I Write Furiously in the Ming Dynasty

Where does power originate? Liu Jing's power lay in imperial power, or rather, state power. If you kill the emperor, your foundation for governance disappears, understand? The Tang Dynasty was different; the eunuchs' foundation for governance was military power. The scholar-officials' foundation was the collective and impartial deliberation of the literati.

This group of people always focused on domestic interests, showing no motivation whatsoever to expand their territory. China's vast territory was built up by each founding emperor conquering and reclaiming existing lands, which were then continued by the second emperor. However, by the third emperor's reign, internal strife arose due to conflicting interests.

He was killed because he conducted a nationwide land survey, and local gentry refused to cooperate and rebelled everywhere. It wasn't some unofficial historical account of Liu rebelling. Even if the gentry suppressed the central government, Liu wasn't imprisoned by the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Does anyone really believe the claim that he confiscated tens of millions of taels of gold?

The author writes a really good novel; I read it all night and it was very enjoyable! However, from a practical point of view, the protagonist is bound to be the loser and will ultimately die! If you were to travel back to the Ming Dynasty without any special abilities, you would undoubtedly die.

It seems that even if you travel back to the Ming Dynasty, you have to rebel! Otherwise, you'll be surrounded by treacherous people; you'll either be tricked to death or driven mad with anger!

Civil officials were all risen through the ranks, their positions built on mountains of corpses and seas of blood. What else could the emperor do? Promote officials? Don't advocate for departmental deliberations. The scholar-officials had their own internal democracy. It's not that this is bad.

The late Ming Dynasty was beyond saving; everything was doomed. Without any reforms, what was the point? Did modern people, with their unrealistic ambitions, even think about politics? The Ming Dynasty was the era with the most intense class struggles in feudal society! They fought to the point of collective treason! Even the powerful Grand Secretaries like Zhang Juzheng couldn't withstand it!

Why is Liu Jin portrayed as such a fool in this book? He consults the protagonist on everything, making the protagonist an external brain. A eunuch who would have made his mark on history is depicted as a complete idiot in this book. He gets tricked by other eunuchs right from the start and doesn't even realize it until the protagonist reminds him. It's one thing for the other Liu Jins to be incompetent, but to be unable to outmaneuver other eunuchs is just ridiculous.

Hongzhi only has a few days left to live; wouldn't it be better to let him die sooner?

Too little content. The writing is alright, but adding more chapters won't make it popular.