Planetary Museum

After reaching a general conclusion on the core topic, Wu Xiaoqing quickly brought up the next topic while there was still time left—the way of power struggle between kings and lords in the Middle Ages.

According to the instructions of the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing continued to read in a serious manner, pretending that he understood what he was talking about: "Assume that the king is a typical authoritative leader with an elite direct army under him. There are still many loyal lords. However, there are several other local forces infiltrated by religion within the country. What methods can the king usually use to strengthen his authority. Similarly, these methods do not distinguish between historical stages, as long as they work. About two months later, the king will need to rely on these authorities to carry out a major move."

"war?"

"No, it's more serious than war, so we must strengthen authority at all costs."

This time, the experts barely discussed, and after discussing a few words, they reached a consensus: "Killing people is the simplest and most effective."

Wu Xiaoqing asked: "Isn't there a tacit relationship between the king and the lord in the Middle Ages between the lord and the vassal? Wouldn't killing people destroy this political tacit understanding?"

"The so-called political tacit understanding in the Middle Ages was just an agreement between the king and his vassals to share the spoils. This kind of agreement is often very fragile, and it is common for them to overthrow each other. So there is no so-called political tacit understanding at all. The biggest tacit understanding is that the agreement can be overturned at any time. Especially when the king has an absolute military advantage, his right to speak will become quite powerful or even absolute. Generally speaking, such a king does not need to kill people directly, just Showing intent to kill is enough to deter political opponents."

Many of the students like to watch American TV dramas, and they all use TV dramas as explanation materials: "Just like in A Song of Ice and Fire, the king burned his courtiers to death, and the courtiers either rebelled or accepted."

Because this topic went well, Wu Xiaoqing paid attention to the time, and there was still time to discuss the third topic - the combat power and fighting methods of the army in the Middle Ages, the defense power of the castle and the cracking method.

It doesn’t take a few professors to get involved in this topic, and their students can speak very comprehensively one by one.

"The army in the Middle Ages is scum, most of them are armed by refugees and beggars, and they cannot afford casualties."

"Professional armies are rare and usually only kings and popes can afford to support them."

"Cavalry has a strong deterrent effect on troops with poor military discipline, and such troops are often unable to face charges."

"But the usage of cavalry in the Middle Ages itself is not particularly clever. They like to use it for charging, rather than for strategic compression and battlefield control like the Mongols."

"As long as you can make gunpowder, castles are no problem at all. The ancients just never thought about the concentrated blasting of gunpowder."

After this topic is over, this discussion will also come to an end.

Several professors shook hands with Wu Xiaoqing before leaving. They sincerely hoped that such an interesting bragging and making money conference could be held several more times.Those students are very innocent. They actually care about where this discussion will be used in the script of the movie, when the movie will start shooting, and which actors will be hired.

In this regard, Wu Xiaoqing can only reply in unison: commercial secrets, no comment.

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At noon, I had a simple meal around the university. In the afternoon, I took a car to a hospital next door. Wu Xiaoqing needed to consult a doctor about the whole process of diabetes treatment.

Yes, the whole process.Same process as chairing a meeting.

From the initial diagnosis, the use of the blood glucose meter, to the patient's food portion control, insulin injection dose and time, insulin storage time, the use of needle-free syringes...

It is necessary for Wu Xiaoqing to learn these things.

The importance of learning these things is no lower than learning how to use a gun or a sword, or even higher. According to the search and rescue team, these actions are not only related to Wu Xiaoqing's life and death during the mission execution process, but also related to the mission itself. success or failure.

Imagine that Wu Xiaoqing gave the king a needle, and the king was killed with one needle. Did they rely on a few pistols to get out of the castle and finally escape the pursuit of more than 1000 cavalry guards in a country?

Wu Xiaoqing felt awkward hearing these words, shouldn't it be related not only to the success or failure of the mission, but also to his own life and death?

But he probably sensed that the search and rescue team might be very interested in the diabetic king, and treating the king itself was an important part of the mission.

After coming out of the hospital, Wu Xiaoqing had to go to the set.

Yes, he is also working as the main consultant of a film that is being filmed, and he has signed a contract.

Director Chen invited him to audition—of course not for Wu Xiaoqing to audition, but for him to examine the performance of the actors and how well they fit the script itself.

When he arrived at the film company, Wu Xiaoqing was basically a little dizzy. He had meetings all morning and had needles all afternoon. Horses also get tired.

Sitting down on the chair, looking at the script he wrote and the actors who came in, Wu Xiaoqing actually began to miss the life before he met the search and rescue team, how carefree he was at that time... okay , Wu Xiaoqing selectively forgot the part where he was forced to jump into the river.

There were two questions in the interview, which were the most critical plots in the movie in Director Chen's opinion.

The first one is the first time the king of the primitive people met modern people, which is a literary play; the other is the modern man commanding the king and leading the team to fight against the crocodiles, which is the key action scene.

The actors are so handsome that Wu Xiaoqing feels ashamed. Wu Xiaoqing, who just came back from the Middle Ages, originally thought that compared with those people who were generally malnourished and in extremely poor hygiene, he could be regarded as a jade-faced little white dragon. Especially after being so neatly dressed in a suit and oiled head, if he went to a high school at his age, he would definitely be a quasi-school-level character, but when the first actor walked in, Wu Xiaoqing instantly felt as if he had grown up. Like a refugee in the Middle Ages, no matter how you look at it, you feel like a country.

The first handsome actor performed the first episode. The character he performed was the modern person A in the script, that is, Wu Xiaoqing himself.

This made Wu Xiaoqing a little dissatisfied—there was no sincerity in coming to the interview. What about my iconic afro?

The search and rescue team promptly reminded Wu Xiaoqing that the script had already been revised by the director. Considering that the audience's aesthetic level is still very low, there is no way to accept this new era trend, so the director changed the appearance of the original plot.

If we start from reality, Wu Xiaoqing carefully recalled the situation at that time, but there is actually nothing to perform.From the beginning to the end of that meeting, he was completely dumbfounded and a little scared.Seeing so many people kneeling there, his first reaction was to run, but when his eldest brother went up, he just followed up.Professor Shen was even more afraid than himself at that time, so he hid behind him.

The actor was afraid that he was acting out, but this acting was too much-he completely played himself as Professor Shen.Moreover, his performance only showed fear, not shock. This opinion was asked by the search and rescue team. Wu Xiaoqing felt that the elder brother's conclusion was correct. He had this idea in his mind, but he didn't know how to express it specifically.

After the actors went out, Wu Xiaoqing told Director Chen about the search and rescue team's opinion.Director Chen expressed his full approval.

The second actor still plays himself-after all, this is the protagonist in this movie.Compared with the first one, this actor is a little rougher and a little stronger.His performance is even more embarrassing. If the first actor showed fear quite vividly, then this strong man may just be showing a scared look, and this look is similar to his There is a strange contrast in the figure. If this is a comedy, the No. 2 actor is likely to win the director's favor, but now, Wu Xiaoqing only notices the pimple on Director Chen's brow.

After the performance ended, both Director Chen and Wu Xiaoqing had nothing to say. The producer started to talk at this time. He started to talk about this actor who has participated in many big productions before, has a good resume, and is very adaptable to the set. The acting is also explosive.

Director Chen nodded with a smile, but remained silent.

Then came actor No. [-], who was a bit too forceful in his performance. He was afraid of being acted out into a panic. Wu Xiaoqing couldn't see it.

Actor No. [-] was acting in an action scene, and he was in charge of fighting the crocodile with a spear. On the scene, he was called a ferocious, grinning, jumping, and there was a scene where he said his lines after being injured and fell to the ground. Wu Xiaoqing was all over the place. Got goosebumps.

Then number five, number six, number seven, number eight...

Wu Xiaoqing really didn't have the energy to read on, his eyes were on the picture in front of him, but his mind was in a daze.Only when the performance is over, Wu Xiaoqing will follow the subtitles and say a few lines that belong to him.

In fact, he is not in the interview, he is still in the state of acting all the time.

Well, one afternoon, they interviewed, thirty or so people, the actor who played Wu Xiaoqing was confirmed, and the rest had to go through re-examination-this is the conclusion drawn by the search and rescue team.

"Ah, it's settled?" Wu Xiaoqing communicated with the search and rescue team while going to the toilet, "Which one? Number one?"

"No. [-] is the director's favorite, and No. [-] is the producer's favorite. Of course it's No. [-]," the search and rescue team said, "And you, which one do you like? The one who plays the king."

"What's the use of my liking?" Wu Xiaoqing said, "I don't understand anything."

"From the director's point of view, you understand it, so it's useful. Think about it quickly. When you go out of the toilet, remember to pat that person on the shoulder."

"Ah?" Wu Xiaoqing didn't understand what the search and rescue team meant.

When he walked out of the toilet, he found that in the corridor, none of the people who had just come for the interview had left. They were standing on both sides of the corridor. When Wu Xiaoqing passed by, they all nodded at him, and some even bowed: "Mr. Wu is working hard!" gone."

This address makes Wu Xiaoqing feel refreshed all over. Teacher Wu, who invented the word teacher, why does it sound so comfortable!Wu Xiaoqing thought to himself, then slowed down and looked over one by one. He remembered that there was a person who played the role of Wang also surnamed Wu. each other's shoulders.

"Does this count as completing the task?" Wu Xiaoqing whispered when leaving these people.

"It's almost half done. I'll tell the director about this person's strengths later, and that's all."

"Isn't the interview over?" Wu Xiaoqing asked.

"Director Chen will invite you to a party tonight, where the other half of the interview will be."

"Can I not go?" Wu Xiaoqing suddenly felt that the previous half month's life on horseback didn't seem so painful anymore.

"There are many beautiful actresses, you will find it interesting," the search and rescue team finished, and reminded him of the necessity of doing so routinely, "There are still 110 nine days and [-] hours before the volcanic eruption, we have to hurry up Action."