Fate's Choice

I saw someone asked about the fact that after the heroine ascended the throne as a woman, the throne was still passed on to her son instead of her daughter. Some people replied that it was because only the son changed his surname to Sun. However, after reading the book, I found that the heroine had no intention of training her daughter to ascend the throne from the beginning. In fact, Jia Tianxia was originally a product of the development of a patriarchal society to a certain extent, and China's thousands of years of history have been devoted to maintaining this product. It is inherently more difficult for a woman to inherit a family than for a man. She will have to give up government affairs for a period of time because she is pregnant in October, and there is also the risk of giving birth. Such dangers are very dangerous for a country with a family. If the queen dies in childbirth, the court will be in turmoil. And if you want to start the inheritance of the heroine, the first few heroines must be very great monarchs, because a little mistake will make others think that the heroine is not good, and the family should be inherited by men. This requires high quality for the queen. If it is a daughter who inherits, it will cause a great burden on her. Therefore, the family world is not suitable for the female protagonist to inherit. However, no matter what, neither of the author's two books shows the intention of the heroine to pass on the inheritance. The selected heirs are all men. It seems that the author himself does not have this idea. It must be said that I am personally quite disappointed. I think Sun Lu's children have equal rights to pursue the throne. Although the pressure to implement this in the article will be great. In an environment dominated by men in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, both the emperor himself and the princess chasing the throne will be under a lot of pressure. However, I still have illusions and hope that in the next book, the female heir will have the opportunity to compete for the throne.

Can the author update the Feng Chuan Can Han...

I have read all the non-fictional historical hegemony themes about female characters, and this one is far and away the top one in my mind. The historical quality of this book is far superior to other novels of the same type. It is not limited to historical materials that support the background. The author truly has his own historical views and thinking. From the moment of its birth, capitalism has exuded blood and sin from every pore. The heroine's country is also a colonizer, enslaving colonies, using war to allow weak countries to trade, plundering raw materials and markets, and becoming an economic hegemon to exploit and control other countries within its sphere of influence. The heroine's empire was built on the blood and tears of weak countries. While I am excited about China's move toward hegemony, I feel sad for this cruel era. The title of this article is so appropriate, The Destiny of Destiny. It is not just the heroine who makes the choice, she is just the guide, pointing a direction, and everyone in that era is adapting to this era in their own way. Their choices are put together to make a destiny choice for the country and even the entire world. It is very detailed and true to see how if China started capitalism from the late Ming Dynasty, the other path of history would develop at that turning point. After reading this, I will really imagine how this country will develop in the future. An old capitalist country based on Chinese tradition, a country that has been a world power for thousands of years, a country with a sense of super superiority and racial discrimination, a country with deep-rooted ideas of imperial power, how long can it continue to be a world hegemon, how can it obtain the soul of democracy in the opposition between imperial power and democracy, how can it face the wave of decolonization, and what kind of world order will it affect?

The story is very interesting, but I don't understand why the heroine's children don't have the same surname as the heroine. First the king and his ministers, then the husband and wife. Even if the old idea of ​​men being superior to women exists in ancient times, the king is greater than his ministers. Moreover, it is much harder for a woman to carry a child in ten months than for a man. Why should the child have to bear the father's surname? This is also a remnant of the old feudal ideology. In the end, after struggling for a long time, the heroine took advantage of the Yang family and was promoted from a relative to a royal family. If the heroine has a good relationship with her husband, she can adopt a child to her husband in the future. I simply don't understand where I have wronged my husband. This is because everyone is going in the wrong direction. If a person goes in the right direction due to various circumstances, he is said to have been wronged. There is nothing to feel aggrieved and guilty about doing the right thing. Only when you do something wrong can you feel aggrieved and guilty. (Grief refers to the male protagonist, guilt refers to the female protagonist)

"Decision of Destiny" is currently the most popular, clichéd and therefore the most mixed "time travel" online novel. The so-called "time travel" has actually existed for a long time, and it is the "time travel" that is very common in science fiction themes. However, the "time travel" in hard science fiction can never change existing historical events, while the popular "time travel" in online novels is precisely aimed at changing history, so this type of writing called "alternative history" has emerged. The particularity of the long glorious history of the Chinese nation intertwined with a century-old history of humiliation has made the theme of changing China's history of humiliation and shaping the history of a powerful nation the most common type of "alternative history." This kind of novels that take it as their own duty to rewrite history are too obscene and are usually superficial. However, from another perspective, such novels can often clearly reflect the author's views and attitudes towards a certain period of history. Which era he has traveled to and what he intends to change after traveling through time are the author's attitude toward history and politics. The first element of a time-travel novel with a certain depth is that the author must have his own historical concepts, the so-called "travel person's consciousness." The protagonist may "travel" unconsciously, but the author looks at history consciously. "The Decision of Destiny" begins with the first explanation in the first chapter: "According to history, next year, Li Zicheng will capture Luoyang, and Zhang Xianzhong will lead his army out of Sichuan into Chu and capture Xiangyang... After that, Prince Rui of the Manchu Qing Dynasty Dorgon will lead troops to attack Jinzhou. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng occupied Beijing, and Zhu Youjian hanged himself in Meishan in the Ming Dynasty. The dynasty was destroyed. Then Wu Sangui led the Qing troops into the pass, and Li Zicheng was defeated. Instead of fighting against the invaders, Zhu Yousong actively fought for power. Then on the 10th of the Yangzhou period, the Manchu Qing Dynasty issued the hair-cutting order, and the Qing Dynasty's closed-door policy began. China was isolated from the world and missed the opportunity of the Industrial Revolution. It was not until the Opium War broke out in 1844 that China's gates were opened by the great powers and territory was ceded for compensation. From then on, China entered the humiliating century... Japanese aggression and the Nanjing Massacre. In a sense, Japan was learning from the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time. The current situation is so similar to that of three hundred years later. It can be said that the disaster and humiliation of the Chinese nation started from now on." This exposition at least shows the author's two historical views: a strong attack on the isolation policy and a strong dislike of the Qing Dynasty's alien rule (even comparing the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty). At the end of the first chapter, the author writes, "Perhaps Le Hai didn't know how important the 1640 was about to pass. In this year, Britain completed the bourgeois revolution. 1640 Was the watershed between ancient history and modern history. After today, the world will enter modern history. That is, from this time on, European countries began to leave China far behind." He also bluntly stated the main pursuit of the novel. Because it is a rare female author and female protagonist, rather than a romance time travel, "The Decision of Destiny" is a novel that I pay close attention to and like very much. Although I consider myself not a nationalist, let alone a Han nationalist, I particularly like the grand perspective and broad narrative style of this article that are rarely possessed by female authors. In addition, in terms of readability and vividness of the novel, I think this article is also outstanding among similar subjects. Of course, no matter how ambitious the goal is, the current primitive accumulation of capital is the first challenge that time-travelers cannot avoid, and it is usually the most difficult part to write about. After all, everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is not difficult to make money with money. How to dig out your first pot of gold is the real test. "Decision of Destiny" is no exception. Generally speaking, this article becomes more mature as it is written later. The initial accumulation of the protagonist at the beginning - in the author's own words - is a bit like an RPG game. Success comes too easily and it will inevitably become blunt and superficial. However, since time is running out, the protagonist must complete the "leveling up" as soon as possible to obtain a ticket to enter the "stage of history". Such hasty writing is also a last resort. In fact, the way to dig out the first pot of gold is very important, because from this key decision we can basically get a glimpse of almost all the political ideas of the protagonist (actually the author). Quite different from the protagonist of "New Song Dynasty" who took the path of cultural fame, the protagonist Sun Lu of "The Decision of Destiny" followed the typical hard power route, and this also established the overall concept of the book: mercantilism, military power, overseas colonial plunder, and parliamentary democracy constitute the four pillars of a primary capitalist country in the author's mind.

Why are there no later chapters?

I have read all the non-fictional historical hegemony themes about female characters, and this one is far and away the top one in my mind. The historical quality of this book is far superior to other novels of the same type. It is not limited to historical materials that support the background. The author truly has his own historical views and thinking. From the moment of its birth, capitalism has exuded blood and sin from every pore. The heroine's country is also a colonizer, enslaving colonies, using war to allow weak countries to trade, plundering raw materials and markets, and becoming an economic hegemon to exploit and control other countries within its sphere of influence. The heroine's empire was built on the blood and tears of weak countries. While I am excited about China's move toward hegemony, I feel sad for this cruel era. The title of this article is so appropriate, The Destiny of Destiny. It is not just the heroine who makes the choice, she is just the guide, pointing a direction, and everyone in that era is adapting to this era in their own way. Their choices are put together to make a destiny choice for the country and even the entire world. It is very detailed and true to see how if China started capitalism from the late Ming Dynasty, the other path of history would develop at that turning point. After reading this, I will really imagine how this country will develop in the future. An old capitalist country based on Chinese tradition, a country that has been a world power for thousands of years, a country with a sense of super superiority and racial discrimination, a country with deep-rooted ideas of imperial power, how long can it continue to be a world hegemon, how can it obtain the soul of democracy in the opposition between imperial power and democracy, how can it face the wave of decolonization, and what kind of world order will it affect?

First of all, the author's use of punctuation is really uncomfortable, and I almost had a heart attack while reading it. Secondly, the writing style is too shallow, like a newbie. It's actually pretty good, but I read the book review first and then the article, and there was a psychological gap.

Big big, I am your fan! ! ! ! I started reading your book "The Phoenix Crosses the Remnant" many years ago, but you were too slow to update it, so I later added the book "Your Destiny". I accidentally saw this book on JJ's website today. I thought someone plagiarized it, because I remember you were reading it. I didn't expect that it was ten years ago that I really grew up! Oh my God! ! ! Damn, I regret that I only found you now, look at me, look at me! I was so excited that I almost cried!

Looking at the above four pillars, mercantilism, military strength, overseas colonization, and parliamentary democracy, it is an indisputable fact that the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Chinese Dynasty created by the author have a Protestant tendency. Of course, this tendency comes from the protagonist's conscious awareness, and the protagonist's tendency obviously comes from "the country of later generations that was born out of Protestantism and almost covered the sky with one hand." The story of Nan Ju and Bei Zhi is a topic of debate to this day, and "The Choice of Destiny" is no exception. Therefore, the conflict and struggle, compromise and reconciliation between Western civilization and traditional Chinese culture are also important contents throughout the novel. The first level of the conflict is a technical conflict, such as the "Sang and Rice Controversy" section in the novel. Sun Lu, out of a strong impression of the historical and progressive significance of the British "Enclosure Movement", acquiesced to the chaebol group's "Sang and Rice Conflict" and "Cotton Conflict for Grain Fields" in an attempt to promote the capitalist labor force. The formation of the market, however, ignored the differences in farming methods and agricultural structures between China and the UK. As a result, not only did the rural labor force fail to flow into the market, but the half-mulberry and half-rice farming method attracted a large number of laborers to return to the countryside, constraining the labor force and causing a large reduction in grain production. Historical events of similar nature occurred under similar historical backgrounds, but due to the different agricultural structures in China and the West, the results were completely different. This is indeed a very interesting example. Problems at the technical level are easy to solve, but conflicts at the cultural level are difficult to reconcile. The latter is expressed in two levels. One is the conflict between the reformers and the scholars. The author is obviously very dissatisfied with the performance of the traditional literati represented by the Donglin Party members in this historical period. Therefore, the solution of the novel is to first place this conflict at the critical moment of national survival, so that it can be effective. The rapid materialism and martial spirit were at an innate advantage in this conflict. In the face of a lost land and suffering people, the Three Guidelines and Five Constant Rules seemed out of date, and adhering to etiquette seemed a bit ridiculous. This was also proved by the history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, when the "Troubled Times" entered the "Peaceful Times", it became more difficult and unwise to continue to confront the scholars. The solution at this time was to find like-minded people among the scholars as spokespersons. The novel mainly used the spontaneous popular sentiments of local Chinese people at that time. The main trend of thought is the native primary democratic thought represented by the "three major thinkers of the late Ming Dynasty" Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, and Wang Fuzhi, in order to strive for the localization of democratic concepts; secondly, it is to create an atmosphere of "a hundred schools of thought contending", specifically the Guangdong Yunshan School and the and the dispute between the "contract theory" of the Taizhou School of Yangming Studies and the "giant spirit theory" of the Donglin Party of Jiangnan Confucianism; and then the use of the power of the "superior" to guide. The theoretical basis is that Confucianism originally only talked about ethics and morals, and had no idea of the origin of all things in the universe. The interpretation of Confucian classics, Neo-Confucianism, and Xinxue in the past dynasties all used other theories to supplement Confucianism. Therefore, the Confucian "law of all times" itself is invisible. What really determines its shape is the mind of the superior. Confucianism can change with the situation, whatever the superior prefers. Obviously this view of Confucianism also reflects to some extent the author's disdain for the dispute between doctrines and his pragmatism. The second level of cultural conflict is the deeper incompatibility between foreign models and local cultural accumulation, which is how the universal values ​​we often talk about now adapt to Chinese characteristics. If democratic consciousness cannot truly take root in the hearts of the people, then the parliamentary system transplanted from the West can only be a soulless body. It is extremely difficult for ideas such as "natural human rights" that do not belong to this country and this era to sprout in this autocratic land. It is even more impossible for the civilizational concepts developed in the West to take root in Chinese culture in the span of decades in the novel. But even so, the novel still has to unswervingly create that "body". Maybe this "body" does not have a "noble soul" now, but as long as it has "primitive desires", it is like making Kung Fu tea. Although you don't drink the first cup, you can wash the tea and leave the fragrance, and this is enough to complete the "historical mission" of traveling through time. In fact, the second volume of the novel also implies a third level of conflict, which is a problem caused by the shortcomings of Western civilization itself. For this, the protagonist has lost the reference from history, so he can only cross the river by feeling the stones. Can the ills of Western civilization be "saved" by Eastern civilization? The novel raises questions but does not provide answers. "The Decision of Destiny" can be called a masterpiece among online novels, with more than three million words in total; this article has more than 6,000 words, which can be regarded as a kind of support for this article that I love.