Two Books, One Person (To Sula's Dear Readers)
It should be that not long after the completion of "The Road to Augustus", a friend suddenly said to me one day on Q (I really can't remember): Prince Ma recommended your work on ****!
So I quickly went to take a look, the evaluation given by the prince is still good, it is inspiring, it is warm, Sula was very proud and excited, thinking that he could get the favor of the prince, and he will have the confidence to open a new book in the future, and the old book can also open up the popularity, so he suddenly plunged into the pile of information of the new book, drafted the outline, found a joke, pinched the characters, communicated with the Huya editor, and was very busy, and from time to time turned the prince's ** out of the mobile phone to see, and the heart was beautiful.
Then, about a month later, The Way of Augustus was sealed.
Ahem, this is really a sad story.
Well, to get back to the point, in "The Way of Augustus", the core themes of Sulla are "Zheng", "Xuan", and "Gong", hoping to be in line with the style of that classical imperial era. Okay, you're a traverser, can't you use indigenous thinking? What did many travelers do when they went to the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties to test their fame and climb the official road, but they couldn't just blame Li Bida for seeking citizenship, joining the army, and slowly climbing the official ranks in ancient Rome, right? In short, Sula remembered a joke, Japanese housewives think that Masaharu Fukuyama is not annoying at all when he tells pornographic jokes in public and on TV shows, haha, it is indeed quite funny, so Sula is not a god, nor is he a popular author, probably in some eyes, it is the feeling that Teruyuki Kagawa tells pornographic jokes.
However, let it be.
After all, "The Road to Augustus" brought Sulla quite a lot of enthusiastic and real readers, who probably felt that they had seen too much Tang X and X Ming at the starting point, and needed to change their tastes, ancient Rome was good, the Middle Ages was good, so they also noticed Sulla's work. So although it is a small minority, although the grades are not high, Sula writes happily, even if it is for a small group of people, and writing is no longer a burden, "Want to hear stories?" I'll tell you. That's the mood, so "The Road of Augustus" was written more and more, and it became longer and longer, until after the story of Calabis and Calabia was written, Sula seemed to be standing on the terrace of the palace facing the blue ocean, smiling and pleased to see the characters in her pen snuggling up to each other, and they were still in love with each other, very good.
The next book, which is now "Eagle Raising Byzantium", is no secret that Sulla is a loyal fan of the all-war series, and fell in love with this purple empire from the paper man's "Medieval Total War 1", and still remembers the cheapest elite infantry "Byzantine Infantry" in the first generation, and remembers the slow but amazing impact "Byzantine Ironclad Cavalry", and also remembers the Trabizon archers, the Nordic Varangian Guard, this mysterious empire that is both powerful and fragile, the sea is still the same, the city is still the same, But where did the aftermath of that empire go?
So there is the feeling of saving this empire in the novel, in the eyes of Sulla, the Eastern Roman Empire of the Komnenos Dynasty is under the prosperity of the surface, towards an irretrievable decline, since the death of 1204, the whole country has no room to rebound, so at this juncture, Gawain broke into the purple world, and also started another story of Sulla, the core theme of the book is "courage", "decisiveness" and "unyielding", Gawain is a person with a starting point, his starting point is still very high, But he didn't really love Byzantium, and every aspect of the old empire seemed to be out of place for him, but he probably liked all kinds of people in the empire (all sorts, of course, and Princess Anna), so he took on the task of reviving, but Gawain was not locked in the weird and old-fashioned Byzantine system, because the destroyer and the revivalist were not contradictory.
However, although Sulla has done a lot of preparations, he is suffering from the fact that there are too few books on Eastern Rome and Byzantium in China (even so, Sulla still collected five G's of e-books and more than 20 physical books), so compared with many Byzantine ashes lovers, Sulla's mistakes, omissions and fictions may be many, so I also ask for forgiveness in advance and welcome corrections. After all, Sulla just wanted to tell a story.
So, "The story of Gawain and Anna begins, let me tell you!" ”
PS: Regarding the simple encyclopedia information of this book, Sulla is in preparation, and a friend asked if "The Way of Augustus" can still be released? At least Sula doesn't have the energy to revise the old book now, so I'll put it aside for the time being, and ask readers and friends to support Sulla's new book.