Chapter 259: Paladin Xu Guangqi
"The Three Paths of Lingao" and "The Three Massacres of Lingao" are three online novels with the theme of group wearing, all of which are about a group of modern people who for some reason arrived at the end of the Ming Dynasty, occupied and controlled Hainan Island to develop industrialization, and struggled to survive in the last days of civilization, which was originally a book "Lost in 1629" last year. Then, in May and June this year, two other authors wrote "One Hundred and Sixty Two" and "Lingao Qiming" respectively. The initial structure of the last two books is basically the same as the first one, both of which are the route of the industrialization of Hainan in the late Ming Dynasty, and because the three authors did not work behind closed doors, they actively sought help from netizens in the SC forum, which is the legend of "the most yellow network and the most yellow military network", and war history enthusiasts gathered to seek help from netizens, provide technical support and role-playing, and the three books are often discussed and compared by friends and book friends, so there is a combination of "three slaughters in high school".
Of course, the "Three Massacres" or something are just jokes and spoofs by netizens, the three views of the three books are still relatively normal, and the traversers have not carried out a massacre similar to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Lingao County, and even their appearance will end the large number of killings caused by the latter.
Different from another more famous "Dong'ning Ji", which developed hydraulic machinery and steelmaking in the late Ming Dynasty, "Lingao Santu" has the help of dozens or hundreds of active netizens in the whole forum, and it is much better than the former in terms of the reliability of technical details, but this also brings a problem, that is, the plot progresses too slowly. The soul of the protagonist of the former traveled through the Kangxi period, possessed Zheng Chenggong's eldest grandson Zheng Kezang, and achieved initial industrialization in only a few dozen chapters to establish a coal-iron complex, and then began to teach the Manchus to be human with Mini bullets and rifled guns. And the "lost" side of the traverser took more than 100 chapters to occupy the capital of Qiongzhou and was about to issue their first set of silver coins "Zhu Datou", copying Yuan Shikai's Yuan Datou silver dollar in history to nearly 300 years ago. The size of the specifications remains the same, but the year name has been changed to "Hongwu Tongbao", and the "Yuan Datou" of the side portrait of Yuan Shikai's military uniform has also become the head of Zhu Yuanzhang with a pockmarked face and big ears.
There is such a set of "Zhu Datou" silver coins on the seat next to Wei Wei at this moment, and the beautifully made coins in the box are of course not issued by Wen De and Wen in the novel, but by the commemorative peripherals jointly launched by Bee Games and the author of the novel, Fathead Fish. Although it is indeed made of silver, and the weight and silver content are exactly the same as those set in the novel, it is only a "model" replica of the "Zhu Datou" silver coin circulating in the game, and at most it is the same souvenir as the bee gold coins made and sold by bees in the past.
Because the timeline of the "Lost" novel is very close to "Da Ming OL", both parties "coincidentally" chose to let their respective plots enter 1630 at the same time on January 1, 09, coupled with the considerable influence of this book among netizens, the operation team of Bee Games contacted the author of the novel Fathead Fish and Dian Niang very early, and the three parties reached an agreement to cooperate in the promotion, adding the optional plot content of "Lost" in the online game version, with the help of "Lost" The plot of the novel fills the problem of heavy technology and light head caused by its own heavy technology and light plot.
This box of "Zhu Datou" silver coins is also part of the cooperation between the two sides, and the three parties will further cooperate to launch more similar peripheral products in the future, Wei Wei's hand is a special edition of the "mother coin" signed by Wen De and Wen in the hands of Atletico Madrid, and the official version will not be put on sale until a few days after the novel is updated with the corresponding plot.
Listening to Atletico mention the "crossing manual", Wei Wei reached out and stroked the hardcover box beside him, and then he gently tapped the knuckles of his palm to make a crisp metal knocking sound. With the sound of a snapping bang, he spoke: "Old horse, how sad and sad you are to make us die-hard players feel to see such a good hand of cards that you play like this?"
"Sad to be beaten by NPCs?" Tang Jiayi suddenly turned around and asked with a smile.
"Well, of course not!" Wei Wei was first stunned by the girl's sudden question, and then reacted and quickly gritted his teeth and shook his head vigorously in denial: "I mean the timeline of the game, it's too slow and too pitiful!" Wei Wei said vigorously: "You used to keep the speed of time passing to one, and we reluctantly believed it if it was more real, but you didn't take the timeline seriously at all!" Your so-called one-to-one is completely for the convenience of using the national global weather data of the meteorological observatory, saying that it is 1630, in fact, it is just replacing 2009 with 1630, the month, date, constellation, solar terms, all of which have not changed, and the constellations and stars are all from 2009, after the Chang'e-1 lunar impact test on March 1, we can actually see the impact crater with an astronomical telescope in the game, do you want to do such a divine restoration? Also, this solar eclipse event you did was too casual and dirty!"
A solar eclipse and a sudden extra black dot on the moon had a very different impact in ancient societies.
The solar and lunar eclipses were considered by the ancients to be "Tengu swallowing the sun" and "Tengu devouring the moon", such astronomical phenomena had a great impact on the production and life of the ancients who had few artificial light sources due to technical limitations, and could only rest at sunrise and sunset. Bad trouble will also cause social unrest and**, under the interpretation of the "heaven and man induction" theory, the solar eclipse is the emperor's death after losing Germany, and the lunar eclipse is the queen's have. In the ancient society where the emperor and scholars ruled the world together, recording and interpreting important celestial phenomena and natural disasters became an important means for courtiers to resist the emperor. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there had been a total of 1,600 and more than 1,100 solar and lunar eclipses recorded in the history books, some of which were true and some were false, and some were missing, which was the inevitable result of the politicized interpretation of celestial phenomena. If the emperor is strong and does not bird the courtiers, there will be fewer solar and lunar eclipses, and the emperor will be more weak.
Compared to a lunar eclipse, the moon has an extra black spot, and even today almost no one cares about it except astronomers, let alone 300 years ago when astronomical telescopes were first invented and not yet widely used.
Before Galileo Galilei invented the astronomical telescope in 1609 and observed the lunar surface for the first time, human beings had completely imaginary interpretations of the shadow patterns on the moon. Therefore, no one cares about one more or less black spot on the lunar surface, and perhaps even the vast majority of people will not notice it. Wei Wei and his players were able to find the black dot because they had the official coordinates of Chang'e hitting the moon in their hands, and they found it according to the map, and of course, this is also due to the astronomical telescope in their hands that is only available to players.
As a paid online game for props, the situation of "Daming OL" and other F2PfreeToPlay free games is very different, not only because they will refresh the price record of a single online game prop when they auction the giant ship once a year, but also the final transaction price of more than tens of thousands of soft girl coins is much more expensive than the "permanent fashion", "permanent mount", and "permanent weapon" of other games for hundreds of dollars. In fact, most of the money earned by Bee Games from the game does not rely on these weapons and equipment and enhancements that can directly change the player's combat effectiveness, and the best they sell are various items that indirectly affect the player's combat effectiveness, such as food and clothing, followed by "toys" like astronomical telescopes that do not have any combat effectiveness.
Thanks to the virtual earth engine's high level of restoration of the starry sky around the earth, players can look up and see the same dynamic starry sky picture as in reality, instead of some looping starry sky map. There is no urban light pollution and no atmospheric haze, the night sky here is clear and translucent, and the starry night scene in the game has gradually become a major feature. Coupled with the more convenient relationship between star-hunting and shooting in the game, it has slowly attracted many astronomy enthusiasts to join the game, and similarly, there are some animal and plant lovers, and only in the virtual world like the game can you see so many "rare animals and plants".
It's not just enthusiasts who love the clear starry sky here, but casual gamers also love the night sky they see when they go live at night. Therefore, at the beginning of the year, when some popular gameplay methods split up and launched independent versions, players even asked the new version of the game on the official forum to not lose "our beautiful night sky".
For this kind of thing, the bee game is naturally as good as a stream, and immediately said that although the timeline of other new games separated from it will change greatly, the beautiful night sky will definitely be preserved, and even because it is free from the limitations of real astronomical weather, it will become more magnificent and fantastical.
As officially promised, the newly launched games, whether it is the battle type "God Battlefield", "Top of the Forbidden City", etc., or the large-scale M touch RPG type "Seven Seas Overlord" and "Journey to the West" and the like, all retain the real 3D modeling of the bee characteristics of the huge starry sky. Although because of the timeline, there is no astronomical weather synchronized with reality, but there are more grand and beautiful spells or fairy arts, and the visual effect is better than in the original, and it is not comparable to the real world plagued by urban light pollution and air pollution.
As a result, the astronomy enthusiasts who entered the game were divided, and some people were lured into the mythical version of "Journey to the West" and the fantasy version of "Overlord of the Seven Seas", and "observed and studied" the completely fictional astronomical phenomena in it. Of course, more enthusiasts are inclusive, and at the same time there are characters in several games, and the characters are placed in some excellent sky-gazing and stargazing locations, and you can go online to watch the stars at any time when needed. Anyway, they're just looking at the stars, and they don't have any requirements for the character's combat power or anything, so don't be attacked by beast bandits while looking at the stars, or fall off the cliff with too much excitement. As long as you buy Bee Games and launch a special "Stargazing Pack" for them, this includes a large gift package of astronomical telescopes, star pencils, folding chairs, camping safety sleeping bags, camping safety tents and a series of items, using the "Explorer" title for nature lovers including astronomy enthusiasts, you can pass through most places harmlessly, and will not be attacked by beasts, NPCs and other players.
The reason for promoting the spin-off of Bee Games "Daming OL" and the launch of several other game versions is that in addition to the superficial distribution of servers to help increase the number of players and the formation of a special operation team to better serve players, there is also a purpose that in this way, various "stargazing packs" and "adventure packs" can be sold out in a few more copies. After the spin-off, the total sales of these gift packages did surge a lot in a short period of time, proving that the separation strategy can indeed help increase revenue.
And even if there are various diversion of fantasy worlds, the sales of "Da Ming OL" "Stargazing Pack" have not dropped sharply, and there are still a large number of new players joining in, many of whom are primary and secondary school students who are "explorers". With the growing fame, this game has been excavated by players and netizens in a lot of new and interesting uses, such as serving as a nature classroom for primary school students, serving as a natural science and ancient architecture and technology visiting base for middle school students and even college students, etc., and for this phenomenon, Bee Games is also very happy, and for these special players, we also try to provide technical and service support.
When the total eclipse of the Yangtze River occurred in July, the game also dedicated a more magnificent and magnificent solar eclipse event to the majority of players in real time, and recorded a beautiful "documentary" video and uploaded it to the Internet, further strengthening the image of the game in scenic tourism. However, in the eyes of many players, the bee game is completely nonsense, and there is Wei Wei in it.
"It's just a matter of copying the weather data from reality, after all, it is too troublesome to directly calculate and simulate the climate and weather data of 300 years ago, but the solar and lunar eclipses are not absent in the history books? Why do you still copy reality?" After a pause and a breath, Wei Wei continued: "For example, the solar eclipse of the Ming Dynasty should have occurred on the first day of the fifth month of May in 1629, when Qin Tianjian did not predict as accurately as Xu Guangqi. Emperor Chongzhen later specially asked Xu Guangqi to preside over the calendar bureau, and Xu used Western astronomy to rewrite the almanac, and finally there was the "Chongzhen Almanac". This is the first time in history that Western classical astronomy has been systematically introduced, so last year's solar eclipse was very important, but it was missed by you, and you deprived others of their scientific achievements?
"Isn't it just that Chongzhen hit PP again, so grudgeful? I said that Chongzhen is a stubborn temper, don't you want to use foreign affairs and foreign things to shake his will and decision! The only way for him to listen to your suggestions is to wait for the other options to expire and fail, and he has no choice before he can listen patiently to what you say. But don't think about moving the capital to the south or something, it's no fun," Ma Jing said, "Since you respect Xu Guangqi so much, you can visit him when you go back to school and talk to him about the holy light or something." ”
For the sake of river crabs, real-life religions other than Taoism (Wudang Zhenwu) and Buddhism (Shaolin Zen Buddhism) do not appear in the game under the Bee banner, and are replaced by fictional Holy Light Religion, Persian Ming Religion, and primitive shamanic beliefs. Therefore, as the most outstanding of Matteo Ricci's first batch of Han Chinese followers, Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and Yang Tingyun, who were hailed by him as the Three Pillars of the Holy Sect, have become the high priests of the Holy Light Sect with the Holy Light on their heads in "Daming OL" and its derivative game "Overlord of the Seven Seas OL", and can teach the player the special professions of the Paladin and Priest, which is slightly better than the sacrifice in the Holy Light Church in the port city.
In fact, this setting has existed in the game for more than two years, but it has not been discovered by players. This is because Xu, Li, and Yang are all high-level NPCs, and they usually have their own "life" and "work", and they will not be fixed in a certain place to stand on a stake and wait for players to come to learn skills. And with the vast majority of players, it is quite difficult to reach these big names.
"Are you sure I won't be beaten out?" Wei Wei asked with some uncertainty.
"Nanami is more relaxed, as long as you are well-dressed, you don't have a red name and a certain prestige value, you can go to Fahuahui Xu's house to visit, after all, it's a fantasy nautical game. But in the Ming Dynasty, if you have an official position lower than the sixth grade, you still don't want to go, you will be blocked if you are not at the same level. ”
"Then what are you telling me about this? I don't play Nanami, it's too monotonous to get on the boat to fish and get off the boat to drink or something. ”
"Isn't there also fighting, exploring, and trading, Nanami also has more than 100,000 simultaneous online counts, which means it's still quite fun," Atletico said with a smile.
"Maybe, but it's not my thing!" Wei Wei shook his head and sighed.
"Snort!" Tang Jiayi couldn't help laughing, and hurriedly raised her hand to cover her mouth.
"Tonga Plus, what are you laughing at?"
Tang Jiayi turned to look at Wei Wei behind her, stretched out her right index finger to draw a circle on the corner of her forehead, and said, "Young man, you have to use your brains more, otherwise it will rust off!"
"Huh?"
Seeing him still confused, the girl stretched out her right hand and pointed to the tin box on the seat and said, "What is that thing?
"You imitated Yuan Datou, but the avatar was replaced by Zhu Yuanzhang. It's not a real ancient coin, and those who collect antique old coins don't want it, so it's worth a lot of money. ”
Seeing that his prompt didn't work, Tang Jiayi didn't sell it anymore, and said directly: "Wei Wei, that box has a sentence written on it, 'Give away a set of corresponding virtual silver coins', have you seen it?"
"There is such a sentence, but it is normal to buy physical souvenirs and give virtual props!" Wei Wei still didn't react.
"When such a Zhu Datou silver coin appears in the official mall, you can quickly activate and receive the virtual silver coin according to the manual, and then take this set of rare goods to visit Lao Xu, with these samples of silver coins minted by the southern shorthair as a stepping stone, you will be able to meet Xu Guangqi. ”
"Is it okay?" Wei Wei's jaw almost dropped.
In the past, all kinds of unique items sold in the in-game store were marked as "for players only", so he didn't think for a while that he could also use these silver coins as gifts. But he just didn't think about it at the time, and when he actually exchanged it for virtual silver coins and saw that there was no player-only mark on it, he should have remembered it.
But then it will be too late, after all, the bees will not only sell these "Zhu Datou" in the online mall, but also have a batch of fathead fish and Dian Niang as event prizes. Of course, this kind of thing is the most valuable when it is given as a gift, and even he is thinking about whether to change the gift object to maximize the benefits.
As for the grievances with "Chongzhen", they were naturally put aside. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net