Looking for Good Books About Saving the Song Dynasty. It Deserved Better 求几本写挽救宋朝的好书，本不该那样
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- 101 Raising the Song Dynasty to Greatness 扶摇大宋 After a final farewell on a rainy night, Cai Tiao leaped from the twenty-seventh floor. When he opened his eyes again, he had become Cai Tiao, the fifth young master of the Cai family in Bianjing, during the third year of Yuanfu in the Great Song. A soul from the modern age, reborn by the will of Heaven. He began his studies at three under the eminent Daoist Xu Zhichang, outshone the literary world with his poetry and calligraphy at five, and was hailed by the entire Daoist community as the "hei 32Reads—Score—Shelves
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Northern Song: I Take on Water Margin with Technology 北宋：我凭科技闯水浒
(A slice of Northern Song history + Water Margin + war + political scheming + conflict + fantasy + technology. No System golden finger that hands out random prizes or anything like that.) They had set out to find a new home for humanity and keep its flame alive, never expecting an accident with a wormhole to send them transmigrating. Since ancient times, in times of chaos, the capable have claimed the realm for themselves. The rise and fall of dynasties is no different. With technology at my sid
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The Champion Marquis Lives Within Me 朕的体内有冠军侯
The souls of Huo Qubing and a military scholar were crammed into the body of an eight-year-old emperor of a doomed dynasty, with less than a year left before the bloodbath at Yashan. At court, the child spoke without a filter: “Chain the ships together and they’ll burn. Your gunpowder mixture is all wrong. The Yuan army’s flanking force will come from the north.” The ministers fell to their knees: “A god has descended!” In his mind, the Champion Marquis roared, “Kill them all for me!” while the
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The Pure Way of the Nine Heavens 九天清微道
In the second year of Chongning, a Ghost King fails to devour the soul of an infant boy, triggering a crisis that threatens the Great Song dynasty and drawing countless immortals from the Upper Realm into a calamity. After ten years of studying the Dao in the mountains, the boy grows up and descends with his master and fellow senior brothers and sisters at the emperor's summons to compete in martial arts. But he discovers that in those ten years, the common people have suffered ever more bitterl
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Late Ming Qinhuai: New Songs from the Flower Boat Shake the Realm 明末秦淮：花船新曲震山河
[Transmigrate Into a Deadly Predicament + Cheat Space + Strong Female Lead Building a Business] The moment I opened my eyes, I’d crushed the son of a Ming official, and a knife was already at my throat! Luckily, a scar on my wrist concealed a modern laboratory. A stun gun took down the brute, and I even had a bar management manual! Other people transmigrate and get caught up in palace intrigue. I went to the Qinhuai River and brought a run-down pleasure boat back to life. The girls from the lowe
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Love in the Northern Song 北宋之恋
Zhang Bingke, a modern plastic surgeon, unexpectedly transmigrates to the Northern Song during the reign of Emperor Renzong. Armed with modern medical skills and ideas from a thousand years in the future, she enters the turbulent political game played by Song, Xia, and Liao. On one side is Zhao Zhen, the young emperor who has kept his harem empty for eight years, waiting for her in the depths of the palace at Bianjing. On another is Lin Xi, an imperial guard of the Imperial City Department, who
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- 107 The Regret of Emperor Yingzong of Northern Song 北宋英宗的遗憾 The Regrets of Emperor Yingzong of Northern Song 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Li Yuanhao: Portrait of the Sunken Abyss 李元昊之沉渊画像 Li Yuanhao's Portrait of the Sunken Abyss 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Northern Song: I Became a God After Unlocking the Book of Heroes 北宋：我点亮英雄谱后成了神 This book is dedicated in tribute to Shan Tianfang, a master storyteller of his generation. May the jianghu endure! The jianghu is not the Three Mountains and Five Sacred Peaks, nor the Five Lakes and Four Seas. It is a glint of cold light on a golden-ringed saber, a streak of fading red beneath the Moon-Hiding Sword. It is White-Browed Hero riding eight hundred li through the night to fulfill a promise. It is the proud, unyielding spirit of White Jade Hall, the Brocade-Furred Rat, standing ta 621Reads—Score101Shelves
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The Curtain-Raiser 卷帘人
Shen Qingci, a doctor of Song history, opens her eyes to find herself in the Northern Song dynasty, inhabiting the body of a fifteen-year-old legitimate daughter who shares her name. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, her stepmother arranges for her to “accidentally” fall into the water. After waking, she uses her scholar’s mind to quickly see through the ruse: it was no accident, but murder. Starting with the moss beneath her fingernails, she secretly gathers evidence and joins forces wi
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The Heavenly Master's Fate-Changing Water Margin: A Side Story 天师改命水浒别传
With a casual divination, he foresaw the Jingkang Disaster, the Southern Song retreating to the south, and even the hundred thousand soldiers and civilians at Yashan leaping into the sea to die for their country. He saw the fate of the Great Song a hundred years later in its entirety. So he gave up being an immortal and transmigrated into the body of the wastrel Yan Qing, taking matters into his own hands to change the course of history. He saves Pang Wanchun at the martial arts arena, becomes
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The Dragon Rises in Jinling: Reviving the Tang Dynasty for Five Hundred Years 龙起金陵，再续大唐五百年
“The emperor in Chang’an, the army of the Wei residence.” The Wei residence’s household troops had become a thing of the past beneath the executioner’s blade, while the emperor in Chang’an lived in constant fear amid troubles both within and without. Does an emperor have some special birthright? Whoever commands the strongest troops and finest horses becomes emperor! Flames raged everywhere. Looking across the land, the Tang was now divided among rival regional warlords: Zhu Wen, Li Keyong, Yang
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Transmigrated as Emperor Lizong of Song, I Called Off the Duanping Campaign from the Start 穿成宋理宗，开局叫停端平入洛
On my first day transmigrated into Zhao Yun, Emperor Lizong of the Song, the edict that would drain the Southern Song of its last strength and doom the dynasty lay on the imperial desk: the campaign to reclaim Luoyang. [National fortune: 15/100 (On the brink of collapse)] [Historical warning: The edict will be issued in 72 hours. Sixty thousand elite soldiers will freeze to death by the Yellow River, national fortune will fall to 5, and the Song will never recover!] The entire court roared with
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Rune Origins: An Adventure 符文缘起历险
Outwit fate and be true to yourself. Be someone with no wants or needs. As long as you’re happy, that’s enough. Every experience is part of your life. String them together, and they make a TV drama, full of hardship, exhaustion, laughter, and lies.
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Emperor Huizong of Song Taken North: Reviving the Great Song and Unifying the World 宋徽宗北狩：复兴大宋，统一全球
Li Shu, an expert on Song history, dies suddenly and transmigrates into the body of Emperor Huizong of Song, the foolish ruler who is being taken by Jin soldiers to Wuguo City in the humiliation of Jingkang! Trapped in a prisoner cart, with the imperial clan captured and the whole realm cursing him, the original owner was destined to die in a foreign land, with all hope lost! But I have the golden finger of knowing all of Song history, along with expertise in modern military affairs, governance,
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The Great Song Coroner, Part Three 大宋提刑官第三部
At the end of the Southern Song, Song Ci, the founding father of Chinese forensic science, resigns from office and retreats into seclusion after losing all faith in the court. He devotes himself to completing the work of a lifetime, The Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified. But the tides of the age will not let him stand apart. Mongol cavalry rides south, and the realm is shattered. In his twilight years, Song Ci is forced to return to public life. From a corruption-murder case at the Jianyang
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If You End Up in the Northern Song Dynasty’s Liangshan, Can You Really Leave Without Regrets? 来了北宋梁山还能留下遗憾么
This book centers on the rallying cry: “Drive out the Tartars and reclaim the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!” A historically satisfying novel officially endorsed by the authorities → multiple female leads → leading troops to repel foreign invaders → avenging the Jingkang humiliation in blood → reclaiming the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!! A different take on the story of the Water Margin. The protagonist is warmhearted and down-to-earth, and the overa
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Dreaming of Bianliang 梦回汴梁
After transmigrating to the Northern Song dynasty, your choices are to pass the imperial examinations and enter officialdom, or to stir up the court. Lin Yan refuses to do either. Struck by lightning and transmigrated into the body of a poor scholar, he’s so hungry he has to gnaw on cold buns. But after reaching his breaking point, he scares off some thugs with a single “Bro, that’s awesome!” and becomes a hit at the teahouses by ghostwriting letters full of modern memes. He strolls through the
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Li Qingzhao, Your Husband Xia Ren Really Isn't a Good Man 李清照，你夫君虾仁真不是好人啊
[Bold and spirited Li Qingzhao] [A bittersweet Song Zhezong] [Loyal and affectionate Song Huizong] [Imperial physician and secret agent Shen Zhiwei] (The rating just came out, but it'll go up later!) A lighthearted, hilarious story filled with heartfelt emotion, court intrigue, heated battles, and cultural revival... “What kind of person do you take me for?!” Li Qingzhao slammed her palm on the table and glared at the grinning man across from her. “A woman of the demimonde,” Song Xiaren replied
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Transmigrating to the Northern Song Dynasty: The Jingkang Humiliation and the Fate of My Lord 穿越北宋靖康耻灭吾主沉浮
[No System] [Late Northern Song] [Rousing] [Ruthless] [Become Emperor and Expand the Realm] Zhao Yi transmigrates and becomes the son Emperor Huizong of Song secretly fathered while living among the common people, though Zhao Yi himself has no idea. By chance, he saves Zhou Tong and is taken in as his disciple, learning peerless martial arts. Unable to stand by as the Jurchens commit atrocities and the people suffer, he leads everyone in fighting back against them. Along the way, he meets Yue
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The Caged Phoenix of the Northern Song: From the Start, I Was Veiled in Red 北宋囚凰：开局被戴红盖头
No golden finger + love of country and family + devoted, not a womanizer + peerless woman of talent + slow burn A highly educated business magnate transmigrates and wakes up beneath a bright red bridal veil. In the Northern Song dynasty, the top courtesan of Qiantang mistakes him for a medicinal ingredient to bring good luck, then plans to burn him once he's served his purpose. A literary academy contest, outwitting Fang La, factional struggles at court, the Jin kingdom and Western Xia. Slow bur
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In the Great Song: I, Zhao Gou, Just Want to Die! 人在大宋：我赵构只想作死！
[No System] [Great Song] [Rousing] [Realistic] Liu Xuan transmigrates to the late Northern Song Dynasty and into the body of Prince Kang, Zhao Gou, just as the Jin army is besieging the city. He is the future Emperor Gaozong of Song, the man who will execute Yue Fei. But he is a transmigrator with a mission... If he can die at the hands of the Jin, he will return to his original world with a vast fortune and live forever. So he doesn't want to be emperor, much less kill Yue Fei. He just wants to
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Water Margin: Reborn in Zhu Biao, I Came Home to Find My Entire Family Slaughtered 水浒：魂穿祝彪，出门被屠灭满门
Zhang Yu was a new office worker who didn’t even dare talk back to his team leader. One cup of coffee during overtime sent him into the world of Water Margin. When he woke up, he was galloping on horseback through a rainstorm in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Behind him were Liangshan Marsh’s pursuers. He carried Zhu Biao’s wounds, and his mind was filled with the bloody images from the massacre of the Zhu family estate: people hoisted into the air on spears, hacked into three pieces by battle-
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Chronicles of the Xuanhe Era 宣和风云录
Turmoil in the imperial palace, factional struggles among the officials. The Tanguts are divided, while the Jurchens watch like prowling tigers. A true man’s heart remains steel to the very end. Let me test my hand and mend the rift in the heavens. I’ll summon the Milky Way’s celestial waves and scour the northwest clean of the barbarians’ sands! The storm is raging.
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A Song Dynasty Civil Servant’s Guide to Slacking Off 北宋文官摸鱼手册
This is a laugh-out-loud history of the Song dynasty. It's hilarious, but meticulously researched, packed with solid material from official histories. And although it's rigorous, it's never dull: it brings the real Northern Song to life in the most humorous, funny, down-to-earth language. How could people from humble backgrounds turn their lives around? What wisdom can we draw from the turbulent careers of top-tier star scholar-officials? What was it really like to be a civil official in the Nor
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Reborn in the Great Song: He Becomes Emperor in Place of the Wrongfully Executed Di Qing 魂穿大宋：他替冤死的狄青当帝君
In the second year of Jiayou under the Northern Song (1057), the court official faction frames General Di Qing, the tattoo-faced warrior. He dies with his name in disgrace, and the Song loses its great northwestern bulwark! Di Qing, a twenty-first-century military engineer, transmigrates back to the start of his frontier service at Qingjian, returning with the power of modern military engineering! No System, no cheat abilities: he takes on the world with nothing but hard-earned strategy! Refuge
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Water Margin: Restoring the Realm 水浒：重整山河
After transmigrating, he gathers one Water Margin hero after another, fights monsters and levels up, and eventually becomes a regional overlord. He battles the Jin forces and leads his cavalry to avenge the humiliation of the Jingkang Incident, marching across the grasslands around Zhongdu and pushing west with his troops... A low-cost way to build a cavalry: sell horses to fund the wars. The ridiculous antics are genuinely hilarious, hahaha, I can't stop laughing. Let's look forward to it toge
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Song Dynasty, Watch Me Enter the Sacred Realm Alone 大宋，看我孤身入圣境
With both parents dead, the young boy shoulders the burden of the Wen family alone. Gifted and precocious, with a strange portent surrounding him, he becomes entangled in the struggle between the old and new factions and the hidden currents within the imperial clan while still young. He stumbles into countless dangers without understanding them. Fortunately, the old Grand Preceptor ancestor made many preparations in advance, sheltering him from the storms at every turn and allowing him to grow u
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Transmigration: The Road Ahead Is Shrouded in Fog 穿越：前路一片迷茫
[Transmigration + No Romance + System + Ancient Setting + Wuxia + Ensemble Cast + Plot-Driven] Modern-day Lin Yundan is saved by the System Xiaoyu after a car accident, but something goes wrong when she transmigrates to ancient times. The System Xiaoyu uses up all its power saving her, and in the end gives her an incomplete copy of the Exquisite Divine Art. After Yundan wakes up, Yue discovers her practicing martial arts. Yundan then teaches the skills she has learned to all the children in the
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From the Start, I Recruit Xin Qiji to Join the Outlaws and Rebuild China 开局拉辛弃疾落草，再造华夏
[Hardcore Farming + Southern Song History + Institutional Reform + Rebuilding China] I’m Chen Ning, reborn as the chief of a mountain stronghold, and I specialize in “poaching” famous generals. Xin Qiji was ordered to suppress bandits. I turned around and invited him to join us: “Sir, I’ve got farm tools that can double crop yields and powerful crossbows with a range of five hundred paces. All I’m missing is a leader!” He cursed me for treasonous audacity, until I took him to see the stronghold’
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