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Chapter 445: A True Historical Masterpiece of Intrigue

This is what Liu Heping meant just now.

Top directors and screenwriters plus the top domestic production team will definitely be able to produce an even better "Game of Thrones".

Now, he was going to give Li Yu his true opinion.

"Director Li, if you want to create a Chinese version of the political conspiracy, it would be a bit of a waste to start with Li Er joining the army.

We can continue to pull the story line back to the Sui Dynasty, and the story begins with Emperor Yang Guang of Sui.

Yang Guang used his acting skills to deceive Yang Jian and Dugu Jialuo, causing Yang Yong, who was both the crown prince and his brother, to be deposed.

He also used various political tactics to eliminate all his brothers. Aren’t these classic political tactics stories? "

Liu Heping just gave the beginning, and Li Yu could imagine the political intrigues that had started from the Sui Dynasty.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Liu Heping's suggestion.

Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty is a very well-known and controversial emperor in history.

His fans praised him as a great king whose sins were committed in his own time but whose merits would last for generations to come, and they even wanted to give him the title of the greatest emperor of all time.

Another group of people said that he was not even as good as Liu Bei's son Adou.

After all, it was the beginning of a prosperous era, but he was the only one who ended up with his death and the destruction of his country.

However, Fu Dalong made a huge contribution to the fact that Yang Guang, a tyrant with great ambitions but little talent, had a large number of fans.

He played Yang Guang so well in "The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties" that many people developed a liking for this character.

Li Yu is not a history major, but he read a lot of history books about the Sui and Tang dynasties when he was writing the script.

He read Yang Guang's part.

He felt that anyone who had read the history books carefully would not conclude that Yang Guang was a wise ruler, let alone think that his contributions would last for generations.

First of all, we have to be sure that this guy is indeed a genius with first-class acting skills. His superb acting skills can deceive an old fox like his father Yang Jian.

People often say that first-rate actors are in the z world, second-rate actors are in the business world, and third-rate actors are in the entertainment industry. This is absolutely true.

When a third-rate actor is filming in the entertainment industry, he will at most be scolded by the director for his poor acting skills. Even if the situation is serious, the director will at most ask him to get out.

The circle that first-rate actors hang out in is different. If you have bad acting skills, it’s fatal.

In addition to his good acting skills, Yang Guang is also extremely talented and has excellent strategic vision.

His decisions on major strategies were basically correct, such as the campaigns against Goguryeo, Tuyuhun, and the Turks, and the construction of the Grand Canal.

Even though Li Er, who was known as a tough guy sent from heaven, still inherited Yang Guang's approach in terms of grand strategy, he defeated Goguryeo, Tuyuhun and Turks.

The problem is that Yang Guang was right in strategy, but when it came to tactics his execution was a mess.

He is a giant in strategy and a dwarf in tactics.

The construction of the Grand Canal was done in too haste. It could have been completed slowly over decades, but it took several years. Hundreds of millions of people died because of the rush to complete the project.

The same was true when fighting Goguryeo. A million-strong army was sent to attack, and the first soldiers were almost climbing up the enemy's city wall.

Because the enemy said they could surrender, Yang Guang ignored the advice of his generals and ordered the troops to retreat.

Then they discovered that the other side's surrender was just a delaying tactic, the purpose of which was to delay time for the city's defense.

When they saw that the Sui army had retreated, they immediately repaired their defenses and refused to surrender, and Yang Guang broke through the defenses again.

His various micro-manipulations were even more suffocating than those of a certain logistics captain named Chang who later took over.

The logistics captain sent a telegram to move the machine gun position two meters to the left, but he couldn't do the psychedelic operation of asking the soldiers who climbed up the enemy wall to come down. To put it bluntly, this person just doesn't regard the people and soldiers as human beings. In his eyes, the people and soldiers may just be numbers.

He launched major projects again and again, and led millions of troops to attack Goguryeo several times in a row, with no regard for the lives of the lower-class people and soldiers.

Such people are not worthy of praise at all, and they deserve to die and their country be destroyed.

By the way, since Fu Dalong has been acting in Li Yu’s “The Northern Dynasties” and “The Great Wall” series in recent years, he has no time to act in “The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties”.

Therefore, Fu Dalong's classic Yang Guang has not yet appeared.

Li Yu thought about it carefully and felt that Liu Heping's suggestion was a good one.

His "Game of Thrones" could really start from the Sui Dynasty, and he invited Fu Dalong to play the role in the first season.

However, Li Yu had a request, he said to Liu Heping: "Teacher Liu, what you said makes sense, our "Game of Thrones" will be better starting from the Sui Dynasty.

But I have one request. When you write the character of Yang Guang, you must restore the true historical image.

Now, many people who have never read history books are trying to reverse his verdict and say that his contribution will last for generations.

What a bullshit! He was an emperor who inherited a prosperous era. When he first ascended the throne, the national population was close to 60 million.

In just two or three decades, by the time of the Tang Dynasty, the national population had been reduced to just over 10 million by him.

Such people must be nailed to the pillar of shame in history and absolutely no one can whitewash them.”

If such a despicable person can be credited with great success, then who can the tens of millions of people who were killed by his various forms of conscription, abuse of manpower, or indirect actions turn to for justice?

That’s right, it was Liu Heping who suggested changing the story line of the first season to the Sui Dynasty, so the script of the first season was left to him and several experts to complete.

Based on Li Yu's understanding of Liu Heping, since Liu Heping had made such a suggestion, Liu Heping already had an idea in his mind about how the script should be written.

There is really no need for Li Yu to rack his brains to write another one.

"Director Li, you and I have the same idea. We must restore history. If we are going to do it, we have to make a true historical political masterpiece."

Liu Heping was naturally very happy that Li Yu accepted his suggestion.

In this way, Li Yu put forward a few ideas of his own, and the remaining script creation was handed over to Liu Heping and several Tang history experts.

Li Yu has confidence in Liu Heping and several experts, and believes that they will be able to create a wonderful script.

The script had not yet been written, but the rumor that Li Yu had invited Liu Heping and several experts to a meeting had quietly spread.

This is what happens when you become famous. No matter how big the things you do, they will be discovered.

When the news reached Li Yu's fans, they all became excited.

"It's true, we have the photos. Director Li met with Liu Heping, a famous national first-class screenwriter. I heard that several other people around them are history experts, and one of them even appeared on Lecture Room.

What is Director Li going to do? My intuition tells me that Director Li might be planning something big. "

"Director Li is indeed a model worker in the industry. Less than a month after the filming of Operation Nujiang River was completed, he has already started preparing for a new drama.

I just don’t know whether this new play is a movie or a TV series.”

"Whether it's a movie or a TV series, I love watching anything directed by Li. Moreover, Li has invited so many big names to shoot this time, so the filming will definitely not be bad."

"I would rather watch a TV series. Director Li's movies are great, but it takes one or two years to watch one or two hours of movies. It's too short and not enough to watch. TV series are more exciting. I can watch dozens of episodes in one go."

"I second the motion from above."

(End of this chapter)