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- 1 Seizing the Yuan 扼元 In 1213 AD, the Jin Kingdom is beginning to weaken, while the Southern Song remains in decline. Western Xia, Dali, Goryeo, and Japan are even less of a force to be reckoned with. An unprecedented power is rising on the plateau, ready to drench the Eurasian continent in the blood of hundreds of millions. With calamity looming, a young man grips his bow and blade, determined to seize fate by the throat. 6Votes283.9kRecs301kFans
- 2 The End of the Song Dynasty 终宋 The Song Dynasty never recovered Yan and Yun, and throughout its reign it was bullied by foreign enemies… As the Southern Song nears its fall, he will accomplish the great deeds that eluded the dynasty from beginning to end. 81Votes996.2kRecs2.3MFans
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Restoring the Song Dynasty 绍宋
To inherit is to continue; to guide is to lead. In 1127, the Northern Song fell. Soon afterward, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amid great expectations, inheriting the Song dynasty and adopting the Jianyan era name. Yet within three months, Li Gang was dismissed as chancellor, Chen Dong was executed, Yue Fei was driven out of the army, Zong Ze was abandoned in the capital, and the plans to resist the Jin in Hebei were scrapped wholesale... After all that eff
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- 4 Tomorrow's World 明天下 The history of the late Ming was chaotic and turbulent, a history written by people with powerful personalities. Whether they were rebels like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, rulers like the Chongzhen Emperor and Yuan Chonghuan, or turncoats like Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong, every one of them had a wealth of stories to tell. It was these remarkable stories that made the late Ming such a grand and tumultuous era, full of twists and turns. To tell this part of history well, we must bring each fig 18Votes5.5MRecs1.8MFans
- 5 Shuoming 朔明 The young men of a frontier town in the northwest, the upheavals of the late Ming dynasty, blades, bows, firearms, and merchant trade, along with the grudges and affections of nation and family, all begin with an adventure in the Gobi Desert… 0Votes162.4kRecs60.4kFans
- 6 The Shadow of Espionage 谍影风云 An ordinary civil servant returns to 1936 by a twist of fate. He searches for underground resistance groups and tracks down Japanese spies, contributing his share to the liberation and revival of his country and people amid an extraordinary era. Thus begins his legendary career in the world of espionage. Spy Tide readers’ group 1: 833528943; Spy Tide readers’ group 2: 879936725; Spy Tide helmsman group: 940510849 43Votes7.9MRecs2.1MFans
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Conquering the Han 覆汉
Strive to make a name among the lords, if only to preserve your life in a chaotic age! As a posthumous child, Gongsun Xun received his guiding principles for life early on from his mother, who claimed to be a transmigrator. But after following the tide of history year after year, he began to realize that things were gradually going very wrong! This is the story of a man who is half native, striving amid a momentous age!
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The Qin Empire's Bailiff 秦吏
At the end of the Warring States period, China faced an upheaval unlike any in a thousand years. Some were born into hereditary nobility. Some were princes of noble rank. But he was reborn as Heifu, a lowly Qin soldier and an obscure figure in the Qin bamboo slips from Yunmeng. To avoid dying in a ditch and take control of his own fate, he fought his way up. Fortunately
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Bright Moon Over the Warring States 战国明月
The sun and moon rush onward, never lingering; spring and autumn take their turns. Time turned back, and a minor civil servant was reborn in the Warring States period as Zhao, the Lord of Chang’an. As the queen dowager’s favorite, he could have enjoyed a life of luxury, tinkered with little inventions, and chatted merrily with the Hundred Schools
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Return to Song Times 宋时归
A legend. An adventure. Once again, a thoroughly satisfying alternate-history novel. Look forward to Angel Oscar’s latest offering for 2010. Officially serialized on January 1, 2010.
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The Struggle for the Throne of Chu and Han 楚汉争鼎
A veteran of the People's Liberation Army nicknamed “The Butcher” dies in a border conflict. His soul transmigrates to the era of the Chu-Han contention, where he becomes Xiang Zhuang, cousin of Xiang Yu. By then, the struggle between Chu and Han is nearing its end, and Xiang Yu is already backed into a corner. At the Battle of Gaixia, a hundred thousand Chu troops are wiped out, and Xiang Yu takes his own life at the Wu River. Xiang Zhuang is entrusted with command in this desperate moment, b
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The Villain 恶汉
I transmigrated and was reborn… Only to become Dong Zhuo's son. But I remember that Dong Zhuo didn't have a son in the Three Kingdoms. What kind of situation is this? My impression of Dong Zhuo is that he fought with a mighty general over a woman. Though he got the little Diao, he lost his head. Then his entire family was beheaded by that mighty general, and even his white-haired grandmother was beheaded by Huangfu Song. What am I supposed to do? I can't make paper, I don't know how to make gunp
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Late Ming 晚明
In the final years of the Ming dynasty, the northern frontier is shrouded in the smoke of war, with mountains of corpses, while the south of the Yangtze enjoys tranquil streams, stone bridges, song, and dance. Amid the internal strife and external threats of a dynasty on the brink of collapse, a calculating office director rises to power and sounds the last call for China. A true hero can change fate. Brutal, bloody ancient wars and authentic scenes of everyday life in the Ming, where ordinary p
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- 14 The Northern Hero 北雄 In the sixth year of Daye, the mighty Sui Dynasty reached a turning point. That year, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui began preparing to conquer Goguryeo, setting the rebellions that would bring down the Sui in motion. In the years that followed, the realm fell into turmoil, and heroes rose up everywhere. Eighteen rebel kings and sixty-four insurgent forces, rough-hewn heroes and powerful aristocratic clans all appeared on the stage, vying for dominion over the realm. To the north, the Turkic Khaganat 9Votes711.6kRecs327.3kFans
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The Great Song Butcher 大宋好屠夫
Poetry and the Blade is signed and uploading. You won’t be disappointed. Zheng Zhi transmigrated to the Northern Song world of Water Margin and became Zheng the Butcher, the very man Lu Tixia beat to death with three punches. In the final years of the Northern Song, war raged across the land and heroes vied for supremacy as China fell into decline. It was a time for heroes to make their mark. The grudges and loyalties of Water Margin, the good and the evil, the faithful and the treacherous: thei
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- 16 The Eagle of Humble Origins 寒门枭士 Splendor is about to take its final bow, while a poor-born youth quietly rises. Striding across time and space, a brilliant strategist plots for the realm. 0Votes1.1MRecs270.4kFans
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War Map of the Realm 江山战图
War fires rise at the end of the Sui, and heroes emerge from the borderlands. Dou Jiande, the Heavenly King of Hebei, battles the Vajra on a snowy night; The secretive hero of Wagang turns on his own and kills Zhai Rang. The treacherous hero Yuwen conspires with Lady Xiao to assassinate the sovereign; Li Erlang of Chang'an fights the King of Luoyang twice. The Xiao Liang Emperor of Baling crosses the river to seize Jing and Xiang; Du Fuwei of the southeast calls himself the Wolf of Jianghuai. Gr
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- 18 The Southern Ming Continues 续南明 “The Great Ming has unified the four seas, surpassed the Three Dynasties and outshone the Han and Tang. Its reach extends to the ends of the earth, and all under Heaven bow as its subjects...” In the sixth year of the Xuande era, Zheng He set sail on his seventh voyage to the Western Ocean. He proudly proclaimed these words on the Stele of the Heavenly Consort’s Divine Manifestations. At the time, the might of the Ming dynasty was at its height. But by the end of the Chongzhen era, the great edi 2Votes722.2kRecs228.1kFans
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A Ming Dynasty Warrior 大明武夫
Zhao Jin had lived an ordinary life, never imagining that he would get a new beginning at the end of the Ming dynasty. He is determined to make a name for himself in history. With the spear in his hand, he will pacify a realm stretching ten thousand li. This is the Ming Dynasty Warrior.
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A Lowly Soldier on the Ming Frontier 明末边军一小兵
In the third month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, a severe drought struck Shanxi and Shaanxi. A thousand miles of land lay barren, and the people were starving. In the fourth month, Li Zicheng entered Henan and joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong to seize Chengcheng. In the seventh month, the Later Jin army laid siege to Xuanfu and raided Datong, taking many border forts. The Ming faced internal strife and external threats, teetering on the brink! That July, Wang Dou unexpectedly arrived in th
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