Gossip of the Qing Dynasty: Three Hundred Years of Ups and Downs

This is a century-old history of the Qing Dynasty written in popular vernacular. It follows a relaxed, humorous, and well-founded narrative style, eliminating the boring and obscure official historical dogma. It uses down-to-earth humorous writing and a clear and transparent time context to break down the ups and downs of the Qing dynasty over the past three hundred years. From the desperate situation of Nurhaci's thirty armors, he made a comeback in the ice and snow of the Liaodong wasteland, unified the Jurchens, and laid the foundation for the Jin Dynasty; to Huang Taiji's determination to innovate and accumulate strength, and then to the Qing army's entry into the customs and the Central Plains, it has experienced the prosperity of the prosperous times, the intrigues of the court, the hidden worries of the prosperous times, and the decadence of the troubled times, until the end of the dynasty. The book does not deliberately whitewash or discredit, and truly restores the merits and demerits of the emperors and generals of the Qing Dynasty, the intrigues inside and outside the court, and the vicissitudes of the civil world. It dismantles the core strength of the rise of the dynasty, the prosperity and glory of its heyday, and also analyzes the hidden dangers of corruption in the prosperous age and the inevitable fate of the dynasty's end. The official history is told in gossip and the rise and fall in popular language, making the thick history of the Qing Dynasty lively, interesting and easy to understand, and clearly understanding the complete code of the rise and fall of China's last feudal dynasty.