1853: Measuring the Nation's Territory with Cannons
1853：用大炮去丈量国土面积
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 619k Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Historical & Ancient
- Updated
- 1y ago
- English
- Request a translation
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- 1853: Testing the Truth with Cannon Fire1853用炮火检验真理Alternate title on Fanqie
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Amazing! A book was finished in just one year.
I took a look and it's pretty good. It deserves five stars for its anti-Qing stance. I'd like to ask when it started being written?
A rare gem of a novel set against the backdrop of the Taiping Rebellion. The author's bold and imaginative writing is truly commendable...
I listened to it, and it sounded good, very exciting, a good book. I watched it again, and it's really good. But when will the era of firearms arrive? I want to see guns conquer the world.
It's really not easy! I found a book from the Taiping Rebellion period, and it's quite well written.
Well written; there aren't many books that directly confront the Qing Dynasty, and this one uses the Heavenly Kingdom as a starting point, which is spot on.
The book about the Taiping Rebellion is very exciting and immersive. I just hope that modern weapons will be available soon so that the author can write a similarly good story.
A very good time-travel novel set in the late Qing Dynasty.
It's a pretty good time-travel novel; the protagonist travels back to modern times to save the country, fulfilling a fantasy.
If the Taiping Rebellion succeeds, it would be a great thing to overthrow the Qing Dynasty.