It's finally done......

At 2.5 million words, it's the longest book I've ever written.

It took a total of fifteen months to write from the time the book was issued, which is also the longest book to write.

I thought about it several times, whether to write a little bit about space.

In the end, it was decided to complete the mechanical transformation and officially enter space life, as the node of the end of the main text of the book.

The story of the Ming Empire's completion of the prosperity and unification of the earth and its entry into the Galactic Age is indeed a blind dream.

But since this book is history, let's not extend to that category.

The plot of the main space should be conceived separately, which is equivalent to another brand new story.

Arrange a little space story, and if you want to carefully plan some settings and plots, you can't beat it without tens of thousands of words.

I really don't want to write for another month, I really want to lie down and take a break.

There should be many readers who feel that many of the plots in my book are watery, and I don't deny that some things should indeed be considered water.

It's just that I still want to defend that the water of this kind of book is different from the water of all kinds of fantasy.

Most of the fantasy water is actually writing small things in great detail, or piling up a lot of meaningless dialogue.

Or write a separate subplot that has nothing to do with the main line in a row, and the plot content is relatively boring.

In that mode, I can really write a lot of text very quickly, the kind where I can write 2,000 words in two hours.

However, most of the water content in this book actually belongs to the category of worldview setting, as well as my own output of views on various social logics.

The setting is the most time-consuming to write, and it is also the most energy-wasting and brain-hurting, and I can't write many words in a day.

The output of opinions should also be sorted out, and they should be able to justify themselves, and they should not directly talk nonsense, nor can they write too quickly.

In fact, what I want to say is that the number of words I write is a bit against the brain cells that I survived, so I will feel tired.

Especially in the later stages, there is less and less follow-up, and there is little motivation to write.

It's boring for everyone to read, and I'm bothering to write it, so I'd better not write it.

I said I was going to finish two months ago, but it took another two months to basically sort out the end.

Now there's finally a place where we can end relatively safely.

So it stopped here.

I'm actually already sorting out near-Earth star data and all sorts of basic astronomy knowledge.

These things have been used in previous books.

However, my former ship girls all belong to the type of super technology, and they are all two-dimensional fantasy in the skin of science fiction.

And this book is written with the aim of being as authentic as possible......

Of course, it's not absolutely real, and it's definitely not at the level of true science fiction.

It's just as authentic as possible compared to my previous books.

What I had in mind was that the protagonist would travel from the solar system to the seven galaxies of Persia at a tenth of the speed of light and in 120 years.

Build a large-scale space habitation station in the orbit of an asteroid or a gaseous planet, and then prepare to slowly transform the planet.

Strive to transform a planet that is relatively habitable for human beings in one or two hundred years.

In the next two or three hundred years, we will basically live in this galaxy.

In other words, it's all boring......

If you want to be interesting, you have to plan for extraterrestrial life and other interstellar civilizations.

Detached from the logic of being as real as possible.

Begin a star-studded space opera-like story.

I wrote some of them in my last book.

Magical civilizations on the binary planetary system, civilizations on the moons of brown dwarfs, civilizations in crystals and energy states, and so on.

Maybe I'll write something similar in the future, but not this book.

Now to consider the question of the next book.

Is it to change the time period and write a smaller-scale alternate history?

The opening scale of this book is too large, and Daming is crushed after a little operation, and most of the plot has become a set running account.

It's also because I haven't written history, and I haven't written too depressing stories, so I don't create a depressing environment for the protagonist.

Maybe if the Ming Dynasty only has its own territory, or even only half of the country, the situation may be more stressful.

Or even directly to the south...... South to the South Seas, and even south to the South Ming of the Southern Continent.

However, it seems that some people have already written about this aspect, so it is not good to create a more adequate point of difference.

But in any case, if I want to continue to write history, I will still focus on the international situation, and international affairs will still be the key plot.

First, there is little pressure on harmony in international affairs.

The second is that there is nothing to write about in China.

Whether it is a book that renews the life of the Ming Dynasty, or a book that opposes the Qing Dynasty in various eras, I don't know how many there are.

The things that can be written have already been written by the big guys.

I, a newcomer to history, will definitely be swept away.

However, there are relatively few books devoted to the active participation of the Eastern Empire in modern international affairs.

In most of the books that continue to be Ming or anti-Qing, international affairs belong to the epilogue type.

Third, the international situation from a global perspective is also the most suitable area for key politics.

This is also my favorite direction, and I think many readers of this book will like to hear about it.

So my focus will still be on the direction of the Eastern Empire's participation in international affairs.

Aside from the modern and modern history of the country, my favorite era is before and after the Napoleonic Wars.

From the American Revolutionary War to the American Civil War, the center and climax were the Napoleonic Wars.

It is precisely from the era of handicrafts to the industrial age of large-scale machine production.

The era of the Napoleonic Wars was also an era when the international situation and foreign affairs really became important enough.

The emperor of this book is too aggrieved.

In the future, I want to write a story about the emperor being able to play normally, and then the Ming Dynasty will also have the opportunity to cooperate with the emperor and clean up the forces in the old continent together.

Refers to fat beatings and dismemberment of Lucia.

The contradictions of power on the island of the world are the prerequisite for the United States of America to become bigger and even control the whole world.

Lucia, who spans the entire World Island from east to west, has strung together the contradictions of the World Island.

He was in conflict with the Tessie states in the west, with the Eastern Empire in the east, and with the steppes and Ottomans in Central Asia.

His size also makes it impossible for anyone to ignore him.

If the Ming Dynasty and the Emperor each had one side and managed the surrounding forces on the east and west sides of the World Island, it would be difficult for the two sides to have a direct conflict between the two sides separated by the wasteland in the middle.

In fact, after Lucia lost eastern Siberia, there was no contradiction with the Eastern Empire.

By the way, clearing out the colonies of the British Empire is also my hobby.

Of course, it would be better to dismember the United States as well, and let the Americas form at least five independent states.

Then the United States is as negligible as South America.

Another idea is to really go to the science fiction channel and write a Daming Galactic Empire similar to the world view of the stars.

Take the sci-fi energy level up a notch.

But I still don't have much confidence in writing a good science fiction story.

The conditions are too bad, and I am worried that the protagonist will not be able to get up, and if the conditions are too good, it will easily become a crushing game.

In the past, writing about the ship's mother couldn't be considered science fiction at all.

I still haven't thought about what I'm going to write in my next book.

If you have any ideas, you can say them for reference.