Chapter 565: The Minister's Explosion
Chapter 565: The Minister's Explosion
Jonathan was not stupid. He immediately knew why Wei Keduo reacted like this. After all, not many people knew about the "mouth replacement" plan.
"It's normal to have distance. Literary creation definitely requires fiction." Jonathan said, "Well, since Mr. Gu Lu has finished writing the work, Wei Keduo, your task has been completed very successfully."
"Mr. Jonathan, although I followed your instructions and explained the book to Gu Lu, many of the views in the book do not represent my views." Wei Keduo had to emphasize, "Of course, "Yes, Minister" is very well written."
Oh? Jonathan didn't care what Wei Keduo said. Anyway, if the Chinese writer's satire was too much, it was because he revealed too much official information. If the writing could divert attention and be popular with the masses, it was because he coordinated well. Of course, this possibility was not high.
"Yes, Minister" sounds like a good work." Jonathan said he was looking forward to it, and then he sent Vicodo away. Jonathan, a civil servant, used to be a family doctor. Of course, he entered politics early and was a member of parliament in the late 1990s. Jonathan deeply realized that studying medicine could not save Da Ying. Now, decades later, he realized that he was wrong. Not only could he not save Da Ying by entering politics, but he also became corrupt.
"If it weren't for my inconvenience, it would be best for me to write it," Jonathan thought to himself.
Although Jonathan has never written a novel, Maugham, who is known as the best storyteller in the English-speaking environment, was also a family doctor. If we round it off and add his own experience, it should be half Maugham, right?
His fantasy was interrupted by a phone call from his personal secretary reporting that there was some sudden small matter that required his knowledge.
What happened was a "fight" between two villages in Weymouth, involving hundreds of citizens, comparable to the wars between countries during the Neon Warring States Period.
The two villages were Portsham and Ruka, and the reason for the fight was competition for business.
The original per capita annual income of Portsham was less than 3 pounds, but after the tourism boom, the income has increased rapidly. Ruka next door is jealous, relying on the geographical advantage - to drive from the center of Weymouth to here, you have to pass through Ruka Village first, so...
The villagers of Ruka said, "Welcome to Putsham. There used to be a church here called Putsham, and the whole area can be called Putsham. So you must have come to the right place."
Intercept tourists.
Stealing someone's money is like killing his parents. This principle is commonly used abroad.
The villagers of Portsham are angry. Aren’t you bullying honest people?
"More than a dozen people were injured because of this reason? These country people who haven't read much are really rude and reckless." This was Jonathan's evaluation after he learned about it. This evaluation is in line with the style of the Union Jack in London, because there are only countrysides outside of London.
This matter was not within Jonathan's jurisdiction, so he put it aside after his evaluation. He did not immediately report the matter of "Yes, Minister" to his superiors. He was more stable than Vicodo.
About three or four days later, Gu Lu officially sent the typeset work to Cabinet Minister Jonathan.
It was then that he saw the work for the first time.
[Courtesy of George Wicodo]
The first sentence of the article, Oh, Jonathan felt that the Chinese writer was very sensible and did not say his name.
Then Jonathan flipped through it casually.
Found some good content -
[“This will allow us to find ways to stop wasting government money.”
"But the public has no idea how to squander public money, and we are the experts!"]
[“Humans have no privileges, Mr. Harker. We are not above nature, we belong to nature. You see, humans are animals too.”
"I know. I've just been to the House of Commons."]
Quite interesting, no wonder he has made a name for himself in Europe and the United States, Jonathan thought to himself.
No matter how good a book is, readers will not appreciate its brilliance if they flip through it casually. It is like Jonathan, who determined the scale of the book but did not read it carefully at all, and even thought that he could write such a satire himself. He said that civil servants were profligate and that the people in the House of Commons were pigs and dogs, which were of a lower class.
It's not a stereotype, but from top to bottom, people really understand less and less about a thing. Letting Chinese writers become "mouth substitutes" to vent the people's inner dissatisfaction is obviously a method that the prime minister and his staff have discussed and determined and finalized the writer.
But the Prime Minister only knew the title of the work, and Cabinet Secretary Jonathan saw some of it in bits and pieces, and it was the Executioner Vicodo who finished watching it.
"Let's implement the Dolphin Plan. Also, please arrange the publicity," said the Prime Minister.
If a country mobilizes its entire nation to accomplish a task, then it will be accomplished very quickly.
Jonathan received "Yes, Minister" on May 5th, and the book was published on the 20rd and was on sale throughout the UK, which was quite fast.
At first, I used the new work of the author of "The Lord of the Rings" as a promotion, but later I found that the name "Gu Lu" was much more well-known than "The Lord of the Rings", so I simply stopped acting.
[No matter what happens in the future, we will sigh that "Humanitarianism is worthy of being Humphrey's motherland."]
[Come and take a look. I bet your satire of the political arena in Da Ying is not as good as Gu Lu’s.]
[Gu Lu said: What does the government care about? It’s not good or evil, but order or chaos]
[What is Da Ying's greatest invention? Oh, the immortal bureaucracy]
The propaganda slogan used the word "last forever", which means eternity. This is the first time that this word has been used together with bureaucracy. Needless to say, the irony is evident.
There is no doubt that the effect is good. The sales on the first day even exceeded that of "The Lord of the Rings". Of course, there are gains and losses, which caused resistance from a large number of netizens.
Joking, playing with sarcasm, who are Da Ying netizens afraid of? Do you know who posts the breast method jokes on the Internet? 80% of them are from Da Ying!
"Is Gu Lu trying to teach me how to beat my own child? I'm a brainless Louis XIV, thank you so much."
"I can satirize the government without stopping for 20 minutes. Do I still need to read the works of foreign writers?"
"Why don't you continue writing the Lord of the Rings series, or write books for children? That's your area of strength. Politics is for adults, don't try to be stubborn."
The keyboard warriors shouted "Keyboard Come" and attacked Gu Lu on Twitter, but the latter... He had a Twitter account, but he didn't hand it over to the company for operation and basically never logged in.
To be more precise, Gu Lu might have forgotten the password. In addition, after Gu Lu published the work, he had been sorting out things and sorting out Wei Keduo's recordings.
Of course, it must be pointed out that Gu Lu was not keeping any evidence or anything, he just knew that he was dull and wanted to save all the useful key information.
There are also relatively neutral netizens who do not have such strong hostility towards Gu Lu.
"Who is Humphrey? Oh, I heard he is one of the protagonists of Yes, Prime Minister. Is he more famous than Hamlet, King Lear, and Romeo?"
This makes sense. Shakespeare has almost become a famous literary figure, but no one calls him "Romeo's homeland" or "Macbeth's homeland"...
However, no amount of comments can change the content of "Yes, Prime Minister", and no amount of doubts can shake the fact that almost every page of the book contains golden sentences.
On the 25th, a BBC reporter "happened" to take a photo of the Prime Minister attending a meeting and reading a book before the meeting began.
The book was "Yes, Minister", which had been on the market for two days...
(End of this chapter)