Chapter 119 of the main text volume Voices of the Historical Scholars

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At the end of the second week of the release of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", the supply of Bowen bookstores was in an emergency again.

"Brother Zhong, this matter should be your idea, I'm not familiar with it. However, in two weeks, there should still be a lot of potential, right?" Shen Zhe's voice was transmitted from Yanjing to Zhonghai.

"I just can't make up my mind, so I have to ask you. ”

"Is it expensive to print?"

Shen Zhe doesn't know anything about book operation, it belongs to the business field, and he has heard of some in the other world, but it has no reference value. The number of Chinese population and reading groups have increased significantly, and the original 200,000 is a bestseller, and only one million copies are counted here.

"We typeset and design it ourselves, and the printing cost is not high. ”

"Then do what you want. Shen Zhe said.

"I just want to find someone to share it with," Zhongli sighed and said, "This is the first super bestseller I've directly handled." ”

"There may be more ...... in the future"

……

China has entered the late autumn, and the historical scholars can't sit still.

-- Breaking the single-week sales record of domestic books

-- Champion in monthly all-time sales

-- Three editions in one month, a miracle in the world of book publishing

From the portal to the real media, it began to boil, and on the best-selling list announced by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles at the end of the month, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" was far ahead.

"Hehe, this is not a history book, it's a novel, right?" a middle-aged history professor at a normal university faced the reporter, smiling with a disapproving expression, "It can be seen from the title of the book that the author has a joking, even frivolous attitude towards history, and the glory of our ancestors in the past should be respected, not casually commented." ”

"Professor Zhang, have you read this book?"

"The title of the book itself can't bear to look at, open it and take a look, the whole modern vocabulary, do you need to say more?"

"But the content restores the historical truth of the Hongwu Dynasty!" the reporter argued.

"Historical truth?" Professor Zhang disagreed, "Historical truth needs us to look for it from historical books and even real relics, rather than sitting behind a desk and imagining it." ”

"I have to say that this novel will have quite a bad impact on the public's understanding of the past, their understanding of history. ”

"It sets a very bad precedent!"

Immediately after this interview appeared in the newspaper, many scholars, experts, and commentators in the field of history expressed their approval and voiced their voices.

"If historical works can be completed in the study, there is no need for historical research!"

"The author has added too many personal feelings to the book, and in terms of history, it is not only not calm, but also not objective, which is tantamount to blaspheming history!"

"Writing history at the age of ten is a joke in itself!"

An old historian who rarely gives interviews actually gave an unprecedented video interview to a TV station: "Looking at all the author's works, it can be seen that his writing level is in a state of decline. It's a pity that when he entered the gate of the university, he began to walk into the crooked road, from this aspect, the school of Yan University did not guide him well, and ruined a good seedling, which is a great crime!"

In the video, the old historian waves his arms and is excited.

The dean of Yan Academy said: "Yan University's education method does not need to be beaked by others!"

Wen Fanglun: "Young people should be allowed to make mistakes. ”

A lecturer: "Shen Zhe is not wrong, he has injected a breath of fresh air into the lifeless historical academic community!"

……

Soon after Shen Zhe saw a series of news, he received several phone calls.

Su Wei: "Are you alright?"

Shen Zhe smiled: "Sister Su, you still care about me, it's okay, I'm not a child, I don't want to hear any bad words." ”

"It's okay, I'm not your editor, but you've become the boss, you have to ask...... I think they're just jealous of your new book!"

Shen Zhe said: "Seeing that my research field has been changed, I reacted a little bigger. ”

Zhongli called again and smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect this stubble, I haven't encountered this big turmoil, and I forgot that there are ...... right and wrong in the academic world."

"Brother Zhong, in the past, it was because youth and martial arts couldn't get into their eyes, but now it's different, the history academic community is the largest academic group in China. Their inherent concept is to equate strictness with rigor, and I am a student of Yan University, and it will not do me any harm. Even Professor Wen said, allow young people like me to make mistakes, Brother Zhong, do you think I should correct it?"

As he spoke, Shen Zhe took a joking tone.

Zhongli hurriedly said: "Don't, don't change it, that's it, there are too many historical works, and this is the one that I can read in one go." ”

"Look, are there any questions?"

"How many are there? Are you going to write the entire history of the Ming Dynasty?"

"How about keeping one of the seven books in three to four months? Of course, it must be finished, otherwise it will not match the title of the book. ”

There was also a call from home, but it was my father who spoke: "Xiaozhe, you don't go to school well, why did you argue with the professor?"

Shen Zhe smiled bitterly: "Dad, I didn't say anything, I wrote a book, but they didn't like it." ”

"That's what you wrote wrong, can anyone write history?"

Mother Yang Xin took the phone and said, "Quickly apologize to them, I see that the teachers in your school also have opinions about you." ”

After hanging up the phone, Shen Zhe smiled a little bitterly.

Knowing that there might be some controversy about this book, I didn't expect that almost all historians couldn't accept it.

The fact that the world was first published online and then published on paper diluted some of the controversy. It is impossible for Shen Zhe to do that again, the copyright system of online works is still immature, and what enthusiasts can still do, his identity as an author of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles can no longer be done.

Lin Yuhan also made a love call.

Shen Zhe cried: "Yuhan, I'm finished, I've been bullied to death, you can comfort me!"

Lin Yuhan: "......"

……

In the midst of controversy, the author of the signature "drunkard" wrote a long review of more than 3,000 words, which suddenly appeared in the "Literary and Historical Weekly".

The title of the article is "A Pragmatist View of History."

"It took two days to read "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" four times, and I have a little right to speak. ”

"First of all, I advise those who have not finished reading this book not to open their mouths casually. ”

"There are two types of people who study history, one is those who are exhausted, sorting out the details, and restoring the historical truth, and the other is those who spend a lot of effort studying and then interpreting them with their own eyes. I also respect and like the two types of people who study history, and the author of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" obviously belongs to the latter. ”

"When I looked for his previous works, I found that they were the same person as "Yiqiē History is Contemporary History". It is not surprising that in the previous article, it can be seen that his view of history is from the current position of the author, looking at the history before and after. ”

"That's a very practical point. ”

"Tang Taizong said that taking history as a mirror can know the rise and fall, and he holds this view. ”

"If we study history and do not apply it to the social reality of the present, it is a kind of masturbation!"

"Drunkard" reappears, and the text is just as unreasonable.

At the end of the article, he said: "I like this young author very much, and of course I am curious about when he began to study the history of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Some rotten historical researchers, go and masturbate......"