The Son of Heaven of Zhou

For more than a decade, the Holy Emperor, using the alias Zhou Ji, traveled to various countries to improve people's livelihoods and worked tirelessly for the benefit of the people. ... Upon his ascension to the throne, all the feudal lords were astonished and angered, and they ruined the policies left by Zhou Ji... ... Thus, a rebel army spontaneously organized, shouting "Respect the King, punish the traitors, and restore the throne!" And stormed the palaces of various kingdoms...

I personally love the Spring and Autumn Period, a time of great intellectual ferment, but unfortunately there are very few historical novels about it. I've already read some excellent works such as "The Age of Great Contention" and "I Am King in the Spring and Autumn Period." It's rare to find a great writer willing to write about this period. Besides appreciating their commendable courage, we should of course support them!

This start was incredibly difficult. Weakness wasn't the main problem; the main issue was that all the feudal lords were enfeoffed by their own families, and their systems were also established by them. External expansion was virtually impossible, necessitating the overthrow of ancestral institutions. The emperor's annexation of his subjects' lands could easily plunge the empire into chaos.

It was a very difficult start. The feudal lords were too strong, and the Zhou royal family was too weak, lacking the military capacity to defend itself. However, there are few accounts of the Zhou royal family, and those that do focus on the Ji clan mainly focus on the Yan state.

I knew from the middle that the ending would be a forced, overpowered, and ultimately terrible one. A bunch of trolls in the group insisted on arguing with me. The finale, where they supposedly achieved complete annihilation of the Zhao cavalry with just stirrups and horseshoes, is laughable.

Actually, Xiao hope's idea is very clear: a nominal grandson of the emperor rises to the top again through the golden finger of a time traveler. The general idea is the Chinese-style strategy of "encircling the cities from the countryside." Considering the historical context and environment of the time, she really put a lot of effort into it.

This book says that if the Zhou Dynasty were to reunify the country in the end, there would be no point in continuing to read it. It's a dead end. The Seven Warring States, do you think they'd give you a way out? Killing an emperor is like crushing an ant.

What a great historical text! Why is it so popular despite its quality? Could someone please explain?

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Damn it, you're no longer the emperor of Zhou, that's getting off-topic.