Chapter 002 The Wasteland of Martial Arts
The name of the earth!
This was Deng Zheng's first feeling.
With such a name, it sounds like a prototype martial arts work in the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century in the memory of a previous life.
Curious, he lowered his head and flipped over.
I don't know if Deng Zheng has a detached status because of his good grades, or the other three people in the dormitory are very sure that he will not be interested, and as soon as the book is in his hands, the three of them are no longer shouting to grab it.
They went back to their desks and sat down on chairs, but their attention was secretly focused on Deng Zheng, as if they wanted to hear his evaluation of this "divine book".
The book in Deng Zheng's hand is very thin, and the total may add up to less than 40,000 words, but it is not particularly easy to read.
It's not that the text is jerky, on the contrary, the text of this book is very elaborate and the writing is quite sophisticated. Although it is a half-literate and half-white road, it is not difficult to understand, on the contrary, it has a unique charm. The dictionaries are also very appropriate and vivid, and I can feel that the author's literary skills are quite profound.
The worse ones are the plot and the characters.
Although it can be seen that the author has tried his best to make the plot vivid and twisty, and the events are twists and turns, and fascinating, but in the eyes of Deng Zheng, a martial arts master who has been fully baptized by "Jingu Huang Liang Wen", this is clearly a simple story of "the dart master failed to take the dart and his property was robbed, and then he tried to kill the enemy nest with money darts and regain the property".
It belongs to the kind that after reading the first three pages, you can guess the later plot with your toes.
As for the characters, they are even more featureless, quite flat and pale, and there is not a single character with an impression after reading it.
All the characters in the whole book seem to only save for the matter of "taking revenge", and there is still no sense of disobedience when changing a group of people.
As for the description of the fight, it is even more low-level mentally retarded and has no sense of picture, so boring that it makes people drowsy......
"Ma Gui, someone reads such a book?"
Deng Zheng endured his stomach and turned it over, and he didn't understand the three of them before snatching and fighting, so he asked.
Ma Gui was mistaken, thinking that Deng Zheng, a nerdy scholar, was shocked by such a "novel" literary form, and he preached: "You don't understand this! I tell you, as soon as the book "Bloody Money Dart" by the chivalrous novel master He Qinsheng came out, Luoyang paper was expensive, and many bookstores were out of stock in the past two days! In the month and a half since the book was issued, how many copies have you sold?"
He gestured to two twos, and his face was sรจ: "Two hundred and twenty thousand!"
"How much?!"
Deng Zheng was really shocked this time, 220,000 copies in a month and a half, it was simply impossible to stay in the domestic publishing market in the previous life!
With the level of this so-called "chivalrous novel" that will be laughed at childish and brainless by people on the high school newspaper?
Deng Zheng suddenly became a little messy in the wind, calmed down, considered the wording, and asked unwillingly: "Three big brothers, dare to ask, what is the good point of this kind of book?"
"It's beautiful everywhere! How twists and turns this plot is, it's unheard of, I was beaten off the cliff by the thieves and didn't die, I fell into the river, and then I realized it, and I learned the family money dart method, and single-handedly killed back to the thieves' lair, this kind of treatment, it's just a brain opening, and I can't help myself!"
Deng Zheng rolled his eyes, this sister is bizarre and tortuous, if you have a big brain, give you this "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" and "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", will you have a heart attack?
"I think it's because the martial arts of the people inside are strange and incredible, one hand can send out three money darts at the same time, and one jump can jump up a wall more than nine feet high, and the two-handed knife made by the bandit leader can also pick up two hundred and eighty pounds of stone locks with one arm...... Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle!"
Deng Zheng was speechless, you scumbag who has never seen the "Great Shift of Qiankun", "Luoying Divine Sword Palm", "Lingbo Microwave", and "Dragon Elephant Bo Ruogong"!
"Unlike the two of them, I am deeply infected by the chivalrous spirit inside, there is kindness and revenge, we who practice martial arts should be like this!"
Deng Zheng was completely defeated, narrow-minded boy, this can be infected, and when he sees "chivalry defeats martial arts", "the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people", "he is also crazy and chivalrous, he can cry and sing and sing vulgarly" and he must not obediently sacrifice his knees?
Deng Zheng was very disappointed with the explanation of the three people in the dormitory, and deeply felt that everyone's appreciation level was not in one dimension at all.
But in addition to being disappointed, I couldn't help but wonder a little, could it be that there are no mature martial arts novels in this seemingly developed world, only these are not even budding?
Thinking of this possibility, he couldn't calm down anymore, hurriedly threw the book back to the three of them, took off his shoes and went to bed, and quickly took out his laptop from the locker.
Because the residual memories belonging to the original owner of the body can only be stimulated briefly after meeting acquaintances, and there is a tendency to fade more and more. And it's a bit strange to ask others everything, so Deng Zheng wants to know some things about this world, so he can only use the computer.
After nearly an hour and a half of searching on the Internet, Deng Zheng finally had a general understanding of the world he was in, and he basically determined some things.
The world I am currently in is very similar to the earth in the previous life, at least more than 90% similar, and the country I am in is actually called China.
Not only that, but the history of this China before the middle of the Ming Dynasty was almost exactly the same as that of the previous life on earth.
However, unlike the previous life, after the "Tumubao Change" in the Ming Dynasty, history was bifurcated, and in this world, because of the arrival of the British lord and the reshaping of the unbalanced dynasty, the national power did not fall to the end.
Therefore, naturally there was no later Manchu Qing Dynasty, nor did it experience the invasion of foreign powers in the past hundred years, and finally entered the socialist camp on the same path, but it came gradually and naturally, and there were not so many irreparable hesitations and losses, so it was a behemoth that was slightly stronger than the United States.
The cultural and entertainment industry is very developed, and copyright protection is also extremely perfect, especially in the global cultural export.
Literature, music, film and television, dance and other cultural and artistic fields not to mention leading the world, at least they are quite pivotal existences, definitely not as weak as the earth in the previous life, either oppressed by the Korean Wave, or invaded by Japanese food, and from time to time to suffer from Europe, the United States, Hollywood impact brainwashing.
There is everything in this world, but there is no one thing - martial arts.
There are no martial arts novels, no martial arts songs, no martial arts TV series, no movies...... There is not even a definition or statement of "martial arts".
Those who are familiar with the history of martial arts know that the real martial arts were actually born in the vernacular of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Before that, whether it was the Wei and Jin dynasties or the pre-Qin period, they were all literary stories, at most they were rangers' notes.
The Ming Dynasty's "Water Margin" is China's first full-length vernacular novel, and this book is also known as the real germination and enlightenment of martial arts novels.
The characters with the most martial arts characteristics in the book are Wu Song and Lu Zhishen, both of whom have the chivalrous style of the pre-Qin period, and Shi Qian, the "flea on the drum", is the first character who can wear the ridge of the house and rise high and low, which has played a great enlightening role in the martial arts of later generations.
The "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", which appeared in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, was China's first full-length martial arts novel with real significance.
This book has a far-reaching impact on Chinese martial arts novels and even literature and art, and can be called the originator of martial arts novels, which has set off the first major literary works on the theme of martial arts.
The most powerful thing about "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" is that the performances of various names such as martial arts techniques (such as point, hidden weapon, sword technique, knife technique, light gong and longitudinal technique, etc.), Jianghu (such as stuffy incense, Baibao bag, thousands of miles of fire, night clothes, use of poison, skin and face masks, etc.) and organ ambushes (such as Chongxiaolou, etc.) are all systematically appearing for the first time, and have a decisive impact on the content and materials of later martial arts novels.
It can be said that these two works laid the basic form and mode of martial arts novels.
In the Republic of China, after witnessing the weakness and ineffectiveness of the Xinhai Revolution and the National Revolution in succession, people began to pin their hopes on chivalrous heroes to create a new world.
It is precisely because of this strong demand that a large number of famous works have been produced, and martial arts novels have completely flourished in the Chinese world, and have gradually become a unique cultural phenomenon that is well-known all over the world.
It can be said that the emergence and development of martial arts culture actually has deep social roots.
And because of the changes in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was a historical bifurcation, there was no Manchu Qing Dynasty, no invasion of foreign powers and the Republic of China, so the three most important periods for the production and development of martial arts novels were cut off, so there are no relatively mature martial arts works to this day.
Until now, the level has remained in the primitive embryonic works of the simplest revenge and technical attack styles like "Bloody Money Dart".
Not showing up doesn't mean there isn't a need.
Deng Zheng is extremely sure that whether in the past life or in this life, the Chinese nation longs for and is rooted in such a thing as "martial arts" in its bones.
Otherwise, how could a book like this "Blood Money Dart", which is so rotten that it is impossible to read, but only has a little bit of contact with real martial arts, can it cause a sensation as soon as it appears, so that Luoyang paper is expensive, bookstores are sold out, and 220,000 copies are sold in a month and a half?
Therefore, although this is still a martial arts wasteland, it is a supreme fertile soil that can dye the entire wilderness green with a single seed.
And what Deng Zheng has to do is to find the right place.
Dig a pit, bury some soil, and count one, two, three, four, five......
Of course, your own pit, your own land, and whatever you plant will grow in RMB.