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An essay about an ideal China

I published a book review, thank you brother A Fei for his good writing.

Song of Hero

It has been more than a year since I followed the pace of the drunkard and watched the development of Wu Anguo and the Ming Dynasty.

At first, I thought this book was just one of the travel notes of men in time and space in many online novels. But with the development of Peking, the world written by the drunkard gradually became clear, and I included this book in the YY reform category that only showed the author's ideal society (it was impossible to call it revolution). It was not until Pingnan that I really realized that I was wrong, this is a book that praises heroes.

Hero is a word with a wide range of connotations. In ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, the heroes in everyone's mind are different. Even if one person is a person, the heroes in different periods are different. If you have to find the intersection of heroes, I think it should be extraordinary.

Li Shanping, as his name is, kind and ordinary, a poor scholar with lame legs. If he had not met Wu'anguo, he would probably be a rural scholar with more than a dozen disciples in his life. However, the moment he jumped down from the walls of Beihelin, he completed his heroic path. This path was paved by Haoran's righteousness and extraordinary wisdom. It is often said that talent but not virtue is a villain. If Li Shanping only has extraordinary wisdom, he is just a member of the villain in the long river of history. If he only has good righteousness, even if he can be written in history, he will only come to the conclusion of a foolish scholar. It is precisely because of Li Shanping's successful combination of righteousness and wisdom that he has achieved his heroic name.

In contrast, in novels today, there are many people with outstanding talents, and few people with such righteousness. Whenever I read Li Shanping, I will sigh for it.

Wang Yufei is also known as his name, with fast legs and can run. If Mu Ying had not Pingnan, I would have thought that he would have a great future as a postman. However, when he died of exhaustion on the banks of the Baishi River, the body that stood and blocked him had turned into a statue of a hero. This statue was forged by the courage of a soldier and the kindness of a saint. If Wang Yufei was only brave, he was just a brave warrior. If he only had the kindness of a saint, he would have been a "traitor". It was Wang Yufei's courage to kill the enemy with his kindness that cherished life that made him one of the heroes.

Looking at the novels nowadays, killing people is like numb and blood flows into a river. It is still not enough, so I have to kill millions before showing his courage. But I wonder if courage without benevolence can be classified as a butcher?

A hero is not necessarily the honor of the dead, but there are also those who live.

Zhu Yuanzhang, an emperor who is said to be comparable to a drunkard, when he saw the world map presented by Wu'anguo, surpassing Genghis Khan's ambition was enough to bring the word "xiong" on his title, but whether it was a hero or a bear, it was not enough to rely on this point. When he felt the miserable youth and planned to help the world, his love for the people had diluted the ambition to compete for the world. What is the priority in the world? The emperor of China for thousands of years has given countless answers, but we can be sure that Zhu Yuanzhang's reply was: the people. Even though he has always taken the preservation of the Zhu family as the basis, after all, he has paid too much for it, and anyone will have such selfishness about it. We still don't have to blame it too much. Zhu Yuanzhang, a generation of emperor who used the strong and strong world to protect and care for Zhaomin, is enough to be called a hero.

Guo Pu, a local official from a small county magistrate to a politician, looked at his resume alone, but he was just a bureaucrat with a smooth career. But with the rise of Peking, the helmsman of the "Pei Ping New Policy" had steadily led the north into the torrent of vigorous development. If this alone was based on this point, Guo Pu was enough to call a practical worker. However, when he turned his attention to the people in the world, he was already unstoppable on the road to becoming a hero. Huan Wen had an old Zhuge Liang under him, who once asked: What talent did Zhuge Liang have? The old man said frankly: Since Zhuge Liang, I have not seen anyone who does things as thoroughly as him. He does things well, even if it is a small matter, it is difficult to make any mistakes. Besides, the innovation of Peking is of great significance to historical turning point! However, Guo Pu can do this carefully, and this is his ability! It is safe, persistent, and meticulous, and all used for people's livelihood and plans. How can he not be called a hero?

As for the protagonist Wu'anguo, I don't want to call him a hero because he is a human being in time and space.

After the book is closed, Zhu Biao, Zhu Li, Cao Zhen, Gao Deyong and others in the book are benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, bravery and wisdom, and can be called talents, but they still lack the excitement of completing the Yiyue Hero Sect. Even the few women in the book, such as Liu Ling, Qing'er, and Empress Ma, can be called women and talented people.

Close your eyes and recall the little things in the book. All the characters in the book are outstanding, but they also have shortcomings, such as Wu'anguo's hesitation, Guo Pu's smoothness, Zhu Yuanzhang's cruelty, Li Shanping's disabled body, Wang Yufei's tragic death, etc., not listed one by one.

In the book "Ming Dynasty", the drunkard has loopholes or shortcomings in both writing about people, narratives, and even those innovation measures. I have seen a lot of criticisms and accusations in the book review area, many of which are targeted for their innovation measures. Indeed, the system written in this book does have many shortcomings, and is indeed inferior to the perfect descriptions in other works. There are loopholes or even mistakes in politics, economy, culture, military and other aspects. But I want to ask: From ancient times to the present, has there been a perfect system in the world? No, there was no in the past, and there was no present, and even in the future. Since there is no, why should we pursue this? Why should we regard a fictional historical novel as a policy program?

Some people may say: Even so, can't the characters and stories be written slightly more perfectly? I think it is this beauty with flaws that can give people a soul impact.
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