Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

When I finished the last chapter of "Ancient Greece: The Mediterranean Hegemon", I felt both lost and relieved.

I remembered that 5 years ago, after a period of boredom, I finally made up my mind to rewrite the story about ancient Greece to make up for the guilt of the previous break, and also to fulfill a long-standing wish in my heart.

At that time, I only conceived a rough outline and started to write in a hurry, never expecting that I would write for nearly 5 years (including the idea and the time to save the draft beforehand), with a word count of nearly 4 million. During such a long time, my life and work have changed a lot, and I have experienced a lot of difficulties in the writing process. I have thought of giving up many times, but the passion in writing and the long-cherished wish in my heart told me that I must persist, plus there are countless lovely readers accompanying me on my lonely writing road, and it is your continuous encouragement and support that make me fight till now.

The "Ancient Greek Mediterranean Overlord" is finally finished, maybe you think it's a bit rushed, but in my opinion it has basically achieved my expected purpose and completed the outline of the novel, it can be considered the first truly finished work in my online writing career (the "Campus Love Book" doesn't count, it was interrupted twice and ended hastily), it's also a considerable achievement, worth celebrating!

But the first time to complete such a very long novel, lack of experience, revealed some shortcomings.

The main shortcomings, I think there are several.

First, the characterization is not enough, most of the characters are just symbols, did not leave any impression on the readers. The second is that the process from the rise of Dionysia to the struggle for supremacy is too easy, and the impact of some unprecedented new systems formulated by the main character on the ancient West and the conflicts formed are described too superficially, without more complex interpretation and deeper excavation. Thirdly, the book lacks a comprehensive control of the whole grand historical process, which should be sketched and which should be written in detail, and the countermeasures taken by various powers against the rise of Dionysia and the armed conflicts that occurred with them are not quite reasonable ......

The reason for these shortcomings is, I think, first of all, my own pen power is not enough, limited talent, can not be like those gods like a good plan and control the overall situation, but also a wonderful pen to write tens of thousands of words every day. The second is not enough time, especially after the stock of manuscripts are consumed, the daytime to work, there are household chores at night, can only rely on some fragments of time to update every day, even if the task is completed, there is no more time to fine tune the characters and plot.

Another major reason is that the energy is not as good as before. It takes a lot of energy to write, and I like to put myself in the shoes of each of the characters I'm writing, to imagine their emotional flow, their dialogue and their reactions in the battle ...... The whole brain is running non-stop. I didn't feel tired, and even after writing it the whole spirit could still be immersed in it and couldn't get out for a while. Now, at the age of 40, I feel fatigued after an hour of continuous conceptualization, and if I am disturbed by a patient or a family matter along the way, I will be very irritable and have to make a lot of effort to return to the previously conceived scenario. ...

Anyway, this novel is finished, but I have a lot of regrets, and these regrets will become my motivation to write the next novel, I will spend more time to detailed outline, build each character's image and character, perfect the scenes in the novel, and enrich the storyline ...... hope that by then than this novel to improve.

I hope to meet you again when my next novel is uploaded, but this interval may be longer, because I need to rest for a while before preparing my next novel, after all, for more than 4 years, I have not been relaxed. After all, for more than four years, I have not been able to relax properly, including in the Spring Festival.

Finally, I'll tell you a little secret, in my original idea of the novel, after Dionysia defeated Persia to become the hegemon of the Mediterranean, there was a postscript, but then I thought about it again and again, for the sake of the novel's white space, and in order not to appear abrupt, so it was deleted.

Now I will tell you the general plot of the postscript.

The time came to 2020, the city of Xianyang in Z vigorously in the old city renovation, the construction team in the western Weihe Plain excavated an ancient tomb, after the identification of archaeological experts in the tomb artifacts, that the tomb is actually from more than 2,000 years ago to dominate the Western Dionysian Empire, and most likely Dionysian founding emperor Daphus's mound.

This news has not only shaken the international archaeological community, but also the entire Western world.

You know that in history, Dionysia is a big empire across Europe and Asia, ruling the West for three hundred years, in its heyday its territory not only included the whole of Western Europe, the whole of North Africa, the whole of Asia Minor and most of the Near East, and even extended its influence to Eastern Europe and India, although eventually because of its own decline and barbarian invasion and fall apart, but later generations of majestic Western Europe However, no matter how hard they tried, until today, the whole West is still small, difficult to complete the unification, Dionysian accomplished greatness is always only a beautiful vision of Western descendants, but also so that the Dionysian Empire period of cultural relics doubly respected by Westerners.

When the news spread around the world, it was met with angry questions from countless Westerners: how could the crown of Emperor Davos, whom they revered as one of the thousand emperors of the past, be buried in the country of Z, thousands of miles away!

But soon, the current head of the House of Davos, Europe's oldest and noblest royal descendant, publicly declared that it was very possible, and he also released a section of the always-secret book of the words and deeds of all the emperors of Dionysia, highlighting the many times that the founding emperor Davos treated the second emperor --The first emperor, Davos, mentioned the distant lands of the East to the second emperor, Krotokatax, known as "the loving one", and in his later years to the third emperor, Chris, known as "the wise one". The Wise One" expressed his longing for the far East and claimed that Hades had given him several oracles in his dreams that after his death it would be better to bury his crown in the far East in order to ensure the longevity of the empire.

Immediately afterwards, the most authoritative association of archaeologists in Europe also announced that they had carefully searched all the historical materials of the Dionysian Empire and found that during the reign of the 5th emperor, Salicius, known as "The Conqueror", a large contingent of emissaries had indeed been sent, allegedly in search of the distant East, but after that there were no further historical records. history.

There was a public outcry in the West, and every Western nation marched to protest that if this was indeed the mound of the great Emperor Davos, the government of Z should return it to the West!

All Western governments complied with the popular demand and put pressure on the Z government.

Faced with strong international pressure, the Z government finally agreed: if this is really Emperor Davos' mound, then it is the treasure of all mankind and should be enjoyed by all countries.

Soon, a Western archaeological team headed by the descendants of the royal family of Davos joined the archaeological team of z, and the whole archaeological process was broadcast live at the request of the world public.

Rusty gold crowns, helmets, gold breastplates, matching swords, already decayed and torn brocade robes ...... After each item was taken out of the tomb, that Davos family head would tell some historical anecdotes about the item in a colorful way, and the viewers in front of the TV set were fascinated to listen.

It was now completely confirmed that this was the crown mound of Emperor Davos.

The audience was looking forward to the restoration of these objects by the Chinese and Western archaeologists with modern technology as soon as possible.

A few days later, the gold crowns, helmets, breastplates, and swords were removed from their rusty patches and shone brightly, and the Western experts found the same inscriptions engraved on these objects, yet the Z experts stared in amazement: because the inscriptions were in the simplified Z script!

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Oh, and guess what the words are?

Dear brothers and sisters, let's see you in the next novel!