The Pillar of the Nation
国士
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 4.5M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
- Updated
- 10y ago
- English
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The author's writing style is excellent, and the framework is good, but the protagonist's personality is really off-putting. When he's brave, he's clueless; when he needs to use his brain, he lacks both courage and decisiveness. I couldn't keep going after 100 chapters.
The writing and plot are good, but the protagonist is disgusting; no wonder so many people criticize him.
What was the environment like at the end of the Ming Dynasty? Killing a few people and then feeling melancholic, taking hostages—that's immoral, despicable!! This pretentious, pretentious writing is infuriating. Even the best content becomes nauseating with this protagonist. If he weren't the protagonist, he would have died long ago.
Speechless. Gunpowder control, iron control, and how many gun barrels could the Ming Dynasty produce in a year? You're already calling them "daddy"? And it's just one craftsman with a few apprentices, earning a few hundred a month, writing historical texts, checking things, wasting hours writing, what a waste of time.
I'm already having trouble reading past chapter 200. The main issue is chapter 278: "Family in turmoil! What kind of scum is Zhu Ting? She scared the protagonist's mother while riding a horse, cut off a maid's hair in front of the old lady, and talked back to the old lady. The protagonist didn't say a word, and then he had to grovel and coax her afterwards. He's truly unfilial.
It's safe to say that the quality of readers on Qidian (a Chinese online literature platform) is getting lower and lower. Such a good book has so many negative reviews; just look at the books on the bestseller list – they're truly appalling!
This level of skill is considered expert?? I'm too lazy to even comment, there are just too many of them!
Having read about a hundred chapters, it's undeniably a good novel. However, it's not a good online novel. The protagonist's values are problematic. Before transmigrating, he was a businessman, so portraying him as profit-driven is understandable.
Having read most of it, I just have to rant. The protagonist's life is hanging by a thread, yet he's still acting like a saint, his intelligence constantly plummeting. What kind of toxic plot is this?! After the protagonist finally trains his troops and achieves a great victory, he just buries them?! Holy crap, isn't the protagonist a history enthusiast?
A thousand musketeers fought against thirty thousand, plus cavalry. He, as the commander-in-chief, single-handedly chased after girls amidst the vast army. Later, the girls rode off and scared his mother, but he acted as if nothing had happened. Judging from his past, you wouldn't guess he was a national hero; all you saw was aspiring to be a minor warlord.
This book is truly fantastic. Don't listen to the rubbish of a bunch of book reviewers. I've been reading online novels for five or six years, and counting my reading experience, it's almost fourteen years. This book is absolutely a masterpiece. The logic is sound, and the character development is extremely successful.