Ming Dynasty: At the beginning of the game, Lao Zhu resigned and retired.

Mr. Hu somewhat admires Luo Guanzhong.

I not only admire people who can write such a masterpiece as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

But it really tells the history of the Three Kingdoms period to Hua'er.

How many future generations actually regard the drama in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as real history?

Prime Minister Cao is a good wife, Liu Xuande is crying, and Zhuge Kongming has all his plans...

There is no such typical image in official history, or there is absolutely no such typical image, and it is so lifelike in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Guan Yu was just a general of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period before, but after being shaped by "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he became the embodiment of loyalty.

And the sentence "I am Changshan Zhao Zilong" has been the white moonlight of many middle-aged people in their childhood?

White horse, silver armor and steel spear, no one can match it seven times in and seven out...

It can be said that Luo Guanzhong almost completely built a world of the Three Kingdoms in his imagination for people.

In that world, there were counselors strategizing and winning battles thousands of miles away;

In that world, there are military generals who will protect the Lord with loyalty and courage.

There are so many wonderful things in that world.

In fact, if you think about it differently, if you give Luo Guanzhong's "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a few labels, I am afraid that future generations will be more familiar with it.

Imaginary history, tactics, group portraits, mixed martial arts, slow heat...

That's right, if you read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as an online text and combine it with these tags, it will be very familiar.

Except that the writing style is classical Chinese, which is far beyond the Internet literature known as fast food literature, can other routines basically find the same label in the Internet literature world?

That's right, if you change your thinking and treat "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a top-notch online text, your thinking will undoubtedly become smoother.

If you think about it carefully, that's not it.

Based on the original history of the Three Kingdoms, the characters are adjusted, and reasonable imagination and construction are carried out based on the original history.

To put it bluntly, "the general trend does not change, but the small trend can change." Such a strange book was created out of nowhere.

What a wonderful book!

If it weren’t for this book, who would know that there were so many counselors during the Three Kingdoms period, and all of them were so smart that they were almost demons?

If it weren’t for this book, who would have known that there were so many powerful generals during the Three Kingdoms period, and all of them were unbeatable?

There are even many people in later generations who read this book from time to time, but they are no longer reading the story.

Instead, find inspiration in it.

What inspiration?

The inspiration for calculating people!

It’s so outrageous!

But after a brief chat with Luo Guanzhong, Hu Weiyong probably figured it out.

Damn!

This guy is Shi Naian's apprentice!

Didn't that person twist the Fang La Uprising in the Song Dynasty and then change it into a completely different story?

As the saying goes, the general trend does not change, but the small trend can change!

This is very good.

In fact, when Hu Weiyong first saw "Water Margin", he was afraid that it would be taboo.

But look through it carefully, and then think about it again...

Oh, Song Jiang and the others have all been recruited.

Then it'll be okay!

With such an ending, there is naturally no taboo.

If Mr. Hu were to be given an imaginative time-travel story or a story about Song Jiang leading his brothers in a successful rebellion, Mr. Hu would probably have to vomit out his blood.

These days, there are still people who are convicted for their words!

If the book that was placed in front of Mr. Hu at this time was the more famous "Journey to the West", then Mr. Hu would probably throw it as far as he could.

I can't help it, there are too many metaphors in that book.

Historically, Journey to the West was indeed a banned book in the Ming Dynasty.

So, after going round and round, in the end, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" have to be reliable.

There is absolutely no problem with these two books.

Originally, Mr. Hu planned to publish "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" first.

But I never thought that Luo Guanzhong would be unhappy.

This old boy was so stubborn that he had to finish publishing his teacher Shi Naian's "Water Margin" before he was willing to publish his own.

Otherwise, he would rather ruin his manuscript.

Looking at Luo Guanzhong, who was already trembling while kneeling there, but still holding his neck and insisting on publishing his teacher's posthumous work first, Mr. Hu let out a long sigh.

"You are a person who respects teachers!"

"That's all, it's up to you!"

After the matter was settled and Luo Guanzhong, who had thanked him so much, was sent away, Mr. Hu immediately picked up the "Water Margin" and started reading.

In the first episode, Master Zhang prayed to ward off the plague, but Lieutenant Hong accidentally escaped the demon...

Tsk tsk, don’t be too familiar!

In my previous life, I think I read this book for the first time when I was in junior high school.

I'm not that good at it, so I can't understand everything, but at least I can figure out the plot even if I'm even guessing.

So I read it in full.

But now that I have a foundation in ancient Chinese that was unmatched in my previous life, when I read this book again, the feeling is completely different.

It's kind of... how should I put it? It's as enjoyable as reading online articles or reading cool articles.

No wonder Mr. Hu has such an experience.

In fact, most of the works of this era are really carefully considered.

Allusions, antitheses, comparisons, metaphors...

Without any knowledge or brains, even if the average person is literate, they will actually not be able to understand the meaning of those articles.

But "Water Margin" is different.

This book, in this era, is a solid popular reading. It is not much different from the vernacular spoken by people in daily life.

Looking at it this way, it’s not very comfortable at all.

Just looking at it lasted half a day.

Mr. Hu didn't react until his servants came over to ask Hu Weiyong to have lunch.

I actually became addicted to this old book "Water Margin".

It’s rare!

Thinking of this, Hu Weiyong simply found the editor in the newspaper and directly extracted half of the first chapter.

"In the next issue of this section, add this!"

"I think this book is going to be a big hit!"

"One episode is divided into two parts, upper and lower. It is best to publish half of it in one issue of the newspaper."

"For a long time, we don't have to worry about running out of good articles in the storybook section!"

Mr. Hu's prestige in the newspaper office is, of course, needless to say.

Therefore, since Mr. Hu has spoken, naturally no fool will stand up and stop the manuscript.

The newspaper officials, after waiting for Mr. Hu to put down the manuscript and go to dinner, picked up the manuscript and took a curious look at it.

And then...I was hooked!

What a magnificent world this is. The Song Dynasty is obviously an era in the history books when the Central Plains was corrupted, alien races were ruthless, but civilization and commerce were extremely prosperous.

But in this book of stories, gods and ghosts appeared?

It was fun, so he decided to pursue this book just because of the beginning!