Anti-Qing: Beginning with the Jintian Uprising

There's no problem with the author making the protagonist an emperor. The biggest problem is that the protagonist doesn't become emperor! At that time, a monarchical autocracy was necessary to unite the majority of people; otherwise, the country would surely fall apart. If the protagonist doesn't become emperor, how could the generals agree? The vast majority of them want titles.

I just want to ask one question: who exactly is reading that trashy book on the history list, the one about the daughter-in-law of Emperor Kangxi?!

Those who advocate constitutionalism are really funny. 😅 The Tang Dynasty was then a small-scale peasant economy, and its officials were a group of scholars who respected Confucius and Confucianism but lacked the mindset of maritime exploration and capitalism. Now, we're trying to establish a constitutional monarchy to increase the power of the landlord class?

What if it becomes popular after being released, only to be reported and banned by Manchu bannermen?

To put it simply, the protagonist becomes emperor and establishes a dynasty, but no matter how the story unfolds, his dynasty is destined to be overthrown by the Xinhai Revolution. It collapses within a few decades. Moreover, given his age, he'll likely be dethroned while still reigning in his later years.

The female lead and the male lead's mother are absolutely geniuses. Being chased around by Qing dogs and busy escaping for their lives, they didn't utter a single unnecessary action or word when they saw the protagonist. One asked if he liked her eldest son, and the other blushed and shyly said, "Godmother, you decide," after just one glance. They're incredibly toxic.

After joining the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, one could launch a holy war, recapture Jerusalem, and fight one's way through. Notice that the first two characters of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's name are "Taiping" (meaning peace and tranquility), and the first two characters of the Pacific Ocean's name are also "Taiping." What does this mean? It means that the Pacific Ocean is a promised land given to us by God, and we must reclaim it.

Lu Kewen's "Burning Heaven" on Bilibili has some good points. It feels like the protagonist stayed in Guangdong and Guangxi to quietly develop the region, using Guangdong's money and Guangxi's soldiers to keep Hong Xiuquan and his forces at bay on the Yangtze River. 😜😜😜

I couldn't hold back my laughter when I saw the scene of firing in a line. When writing about an uprising, battle scenes are an essential element of the excitement; please do your homework. How can you get such a classic tactic as the three-volley fire wrong? If you fire a round and then reload all at once, the enemy is already charging in close. Are you firing in a line or just feeding them kills?

It was passable at first, but as it went on, the author's original ideas just fell apart. First, the economy. The protagonist occupies Guangdong and Guangxi, where the annual fiscal revenue is over ten million taels, but the expenditure is over twenty million taels. Let me ask you, how many years can those tens of millions of taels of silver from confiscated property last?