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Here is an amateur novelist who has written more than a dozen chapters this month and feels like his head is going bald: Shu Mengshi.

Since the Japanese book was officially launched on April 18, it has been serialized for 5 months and 9 days, with a total of 1.125 million words written, and an average of nearly 7,000 words updated every day, which is considered quite hardworking.

After more than 5 months of long serialization, the first volume of this book "Qingdeng Catcher's Book" is finally over.

I just finished the first volume after writing 1.125 million words... Let's say it's within the author's expectations.

The author said in the "Writer's Words" in a previous chapter that this book may have to write nearly [8 million words].

This is not because the author is bragging. According to the volume of the plot in this book, it is really possible to write nearly 8 million words.

I divided this book into a prologue, the first chapter, the second chapter, and the final chapter, a total of 4 chapters.

Volumes 1 and 2 are the prologue, volumes 3 and 4 are the first chapters, and the volumes of the second and final chapters are kept secret.

That is to say——[Although this book has written 1.125 million words, it hasn't even finished the plot of the prologue]

Using "One Piece" as an example, this book is still at the stage when Luffy just came out of the East China Sea. Taking "Naruto" as an example, it is still at the stage when Naruto has just finished fighting the wave country and has not yet taken the Chunin exam.

It is not until the second volume is finished that the prologue of this book will be considered complete, and the story of Qingdeng will officially begin.

Compared with the volume of the first volume, the volume of the second volume is only a lot more. In other words, Volume 2 must be about a million words long.

By the time this book has written more than 2 million words, it's just that the prologue is about to be finished, and there will be the first chapter, the second chapter, and the final chapter... the plot volume of the subsequent chapters will only be more than the prologue. Even if it is less, it will not be much less.

To sum up, it is really not the author who wrote more than 8 million words in this book. This is a reasonable estimate.

Some readers may ask - why can you write such a long book?

The reason is also very simple: because the background of this book is the end of the Tokugawa period.

Book friends who are familiar with the history of the end of the Tokugawa period should know that the historical Edo shogunate fell in 1868, and the history of the end of the Tokugawa period did not really come together until after 1863.

Not much else to say, just the three events after 1863, the Ikeda House Change, the Forbidden Gate Change, and the first Changzhou Conquest, are all big plots that cannot be played with hundreds of thousands of words.

See the group, the Tenchu ​​Party, the Satsuma Army, the Choshu Army, the Aizu Army, the Marine Aid Corps, the Marine Aid Corps, the Tokugawa Iemo forces in the shogunate, the Hitotsubashi Yoshiki forces... all kinds of forces will come on stage after you sing .

The plot includes assassinations, political battles, large-scale open street fights on the streets, decisive battles in the wild, and various types of girl stickers...

There are too many stories to write, and there is no need to worry about having no stories to write.

So you don't have to worry about whether the book is so long and the plot will be as smelly and long as the foot wraps.

Just writing the above-mentioned various stories can tire me out, and if I have to force the words into it, then I might really die.jpg

The scale of this book is so grand, the author has aroused a little enthusiasm.

Just let me wash my hands to complete this sword and halberd novel of unprecedented scale! (Seal Rising.jpg)

Well, after all, this chapter is the epilogue of Volume 1, so let's put our perspective back to the plot of Volume 1.

The plot and characters in Volume 1... In fact, there is nothing to say, it just spreads out the world view and story in a regular manner.

After several months of struggle, Qingdeng is finally about to leave the prison and leap to a higher stage.

Throughout the entire first volume, the characters that the author Jun Yuer wants to talk about in detail are Naobi Ii and his wife Ajiu.

There are different opinions on the merits and demerits of Jingyi Naobi.

Some people think that Naosuke Ii is the pillar of the shogunate.

Some people think that Ii Naosuke is a brutal dictator.

The Naosuke Ii in this book can be regarded as the Naosuke Ii as the author understands—he is loyal to the shogunate and wants to make the shogunate stronger again. But he often seems too conceited, and even makes people think he is stupid.

He clearly knew that an assassin was going to assassinate him, but he refused to increase his guards on the grounds that he could not disturb the rules.

Why in such a heavy snow day, the guards were not allowed to remove the sheath of the scabbard in advance? A widely spread saying is that Jing Yi Naosuke felt that asking the guards to remove the sheath would make him seem afraid of those assassins , That's why the guards were asked to follow the rules and wrap the scabbard tightly.

The author mentioned before that Naosuke Ii's wife Ajiu has a historical prototype.

Before Ii Naosuke became the lord of the Hikone domain by accident, he was the fourteenth son of the family, because he had no chance to succeed as the head of the family, and no other daimyo was willing to adopt him as an adopted son, so he could only be his adopted son. Mi Chong was raised by his family, and he lived alone in seclusion in a remote small house.

He named his hermitage "Buried Wooden House". Compare yourself to a buried tree, a tree buried by fallen leaves, and laugh at yourself that you will die in obscurity.

In these painful days when no one cares about her and has no place to display her talents and knowledge, the young Ii Naosuke met a woman by chance—a geisha in Gion, Kyoto who was 6 years older than Ii Naosuke: Murayama Taka.

The two often exchanged letters, and there is still a love letter written by Naosuke Ii to Taka Murayama (the scene of the death of a large society):

[It is expected that the beautiful woman is far away, and the bright moon is missing tonight, just because the king is not by your side, and the full moon reflects the incomplete color. 】

For Jingyi Naosuke, who has been living alone, Murayama's company can be regarded as a different kind of salvation.

It's a pity that Taka Murayama, who was a geisha, didn't seem to end up with Naosuke Ii, who later became the lord of the Hikone domain and the head of the shogunate...

In this book, as Naosuke Ii's wife, Ajiu, who silently accompanied and supported Naosuke Ii behind the scenes, is an original character based on Takata Murayama.

Jing Yi Naosuke's wife Ajiu has not left the stage yet.

There will be more stories about Ajiu and the Hikone Domain forces represented behind her, so stay tuned.

Although in the eyes of some book friends, the passage describing the death of Ii Naosuke in this book is completely out of words, but judging from the plot structure of the novel, the death of Ii Naosuke is the first character contradiction and conflict in this book. The total outbreak of plot contradictions.

The change outside the Sakurada Gate well represents the tone of the end of the Tokugawa period-bloody and unreasonable use of violence.

The assassins who thought they were righteous and believed that their swords could usher in a new era took down Naosuke Ii's head in the heavy snow... The bad tricks played by these assassins made the era go berserk.

Until the end of this book, there will be a large number of plots that are directly or indirectly triggered by the death of Ii Naosuke.

Let's take the story so far as an example.

After the death of Naobi Ii, who advocated the "founding of the country", the morale of a large number of "people with lofty ideals against barbarians" represented by the group of barbarians was greatly boosted, and they began to run rampant, which directly triggered the follow-up "Battle of Tibetan Books" and "Battle of Residence". .

The death of Jingyi Naobi caused the Nanji faction to decline, and the power of the Hitotsubashi faction reemerged. The "virgin widow" Tianzhangyuan's eldest sister, whom many book friends have been talking about, was asked by the Hitotsubashi faction to hide behind the scenes... What kind of plot will happen after this? I leave it to your imagination.

By the way——the eldest sister of Tianzhangyuan will finally officially meet with Qingdeng in Volume 2~~ (applause.jpg)

It seems that there is nothing more to say, so this postscript will come to an end for now.

Tomorrow, the serialization of the second volume "Rising to the Blue Sky" will officially begin.

As I said in the previous article, the volume of the second volume is also extremely large, even more than the first volume, and should be able to be written until next spring.

I hope everyone can watch the new chapter on time tomorrow!

I would like to express my deepest thanks to all book friends who have supported this book!

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September 27, 2022