Heaven's Mandate Belongs to the Han

Looking at history in the context of today's online environment reveals that any historical figure, if they can't tarnish your achievements, they can tarnish your character! Take Liu Bang, for example. He established three laws, didn't massacre civilians, and his military discipline was quite good for that era. His military capabilities were also top-tier for his time.

If you dared to play the game of being born with innate knowledge and receiving a dream from an immortal in front of Liu Bang and Lü Zhi, they would dare to send you to see their "ancestors," and it wouldn't matter if you were their son. These two people's controlling nature simply won't allow you to use tricks like "being born with knowledge" or "being sent by a deity in a dream" to delay or cover things up. You either have to confess, pounce on them, or suppress them.

Why isn't such a good novel more popular?

This book is of good quality. Author, please be more diligent. I'll help you promote it in other book review sections. Even if it's just a small contribution, please don't abandon it! I've finally found a book from the early Han Dynasty that I can read.

I only know one saying: "Nations often perish because of weakness, but the Han people perished because of strength." Two thousand years later, this ethnic group is still called the Han people, their writing system is called Han characters, and their language is called the Chinese language.

Are historical events always the same? Are we just retelling history?

Do you know why the comment section is so clean, with hardly anyone criticizing this novel? Is it because the author writes well? Wrong! It's because not many people are reading it.

Even if the protagonist dismantles the bridge, he can only dismantle it halfway; the aristocratic class can only be weakened, its independence reduced, but it must be preserved. After all, a constitutional monarchy also needs an aristocracy, otherwise it cannot control the emerging capitalists. A combination of nobles in the Upper House, capitalists in the Lower House, and a portion of elite commoners makes the throne more stable.

Author, your historical knowledge is quite profound, but please stop trying to make this book too childish, or at least avoid making it too colloquial and simplistic. Please retain some of the sophistication of a historical novel. Some of the dialogue in the recent chapters was really awkward to read; I wonder if others felt the same way.

Author, your next novel could be about the "Reign of Wen and Jing," about the Han Dynasty, either Emperor Wu of Han or the Chu-Han Contention. The period from Liu Bang's death to Emperor Wu's reign is relatively unexplored. Recently, Emperor Wen's tomb was discovered; his life was truly legendary! Even writing about Empress Lü's reign would be good; the novel next door is quite well-written.