The Iron Empire
钢铁皇朝
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 2.4M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Alternate History
- Updated
- 8y ago
- English
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Most of those who write about parallel worlds do not understand history and are too lazy to understand it, but they want to be close to history, because this way, it is not easy to make mistakes. Even if they write something that the ancients did not have, it can be said to be another world to evade, and all the achievements and strategies of those people in real history can be used there. Writing in this way is relatively much simpler.
After reading two hundred chapters, I really can't help but complain. The beginning is ridiculous. Thirty cavalrymen provoking an entire continent is outrageous. Thirty people scared the pants off a city of hundreds of thousands of people. They even had to build traps on the spot. If each of them spat on the thirty people, they would have been killed. Secondly, there's the issue of money.
Spending two dollars just to say a few things, something that makes me uncomfortable, like conscription. In ancient times, it was already mandatory, so why bother with this? Those who wanted to stay could stay, and those who didn't should be given travel expenses. Isn't that redundant? If the benefits were high enough, who would betray you? And what about the slaves you bought?
I don't understand why some authors like to write perfectly good male protagonists as harem losers. Are they not satisfied with fighting for power? Are they not good enough at showing off their cheat abilities? They flirt with every woman they see, acting like a perpetual simp. It's really beneath them. Can't they at least maintain some basic integrity?
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I have mixed feelings; I'm experiencing another reading slump.
I think the biggest flaw in this book is its lack of manners. Even if the protagonist is a time traveler, there shouldn't be any sense of hierarchy or the dignity of a superior. Even modern leaders, no matter how approachable they appear, still exert an invisible pressure on ordinary people.
You managed to poison me within the first two chapters? You're truly amazing. If you're just a loser transmigrating, that's one thing, but being able to participate in experiments of the level you had in my previous life makes me one of the human elites. But to be so sexually driven right after transmigrating, barely out of bed, and already a prince making advances on a maid? I'm speechless.
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The monetary system is too crude, and the writing style is not rigorous or serious enough.
One tael of silver is worth 240 catties of grain, a jar of liquor is worth 40 taels, a bar of soap is worth 50 taels, and a waterwheel is worth 300 taels of silver. This is ridiculous! Is this how you make money? Did you just write down prices offhand? In ancient times, princes were usually enfeoffed and assigned to their fiefdoms after marriage.