1853: My Struggle

Chapter Three's cyborg setting is too out of place. Producing 120,000 absolutely loyal war machines a year? Are you playing a video game? Judging from the title and synopsis, I thought it was a late Qing Dynasty version of "My Struggle," which sounded interesting. Good grief, it's just mindless cheating and easy victory! 👍👍👍

What on earth is the Jiaofangsi? To truly reform the government, it shouldn't be involved with such things at all. Gambling, prostitution, and drugs are inextricably linked; this industry inevitably leads to human trafficking, worsens public order, and corrupts those in power. It would be better to deal with these beneficiaries directly or send them to foreigners.

I've read 291 chapters so far, and overall it's not bad. However, there's one issue I have to address: the Jiaofangsi (a type of brothel). As a writer, you must know the general reputation of such places in cultural works. If the protagonist wants to introduce something new, you should just cut away all the rotten parts.

Do you know why your grades are so bad? Even though what you write is the normal world, most people who read novels are just ordinary oxen and horses! People read novels for fun and entertainment; how many people would want to read a bloody, realistic world?

I got to chapter 193 and started to lose interest. It wasn't the slow pace; that's just the author's writing style, which I could manage. What I couldn't continue was the simplistic and unrealistic portrayal of mobilizing the masses. Mass mobilization isn't something that can be done quickly or easily.

With a cheat, your rebellion pace is too slow; giving you a cheat is a waste of time.

This kind of cheat code is really easy to use to start something big; they've done so much preparation already. It's clearly easy to snowball, plus the Taiping Rebellion as a buffer. Don't animals and fish count as energy? It can only be humans?

The pressure was immense; it felt like the pirates on the roadside were elite troops on par with lobster soldiers. Out of three hundred pirates, fifty or sixty had to die before they collapsed—a 20% mortality rate. They were definitely elite infantry.

This new book's subject matter is so different from my previous works, I feel like it's very likely to flop.

Based on the synopsis and the three golden chapters, it seems the protagonist is supposed to be a radical citizen in the 19th century. However, national consciousness in 19th-century China hadn't yet awakened; it only developed towards the end. Playing a radical citizen at that time... Well, it's hard to say. The system's unit types also lowered my expectations for this work. I'll keep it for now, and if it gets on the monthly ticket rankings, I'll check it out.