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Chapter 1881: I asked you to write about Wanyan Jiumei, so you wrote Water Margin!
“So, the entire story of the founding of the Song Dynasty is really outrageous!” Liu Xu sighed and put the matter of “Stealing the Song Dynasty” aside. No matter what, the entire “Stealing the Song Dynasty” is considered completed. At the same time, in Liu Xu’s thirty-three heavens, another new world was successfully born. This is the world of the Mid-Tang Dynasty that appeared after the completion of “Stealing the Song Dynasty”.

The reason why it is the Mid-Tang world is that Liu Xu took a look and found that this world is now at the time when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang had just ascended the throne, which corresponds exactly to the plot after the completion of "The Sun and the Moon Upside Down". Moreover, it was a proper Mid-Tian world when it was born, saving Liu Xu the trouble and tediousness of working hard to promote the Xiaotian world to the Zhongtian world as before.

However, at this time Liu Xu did not have much energy to manage this Mid-Tang world. He really wanted to see what the new book written by the fake Liu Xu was.

According to Liu Xu's habit, he would publish one book after another. Yesterday, the old book was finished, and today, the first chapter of the new book will be released. Although the behavioral gap between him and the fake Liu Xu will become larger and larger as time goes by, some of the most basic character traits and things that have become routine will not change, so the fake Liu Xu should have uploaded the new book by now.

But Liu Xu himself is not sure whether the next book of the fake Liu Xu will directly write about the Yuan Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty.

According to Liu Xu's own thoughts, he still needs some stories about the Southern Song Dynasty. This is because the fake Liu Xu has a rather violent personality. Liu Xu is worried that Liu Xu may not be able to bear the history of the Southern Song Dynasty and will directly jump to write about the Yuan Dynasty. Or even go further and not even be able to write about the Yuan Dynasty and directly write about the Ming Dynasty. Then Liu Xu really has no way to deal with it. After all, the current fake Liu Xu is the real self in this matter of being the author. Liu Xu himself cannot modify the decision he has made and can only admit it with a pinch of his nose.

Fortunately, Liu Xu took a look at the new book and found that the new book was indeed updated directly on the second day. The title of the book is "Wanyan Jiumei".

Good guy!
When Liu Xu saw the title of this book, he was stunned for a moment. He couldn't understand what the title meant for a while. He had to think carefully for a while before he understood where Wanyan Jiumei came from.

After reading the title of the book, Liu Xu probably understood the current mental state of the fake Liu Xu.

Just as he had speculated, the fake Liu Xu didn't want to write the story of the Southern Song Dynasty at all. After all, this story was extremely depressing, and Liu Xu even wanted to kick the history of the Song Dynasty a few times. But history is history after all, and the Song Dynasty was a unified dynasty of the Han people. Even Wu Meiniang was written about. As long as the fake Liu Xu still had a little bit of the spirit of the historian that Liu Xu once was, he would have to bite the bullet and write about the Southern Song Dynasty.

To be honest, compared to when he first traveled through time, Liu Xu himself now has less historical spirit. After all, he has the burden of the prehistoric world on his head, as well as the technological world on his forehead. It is remarkable that Liu Xu's character has not undergone serious deformation. Naturally, he has become indifferent to many things that he used to care about.

This is even more true for the fake Liu Xu. So it is unexpected that the fake Liu Xu has more or less retained some of the spirit of a historian. Liu Xu is still very satisfied with it. After all, the fake Liu Xu is also Liu Xu himself!
Liu Xu flipped through the beginning of the novel again, just as he had done in the past. Then Liu Xu raised his eyebrows, quickly flipped through the next two chapters, sighed, and began to rub his temples.

In the end, I underestimated the fake Liu Xu, or rather, I underestimated the means by which the fake Liu Xu made his life. Although the fake Liu Xu honestly wrote the story of the Southern Song Dynasty, the story he opened took place during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty. It tells the story of the court's Taiwei Hong Xin who went to Longhu Mountain to pray for blessings from Zhang Tianshi. As a result, Taiwei Hong ordered people to forcibly dig up the underground cave in the Demon Subduing Temple and released 108 demon stars hidden in the underground cave.

What do you think? After listening to the story, do you feel that the fake Liu Xu wants to write a novel about cultivating immortals? In fact, this is the first chapter of another top Chinese masterpiece: Zhang Tianshi prays for the plague to be warded off, and General Hong mistakenly walks into the demon world.

Well, this famous book is "Water Margin". Unlike most people's impression that the story of Water Margin begins with Lu Zhijie beating up Zhen Guanxi and then involves Lin Chong, the story of Water Margin begins with the serious story of Marshal Hong releasing 108 evil stars.

This story is very inconsistent with the overall story structure of Water Margin, and there is a time difference of nearly a hundred years between the two. So Liu Xu himself was a little confused at the beginning why Water Margin was written in this way. It is really contrary to the normal logic of the novel, and it also greatly reduces the quality of the opening of Water Margin. Compared with the Peach Garden Oath of the Three Kingdoms at the beginning, it is not at the same level at all.

However, after Liu Xu actually wrote the book, he understood that the reason why "Water Margin" started with the story of Marshal Hong was probably for the three golden chapters.

That’s right, it’s the golden three chapters theory that all readers on Qidian know, and it’s also the reality that most online articles must respect. That is, when readers click on a novel, they will often only give the first three chapters of the novel a chance.

If the first three chapters of this novel cannot attract readers to continue reading, then this novel will most likely fail and no one will be interested in it anymore. After all, a novel like "A Mortal's Journey to Immortality" which only became popular after writing 60 words is truly rare.

The story of Marshal Hong is the three golden chapters of "Water Margin".

The embryonic stage of Chinese novels was "Soushen Ji" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was followed by the Tang Legend series of novels in the Tang Dynasty. It reached its peak in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Yamamoto, one of the four great masterpieces, was born in this period. Until the late Qing Dynasty, many famous novels were published.

Liu Xu once read a general history of Chinese novels, which listed all the ancient novels handed down in China in one booklet. Then he discovered that there was no need to wait for online novels, as fantasy novels had actually been popular among ancient people for a long time.

Among all the ancient novels, more than 90% of them are related to gods, monsters and other such things. The most typical one is "Dream of Red Mansions". It is obviously a great idea to write a realistic group portrait novel, but they have to add settings like the Immortal Grass of the Crimson Pearl, and talk about fate and destiny in previous lives. Liu Xu actually doesn't like this (this is just my personal opinion, don't take it too seriously!).

Novels like Romance of the Three Kingdoms that have nothing to do with gods and immortals are extremely rare. In fact, even in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is a story about Guan Erye's soul going to find an old monk after his death, which shows the popularity of immortal heroes in novels.

The reason why all novels have to do with fairy tales is not because these authors love to write about fairies and gods, but because ordinary people love to read fairy tales. If your novel does not involve fairies and gods, ordinary people will not even want to listen.

This is the ancient golden three chapters: you must write something about immortals and gods at the beginning to attract the attention of the people. In order to sell his novel and earn some money, Shi Naian finally came up with the setting of 108 evil stars at the beginning of "Water Margin". In order to forcibly piece together evil stars, he had to force some unremarkable characters to make up the number.

(End of this chapter)