A Global Empire Beginning in the Late Ming Dynasty

For the first time, I think his girlfriend was really smart to dump him because of his low IQ.

Did the author write this based on their own experience, or is the idea that being a "simp" is unsuitable for you?

The writing style and creativity are both quite good, offering a fresh perspective. A small suggestion: streamline the modern-day scenes. Completely remove the female character's storyline. Readers of this book want to see a protagonist with modern-day support crush the reactionaries of the Ming Dynasty and the Jurchens, letting them taste the iron fist and releasing the pent-up resentment of the…

In ancient times, building railways was foolish. Without unifying the country, building railways would make you an enemy. Just a few ordinary people could steal your railway, causing accidents and huge losses. Moreover, you wouldn't even know who did it. When railways were first built, there were railway soldiers. If you didn't unify the country, could you station troops next to the railway?

That's so cruel! You're really something else. You can forgive your fiancée for cheating on you. You're definitely a pure-love minotaur warrior.

This was originally intended to be Chongzhen's lackey, or perhaps even a rebel. If he were merely a lackey for Chongzhen, it wouldn't be meaningful, as Chongzhen was, frankly, an incompetent emperor, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty was directly related to his incompetence.

The author probably has never used a hand pump well. These things can only pump water to a depth of 8 to 10 meters, and they become useless during a major drought when the water table drops. My family used one of these when I was a child, but we switched to pumped wells later. My house was only a few kilometers from the Huai River. The water table is even lower in Hebei and Inner Mongolia. It's usually okay, but it's definitely useless during a drought!

This is outrageous! He worked as a scaffolder on construction sites in Beijing for three years, and he was only eighteen! Which construction site hires a fifteen-year-old child laborer these days? 😓 Scaffolding work requires strong laborers, and you need someone to train you before you're hired.

It feels like it came from over a decade ago, with everything about being virtuous and righteous, and the characters always portraying themselves as weak and vulnerable. I couldn't continue reading after the chapter about the annulment of the engagement.

Making copper coins from pure copper—was this a way of showing off to the ancients that we had a lot of copper?