Reborn as the Hegemon of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period

Slavery can only be reformed; abolishing it renders the book useless. Ignoring reality, almost every propertied person is a slave owner, and public sentiment is essentially that of the propertied class. The self-sufficient farmers, who haven't yet developed, represent the landowning class, and they need to wait for the decline of the nobility. The Warring States period provided that opportunity.

At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was extremely difficult for the State of Wu to unify the world. At that time, the main economic center was in the Yellow River Basin. Not to mention the Jiangnan region, even Guanzhong and Hebei were not fully developed.

I simply can't understand why modern systems are simply copied for ancient times. Has the author been writing for too long and never bothered to understand ordinary people? The QQ incident is the biggest irony; those in power are always specialists. What's with this "intentional homicide" versus "accidental homicide" distinction?

How should I put this book? Forgiving the assassin at first is fine as part of establishing his character. Anyway, time travelers have nothing to do with me. It's a bit uncomfortable, but you can skip it. After relentlessly pursuing and eliminating the usurper Prince Guang, the protagonist forcefully demands that the Yue Kingdom hand over Wu Zixu, who is then captured.

Several parts of the book review made me want to drop it. The first was Yao Li's assassination attempt on Qing Ji, which resulted in Yao Li being released. Yao Li was seeking fame, and Qing Ji was also seeking fame. I didn't read the later assassination attempts before killing him, because he had already shown some righteousness, so there was no need to worry about killing him again.

I'm coming back to this book. Come to think of it, when did I abandon it? It seems like it was about the conquest of Yue, where they held an absolute advantage, only to be counterattacked and driven to the river, where I think Xi Shi saved them. I'm not sure anymore. I know that continuing to read would be an insult to my intelligence.

A treacherous official has his role; you must manage him well.

There's all this hype about infrastructure development in China these days, but few realize how terrible it was before 2000. I remember my village was only two or three kilometers from the town, and there wasn't a single paved road. Rainy days were unbearable! And this was in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province! You can only imagine what it was like inland.

Later, during the first birthday celebration for the two sons, the eldest son, born of a concubine, surprisingly picked up the imperial seal. Moreover, this eldest son was born to a female official—a sure path to disaster! The legitimate son has legitimacy, the eldest son of a concubine has good fortune, and the other sons, seeing that even a daughter of a female official could vie for it, and…

It was alright at first, but Chapter 224 turned out to be extremely poisonous. Leading 30,000 troops against 10,000 under Sun Tzu's command, and still falling into an ambush... You didn't poison him; you underestimated the Sage of War.