The Great Ming's Number One Rebel

Okay, finally another novel about the late Ming Dynasty uprising. So many pro-Ming novels these days are just a bunch of lunatics. The common people are practically dead, yet so many people are fawning over the feudal Zhu family and helping to suppress peasant uprisings! Is this something modern people would do? It's as if it's divine mandate, and with a few words, the people are back to eating.

Peasant uprisings need true heroes; otherwise, they're just useless fools. The peasant uprisings at the end of the Ming Dynasty lacked both heroes and valiant figures, ultimately allowing the Manchus to reap the benefits.

To offer a personal perspective, in ancient times, the morale of the army was far more important than the popular support for rebellions. The emperor was the one with the strongest and most powerful army. Peasant uprisings failed not only because of poor strategic vision and lack of productive activity, but also because the military forces were disorganized, with numerous factions that could rebel or disband at any time.

The author, writing a historical novel, shows no regard for local customs or family ties, nor any sense of urgency about rebellion. Even though it's the late Ming Dynasty, it's still possible to find some people to suppress these displaced people. You can look at how the rebel armies that occupied prefectures and counties during the Wanli era were suppressed.

Here's a small suggestion: the most jarring thing about historical writing is the blatant copying of the "Great Discipline" and "Points of Attention." It's ridiculously unrealistic. In a story about a peasant uprising before the people were enlightened, don't assume you're superior to Yue Fei (Yue Fei's army was, after all, an official army, and a rare miracle in ancient times).

Brother, shouldn't everything be done step by step? You only have a few hundred people and you're already claiming you want to overthrow the Ming Dynasty? Aren't you overestimating yourself? Even if you just keep it to yourself, saying it out loud is just asking for trouble.

It's a pity, it was actually quite well written.

A thought suddenly occurred to me: if we set aside ethnic issues, could we view Nurhaci's rebellion as a form of resistance against the long-term, humiliating oppression of the civil service by the military officer group? Since the Manchus were essentially the Jianzhou Garrison of the Ming Dynasty, the long-standing humiliation inflicted by the civil officials on the military led to a successful…

Is this a new book? You've been updating so infrequently? How did you become so popular?

It's ridiculous. The defending side was outnumbered and you ambushed and stormed the city. How could they possibly hold it? After your successful attack, you didn't send reinforcements to watch them fight one-on-one.