Novels like The Winds Rise in North America, 1625
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- 1 The Taiping Army in the Late Ming Dynasty 太平军在明末 A peasant uprising steeped in religious fervor is the most viable way to solve the problems of the late Ming dynasty. The story of Liu Changde, the True Mandate's Heavenly King of the Taiping Way, makes a forceful case for this. To be fair, *manually raises dogeza* 0Votes16.8kRecs34.1kFans
- 2 Director: From Scraping Credits to a Legend of the Silver Screen 导演：从混学分开始到影坛传奇 Chen Ze, who has a film and television library from the future at his fingertips, originally wanted to become a director and bring all those great movies to life. But then he discovered that his first problem wasn't how to make a movie. With too few credits, he was about to be expelled from school. So, after meeting Anne Hathaway, he had a sudden inspiration: why not make a movie to earn enough credits, and while he was at it, persuade Anne to star as his leading lady? And so Chen Ze embarked on 251Votes15.7kRecs136.5kFans
- 3 The Ming Dynasty’s Black Sails 大明黑帆 That year, European civilization, laden with silver, silk, and gunpowder, collided in a blaze of passion amid the black tides and monsoon winds. That year, after the disastrous defeat at Sarhu, the Ming Dynasty saw two emperors die in quick succession, leaving the empire battered by storms. For the world, this was the golden age of exploration. For the Ming, it was a golden age of factional strife. In this age of great upheaval, Lin Qian quietly arrived in the Ming Dynasty and became a pirate. W 1.3kVotes104.7kRecs384.8kFans
- 4 From Knockoff Golf Carts to Industrial Hegemon 从山寨老头乐，到工业霸主 (An industrial novel about automotive technology and supply chains, with a late-game explosion of cutting-edge tech) Xu Yi woke up reborn in 2015. It was an era of industrial transformation and the explosive rise of new energy. He took over an obscure car company that had been obsolete from the moment it started, and went against the tide as domestic automakers struggled and industry underwent a seismic shift! Staring at the cheat ability that had suddenly appeared, Xu Yi fell into deep thought. 3Votes155.1kRecs372.4kFans
- 5 Launching a Crusade Against the Pope 向教皇发动十字军 Besides having a younger brother named Hong Xiuquan, Jesus the Heavenly Elder Brother also had a brother named Gareth. Jesus took three days to resurrect. Gareth took only three minutes. The Romans pinned Jesus to a cross for six hours. Gareth spent six hours bringing about the de-urbanization of Rome. Jesus said: “The Kingdom of Heaven belongs only to those who share their wealth equally with the poor.” Gareth said: “In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, everything is shared equally, and nothing is 1Votes42.7kRecs132.7kFans
- 6 The Age of Anomalies 异常纪元 The laws of physics are dying, and the world is becoming a draft gone mad. Everything we know as common sense is slowly failing. Sudden cancer, a whale carcass on a mountaintop, snake eyes on the highway… As reality falls apart, can reason lead us to the end? 6Votes27kRecs98.7kFans
- 7 EN America: The Godfather of Game Development 美利坚：游戏制作教父 Lin Lixin transmigrated to Los Angeles in 1984. That year, North America's gaming hegemon Atari collapsed. That year, the new king, Nintendo, held the Famicom in its hands and was full of ambition. It was the darkest day in video game history, but it was also Lin Lixin's opportunity. From Tetris to Minecraft, from Civilization to Hearts of Iron; that year, Lin Lixin punched Nintendo, kicked Sega, and scared Sony, which had not yet entered the market, into trembling... "On my business card, I am 725Votes49kRecs199.5kFans
- 8 The Coach Is a Beast 教练凶猛 (A League of Legends esports novel) Li Shu, a celebrated player in a parallel world, transmigrates to 2016. Apart from League of Legends itself, everything is unfamiliar to him: the major regions and every single player. With a completely blank resume, the first problem Li Shu has to face is... finding a job. 499Votes67.8kRecs307.6kFans
- 9 Game Development: Starting with a Reboot of an Anime Game 游戏制作：从重铸二次元游戏开始 2015: an era when even pigs could take flight. That year, the anime game boom began as a tiny ripple. Over the next few years, familiar names like Honkai Impact 3rd, Arknights, Azur Lane, and Punishing: Gray Raven would rise alongside a wave of new companies and take their places on the stage of history. That year, China's single-player games were still stumbling forward in confusion, huddled in the fading afterglow of The Legend of Sword and Fairy and Gujian, desperately waiting for someone to 129Votes67.4kRecs182.3kFans
- 10 The Ming Dynasty, 1627 大明王朝1627 In 1627, in the Ming Dynasty, pig iron cost 9 wen per jin, wheat cost 0.7 taels per shi, and millet cost 0.5 taels per shi. In 1627, the Ming central government collected roughly 10 million taels of silver and 4 million shi of grain tax. Local revenues from corvee levies, militia levies, community levies, and relay-station levies amounted to around 10,000 to 20,000 taels of silver per county. In 1627, the population was around 150 to 200 million, still far short of the 400 million it would reach 32Votes223kRecs810.3kFans
- 11 Psychics Don't Die by Gunfire 灵能者不死于枪火 Song Shi, a free bounty hunter and Fourth-Ring psionic, opened his eyes after dying and discovered that he had been reborn twenty years in the past. The megacorporations of the [Corporate Alliance] look down on all living beings, taking even air and sunlight into their hands and quietly putting a price on them. They are turning the idea of a cybernetic nation into reality, greedily eyeing the free markets they have yet to enter. The [Vanpusta Empire] follows a system in which church and state ar 31Votes103.7kRecs407.9kFans
- 12 EN The AI Wave Tycoon's Rise 首富从AI浪潮开始 [Entrepreneurship] [Business Battles] [Internet] [Artificial Intelligence] [Smart Protagonist] On the day you get laid off, your eyes suddenly gain the ability to see information that no one else can. What would you do? Catch the trap in your severance agreement on the spot, then give your former supervisor, who set you up, a taste of face-slapping. What next? Han Lu Yi, a top university graduate who spent several years grinding away at a major tech company, takes his severance pay and decides t 1.8kVotes111.1kRecs405.7kFans
- 13 The Struggle for the Throne in the Jiajing Era 夺嫡在嘉靖朝 In the twenty-eighth year of the Jiajing reign of the Great Ming, the Crown Prince died, leaving the succession vacant. The struggle between Prince Yu and Prince Jing would determine countless lives, fortunes, and reputations. On one side stood Zhu Zaiji, Prince Yu, first in line by age. Backed by the court’s upright officials and invoking ancestral precedent, he was regarded by the scholarly world as the obvious choice for Crown Prince. On the other stood Zhu Zaizhen, Prince Jing. With Grand Se 887Votes132.3kRecs446.7kFans
- 14 A Journey to the Ming 旅明 Cao Chuan used to shuttle local goods back and forth between the late Ming Dynasty and the modern era all by himself. Then one day, he discovered that even living people could be transported! It’s time to gather a team of ace soldiers, top students, CEOs, and miracle doctors, and head to the late Ming to conquer the world! After that, a bunch of good-for-nothings, unemployed drifters, construction contractors, and even slipper sellers are sent away in succession. There’s no choice. These people 0Votes302.6kRecs75.8kFans
- 15 What's Wrong with One More Person Getting Rich Later? 多我一个后富怎么了 He started out studying medicine but never practiced, then sold TVs, ran into Zhou Huihui, and moved into the sharing economy, where deposits went unrepaid. Next came real estate, where he found some success. At last, he picked a prime property, but never got to top it out… In 2008, Yu Xing woke from a dream to find himself back on the eve of the financial crisis, with his investments in the red. That was the year industry giants took shape and capital awoke. He could only struggle to build his 1.7kVotes1MRecs885.5kFans
- 16 The Sword Emerges from the Tang Dynasty 剑出大唐 Zhou Yi woke up to find himself in the Taiping Daoist Temple. The Old Heavenly Master said, “Heaven is dead, and the Yellow Heaven shall rise. From now on, you will be the leader of the Taiping Sect.” Zhou Yi said, “What, me?” … In the world of Twin Dragons of Great Tang, a failed art student sets out to bring order to a chaotic martial world! 34Votes743kRecs1.3MFans
- 17 Wanli Emperor 万历明君 In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending 6kVotes735.4kRecs1.6MFans
- 18 EN Lord of Pro 普罗之主 His name is Li Banfeng. Feng as in mountain peak, not as in going crazy. His doctor has told him he isn’t insane. To save a friend’s life, he went to Platform 96, boarded Steam Train 1160, and arrived in Puluo Province, where the world had been stuck in the age of steam. He met a confidante in an old gramophone, peerless beauties on calendar posters, a swaying lady in an antique clock, and a worldly master in a wine gourd. Here, food cultivators grow stronger the more they eat, smoking cultivato 145Votes729.7kRecs2MFans
- 19 Lost in 1629 迷失在一六二九 You! Yes, you. Take a look at yourself. What can you do? What do you know how to do? If you were dropped into the year 1629, the second year of the Chongzhen reign in the Ming dynasty, in the age of Li Zicheng and Hong Taiji, could you survive? Without a golden finger, without a protagonist’s destiny, relying entirely on your own skills and knowledge, could you survive? The one stroke of luck is that you wouldn’t be fighting alone. Behind you would be a group, a community of modern people. Come 4Votes884.7kRecs229.8kFans
- 20 Reshaping the Millennium Era 重塑千禧年代 At the turn of the millennium, officials were chanting slogans about GDP, bosses took pride in bringing their secretaries along, and rough-and-ready entrepreneurs fought with blades flashing amid the waves of the times. Fang Zhuo returns to the year 2000. Ten years later, a group of venture capitalists and private equity firms storm the company headquarters, demanding an answer from a stunned Fang Zhuo: “Mr. Fang, all your other projects have gone public. When on earth will this first one li 47Votes867.3kRecs825.4kFans
- 21 Late Ming 晚明 In the final years of the Ming dynasty, the northern frontier is shrouded in the smoke of war, with mountains of corpses, while the south of the Yangtze enjoys tranquil streams, stone bridges, song, and dance. Amid the internal strife and external threats of a dynasty on the brink of collapse, a calculating office director rises to power and sounds the last call for China. A true hero can change fate. Brutal, bloody ancient wars and authentic scenes of everyday life in the Ming, where ordinary p 93Votes767.7kRecs829.1kFans
