At this point, the whole novel "Eye of the Sky" is over, and all the foreshadowing stories are over. From the third roll up, you will enter the real main story.
As mentioned in the postscript of the first volume of the rewritten version of Eye of the Sky, the novel Eye of the Eye of the Sky consists of several independent stories, each of which is a volume.
A more accurate description should be: Eye of the Sky consists of three or four stories.
The reason why we can say "or" in three volumes and four volumes is because there will be two different versions of the novel Eye of the Eye from the third volume-the serious version and the legendary version.
Among them, the "serious version" ends in the third volume, the mystery is completely uncovered, and the whole story ends.
The legendary version will have four volumes, and there will be an extra chapter after the third volume of the story, which can also be understood as the rumor of the Eye of the Sky.
Many readers may ask me, why do you have to write two versions of the ending? I think this is mainly to meet the requirements of readers with different reading orientations, and it is also an attempt of mine.
In fact, the main structure of the two versions of the story is basically the same, and the plot is roughly the same. The difference is that the characters and stories have slightly different endings.
Moreover, the legendary version will have one more story than the serious version, so it will increase by about100000 words.
As the author suggests, the serious edition is suitable for older readers who tend to be serious, traditional and mature; The legendary version tends to be younger, more cheerful and more receptive to new things.
As for my own preferences, I would prefer the legendary story.
Because if you can accept some legendary and unconventional story settings in the legendary version, you will definitely agree that the characters and stories in the legendary version are more touching!
Eye of the Sky is a story with a huge logical structure. I believe that many friends who read the second volume of the novel must feel that the story seems to be coming to an end.
In fact, the whole novel Eye of the Sky didn't finish the foreshadowing story until the second volume.
Together, all the stories in the first and second volumes of Eye in the Sky are just the tip of the iceberg of the whole novel.
So, what kind of story will the third volume of Eye of the Sky tell?
I think some friends must already know, especially those who have seen the old edition of Eye of the Sky, that is, the mainland writers publishing house edition and Taiwan Province Rolling Stone publishing house edition.
The real main story of Eye of the Eyes is about Yuan Chonghuan, a hero who resisted gold in the late Ming Dynasty.
Here, please allow me to quote the postscript of the old version of Eye in the Sky:
Postscript of the old version of Eye of the Sky
The late Ming Dynasty was a period of internal troubles and foreign invasion, and the people were in dire straits.
During the Chongzhen period, there were many hungry people everywhere, and food was the most important thing for the people.
Commissioner, qing eyeing; Inside Shanhaiguan pass, although the emperor is diligent, he is willful and incompetent. CoCo Lee is in hot water and life is worse than death. ...
But troubled times are often times of heroes! Every time I think of that turbulent and terrible history, Yuan Chonghuan, Xiong Tingbi, Sun Chengzong, Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, Dourgen, Li Zicheng, Zhang ... heroic heroes come to my mind again and again.
Their stories are magnificent, ups and downs, stirring, but often make people cry and think-provoking.
Therefore, I have always been interested in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and it is for this reason that I have always wanted to write something: about this history, about the people who lived in this history, and about the heroes who emerged in this troubled times. ...
So, I thought of Yuan Chonghuan.
Yuan Chonghuan is a hero almost forgotten by later generations, a great national hero like Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang and Zheng Chenggong.
He has extremely lofty character, indomitable character, rare courage in that era, and of course unparalleled military and strategic talents.
For the sake of the stormy Daming Mountain, he spent his life guarding the northern border. He never lost a battle in his life, and his courage destroyed the powerful Eight Banners Army of Qing Dynasty. His courage shattered the myth that the Eight Banners Army was invincible. His artillery even killed Nurhachi, the leader of the Jin people who had never been defeated in his life. He was called "the Great Wall of Wan Li" by people at that time.
However, he died at the hands of his own emperor and the hands of the Daming people who struggled for him all his life and were deeply cared for by him. When he died, the people of Beijing gave birth to his flesh, abandoned his bones in the city, and died without a body. Every time I read this, I can't help crying ... what is that history? !
So, I decided to write about Yuan Chonghuan, that stormy history, and a real hero that every Chinese descendant should admire all his life.
This idea has been my dream since I was very young, even for a long time.
But after thinking about it for a long time, I feel that if I write a pure historical novel, it will be boring, the content will be boring, and I will be bored.
Of course, readers will also get bored.
So, I chose another form, adding more suspense and reasoning to the article, which will have a long foreshadowing, and I hope readers can accept and like it.
I got to know Yuan Chonghuan when I was less than five years old.
/kloc-in the winter of 0/974, my father took me by car and passed Guangqumen, which is located in the east of Beijing. My father pointed to a place not far from the window and said to me, "That's where Yuan Chonghuan and the Qing soldiers fought bloody battles more than 300 years ago."
I asked, "Who is Yuan Chonghuan?" So, my father told me the story of Yuan Chonghuan.
In the following years, as I grew up and read a lot of historical materials, I finally really understood what kind of person Yuan Chonghuan was.
What kind of person is Yuan Chonghuan? As the postscript of the old version of Eye of the Sky said: Yuan Chonghuan is a great national hero like Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang and Zheng Chenggong! But it's a pity: Yuan Chonghuan is a hero almost forgotten by later generations.
I once saw a famous saying on the internet, and I deeply agree with it: if you want to consider whether a person is strong or not, then you must see how strong his opponent is!
Therefore, since we want to know about Yuan Chonghuan, we should first know about Yuan Chonghuan's opponents: Yuan Chonghuan's main opponents are Qing Taizu Nuerhachi and Qing Taizong's Huang Taiji.
The ancestor of the Great Qing Dynasty was actually the Dajin Kingdom in the Song Dynasty, which we are very familiar with. That is a very tenacious and aggressive nation-the Jurchen nationality, which is now Manchu.
In A.D.115, Wan Yan Akuta, the first great figure in the history of Jurchen, led Jurchen to defeat the Liao State, proclaimed himself emperor by the Ashe River and established the Dajin State.
Ten years later, in a.d. 1 125, the state of Dajin destroyed Liao.
Two years later, in a.d. 1 127, the second-generation emperor Jin Taizong and Wu destroyed the northern song dynasty and captured it, which is called "the change of Jingkang" in history.
In the famous poem "Man Jiang Hong" by Yue Fei, a famous anti-gold star in the Song Dynasty, there is a shame of Jingkang, which is still snowing, and courtiers hate it. When will it go out? " , refers to this matter; The names "Guo Jing" and "Yang Kang" in Mr. Jin Yong's Legend of the Condor Heroes also came from this.
At that time, the state of Jin was extremely strong, occupying a vast area north of the Huaihe River in Qinling Mountains.
However, because the main force of the Southern Song Dynasty was not eliminated, it eventually exhausted all its strength in successive years of conquest and internal struggle.
In A.D. 1234, Dajin State was destroyed by the emerging Mongolian regime, and the Jin Dynasty perished.
The Daikin regime established by Jurchen lasted for115 years, and Akuta became the emperor. By 1234, there were nine emperors.
Since then, Jurchen has been hiding among the white mountains and black waters in Changbai Mountain, and continues to hunt for a living.
In A.D. 1559, 325 years after the death of Dajin State, the second great man of Jurchen nationality was born, who was the later Qing Taizu Nurhachi.
In May of A.D. 1583, 24-year-old Nurhachi set out with 13 deputy armor and 30 people. In 33 years, it successively annexed other tribes in Jianzhou, defeated Yehe, Wula and Hadaqiang in Haixi and surrendered to "Jianzhou" and "Hadaqiang".
Two years later, in A.D. 16 18, Nurhachi denounced the "seven great hatreds" and declared war on the Ming Dynasty, which was considered extremely powerful by Nuzhen at that time.
The second battle between Jurchen and * * * begins!
Let's look at the situation in the Ming Dynasty: 250 years have passed since 1368 when Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor to 16 18.
Although the most glorious period of the Ming Dynasty has passed, the so-called hundred-footed insects, which are dead but not stiff, are still too powerful for a post-Jin country with a population of only several hundred thousand and settled in the northeast corner of China.
The Ming emperor was Wanli, and the year 16 18 was forty-five years of Wanli.
The first ten years of Wanli was the most powerful decade of the Ming Dynasty, when Emperor Wanli was still young (only 10 years old when he ascended the throne), assisted by Zhang, a great scholar.
Zhang is a famous sage in history: externally, he defeated the invasion of Mongols in the north several times, basically put down the rebellion of ethnic minorities in the south, and the pirates in the southeast coast were also defeated by famous generals such as Qi Jiguang; Internally, manage the flooded Yellow River and Huaihe River, develop production, encourage agricultural weaving, and achieve unprecedented national strength.
At that time, China was the most powerful, affluent and civilized country in the world. At that time, China had a population of 100 million.
I sometimes often think that if the so-called "world police" was needed at that time, there would be no other country except China; If China's colleges and universities can recruit international students, the Ming Dynasty will definitely provide ... TOEFL, GMAT, GRE, IELTS and other tests in China. There are also successful businessmen like this, who combine language, examination and business skills, set up new "Western" schools in other countries except China, and teach foreigners who sharpen their heads and want to train in China how to use the TOEFL and IELTS tests of the Ming Dynasty.
In short, the Ming Dynasty was extremely powerful at that time.
Nurhachi coveted Daming Mountain as hard as Vietnam annexed the United States today.
However, Nurhachi finally did it.
In the second year of Nurhachi's "Seven Hatreds", in the year of 16 19, the late Jin captured Fushun, an important town in Liaodong, and the Ming army was defeated. Zhang Chengyin, the company commander, died, and more than 10,000 Ming troops were wiped out.
After a year of preparation in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wanli sent 220,000 troops in four routes, claiming 470,000 troops to go north to Shanhaiguan and wipe out the late Jin Dynasty.
This battle was later known as the Battle of Salhu.
The Battle of Salhu is a famous battle in the history of China.
At that time, there were only 60 thousand people in the late Jin Dynasty, compared with 220 thousand people in the Ming army, the number was 1 4. In addition, the equipment of the Ming army is far superior to that of the late Jin army. At that time, the Ming army was generally equipped with firearms, including red cannons and magic machine camps. And the Jin army is basically a cold weapon.
However, with this 60,000-strong army, Nurhachi wiped out the troops of the Ming army in the east, west and north roads within five days, and all the commanders of the three armed forces, Liu Ding, Juniper and Marin, were killed.
In this battle, the Ming army killed more than 3 10 officials and more than 50,000 soldiers, while Jin only killed more than 2,000 people.
Among the generals killed in the Ming army, the commanders of the East, West and North armies were all famous warriors in the Ming Dynasty, especially Liu Ting, commander-in-chief of the East Route Army. He was a military commander in chief all his life, putting down the rebellions of Burma, Korea, Japanese pirates, Boqifutan, Yi people and Luoxiong. After hundreds of wars, his fame shocked the world.
The wrought iron knife he used weighs 120 Jin, which is 39 Jin heavier than Guan Yu's Qinglong crescent moon blade. He danced on a horse and turned around like a fly.
However, even such a warrior finally died at the hands of Nurhachi, which shocked the whole country in the Ming Dynasty. Since then, until the emergence of Yuan Chonghuan, Daming's army has never won a battle, and it has been defeated repeatedly, and after each time, gold is more with less.
Needless to say, in the first year of the Apocalypse (A.D. 162 1), Yuan Yingtai commanded 70,000 troops and the whole army was wiped out. In the second year of the Apocalypse (A.D. 1622), Wang Huazhen commanded an army of 140,000, and the whole army was wiped out. ...
The Ming dynasty's fear of the late Jin reached its extreme. The imperial court was startled at the mention of "braid soldiers"
I still remember when I was in history class in middle school, every time the teacher talked about the famous battle of "winning more with less" in history, my mouth was full of bubbles and my excitement was beyond words.
For Nurhachi, the so-called "winning more with less" is nothing at all.
He was victorious all his life, from 13 to 30 people, and finally laid the foundation of 100 million people in the Ming Dynasty. Almost every battle is won by fewer.
Of course, Nurhachi was not defeated, just once.
This battle was the last battle of his life, and he himself died in this battle, because his opponent was Yuan Chonghuan!
At that time, Nurhachi besieged Ningyuan City, and Ningyuan City had only Yuan Chonghuan's troops 1.3 million, which was defeated by Yuan Chonghuan and hit by red artillery. A few months later, Yulong died.
Before his death, Nurhachi summoned all the princes and nobles and said only one sentence: "Since I started the war, there have been no anti-Yan walkers.
Who's Yuan Chonghuan? It's Neng Ye Er! "
Before Yuan Chonghuan appeared, the Qing army won many battles against the Ming army, and each time it won more with less; Since the appearance of Yuan Chonghuan, the Qing army has fought and lost many battles against Yuan Chonghuan. Until Yuan Chonghuan's death, the Qing army didn't win the battle again, but lost more every time, which was extremely humiliating.
Two years after the death of Nurhachi, in November of the second year of Chongzhen (A.D. 1629), the second emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Taizong, laid siege to Beijing in Gubeikou area because he could not break through the Ning Guan defense line (Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan) guarded by Yuan Chonghuan.
Yuan Chonghuan got the news and only took thousands of hussars to Beijing. Outside Guangqumen, he fought a decisive battle with tens of thousands of soldiers of Blue Flag, White Flag and Zhengbai Banner. The battle lasted four and eight hours, and the soldiers were defeated. Yuan Chonghuan pursued them until they were above the canal.
In this bloody battle, Yuan Chonghuan fought tens of thousands of elite Qing soldiers with thousands of troops and defeated the Qing army, among which Abatai, Azig and Siegel, the powerful forces of the Qing army, were all defeated.
It is conceivable that the fighting capacity of Yuan Chonghuan's troops is fierce.
After the defeat of Huang taiji, he summoned Baylor and said, "For fifteen years, we have never met such a powerful opponent." So Huang Taiji used counter-measures and borrowed the hand of Emperor Chongzhen to get rid of his own menace, Yuan Chonghuan.
After Yuan Chonghuan's death, the body was eaten by the ignorant people in Beijing at that time, leaving only one head hanging outside Guangqumen, where he fought a bloody battle with the Qing army a few months ago.
That night, Yuan Chonghuan climbed to the flagpole, stole Yuan Chonghuan's head and buried it in his backyard, vowing to be a wake for Yuan Chonghuan for generations.
This vigil lasted for more than 300 years. To this day, the 17th generation of She nationality is still loyal to Yuan Chonghuan's wake.
Yuan Chonghuan ancestral temple is located in Xie Jie, a Chinese teacher in Guangqumen, Beijing. The 17th wake of She family is Ms. She Youzhi.
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Sometimes I often wonder what kind of talent can make others silently wake for him for hundreds of years, without any external support, without considering any return, loyal and regretless.
Yuan Chonghuan's personality must have that incomparable charm and appeal.
The last book of the twenty-four histories, Ming History, was written by the later Qing people.
When writing the Ming history, the Qing people spoke highly of their enemy, who even killed their first emperor:
With the comments of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji listed above, after Ningyuan City was defeated by Yuan Chonghuan, the Ming Dynasty wrote: "I was in the Qing Dynasty, and everything was destroyed. People will not dare to talk about peace, and they will argue after fighting, and then they will worship Huan. "
The last sentence of Biography of Yuan Chonghuan in the Ming Dynasty wrote: "If you die while worshiping Huan, the border affairs will be of no benefit to anyone. If you die in the Ming Dynasty, you are determined to win." Can let the enemy give such evaluation, should be the highest evaluation.
Well, before it's too late, let's enter the third volume of Eye of the Eye.
In the third volume, we will go back to more than 300 years ago, to the turbulent era in the late Ming Dynasty, and to the era when heroes came forth in large numbers in the late Ming Dynasty. Let's meet this hero Yuan Chonghuan, who should not have been, but has been almost drowned by history. ...
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August 5(th), 2007