A Spark Sets the Prairie Ablaze, 1612

[Serious history + hard-hitting reform + System]

What was the tragedy of the late Ming? It was the systematic slaughter of over a hundred million people, the systematic burning of more than a hundred million books, and the complete breaking of a nation’s backbone, reducing it to a people of slaves.

Countless classics were destroyed, history was rewritten, and culture was severed from its roots. We are all Xiangling, all like the Xiangling who forgot where her home was.