The Butcher's Mill and The Butcher's Mill 2 depict the sweeping Huang Chao Rebellion. The siege of Chenzhou, which lasted from the fifth lunar month of 883 through the fourth month of the following year, and its use of human flesh as military rations form the novels' central climax and a crucible for human nature. This epic focuses on the distortion and struggle of human nature under extreme conditions, exploring how power, hunger, and despair trample the foundations of civilization, and how thin the line is between hero and tyrant. Through the perspective of the complex figure Huang Chao, it shows how the ideals of rebellion can be twisted into horrific atrocities, and how the siege of Chenzhou came to symbolize the complete transformation of the rebellion's nature...
The sky of history, the power shown is quite good.