Cao Zhan actually came to this era with the mentality of traveling.
He was quite proud that his book had caused such a big discussion in later generations, but that was all.
The arrogance of literary people is sometimes very strange. They hope that their works can be appreciated by more people, but they will not show it in front of outsiders.
For example, Cao Zhan only wanted to know how respected his book was today, but did not want to discuss the matter with Fang Ze in person.
The last time he talked about Red Mansions in public, it was the limit for him. Because others didn't know that he was the original author of Red Mansions, he could say it safely and boldly.
But in front of Fang Ze, he did not take the initiative to mention anything about Dream of Red Mansions, as if he regarded his fame as dirt.
If Xia Yike hadn't told him that Cao Zhan would smile smugly from time to time when he was sitting alone on the first floor at night, Fang Ze would have really believed him.
But this way, Fang Ze's task became much easier. His main job these days was to take Cao Zhan to eat and drink, and also checked his body and asked him to pay attention to his future diet structure.
Although it is estimated that given the current situation of the Cao family, it would be good for the family to have enough to eat, let alone pay attention to their diet.
In the past few days, Jiang Shaohao also uploaded the video of that day, and gave it a very UC title: Shocked, the master of red learning listened to others teaching red learning, but because he made too many mistakes, he came to the stage to talk about it himself.
Facts have proved that UC's shock body is very necessary.
Because in this era of overwhelming information, if you want to catch other people's attention at first glance and let others see your video, you must make others have some desire to come in.
No matter how good something is, it must first make others interested in seeing it before it can be spread.
As a teacher who has lived in an ivory tower, Jiang Shaohao may not know much about business, but he is definitely an expert in online publicity and deceiving people.
He cut the more than five-hour video down to just 20 minutes. The video started with Cao Zhan pointing out the bookstore owner's mistakes in the audience. Then Cao Zhan came on stage and talked about some novel concepts and introduced the unspoken rules of the upper class society in the Qing Dynasty at that time.
In this way, even ordinary people who are not studying red science are willing to watch the entire video, recommend it to others, and spread it.
At the end of the video, Jiang Shaohao did not advertise his educational institution, but left the address of the full version of the video.
This address is naturally the official website of their educational institution.
There is no watermark, and there is nothing written prohibiting reprinting.
Therefore, although Jiang Shaohao and his educational institution’s account do not have many fans, some big Vs who are responsible for reposting are happy to repost and promote this video.
A layman looks at the excitement, an expert looks at the door.
The clips cut out by Jiang Shaohao are indeed wonderful and explain many doubtful points in the book.
The layman gained knowledge, but the expert was intrigued by this seemingly unremarkable person. Naturally, he searched for the complete video, and then started a discussion in the field of red science.
Because Cao Zhan not only popularized the knowledge of the Qing Dynasty, but also told the general story and ending of the Dream of Red Mansions.
With popular science knowledge, no one else can find anything wrong with it, and this is easy to verify. Because many scholars only rely on ancient books to understand that era. However, ancient literati paid great attention to Spring and Autumn writing techniques, and some unspoken rules were not written down, requiring future generations to spend time guessing.
Simple ones can be verified book by book, but some more secret ones cannot be easily guessed. Nowadays, when Cao Zhan talks and understands the book, it is easy for people to know that what Cao Zhan said is true.
However, although the ending of Red Mansions mentioned by Cao Zhan is in line with some people's guesses, it makes some people dissatisfied, thinking that Cao Zhan did not understand the spirit of the original author. The ending doesn't match the beginning of the book or anything.
After all, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. This is a normal phenomenon.
Just like online articles, when you write about some places, some readers think it's good and like to read it, but other readers think it's superficial.
But in fact, the real literary method of online article authors is not to write irrelevant plots, but to add a large sentence that has nothing to do with the plot and does not require a lot of thinking to achieve the goal.
For example, if you delete three paragraphs including this paragraph from this chapter, you will find that it doesn't matter whether they are present or not.
Cao Zhan's inference caused a lot of discussion in the field of red learning. Some people even approached Jiang Shaohao, hoping to invite this folk master of red learning to come out to participate in some symposiums and conduct detailed discussions.
Of course, these invitations were rejected by Fang Ze. The reason for the refusal was not that Cao Zhan was unwilling to go, but that when they sent the invitation, it was already Friday afternoon and Cao Zhan should have gone back.
"This trip was not in vain." Cao Zhan stood on the second floor of the Demon Management Bureau and thanked Fang Ze. "When we go back, Meng Ruan will have the confidence to modify the stone record for the better."
"Take care of your health." Fang Ze originally wanted to give Cao Zhan some small mirrors and let him take them back and sell them for money, but Xiaolan stopped him. Guests can take things back, but only those that match their world background and era. Small mirrors are obviously not the case.
Fang Ze originally wanted to find someone to get some gold and silver for Cao Zhan to take back, but Cao Zhan refused.
"Although Meng Ruan lives in poverty, he doesn't dare to ask for too much if he has books to accompany him. If he really took the money and went back to live a prosperous life, I'm afraid he would be too busy with mundane things to study books."
"That's fine." Fang Ze said to Cao Zhan, "It's just a pity that I didn't get to see the complete Dream of Red Mansions this time."
"The landlord told me before that the world I live in and the world you live in are not actually the same world, but most people and things are very similar, right?"
"Yes." Fang Ze looked at Cao Zhan doubtfully and asked, "Why did you mention this?"
"It is indeed a pity that we did not leave a complete copy of the Stone Chronicles." After Cao Zhan left these words, he disappeared and went back.
Could it be that Cao Zhan wanted to hide the complete story of the Stone in his graveyard and wait until future generations would discover it
But even if he hid the entire story of the Stone in his graveyard, it would only be discovered by the descendants of his world, and it has nothing to do with the earth.
When Fang Ze was confused, the big cat came.
"Why are you wearing a small dress today?" Fang Ze looked at the small sweater on Da Meow and touched it curiously.
"Stop talking." Da Miao helplessly pulled on the sweater that was not too ugly and said, "Because I have to fly back to Haiping in a few days. The weather has been a bit cold these two days, so Xiaoxin will do it for me. I bought a piece of clothing because I was afraid I would get cold on the plane."
(End of chapter)