The late Qing is collapsing, and the realm is falling into ruin. Foreign powers run rampant, the court is feeble, and hundreds of millions of people suffer in misery.
Bai Lingyun, a scholar from the Central Plains, witnesses the nation’s crisis and rises in furious defiance. No System descends from the heavens, and no divine power is bestowed upon him. He has only foresight beyond his time, an iron hand, and an unyielding will. He builds strength through local militias, seizes Guangzhou to establish his base, then makes an offering to Heaven amid thunder over the southern skies and proclaims himself emperor, founding the state of “China” with a vow to remake the realm!
The new army marches north, sweeping through the Central Plains. As dusk falls over the Forbidden City, he establishes his rule over all under heaven! He abolishes the civil service examinations, trains a new army, develops industry, builds a navy… A brand-new imperial machine roars to life, its edge aimed at the whole world.
He repels Japanese pirates in the east, drives out Russia in the north, and avenges a century of humiliation. His fleets sail across the South Seas and push west across the oceans, expanding the realm by tens of thousands of miles! The great powers of old are finally defeated beneath the empire’s iron hooves. The global order will be rewritten by China!
From absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy, from a corner of East Asia to ruler of the world. This is a path of conquest forged through iron and blood, intelligence and strategy! Watch as Emperor Gao, the founding emperor, Bai Lingyun, leads an ancient people through rebirth and into a new age, rising like a dragon across the world to create an unprecedented superpower!
I have always liked novels that recreate China. What I admire most about this novel is that the treatment of Japan is thorough and reasonable. The author's control of details is also quite good. I like it.
Well written! More than a dozen titles of emperors, brother of the king, the right title! The disadvantage is that it only talks about the protagonist, and he is not described enough!