Back to 80: My Literary Life

This science fiction serial called "My Journey is the Sea of ​​Stars", also known as "One Billion Light Years", was first published by Xiao Gang in "Science and Literature" and immediately caused a huge sensation.

Industry insiders exclaimed: Fang Minghua is working on "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" again!

It actually moved the territory of the Han Dynasty directly to the light-year scale!

The clanking iron cavalry in history has become the God of War mecha in the novel, and the swans cruising in the rivers have now become space battleships flying in the stars.

But this time there is no stream of consciousness, but an epic language describing the Chinese war on a light-year scale.

Someone immediately jumped out to criticize Fang Minghua for tampering with history.

"The last time he magically modified "Journey to the West", this time he magically modified "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", will he start with "Water Margin" or "Dream of Red Mansions" next time? Will the weak Lin Daiyu turn into Lin Daiyu in his hands? Weeping willow?!”

But readers are happy to see it.

Look, it’s so burning in the book:

"My journey is across the stars and the sea, and I have no time to shed tears and bury flowers with you."

"Anyone who offends our great man will be killed no matter how far away he is."

"Whether I record it or not, in the infinite years of the past and future, some people will still rise up, some will sink, some will become heroes, some will play clowns, some will stand up, and some will be confused and sink. But this country will still continue to thrive. It’s like a long and mighty river that has flowed for hundreds of millions of years.”

Of course, it is also very satisfying to prepare to beat up Oda Nobunaga as the leader of the Japanese pirates.

Domestic readers were happy, but readers in Japan were very unhappy, and Ichiro Yamamoto was even more worried.

Chapter 12, Otowa 2-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

The headquarters of Kodansha is here. In an office, Yamamoto Ichiro looked at a pile of letters from readers on the table and fell into hard thinking.

After the serialization of "My Journey Is the Stars and the Sea", it immediately aroused the popularity of domestic readers. Some people exclaimed that this was another "Galaxy Heroes", which was more exciting and exciting than the latter. However, as the serialization progressed several times, After the plot unfolded, readers discovered that in addition to the big BOSS of the Roman Empire, our Yamato was also the enemy of the Han Dynasty, and the hero Oda Nobunaga turned out to be the big villain!

Moreover, the battle between the Han Dynasty and Oda Nobunaga's army in the starry sky was clearly about a war on a light-year scale - the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894.

Although it seems that the Han army is still at a temporary disadvantage, I believe that Oda will definitely be defeated before long. Just as the protagonist Lu Boyan in the novel said, including Yamato, they will become a vassal state of the Han!

How does this work? !

So letters of protest flew to Kodansha like snowflakes, and some even shouted the slogan that Kodansha was a "Japanese traitor."

At this time, the old rival Chuangyuanshe also jumped out to criticize Ridansha for introducing this novel from China, which was inappropriate and hurting national sentiments.

Some people within Kodansha were also very dissatisfied with him, which made Yamamoto Ichiro, as the deputy editor, worried. He might not be able to secure his position as deputy editor, so he apologized and resigned.

what to do?

Yamamoto Ichiro called his old friend Iwagami Osamu to come to the office to discuss the matter.

Iwagami also felt a headache.

If you want to write a space opera, wouldn't it be a complete fantasy like Yoshiki Tanaka's "Heroes of the Galaxy"? Or if you want to write about the Three Kingdoms, wouldn't you just write about the battles between Wei, Shu and Wu in your country's history?

Why do you want to involve us, Yamato?

"Yamamoto-kun, what are you going to do?" Osamu Iwagami asked.

"If it doesn't work, I'll tear up the contract and stop publishing Fang Minghua's novel." Ichiro Yamamoto said helplessly.

"Yamamoto-kun, if you do this, Niktansha will lose a sum of compensation. Also, Fang Minghua probably won't authorize your Niktansha to adapt it into a comic book for the popular science fiction novel, and this novel is indeed written Yes, it is more popular among readers than the four short stories and short stories, except of course the Yamato elements in them."

Haru Iwagami reminded.

"Then what should I do?" Yamamoto was even more troubled after hearing this: "Write a letter asking Fang Minghua to modify the plot? I made a special international long-distance call to talk about this. Do you know how the other party responded?"

"What did Fang Minghua say?"

"He said not to react so violently. It's just that science fiction is neither history nor realistic fiction! Don't take it for granted! Baga!"

At the end of the sentence, Yamamoto couldn't help but say something bad. He felt like he had been "tricked" by the other party.

Haru Iwagami frowned after hearing this, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "Fang Minghua is not willing to modify it, we can modify it ourselves."

"How to modify it? Not to mention this plot? The adaptation of the novel is in pieces."

"Why don't you mention it? Don't we have enemies too? Wouldn't it be enough to change Yamato into our enemy country?"

"Our enemies? You mean the Bangzi Kingdom?" Yamamoto suddenly realized and immediately smiled:

"Your idea is great! Change Yamato to Goryeo, and change Oda Nobunaga to Yi Sun-shin, it's perfect!"

"You write a letter to Fang Minghua on my behalf, telling us what we mean, and authorizing us to change the article. I think he will agree."

It was half a month after Fang Minghua received this letter from Tokyo.

It is now late November, and winter has entered Xijing.

However, the family building of the Planning Commission provides heating, so the house is warm. Fang Minghua should not wear bulky cotton clothes at home, just wear a sweater.

Sitting in your room at night, drinking tea and coding is a kind of enjoyment.

Song Tangtang is also in his room today.

Since the two established their relationship, the Planning Commission Family Building in Xincheng Square is very close to Houzaimen, so the girl often comes here and sometimes even eats here.

The girl was still very diligent and took the initiative to help wash the dishes after dinner. Fang Minghua didn't want to do these housework anyway.

Fang Minghua brought back the letter sent to the work to show it to the girl. After reading it, Song Tangtang smiled sweetly and said: "Minghua, you are so bad, you deliberately deceive others, but my grandfather is very happy to know that he hates Japan the most. people!"

I really didn't mean it.

This is how it was written today, but it was not published in Japan. I thought it was pretty good and didn’t bother to revise it.

"It's good that grandpa is happy." Fang Minghua said with a smile.

"Then what do you do with this letter? Do you agree to them?" Song Tangtang asked again.

"Can."

Anyway, these two countries are not very popular.

Fang Minghua wrote a letter to Taro Yamamoto, agreeing that he should change the plot about Yamato and leave it alone.

Just write whatever you want.

At work that day, Fang Minghua was drinking tea and looking at a poem manuscript in his hand. At this moment, the phone on his desk rang, and he grabbed it.

"I'm Fang Minghua, who is that?"

A woman's voice with a Sichuan flavor in Mandarin came from the microphone.

"Editor Fang, I am Yang Xiao."

"Hello, Chief Editor Yang, what do you have to say?" Fang Minghua joked.

In the past few months, the two of them talked frequently and talked casually.

"I dare not give you orders. I want to discuss something with you. I want to hold a domestic science fiction award next year, just like the Nebula Award in the United States. We can also take this opportunity to bring together domestic science fiction authors to hold a pen meeting and communicate with each other. "

"Okay, that's a good thing."

"Originally, I wanted to invite you to be a judge, but if you are a judge, your work will not be able to participate. I'm really sorry."

"It doesn't matter."

"Editor Fang, what do you think the name of this award would be?"

"Galaxy Award." Fang Minghua blurted out.

"Well, this name is good and atmospheric! It also fits the characteristics of science fiction." Yang Xiao said on the phone.

That's what it was called originally.

The two talked about next year's Science Fiction Writers' Pen Conference and decided to hold it in the second half of next year. Fang Minghua was just about to hang up the phone when he suddenly heard Yang Xiao say.

"Editor Fang, one more thing. I have signed up for your article "Rural Teacher" in the name of the magazine to participate in the 1983-84 National Outstanding Novella Award."