Three Kingdoms: Restoring the Han Dynasty, Starting in Xuzhou

The environment for historical novels is much better now; there are fewer novels praising Cao Cao and belittling Liu Bei than before. Recent events have made more people realize that they are just ordinary people, which is why people generally appreciate Liu Bei's virtues and despise Cao Cao.

To be honest, if I were to travel back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty or the Three Kingdoms period, as someone educated in the 21st century, my values, ingrained from childhood, would make me believe that Liu Bei was the best person to support and lord in that chaotic era. My modern understanding simply wouldn't allow me to serve Cao Cao or Sun Quan.

Historical records from the late Han Dynasty document 18 massacres of cities, with Cao Wei accounting for 12 of them, and the other warlords combined accounting for six.

There's a saying that goes, "If you judge Liu Bei by the standards of a sage, he was a warlord; but if you judge him by the standards of a warlord, he was a sage." Perhaps compared to other historical sages, Liu Bei seems somewhat simplistic, but among warlords and rulers, he was indeed one of the most benevolent and righteous.

I actually find it a shame that the author's previous book, "I Have Never Seen Such a Shameless Person," didn't become popular. I hope this one does better.

When I saw that they were going to give the two Qiao sisters to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, I immediately couldn't stand it anymore. What a waste of my subscription!

At the beginning, the protagonist tells Liu Bei that he has a special source of intelligence that Yuan Shao will die of illness in a few years, so Cao Cao will be able to defeat Yuan Shao. This is a bit of a pain for me 🙂.

Does the protagonist have no other strengths besides the prophecy brought by time travel? But everything you do changes the course of history. Not to mention distant examples, even Lü Bu and Chen Gong might not act the same way they did before.

Liu Bei might not be considered benevolent among commoners, but he was definitely benevolent as a monarch. Moreover, Cao Wei's policies were truly ruthless; if you joined the army, your wife was assigned to you. Cao Wei's army also dug up graves, ate human flesh, and the most notorious of the Five Barbarian tribes was the Xianbei.

Here's a suggestion, which may not be adopted by the author. In many situations, different terms of address should be used for different people. For example, if the protagonist's previous incarnation was killed by Cao Cao's army and he is almost killed again in his current form, the protagonist should not use Cao Cao's courtesy name when addressing him.