Taking Charge of France: Beginning with the Documents of Versailles
About This Novel
When a hardcore player of Europa Universalis 4 with a thousand-hour level traveled to 1786 and became a low-level clerk in the French Ministry of Finance, he faced a hellish start: the country was on the verge of bankruptcy, the nobles were greedy and corrupt, and social conflicts were about to break out. Fortunately, the world in front of him turned into a huge game UI interface. Stability, legitimacy, treasury, manpower, and the attributes of each historical figure... All data are available at a glance. "Stability -3? On the verge of bankruptcy? I was able to save this round even at the beginning of Byzantium!" Starting from fixing a tax bug, to influencing the chancellor, to fighting alongside the future emperor. This is the story of a P player who used data and rationality to "operate" a crumbling kingdom step by step into an unprecedented empire on which the sun never sets. My turn, Europa Universalis!
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Official(15)Scraped 3d ago
The novel was really good at the beginning, but it was different from what I imagined. I thought it was a war novel, but what I saw was a Machiavellian novel, an anti-corruption novel entangled with economic corruption within France. I saw more than 50 pictures and basically couldn't stand it anymore, because there is not much excitement in the novel, only depression, and the protagonist Being suppressed and struggling with frustration, the novel's frame is too small, and its vision is not broad enough. It only focuses on the internal strife within the palace. This kind of novel can only be suitable for some readers, and it may be especially suitable for some readers who like to fight for power and detectives to solve crimes. It is indeed not very attractive to old bookworms like me.
A brief discussion of the rhythm of this book
Summary: The idea of this book is interesting, but the author's writing style and sense of rhythm are not enough to support the current content concept. The early stage of this book (approximately 70 chapters) is driven by fiscal reform as the core, which drives the two lines of this book, namely helping the country survive fiscal bankruptcy and solving national problems to help the country reduce the risk of bankruptcy. But after entering the second stage, an obvious problem arises, that is, to resolve the violent conflicts brought about by the revolution and the conflict between the revolution and the transfer of power in the old era. From what is known so far (the superficial history I have learned), the revolution will always conflict with the smooth transfer of power. Therefore, judging from the latest chapter, the author did not handle the rhythm well, resulting in a kind of meal that only allows you to be three-thirds full.
Good reviews, the plot is compact, and the description of the political war has ups and downs.
Like the title, the writing is quite good, but because I haven't played this game, I haven't figured out what the concept of the protagonist's system being bound to France is? What impact does it have on system task determination? --Emperor? Government? French? For example, if France changes its political system and becomes a republic due to the people's revolution, will the protagonist's mission fail? For example, if the next emperor is a fanatical believer and suddenly changes the political system to a divine right of kings, will it cause the protagonist to fail the mission? Or if a minister overthrows the emperor and turns into a presidential republic, and the protagonist is this president, does that count as a mission failure? Or does it mean that the concept of France, France, and the French people must disappear for the mission to be considered a failure? Also, if the protagonist changes countries, will it cause the system task to fail or will the system display new country data?
A hilarious, unflattering, reformist fantasy doomed to fail. Step by step, he crawls under the feet of his ministers and king, and relies on the author to make big mistakes in the arrangement system to "turn danger into safety", thereby increasing the author's fantasy of "exhilarating points" in deducing the plot.
After reading more than 30 chapters, the stock market part is really embarrassing. Whether it is long or short, it is too easy and has too much impact. Was there really such a high degree of financialization in that era? Where did the short-selling stocks come from? The stock price of an industrial company fell sharply in a short period of time. If there were not a large amount of equity mortgage debt, and before there were major changes in the company's operations, how much loss could be caused by short-term floating losses at the financial level? After all, short-selling by opponents will always be sold out, and repurchasing it at a low price will be beneficial to major shareholders.
We haven't even found a way to survive yet, and we are still messing around trying to save the country.
This book is fundamentally unreadable. The protagonist is trying desperately to save the Qing Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty, while the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty are desperately trying to kill the protagonist.
Excellent European novel, the only problem is that the protagonist is a cheating Bernard, a micro-managed public official who can handle everything with ease. The execution of these people is comparable to that of the Astartes, and they have no psychological fluctuations or resistance.
You can tell from this introduction that this is a good book👍
I really like niche historical novels, and this one is well written.
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Official(15)Scraped 3d ago
The novel was really good at the beginning, but it was different from what I imagined. I thought it was a war novel, but what I saw was a Machiavellian novel, an anti-corruption novel entangled with economic corruption within France. I saw more than 50 pictures and basically couldn't stand it anymore, because there is not much excitement in the novel, only depression, and the protagonist Being suppressed and struggling with frustration, the novel's frame is too small, and its vision is not broad enough. It only focuses on the internal strife within the palace. This kind of novel can only be suitable for some readers, and it may be especially suitable for some readers who like to fight for power and detectives to solve crimes. It is indeed not very attractive to old bookworms like me.
A brief discussion of the rhythm of this book
Summary: The idea of this book is interesting, but the author's writing style and sense of rhythm are not enough to support the current content concept. The early stage of this book (approximately 70 chapters) is driven by fiscal reform as the core, which drives the two lines of this book, namely helping the country survive fiscal bankruptcy and solving national problems to help the country reduce the risk of bankruptcy. But after entering the second stage, an obvious problem arises, that is, to resolve the violent conflicts brought about by the revolution and the conflict between the revolution and the transfer of power in the old era. From what is known so far (the superficial history I have learned), the revolution will always conflict with the smooth transfer of power. Therefore, judging from the latest chapter, the author did not handle the rhythm well, resulting in a kind of meal that only allows you to be three-thirds full.
Good reviews, the plot is compact, and the description of the political war has ups and downs.
Like the title, the writing is quite good, but because I haven't played this game, I haven't figured out what the concept of the protagonist's system being bound to France is? What impact does it have on system task determination? --Emperor? Government? French? For example, if France changes its political system and becomes a republic due to the people's revolution, will the protagonist's mission fail? For example, if the next emperor is a fanatical believer and suddenly changes the political system to a divine right of kings, will it cause the protagonist to fail the mission? Or if a minister overthrows the emperor and turns into a presidential republic, and the protagonist is this president, does that count as a mission failure? Or does it mean that the concept of France, France, and the French people must disappear for the mission to be considered a failure? Also, if the protagonist changes countries, will it cause the system task to fail or will the system display new country data?
A hilarious, unflattering, reformist fantasy doomed to fail. Step by step, he crawls under the feet of his ministers and king, and relies on the author to make big mistakes in the arrangement system to "turn danger into safety", thereby increasing the author's fantasy of "exhilarating points" in deducing the plot.
After reading more than 30 chapters, the stock market part is really embarrassing. Whether it is long or short, it is too easy and has too much impact. Was there really such a high degree of financialization in that era? Where did the short-selling stocks come from? The stock price of an industrial company fell sharply in a short period of time. If there were not a large amount of equity mortgage debt, and before there were major changes in the company's operations, how much loss could be caused by short-term floating losses at the financial level? After all, short-selling by opponents will always be sold out, and repurchasing it at a low price will be beneficial to major shareholders.
We haven't even found a way to survive yet, and we are still messing around trying to save the country.
This book is fundamentally unreadable. The protagonist is trying desperately to save the Qing Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty, while the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty are desperately trying to kill the protagonist.
Excellent European novel, the only problem is that the protagonist is a cheating Bernard, a micro-managed public official who can handle everything with ease. The execution of these people is comparable to that of the Astartes, and they have no psychological fluctuations or resistance.
You can tell from this introduction that this is a good book👍
I really like niche historical novels, and this one is well written.
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