952 [Zhou Hexuan's writing style]
Zhou Hexuan's version, in fact, changed to a mess after 300,000 words. So he writes very slowly, and it is very likely that the whole book will not be able to finish more than 5 million words, anyway, Zhou Hexuan himself feels that the more he writes, the more he will get worse.
Yoshiki Tanaka's original version belongs to the "space opera-style long alternate history", and aside from a bunch of redundant sentences, it is an "opera-style", which can also be called "heroic knight". Therefore, the protagonist in it has a lofty status and can even reverse the direction of history, just like Zhuge Liang.
At the beginning, Zhou Hexuan just copied the original text, but he felt bored when he copied it.
Since his crossing, Zhou Hexuan has experienced warlord melees, the Northern Expedition, the Central Plains War, the Japanese invasion, and the All-People War of Resistance, and has also met a series of warlord politicians such as Chang Kaishen, Wang Zhaoming, Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Liu Xiang. He deeply felt the insignificance of the individual in the torrent of history, and believed that "the times create heroes", rather than "heroes change the world".
So under Zhou Hexuan's pen, the tone of the whole film has changed, and some of the flavors have evolved from knights to history.
Of course, the overall framework and historical events of the universe have not changed, and they are still carried out according to the design of the original author, Yoshiki Tanaka. But the details are much fuller, adding various political, religious, cultural, and technological backgrounds, and many important supporting roles are also highlighted by Zhou Hexuan.
Zhou Hexuan's writing method is somewhat similar to Tolkien's creation, trying to avoid fake big empty space and create a real world. Including the food and cooking habits of a certain planet, the normal life of civilians under a special government, how the two sides of the war compete with each other's technology, how each other's politicians drag each other down, and so on.
As a result, Zhou Hexuan gradually felt that he couldn't control it. He has serialized more than 800,000 words, and the "Battle of the Gods' Twilight" has not yet begun, and the ghost knows what year and month it will be written.
It is estimated that before the end of World War II, Zhou Hexuan's version will not be finished.
Yoshiki Tanaka's most criticized description of the war was also made up for by Zhou Hexuan, and sometimes tens of thousands of words had to be written in the course of a campaign. The resourcefulness and command of Reinhardt and Young Willy are more evident in these descriptions, rather than in a dry brushstroke.
In this version of Zhou Hexuan, military victories are only a part of history, only a political derivation, and greatly influenced by economic, technological and cultural influences. Even the death of Yang Willy in the end, Zhou Hexuan is ready to use at least 50,000 words to lay out, the "Earth Sect" assassins are just tools to be used, and the real masterminds behind the scenes are those politicians with interests on both sides.
To put it mildly, the Zhou version can find a lot of shadows of the Republic of China and World War II, not born out of.
Zhou Hexuan is going to copy it, and he also intends to make major changes to the original book, at least the political conspiracy must not seem too naΓ―ve and ridiculous.
Every writer has their own style, which comes mainly from their own experiences. Except for the trilogy and the others, Zhou Hexuan's others are not pure plagiarism. Especially after the originality, and later, his writing style has fully matured, which seriously affects the style change.
Zhou Hexuan's style can be described in six words: a strong sense of history.
Even if it is absurd, if you feel it carefully, you can still experience a historical atmosphere.
It is difficult for a writer who has not personally experienced the chaos of war to write this kind of taste. Zhou Hexuan didn't do it deliberately, and he involuntarily joined in when he started writing, because these are his life insights.
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On the train to Cambridgeshire, Zhou Hexuan was dictating the content: "...... A large, swarthy figure, half-hidden in a blood-stained snowdrift, soft and silent. The fluffy gray fluff has frozen, and the smell of decay clings to the period. Bran had a vague glimpse of its godless eye sockets crawling with maggots, and its grin was full of yellow teeth......"
It's not that troublesome, as long as the conspiracy of all parties is modified to a higher level, and the rest of the content can be copied by Zhou Hexuan. This thing is already an entertainment work, since a certain procrastinator refuses to finish the book, then Zhou Hexuan simply made up an ending by himself.
Ma Jue accompanied him all the way, and he was idle anyway, so he simply became a recorder.
Ma Jue finally realized what it means to "write like a spring", and the speed of her writing can't keep up with the speed of Zhou Hexuan's "creation". It's as if Zhou Hexuan already has a complete story in his head, and he even thinks of words and sentences, just say it like a storyteller.
"Woo woo~~~"
At the sound of the whistle, the train gradually stopped, and this was the intermediate station from Oxford to Cambridge, the town of Bletchley.
Ma Jue put away the pen and manuscript paper, shook his sore wrist, and said with a wry smile: "Sir, it's really a manual job to help you record." β
"Then I'll find someone else next time." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.
"Don't," Ma Jue said with a smile, "It's actually quite interesting, the story you told is very exciting." Just ......"
Zhou Hexuan asked, "Just what?" β
Ma Jue reminded: "Just don't publish it in China, because it has nothing to do with the Anti-Japanese War, and it will definitely be criticized by other writers." β
"I know, that's why it will be published after the Anti-Japanese War." Zhou Hexuan said.
Ma Jue asked curiously: "Why don't you write like that anymore?" China needs excellent anti-war literature. β
Zhou Hexuan shook his head and said: "It's too tiring to write, sometimes it makes me dizzy, and I feel very depressed." As for the literature of the Anti-Japanese War, I can make it more exciting, and the cartoons are more valuable to the Chinese people, and intellectuals and the general public like to read them. β
Ma Jue sighed and said, "Alas, if only there was a Chinese captain in reality." β
"China will get better one day." Zhou Hexuan comforted.
In the second month of Zhou Hexuan's arrival in Britain, the Japanese army carried out another round of large-scale bombardment of Chongqing. Zhou Hexuan's six factories in the north and south banks of the river were attacked, and the walls were blown up, and the factories were in ruins, but fortunately, the pharmaceutical factory on the Hechuan side was intact.
After three months of bombing, the government made a formal decision to declare Chongqing as the capital of the Republic of China in September.
This "accompanying capital" is permanent, even if the capital is still Nanjing after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chongqing is still the accompanying capital of the Republic of China. Theoretically, even if the old Jiang Qianli transferred to Taiwan, he still had to regard Chongqing as the accompanying capital.
Lao Chiang's "Accompanying Capital Order" is to gather the hearts of the people, because the rear is almost unable to hold on, and the War of Resistance has ushered in the most difficult and dark period. The hardships and darkness here are not about the victory or defeat of the war, but about the complete collapse of the economy and people's livelihood.
During World War II, it took only half a year for Britain to retreat from Dunkirk to the collapse of the economy, so much so that the United States had to change its arms sales to a credit model.
This is true in developed countries like the United Kingdom, let alone China, where war is really not so fun.
Well, the United States is an exception......
They got out of the car and went to a small hotel in town, and three miles from here was Bletchley Garden, which was a unique mix of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque styles.
It's a great place for a vacation, and Zhou plans to buy the garden after the war.
It is of course impossible to buy it now, because it is the wartime intelligence base of the United Kingdom, where all intercepted intelligence in the European theater is analyzed and aggregated.
Funnily enough, the garden is private property.
Sir Sinclair, the head of the British MI6, suggested that the government pay for the purchase, but was refused. Sinclair had to pay Β£7,500 for his own garden, and then bring all the intelligence officers to work.
When the war ended, Zhou Hexuan invested 10,000 pounds, and it is estimated that he can buy Bletchley Garden. The garden covers a large area of 235 hectares, and when the time comes, it will be renovated to build a small horse riding arena, and you can bring your family here every summer to escape the heat.