The Edict of Begonia Ashes

When the national jade seal was reduced to a braised duck neck frying pan, Zhu Yuanzhang was shouting fans in the live broadcast room to urge orders, and the six-hundred-year-old machinations of emperors, generals and prime ministers were marinated in a jar of pickled vegetables and turned into an absurd epic - "Begonia Edict" deconstructs history into a black humor on the tip of the tongue with the ultimate crazy imagination. The author uses the Ming Xiaoling migrant workers' team as an eye to pry open the gaps in the history books: the fuse of the Battle of Jingnan was Zhu Di's private stewed meat secretly hidden, Zheng He's treasure ship to the West was loaded with sauerkraut biochemical weapons, Xu Da's war horse turned against him because of his braised hooves... Every page bursts with the subversive energy of "food is justice". The novel turns cultural relics into cyber work tools: the golden skull carries goods live, the iron coupons of alchemy books are used as chopping blocks, and the descendants of the amber King Ning become shop inspectors. What's even better is that the "underworld takeaway negative review system" is used to satirize the modern workplace, allowing Zhu Yuanzhang's ghost to become a 996 reminder to order Party A. The descendants of Xu Da's pursuit of Hongwu braised food has become a cross-time and space consumer rights protection. This kind of writing method that crushes the seriousness of history into jokes and lets the jokes wrap up realistic metaphors can be called the carnival style writing of "historical punk". In a universe where "everything can be pickled", sauerkraut is a passport for power games, and stewed soup becomes a translator for the collision of civilizations. When readers marveled at Zhu Di's use of hot pot to instigate the Ora cavalry to rebel, they suddenly realized that this seemingly nonsensical food farce actually used the most playful blade to cut through the absurd nature of history - those grand and grand narratives may have always been soaked in the marinade of worldly desires.