★ Hardcore farming, step by step: from cement to flintlock guns, from steam engines to ironclad ships. The technology tree is clear, no magic modifications, no skipping steps, every step is flesh and blood.
★ The undercurrent of the officialdom game is raging: the county magistrate, the prefect, the governor, Heshen, Jiaqing - fighting one by one. Machiavellian tactics are not about cheating, but about taking advantage of others' tactics.
★ War scenes are thrilling: 50,000 White Lotus sect sieges the city, 3,000 warriors defend the city bravely; tunnel battles, artillery battles, night attacks, and counterattacks. It's not a divine drama, it's a victory tempered by blood and fire.
★ Group portraits of small characters with flesh and blood: Zhang Tieniu from a refugee to a general, Li Gouer from an orphan to an intelligence chief, Chen Huan from a down-and-out scholar to a literary bold... Each supporting role has its own story and its own highlights.
★ Historical background, solid research: the political ecology of the Qianlong Dynasty, the true history of the White Lotus Sect, and the anxiety of the times before the Opium War—the fiction has a real historical texture.
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This is not a one-person story.
This is how a group of people survive.
This is the story of Fang County.
It was also a little different light in that era.
