Canghai Forged Cauldron II: Iron-Blooded Era

The Zhou tripod was cast, and the rituals and music were initially determined. However, the lines of bronze have not yet cooled down, and a more fiery and cruel era has quietly knocked on the door. "Canghai Casting the Cauldron I" ends with the Qin Dynasty taking the Jiuding, and the lingering sound of Zhou's system is still lingering. This book "The Iron-Blooded Era" takes over this historical boom and takes you into the furnace of the first "imperial fission" of Chinese civilization. This is an era when bronze ritual vessels were replaced by iron-blooded weapons. From the standardization fantasy of Qin to sweep Liuhe, to the algorithmic duel between Chu and Han; from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's ambition to hollow out the Western Regions, to Wang Mang's dream of ancient reforms; from the difficult reconstruction of Guangwu Zhongxing, to the strategic storm of the Three Kingdoms... We will experience firsthand: how systems are formed through experiments, how empires overdraw during expansion, and how civilizations find ways out through disintegration. This book not only covers the harsh punishments and laws of the Qin Dynasty, the Confucianism and Legalism of the Han Dynasty, and the deceitful conspiracies of the Three Kingdoms, but also casts its vision on the world at the same time. When Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, Roman legions were crossing the European continent; when Han envoys were galloping along the Silk Road, merchant ships in the Mediterranean were already sailing away. Through a series of "Learnings from Other Mountains" and "Slices of Time and Space", you will see how China's "iron-blooded road" shines with a unique and resonant brilliance in the grand picture of human civilization. This is the end of the lingering ghost of ritual and music, and it is also the beginning of the quenching and shaping of the empire's genes. "Iron-Blooded Era", the ultimate experiment about system, civilization and destiny, begins here