made great achievements in governing officials, sharing dimes, returning fire to the public, changing the land to return to the current, pacifying Tibet, and paying grain as an official gentry.

Zhang Duo praised him most. Japanese historian Zuo Bozhi once commented on Emperor Yongzheng: "Kangxi is generous and Qianlong is sparse. Without Yongzheng, he may die prematurely in the Qing Dynasty."

Yongzheng will not let go of the death of officials. In the fourth year of Yongzheng (1726), Guangdong Taoist Li Bin and Fujian Taoist Tao Fan all committed suicide due to corruption, bribery and deficit cases. Yongzheng ordered to settle accounts with their children and family members. Yongzheng said, "These people want to deny it to death, save their property and let their future generations enjoy it."

In fact, in the 5,000-year history of China, the governance of Qingming is really just an ideal state. First of all, there is no need to think about troubled times, and in the great unification dynasty, it is only better in the founding and early stage. In the middle and late stages, it is often political corruption and economic collapse, which leads to the edge of the empire to extinction little by little. Taking the Qing Dynasty as an example, I'm afraid the best official rule is the Yongzheng period!

In this era in which Zhang Duo is now, politics is still clear, and the rule of officials can only be said to be average. If this "Emperor Yongzheng" can make the officials feel a little, it will not be in vain for him to plagiarize.

I'm afraid this is just his wishful thinking. In his previous life, Emperor Yongzheng was once very popular. It is said that many officials regard it as a political model and regard it as a guide. Some officials are willing to find their own Wu Sidao, and some people say that they pointed directly to their shortcomings face to face as contemporary Sun Jiakan, which shows the influence of this book in officialdom. However, at the same time, it can be seen how many people in the officialdom compare with Yongzheng, but no one wants to be a Wu Sidao or Sun Jiakan.

In addition to official figures who like this book, some political ideas conveyed by it also aroused great interest. For example, Tian Wenjing's nourishing money echoed the "*" that was once advocated at that time. In this book, Yongzheng's image of vigorously rectifying the official system is also deeply rooted in people's hearts, and people have always hated the officialdom. Corruption, so I hope from the bottom of my heart that an iron-fisted figure like Yongzheng can appear.

Tang Tianhao knew that once Zhang Duo made a decision, it would be difficult to change, so he stopped persuading him, "Zhang Shao, do you have any manuscripts now?"

"I plan to write it back in the evening!" Zhang Duo still said casually. But it shocked Tang Tianhao. Historical novels are different from martial arts. Martial arts can be fabricated endlessly with their unimaginable imagination. You always have to check the information of historical novels!

"Go ahead, Master Zhang, I dare not keep you. You'd better go home and prepare. I'll wait for your email in the evening!" Tang Tianhao quickly sent Zhang Duo out of the office.

"Well, Lao Tang, in fact, time is really urgent!" Zhang Duo still said unrevincablely that he also wanted to discuss with Tang Tianhao about Yongzheng's vigorous anti-corruption, but he was pushed out by him. This old Tang is really disrespectful to the leader!" Zhang Duo muttered to himself at the door of the newspaper, and finally boarded his BMW and left.

After returning home, Zhang Duo hid in the room and knocked for less than 20,000 words. He felt that it was enough to deal with it for a few days. After sending the manuscript to Tang Tianhao, he came out of the room.

At 5 p.m., when Tang Tianhao had to turn off his computer mailbox and prepare for work, he noticed that Zhang Duo sent himself an email. After opening it, it turned out to be the manuscript of a new novel. He counted nearly 20,000 words with documents, which really surprised him. He has only been separated from Zhang Duo for a few hours, and now he actually has nearly 20,000 words of manuscripts. This speed is too unbelievable!

Tang Tianhao opened the document and read it and found that this book is really different from previous martial arts novels. The most intuitive impression is tradition.

The language in the novel is very traditional, with no literary and translation accents at all, but fresh and smooth, without the feeling of dropping the book bag. The first sentence at the beginning of the novel is "Yangzhou is indispensable for traveling to Sanwu, and Yangzhou is indispensable without Hongqiao." The uniform beauty, phonology and symmetry* of the Chinese language are vividly displayed. His landscape description also adopts the traditional white drawing technique, and a landscape painting can be drawn with a few strokes, but this landscape painting is a desert and the south of the Yangtze River, but it is clear at a glance.

What's more rare is that the prince in the book speaks the prince's words, the servants say the servants' words, the scholar speaks the scholar's words, and the beggar speaks the beggar's words. Let the characters say their own words is a fine tradition of Chinese novels, and Water Margin is a model among models. At this point, Zhang Duo can reach this level, which shows that the writer's skills are getting deeper and deeper.

The next morning, there was more or less a circle of people in front of the newsstands in major cities across the country. Fans know that today is the day to issue new books, but they don't know what "Xing Zai" will write this time.

"I want to say that it's time to write about the Ming Dynasty this time. Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils tells the story of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Legend of the Heroes of the Condor Heroes and the Condor Heroes are about the late Song and early Yuan Dynasty. The Legend of Heavenly Dragon Slayer is about the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. This time, if you don't talk about the Ming Dynasty, it will also be the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. In front of a newsstand in Bincheng, Li Junhao talked to the people around him.

Jin Shuisheng stood aside with his schoolbag on his back and said, "Now the anti-Qing and Fuming novels are quite popular. Will Xing Zai write this?"

An old man next to him said, "I hate the story of the Qing Dynasty the most. With a braid, the image of the hero is ruined. Do you think it's acceptable for Master Qiao, Guo Jing, Yang Guo and Zhang Wuji to get a braid behind their heads?

Everyone listened and subconsciously felt a chill in their hearts. At seven o'clock, the newspaper was delivered on time. Although the old man was old, his reaction was not slow. When he came up, he grabbed a newspaper and took it to the entertainment section. At that time, he was angry. Unexpectedly, it's really the Qing Dynasty, and it's the worst-known Yongzheng Emperor.