The Sea-Calming King of Great Ming

I laughed so hard reading to chapter 56. He's suggesting protecting the forests? They can't even get enough to eat, and he's talking about protecting the forests? Can't he be more timely? If you order the mountains closed on the first day when people are starving, within a month or two someone will rebel against you and wipe you out.

Don't be fooled by the protagonist's incredible power; his biggest advantage is actually being a member of the Ming Dynasty's imperial family. The Zhu family founded hundreds of states. What use is the protagonist besides having some money? He's incredibly powerful now, making tens of millions in profits annually, but after his death, will his family be able to maintain such a vast fortune? With that kind of power, would he still willingly act like a dog?

The opening scene explains to the emperor and high officials what sulfur dioxide is, and even mentions washing coal to remove sulfur. Don't you understand that stoves have chimneys? Where did this come from? Burning coal indoors without a chimney is suicide. Solve the problem by building chimneys with sheet metal; then you can burn anything. 🤫🤫🤫 Sigh, just Google "solutions for coal poisoning," and you'll know everything.

I strongly suspect the author works at Foxconn, otherwise how could the factory's rules be so clearly defined?

By chapter six, the author had to completely demote the protagonist, even though the first chapter claimed he was a seasoned bookworm of over a decade. Speechless. It's like they're rubbing salt into the wound with their brains!

I've read over 400 chapters of this book, and oh my god, I'm so fed up! I could tolerate the previous ones about the generous national donations for war. But now here comes the four-year mandatory military service for every man! You're an agricultural society, buddy? With your productivity, why should every man have to serve four years? Who's going to support them?

I've been following this book since it started writing, reading two chapters every day without fail. I wait for those two chapters every day, and now I'm used to it. To be honest, no other historical novel has kept me following it for so long. I sometimes skip around in other books, but I read those two chapters every day with great care.

After reading over thirty chapters, the protagonist, with no fame or authority, launches into a tirade about world geography and resources, even claiming the world is a sphere. The astonishing thing is that everyone believes this unverified, one-sided claim, including emperors and merchants who immediately set sail to find it. It's utterly toxic and makes me want to quit.

I'll keep writing until I reach 5 million words. I voted for the author with the "Literary Master" award.

If the protagonist were the emperor, the sense of immersion would be even stronger. The pig family would have hundreds more kings, landlords and officials would control numerous merchant guilds, and ordinary people, although they would benefit from the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty and not starve, would merely have gone from farmers to workers.