
Ming Secrets: The Worthless Rule the Land
大明秘闻,刍狗当道
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.3M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Historical & Ancient
- Updated
- 2y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
Synopsis
Other names
- A Sacrificial Dog's Adventures in the Ming Dynasty一只刍狗闯大明Former title · until Oct 2026
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It has taken me ten hours to finish reading more than 2,600 pages. It is very interesting. The residual poison of Confucianism is still so powerful and strong in this world, like gutter oil flowing across the dining table, like rice that can go up the mountain to hunt tigers, and like gangs engaging in counterfeiting and selling benefits.
First of all, I would like to give it a thumbs up. As a novel and a Tomato novel, it is really amazing to have such a level. The descriptions of the various characters and the changes in the plot are wonderful. However, this is not a serious historical novel. To be more precise, it should be a Machiavellian novel. It is an imaginary work created against the historical background of the late Ming Dynasty, similar to "Nirvana in Fire". What the real history is like, we future generations cannot experience it. The fragments in the history books can only be understood, but cannot be restored. But in an environment where buildings are about to collapse, everyone can still understand what people's hearts are like. It has been five years since the Apocalypse. The real problems of the Ming Dynasty are internal problems. Continuous natural disasters, institutional imbalances from top to bottom, and the collapse of the country's financial system have all greatly undermined the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. What we see is corruption in Liaodong and party strife in the court, but the real problem lies in the self-cultivators who continue to go bankrupt in every county and village. This is the crisis of the Ming Dynasty. The foundation of Zhu Ming's imperial power lay in the vast number of homesteaders and small landowners. When these people could no longer survive, the dynasty collapsed!
Who is Rabbit? Why so awesome??? It should be easy to understand if you have the experience of passing the exam. If you compare it with the workplace management, you will suddenly realize it and make people think. Not to mention the plot, every page of this book is full of wisdom about life, and the plot is not important. If I could have read it ten years ago, it would have saved me three wasted years. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 Come on, author
It's very good-looking. It's the same as a Ming Dynasty book I read before. The Ming Dynasty died due to intrigues, party disputes, inaction, and selfishness, but the details are also different. This book mainly talks about the internals, while that book also writes about the externals, such as Christianity. Most of the officials in the late Ming Dynasty were Christian believers, but some Christian believers are all trying to find a way to save the Ming Dynasty. They think that some policies in the West can change the Ming Dynasty, but they do not expect that the civilization of the West was much backward than the Ming Dynasty at that time. All the original copies of ancient Chinese historical documents were deceived and sent to the West. The two books have the same thing: the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were not good things, but the one tells it more carefully
This is so well written. According to what is written in the book, if this airtight layer-by-layer infiltration control had not encountered rebellions in the last years of Chongzhen, you would not have had the chance to speak, and you would have died if you spoke. If ordinary people were thrown over there, and there would be no crossing gate connecting the two worlds to transport weapons and supplies to you, it would be basically impossible for you to live a life of freedom, equality and fraternity. You would have to either become a person of that era or die.
The author made me feel a different history and a different humanity. It also gave me another understanding of this hatred of family and country. It is worth mentioning that the author looks at kings, ministers, nobles, eunuchs, gentlemen, villains and the use of power from a perspective that I have never seen before. It also makes me sigh with emotion about the integration of nationalities and cultures! The second half of the book is too idealistic, but what is the difference between a person without ideals and a salted fish? Those who seek the best will get it. Here, I would like to express my gratitude to the author. I have learned a lot through this book, no matter what aspect it is.
It's so damn enjoyable. The plot and character relationships are richer than the hundreds of chapters of novels I usually read. As far as Chapter 11 is concerned, the description of the conversation and expressions vaguely resembles the drama of the three giants in Tou Mingzhuang, but I know that the plot has not yet begun, and the characters and character network are still being laid out. Keep reading and wait for more.
5 Stars for the professional and 3 and a half stars for the novel. It's not that the writing is bad, it's just that it's not at the right time! This is a miniature evil book. I can't help but read it and I can't understand it at all! Nowadays, cool white books are generally the mainstream. If a book with such depth suddenly appears, the audience will not be too large.
How to distinguish ancient times from modern times? It would be too easy to use technology to differentiate. But if we use institutional culture, the history of spiraling will only become more and more similar between ancient and modern times. How to understand the word "people" is a long and arduous task. A rare good book! Come on, author!
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