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

"Jianyang, your novel is so well written!" Wang Wenlong stayed at Shen's house for dinner in the evening. Shen Jing was still reading Wang Wenlong's manuscript at the dinner table. She closed the manuscript and praised it repeatedly.

Wang Wenlong picked up the manuscript of "Di Renjie: The Case of the Tongtian Demon" on the table and said with a smile: "It's just a game."

Shen Jing sighed: "This is not a game. It goes to heaven and earth, integrating various schools. It is said to be a public case novel, but it also looks like martial arts. It is said to be a martial arts novel, but it looks like gods and demons. It is said to be a god and demon novel, but it also looks like a god and demon. It’s like telling a historical novel.”

He smiled and said: "I originally only liked poetry and opera, but I didn't like to read novels because I thought they had no style. But your writing is so ethereal yet so real, it makes me reluctant to put it down once I read it."

The serialization of Xu Zhonglin's "Beihai Dragon Slaughter" has ended, and "Suzhou Xunbao" is in urgent need of a novel that meets male aesthetics. However, readers have already whetted their appetites for "The Treatment of Malignant Disease" and "Beihai Dragon Slaughter", so they are soliciting submissions in Suzhou The novels are useless. Fortunately, Wang Wenlong stepped in and wrote this book "Di Renjie: The Teaching Case of the Tongtian Demon".

Although the protagonists are both Detective Dee, but unlike the detective novel "Detective Detective Dee", Wang Wenlong basically adopts the setting of Tsui Hark's movie "Detective Dee: The Case of the Tongtian Demon". In the story, Detective Dee is young, handsome, and has an unparalleled responsibility. With martial arts skills, a powerful dragon mace in hand, and an extremely smart mind, he also dealt with organizations with extraordinary power such as the Sea Sand Gang who raised sea monsters, the Tongtian Sect who knew the art of disguise, and the Yirenfang composed of warlocks from outside the world.

After Tsui Hark's three Dee Renjie movies became famous, various online novels and movies on the Internet became popular for a while. Wang Wenlong also watched some when he was bored, such as Detective Dee vs. Japanese Ninjas, Detective Dee Cracking the Mysterious Coffin of Nine Dragons, Detective Dee Exploring the Magic Dragon in the Canal, etc. Di Renjie fights the Yin soldiers... there is so much content to write about.

Wang Wenlong's expectations for the "Detective Dee" series are not high. Anyway, as long as it is written according to the standard three-act process and incorporates some themes from later Dee Renjie stories, this kind of Detective Dee story that combines shocking, bizarre, and adventurous styles can be mass-produced. creation.

To put it bluntly, this Dee Renjie universe is not a detective novel at all, but an adventure story like "Raiders of the Lost Ark". At the same time, it combines the ethereal immortals and ghosts in the Tang Dynasty legends, as well as the martial arts themes popularized by Wang Wenlong. People in the Ming Dynasty naturally fell into it as soon as they saw it.

Wang Wenlong plans to write it in the form of a unit drama. A story can be as long as 200,000 words or as short as 60,000 to 70,000 words. It is very suitable for gathering content when newspapers open the skylight.

After reading the manuscript Wang Wenlong brought, Shen Jing felt uneasy and asked, "Is this Jianyang manuscript going to be published in the Suzhou Xundao?"

Wang Wenlong nodded and said: "After the serialization of "Beihai Dragon Sword" is over, I will replace it with "Tongtian Demon Sect"."

"Great." Shen Jing looked forward to it, but what she was thinking was that since Wang Wenlong decided to publish this novel, he would definitely finish it. Then she would get the manuscript from Wang Wenlong first and read it first.

When the food was almost ready, Shen Jing's younger brother Shen Xuan returned home.

Shen Jing asked: "Why did you come back so late?"

After meeting Wang Wenlong, Shen Xuan sat down and said, "I went to Suzhou to meet friends, discussed some business, and wanted to invest some money."

Shen Jing asked: "What business?"

Shen Xuan said: "Wang Baigu who came back from the capital is calling for the reconstruction of Wu Zichong's Changyin Pavilion. He came to Suzhou to raise funds. I want to invest some money and follow his path."

Wang Wenlong was curious when he heard this: "He is looking for someone to donate money to repair the attic. Why is there such a lack of connections?"

"Jianyang didn't know something," Shen Xuan said with a smile. "Wang Maodeng just came back from the capital this year. Who knew about the 'Nanping Society' he started in Hangzhou twenty years ago? How many powerful people he had made friends with. Now he has come to the capital again. I have been studying history for ten years and have opened up many paths. I heard what Wang Zhideng said implicitly. As long as we invest money to join the society, we will have a chance to get our money back in the future. Now many wealthy people in Jiangnan have invested money in him. If we If you go late, I’m afraid you won’t be able to get in line.”

Wang Wenlong asked: "What kind of business did he say?"

Shen Xuan shook his head and said: "How can you say this clearly? Of course, on the face of it, it is only for the purpose of building a garden, but in fact, I saw how much money he invested, and his servants remembered it. I think this is considered a shareholding."

Wang Wenlong, who has experienced various anti-fraud propaganda in later generations, immediately felt unreliable when he heard these words, and reminded him: "Is this person a liar?"

Shen Jing, who was on the side, had already shaken his head. He took a mouthful of food and persuaded: "Brother Xian, you used to only run some farm business in the countryside, and your life was easy, so why invest your money in this unknown business? Even if Wang Zhideng is not a liar, you can tell that he is not a decent person just by looking at the time when he served as a reporter for Yuan Wei. What are we, the Shen family, doing to get close to him?" Wang Wenlong hadn't yet figured out who this Wang Zhideng was who heard what Shen Jing said. Only then did the "Yuan Wei Ji Room" react.

This Wang Maodeng can also be regarded as a popular figure in Suzhou, but he never participated in the scientific examination and was just a mountain man, so his position in history was relatively remote. Wang Wenlong really didn't think of it for a moment.

Wang Maodeng has been known as a talented man since he was a child. He could make mistakes at the age of five, write big characters at the age of six, and write poems at the age of ten. Then he relied on his talents to travel around and lived as a guest of the Qing Dynasty. During the Jiajing period, he went north In the capital, he was appreciated by Yuan Wei, a great scholar at that time.

This Yuan Wei also doesn’t have a good reputation: Jiajing likes to seek divination from immortals, and after Yuan Wei passed the Jinshi examination, he went straight to Xiyuan to serve Emperor Jiajing and cultivate immortality. His specialty is writing Qingci to pray to the gods during fasting rituals. Yuan Wei actually relies on this ability He rose all the way to Ge Lao and was known as the "Prime Minister Qingci".

Wang Zhideng, who took refuge with Yuan Wei, was appreciated because he composed a poem called "The Poem of Purple Peonies in a Bottle" which is full of Taoist mysteries.

Yuan Wei wanted to recommend him to Emperor Jiajing as a Ci minister, but at that time Emperor Jiajing was dealing with the struggle between Yan Song and Qingliu, so he postponed the matter. Yuan Wei died after a year, and Jiajing died another year later. Since then, Wang Mingdeng has been serving as a guest in the capital, and he is arty. More than 20 years ago, he and the "Later Seventh Son" of the retro school established a "Nanping Society" in Hangzhou. It was quite famous at the time, and later relied on its reputation to be... He was recruited to the capital to participate in the compilation of history, but he wandered around and did not get an official position.

Wang Wenlong asked Shen Jing again: "Where is this Changyin Pavilion?"

Shen Jing smiled and said: "That was the pavilion built by Wu Kuo, a native of Xiangfu Mountain, by the Qinhuai River. It happened many years ago. Jianyang is young, so I must have never heard of it."

Wang Wenlong knew that Wu Kuo was a disciple of Yan Song decades ago, and he called himself "Xiangfu Mountain Man". He was also a guest like Wang Mingdeng. Changyin Pavilion was probably equivalent to the literati club in later generations.

To sum up, this Wang Zhideng is a broker. It seems that it has been difficult to get around in the capital recently, so he went back to Jiangnan to work around. He also got the reputation of rebuilding the Changyin Pavilion left by his friend Wu Kuo to raise money.

But Shen Xuan said emphatically: "Brother, although I used to just manage farmland, I have inquired about the matter this time and am fully confident."

"Wang Zhideng has made many connections in the capital. When he came back from the capital this time, he collected a full volume of farewell poems written by senior officials in the capital. I even got that collection back. There are so many great things The official gave him face, how could he lie?"

Shen Xuan took out a rather exquisitely printed book of poetry from his sleeve and handed it to the two of them. Shen Jing flipped through it and nodded: "This book is printed quite well." He handed the book to Wang Wenlong.

Wang Wenlong flipped through it and found that there were indeed many farewell poems written by senior officials in the scriptures for Wang Zhideng, and even Shen Yiguan wrote a couplet.

However, Wang Maodeng's collection of poems is obviously specially used to promote himself to make money easily.

Wang Wenlong knows the history of later generations, and the subsequent struggle in the court will be dominated by party struggles. People like Wang Mingdeng have already withdrawn from the stage of history, and their influence is not as good as that of Shen Jing. What career can this outdated old man have?

Wang Wenlong looked at Shen Xuan who was in high spirits and suddenly felt pity for him.

Shen Xuan is now in her fifties.

Seeing how firmly he believed in Wang Maodeng, Wang Wenlong felt as if he was watching future generations of elderly people being deceived by micro-business celebrity photos.

No matter what, people from aristocratic families will inevitably become confused as they get older.

(End of this chapter)