Novels like The Generals of Great Song
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- 1 A Commoner in the Late Ming 明末小平民 In the chaotic final years of the Ming, nine out of ten commoners perish, and the traditions of the Han people are on the verge of extinction. A modern small-business owner transmigrates into this era. To survive, to protect his loved ones, and to pursue the conviction in his heart, he must defy f 0Votes31.3kRecs39kFans
- 2 The Liaodong Holdout 辽东钉子户 There are fields and pastures, a river in front of the door, mountains behind, coal beneath the ground, and gold hidden in the valleys... The richest land, in the worst of times! The Qing, the Mongols, Emperor Zhu... None of them are taking my home! I'll be the toughest holdout and defend my homeland to the bitter end! (The author has completed several novels. Trustworthy and reliable, so feel free to add this to your collection.) 3Votes101.5kRecs85.9kFans
- 3 The Commoner Chancellor 寒门首辅 (This book was shortlisted for the 2016 Xingchuang Award in the Historical Fiction category!) In the fifth year of Hongzhi, Xu Pu was riding high as chief grand secretary, while Li Dongyang had just begun his career as an examiner for the metropolitan examination. Liu Jian had risen to become a Grand Secretary of the Wenyuan Pavilion, while Xie Qian had yet to join the cabinet and earn a reputation as a worthy minister. Yang Tinghe was ordered to help compile the Veritable Records of Emperor Xia 0Votes229kRecs98.1kFans
- 4 I Want to Become Grand Secretary 我要做首辅 In the thirtieth year of the Jiajing reign, the Daoist Emperor hid in the Western Garden, refining mercury and making elixirs, while Grand Secretary Yan Song racked his brains over a eulogy to the emperor. In the northwest, Altan Khan repeatedly rode toward the Central Plains. In the southeast, Japanese pirates had grown addicted to plunder. Zhang Juzheng tore at his hair over a piece of bootlicking prose. Qi Jiguang was still kneeling on a washboard. Li Shizhen quietly left the Imperial Medical 0Votes251.1kRecs151.1kFans
- 5 The Yang Clan: A Monument to Greatness 丰碑杨门 The eldest brother dies in his master’s place; the second falls in battle, powerless to turn the tide; the third rides his horse into the mud; the fourth is lost in the Liao realm; the fifth, in a fit of anger, becomes a monk; the seventh is pierced through the heart by a volley of arrows; the sixth goes alone to meet his elders... The Generals of the Yang Family: half a history of blood and tears. Loyal ministers bleed 0Votes74.4kRecs99.2kFans
- 6 The Splendor of the Great Song 大宋风华 Standing at the crossroads of history, Zhou Quan’s gaze grew resolute. For the people of Huaxia, descendants of Yan and Huang, he would seize this opportunity. As the tide swept through time, he would outshine the entire Song Dynasty! 0Votes123.4kRecs85kFans
- 7 A Science Prodigy in the Three Kingdoms 理科学霸的三国 A science student transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms era and somehow becomes Liu Zhang, Governor of Yi Province? The very watchdog Cao Cao talks about? Let's see me ask Lord Cao, “How's the whole family?” Let's see me take in all the heroes under heaven! (My new Three Kingdoms novel is now up.) 0Votes31.3kRecs48.1kFans
- 8 The Art of Ruling the World 明谋天下 In the twenty-first year of the Wanli era, Zhu Changluo left the imperial palace with his mother. No one cared about the fallen prince! He marches north to Liaodong, south to Jiangnan, pacifies the Mongols, and puts an end to factional strife. In the final golden age of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Changluo arrives with a song on his lips, vowing to make the Han realm endure for ten thousand generations! This realm is mine! No one will take it from me! 0Votes37kRecs68.8kFans
- 9 The Yu-Song Dynasty 余宋 Let’s try a new blurb, one that’s easier to understand. This is a story about a local boy, Little Gao Yanei, who gets a golden finger and runs riot in the final years of the Northern Song. It’s all one person’s wish fulfillment. If you like it, come explore the world with me. If you don’t, do whatever you want. You can even say I’ve run out of ideas. I’m no banknote, after all. That’ll do. Writing a blurb is exhausting… 0Votes138.8kRecs55.8kFans
- 10 Li Yi of Bingzhou 并州李义 From now on, I’ll slowly start uploading new chapters… Those who’ve read them, share your thoughts. 0Votes89.5kRecs76.2kFans
- 11 Competing for the Realm 江山争雄 The realm is picturesque, yet shattered to pieces. Warhorses charge beneath the banners, while smoke and fire mark the rise of heroes! This is the flourishing age of the Great Sui, a world of dazzling prosperity. And yet it is also a turbulent era, with flames of war raging across the land. Talented scholars and beautiful women, gallant heroines, poetry and song, courage and grace. Yang Su, Gao Ying, Pei Ju, Yu Shiji, Yuwen Shu, Li Mu: court intrigue and the vortex of great clans… Li Mi, Dou Jia 0Votes152.2kRecs139kFans
- 12 Striving in the Last Years of Hongwu 奋斗在洪武末年 The Northern Yuan were driven out, the realm was pacified, and the Hongwu Emperor was destined to die. With scholars at the helm and vassal princes watching like tigers, the campaign to abolish their fiefs and quell the Jingnan Rebellion forged a fearsome new Ming dynasty through fire, blood, and steel. An unemployed Embroidered Uniform Guard, a lowly nobody, holds a sword in his left hand and a hoe in his right: one sword to pacify the realm, one hoe to feed the people. This is the winding tale 0Votes501kRecs260.9kFans
- 13 The Eagle of Humble Origins 寒门枭士 Splendor is about to take its final bow, while a poor-born youth quietly rises. Striding across time and space, a brilliant strategist plots for the realm. 0Votes1.1MRecs270.4kFans
- 14 Pursuing the Dao Across Three Thousand Worlds 逐道三千界 Wandering through three thousand worlds, pursuing the Dao throughout the cosmos, progressing from martial arts to the Dao Traveling through countless worlds: is it fate, or coincidence? 2Votes46.4kRecs70.7kFans
- 15 The Great Song Butcher 大宋好屠夫 Poetry and the Blade is signed and uploading. You won’t be disappointed. Zheng Zhi transmigrated to the Northern Song world of Water Margin and became Zheng the Butcher, the very man Lu Tixia beat to death with three punches. In the final years of the Northern Song, war raged across the land and heroes vied for supremacy as China fell into decline. It was a time for heroes to make their mark. The grudges and loyalties of Water Margin, the good and the evil, the faithful and the treacherous: thei 0Votes596.2kRecs189.1kFans
- 16 Tending the Tang Dynasty 牧唐 A modern man returns to the early Tang dynasty. He knows how to farm. He knows how to raise horses. He is also a veterinarian. Under the flap of his butterfly wings, the Tang dynasty’s golden age arrives ahead of schedule. The Zhenguan-era anthem begins to ring out early. The Tang dynasty’s agriculture and animal husbandry also reach unprecedented heights. 0Votes464kRecs226.8kFans
- 17 The Emperor Taizong Era's Imperial Tutor 贞观帝师 I dreamed of the Zhenguan era and surveyed a thousand years of history. The Han and Tang dynasties stood in all their pride and splendor, yet in the end, neither could escape collapse and division. The foreign tribes’ iron hooves shattered Chang’an, and all of Huaxia was laid waste. The carved rails and jade steps remain, but the faces of old have changed. This endless sorrow, when will it ever end? I wish I could trample the heavens and turn the world upside down. So be it. Let me return to Cha 0Votes68.1kRecs119.1kFans
- 18 Wanli 1592 万历1592 There are too many mysteries in this world that remain unsolved, and are destined to stay that way. For instance, Xiao Ruxun has no idea how he traveled back from the apocalypse to the Great Ming dynasty, five hundred years earlier. The twentieth year of the Wanli reign was the best of times and the worst of times. With just sixty years left until the empire falls, the final chance to set things right is within reach. Conquer the northwest, Korea, and Mongolia. The three great campaigns of the W 3Votes167.3kRecs196.2kFans
- 19 Zhao of the Warring States 战国赵为王 A soul from two thousand years in the future transmigrates into the body of King Xiaocheng of Zhao, Dan, in 260 BC. To escape the fate of becoming a stepping stone for Qin Shi Huang's unification of the realm, Zhao Dan decides he might as well take the burden of unifying the realm onto his own shoulders. But before that, Zhao Dan has an urgent problem to deal with. The decisive moment of the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao is at hand. So should Zhao Kuo replace Lian Po or not? QQ reader 0Votes189.3kRecs166.6kFans
- 20 My Neighbor Is the Emperor 我的邻居是皇帝 Ye Hua saves a prince, and from then on earns the favor of the sages and lives next door to the royal family, watching the winds of change... Guo Wei said: "I was buried in a simple coffin, with a modest funeral. My lifelong frugality deserves praise. Though my reign was not long, I laid a solid foundation for the dynasty." Chai Rong said: "Give me ten years to conquer the realm, ten years to provide for the people, and ten years to bring peace. That will be enough!" Zhao Kuangyin said: "With th 0Votes205.1kRecs150.4kFans
- 21 Doomsday Lord 末日领主 The apocalypse descends, mountains and rivers crumble, and the world is completely gamified. What's more, it's a game that combines city-building, adventure, and everyday life. Cheng Yang, who spent a whole year barely surviving the apocalypse, is reborn two days before it arrives. Watch as he turns Heaven and Earth into a game board and cities into pieces, playing out a very different war against the apocalypse. P.S. Two chapters every day, at 12 noon and 7 p.m. If the support is strong, there' 0Votes84.4kRecs163.7kFans
- 22 The Entertainment Industry's Big Mouth 娱乐大喷子 Born in a parallel world where entertainment is booming, Mo Zhuosi finds that most productions are shoddily made and terribly low in quality. As a result, critics have become an enormously popular profession. From that day on, Mo Zhuosi swears to heaven that he will never lie again. To his superiors, the media, and online commenters, he speaks his honest thoughts. “If the judges weren’t out of their minds, how did The Tomb Raider get nominated for an Oscar?” “You say this is a singing variety sh 0Votes80.8kRecs44.3kFans
- 23 The Splendor of the Tang Dynasty 大唐风华路 After transmigrating, Han Yue becomes Li Shimin's illegitimate son, though he has no idea who he really is. He has a wife, a few acres of farmland, and a habit of inventing things in his spare time. Little by little, he builds up a miserable village. Han Yue thinks this life is pretty good. If no one bothered him, he'd be happy to live this way forever. But every man has to grow up, and even a nobody can gradually become somebody. With every gesture, he seems destined to reach the summit. Time i 0Votes781.6kRecs391.4kFans
- 24 The Great Merchants of the World 天下豪商 During the Yuanyou era of the Great Song, the painter Wu Hao arrived in the prosperous realm of the Zhao dynasty. As he walked the bustling streets of Bianliang, as vivid as a scene from Along the River During the Qingming Festival, Wu Hao thought of what would happen 29 years later: the Jurchen cavalry would sweep south and utterly destroy this flourishing age, ablaze with prosperity. But what could an ordinary commoner do to save a collapsing empire, even if he knew disaster was coming? Wu 0Votes456.4kRecs111.6kFans
- 25 Make My Name Known Across the Land 明扬天下 In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, the land was truly in chaos: hooves fell like rain, shouts rolled like thunder, and blood poured in torrents. The Central Plains’ mothers grayed with worry; in the spring boudoirs of Jiangnan, women gazed into the distance; in Hunan, children wept through the night. Farewells beneath the willows of their hometowns, generals’ eyes blazing with fury, and war banners snapping in the northern wind. Clouds of dust rose one after another as the land of Huaxi 0Votes463kRecs230.9kFans
- 26 Reborn as Emperor of the Ming Dynasty 重生明朝当皇帝 In the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, the late Ming dynasty is in decline. Having possessed Zhu Youxiao, I am gravely ill and clinging to life. Once I recover, I will purge the Donglin faction, wipe out the Shanxi merchants, strengthen imperial authority, and claim the throne. If not me, then who? I will build industry, train a powerful army, and guide the arts. Watch the iron tide roll across the northern frontier, and behold flowers blooming across the lands within the passes. Tears of beau 0Votes82.5kRecs178.3kFans
- 27 A Great Landowner in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝好地主 Zhang Chao transmigrates to the fourth year of Wude and arrives at Bashang, outside Chang’an, where he becomes the son of a veteran soldier. But all he wants is to be a laid-back, prosperous landlord in the Tang Dynasty! (Recipient of the 2016 Xingchuang Award for Excellence in Historical Fiction!) 0Votes609.8kRecs501.3kFans
- 28 Song of Everlasting Joy 长乐歌 A century of history, yet sorrow still abounds; I remember the Marquis of Changle from long ago. His hall was fragrant with flowers and thronged by three thousand guests; one sword’s frost chilled fifty provinces! Does Heaven know the ills of this mortal world? The green hills laugh at me, while the clouds beckon. I breathe in a beauty’s fragrance among the flowers, and beneath the moon I lightly sever my enemies’ heads! Victory, defeat, gratitude, and vengeance, all poured into a heart-rending 0Votes520.2kRecs169.5kFans
- 29 The Great Literary Master 大文豪 After years of backstabbing in the cutthroat world of business and double-dealing over drinks, literary young man Chen Kaizhi returned to ancient times. Everywhere he looked, he saw song houses and taverns, glittering nightlife, talented scholars, and beautiful women. Well, none of that had anything to do with Chen Kaizhi for the time being. He was a poor young man with an awkward status. Watch as this penniless youth turns the tables and makes his way toward becoming a great literary master. 0Votes542.8kRecs290.3kFans
- 30 The Three Kingdoms: Zhongmou’s World 三国之仲谋天下 Sun Zhongmou: “This is a chaotic age, and no one is free to choose their own fate. I want a warm family and a life of freedom, yet I’m burdened with the fate of all under Heaven!” 0Votes57.5kRecs80.6kFans
- 31 Splendid Tang 天唐锦绣 Transmigration can be a lot of fun, but when Fang Jun transmigrated into the body of his Tang dynasty namesake, a man practically glowing green from head to toe, he felt like his whole life had gone wrong... 23Votes1.4MRecs761kFans
- 32 The Autocrat of the Ming Dynasty 独断大明 The protagonist is the sixth son of the Ming Emperor Guangzong. He decides he can't let the future Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian, ascend the throne. So he shouts in the Forbidden City: I want to be emperor! New novel: Song Dynasty's Elegant Years. 1Votes527.2kRecs459.7kFans
- 33 A Laid-Back Early Tang Dynasty 懒散初唐 In the fifth year of Wude, the Tang dynasty has just been founded. Li Yuan stays in his harem, surrounded by beautiful women, enjoying the hard-won fruits of victory. Li Jiancheng is busy consolidating his position as Crown Prince, while Li Shimin covets his elder brother’s throne. The generals are busy waging war, the ministers are busy governing the country, the merchants are busy trading with foreign merchants, and the farmers are busy reclaiming wasteland… Amid all this hustle and bustle, Li 0Votes329.5kRecs449.1kFans
- 34 The Son of Heaven at the End of the Han Dynasty 汉末天子 He travels through time and space, returning in spirit to the end of the Han Dynasty. Waking up as an emperor sounds pretty good, except his circumstances are nothing like what he was promised. Outside, warlords have carved up the realm, and the land lies in ruins. Inside, treacherous ministers hold him hostage, leaving him no freedom. Liu Xie feels the pressure. To change his tragic fate and enjoy the 0Votes349.9kRecs234.8kFans
- 35 The Han Songs of the Boundless Wind 长风万里尽汉歌 0Votes247.2kRecs120.5kFans
- 36 Heavenly Janitor 天庭清洁工 The lower realm was severely polluted, and its spiritual ley lines had been all but destroyed. As a result, no one had ascended to immortality for centuries. The immortals of old either rose through the accumulation of merit or retired when they reached a certain age. This had left Heaven desperately short of low-level staff. No one wanted to take on the lowest-ranking cleaning jobs, and many parts of Heaven were covered in rubbish and dust. To preserve Heaven’s appearance and reputation, and ea 0Votes248.3kRecs213.4kFans
- 37 Engineer in the Late Ming Dynasty 明末工程师 Li Zhi, an industrial designer, transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty. No money? Build a flying-shuttle loom and make a fortune in no time. Can’t stand the filthy conditions of the late Ming? Invent soap and toothpaste to clean up the whole dynasty! Peasant rebellions? Life is cheap in chaotic times? Bastions of concrete will keep you safe! The Manchus are marching south, leaving devastation in their wake? Let’s see who dares say no when they face my rifles! Everything within range of my cannon 11Votes480.1kRecs319.6kFans
- 38 I’m a Duke in the Ming Dynasty 我在明朝当国公 0Votes493.3kRecs205.3kFans
- 39 A Thousand Autumns for the Young Master 公子千秋 After a devastating fire, Yue Qianqiu was taken home by Old Master Yue, a man of humble origins with a house full of descendants. In this world, there were powerful clans and scholars who fancied themselves noble and righteous. There were also martial circles and sects unwilling to live at the mercy of the imperial court. Scholars used their words to undermine the law, while heroes used their martial arts to defy its prohibitions. Conflict and excitement went hand in hand, as did opportunity and 0Votes717.5kRecs176kFans
- 40 The Northern Ode 北颂 Kou Ji’s soul transmigrates to the Northern Song Dynasty, where he becomes the great-grandson of Kou Zhun, the legendary prime minister. As the son of a third-generation official, he should have been riding horses and hawks, living the most brazen life of a spoiled heir. But after he arrives in the capital, Bianjing, with a letter from his dirt-cheap father inviting him to come enjoy the good life, he discovers... His grandfather, Kou Zhun, seems to be in trouble! 3Votes468.3kRecs475.5kFans
- 41 Tiger Summoner of the Late Han Dynasty 汉末召虎 In the sixth year of Zhongping, Emperor Ling died and a new emperor took the throne. The Ten Attendants rebelled, General-in-Chief He Jin was killed, and Dong Zhuo of Liangzhou marched into the capital and deposed the emperor. Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and the other generals fled and raised troops in Guandong. Zhang Zhaohu, who seemed easygoing and careless, became Zhang Liao and plunged straight into the wolves' den, making his way under Dong Zhuo. With such low birth and such a terrible reputation, 0Votes200.6kRecs112kFans
- 42 Fan Jin's Ordinary Life 范进的平凡生活 Transported into the world of The Scholars, I become Fan Jin in his younger days. Ha, I passed! 0Votes151.9kRecs83kFans
- 43 The Song Dynasty's Most Notorious Young Scion 大宋的最强纨绔子弟 Reborn as the son of Gao Taiwei, a treacherous minister. He thought the life he'd longed for was about to begin, but then he asked around and found out that Lin Chong from Water Margin had already been framed and thrown in prison. Besides that, there was a wastrel determined to turn over a new leaf, along with plenty of other catastrophes to deal with... The new novel, Back to Field: Reborn in 1993, is now out. 0Votes394.4kRecs403.1kFans
- 44 The Clan Leader Has a Lot on His Plate 族长压力大 Some debts always have to be repaid. The sins committed by the first generation of transmigrators, for instance, can only be borne by the second. Gui Chongyang, a second-generation transmigrator, returns to Mu Family Village and sets out on the path to becoming clan head. Where are the legendary main and collateral branches, the clan elders, and the clan lands? There is a house: three thatched rooms. There is land: two mu of saline-alkali flats. And there are people: a houseful of old and young, 0Votes231.4kRecs86.8kFans
- 45 A Good Uncle in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝好舅子 The Tang dynasty is a poem, and Chang'an is a painting of beauty. A struggling writer transmigrates to the Tang dynasty. In this age of prosperity, the Tang gains one more country bumpkin, a little nobody who will make the world tremble. The civilization of the Tang shines like the sun upon every land beneath its light. 0Votes172.9kRecs159.9kFans
- 46 Replacing the Han Dynasty 代汉 Ye Zhao transmigrated from the apocalypse to the late Han era, when the Yellow Turbans were about to rise. As the sole heir of a third-rate aristocratic family, Ye Zhao declared that this level of pressure was nothing to worry about. He had no golden finger. In his previous life, he had been a regional hegemon. Now that he had arrived in an age when heroes were rising everywhere, how could he live an ordinary life? Sin 0Votes187.6kRecs151.9kFans
- 47 My Little Farmstead in 1978 我的1978小农庄 A small farm opens in a mountain village far from the noise of the city. Here, there is Moutai that costs more than ten yuan a bottle after aging for seven or eight years, and Wuliangye that costs seven or eight yuan. Organic vegetables, organic fish and shrimp, organic boiled mutton, all green, eco-friendly, and delicious. A failed, middle-aged divorced man turns around and becomes the leisurely owner of a farm. The small mountain-village farm becomes famous far and wide. Slippers, undershirt, 8Votes866.3kRecs407.4kFans
- 48 The Carefree Tang Dynasty 唐朝小闲人 A master of the Thousand Gates is inexplicably transported by a bolt of lightning to the fourth year of the Yonghui era in the Tang Dynasty. From then on, one enormous lie after another makes the whole world dance to his tune. Whether it’s Emperor Gaozong, who has only recently taken the throne, Changsun Wuji, who currently wields immense power, or Wu Zetian, who will one day become the greatest empress in history. “The truth is painful, reality is cruel, and honesty hurts. So I tried to let the 0Votes925.1kRecs420kFans
- 49 Disciplining the Song Dynasty 调教大宋 In the sixth year of Qingli, the Zhao Song dynasty was awash in song and dance. Then a madman arrived… He saw with his own eyes the Great Song's splendor, grace, and warmth. At first, Tang Yi just wanted to enjoy this era. The Jingkang Incident, the Mongol cavalry, none of it had anything to do with him. History would follow its own course, no matter how much he meddled. A thousand years later, China would still be China! It couldn't fall! But when an old man, worried for his country and its 2Votes1.2MRecs990.3kFans
- 50 The Sword Saint of the Flourishing Tang 盛唐剑圣 The Three Wonders of the High Tang: Li Bai’s poetry, Zhang Xu’s cursive calligraphy, and Pei Min’s swordsmanship. A Chinese literature student transmigrates into the one and only Pei Min, the sword saint officially recognized by the state. With a three-foot green blade, he is invincible beneath heaven. He reaches up to the highest heavens and the vast universe, and forges the poetry of the High Tang anew. 0Votes300.2kRecs255.8kFans
