Chapter 37 postscript

From the end of April to the end of October, exactly half a year, I finished the third novel in the Luo Fei series.The word count of the final draft is 246,000, making it the longest work I have created so far. When I was writing the chapter "Legends of Jihad", I saw readers on the Baidu post bar angrily accusing me, saying that I actually wrote the national hero Li Dingguo in such a nasty way, which is even more unbearable than those monsters.Haha, I don’t know if he insisted on reading it afterwards? Originally, this might be an ordinary novel with ordinary ideas, it would not be written so long, and it would not hide so many historical backgrounds.

The turning point happened at the end of May, that is, one month after the creation began. At that time, I wrote Chapter 7, and I needed legends related to "Devil Power". I wanted to borrow the history of the Nanming army fighting against the Qing Dynasty, so I searched the Internet, and then I was deeply attracted by the character Li Dingguo . "Lin Lin is lonely, loyal and determined, holding a tree to support the sky. People in the battlefield still know the millstone, and the fire of phosphorus is always the same as the sun." (a poem commemorating Li Dingguo by literati in the late Ming Dynasty)

This is a tragic figure.Browsing historical materials, you will find that he has almost all the qualities a hero needs: bravery, resourcefulness, broad-mindedness, righteousness... However, he was born at the wrong time and at the wrong time. Li Dingguo was originally a peasant rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty. After the Qing army entered the customs, he was able to judge the situation and take the overall situation into consideration, and formed an alliance with the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty to resist foreign humiliation.In the two battles of Guangxi and Hengyang, Li Dingguo won a complete victory, defeated the two famous kings of the Qing court, wiped out hundreds of thousands of enemies, and achieved a huge victory never before seen by the Ming army against the Qing army.

Sun Kewang, the de facto power ruler of the Southern Ming Dynasty at this time, was jealous of Li Dingguo's military exploits, and wrote consecutive letters inviting Li Dingguo to Yuanzhou to discuss military plans, in fact, to kill him.After Li Dingguo learned about it, in order to avoid internal conflicts, he led his troops out of Hunan and moved to Guangdong and Guangxi.Sun Kewang immediately brought his army to Hunan, but was defeated by the Qing soldiers. Li Dingguo has excellent strategic vision.After a rest, he launched a new offensive in Guangdong and contacted Zheng Chenggong who was entrenched in Taiwan.The fierce battle lasted for half a year, and the Qing army in the besieged city actually killed people and ate them.However, out of consideration of his own interests, Zheng Chenggong has not sent allied forces for a long time.Finally, the reinforcements from the Qing court arrived, and Li Dingguo was alone, defeated across the board, regained Guangdong, and his strategy of entering the south of the Yangtze River failed completely.The hope of Nanming's revival once again came to naught.

Sun Kewang accelerated his pace of usurping power and proclaiming himself emperor.Two years later, he raised an army of 140,000 to conquer Li Dingguo.His move betrayed everyone, and his general Bai Wenxuan also fell to Li Dingguo's side. In the end, Sun Kewang fled to Changsha with only 20 people and surrendered to the Qing court. After this internal friction, Nanming's strength was greatly weakened.With Duoni as the commander of the Qing army, Wu Sangui, Zhuobutai, and Hong Chengchou attacked in three ways.Sun Kewang's remnants took the opportunity to renew civil strife, internal and external difficulties, the Nanming army collapsed, and the situation was irreversible.

In such a difficult situation, Li Dingguo picked up the remnants of the army, selected 6,000 people to ambush in Mopan Mountain to the west of the Nujiang River, and set up three ambushes.Wu Sangui's pursuers got into the ambush circle without knowing it. At this critical moment, Nanming official Lu Guisheng rebelled and informed Wu Sangui. The ambush turned into a bloody battle. 2/3 of Li Dingguo's troops died in battle, and the Qing army also suffered casualties. It was tragic, with more than a dozen officers below the Dutong and thousands of people killed in battle.Wu Sangui had no choice but to temporarily give up the pursuit.

Emperor Yongli feared the enemy like a mouse, and fled to Burma with his entourage.Li Dingguo refused to enter Burma, so he gathered his broken troops in western Yunnan to prepare for the final battle with the Qing Dynasty.Myanmar thought that the Nanming army was already defeated, and wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob the Ming army and horses.Bai Wenxuan was furious to rectify the troops and ordered a counterattack. The main force of the Burmese army (according to the literature, there are "hundreds of thousands", which may be an exaggeration) lined up on the other side of the river, ready to fight.The Ming army crossed the river to attack, and defeated the Burmese army with only a hundred riders. The Ming army took advantage of the situation and killed and injured more than 10,000 Burmese troops.Burmese officials had to call out Emperor Yongli and asked him to order Bai Wenxuan to retreat.

Under such circumstances, many generals and officials of the Ming army were disheartened and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty one after another. In the end, even Bai Wenxuan also surrendered.Only Li Dingguo's will has never wavered. After Emperor Yongli was killed by Wu Sangui, Li Dingguo was extremely sad.Finally, he fell ill on his forty-second birthday. More than ten days later, Li Dingguo called his son and his generals to come to him and warned him, "I would rather die in the wilderness than surrender!" . Li Dingguo's life was a tragedy, and his situation after death is still a tragedy.

Due to his origin in the peasant rebel army, he could not be fully recognized by the authors of feudal history books, coupled with his ultimate failure, he did not get the respect he deserved in the historical records. Some people think that Li Dingguo was the number one general during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and his character and talent were far above those of Li Zicheng, Zheng Chenggong and others in the same period.But many more people have never heard of this name. When I read these materials, I had a new idea about this novel.Because of this, my writing has been interrupted for more than a month (of course due to the World Cup), and I will use my way to let more people know about Li Dingguo and this tragic hero who was born at an untimely time.

So there's the later leafy plot, there's that fictional jihad story.I am satisfied with this story, the only regret is that under this background, Luo Fei's image is inevitably weakened, but he should be convinced by a character like Li Dingguo who steals the limelight. Fortunately, there is Zhou Liwei, the powerful anti-number one in the original concept, but later it can only be reduced to a tool to set off Luo Fei's heroism. As for Li Yanhui, he was the real hero in my original conception and still is. There are some characters that didn't exist in the first place, such as Bai Jian'e, Shui Yi, Dilga and so on.Among them, I am most satisfied with Shui Yiji. No matter who it is, it is definitely a very cool thing to have such a guard.

Many friends are interested in my creative ideas.When I started to write, I only had a general idea.Then think about a paragraph and write a paragraph.I have always known from my blog that sometimes I update quickly, and sometimes I don’t move for several days, which is the reason. Regarding the writing of reasoning novels, I have communicated with Shui Tianyishi (her "Ran Shen Guan Ji" is published at the same time as one of the series this time), whether it is based on stories or reasoning methods (tricks) ) based? It seems that most people who write inferences are the latter. They first think of a trick, which is very deceptive and skillful, and then they think of a story to show the trick. On the contrary, I have a story first, and a good story can really stimulate my desire to create.Then I will design some plots and foreshadowings during the writing process, and let Luo Fei solve them. So in my novels, the criminals don't deliberately set up plots, and the reasoning scenes are also fragmented and scattered. In my novels, there are only "fans" but no "problems". In addition, I don't like the way of writing in a maze of stories, such as interfering with readers' sight through words and specially arranged plots.I feel this is unfair to the readers.So a friend suggested that I should add some confusion to Yue Dongbei, but I don't think this is necessary.Frankly speaking, I am not worried that everyone will guess that there is something wrong with Zhou Liwei, because the "mystery" I set up focuses on Li Yanhui and the story behind it. What happened three hundred years ago, half a year ago?I believe these are the ones that will really captivate readers. Perhaps dignified reasoning lovers will think that this is not called reasoning, so I still don't call myself a "mystery novel", I call myself a "suspense novel". Sometimes I feel that it is the word "reasoning" that restricts the development of "mystery novels" in China. As before, it should be better called "detective novels". Finally, answer the questions you asked. 1. About false beliefs.Some friends feel that it is pointless to keep that lie.Not much to say, think about the social upheaval after the collapse of faith in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and think about how our country did it. 2. The loss of Zhou Liwei's medicine was not his mistake, it was just an accident. 3. Luo Fei finally told Yue Dongbei the truth, because Yue Dongbei's original analysis was completely wrong and distorted Li Dingguo, so the most necessary person to know the truth is Yue Dongbei.What I want to express in Yue's criticism of Luo's relationship issues is: Luo Fei's actions don't matter right or wrong, it's just that different people have different choices.With Luo Fei's character, the secret will definitely be kept alive, but if it is replaced by Yue Dongbei, it will be another result. 4. The following short stories are to be attached to the forthcoming book, because the number of words is not enough. 5. Ethnic conflicts... Hehe, I can't talk about it. I don't have any positive descriptions of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, nor do I express any emotional factors. 6. The plants I describe look like poppies?Purely coincidental. 7. Luo and Yue were recruited at the same time, because Zhou poisoned with extracted terror-causing substances, and there is a 100% probability of causing terror. 8. Some readers did not understand the issue of Zhou's shoes.Liu Yun planted bugs in the new shoes, and then burned the old shoes to make Zhou replace them with new ones. 9. The death of Xue Mingfei.Li Yanhui sucked his blood with leeches, and then told him that he was frightened and collapsed to death. 10. I really haven't thought about the issue of filming a TV series.Hehe, it's interesting to see everyone's related discussions.