Wielding the Blade Across the Sixteen Kingdoms
横刀十六国
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.6M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Jin-Sui-Tang Dynasties
- Updated
- 6mo ago
- English
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Historical novels without a protagonist's cheat code are the most jarring. A protagonist with a 24/7 halo is blindingly bright, especially in that hellish era. It constantly reminds me this is a fantasy historical fantasy novel. An ordinary person transmigrates and becomes a rough-and-tumble hero—no reason why, just because they're a transmigrator 😥.
The first author's previous work, "The Struggle for Wei," and this one, "The Sixteen Kingdoms with a Sword," share a consistent pattern of logical incompetence. From the very first chapter, the logic is completely reversed. During the Sixteen Kingdoms period, a time of extreme aristocratic rule and rigid hierarchy, Zhang Shan, a mere servant, can openly act like a lustful lecher towards his…
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I don't know what they mean by "poisonous". The male protagonist is a bandit. He needs a base to develop. It's difficult for him to develop on Black Cloud. How can he develop without salt and iron? Why kill Liang Du? Because the male protagonist needs fame. If he's unknown, who knows what kind of person he is? Who would invest in him?
This map is quite nice!
After reading for a while, I realized the author is an idealist, detached from reality. No wonder, despite both being from the late Jin Dynasty, his achievements are so much worse than those of the late Jin Dynasty swordsman. The whole book is full of idealism and detached from reality.
The previous book started in Guanzhong, replicating the story of Yuwen Tai and drastically altering the conflict between the Eastern and Western Wei dynasties. This time, how about starting in Daibei or Hebei, replicating the Northern Wei dynasty, and drastically altering the conflict between the Northern and Southern Dynasties? That sounds very interesting.
A piece of gold is gold whether it's in Guangdong or Beijing. Similarly, an ordinary person in ancient times would still be an ordinary person. Even after nine years of compulsory education, returning to ancient times would mean being semi-illiterate, unable to write traditional characters.
I read over 160 chapters of this novel, and to be honest, I just couldn't get into it!! You're a time-traveler farming, don't you know how to compost to increase grain yield? Don't you know about meticulous farming techniques? Don't you know how to build things like the curved plow? Don't you know how to develop animal husbandry?
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