In 2004, I was studying in New Zealand.The small town I live in is an extremely boring place, and most shops close after six o'clock in the evening.Some students meet with friends of the opposite sex, and some students drive to a casino in another city for entertainment.And as a standard nerd, I just want to stay at home and read a book or surf the Internet.The Chinese books in the university library here are very limited, and most of them are academic, and there are almost no popular novels. I searched repeatedly, and only borrowed a copy of "Historical Records" to go back and look through it. I accidentally saw Liu Bang chopping the white snake. s story.

When people are extremely poor and bored, their thinking is often particularly sharp, and they see things from a different angle than usual. I have read "Historical Records" before, and I glanced at it, but when I read this story again, a small question suddenly appeared in my empty mind-why there is such a story?This question is very small, but it is repeatedly entangled in my mind and lingers.I thought that there was nothing wrong with me, so I decided to check the information and verify it, so as to completely solve this problem for myself. My initial purpose was to find a small answer to a small question.From Zhan Baisnake, I found Chidi, from Chidi I found Gu Jiegang's Theory of Suspicion of Ancient Times, from Gu Jiegang I found Liu Xin, and then I continued to investigate the theory of three traditions, the theory of five virtues, and the induction of heaven and man... The result I soon discovered that with the continuous deepening of research, the scope became wider and more extensive, and more and more materials were added. From the tip of the iceberg of a small allusion in the early Han Dynasty, a major theme throughout Chinese history was actually involved.This feels a bit like Will Smith in "Men in Black". He was just a policeman catching small thieves, but in the end he was involved in a big conspiracy by aliens to destroy the earth.By this time, I was already riding a tiger, unable and unwilling to stop, so I continued to dig beyond my capacity, and wrote the whole research process into an article, which was sent to the Tianya Community's "Cooking on the History of Wine" - this is The prototype of this book.

The original web article serialization only had more than 30,000 characters, and the game text, because of the rush of writing, was full of many narrations and textual errors that made no sense.A friend of mine, Chi Jun, commented: "The loopholes in your article can be used as a net bag." This time, I have the opportunity to publish a book, and I dare not take it lightly. I visited Chi Jun in a small restaurant and asked him to help me check it .The Red Army is a kind and righteous man. He not only corrected some mistakes for me, but also collected and added a lot of materials, and finally turned this net bag into a cloth bag.Special thanks here.

The virtues of the dynasties of the past dynasties are a boring but important matter. How to make a boring matter as interesting as possible while keeping it accurate and informative is a very challenging task.If readers can open the book and read through it without getting bored, and get a little income from covering the book, I think I will be satisfied.