Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 86 Romance of the Three Kingdoms!

Su Shi was surprised and asked, "Storybook? Miscellaneous stories?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "Yes, I call something like that a novel."

Su Yun put down his bowl and chopsticks, picked out a book from a pile of books and handed it to Su Shi. Su Shi took it without knowing what it meant, and then saw four big words written on the title page: Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Then he turned to the second page. The second page read: Chapter 1: Banquet in Taoyuan. Three heroes swore brotherhood and killed the Yellow Turban hero.

And below it was a poem written by Su Yun, Linjiangxian: The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and its waves wash away all heroes...

Su Shi looked at Su Yun, then continued reading:

[As the world's general trend goes, long-term division will eventually lead to unification, and long-term unification will eventually lead to division:
At the end of the week, seven states were divided and merged into Qin;
After the fall of Qin, Chu and Han fought against each other, and then Chu was incorporated into Han;

The Han Dynasty revolted after Emperor Gaozu killed the White Snake and unified the world. Later, it was revived by Guangwu and spread to Emperor Xian, and it was divided into three kingdoms.

The cause of the chaos can be traced back to the reigns of Emperors Huan and Ling.

Emperor Huan imprisoned good people and worshipped eunuchs.

When Emperor Huan died, Emperor Ling ascended the throne. General Dou Wu and Grand Tutor Chen Fan assisted each other. At that time, eunuchs such as Cao Jie were in power. Dou Wu and Chen Fan planned to kill them, but the plan was not kept secret and they were killed instead. From then on, the eunuchs became more powerful...】

Su Shi was immediately shocked.

This beginning is very stunning, and its majestic momentum makes people's hearts sway.

A song of Linjiangxian gives off a sense of fate, and when you think about the end of the Three Kingdoms period, this poem suddenly has a heavy sense of history.

And the following sentence, "The general trend of the world is that long-term unity will eventually lead to division, and long-term division will eventually lead to unity", fully describes the general trend of the world!
Su Shi was shocked and asked, "Are you going to write about the great conflict at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty?"

Su Yun nodded and said, "Historical knowledge is mostly circulated among scholars. No matter how good the classics are, ordinary people always find it difficult to understand them. I want to write a popular book so that ordinary people who can read a little can also read history and use history as a mirror. It can also play a role in education."

Su Shi smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying: "This is not easy to write, the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period are so complicated and chaotic.

If you write a short story based on one person's story, it's not that difficult.

For example, if you write a short paragraph about the Three Heroes of Peach Garden, it probably shouldn't be too difficult.

But I see that you have quite a big ambition. You want to write about the entire Three Kingdoms period, which lasts for a hundred years and includes all kinds of struggles, battles, and characters. It's dizzying just to read about them.

You also have to present it, and this task is so difficult that it is almost impossible to climb to the sky!"

Su Yun smiled and said, "It is very difficult. Look at my various biographies, timelines, research on various battles, etc. I have just started and I have made so many notes. It is extremely difficult to complete the sorting of the information.

But it doesn't matter, I have some confidence. If you don't believe me, uncle can take a look at the first three chapters I have written to see how they are written. "

Su Shi nodded, found a chair to sit down, opened the book and read it slowly.

Su Yun smiled, sat on the ground, and continued to eat. This job was not easy, and his brain was a little numb. Su Yun had read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in his previous life. He was a fan of the Three Kingdoms. He had watched and played various TV series, movies, and games, and read the original book over and over again. However, it was extremely difficult to reproduce it.

Su Yun wanted to write it down according to his memory, but when he started writing, he found that he had not done any homework. Even if he had a general idea, it would still be difficult to write it down.

That's why Su Yun asked Su Shi to borrow a book and used the Records of the Three Kingdoms as a blueprint, which made it much easier to write.

But this job is still difficult, because Su Yun also has his own ambitions:
He wants to make "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" more exciting and perfect!
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms written by Luo Guanzhong is naturally excellent, otherwise it would not have become one of the four great masterpieces in the history of Chinese novels, but that does not mean that the book is perfect.

On the contrary, this book still has many problems, including the common phenomenon of multiple breaks between time and story, story and characters, and characters and time. The spatial structure of the entire novel lacks logical order and appears fragmented and messy, and the primary and secondary, front and back, importance, contrast, depth, etc. are not clearly distinguished.

This is probably because the original author was confused by the large amount of historical materials.

Writers should pay special attention to the troubles caused by massive amounts of information. Many people collect information when they write, and then they are unwilling to give up this and want to stuff that in, and in the end they can only pile up a pile of shit.

Of course, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is well done, but there are still many problems.

Su Yun wanted to fix some of the illogical parts through his own efforts to make it more coherent.

of course……

What’s more important is to sneak some private stuff in.

If you don't put your own personal opinions into a book, it's better not to write it.

However, Su Yun was very cautious about this matter. He was well aware of the charm of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Once it was published, it would surely attract the attention of people all over the world. By then, everything written in it would be verified one by one, and even compiled into a booklet of a certain category, such as various war strategies, political struggle plans, and so on.

If you want to stuff smuggled goods in, you have to make sure that people can understand it. Once people can understand it, it will become known to everyone, and the imperial court will certainly know about it. Then, the smuggled goods will determine the fate of the book, so you have to think carefully about what smuggled goods you want to stuff in.

But that is a matter for later. Now we have to sort out the entire structure first, and then slowly add things into it. As for whether it is compliant or not, we will have to ask Su Shi to check it when the time comes.

Su Yun ate voraciously and quickly finished his meal. He wiped his mouth, stood up and drank some strong tea.

At this time, Su Shi had just finished reading the three chapters of the novel, but he did not speak, just closed the book and thought.

Su Yun didn't disturb him and buried his head in the documents again. He had a lot of things to sort out!
The entire book of Romance of the Three Kingdoms has more than 600,000 words, but it describes nearly a hundred wars. Among them, the most talked about ones are the Northern Unification War, the Jiangdong Unification War, the Xichuan Unification War, the Battle of Puyang, the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Chibi, the Battle of Tongguan, the Battle of Hefei, the Battle of Hanzhong, the Battle of Jingzhou, the Battle of Yiling, and so on.

There are even more characters, with no less than a thousand named figures, including more than 400 military generals, more than 400 civil officials, more than 100 descendants of royal families, empresses, concubines, eunuchs etc. of Han, Three Kingdoms and Jin, sixty or seventy members of the Yellow Turban rebels, Xianbei, Qiang and other remote ethnic groups, more than 100 eunuchs and all kinds of people.

Among the numerous complex characters, there are nearly a hundred who are described in relatively detail and have prominent personalities, and about two to three hundred whose portraits are depicted.

Just organizing the wars and characters is an extremely arduous task!

So Su Yun has no time to care about anything else.

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