Stirring Up the Great Song Dynasty

If you were to travel back in time to the Song Dynasty, the first thing you should do is never have any expectations of it. It's a pile of shit, and a runny one at that.

Let's skip the system-building part this time. Just write in your usual style. Don't do any more system-building stories.

I really couldn't finish those two system novels I read lately. Your earlier works, like those by Zhang Haogu and Tao Ying, were truly excellent. Your previous novel, *The Great Song Dynasty*, was also quite good.

It feels like we're going down the same old path again, just living for the sake of living. What is the feudal era like in the mind of a time traveler? Rebellion, killing the emperor's confidants, and then trying to clean up the mess and live a happy life. What is the protagonist's concept of the emperor and officials? What makes Lao Lang different from other historical novels is that the protagonist has too much of a sense of security, which feels a bit awkward.

Why not just write history properly? Why insist on writing system novels? They lack historical immersion and feel like a game. I've been a reader for over a decade, and I can't get into your last two system novels at all. You should just write historical conquest novels; I could even read anti-Qing stories. I think your editor has a grudge against you. System novels are just not for you, yet they still make you write them.

After half a year of struggling, even with the help of Taobao's cheat codes, they still couldn't raise an elite army of a thousand men, and instead surrendered like cowards. I'm speechless.

In recent years, Lao Lang's writing has really deteriorated. Did he sell his account? If he had continued writing in his prime, when he was a scourge to the Qing Dynasty and a talented scholar returning to the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't he have been able to write good books?

Look at those popular historical fiction videos, do any of them come with a system? You originally made roujiamo (Chinese hamburger), but then you saw that milk tea was selling well, so you changed the soup in your roujiamo to milk tea. Is it okay to eat a roujiamo with milk tea flavor? Zhang Haogu and Wu Yingxiong were both very good writers, and recently anti-Qing novels set in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties have become very popular on Qidian. Why not just stick to what you're good at?

After the Southern Song Dynasty moved its capital south, emperors, nobles, civil officials, military generals, landlords, and merchants launched a frenzy of land annexation. It was no longer uncommon for large landowners to collect rents of 100,000 shi (a unit of dry measure).

What the Northern Song Dynasty lacked was not strength, but backbone.