Arming the Late Ming
武装明末
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.3M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
- Updated
- 8y ago
- English
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No marriage alliances, no reparations, no ceded territory, no tribute. The emperor guards the frontier; the ruler dies defending the state. After the Yuan dynasty fell, the Ming was established by the Han people on Chinese soil. Its founding improved the status of the Han, restoring the majority population to a commoner's standing and creating favorable conditions for China's future development. Though the Ming realm was smaller than the Yuan's, at its height it held the Mongols in check to the
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In the late Ming Dynasty, having food at all was a blessing. A guard received two taels of silver, a student eight taels. Even the students' families were struggling to make ends meet; a little grain and a tael or two of silver were a cause for celebration! What a spendthrift! Living near the sea, they could catch fish and save on rice.
That's too idealistic. I read a late Ming Dynasty novel where the protagonist was given free identities as a soldier, guard, servant, or maid, and even received five social insurances and one housing fund, a 12-tael maternity leave pension, the ability to raise a child to 18 if the protagonist died, and care for the elderly until their death. They signed 10-year contracts, and were free to leave after the contract was fulfilled. Hahahaha…
The protagonist is truly amazing. Tens of thousands of elite troops from Dongjiang, armed with cannons and muskets, could easily overwhelm him; they would have died several times over.
The plot goes like this: the villains are basically NPCs from the game, with stiff behavior and contrived dialogue.
Are you a eunuch? I've subscribed to quite a few subscriptions! How are you going to explain this to your readers?!
If an adult can't tell whether it's ancient or modern, it just means the author padded out the first chapter. How can the rest be read? It should be a vast ocean stretching to the horizon, right?
Can an arrow really shoot 200 paces? That's too fantastical!
Why waste time arguing with them? Can you explain things clearly? If you can take action, don't just talk. Having troops is the only way to be safe.
The late Ming Dynasty was a semi-feudal, semi-slave society! Even the so-called household servants and slaves were essentially half-slaves! The late Ming Dynasty was not worth saving! The idea that a monarch dies for his country is nothing but self-deception! Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to flee south; he simply couldn't!
It lacks both common sense and political common sense. The writing style is extremely naive.