Late Han

The name "Yi" and the courtesy name "Dingyuan" don't seem quite right. The *Shuowen Jiezi* (a dictionary of Chinese characters) defines "Yi" as: "Yi means reckless anger. It also means decisiveness." How can a name and courtesy name be completely unrelated? Take Zhou Yu as a simple example; his courtesy name was Gongjin. Both "Yu" and "Jin" mean beautiful jade. Another example is Liu Bei.

Killing Ding Yuan is indefensible, and killing Dong Zhuo was like using one tiger to devour another. Later, he surrendered to Yuan Shao, who looked down on him and wanted to kill him. Knowing his place, he fled. He fought Cao Cao in Yan Province for several years before being driven to Xu Province. Liu Bei kindly took him in, but he turned around and became the host. This kind of person, who is opportunistic and forgets his own interests, will die because of his moral failings.

Is Lu Bu really indispensable? This isn't a game where loyalty can be locked!

It's good. Unlike many accounts of the Three Kingdoms period, which are written in a very "Confucian" style, people in the Han Dynasty were actually very superstitious, and Taoist beliefs, apocryphal texts, and superstitious beliefs were prevalent.

It's so rare to find a novel without any fictionalized accounts. Most Three Kingdoms novels these days are based on historical fiction, and there's a lot of marketing and fabricated content. You can even find opinions that glorify Lü Bu's loyalty to the Han Dynasty. Given this context, it's incredibly rare to find a novel that's rigorously grounded in official history.

I have a feeling that at this stage, the Central Plains, the South, and the North are all unsuitable for Liu Bei to establish his power. His prestige is inferior to other warlords, he lacks the support of the Guandong gentry, and his military strength is weak. His only option is Guanzhong (Guanxi). Currently, only the Guanxi gentry lack a leader.

It feels like the author intended the protagonist to be like Qin Shi Huang (Li Shimin), but ended up writing him more like Han Emperor Zhu Gaochi. 😅

The besieged city of Xiapi was saved from imminent danger; the marriage alliance with the Lü family proved to be a stroke of brilliant wisdom. In the initial battle at Fengxian, the remaining enemy forces were wiped out; in Jianye, the army rallied the waters and the sky.

Is he really going to wash Lu Bu's clothes and become Lu Bu's son-in-law? And I even subscribed to a few chapters, Garlic Bird Garlic Bird!

Emperor Wuyuan of Shu Han