Three hundred years of parallel history of China, Qingfen Shenyan travels through the late Ming Dynasty, willing to endure and lie down, waiting for the Eight Banners to enter the pass and destroy the Ming Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, Chongzhen awakened the iron-blooded reforms, quelled the civil strife, destroyed the Eight Banners, and allowed the Ming Dynasty to rise against the trend.
There is no fantasy and counterattack, no counterattack by Shuangwen, only a story of the ups and downs of civilization that is truly deduced.
Chongzhen turned the tide, forged unprecedented centralization with iron and blood, opened up the sea and expanded the land, and all the dividends went to the top; emerging merchants became rich but had no say, and the people at the bottom carried forward with heavy burdens, and class rifts were finally forced into the palace, smashing the arbitrary imperial power and forcing a compromise situation of constitutional monarchy.
However, the constitutionalists had their own appearances. The monopoly of the powerful, rampant corruption, and the unwillingness of the imperial power led to the sudden civil war during the restoration, and the thousand-year-old monarchy collapsed in the flames of war.
The weak republic was like a candle in the wind, suffered a disastrous defeat in foreign wars, skyrocketing inflation, and boiling public resentment. Nationalism engulfed China, swept across East Asia, and encroached on Eurasia, dragging the country into the catastrophe of World War II.
On the other side of the ocean, they have the same roots and the same race, but they meet each other on the battlefield, using blood and fire to end the nightmare of dictatorship.
Post-war reconstruction, Cold War confrontation, institutional games, civilizations reflect on the ruins and move forward amidst tearing...
