Cang's Ramblings

Chapter 1332 1330. Comments on "The Prime Minister from a Poor Family"

Hello everyone, I am Cang Yiwei.

Today I would like to recommend to you an excellent historical text.

"The Prime Minister from a Poor Family", happiness comes knocking on the door, 200 million words serialized.

Category: History - Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

Summary:
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin once said: "The prime minister must be a scholar." Simply put, this is the story of a student from a poor family becoming a prime minister.

【Brief Comment】

He has written many novels, including "The Best of the Ming Dynasty".

The number of words in this book "The Prime Minister from a Poor Family" is not bad at present, and its performance on the monthly ticket list in the history category is also decent.

To be honest, the quality is good, but it's just not my cup of tea.

I've been reading a lot of historical novels lately, some of which are easy to get into and quite interesting.

This book is a bit difficult to get into.

The story tells the story of an ordinary scholar who entered the official career and later became the prime minister. I have also watched the latest plot. He led troops to fight and suffered a defeat at the first battle.

After being pointed out by others, he realized that it was indeed difficult for scholars to directly apply the cases in military books to reality when they were fighting while sick, especially when they played the role of politicians. But I believe that we will definitely be able to win a great victory later.

The reason why I say that it is a bit difficult to get started is that the plot is a bit long and dull at the beginning.

It was a story about a family shop being burned down by fire, the county bailiff breaking off his engagement with his second brother, and the story behind the case.

The author laid a lot of groundwork, including the relationship between the bailiff and the clerk, the process of the second brother escaping from marriage, the protagonist's maneuvering in it, and the trivial matters between him and his eldest brother and his wife.

Even the customs and habits of ordinary people in the entire county are described in detail, especially the details are given very well.

Because of this, the reader's reading experience is fragmented, unable to focus on the protagonist's specific actions, and it feels a bit like a large-scale group portrait. Personally, I don't like this kind of slightly serious and solemn historical text. The conflicts and contradictions in the plot are easily distracting, which means it's difficult to immediately feel the protagonist's leading role in the story.

It’s not that the author didn’t write well, or that the historical materials weren’t detailed enough, or that he couldn’t write a story. It’s simply that he laid too much groundwork and didn’t grasp the main points.

As an ordinary reader, the excitement is not enough, it is not very satisfying to read, and the enthusiasm to continue reading is not so strong.

In fact, the author's writing skills are very strong. His choice of words and sentences and writing style are very fluent, and his quotations from classics are also very appropriate. One can feel that the author's sincerity in writing is very strong.

It just lacks the multiple exciting points of a cool novel, which is a very critical aspect of writing commercial novels. The writing style is one aspect, but whetting the reader's appetite is sometimes very important.

The book "A Dream of Red Mansions" introduced earlier is very powerful in this aspect.

In addition, if you are interested in this book, you can try to read it.

【to sum up】

Writing is not easy, so cherish every moment.

I’m Cang Yiwei, and I’m here to promote “Cang’s Ramblings”.

Welcome to the paradise of book reviews.

【Cang's Ramblings】

I will put this book on the list and consider whether to read the whole book after I really get into it.

Because I read a lot of books every day, I guess this will be the last wave, unless there is something new and interesting that can stand out.

Finally, I would like to add that the author's writing skills are very solid. If he could come up with more exciting moments, even if it's a little more cheesy, the result would be even better than it is now.

Please support him more.

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