From Beijing to Hangzhou, the distance is more than 1280 kilometers, and from 2021 to 1602, the difference is 419 years. Open the browser to search for 1602, you will find that this year is the thirty years of the Wanli Calendar, and then look closely, this year is thousands of miles away from the city of Beijing, the people of Hangzhou city are panicked, the door is deeply locked, and a huge haze envelops Jiangnan. And what kind of earth-shattering fog is hidden behind all this?
In HaiFei's latest long historical novel "The Battle of Jiangnan" (October 2021 edition of writers publishing house), it tells the story of the Jinyi Wei Beidou gate agent team secretly fighting in the city of Hangzhou, and competing with the elite agents in the Wokou. This is the second part of the Jinyi Hero series launched by Haifei after "In the Wind and Dust", which also means that Haifei's "ancient spy world" is becoming clearer and stronger in the "Story Sea" big IP territory he built.
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Seven days of life and death dark war to create a Ming Dynasty version of the anti-terrorism story
The novel "The Battle of Jiangnan" is carried out by Tian Xiaoqi, the head of the Jinyi Wei Beidou, in order to save the beloved innocent girl, accepts the order of Emperor Zhu Yijun, and goes to Hangzhou City with members Tang Rouge, Liu Yidao, and Tu Shu gun to get the arms wonder book "Artifact Spectrum or Question", through the incident of black bat child abduction, the robbery of arms experts, the whereabouts of the qi book are unknown, the defense of the "dragon vein" of the Liuhe Pagoda, the defeat of the Wukou conspiracy and other events, with its vivid, complex, and full character relationship, it triggered the conflict between the crisis in Hangzhou City and the open struggle and secret struggle in the court. At the same time, under the guidance of the big theme of "Military Mission", the "Beidou Gate Group" headed by Tian Xiaoqi was shown, and the seven days of life and death anti-terrorism secret war in Hangzhou City were shown. It is full of positive energy, hormones are bursting, and the national mission fills the entire novel and becomes the only theme.
The Jinyiwei, the protagonist of the novel, Tian Xiaoqi, has always been a controversial institution in history, and in previous works, the Jinyiwei often appears as a non-positive character, and in the "Jinyi Heroes" series and the newly published "Jiangnan Campaign", Haifei cuts into a unique perspective, he shows a team of Jinyi heroes who go deep into the tiger's den for the sake of the national society, the safety of the people, and never give up. They are braving thorns and thorns, and they are raging in the undercurrent of espionage. At the same time, in the structure of the novel, a dark line of royal infighting and a bright line of struggle against the Wokou are combined, and the two lines go hand in hand, reflecting the glow of human nature in the depths of the eerie historical storm.
Life and death under the anti-terrorism and power plots of the Great Ming Weather
The whole book of "Jiangnan Campaign" is 200,000 words, and the narrative is spread out in the seven days of activities of Tian Xiaoqi, the head of the Jinyi Wei Beidou, in Hangzhou City, one chapter a day. From the first part of the "Jinyi Hero" series "In the Wind and Dust", Tian Xiaoqi, as the yang-faced identity is to fight more people, the yin-faced identity is specially to help people escape from prison to collect money, to the seven days of life and death in Hangzhou City, Haifei can always excavate a large number of unknown historical details and life details from the vast historical materials, and present them in front of the reader's eyes in great detail.
Reading the novel "Jiangnan Campaign", it seems that Haifei carries a map of Hangzhou customs and objects, telling the story, and the characters in the individual are distributed on the axis of Hangzhou during the Wanli Calendar, and the domestic ones are close to Xiaoshan and Taizhou, as far as Beijing and Shuobei, while the foreign countries involve North Korea and Japan. These characters, the wind and clouds, the secret battle in Hangzhou City, they will drink the water of Xiangguojing, walk in tofu alley, listen to the daily Nanping evening bell, go to the happy place in the west of the city, eat Dingsheng cake, drink West Lake lotus powder...
Haifei let these snacks and landmarks take turns, so that this novel has a strong Hangzhou atmosphere. At the same time, it organically combines the massive amount of historical materials with the types of espionage, reasoning, and suspense that it is good at, and constantly explores the novelty of historical fiction creation. And this is just a corner of the many Well Maps of Daming City in the novel "Jiangnan Campaign", and there are many similar pictures in the novel: either the crowded street market, or the dark tide surging depraved street, or the vibrant Xizi Inn... So many city maps, intertwined, is exactly the prosperity that Haifei wants to present to the reader, and there are many spies outside the prosperity.
An embroidered spring knife split the World of Haifei "Ancient Spy"
In recent years, the "Spy World" series of novels built by Haifei have gradually moved towards comics, games, sound, film and television adaptations, and even theatrical stages, forming an effective IP covering the multi-genre cultural market. In this series, it includes the "Cheongsam", "Sparrow", "Sting", "Wake Up" series of the "Republic of China Spy World" series, as well as the trilogy of Jinyi heroes in the "Ancient Spy World" series, "Wind and Dust", "Jiangnan Campaign", "Kunlun Sea", and the "Divine Machine Camp" and "Grain and Grass Officer" that are being created. Moreover, Haifei aimed his attention at the details of ancient warfare, hoping that in the next creation, he would use the gaps in the historical materials as the entry point to construct a thrilling "ancient spy" story with imagination.
In the "Heroes of Jinyi" series, the "Beidou Gate" special agent group travels in the Imperial City, Liaodong, Fujian, Hangzhou, Taizhou, as well as the Ryukyu Kingdom and Korea, not only through the vast and atmospheric Northern Kingdom, but also walking in the Jiangnan of Lingxiu Zhongling, and the small islands across the mountains and the sea. Armed with embroidered spring knives and dressed in flying fish suits, they have embarked on different paths in their lives in the love and hatred of blood and loyalty. They carried out the most tense intelligence war duels, the most step-by-step life and death dark battles, and built a vivid and extremely tense ancient spy war story, which is the distinctive feature of Haifei's "ancient spy" series.
"Haifei Spy War World" was built for up to ten years, and the "Republic of China Spy War World" series of "Qipao", "Sparrow", "Spy War Deep Sea Sting" adapted series received continuous praise, not only in the domestic hit, but also to achieve the "going to sea" of novels and films, its Republic of China spy war series "Thin Ice" and "Plum Blossom Red Peach" is also reported to be about to be put into filming. The film and television of the first work of the "Ancient Spy" series, "In the Wind and Dust", has also been put on the agenda.
Undoubtedly, its huge monetization potential lies in the high-quality content of the IP itself, and the various innovations of the "Haifei Spy World" series also provide more possibilities for the development of domestic IP.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Enjie
Editor/Ying Qiao