Emperor Chongzhen’s Fight for Survival
绝境求生崇祯帝
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- Completed
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- 1.8M Words
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- Historical
- Subgenre
- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
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After fifteen years of Chongzhen's reign, moving south was the only sensible course of action. Staying in Beijing meant certain death. Chongzhen should have moved to Nanjing, appointing Sun Chuanting as governor-general of the northern provinces, allowing each province and county to collect its own taxes, recruit its own troops, and organize local militias.
It's a pity about Wei Zhongxian. If he hadn't been killed, the Ming Dynasty wouldn't have fallen before he died of old age. While he was alive, the Liaodong border troops never lacked pay, and he managed the internal affairs of the court smoothly. He also suppressed the hypocritical Donglin Party, and there weren't any major rebel leaders in the country. The national treasury also had money.
If they can save them, let the Imperial Guards slaughter them all.
The most toxic aspect of this novel isn't the modern military ranks or the crown prince's southward relocation; it's that the emperor's every move is subject to endless explanations from eunuchs, and those officials, who are inherently incompetent, also engage in endless explanations. They nearly ruined the lives of new recruits, yet received no punishment and the matter was simply dropped.
Building railways is ridiculous! During the Ming Dynasty, Zhan Tianyou spent 11 years building the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. The Beijing-Shenyang Railway took 28 years, and even China took 3 years to build the Beijing-Shenyang High-Speed Railway. Do you even have tunnel boring machines in some parallel universe?
No offense intended, just a discussion about writing. 🤔 Having read over two hundred chapters, I sometimes couldn't understand the author's writing intentions. Wu Sangui suddenly rebelled, the Crown Prince ascended the throne in Nanjing, and the protagonist's rule suddenly collapsed, leaving only Zhili province. Without any foreshadowing, the situation abruptly crumbled.
It's really well-written. The only thing I find a bit off is that most novels set in the late Ming Dynasty don't really respect peasant armies.
It is clear that the author has a very poor grasp of history, and is extremely toxic.
Writing about the last emperor in this way makes you an idiot. Anyone in that situation would have the same result. You're just a figurehead. Nobody listens. Your orders are just empty words. You can't do anything.
The part about Sun Chuanting's betrayal of Emperor Chongzhen was really painful to read; I don't know what to say. He was a loyal minister in history, yet Emperor Chongzhen treated him with great respect in this novel.