This is an "official history disguised as an online novel."
From Shang Yang's Reform in the Warring States Period to the end of the late Qing Dynasty, the power field was completely reconstructed over three thousand years: the court was the company, the emperor was the CEO, reform was reform, and party struggle was office politics. Shang Yang is an parachuted executive to implement KPIs, Lu Buwei is the largest venture capital investor in history, Cao Cao merges and reorganizes in troubled times, Wang Anshi encounters obstacles in reforming state-owned enterprises - all the obscure historical games have become "workplace scripts" that you can understand instantly.
But this book refuses to be "facialized". There is no simple loyalty and betrayal, only real humanity between power and ideals. Qin Shihuang's loneliness, Cao Cao's struggle, Chongzhen's despair, Li Hongzhang's helplessness - everyone is a "person" with flesh and blood.
The book is tens of millions of words long, written from the Warring States Period to the late Qing Dynasty, and finally ends with Xu Xiake, Li Yu and other "marginal figures" in history. When all the plans of emperors, generals and prime ministers turn to dust, the green mountains will still remain. The ultimate wisdom of history emerges: there is only one success, live your life in your own way.
This is not a book that teaches you how to fight in the palace. This is a book that explores "how people should live" through three thousand years of power games.
