This is the reason why our ancestors have never been generous.
Fang Ze suddenly thought that this situation should be a typical real case of poverty limiting imagination.
Ordinary people have no way to write "Jia is not a Jia, white jade is a bed and gold is a horse." 'This is the aura of wealth and nobility that only the truly powerful can possess.
There are some things that you really can't imagine if you haven't seen them before.
For example, someone posted a few photos taken at the Facebook headquarters on the Internet. In the photos, there are walking corridors, small gardens full of flowers, trees, and benches, and neatly manicured lawns with a place for hundreds of people to rest nearby. and places to eat.
Basically it is a small park with a nice environment.
Although the scenery was average, the person walked around for more than ten minutes without reaching the end, which showed that the place was very big.
Then.
And this is actually the roof of Facebook Building 20.
At least now, with the Internet, you can know this. In Cao Zhan's time, no one built a garden on the roof of the building. Outsiders who have never seen the world can't even imagine it.
For example, in 1771, a count in Tsarist Russia found a German painter, hoping that he could paint a picture of a battle in Tsarist Russia. The picture mainly depicted the Turkish army's ships being blown up by Tsarist Russian artillery fire. .
After the German painter finished the painting, the count was not satisfied with the painting because the painter had never participated in a naval battle and could not paint the burning look of a warship after being hit by artillery fire.
So the count sent the painter to the port, blew up a ship right in front of him, and said: 'Look, that's what it is.' '
Not only can you not imagine the happiness of rich people, you can't even write about it.
Facing Cao Zhan's words, Fang Ze suddenly fell silent.
After all, although he has a small fortune now, it is still a bit difficult to replicate the scene of Cao Mansion back then.
The main reason is that if you want to hire someone to be a servant at home, the price is unimaginable. Hiring a nanny in the imperial capital to just look after the children would cost 30,000 to 40,000 yuan a month, not to mention hiring a lot of servants.
Fang Ze was silent, but Cao Zhan got excited and criticized the content of the last forty chapters, then shook his head, closed the book, and asked Fang Ze. "If I take out the last forty episodes now, won't they be lost again?"
"No." Fang Ze said quickly, "But after you take it out, whether others believe it or not is another matter."
"Believe it or not?" Cao Zhan was a little confused.
"Well, because Dream of Red Mansions is so popular in China now, and it also supports a lot of related scholars. In addition to studying your book, they also repeatedly explore the truth behind Dream of Red Mansions, such as whether this book was written by you. Something like that.”
Fang Ze's words made Cao Zhan hesitate. Questioning has always been a human instinct.
For literati, this instinct is falsification, and for players, it is finding bugs.
Just like you can't understand why some players don't play the game well and always try to find bugs in the game (except for Ubisoft players), some literati have never stopped questioning whether the original author of the article is true.
After all, history is a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone. As long as you can really find convincing evidence, you will become famous all over the world in no time.
Such a huge profit without any cost is indeed very worth doing. Anyway, as long as we dig deep, no one can find anything wrong.
For example, the last forty chapters are generally said to be Gao E's continuation, but now they no longer say so due to too many doubts. The original sequel by Gao E of Dream of Red Mansions has become the sequel by Anonymous, compiled by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E.
But this thing is almost entirely true. Because in the introduction of Cheng Yiben co-authored by Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan, he himself also said this.
After the publication of his revised Dream of Houlou, he began to enter the court as an official and see the world as the first among the top three in the imperial examination. If he had been asked to compile the next forty chapters in his later years, maybe it would have been different.
After learning about this situation, Cao Zhan became a little worried. He never thought that one day he would be questioned by others about the fact that the book he wrote was not written by himself.
However, Fang Ze advised him to relax. None of the authors of the four famous works has been questioned. Just because there are so many people studying Dream of Red Mansions, there are many people who question it, as long as they can prove that they are indeed who they are.
Fang Ze took the book, scanned the QR code and paid, and was about to take Cao Zhan out to eat when the boss happened to come back.
"Instructor?" Fang Ze was about to say hello to the owner of the bookstore. When he looked up, he saw that the instructor Jiang Shaohao, whom he had just met a few days ago, was here.
"Hey, what a coincidence." Jiang Shaohao greeted Fang Ze, and then said enthusiastically, "I'm going to record a video explaining the Red Mansion here. Do you want to be a live audience?"
"We haven't eaten yet." As soon as Fang Ze finished speaking, he saw Cao Zhan's interested eyes, so he changed his words and asked, "But if it's not long, it doesn't hurt to watch for a while."
"It won't take much time, and you can still learn some knowledge." Jiang Shaohao said and moved the tables and stools out with the boss, and then set up the camera.
"What kind of form do you have?" Fang Ze asked.
"It's similar to Baijia Forum." Jiang Shaohao said while directing people to set up the scene, "The owner of this bookstore is a Red Mansion enthusiast. After I heard about it, I planned to let him teach a Red Mansion class in this academy. The video is then put online, firstly, it can promote my educational institution, and secondly, it can also promote the bookstore.”
oh.
After Fang Ze understood, he went out and bought two loaves of bread. Then he and Cao Zhan sat in the auditorium with other trustees, waiting for the bookstore owner to start talking about Red Mansions.
To be honest, the boss's level is quite good. As an amateur, he has been exposed to a lot of information all year round, so he speaks clearly and logically in many places.
But after all, I am not a professional researcher, so some mistakes are inevitable.
So this caused Cao Zhan below to listen more and more unable to hold back.
After all, the person standing above was talking about his book, but it was full of mistakes, which was very uncomfortable. Literary people, treat your own works the same way you treat your children. Your children have been misunderstood, and as a parent, you have to put in a few words.
So Cao Zhan began to remind the bookstore owner in one or two sentences what went wrong.
Although this bookstore owner has a good personality, he feels a little uncomfortable when Cao Zhan keeps pointing out his mistakes. However, what Cao Zhan said was reasonable after all, and some of the ancient customs were also explained clearly, so he leaned down and said, "How about you, old man, come up and explain it to me, and I can learn from it?"
The boss was polite at first, but Cao Zhan took it seriously. He actually stood up and said to the bookstore owner, "Okay, I'll take care of it."
After Cao Zhan stood up, several employees on the scene were a little anxious, fearing that this video would be ruined, but Jiang Shaohao waved his hand to others to leave it alone and let Cao Zhan go up and talk.
He also understands Dream of Red Mansions. Although he is only half-full, he still knows who is telling the right story.
So Fang Ze ate bread and drank mineral water, and sat down to listen to Cao Zhan, who was getting more and more excited as he talked, talking about the Red Mansion all afternoon.
And it not only talks about the content of the first eighty chapters, but also talks about the content of the last forty chapters.
Of course, Cao Zhan was telling the original story, but the audience at the scene thought that he was telling the last forty chapters based on his own conjecture.
The bookstore owner sitting below was initially a little disdainful, but the more Cao Zhan talked, the more serious his expression became. And even many people who came to the bookstore to buy books stopped where they were because what Cao Zhan said was so good.
"I'm done talking." Cao Zhan talked for too long, and because his body couldn't hold it any longer, it was finally over.
"Okay!" After hearing Cao Zhan finish speaking, Jiang Shaohao was the first to take the lead in applauding, and soon the applause started.
"I didn't expect to meet a master here." Jiang Shaohao was the first to rush up and shake hands with Cao Zhan, "I don't know where the master is."
"Currently at home."
"What about before?" Jiang Shaohao asked again unwillingly.
"Ahem." Fang Ze walked up at this time and interrupted Jiang Shaohao. "Instructor, this elder in my family is not in good health and has not eaten today. Let us go back to eat first and we will talk later."
"Can you leave me your contact information? I would like to ask the old man to give a few lectures about the Red Mansion."
"Instructor, don't I have your contact information? We'll talk later. I'm afraid the old man has a stomachache." Fang Ze exchanged a few words with Jiang Shaohao and hurriedly pulled Cao Zhan away.
The original author personally went on stage to talk about Red Mansion. Fang Ze is sure that after this video is spread, it will cause a lot of discussion in the Red Mansion community.
Even if no one knows that this Cao Zhan is the same Cao Zhan, there are some living habits of the ancients, some rules of the big family, and the unspoken rules of the upper class at that time.
All these things that people in the future cannot know at all, if Cao Zhan himself tells them, it will definitely attract the attention of others.
This is like having someone record a video for everyone and talk about how we usually work and discuss. How to distribute rights among various departments, and why some things that everyone can’t figure out are done this way.
Well, the picture is too harmonious to imagine.
We had a meal at a tea restaurant in the evening. Fang Ze saw that Cao Zhan looked bad and knew that he had tired of talking today, so he asked him to rest early.
Jiang Shaohao called the next day and asked if he could ask Cao Zhan to record another video. They are currently doing post-processing on what they recorded before, and it will probably be released online in the next few days. I hope Fang Ze can pay attention to it by then.
When Cao Zhan woke up, Fang Ze took Cao Zhan to the first floor of the Demon Management Bureau for dinner and told him about the matter. Cao Zhan thought about it but refused.
"That's a pity." Fang Ze said, "We may never know the content of the last forty chapters of Red Mansion."
"I can only stay here for five days. In this short time, I cannot write down the content of the last forty chapters of the Stone." Cao Zhan thought for a while and said, "And just like what the landlord said before, If it were really written down, it would be a matter of debate whether everyone would agree with it or not."
(End of chapter)