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    "Xinshun: The Steel Age" is my second book and the first one I started writing as a novel.  Many old readers know that "Tianxia Jiedu" was just a short fragment of about 2,000 words published on Longkong at the beginning. It was with the support and encouragement of Lielahu and many friends that it became a 200-word novel.  A multi-thousand-word historical novel.  When I was chatting with an editor before, I once mentioned a phenomenon: many authors¡¯ first books were very good, but their second and third books fell into obscurity. They got worse and worse, and there was no such thing as the first book.  The kind of characteristics that make people shine finally disappeared in the online literary world.  The reason is simply that before writing the first book, the author has often considered the materials and emotions for many years, and has sufficient savings, and then bursts out, which is naturally very exciting.  However, although the writing in the second and third books became more proficient, the savings in the belly were much shallower, and the level dropped suddenly.  Therefore, the most difficult thing for newcomers is the second book. Just as the NBA has a rookie wall, the Internet literary world also has a "newcomer wall". If you can't get over it, you will be eliminated. If you can't get over it, you will be in a different world.  After I heard this, I was quite trepidatious at the time, but also a little eager to try. I wanted to see if I could disappear into the crowd, or if I could emerge from the chrysalis like a cicada, and be in a different world.  When deciding on the topic for the second book, I also hesitated for a while.  Frankly speaking, online writing is a highly marketed form of leisure and entertainment, and authors are often greatly affected by the preferences of readers.  I am sure that this theme is definitely not as good as the Three Kingdoms, the late Ming Dynasty, and Jingkang. After all, these historical stages have been pioneered by many ancestors. Readers are generally familiar with the historical figures at that time, and it is easier to form a sense of substitution.  , naturally it is easier to become red.  As for the fictional theme of "Xinshun", it is relatively difficult for readers to read it, and it may cause confusion.  But I think that if a historical novel wants to be really well-received and able to capture the readers' hearts and make them remember it, it must do the following two things: 1. It raises a question; 2. It answers the question convincingly.  .  Some of the most popular historical novels in recent years are all like this, such as "Stealing the Ming", "Usurping the Qing", "1911 New China", etc.  Almost all of these novels hold the view that one of the reasons why China suffered so much in modernization is that the last feudal dynasty was established by a minority group. Since the interests of this minority ruling group are often not the same as those of the dominant nation,  overlap, so when encountering powerful foreign enemies, rulers often choose to betray the interests of the entire country and preserve the interests of their own small group.  Moreover, in order to maintain its dominance, this group, which only accounts for a very small minority of the country's population, has adopted various means to dumb down and weaken the Han people as the dominant ethnic group, and has also massacred and destroyed its prophetic elites. Therefore,  China's modernization process was so difficult and the price paid was so heavy that the Chinese people today are still feeling the consequences.  So the plot of the novel is very simple. An omniscient and omnipotent time traveler from modern times goes back to the past, reverses the wheel of history, and overthrows the rule of aliens. Then the Chinese nation can smoothly embark on the road to modernization, blabla  .  Even more exaggerated is the saying, "Leave Shi Yanran and expand the territory thousands of miles!"  But is this really the case?  If we look at the entire global scope, the success of modernization is an extremely "rare" and difficult phenomenon. Except for the great powers located in Western Europe and North America, which were the birthplaces of the capitalist industrial revolution, almost all the remaining  The modern history of all late-developing countries is extremely tragic and dark, full of humiliation and bullying, and China is not alone.  In these countries, massacre and plunder are commonplace, and national subjugation and genocide are not uncommon.  In these late-developing countries, many rulers belong to the country's dominant ethnic group, but most of them have failed. Even to this day, many less developed countries have only formal rule, and the entire country is still in the process of modernization.  China, let alone modernization.  Even for those few who succeeded in modernization, were their lives bright at that time?  The Irish potato blight caused nearly a million people to starve to death in the 1840s; after the Crimean War, Russia adopted the so-called "liberation of serfs" in order to export large amounts of grain abroad in exchange for industrial capital, allowing serfs to work for  He paid a large amount of money to redeem himself and deprived the village community of public land and handed it over to farmers who were good at management. As a result, while grain exports increased significantly, there was an alarming famine in the countryside, and serfs who lost the protection of the village community gathered in droves.  starved to death; Japanese rural girls who were sold to Southeast Asia as prostitutes during the Meiji Restoration and farmers who worked all year round but could not eat a bite of the rice they grew.  These are all successful people in modernization, but their lives are no better than those who failed.  Could it be that in 1644, when a certain Han hero rose up and defeated the Manchu invasion, and the last dynasty was Han, China's modernization reform would be successful?  Can those sufferings be alleviated?  Can the people live a better life?  I don¡¯t think so.??? Modernization is an extremely complex process. It is not simply a matter of using advanced technology and then removing the emperor and replacing it with a president.  In the ancient world, political and social life was actually only a matter for a small number of people. The vast majority of the rest of the people lived in extremely narrow and closed small communities all their lives. For them, as long as the rulers left them  As long as they can produce some fruits of labor that can sustain their survival, they will accept the rule, at least without active resistance.  Until the oppression becomes so heavy that these simple people can no longer survive, they will rise up and wait for the next acceptable ruler.  Life goes on and on like this, as if it will never change.  Therefore, whether ancient society was a democracy or a dictatorship, it was actually only a matter for a small group of people and had nothing to do with the vast majority of people. Therefore, the structure and functions of ancient countries were much simpler than those of modern countries. People and people  The connections between people and between regions are also much simpler and more obvious.  But modernization is different. The commodity economy occupies the dominant position in the economy. For the first time, the entire region, country, and even the world are connected into an organic whole in a true sense.  A large number of cheap goods poured out of factories destroyed the self-sufficient natural economy and the small handicraft industries attached to it. People who lost their land had to go to big cities to make a living. For the first time, a huge proletarian class appeared in the city.  They have nothing but their own hands, and the characteristics of their work make them closely connected and well organized. The city has given them widespread knowledge. Politics is no longer just a matter for a small group of people.  This is a phenomenon that has never happened before in human history.  However, some members of the original ruling class lost their old privileged status in the process of change. They were often dissatisfied with the change and even became initiators and leaders of the revolution. The simple state apparatus of the old world faced this complex phenomenon.  Very weak and powerless.  The New Army Revolution in China after the abolition of the imperial examination system; the failure of Shah Pahlavi¡¯s white reforms in Iran and the resurgence of fundamentalism are all due to this reason.  This is not difficult to explain why modernizing countries are always accompanied by great instability regardless of their success or failure. The only country that maintains a relatively stable government is the United Kingdom, which is because it is the first country to industrialize and has vast colonies, which can resolve contradictions.  Moving away, the modern history of other countries is filled with revolutions, coups, foreign wars and civil wars.  To put it simply, the factors that determine the success of modernization are extremely complex and cannot be explained simply by the national attributes of the dynasty rulers. A traditional Han dynasty can lead the Chinese nation out of this quagmire and break this "three thousand years"  "Unprecedented major changes" and embarking on the bright road?  I'm very skeptical.  The above are my questions, but if I ask for the answer, I can¡¯t come up with it now, or the answer now may not be the answer in the future book.  Human thinking is very strange. For a problem, they often think it is A at first. As the understanding deepens, they will think it is B, and then return to A. However, the "A" at this time is not the "A" at the beginning.  "A" is much deeper and richer.  Maybe this is what we said in the politics class in junior high school, "The understanding of things always rises in a spiral and deepens!" Writing a book is also such a process. As the plot of the book develops, the historical background of the time will also be understood.  As the understanding deepens, the author's ideas will not remain unchanged, but will continue to deepen, so you should go and see for yourself. After all, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's hearts. Maybe I am writing A, but some readers can see it.  It¡¯s B. Isn¡¯t this a very good thing?  Finally, I wish everyone good health and all the best!  I also hope that everyone will continue to support Weber and write an extraordinary and good book!  The following is a short poem written by Weber, which can be regarded as the prelude to this book.  The slaves made heavy groans and dug out black coal and iron from the ground to create boilers and machines. The black coal was ignited to heat the boilers and drive the machines to run. They created guns and commodities, and the guns blasted open the majestic gates of the empire.  , A flood of goods poured into it, smashing the idyllic and beautiful rural life to pieces, the extremely poor people were driven into factories, the newborn giant babies treated the whole world as a toy, everything was turned upside down, this is a new century  , This is the century of black, This is the century of steel.
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