The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 167 The Storm of "Liancheng Jue"

On the way to Fuzhou, Feng Yuanzhong had carefully inquired about Wang Wenlong's life experience. He knew that Wang Wenlong had been wandering around the West since he was a child. The chess patterns in this chess game are really weird, and the level is so high that it seems to have been played by gods. It is hard to believe that there is such a person in Wang Wenlong's ancestors. .

He asked doubtfully: "Do Western characters also like to play chess?"

Wang Wenlong said with a smile: "Go is also quite popular in Cochin, Korea and Japan. People play it wherever there are Chinese people."

Feng Yuanzhong really didn't believe it when he heard this. The combined population of these places was not as large as that of the Ming Dynasty, and it was completely impossible to cultivate such super-level masters.

As for Feng Yuanzhong's subsequent inquiry, Wang Wenlong only suggested that it was an overseas chess game and did not know the rest.

Feng Yuanzhong was distressed when repeated inquiries yielded no results. Wang Wenlong was walking out while the two were talking, and Feng Yuanzhong followed him all the way.

At this time, Wang Pingbao came over and asked, "Is this gentleman also going with us?"

Feng Yuanzhong then reacted and asked: "Where is Mr. Jingguan going?"

Wang Wenlong replied: "I am the chief editor of the "Xun Bao" newspaper in the Chief Envoy Si Yamen, and now I am going to work." He smiled and invited: "Why don't Mr. Erli come and sit at our Xun Bao newspaper? sit."

Feng Yuanzhong did everything he could, so he was directly invited by Wang Wenlong to get on a sliding pole.

Feng Yuanzhong, who was sitting on the sliding pole, didn't know what Wang Wenlong was hiding in his heart, so he foolishly followed Wang Wenlong to the "Xundao" newspaper office.

As soon as they arrived at the door of the newspaper office, they saw several young people poking their heads on the street outside the Chief Secretary's Yamen.

Wang Wenlong was quite confused, but out of caution, he quickly asked someone to put him down.

As for Wang Wenlong, as soon as he got off the slider, people on the other side were already looking over.

A young man wearing silk clothes with open arms walked out of a group of people. He also wore a headscarf, but it was tilted. The man came up and asked Wang Wenlong: "How dare you do it in front of Mr. Jianyang? The students are polite."

It's not surprising that Wang Wenlong was recognized. He is a famous person in Fuzhou, and most popular people in the local market know his appearance.

Wang Wenlong also carefully looked at the young man's appearance. Although he was still dressed seriously, everyone around him had his arms open and his muscles bulging out. He looked like he was showing off his power. It was obvious at a glance that the young man was a "beater".

This is an era in which businesses in the market specialize in violence, and the guy in front of me who claims to be a student is probably not a scholar, but a child with a reputation for success. After all, in business, you need to find some scholars to support your appearance, otherwise it will be difficult to handle lawsuits.

Wang Wenlong, a man of the Three Religions and Nine Ranks, didn't want to offend him, so he cupped his hand and said, "It's me."

The man said angrily: "Mr. Jianyang, who is the owner of the Sword Tower that serialized "Liancheng Jue" and "The Strange Man in the World" in the "Xun Bao"?"

Wang Wenlong's heart trembled, and he subconsciously felt that he was in danger, so he quickly asked: "What do you want to see him for?"

"I have some objections to the story of his novel! Why did he write the hero Ding Dian to death and allocate Qi Fang to the evil young man from the Wan family!"

Wang Wenlong suddenly sweated violently. It turned out that he was looking for trouble.

The scholar was somewhat polite, but the gangster next to him was a bit shabby.

"Brother, have you found the person?"

"Who is the owner of the Hidden Sword Tower? Why should Ding Dian be written to death!"

"His story must be true. This guy feels guilty. In reality, he must have a grudge against Ding Daxia!"

Several gangsters gathered around the guy, and Wang Wenlong was speechless. Readers in this era were really simple, and they actually regarded martial arts novels as real stories.

"What to do? What to do? Are you still trying to commit murder at the gate of the Yamen?"

Fortunately, a group of officials came out of the Chief Secretary's Yamen at this time, and the group of thugs dispersed slightly.

Wang Wenlong took the opportunity and quickly took Feng Yuanzhong and Wang Pingbao into the newspaper office.

Feng Yuanzhong looked confused. After Wang Wenlong entered the newspaper office, he bumped into Deng Zhimo and Xu Zhonglin who were holding back smiles on their faces.

Wang Wenlong immediately understood that these gentlemen were the ones Deng Zhimo and Xu Zhonglin came to help, otherwise he would probably not be able to get out of trouble at this time.

Xu Zhonglin said with a smile: "I have said that the plot of Mr. Jianyang's novel is too over-the-top. Why write such a good character to the Jedi? If I hadn't been friends with Mr. Ji, I would have brought people to fight."

Wang Wenlong was sweating furiously.

In the past few days, "Liancheng Jue" in "Xunbao" has been published in the middle. At this time, readers have seen a martial arts novel for the first time, and the discussion has been extremely high. What's more, Jin Yong's novel has a strong sense of substitution. Various magical knights made readers at this time extremely yearn for it, and the delicate emotional descriptions are unparalleled in literature at this time. In the early stages of the novel, when the heroine Qi Fang and the protagonist Di Yun were in love, many young men were already attracted to Qi Fang. After seeing the plot of Ding Dian, many people fell in love with this young knight who valued love and justice, especially The street knights, represented by the gangsters, almost regarded Ding Dian as a chivalrous idol, and they were extremely attracted to the love between Ding Dian and Ling Shuanghua, the daughter of an official.

——Then Wang Wenlong directly tore all these beautiful things into pieces in a few chapters.

Ling Shuanghua died. She was killed by her biological father who wanted to take away Ding Dian's martial arts skills. The purpose was just to cause Ding Dian to be poisoned.

The hero Ding Dian died because of the poison that Ling Shuanghua's father applied to her coffin, and she never saw her lover for the last time.

The protagonist Di Yun escaped from prison, but he immediately knew that Qi Fang was married to Wan Gui, the enemy who harmed him.

What makes people feel even more helpless is that Qi Fang married Wan Gui in order to exonerate Di Yun - she was always thinking about Di Yun. Di Yun hid in the firewood pile and heard Qi Fang telling her and Wan Gui Gui's daughter secretly nicknamed Di Yun, but she and Di Yun could not meet each other.

To torture or not? Too cruel!
  "Liancheng Jue" was originally used to write about the evil of human nature. The original author's plot arrangement is extremely skillful. The positive characters are suppressed continuously without any chance of release. Tragedies follow one after another, making people breathless. .

Most of the endings of traditional Chinese operas and novels are comedic, in which all sadness is ended. The ending of "Water Margin" is that the heroes are sacrificed in a temple, and the ending of "The Injustice of Dou E" is also the return of Dou E's father after passing the Jinshi examination. Let all the bad guys be judged.

This is called the natural cycle, good will be rewarded with good, evil will be rewarded with evil.

As a result, ordinary people in this era have a very poor tolerance for tragic plots.

In addition, readers have never read a novel with such a strong sense of substitution before, and many of them have become fully immersed in it, imagining themselves as characters in martial arts novels.

When everyone saw the plot of "Liancheng Jue" one after another, many people collapsed immediately.

It is said that when the gentleman who wrote this book in the market talked about it, many people in the audience were dumbfounded, and then they were so angry that they had nowhere to vent, and the indignant people even tore down several bookstalls.

Fuzhou Daxing, who regarded Ding Dian, the hero in the novel, as his idol, even came directly to the house to catch the author and beat him up.

Within a few days, even Xu Xueju came to ask Wang Wenlong about the subsequent plot development - Lord Fantai was also a loyal reader of "Xun Bao".

The editorial department of "Xunbao" has also been affected. Many editors are afraid of being beaten when they go out.

Wang Wenlong was surprised that this newspaper had quietly gained such influence in Fuzhou.

Faced with the fierce opinions of readers, he could only react. Wang Wenlong asked Deng Zhimo to arrange more pages for novels in this issue of "Xunbao", and changed the original issue of [-] words to [-] words to quickly write down the plot of the abuse of the protagonist. Serialized in the past.

Fortunately, readers in this era have not yet come into contact with Shuangwen. Wang Wenlong knows that when the story is serialized and the protagonist shows off his power with the martial arts he has learned, the Shuangwen plot will definitely arouse strong reactions from readers again.

Once the reader is satisfied, the resentment will naturally end.

The storm lasted for more than ten days and finally dissipated.

Afterwards, Wang Wenlong calculated the sales volume and was surprised to find that the sales volume of these newspapers, which made the majority of readers sad, was the highest among the recent "Xun Bao" sales, selling an average of more than [-] copies more than other issues.

Deng Zhimo and Wang Wenlong analyzed together and felt that half of the increase in newspaper sales was due to readers not wanting to believe that the protagonist's fate would be so tragic, so they bought the newspaper to verify it. The other half may be because many readers tore up the newspaper when they were angry and thought about it afterwards. If I want to watch it again, I have to buy another copy.

At the same time, Feng Yuanzhong, who watched this scene, was also deeply impressed by the newspaper.

Wang Wenlong left him in Fuzhou and didn't say much. He first gave him a stack of newspapers and asked him to make tea for him with snacks. Feng Yuanzhong, who was proficient in literature and art, just spent the whole afternoon reading it in a spell.

Feng Yuanzhong was originally a leisurely scholar and was so interested in the newspaper industry. Wang Wenlong once again tricked Feng Yuanzhong into joining the industry directly and became the editor of the entertainment section of "Xun Bao".

In the first issue of the entertainment section of "Xun Bao", Wang Wenlong directly serialized a chess score played by Alpha Dog with an explanation.

These five chess records spread with the "Xun Bao" and once again shocked Fujian. With the help of the "Xun Bao", the spread of the chess records this time was much wider than that of Guo Bailing and other three people.

Many people who can afford newspapers are actually the audience of Go. The Go section is particularly popular in the entertainment section. Many Go enthusiasts in Fujian are even connected through the Go section of the "Xun Bao".

Some unknown Go enthusiasts have also gained considerable fame by writing Go articles in Xundao.

The formation of the Go circle also helped the promotion of the Go movement.

At this time, signs of capitalism had emerged in Fujian. The people were becoming increasingly prosperous due to maritime trade, and people were pursuing entertainment. This was a good soil for promoting Go.

Wang Wenlong also ended up feeling itchy, and gradually discovered that his chess playing level was not high in his previous life, but in this era it really should not be underestimated. At least as far as the Go circle in Fujian is concerned, Wang Wenlong has almost no opponents.

The fact that he, an amateur who traveled to the Ming Dynasty in three stages, has such fighting power actually depends on his vision that transcends the times.

　I'm out on a business trip these days and the update time may be a little unstable, so please be patient.
  　　
  　
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