After typing the words "the whole book is finished", I sat in my chair in a daze for a long time.

From January 4, 2023 to January 31, 2024, a full year, 3 million words.

To be honest, until now, when I write my testimonial, my mood is quite complicated, both the relief of the finished book and the sadness of saying goodbye to this story.

But in any case, I would like to express my sincerest thanks to you, my dear book friends.

Thank you to every book friend who subscribed, voted, and rewarded, thank you, it was your love and dedication that brought the results of the book "Daming National Teacher" to this height, a height that I never dreamed of before.

——Before "The Great Ming National Teacher" exceeded 70,000 on June 9, 2023, there were no works in the history category with more than 70,000 orders.

It is the subscription of book friends with real money that supports "Daming National Teacher" to break through and continue to create new achievement ceilings for historical works again and again during the serialization period.

Moreover, at the end of the year, I am very honored and proud to be able to select the 2023 Historical King of China Literature and the 2023 Top 100 Online Literature Writers, which is also a great affirmation of the work "The Great Ming National Teacher" and myself.

Thank you!

Back to the story itself.

In terms of story structure, "The Great Ming National Teacher" is a very complete story, and the main framework is to teach dragon slaying, and use dragon slaying to change the law, and even the final process of slaying the dragon.

The first volume [The First Spark of the Star] and the second volume [Lectures in Prison] are about dragon slaying and how to change the law.

The third volume [National Teacher Praying for Rain] and the fourth volume [Jiangnan Quelling Turmoil] is to break the resistance of changing the law and sharpen this dragon slaying knife.

Volume 5 [The Debate between the Old and the New] and Volume 6 [The Industrial Revolution] promote the reform of the law from both ideological and practical aspects, and practice the art of dragon slaying.

The seventh volume [Yongle Sweeping the North] and the eighth volume [The Sun and the Moon Do Not Set] are written to change the way to turn history in a new direction, and finally slay the dragon.

Volumes 1 and 2 are of course the most exciting from the perspective of some readers, but from the perspective of the overall structure, they are only an introduction to the warm-up.

And the tone of the story also determines that the light-hearted pleasure at the beginning is unsustainable, and the later it goes, the more somber it becomes.

But that's exactly the core of the story I want to convey, and that's ...... Slaying dragons is not something that can be accomplished by lectures, which will inevitably be accompanied by a large number of lengthy temple struggles, ideological disputes, and the deduction of the process of civilization.

However, I am lucky to have so many book friends chasing after me all the way, and I can accept this kind of writing.

I took a look at the best-selling list, it was not updated yesterday, and now it is 35, and there are about 20 when it is updated normally.

In fact, when it came time for me to decide to finish the book, many of my friends were urging me not to finish it.

A work of 3 million words is still in the twenty or thirty best-selling list every day, and from the author's point of view, it is likely to be reluctant to finish, because every month of writing can make a lot of more money.

And for me, it's not hard to keep writing.

If I want to write in detail about the process of the Ming Dynasty's conquest of every country in the world, and deduce the stories after this era in detail, I believe that there is no problem in writing 4 million words.

But personally, I think it's enough to write the story here.

Writing endlessly is not only a drain on my own creative passion, but also a destruction of my work.

This book is more than just "a story" for me, and from my personal point of view, I don't want to continue to write 4 million words or more in a "hydrographic" way to ruin the work I have put my heart and soul into, and I don't want to live on the credit book of this book.

So, thank you for tolerating my waywardness!

Thank you to my editor-in-charge Qingzhou, editor-in-chief Rui, and editor-in-chief An Yi!

Special thanks to Brother Nuanyang for your support to me!

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About the next book.

I plan to write the story of Zhu Yuanzhang's period, this book does not write about Zhu Yuanzhang, which is a big pity, I believe that you can also see this from the words between the lines of Xiao Jiang.

If you have a new book, you should be able to meet you soon, and when you send a new book, you will be notified of a single chapter in this book, so I also ask book friends to continue to leave "Daming Guoshi" on the shelf.

Finally, I would like to thank every book friend again for their companionship and support.

I sincerely wish you all the best!

Rain at West Lake, on the evening of January 31, 2024.