Commanding the Ancestors: Building an Immortal Clan Since the Eastern Han
操控祖宗，从东汉开始创不朽世家
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Huang Chao: I've heard there are some powerful families here? 😃
The world is in an uproar all day long
He does something that causes a worldwide uproar, supports a king that shakes the entire land, and if things get even more chaotic, the seas will be flooded. After reading so many chapters, I can't find any other words to describe it. 🙂
Here's a suggestion: don't follow the example of the book "The Uncrowned King of Western Zhou." After finishing the story of the Zhou Dynasty, it's just disgusting. Rather than a tale of a thousand-year-old family, it's more like a thousand-year-old cancer. The characters it portrays are like dog poop.
It's useless if the protagonist simply copies technology from later generations and adds a few reforms. If a country wants to produce a large number of original inventions, it must undergo systematic changes in many aspects, including its ideological foundation, political structure, legal system, and social forces.
I've been keeping it going. But seeing the latest chapter title, if Wu Zetian succeeds in usurping the throne again, there's no point in reading this book. You've just rewritten the historical sequence; you can't see any use for the Gu family at all.
Having read this far over the past few days, I had a bad feeling ever since the author started saying that Gu Xi had a moment of brilliance. Because Gu Xi's moment of glory has already passed, hasn't it? Overcoming the natural disaster is enough. His character is established by his refusal to admit defeat and his ability to triumph over fate.
What mistakes are common in historical novels?
Before the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was not addressed as "Huangshang" (). During the Song Dynasty, he was often called "Guanjia" (), and in other dynasties, he was usually addressed as "Bixia" (). Starting in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was occasionally addressed as "Huangshang," but most of the time he was addressed as "Bixia."
These kinds of novels are indeed difficult to write. It feels like the author is in a bind—unable to change too much, yet also unable to leave things unchanged. This results in the plot becoming increasingly devoid of substance.
The so-called historical revisionism is actually just that the author lacked imagination and could only make minor modifications based on history to create this novel.
It feels like the author is having trouble writing.
I only started reading this book the day before yesterday, and I finished it in one go. It feels like the author is about to give up. No matter what they write, there's always someone criticizing it. If they wrote Gu Xi alive, people complained it was pointless; if they wrote Gu Xi dead, people said his death was rushed; now they're writing about Gu Chen, and people are saying there's too much…