In March, 2006, Han Han, a cutting-edge writer, published an article full of gunpowder on his personal blog, "The literary world is a fart, and no one wants xx", which triggered a heated debate in the literary world.

Just this month, a young civil servant named Shi Yue quietly posted in the history section of Tianya Forum and published his own article for free.

At this time, he naturally didn't count himself as a literary person, and he didn't expect it. His random screen name "Moon of the Year" became popular in China, and his works will also become phenomenal bestsellers, bringing him royalties as high as 4,654,380+million yuan.

He is only interested in history.

Shi Yue, 1979, from Wuhan, Hubei. His parents are busy with work and often leave him at home. In that era when there was no internet and video games, his only pastime was reading.

However, unlike other children, Shi Yue doesn't like colorful picture books. He likes reading heavy history.

Can you imagine a five-year-old child, sitting on a bench in a proper way, carefully reading the vast sea of up and down for 5 thousand years?

Shiyue can do it. He can read early. This three-volume history book was a gift from his father, and he chose it himself. After he got it, he couldn't put it down and never forgot it. He is interested in boring historical stories in the eyes of others.

/kloc-After the age of 0/0, Shi Yue has been able to read Historical Records, Twenty-four History and many difficult and obscure historical and literary works in classical Chinese. Read the official history, study unofficial history and read biographies.

Looking at history has even become a way for him to decompress. He was tired of studying, so he grabbed a history book, went to relax and stole a half-day leisure.

Shi Yue studied well and was successfully admitted to the Law Department of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in the college entrance examination. However, his historical dream has not been put down. During his college years, he did nothing in the library and indulged in boating in the ocean of history.

After reading more history, the characters and events in the book gradually became three-dimensional and real in my mind. I traveled to the Forbidden City, and other students only took photos and enjoyed the scenery.

And Shi Yue stood quietly by the red palace wall. He saw the princes and concubines passing by one by one, and heard the voice of Jin Ge's iron horse arguing with the court. Those stories of joys and sorrows never seem to go far.

02. History can be beautiful.

Writing is a certain chance for Shi Yue. After graduating from college, I took the civil service examination and became a civil servant of Shunde Customs in Guangdong Province with excellent results.

With this stable job, his life is very calm and he works step by step every day. But because he is alone in a foreign land and has few friends, he relies on the Internet to kill time when he comes back.

One day, Shi Yue visited a forum with a section on the history of wine making. He is particularly interested in this. Looking at it, he thought: I can write too!

Coupled with this idea, Shi Yue's inner creative desire can no longer be contained. He likes to study the history of the Ming Dynasty best, so he opened a post called "Those things in the Ming Dynasty-History should be written well".

He believes that history is objective, true and cannot be tampered with, but the way of describing and explaining history can be flexible and changeable, so the paper pile is also vivid and interesting.

Shi Yue began to write from Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and compiled a resume for Zhu Yuanzhang from a modern perspective and tone: male, Han nationality, his favorite color is yellow, and his occupation is emperor. ...

This ingenious resume has suddenly attracted the attention of netizens. The story of Shi Yue reeling and Zhu Yuanzhang:

When he was born, his family was poor, and his relatives starved to death one after another and had to beg for a living. Later, he became a monk and remained poor and helpless. But this kind of life honed his perseverance and made him have a clear understanding of the sufferings of the people until Zhu Yuanzhang joined the rebel army and embarked on the road of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

In his works, Emperor Hongwu is not only an emperor, but also a living person.

The story of the Ming Dynasty is very complicated. Shi Yue writes more at the rate of 2000 words a day. After work, he refused any entertainment and walked back to his residence alone.

On the way, when he got home, he began to write in an open position. Because of his careful choice of words and arrangement of articles, he often writes late into the night, his eyes are bloodshot, but his spirit is very high.

At that time, Shi Yue posted in the forum for free, but out of his love for history, he was willing to share it. He wants to reinterpret the history of the Ming Dynasty so that more people can understand it and get a feeling.

Shi Yue's historical background is solid and his writing is vivid and humorous. His article is based on objective historical facts, but it has a unique flavor. He dabbled in the imperial mind, the ups and downs of officialdom, celebrities and literati, economy and culture, and laughed at the situation of the Ming Dynasty for more than 300 years.

This novel and vivid network language subverts people's impression of history. It turns out that history is not rigid and boring, and history can be beautiful.

03, politically, in words.

The click rate of Shiyue rose rapidly to more than one million, which became the hottest post in this "cooking wine history" section, with mixed comments.

Long-term users of Tianya remember the event in 2006, when another well-known writer in this section, King Helian Bobo, criticized Shi Yue's click-through rate by name. The article deviated from historical facts and was seriously distorted.

People who don't know the truth begin to feel angry. Someone maliciously swiped the screen under Shi Yue's post, brushed the "golden hoop stick" to interfere with reading, and even brushed the photo of the corpse, which made it worse.

In desperation, Shi Yue left Tianya Forum and started a personal blog.

Gossip can't destroy real talents. Shiyue went there, and fans chased him there. Less than a month after the blog was launched, the number of hits has exceeded one million.

The screen name of Shiyue is "The Bright Moon of the Year". In the eyes of readers, he is like the moon of the Ming Dynasty hanging high in the sky, quietly taking care of and examining the changes in the past 300 years. Readers approached the dusty history between the lines of laughter and scolding, and gained a hearty reading experience.

People who know history like to read such articles, and so do laymen. Scholars see the power of history, while ordinary people read the excitement of the past, which can be described as Xian Yi and Xian Yi.

The bright moon was in the sky that year! Shi Yue was asked to publish a book by the publishing house. The first volume of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" went on the market, with 50,000 copies printed and sold out that month. The publishing house urgently printed 200,000 copies, but the demand is still in short supply. It suddenly became the most striking and successful bestseller this year.

After that, other volumes of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" were published one after another, which still created a sales miracle and brought in a high royalty income of 4 1 10,000 yuan, making Shi Yue one of the richest writers in China.

Various media have reported this "grassroots author". The TV station asked Shi Yue to do a program, and periodicals and magazines wrote special reports for him. People once asked him a question: "Will you quit your job and concentrate on writing?"

Surprisingly, Shi Yue doesn't want to be a professional writer. He is very serious about his work.

In 2009, CCTV's "Face to Face" program interviewed him, and Shi Yue confided unreservedly: "You have to have a serious job."

He believes that writing is an interest, not a hobby, and work is the main theme of life. There is no conflict between the two. He never had the idea of abandoning politics and taking up literature.

In fact, Shi Yue's performance at work is also remarkable. After several years of exploration at the bottom, he has accumulated rich experience.

People who have contacted Shi Yue say that he is a down-to-earth official, modest and courteous, and has a solid work style. He visited the villagers in the local area to do research and work hard, which was unanimously recognized by people.

Perhaps because of his busy work, Shi Yue hasn't published any new works. Some people questioned that he was exhausted in Jiang Lang, but Shiyue laughed it off.

At that time, he loved history, but he voluntarily gave up the history department when he filled in his volunteers in the college entrance examination. Now he writes articles with fame and fortune, but he still sticks to his life track.

Shiyue has always been rational and sober, knowing what he values more and what he wants to do more.

Although he never wrote again, he can still use literature to help the government and use literature to convey information. Isn't this the best arrangement of fate?