Chapter 953 952 [Zhou Hexuan’s Writing Style]

Zhou Hexuan's version of "The Legend of the Galaxy Heroes" was actually completely changed after 300,000 words. Therefore, he wrote very slowly, and it was very possible that the book was over 5 million words long and could not be completed. Anyway, Zhou Hexuan himself felt that the more he wrote, the more he got into trouble.

Tanaka Yoshiki's original version is a "space opera-style long fictional historical novel". Without a bunch of complicated attributions, it is an "opera-style novel", which can also be called a "heroic knight novel". Therefore, the protagonist in "Legend of the Galaxy Heroes" has a high status and can even reverse the direction of history, just like Zhuge Liang did in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

At the beginning, Zhou Hexuan just copied the original text, but as he continued to copy it, he found it boring.

Since time traveling, Zhou Hexuan has experienced warlord melee, Northern Expedition, Central Plains War, Japanese invasion, and national resistance war. He has also met a series of warlord politicians such as Chang Kaishen, Wang Zhaoming, Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Liu Xiang. He deeply feels the insignificance of the individual in the torrent of history, and believes that "the times create heroes" rather than "heroes change the world."

Therefore, under Zhou Hexuan's writing, the tone of the entire "Legend of the Galaxy Heroes" has changed, and it has evolved from a knight novel to a historical novel.

Of course, the overall framework of the universe and historical events have not changed, and are still carried out according to the design of the original author Yoshiki Tanaka. But the details are much richer, with various political, religious, cultural, and technological backgrounds added, and many important supporting roles have been developed and described in detail by Zhou Hexuan.

Zhou Hexuan's writing method is somewhat similar to Tolkien's creation of "The Lord of the Rings", which tries to avoid falsehood and create a real world. Including the food and cooking habits of a certain planet, the normal life of civilians under a special political system, how the two sides in the war improve each other's technology, how each other's politicians hold each other back, etc.

As a result, Zhou Hexuan gradually felt unable to control himself. He has already serialized more than 800,000 words, and "War of the Twilight of the Gods" has not even started yet. Who knows how many years and months he will finish it.

It is estimated that Zhou Hexuan's version of "Legend of the Galaxy Heroes" will not be completed before the end of World War II.

Tanaka Yoshiki's most criticized description of the war was also filled with shortcomings by Zhou Hexuan. Sometimes tens of thousands of words would be written during a single battle. The resourcefulness and leadership of Reinhardt and Yang Wen-li are more clearly reflected in these descriptions, rather than just being brushed off.

In Zhou Hexuan's version, military victory is only a part of history, a derivative of politics, and is greatly affected by economy, technology and culture. Even for the death of Yang Wen-li in the end, Zhou Hexuan was prepared to use at least 50,000 words to lay out the plot. The assassins of the "Earth Cult" were just tools used by others, and the real masterminds behind the scenes were the interest-oriented politicians on both sides.

To put it more mysteriously, in the weekly version of "Legend of the Galaxy Heroes", you can find many shadows of the Republic of China and World War II, rather than being derived from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Zhou Hexuan plans to copy "A Song of Ice and Fire" and also plans to make major changes to the original work. At least the political conspiracy cannot appear too childish and ridiculous.

Every writer has his or her own style, which mainly comes from their own experiences. Except for the "The Condor" trilogy and "Titanic", none of Zhou Hexuan's other novels were pure plagiarism ("The Little Prince" was plagiarized, but not published and was only told as a story to children). Especially after completing the creation of "The Goddess", "The Dog Official", "The Dog Official's Gaiden" and "Black Earth", his writing style has become completely mature, which seriously affected the style change of "The Legend of the Galaxy Heroes".

Zhou Hexuan's writing style can be described in six words: a strong sense of history.

Even if it is absurd, such as "The Goddess" and "The Dog Official", if you read it carefully, you can still feel the breath of history.

It is difficult for writers who have not personally experienced war and chaos to write about this feeling. Zhou Hexuan did not do it deliberately, he couldn't help but join in when he started writing, because these are his life insights.

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On the train to Cambridgeshire, Zhou Hexuan was dictating: "...a huge dark figure, half-hidden in the blood-stained snowdrifts, soft and silent. The fluffy gray fur has frozen, and the rotten The smell clung to it. Bran could vaguely see that its dull eye sockets were filled with maggots, and its grin was full of yellow teeth..."

"A Song of Ice and Fire" is not that troublesome, as long as the conspiracy of all parties is modified to be more high-end, the rest of the content can be copied by Zhou Hexuan. This thing is meant to be an entertainment work. Since a procrastinator refused to finish the book, Zhou Hexuan simply made up his own ending.

Ma Jue accompanied him all the way, and since he was idle anyway, he simply became the recorder of the novel.

Ma Jue finally realized what it means to have "a spring of literary thoughts". The speed of her writing could not keep up with the speed of Zhou Hexuan's "creation" of novels. It's as if Zhou Hexuan already has a complete story in his mind, even the words and sentences have been thought out, and he just needs to tell it like a story.

"Woooooo~~~"

Amidst the sound of the whistle, the train gradually came to a stop. This was the town of Bletchley, the intermediate station from Oxford to Cambridge.

Ma Jue put away the pen and manuscript paper, shook his sore wrist, and said with a wry smile: "Sir, helping you record the novel is really laborious."

"Then I'll find someone else next time." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

"No," Ma Jue said with a smile, "It's actually quite interesting. The story you told is very exciting. It's just..."

Zhou Hexuan asked: "Just what?"

Ma Jue reminded: "Just don't publish it in China, because it has nothing to do with the Anti-Japanese War and will definitely be criticized by other writers."

"I know, so it will be published after the Anti-Japanese War." Zhou Hexuan said.

Ma Jue asked curiously: "Why don't you write novels like "Black Soil" again? China needs excellent anti-Japanese war literature."

Zhou Hexuan shook his head and said: "The writing of "Black Soil" was too tiring. Sometimes it made me dizzy and mentally depressed. As for the anti-war literary works, I can make "Captain of China" more exciting. That comic It is more valuable to the Chinese people, and both intellectuals and the general public like to watch it."

Ma Jue sighed and said, "Oh, it would be great if there really was a Chinese captain in reality."

"China will get better one day." Zhou Hexuan consoled him.

In the second month after Zhou Hexuan came to the UK, the Japanese army carried out another round of large-scale bombing of Chongqing. Zhou Hexuan's six factories in the north and south of the Yangtze River were attacked. At least, the walls were blown up, and at worst, the factory buildings were reduced to ruins. Fortunately, the pharmaceutical factory in Hechuan was intact.

After three consecutive months of heavy bombing, the national government made a formal decision to declare Chongqing as the capital of the Republic of China in September.

This "accompanying capital" is permanent. Even if the capital is returned to Nanjing after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chongqing will still be the accompanying capital of the Republic of China. In theory, even if Chiang Kai-shek moved to Taiwan thousands of miles away, he would still have to regard Chongqing as his companion capital.

The "Accompanying the Capital Order" issued by Chiang Kai-shek was to rally the people's hearts, because the home front could no longer hold on, and the war of resistance had entered its most difficult and dark period. The hardship and darkness here are not about the outcome of the war, but that the economy and people's livelihood have completely collapsed.

During World War II, it only took half a year from Britain's evacuation from Dunkirk to its economic collapse, so that the United States had to switch to a credit model for selling arms.

This is true for developed countries like the UK, let alone China. War is really not that fun.

Well, America is the exception…

Everyone got off the car and went to a small hotel in the town. There is Bletchley Park 3 miles away. The architectural style is very unique, combining various styles of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque.

This is a good place for vacation, and Zhou Hexuan plans to buy the garden after the war.

Of course, it is impossible to buy it now, because it is the British wartime intelligence base, and all intercepted intelligence on the European battlefield is analyzed and summarized here.

The funny thing is, this garden is private property.

Sir Sinclair, the head of British MI6, suggested that the government finance the purchase, but was rejected. Sinclair could only spend 7,500 pounds to buy the garden, and then brought in intelligence personnel to work.

When the war is over, Zhou Hexuan will probably be able to buy Bletchley Park with an investment of 10,000 pounds. This garden covers a total area of ​​235 hectares, which is very large. It will be repaired and a small horse riding stable will be built in due course. Every summer, you can bring your family here to escape the heat.