Reaching for Supremacy in the Ten Kingdoms

I've read many comments, and I didn't want to criticize them, but I couldn't help myself. Why are there still people who want the protagonist to not become emperor but to be like Zhuge Liang? You need to understand the historical context first. What kind of era is the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?

No matter what, we must kill the two Zhao brothers! The Zhao dynasty was truly the most shameful dynasty ever! The Zhao emperors were the most shameless and despicable emperors.

There's a problem: historically, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, military men held power. The protagonist is a scholar, starting out as someone who can't even ride a horse. Why would military men submit to him? Why should they obey him? Can he even fight on the battlefield? Does he represent the interests of military men? So this is a big question, and besides, the book doesn't seem to have much of a farming element.

Unfortunately, people can't stay true to their original intentions. The idea of ​​never forgetting one's original aspirations is just a joke. The more brilliant and powerful Chai Rong was portrayed in the beginning, and the more he took care of the protagonist, the more indignant I felt when the protagonist usurped the throne.

I know you like Zhu Yuanzhang, but surpassing Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Taizong of Tang is going too far, and you often slip in your own biases. Personally, I believe there are only two standards for evaluating emperors of Chinese feudal dynasties: territory and centralized power.

Is a princess from a small country even worthy of being taken in by the protagonist? If this princess really gives birth to a child for the protagonist, wouldn't the Koreans boast that they are the true heirs of the Great Yu? The protagonist doesn't need another woman to control his lust, right? He can just send all the Koreans to Japan and let them fight the Japanese. They only need to get the territory, not the people.

Despite being the founding emperor, the protagonist still displays the affectations and pettiness of a lower-middle-class urbanite when it comes to women.

The name Yu Chao is miraculously ugly! Qian Chao is acceptable.

Heh, let me tell you, even if a time traveler goes to ancient times and becomes an emperor, what good will it do? It will still perish, won't it? All that talk about foreign races and irreconcilable hatred is utter nonsense. Without reforming their thinking, going there is pointless; they can't save China at all. The only way to save China is to sweep feudalism into history and establish a republic. Otherwise, it's just one cycle of feudal dynasties after another.

I went to read the chapter about the abdication. The empress was determined to abdicate so as not to harm the interests of the country. She was a patriotic empress. The civil officials were loyal and unwavering so as not to become traitors to the Khitan. The military officials didn't have so many thoughts.