The Ming Dynasty's Chief Censor

She almost turned me away after seeing the synopsis, but after reading two chapters, I found it was actually quite well-written.

The protagonist is portrayed as an idiot. He even drags Zhang Juzheng into being an idiot.

I don't think this author is a novice; I wonder whose pseudonym this is.

The Yuan Dynasty boasted the most prosperous overseas trade in Chinese history. With this extra income, the Yuan government launched two consecutive campaigns against Japan, three campaigns against Burma, and countless defeats against Vietnam. It even taught a lesson to Indonesia, which was thousands of miles away, and also subdued Thailand along the way.

At first, I thought it was a nonsensical comedy, but the plot actually turned out to be quite good, and it also presented my own views on historical cases. I just couldn't hold back anymore, and you wrote this garbage as soon as it was released? I hope to get my subscription fee refunded. It's not much money, and I don't care. You can just donate it to any charity you like.

This reader has absolutely no revolutionary spirit, constantly empathizing with the emperor in the book and worrying about what will happen to the revolution depicted. Leaving aside the extremely short lifespans of workers in the early stages of capitalism—child laborers generally didn't live past five years—it took over a century for the French Revolution to occur.

The laws of historical development cannot be defied. The protagonist of the Jiangnan chapter was too soft-hearted. Once he was exploited by Jiajing's short-selling tactics, capitalism was inevitable. We can't have it all; constantly throwing people into prison is too much of a drag. We should vigorously promote factional struggles. Only those in the cabinet have a voice. No one is incapable of sacrifice; I want to see rivers of blood.

This book and related skills I compared them again today. They're completely different directions. One approach is from the bottom up, looking at the imperial court from the local level, with the promotion and advancement of ideology, culture, science and technology as the main focus.

I read chapter 100 today and I'm completely baffled. Did the author sell the book? Or did they switch to a different publisher? I can't understand a single chapter after it was released. What is the protagonist trying to do? What is he doing? From Jiajing, Yan Song, and Xu Jie to the ordinary people and soldiers, it's all a huge question mark. What are they doing?

The book's quality has been declining since the protagonist was assassinated; it's become padded. I hope the author can adjust. The protagonist is basically invisible now. Regardless of whether it's an ensemble piece or not, if there's a protagonist, the story should revolve around them. But in the last ten or twenty chapters, whether there's a protagonist or not is completely irrelevant. 🤔