British writer

The detective who is as famous as Sherlock Holmes is undoubtedly Hercule Poirot,

Shaped by Shapo, he is a typical "death detective", very similar to the famous "death elementary school student" Edogawa Conan, who has the attribute of bringing death wherever he goes. on homicide,

Murder on the Orient Express,

"Death on the Nile"

The Roger Mystery,

"ABC Murder\

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There are countless masterpieces by Poirot.

Lu Shi said to Cooper: "Let's put the new work in advance, and wait until the serialization of "And There Were None" is over."

Cooper was itching in his heart, and he couldn't press the question, so he could only retreat and said: "I hope you will give priority to our "The Scotsman" when submitting an article."

Lu Shi wasn't going to promise anything, so he changed the topic: "Let's go in first."

Only then did Cooper remember the business of coming here today, to discuss with Scott how to deal with the menacing Holmes.

The three of them entered the gate of the office together and went straight to the editor's room.

Scott was so busy that he kept his feet on the ground, holding a pencil in each of his left and right hands, and still holding one in his mouth, without raising his head, he said vaguely: "Coming? I don't have time to greet you alone, you all Pour tea."

Various news manuscripts piled up on his desk:

"The Collection of Sherlock Holmes" may be republished;

221B Baker Street was photographed and will hold a large-scale theme exhibition of Sherlock Holmes;

The Strand Magazine is out of stock, and the Strand Street is packed with demonstrators;

...

A fictitious character can make the newspaper office into a mess, which shows how popular it is.

Cooper was speechless: "Tsk..."

Scott, who could hear him clearly from behind his desk, said, "I know you're in a hurry, but take your time. There's no point in being in a hurry anyway."

Sherlock Holmes returns with threats, and the writers of the novel are all silent,

What's the use of writing well?

It's a dragon, you have to coil it for me too;

It's a tiger, you have to lie down for me too.

Scott turned to comfort Lu Shi: "Mr. Lu, Hongyin Fengfu, it's not a good time for "Return of Life" to come out. Sigh... It's also because I didn't think carefully enough, I didn't expect Dr. Doyle to be here Time to act."

At that time, he still wanted to make a fuss about Lu Shi's identity, but now it's good, he doesn't have to think about anything else.

Lu Shi waved his hand,

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm already mentally prepared."

As he said that, he handed out the manuscript and asked, "Didn't you ask me to write an editorial before? Do you have time to read it now?"

Scott's movements froze, he didn't expect Lu Shi to be so fast.

can this work?

He murmured in his heart and reached out to take it with some hesitation.

"Mr. Lu, how many words did you write?"

Lu Shi said: "A dozen articles, less than 100,000 words."

Scott felt that he was in danger of being played like a child, but because he had worked with Lu Shi for a long time and knew the magic of Lu Shi, he didn't lose his patience.

He flipped through the manuscript and found that the titles of more than a dozen articles were coherent.

"Are you writing an editorial along the lines of writing a book?"

Lu Shi scratched his head,

I was originally copying books.

Scott sighed and said, "Yes, you are good at writing English novels, but this kind of stuff...uh..."

His eyes staring at the manuscript shrank slightly.

The manuscript begins with a story:

On November 16, 1532, the Spaniard Pizarro led 168 soldiers to meet with the Inca Emperor Atahualpa, a native of South America.

As a result, Pizarro led his troops to kill 7,000 of the opponent's 80,000 people and captured the emperor without any Spanish casualties.

More importantly, this kind of story happened not only once, but several times.

In the process of Pizarro conquering the Inca Empire with a population of several million with less than 200 people, there were four major battles. The troops invested by Spain were 80, 30, 110, and 40, and the number of enemies they dealt with Thousands and tens of thousands, but every time is a complete victory.

Scott felt his blood rushing up, his temples throbbing,

168 vs 80000,

What a difference in numbers! ?

Scott believes that the excitement when Pizarro leads a small number of soldiers to face an enemy force 450 times larger than his own should be more exciting than rushing on the lover's bed, a hundred times, a thousand times more exciting .

He raised his head and looked at Lu Shi,

"Isn't this a fabricated history?"

Lu Shi replied with certainty: "No. I use this story mainly to elicit the following questions, and it is also the core question I plan to answer in this series of articles."

Scott understands, read on,

He read it in a low voice:

"

What is the reason that a hundred and ten Europeans can conquer a country?

Why did Europe conquer America and not the other way around?

"

Scott couldn't help raising his eyebrows,

"Mr. Lu, you really chose a difficult topic."

What he meant was not that this question was difficult to answer, but that there were too many people studying this question. It was like a piece of wasteland that had been dug countless times by gold diggers, and it was difficult to dig out any valuable treasures.

Of course Lu Shi also understood,

Humanities and social sciences are subjects of summary and induction, and such questions are unavoidably clichéd.

Just like the Needham problem, anyone who has gone to junior high school should have an impression.

Lu Shi said: "Mr. Scott, look back, my solution thinking is significantly different from that of ordinary people."

Scott took out his glasses,

"Okay, I believe Mr. Lu."

He continued to read, but he never expected that the first point of view in the manuscript would have a great impact on him.

The Eurasian continent is vast and has many species, among which the quantity and quality of species that can be cultivated into food has an absolute advantage over other continents;

The Eurasian continent has a stable climate, which is suitable for the cultivation of annual food crops;

The Eurasian continent has a long horizontal distance, so that food production can spread smoothly horizontally, while the American continent extends vertically, making it difficult for food to spread along latitude;

...

Is this still the domain of social science research?

Scott was a little dazed.

"Is this geography? Well... it should be ecology? No, it's geography..."

He was already a little incoherent and couldn't even speak.

Lu Shi said: "Mr. Scott, even if you don't read what I wrote, it is not difficult to find out from the facts that the level of development and civilization in the temperate zone is higher than that in the tropical zone. Of course, there is a premise for this, which needs to be ruled out. The effects of colonization and foreign domination."

Scott thinks this is a bit of consequentialism, a kind of inversion of cause and effect,

However, the arguments given by Lu Shi in the book are very sufficient, and the reasoning is also very rigorous, which makes him faintly inclined to be persuaded.

He looked away from the manuscript with difficulty,

"Mr. Lu, I already believed that you would not be able to write anything new, but who would have thought that your method of argumentation is completely subversive. Compared with you, I am simply a babbling child, and I am not worthy of it." Judge your article."

There is no hypocrisy in this statement, it is completely sincere.

Lu Shi was a little embarrassed, and thought that it would be great if there was "Civilization 6". Let Scott play a few rounds, and he will definitely have a more thorough understanding of "Guns, Germs, and Steel".

He asked, "So am I overwriting it?"

Scott nods,

"Of course! Of course the draft has been passed!"

Lu Shi's article was both popular and academic. It should have been published in a university journal, and it was even a bit reckless to submit it to the "Manchester Guardian".

Scott has already decided to start serializing tomorrow,

He couldn't help but read the reports about Holmes, and suddenly felt dull.