Gently placing the notebook in his hand on the stone bench, Govyn's face showed a faint happiness.

This sense of happiness comes from knowing that your work is recognized and supported, and it is satisfaction and pride from the bottom of your heart.

It's just a pen war on the newspaper clippings in the notebook that makes Govin indifferent anymore.

It's just that I don't know what happened, and now that I know about the big war in the newspapers, and see so many people arguing and fighting over him, Govin must put a stop to this matter.

This argument is actually unnecessary, because no matter how much you argue, you will never be able to argue for a result.

Whether it is criticism or praise, as long as "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is on the market, it will inevitably cause a huge repercussion, which Govin was convinced of as early as the beginning of his creation. However, it can arouse collective criticism from old gentlemen in the field of history, which he did not expect.

However, since it can be broadcast on the Central People's Radio, it has already proved that "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" has passed the censorship and is not a reactionary publication, and I believe everyone will understand this.

What about being rated as a long-form historical cross talk?

Is this debasement?

An excellent long-form historical cross talk is far better than ten bad doctoral dissertations hundreds of times!

In the same way, what the old gentlemen said about the classics of history must be praised?

Shelved in the cabinet, no one cares, no matter how classic it is, is it useful?

So it is better to put aside the argument and leave the conclusions to the people and history.

Isn't it now advocating that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth"?

History and the people will eventually prove who is right and who is wrong!

Govin returned to his study again.

Writing the title "My Confession" on the spread out manuscript paper, Govin began his analysis of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".

Gewen recalled the origin of his work "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", recorded the Ming history classics he consulted, and wrote down his expectations for readers and listeners......

He wrote—

I've always thought that history could be more interesting and could be written beautifully. The reason why I wrote "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is that I hope that the general public can understand history and like history, as for that kind of professional history book, it is not my purpose.

If you can't read it, it's not necessarily a good book, and if you can read it, it's not necessarily a good book.

I have self-knowledge, I never thought that "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" would be remembered for a hundred years, maybe a few years later, this book will be forgotten, but as long as someone has learned some history from here in the past few years, and knows that there have been countless characters and countless deeds in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, it is enough to move and even be in awe.

If this book can really bring readers and listeners to understand and grasp history, then even if "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is a historical cross talk, I admit it, and being able to play such a role has proved that I have succeeded.

When I was reading the Twenty-Four History, I was never impressed by people with integrity. The stereotypical words of the historians can't bring those people to life, and those integrity have only become symbols.

And when I wrote "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", from Wen Tianxiang at the beginning to Lu Xiangsheng at the end, every person with integrity, I spent all my energy and effort, I just want to let the stories of these people move everyone, that is, I want everyone to know that there was such a tradition of revitalizing China, there was such a spirit of knowing that it could not be done, and there was such a pure ideal, loyalty, and integrity......

The Han Dynasty once had the cry of "Those who offend my Han will be punished even if they are far away", but many people don't know that in the Ming Dynasty, there was also such a sentence -

"Righteous martial arts, those who jump beams, although they are strong, will be killed!"

More than 400 years ago, there was a group of people who went to a foreign land to fight a great war in order to defeat greed and evil, and in this thrilling contest, many of them gave their all for it.

We should know all this, that there is such a war, that there is such a group of people who have fought bravely and fearlessly to defend freedom and justice.

For those incomparable wisdom, fearless courage, and selfless sacrifice!

Yes, more than 400 years ago, even if those wouldn't be strong, what could they do? Even if they come from an isolated island that produces the most ferocious beasts, even if they resist stubbornly, what if they can still scream and charge with their swords when their attacks are frustrated?

That's right, more than 50 years ago, even if those wouldn't declare war on China, what would they do? Even if they were richer than China at that time, their soldiers were more elite than China, and their weapons were more advanced than China's.

More than 400 years ago, they coveted the wealth of China and clamored to conquer China; More than 50 years ago, they wanted to destroy China, and they told the world that three months was enough to destroy China.

But when they come in, won't they lose the whole war?

When the Japanese invaded, they would be surprised to find that in just one night, everything had changed, the warlords could be united, the underworld could be clean, the illiterate could not read, but they were not traitors, and the common people who were afraid of death could sometimes not be afraid of death.

The Wako didn't understand, so they failed.

They don't understand us Chinese at all!

Because everything has been firmly engraved into our bone marrow—

Strong, brave and fearless!

They don't even know that—

The Chinese nation is the most resilient nation in the world!

The four ancient civilizations, except for China, the so-called Egypt, the so-called Lianghe River Basin, and the so-called India, have been destroyed many times in the long river of history, Aryans, Jews, Arabs, Mughals, you come and go, it is no longer the original set of people, let alone culture.

Only China has continued its own civilization, although there have been changes and conflicts, but our culture and national subjectivity have continued, for thousands of years, no matter what kind of difficulties, what kind of desperate situation, what kind of strong enemy, no one has ever been able to truly conquer us, it has lasted for thousands of years, it has always been!

This may be a nation with countless shortcomings and inferiority, but it is also a nation with countless advantages and countless advanced nature! The potential of the Chinese nation cannot be calculated and cannot be calculated by statistics and economics.

Every Chinese should understand one thing -

We may never remember, but we should never forget, that we are such an amazing people!

It was so before, it is now, and it will always be so!

……

Govin followed the true thoughts in his heart, and dissected his fist heart clearly in his confession on paper.

At a certain moment, he really felt the state of mind that Ba Lao had created "Caprice" over the years.

For a moment, he really understood what he had learned to write from Ba Lao.

Ba Lao noticed that the movement over the years forced people to start telling lies and lied, and realized that only by telling the truth can people live seriously. So he began to dissect himself, to inspire and motivate the masses through his own mental journey, through his own confession.

Govine also noticed the inferiority complex and confusion hidden in the hearts of many people, and wanted the Chinese people to know the glorious and great mark of China in history, so that everyone could draw the source of self-improvement and self-confidence from history, he began to write "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".

Neither of them is for themselves, but as an intellectual, they maintain their own conscience, responsibility, and ability to think independently.

It's a spiritual tradition that runs in the same vein.

The so-called mantle disciple is nothing more than that.

……

……

3 p.m. on January 25, 1985.

Accompanied by the relaxed and lively sound of the female announcer of the Central People's Radio playing "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", a complete set of six volumes of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" published by the People's Publishing House was sold in major Xinhua bookstores across the country, officially meeting the majority of readers, and since then this set of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" has left a deep imprint on China's historical circles.

As soon as it was released, this set of books, which had been long-awaited by the people, was snatched up.

According to archival records, on the day of the release of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", there were a sea of book buyers scattered in front of the major Xinhua bookstores in Beijing, which can be said to be three layers inside and three layers outside, and almost everyone wanted to grab the book as soon as possible. Many readers who can only buy a few copies of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" are reluctant to leave the bookstore after grabbing the book, but can't wait to read it in the bookstore with a certain book they didn't buy. When many people read the emotion, they actually burst into tears or sighed in the sky.

The fact that a popular book of historical knowledge in response to the time has such a great magic power to comfort and heal the spiritual wounds of the Chinese people is enough to show that the power of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is not small at all!

At the same time, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" not only caused a sensation in Beijing, but also shook the whole country. A full 500,000 sets of books were sold out in less than a day.

After the Central People's Radio Station finished broadcasting "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty," this set of radio programs was broadcast by more than 20 provincial and municipal radio stations across the country.

In order to get a complete set of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", in addition to bookstores, newssellers in newsstands and bookstalls across the country were catching up with the craze, and they were "proud" to be able to put several sets of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".

"Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" was printed for the first time with 500,000 copies, and then the second printing was 1 million copies, and another 6 publishing houses printed at the same time in the form of "rented layouts", each with a print run of more than 100,000 copies. According to the estimates of later scholars, there are more than 2.5 million official and semi-official copies of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty". In the years that followed, the series was reprinted several times, and by about 2000, the circulation of genuine books reached 12 million copies. Coupled with the rampant piracy in China in the late 80s, this set of books should have been printed in more than 40 million copies, the most of any history book.

After "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", imitations emerged in an endless stream, leading the trend of popularizing historical books among historians and scholars. But as of 2000, whether it is in terms of content, language, or the author's intentions and feelings, there are not many books that can surpass "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".

At that time, the controversy in the newspapers about "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" had long since settled, and the broad masses of the people accepted "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".

Govin is also remembered in history as an outlier in contemporary Chinese historiography.

In later generations, the readership of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" covered almost all kinds of professions, especially those who were not history majors with higher education.

However, the interesting thing is that some people do not buy Gowen's account, and even say that he is "Jin Yong and Qiong Yao in the history world".

In the article "Catalogue of Research Materials", Geng Bo, a famous scholar of later generations, in addition to examining a large number of Ming historical classics cited and referenced by Ge Wen in those years, also specifically mentioned that Ge Wen had mixed reputations in the historiography circles, and received mixed reviews and criticisms, and never received unanimous affirmation. Historians or sinologists often question him for being a monk halfway through, and his academic works are not rigorous enough; Dealing with the big historical structure of hundreds or thousands of years abruptly makes historians feel too risky and simplistic historical interpretation......

Many scholars in later generations also wrote book reviews and commented that "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" made "Ge Shu popular" for a while, and some people even began to organize the "Ge Studies Society" and applied for the establishment of the "Ge Studies Studies" academic series, which is very ridiculous.

But even these people who are dismissive of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" have to admit the changes that "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" has brought to the Chinese historiography.

It is recognized that it was the broadcast and publication of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" that broke into the literary and historical circles with serious dogma at that time like a dark horse. Both the historical outlook and the narrative technique shocked many scholars at that time, aroused the attention of the general public in the field of historiography, and revolutionized the types of academic works in the field of history. The reason why the historical readings of later generations can be very diverse is due to Gowen's "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".

Two thousand years later, the reader feels that "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is less prominent. But this may be an illusion, for more than 30 years, there have been scholars and celebrities in various newspapers and periodicals to recommend "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" very much.

Another contribution of Govin as a historian is that he strives to liberate the study of history from the lofty platform of pure scholarship in the style of Chen Yinke, and popularize it in a relatively easy-to-understand way, so that the public can be interested in learning about the history of his country.

"Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" does not lose the basic principle of the strict nature of historians, but also makes the public willing to accept it, so that understanding history is no longer seen as a daunting path, and it is no longer a matter of a few historians.

According to the later great historian Mr. Qian Li, "if you don't know the history of a country, you are not worthy of being a citizen of a country", Gowen has made great contributions to the establishment of the national historical character!

Over the decades, Govin has found more and more soulmates among China's younger generation.

"Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" has always been one of the best-selling historical books in bookstores, and the style of historical narrative he advocated, his profound dissection of the multifaceted nature of historical figures, has influenced an entire generation.

Many young people who have entered the society have said that Govin is the scholar who made him truly discover the beauty and charm of history.

And one can often find Gowen's influence in the works of new historiographers.

As the end of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" says, "There is only one success - to live life in your own way".

After the younger generation went through the 300 years of ups and downs with Gowen, what moved them was not only the glory and intensity of those histories, but also the correct view of history and valuable positive energy.

Few middle-aged liberal arts teachers and college students in China today don't know Govwin's name.

This is reminiscent of Kuhn's famous idea when he spoke of the revolution of the scientific paradigm, that the new paradigm replaces the old paradigm not by a life-and-death polemic between paradigms, but by its attraction to a new generation.

Marc Brock, the master of the French annals, famously said, "The most important talent of a historian is the ability to understand living things." ”

When you apply your ability to perceive real life to examine the things in history that have disappeared and you have not experienced, the meaning of those things will be presented to you under the observation of your life perception.

It's no wonder that future generations will always sigh like this-

In the 80s of the 20th century, an ideological scholar, a literary and artistic master, and a non-professional surpassed so many historical bulls and became the most influential and famous person in the field of history in Chinese mainland. (To be continued.) )