A Samurai's Life in Late Edo Japan

If you want to make money writing about the Bakumatsu period, why not try adapting Rurouni Kenshin? Using that IP as a backdrop would probably be more profitable than just writing about it.

Japan was incredibly poor; its only path to development was to invade the mainland, and in doing so, it inevitably had to deal with us.

Why do people always write Katsura Kogoro as belonging to the Satsuma Domain? He belongs to the Choshu Domain!

I think I've seen this Yagyu protagonist before, where he went to form the Shinsengumi or something. Did you borrow content from that?

The previous one, Yagyu, has already been banned. He was considered pro-Qing, but I didn't follow him closely, so I'm not sure how he disappeared. Authors should be careful; basically, if your protagonist reaches the core of power in an island nation, it's the countdown to his disappearance.

The timeline of this book is a mystery. The beginning follows a predictable narrative of events, but then in Chapter 76, which focuses on suppressing a rebellion, a scene suddenly jumps to several years prior. In Chapter 77, the story jumps from suppressing a rebellion in Kyoto to being in Edo unable to contact the British ambassador in Kyoto to buy cannons. The jumps are too jarring, making it somewhat difficult to continue reading.

I'll read it after you finish writing the Northern Land Reclamation story. Turning a Bakumatsu period novel into a land reclamation and farming story, you've really got something!

Why is it that no one is now traveling back in time to ancient Ryukyu, where it rose to power, expanded outwards, and conquered Luzon?

I can't write it. Japan needs to develop, and it's inevitable that it will have to confront the University of Tokyo.

He gave the Japanese a cheat code and even mentioned Tsinghua University. Surprisingly, it was posted and his account wasn't banned!