Late Ming Dynasty: Starting from Merchants to Build a Military-Industrial Empire

There are no cheats, no golden fingers, no martial arts and no magical powers. How can pig horns stir up the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty and change history? The author takes it too much for granted. The logic of a book cannot be completely reasonable, but it cannot be completely unreasonable either. For example, a commoner named Zhu Jiao started a cigarette business that was making money everywhere. How could he make a fortune in the late Ming Dynasty when corrupt officials were everywhere? This is completely unreasonable, but it is completely reasonable because a commoner with nothing could start such a big business and have been wiped out by various forces.

Tang Ruowang is actually a spy sent by the Holy See to the Ming Dynasty!

Huang Taiji entered the customs five times and robbed hundreds of thousands of people and returned. How much money was there? Hundreds of thousands of people had food when they went to Shenyang. It was still the Little Ice Age. Did Huang Taiji not want to deal with Zhan Lipin? Should gold, silver, jade, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings be left in our hands to gather dust? Can't wild boar skin be eaten with high-priced grain?

Training troops in Shanxi, fighting bandits and rogues, the fighting was relatively rigorous. However, after leaving the border, fighting against Chahar and the Manchus turned into a fairy tale. Especially at the beginning, the cavalry was weak and their allies, Tumote, were unreliable. They dared to leave the border, and they often carried out total annihilations.

Is the author from Shanxi? Your development location is really magical. The fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was the drought in the north during the Little Ice Age. The taxes collected by the Ming Dynasty court from the south could not stop the peasant uprisings in Shanxi and Shaanxi. He and Jiannon continued to loot and destroy these two large holes. You write fantasy novels. If you develop in a place where food cannot be grown, you can still rob the Tatars over and over again.

Whether you can play chess or not, this is the current situation described in this book. The protagonist Wang Shaojun plays the red square, and Chongzhen plays the black square, which is many times his quantity and quality. There is a complete military industry here. Needless to say, in the military aspect, intelligence warfare and cognitive warfare. Psychological warfare, everything is in a state of crushing. As a result, hundreds of chapters have passed, and I am still justifying myself and looking for reasons. Revolution is not about treating guests to dinner. In the state of the late Ming Dynasty, instead of smashing these pots and jars, we have to find ways to win over the gentry and old bureaucrats. For example, in this picture of mine, everyone understands it, and I am too lazy to talk about it.

It's just so-so. There are a lot of typos and some witty plots. Generally speaking, I can read it but I can't study it in detail.

I suggest the author take a look at Tomorrow and other people's books to see how the protagonist achieves development and reform, especially how they write about the relationship between the protagonist and the emperor. What you wrote is too ungrateful.

First, the Chongzhen period was the most severe period of the Little Ice Age. Do you really think that the 400 mm precipitation line is a joke? The sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in Fengzhou Sichuan in Hetao, Shanxi basically cannot survive. Second, the protagonist easily let the missionaries build a church in the station, and didn't ask for anything! ? The missionaries were not allowed to send talents from their homeland, so they just sent them for nothing. I didn't know that missionaries wanted to build a church in Daming. They were crazy about preaching. What does the protagonist think the missionaries want to do when they come to Ming Dynasty? The book also says that during the same period Japan also fought several wars with believers developed by missionaries. What are the lessons learned from the past? What are missionaries here to do? 1. Steal the inheritance of civilization, 2. Collect strategic information and act as an outpost, 3. Instigate rebellion and brainwash local people and officials, 4. Once there are many believers, try to control the voice and political power and put the pope in power. No different than a spy. Third, the base area established outside the Great Wall in Toyoshu River did not cultivate scientific talents . Even if twelve-year-old children were recruited and trained, they would be almost eighteen years old in five years right? , Not to mention that it has been some years since the protagonist went from outside the Great Wall to conquering the country (at least five years, right?). The book does not reflect the systematic cultivation of scientific talents at all. It is all content about common people's literacy. It is precisely because the protagonist does not cultivate his own talents on a large scale when he has a base. He has to rely on gentry and old scholars when entering the customs (but the killing later is quite satisfying).

This book is still worth reading overall, especially the early part, which is very exciting (it is also very good now, and I have been following the updates). If we want to talk about shortcomings, the first one is the poisonous point when writing about the woman; Then there is a problem that is difficult to avoid. The names of the Mongolian and Manchu tribes, Chaerhan and Guldan, are hard to remember at first sight. After a long time, it feels very confusing, similar to Western fantasy novels. I can't remember the names at all, and I can't tell who is who. Now what keeps me going are some familiar names, such as Dorgon and Huang Taiji. When I see these, I feel very familiar, unlike my best friend, who really made me dizzy after seeing them. In addition, there are various wars, whether to fight from the south or from the mountains, and I have no idea of ​​the relative position of this city or that city. Without a map, it is really confusing. I don't know if everyone feels the same; The last problem is that the updates are not good. I hope the author can update more. Of course, the premise is that the book can be completed smoothly, otherwise I would rather go slower. By the way, the author won't finish the Manchu Qing Dynasty in just these few days, right? If this is really finished, how will I write the next book? Stop being a eunuch

In the later stage, it was bulldozed and flattened. I still need to write hundreds of thousands of words in ink

Since the protagonist has set up squads, platoons and companies, why not set up instructors in each company? The protagonist wants to rebel. If the generals at all levels below are not restricted by instructors, they will become soldiers and generals. At that time, any general can lead his soldiers to betray the protagonist or even switch sides in battle. The protagonist should set up an instructor at the beginning, and it becomes more difficult to set up later.

Why do most dynasties in historical novels call officials "adult"❓ Before the Yuan Dynasty, "adult" in all dynasties was usually used to address parents and elders. "Adult" was rarely used to address officials in formal situations. It was occasionally used as a flattering title for eunuchs (eunuchs). Officials in the Yuan Dynasty were generally not called "adults" and were addressed by their official positions in formal situations. However, in informal situations, senior officials or special groups occasionally began to be called "adults". Officials in the Ming Dynasty were usually not called "adults". In formal occasions, they were addressed by official position, rank or "old gentleman". In informal situations, sporadic use cases have emerged due to the influence of the Yuan Dynasty (for example, in the Yuan drama "Pipa Ji", senior officials are called "adults"). The Ming Dynasty notebook "Gu Bu Gu Lu" mentions that the Sansi (the highest local administrative agency) addressed the governor as "Old Sir" and the patrol supervisor as "Sir Sir", but such usage is still an isolated phenomenon. In Ming Dynasty novels (such as "Journey to the West"), the title "adult" is occasionally seen, but it is more influenced by the Yuan Dynasty drama scripts rather than a true portrayal of officialdom. In reality, calling an ordinary official "sir" may lead to misunderstanding or even ridicule, as it is more commonly used to refer to parents or eunuchs. Before the mid-Qing Dynasty, "adult" was rarely used alone as an official title. Pu Songling's "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" mentioned that during the Kangxi period, there was no convention for the title of "adult" for officials, and it was not until Yongzheng that it gradually became common. Fang Junshi's "Jiaoxuan Suilu" pointed out that during the Kangxi period, non-imperial officials and even governors were not called "sir". It was not until Yongzheng that calling officials "sir" gradually became common.

It seems pretty good so far, good luck to the author!

If the protagonist doesn't participate in the early training of the army, who will listen to you later? You are just a payer, you have no prestige at all, you are just a young master. In the first counter-fierce battle, there was no protagonist and no prestige at all. Could it be that just giving rewards after the war would be enough? The real base of the protagonist is the army, not the caravan. Political power comes from the barrel of a gun, and caravans serve the army. At least let your subordinate Qiu Ba know that you have real abilities and are not a showy young master. In ancient times, Qiu Ba obeyed capable officers. Instead of the young master with the maid by his side

Great book, great book, great book!

The plot is good. But it's too slow. There could be less irrelevant stuff. It's like promoting cigarettes. One person writes in fine detail, and the second person writes in thicker lines. After more than ten chapters, the person is still making cigarettes, which affects reading.

As a time traveler, you should know that a steam turbine is easier to make than a Watt steam engine. You can skip the Watt engine and build a steam turbine. A steam turbine with an efficiency of 15% is very easy.

I feel annoyed when I see naval battles, so I skip them all.

If the gun can be rear-loaded, one can hold 10 guns. The bullets can be in the form of firecrackers. A projectile is placed in front of the firecracker. The paper shell of the firecracker has its own air-holding function. Just add a door latch at the back. Since the paper shell is self-sealing, the door latch at the back does not need to hold its air. Use a medicinal cord to light the firecracker, just like setting off a firecracker.

It's well written, except for a few emotional scenes that are awkward

The starting salary of 2 taels per month for the domestic soldiers exceeds the standard. How to expand the army later? With one tael of military pay and food and accommodation included, a lot of people would work hard to survive. Compared to the Qing Dynasty's Green Camp soldiers, who didn't even receive military pay. Cigarettes are just low-end products that are easy to get, and the profit is not that high. One or two cigarettes and two taels of silver? What you can't control about the author is that corrupt officials have the sharpest noses. Many Shanxi merchants are bound by their families and regions. They will not accept trackers and miners because they are at the bottom and the cost of betrayal is too low. Taking the money and running away is their first thought.

I read about 500 chapters on QQ, and overall it seems enjoyable. I don't care if the logic is reasonable or not. It's a novel anyway. I've read a lot of historical novels, and I've seen various ways of rebellion. Only your rebellion makes me uncomfortable. When you first developed into the grassland, I thought it was to save capital. But in the end, you went directly to the imperial court and killed the Jiannu. It didn't matter if you saved the people, but you still followed the imperial loyalist route. , And then he prepared to go to the court and forced you to rebel. Damn it, brother, don't you think this book is very hypocritical? If you rebel, you will rebel, and if you are loyal, you will be loyal. When you write it together, the readers see you because you came to save the people in the late Ming Dynasty because the Central Plains were in ruins. You directly replaced the slaves and rebels and directly rebelled against the court. You attracted all their firepower to the protagonist, which made me feel that the whole concept of the book was very hypocritical.

(Ming)'s novels should be picked at Zhu Yuanzhang's time and Xu Miaoyun's (Ming) novels should be picked up. The beauty that many like is Xu Miaoyun.

Do all the novels you open have multiple female protagonists?