Chapter 1052 Postscript (pure chat)
【postscript】
First of all, I want to say sorry to all the readers. This chapter is just my personal rambling and has nothing to do with the main text. This should be considered a free chapter, but if it were free, it would be placed at the beginning by default, but I insist that it should be placed at the end.
I still want to say sorry to all the readers. I found that it has been two years since I started writing this book. Thank you for your companionship and continuous encouragement. In the past two years, especially in the second half, the update speed was extremely slow, which made my friends wait for a long time.
In the beginning, in order to keep up with the updating speed, some chapters were a little hasty. Later, I figured it out. Instead of ensuring meaningless daily updates, it is better to polish the content carefully. It doesn't matter if I postpone it. Slow work produces fine work.
I feel ashamed to say that it is a “detailed job”. There are many typos and writing errors, just like sand in rice, which even I find disgusting.
I personally think that the signing of the "Chanyuan Alliance" is the best node to end the "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period". Because at the beginning of the establishment of the Song Dynasty, there were still remnants of the "Ten Kingdoms", and after the Northern Han and other regimes were eliminated, Emperor Taizong of Song was still obsessed with the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, so there was the "Yongxi Northern Expedition", followed by a tug-of-war that lasted for more than ten years, until the "Chanyuan Alliance" was finalized, and the two sides basically reached a strategic consensus and coexisted peacefully.
If the narration goes further, it will no longer be "The History of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms", but should be called "The History of the Three Kingdoms" (Song, Liao, and Western Xia).
I originally planned to open a special topic on Xixia, to sort out the ins and outs of the Xiazhou Dingnan Army, after all, they appeared at the beginning of this book (Wang Xianzhi, Huang Chao Uprising), scattered in various important historical periods described in this book, and then focus on how the Xiazhou forces, led by Li Jiqian, dealt with the Song and Liao dynasties. After thinking about it, I decided to leave it to friends who are interested in doing "Three Kingdoms Past". Don't be too full of yourself. If you lose, you will gain; if you are full, you will overflow. This is one of my principles of doing things.
There is another thing I want to report to all the readers, that is the topic of the political struggle in the early Northern Song Dynasty centered on "Zhao Pu VS Lu Duosun" as announced in the previous article. I also plan to give up talking about it. First, the political struggle itself is boring and thankless. The author often consults a lot of information and spends a lot of effort, but the readers just skip it... Second, their stories are scattered in the main story, and what is written is basically an excerpt and integration of the previous article, which is too suspected of being lazy; third, it can be regarded as a deliberate regret.
These two years have also been a rare period of growth for me.
At first, my idea was very naive, that is, to find the so-called truth and objectively present the "real" historical story. However, I soon became mature - this process even made me doubt my life at one point, because I found that there was no truth in history.
"The truth of history" is a false proposition in itself. The so-called "truth" is actually just the telling of a story, and the telling must have its own standpoint and angle. It's like when I describe the appearance of a mountain (the truth), I can only say that it looks like a mountain from the side and a peak from the front, and it looks different from far and near. Natural science studies the laws of nature; reading history is reading the logic of human nature. Some people say that human history is repeated over and over again, so we can learn from history and seek wisdom from the ancients. I guess so, because human nature has never changed.
Before the apple hit Newton, it would have fallen to the ground. It had nothing to do with the observer (Newton) or the conclusion (gravity). Even though Einstein used general relativity to prove that the reason the apple fell was the curvature of space-time rather than gravity, the apple still fell to the ground.
History is no different. What we call “truth” is nothing more than Newton’s universal gravitation or Einstein’s general relativity, a concept artificially imposed for the convenience of understanding and narration, which helps us understand it but can never accurately define it.
The ancients did not know about universal gravitation and general relativity, but that did not affect their invention of the catapult. We can never uncover the truth of history, but that will not affect our exploration of history.
I have been thinking about my next work for a long time. Given the experience and lessons of this book, I haven't even finished a complete outline yet. If it can be born, it will be a historical fiction. The advantage is that I don't have to study the details of official history, but the disadvantage is that I need to arrange the stories myself. Both meticulous and freehand have their own difficulties.
I have been reluctant to post this afterword, as if as long as it does not appear, the book will not be finished and it will not be time to say goodbye.
Once again, I would like to thank all the friends who supported this book. I am not very good at this book, and I have limited ability. Thank you for every subscription, reward, and monthly ticket! I hope we will meet again in the future!
Thanks to my old friend “江湖刘白” for the monthly ticket support!
(End of this chapter)
【postscript】
First of all, I want to say sorry to all the readers. This chapter is just my personal rambling and has nothing to do with the main text. This should be considered a free chapter, but if it were free, it would be placed at the beginning by default, but I insist that it should be placed at the end.
I still want to say sorry to all the readers. I found that it has been two years since I started writing this book. Thank you for your companionship and continuous encouragement. In the past two years, especially in the second half, the update speed was extremely slow, which made my friends wait for a long time.
In the beginning, in order to keep up with the updating speed, some chapters were a little hasty. Later, I figured it out. Instead of ensuring meaningless daily updates, it is better to polish the content carefully. It doesn't matter if I postpone it. Slow work produces fine work.
I feel ashamed to say that it is a “detailed job”. There are many typos and writing errors, just like sand in rice, which even I find disgusting.
I personally think that the signing of the "Chanyuan Alliance" is the best node to end the "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period". Because at the beginning of the establishment of the Song Dynasty, there were still remnants of the "Ten Kingdoms", and after the Northern Han and other regimes were eliminated, Emperor Taizong of Song was still obsessed with the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, so there was the "Yongxi Northern Expedition", followed by a tug-of-war that lasted for more than ten years, until the "Chanyuan Alliance" was finalized, and the two sides basically reached a strategic consensus and coexisted peacefully.
If the narration goes further, it will no longer be "The History of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms", but should be called "The History of the Three Kingdoms" (Song, Liao, and Western Xia).
I originally planned to open a special topic on Xixia, to sort out the ins and outs of the Xiazhou Dingnan Army, after all, they appeared at the beginning of this book (Wang Xianzhi, Huang Chao Uprising), scattered in various important historical periods described in this book, and then focus on how the Xiazhou forces, led by Li Jiqian, dealt with the Song and Liao dynasties. After thinking about it, I decided to leave it to friends who are interested in doing "Three Kingdoms Past". Don't be too full of yourself. If you lose, you will gain; if you are full, you will overflow. This is one of my principles of doing things.
There is another thing I want to report to all the readers, that is the topic of the political struggle in the early Northern Song Dynasty centered on "Zhao Pu VS Lu Duosun" as announced in the previous article. I also plan to give up talking about it. First, the political struggle itself is boring and thankless. The author often consults a lot of information and spends a lot of effort, but the readers just skip it... Second, their stories are scattered in the main story, and what is written is basically an excerpt and integration of the previous article, which is too suspected of being lazy; third, it can be regarded as a deliberate regret.
These two years have also been a rare period of growth for me.
At first, my idea was very naive, that is, to find the so-called truth and objectively present the "real" historical story. However, I soon became mature - this process even made me doubt my life at one point, because I found that there was no truth in history.
"The truth of history" is a false proposition in itself. The so-called "truth" is actually just the telling of a story, and the telling must have its own standpoint and angle. It's like when I describe the appearance of a mountain (the truth), I can only say that it looks like a mountain from the side and a peak from the front, and it looks different from far and near. Natural science studies the laws of nature; reading history is reading the logic of human nature. Some people say that human history is repeated over and over again, so we can learn from history and seek wisdom from the ancients. I guess so, because human nature has never changed.
Before the apple hit Newton, it would have fallen to the ground. It had nothing to do with the observer (Newton) or the conclusion (gravity). Even though Einstein used general relativity to prove that the reason the apple fell was the curvature of space-time rather than gravity, the apple still fell to the ground.
History is no different. What we call “truth” is nothing more than Newton’s universal gravitation or Einstein’s general relativity, a concept artificially imposed for the convenience of understanding and narration, which helps us understand it but can never accurately define it.
The ancients did not know about universal gravitation and general relativity, but that did not affect their invention of the catapult. We can never uncover the truth of history, but that will not affect our exploration of history.
I have been thinking about my next work for a long time. Given the experience and lessons of this book, I haven't even finished a complete outline yet. If it can be born, it will be a historical fiction. The advantage is that I don't have to study the details of official history, but the disadvantage is that I need to arrange the stories myself. Both meticulous and freehand have their own difficulties.
I have been reluctant to post this afterword, as if as long as it does not appear, the book will not be finished and it will not be time to say goodbye.
Once again, I would like to thank all the friends who supported this book. I am not very good at this book, and I have limited ability. Thank you for every subscription, reward, and monthly ticket! I hope we will meet again in the future!
Thanks to my old friend “江湖刘白” for the monthly ticket support!
(End of this chapter)
