Chapter 219: The Broken Things Behind the Great Writers
Most of the career choices of adults are deliberate, because there are many factors involved, and it is rare to do it on impulse.
can make a good lawyer willing to mess with an 18-year-old young man who just graduated from high school without knowing it, because he keenly finds a lot of shining points in this person.
From the first time he came into contact with Li Yiru, Mr. Wu realized that the idol of Chinese culture at that time did not conform to what a Chinese idol should be.
Of course, it is in line with the image, such as handsome and elegant, such as talented, such as personable. But in his bones, he doesn't have too many literati genes, but is more cunning, more urban, more talented in coordination than adults, and more able to sit and watch the situation in the middle.
These traits are obviously in the bones, and many, many adults do not possess them, even if they have received the baptism and lessons of society, they may not have them.
Therefore, when Mr. Wu first came into contact with Li Yiru, he was shocked. In the following contacts, Li Yiru never let him see any milky moments on key occasions.
He has also been wondering what kind of person Li Yiru is, and what kind of unique characteristics are hidden under the appearance of teasing? Is he considered a literati? What kind of image should a literati have?
This is Li Yiru's last half day in the capital, Li Yiru saw the stitches and made a live broadcast, because since he went to college, he basically has no time to do a live broadcast in the next month, there are a series of freshman activities such as military training, as well as business plans, which will divide him too much time.
Before the Alice team came, Li Yiru took out his mobile phone and did the last live broadcast for a long time in the future.
There is no theme in this live broadcast, it is just nonsense.
Lawyer Wu was on the side and secretly rewarded a text prop, which stayed in the middle of the screen for three seconds. Content:
"Teacher Yiru, what kind of image do you think literati should have?"
"The image of the literati?" Li Yiru squinted at the screen and said, "The literati do not have a fixed image!
Regarding the beautiful image of cultural people, in fact, they are all ideal images made up by the public's brain.
For example, the great cultural man, the great writer Shakespeare. In the eyes of everyone, he is a glorious literary giant.
But that's just what the text shows, and in essence, he has always had a lot of criticism. ”
Shakespeare was born in 1564, and the late 16th and early 17th centuries were the main periods of his life and writing. According to research, this period is known as the 'Xiaoice Period'. During this period, the cold weather and excessive rains often led to poor harvests, and the whole of Europe was threatened with food shortages from time to time.
However, this difficult time made Shakespeare's dream of a fortune come true.
According to the Associated Press, Aberystwyth University scholar Jayne Archer discovered Shakespeare's hidden secrets by combing through historical archives — he hoarded grain, malt and barley for more than 15 years and then resold them to local residents and merchants at high prices.
In order to obtain greater profits, he also lent the money he earned from the resale of grain to the poor people around him. If someone defaulted, or was unable to pay in full, they were sued. ”
The whole audience was confused, after all, in everyone's inherent cognition, Shakespeare was a beautiful existence.
"Really?"
"Can't you?"
"My cognition is a bit subversive!"
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Li Yiru continued: "Not only that, but he also used all his resources to evade taxes. Some of the tax payments and court records of the time show that Shakespeare was repeatedly pursued by the authorities for tax evasion. In February 1598, he was also prosecuted by the court for hoarding grain.
This series of transactions, both legal and illegal, amassed a great deal of wealth for Shakespeare. After only 24 years of work, Shakespeare 'washed his hands' and lived a leisurely life without worrying about food and clothing.
By 1613, Shakespeare was one of the wealthiest men in Stratford, Warwickshire, England, even if fines for illegal hoarding and tax evasion were not counted.
While pursuing personal gain, Shakespeare also found a 'side job' for himself – theatre creation. On the one hand, he made a lot of money from the poor, and on the other hand, he soothed the hearts of the people with a large number of plays depicting the plight of the poor.
Painted in 1607, Shakespeare depicts a scene in which the poor suffer from famine while merchants and politicians raise the price of food dramatically. He wrote: 'They never cared whether we lived or died: we were suffering from hunger, and their storerooms were piled with grain. ’
But when these lines were being written, Shakespeare was doing the same thing as the profiteers in the play. ”
Netizens asked:
"Isn't that a contradiction?"
"I am a profiteer, and then write a book to scold myself, this thing should not be!"
Does this contradiction show that the information left behind at that time that was unfavorable to Shakespeare was actually false? For example, a lawsuit in the courts. ”
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After looking at the comments, Li Yiru said: "There is a famous saying: We have become the people we hate after all."
People from all walks of life often feel remorse at some point for what they have done.
We often do things against our will for the sake of material life, but that doesn't mean we won't criticize our actions.
The real estate salesman deceived customers in various ways in order to sell the house, and he may hate what he did in his heart, but he had to do it.
There are many sides to human beings, and there is no absolute truth or falsehood of good or evil.
Therefore, after Shakespeare exploited the common people, he wrote a book criticizing the capitalists, which seems to be contradictory, but it is actually in line with human nature. Or it is likely that this is also a kind of repentance of Shakespeare's evil deeds.
In fact, in addition to this, whether Shakespeare's works were written by himself has always been questioned in the Western literary circles. ”
This is another bombshell!
Netizens all stared at the screen and listened carefully.
Li Yiru said: "So far, researchers have not found any record that Shakespeare wrote anything.
He had no manuscripts, poems, letters, diaries, or any documents of his own origin.
Many scholars believe that this grain merchant from Stratford could not have written more than 30 popular classics.
However, Shakespeare's business background seems to prove that these works are by Shakespeare. If there is no experience of exploiting the poor, how can the face of the profiteers in the famine be portrayed so well?
Looking at it this way, these works are particularly like Shakespeare's 'edicts'!
Whether or not these works were written by Shakespeare is not yet available. But some people have a definite answer!
Next, let's talk about an age-old scam in the field of technology - Edison, the king of lies!
Most of us have the impression that Edison was the world's king of inventions, and he created 2,000 inventions in his lifetime, including the phonograph, electric light, telephone, telegraph, and movie. He is a scientific genius who has only been in elementary school for three months.
This is also the case in our Chinese textbooks, but this is not the case.
In fact, Edison was a successful businessman at heart, not a real scientist or inventor. Among his more than 2,000 inventions, the vast majority of them are not his masterpieces, but the collective wisdom of many scientists in his team, and some are even the inventions of others.
The title of "King of Invention" is a gimmick he carefully planned.
Moreover, he is of extremely poor character, good at playing with intrigue and trickery, he is a well-known monopolist in the electrical industry, anyone who competes with him will die a miserable death, and some of his methods are very obscene.
There are countless examples of squeezing the genius scientist Nikola Tesla, secretly pirating "Voyage to the Moon", the earliest science fiction film in human history, and using bribery and other means to defeat Maxim.
Edison and his GE company were able to run rampant in the American electrical industry for decades, the secret is not only to steal other people's creativity and marketing methods with no lower limit, but more importantly, he has a close relationship with Carnegie, Morgan and other big capitalists, and has quite complex and lasting capital ties.
So, Edison was a businessman through and through!
Our textbooks are completely wrong, very wrong! And they are so wrong that they have no common sense at all, and they don't make a reasonable analysis at all!
This is very easy to understand, there are more than 2,000 inventions in his life, let's assume that Edison was born and engaged in research while pumping milk, until he died in his 80s, then Edison had to come up with an invention in half a month on average, and he also had to manage a huge company, and God's ability is nothing more than that, right?
Such a simple truth, such an unreliable thing has been widely spread, many people still believe it to be true, and even written into the textbook like a song of praise, I think, our vast number of students and audiences, in the process of reading, must learn to question bravely!
I take a sip of water, and then I go back to the cultural circle and tell everyone about other people.
Today will be my only live broadcast in the near future, I have always insisted on weekly broadcasting, but because of college, military training, freshman activities, etc., so it is likely that there will be no live broadcast in the next month. ”
Li Yiru said, went to drink water, and when he came back, the screen was full of reward props flying. Sound wave income keeps soaring!
Li Yiru hurriedly said: "Calm down, everyone, I just don't have time to broadcast live for the time being, it's not that I won't come back!"
Let's go on to say: "There was a eunuch in the Eastern Han Dynasty who came to the throne by slandering other concubines for the queen, and after the queen's death, he immediately became another queen and served carefully. He went through four emperors and two queens in his life, ranked Jiuqing, and finally such a political speculator who started with slander and slander, but he has a wide reputation in the world, who do you guess he is?
Some netizens are right, this is Cai Lun, Cai Lun who has improved papermaking!
Yes, it's an improvement, not an invention!
In 1957, China unearthed the late Western Han Dynasty Baqiao paper, and in 1974, the former site of the Han Dynasty Tingsui in Juyan Jinguan unearthed Jinguan paper, and, after research, the age of these papers is earlier than the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, earlier than Cai Lun's age.
Although it proves that paper appeared in China during the Western Han Dynasty, the texture of those papers is relatively rough, and the structure of the paper is relatively loose.
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As for Qin Hui, I won't say much, everyone knows him too well, he has extremely high artistic achievements and literary style, but it does not delay him being nailed to the pillar of shame.
By the way, the Song character was not invented by Qin Hui, this is a widely circulated rumor!
Popularize, the Song characters we see now are not invented in the Song Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty, the Song characters are the knife carving style when the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty carved the font, the printing technology of the Ming Dynasty developed rapidly, and the Song characters we are in contact with today have also formed the final version at this time.
As for this rumor, it actually started in the last century, forget it, let's talk about it, the next topic. ”
Netizens:
"Say!"
"Say!"
"Say!"
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Li Yiru had no choice but to say: "If you chat like this, we won't be able to finish chatting for a lifetime."
Well, let's talk about it briefly.
Qin Hui's invention of Songti characters probably stems from a book called "The Second Body Painting", published in 1988, and the author himself was a calligrapher.
Don't pay attention to the name, don't pay too much attention!
The original text in the book: 'Mao Yanshou has a divine pen, and Qin Hui also writes beautiful Song characters. ’
The author mistakenly thought that the Song style originated from the Song Dynasty, and the Song people all wrote Song style, so he said that 'Qin Hui wrote Song style well'.
As for readers, individual readers may mistakenly think that Qin Hui invented Song characters, but the author should not have this intention.
Three years later, in 1991, a children's encyclopedia called "The Origin of Everything Comes Together" was published, which seriously compiled the secrets of "Song Ti characters".
Original text: 'Song Ti character is the invention of Qin Hui (to be precise, it is the representative), originally called Qin Ti Zi, because people are disgusted with Qin Hui's person, so it is renamed Song Ti Zi.
This is the real source of the rumors.
Of course, in this entry, Qin Hui also became the champion.
Regarding the fact that Qin Hui is the champion, there have been rumors for a long time, and there are various folk versions.
However, the official history is still more credible. Qin Hui Jinshi and the first are not the champions, and He Li, who is in the same session as him, is the champion of that year.
Therefore, Qin Hui has nothing to do with today's Song characters, Qin Hui is not the champion, according to today's statement, he is at most the champion of Nanjing City.
Qin Hui is very talented and corrupt.
Let's talk about the next literati, Hugo, the romantic master who wrote such masterpieces as "Les Miserables" and "Notre Dame de Paris"!
He fought against the great disparity between the rich and the poor and pursued social justice, and with a stroke of his pen, he wrote a satire of war and plunder: "In the face of history, one robber is called France, and the other is called England." ”
The Hugo we know seems to be like this, righteous and awe-inspiring, full of humanitarianism. However, his private life will definitely irritate you!
After flipping through his biography and letters, you will find that Hugo, a serious literary tycoon, has been debaucherous and debauched all his life.
He has a fetish of love and voyeurism, and in 2 years, he slept with 200 people, including his son's girlfriend.
When his wife Adele couldn't please him, Hugo hooked up with actress Juliet and hung out with the blonde beauty Leony.
Once, when Hugo and Leoni had a private meeting in a small room, the police broke into the door and caught rape on the spot. Leonie was imprisoned, but Hugo was dismissed because he was a member of parliament and had immunity.
The most shocking thing is that Hugo even cuckolded his son.
At that time, Hugo's son was dating actress Alice, and one day, the son asked Hugo for help in distress, he felt that Alice seemed to be cheating, but he didn't know what to do.
So, Hugo wrote several letters to Alice, which were more intense and rude, denouncing Alice as a liar.
Unexpectedly, Alice was attracted by these words, and then just like that, she made an appointment.
The poor son also expressed understanding: you chose your father, I can't blame you, any woman would do it.
Biographers broke the news that between 1847 and 1851, Hugo was 'happy' with women more times than he wrote poems.
In addition to indulging in sexual affairs, Hugo also has a lot of fetishes. In his thick diary, he wrote down the women he had slept with, and wrote comments about a girl who was "beautiful but too thin", a girl who was "beautiful but not in good shape, too small in breasts, and long in legs", and so on.
When recording, he also uses Latin, Spanish and other languages, as well as homonyms, abbreviations, analogies, etc., to develop his own code to ensure that others do not understand it.
For example, Saint is used for seins (chest), . for toute nue (全luǒ), and suisses (Switzerland) for a woman's breasts, because milk is produced in Switzerland. (Note: The word is not in English, but in French)
Hugo was also not kind to his daughter, and when Hugo's daughter was seriously ill and dying in a foreign place, Hugo did not visit her in the slightest, but embraced her left and right, and mingled with his mistresses.
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During the whole live broadcast, Li Yiru told about the unknown side of famous historical figures in the cultural field, which completely opened up the new cognition of netizens.
Everyone never expected that the other side of the writer did not meet the public's definition of a literati at all.
Everyone understands that writers are also ordinary people, and they also have the greed, lust, etc., and writing great works is just a talent for them, and this talent does not mean that they have to have noble character and great personality.
The public always thinks that literati should be, but in fact, this is a typical "kidnapping" behavior.
A literati is a person who has a certain specialty in the field of culture, nothing more.
It's like a dancer, it's just a good dancer, it's just like a sports superstar, it's just super athletic, it's just like a little fresh meat, it's just good-looking. is like Li Yiru, handsome, talented, good character, and good temperament............ Nothing more.
Just because a literati is accomplished in literature or scholarship does not mean that he is expected to live up to everyone's expectations in terms of character.
Just like many people hope that Li Yiru will not be too blind and will repay him, and be tolerant of others. But everyone is pointing their noses and scolding you, why don't you fuck him?
When Li Yiru was live broadcasting in the bedroom, he heard a knock at the door, and he walked out with his mobile phone, which was Alice's team.
Li Yiru said hello: "Hello, I'm live broadcasting, wait a minute, I'll end the live broadcast immediately." ”
Lawyer Wu hurriedly said: "Yiru, don't cut off the live broadcast first, give me the mobile phone first." ”
Taking the mobile phone, Lawyer Wu pointed to the screen and said: "Ms. Alice, you see, the sound wave is 61.9 million, which means that in this live broadcast, we can get 5.19 million yuan, which is converted into US dollars, nearly 1 million US dollars." ”
Alice was taken aback: "Wow!"
Lawyer Wu: "Looking at this again, there are 30 million people online in real time, and one-tenth of the population of the United States is watching this live broadcast. ”
Alice exclaimed again: "Wow!"
Lawyer Wu returned the mobile phone to Li Yiru and said to Alice: "Just yesterday, we signed the copyright of the next book with Sanlian Publishing House, a well-known publishing house in China, with a royalty of 25%, which is the highest royalty in the past 30 years!"
Alice: "Wow!"
Mr. Wu: "So, after much consideration, we felt that the 15% royalty we had asked for was too low. As a bilingual writer Mr. Li Yiru's U.S. copyright royalties, we believe that the price must be increased today. ”
Alice: "What?"
Li Yiru didn't entangle this interest with Alice's team, he nodded and went back to the bedroom to continue the live broadcast.
Professional things are handed over to professional people, this is Li Yiru's consistent policy, and he only sets a general direction.
In the living room, the two sides negotiated fiercely, and Li Yiru finished the live broadcast in the bedroom: "I remembered a famous saying: If you eat an egg and think it tastes good, why do you know the hen that laid the egg?"
Young friends, today's live broadcast is not only to introduce you to some unknown things behind celebrities, but also to give you some inspiration.
Try not to chase stars, and chase stars in moderation. What you see is only what others want you to see, if you like a star, like his works, if you like a star's appearance, just like his appearance. Don't think he's good at everything.
Try not to chase stars, except for me, thank you, I will say goodbye to the live broadcast industry for a while, see you in the future!"
Li Yiru's words are useless for brainless fans.
If the exhortation is useful, it will not be Li Yiru's turn to say this at this moment.
Li Yiru followed his family to the airport in the afternoon, and Lawyer Wu and others stayed at home to negotiate with Alice, and this negotiation would not have immediate results, because Lawyer Wu proposed 20% royalties (in fact, the bottom line in his heart was 15%), and Alice could give up to 12%, and if it was higher, he would have to have a meeting with the headquarters.
Li Yiru no longer interferes in this matter, he has what he needs to be busy with. After the bilingual writing is completed, and then the negotiation is completed, he can sign it.
He can't wait to go to the business market now, because it means that his new life and new career have begun!
Aerodrome.
Ma Jian waved goodbye to his parents.
Ma Jian's mother held back her tears: "You remember, if you have something to do in Shanghai City, discuss it with Yiru more! Listen to Yiru's opinion more!"
"Got it!"
Ma Jian's mother: "I won't let you report to other places, you will report partially! You must study hard when you get to the university, don't think that I can't control you when the emperor is far away, I will always understand the situation with your counselor!"
Li Yiru sneered, college counselor, uh...... He remembers that when he was in college, except for the first semester of his freshman year, the average number of times he saw the counselor in each semester was no more than five.
It's better to find a counselor to understand the situation, it's better to find a dormitory manager, hahaha!
Ma Jian, finally freed!
Ma Jian's mother suddenly said again: "I'll see if I can ask the company to transfer me to Shanghai after a while, and I will be able to take care of you at that time." ”
Ma Jian's originally hidden sense of joy instantly turned into a full depression.
Li's mother said at this time: "Look at Ma Jian, how sad you are when you leave home, you are looking at you, Li Yiru, you are simply heartless!"
When he walked into the waiting room, Li Yiru secretly dragged Ma Jian, who was almost emotionally broken.
Ma Jian: "Huh?"
Li Yiru whispered: "Don't worry, your mother can't go to Shanghai City." ”
"Why?"
"Because the leaders of her company won't agree. ”
"Why?"
"I visited my father-in-law in Baidu before and found out that your mother's company is owned by my father-in-law. ”
Ma Jian was overjoyed: "Eh! great!"
Li Yiru bent his fingers and began: "Xiaolongbao, white chopped chicken, glutinous rice cake." ”
Ma Jian waved his hand: "Please, please, please!"
Li Yiru asked tentatively: "Steamed lamb, steamed bear's paw, steamed deer tail, roasted duck, roasted chicken, roasted goose, braised pig, braised duck, sauce chicken, bacon, pine flower belly, dried meat, sausage?"
"Get out!"
"Okay!"
Li Yiru doesn't force it!