To all the virtuous men and women:

The novel has reached the second volume, and I sincerely thank all readers for accompanying me all the way.

According to the system theory, China's feudal dynasty was before the Warring States period, and after the Warring States period to Qin Shi Huang again, in fact, it entered the era of centralization, which is strictly different from the previous feudal system. Historians have extended the term feudalism to modern times for the sake of simplicity, and I don't want to have a debate in the academic world, and I also conform to this statement, but this statement also makes sense, and the word feudalism contains a wide and far-reaching content.

We Chinese are backward in modern times, missed the steam era after the collapse of the feudal dynasty, and did not complete the industrial revolution at the earliest.

The appearance of the steam engine in the text, which was impossible in that era, is the author's selfishness and hope, imagining the emergence of innovative production tools in the later period of the feudal dynasty. Steam engine. This thing is very unserious, there is a personal fraud in the crossing, but I love that steaming hot era, the pen is in my hand again, and there is a steam engine in the novel.

The author has blamed himself more than once in his heart, cursing himself for not being serious and denying the concept of historical materialism. In the end, I still couldn't hold back, and after all, I wanted to make up for the missing link in the steam age. The steam engine is imagining that I am resurrected from another continent, but in fact, it is also guilty of the pathology of the ancients who said things today and did things today. Here I apologize to the virtuous men and women who read the book, and the author was sick once.

Let's talk about this novel, there is no ambition, most of it is for the pleasure of knowing fish. Nowadays, online novels often strip away the historical background, and a group of people today often speak various popular terms in the scene of the text, using the current modern examples to talk about ancient times, I dare not say that it is very discordant, but it is also unserious.

Of course, the author does not have the idea of change and the power of innovation, but I am willing to write an unfashionable way to write online articles, even if it is not the whole article, I am willing to give the reader a novelty here.

This novel alludes to a period of history between the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, but the novel is not a real historical process, it is a romance borrowed from history, it is the author's serious nonsense, and it is not a modern person who travels to ancient times and changes the course of history.

High-energy warning ahead: There are a lot of rare words and ancient characters in this novel.

I'm probably the author who has commented on my fantasy novels the most. After each chapter, there will be annotations, although it is not possible to annotate each rare word in the text, but the key words will still be annotated, the text should not become an obstacle to expression, the author is willing to spend more time to explain.

Because there is such a historical virtual background mentioned above, the article restores as much as possible how the common people lived and the folk customs of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty at that time, which is a laborious matter of turning around and bald.

I have written this article based on the basic principle of ambiguity in major matters and authenticity in details. Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels have the background of the times, such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. At that time, a mainland book critic pointed out that Jin Yong's writing had the literary defects of "the ancients said today". The comments are very pertinent, and when Jin Yong revised his works in the future, he revised a lot of words and sentences to fit the background of the times.

When I compose, I am afraid of the conformity of "the ancients said today", and I often want to avoid it, but along the way, I find that this disadvantage is still inevitable. Really according to the words used in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to write a book, the whole text is obscure and difficult to understand, and the novel is really impossible to read.

High Energy Warning Again: Reading this novel requires a certain amount of classical literacy.

The novel contains a large number of words and words from the Book of Songs, for which the author has already commented on a large number. At that time, people who did not understand poetry were unable to talk and speak in formal social settings. In addition, the author is also afraid that some people will criticize the novel for not being in vain, and it is a bowl of raw food. After writing, I still can't wash away the suspicion of not being in vain, but I read it a few times, and it follows the eyes of all the gentlemen, and the small text is not too condescending.

As a reminder, listening to this novel is more pleasant than reading. Note that the comments on behalf of the class are forgotten, and the comments will generally appear earlier than the text, which is for the guide readers.

Sincerely

salute

Ren Yin year Gengxu month Ren 戌 day

Author: Ya'an Ding Yiyi