Great Song: From Lowly Soldier to Ruler of the Realm

The title scared me; I thought it was about transmigrating into the body of a bald man/Jingwei (a character from Journey to the West). I wondered when the author, Dianping, got so bold.

I know why the author changed the name. He couldn't handle the name "Carry the Northern Expedition Through to the End" anymore. Because the author kept delaying all sorts of good things that would have helped the Northern Expedition just for his own personal likes and dislikes, he changed it to this incongruous and common name in hopes of shifting the focus.

First, from the perspective of the Song Dynasty, they did not want to repeat the drama of military generals donning imperial robes. Their national policy suppressed military power and promoted civil officials. Military officials were demoted and killed, while civil officials like Sima Yi were not held accountable for the defeat of Han in the Hehuang region.

The Song Dynasty was not worthy of being saved; only a bunch of literary youths cared about it.

Without eliminating Wanyan Gou, no amount of Northern Expedition will be of any use.

This plot is absolutely outrageous. The Jin dynasty is on a phenomenal level, with advanced explosives and incredibly smooth troop movements. They even managed to easily suppress the split into East and West Jin? What kind of super administrator is Liangbi? I've never heard of such a case in history.

The camera keeps showing how selfless feudal warriors of the Jin Dynasty defeat even worse people with their rottenness. I'm starting to believe you're just selling an outline. Is this what you're reading this book for? Then I might as well read the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty. 😊

Why wasn't Xin Qiji given a prominent position in the Southern Song Dynasty? You might not believe it. At the age of 23, Xin Qiji did something truly extraordinary. Leading fifty fearless brothers, he sneaked into the camp of 50,000 Jin soldiers under cover of darkness, dragged the traitor Zhang Anguo from a banquet, and had him bound and brought back to the Southern Song Dynasty that very night…

In front of a notice board on the streets of Bianjing. A: "Liu Jiedushi captured Wanyan Liang alive; he certainly has the style of Yue Fei!" B: "Much better than General Yue." A: "Why?" B: "He's not patriotic."

Want to launch a northern expedition during the Southern Song Dynasty? Dream on! To do so, the entire Southern Song court would have to be replaced; otherwise, it was just a pipe dream. Unless one possessed overwhelming strength to withstand the combined forces of the Southern Song and the Jin, they were doomed. How was the Jin destroyed? By a combined force of the Song and the Mongols…