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I Want to Become Grand Secretary 我要做首辅
In the thirtieth year of the Jiajing reign, the Daoist Emperor hid in the Western Garden, refining mercury and making elixirs, while Grand Secretary Yan Song racked his brains over a eulogy to the emperor. In the northwest, Altan Khan repeatedly rode toward the Central Plains. In the southeast, Japanese pirates had grown addicted to plunder. Zhang Juzheng tore at his hair over a piece of bootlicking prose. Qi Jiguang was still kneeling on a washboard. Li Shizhen quietly left the Imperial Medical
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- 2 A Laid-Back Early Tang Dynasty 懒散初唐 In the fifth year of Wude, the Tang dynasty has just been founded. Li Yuan stays in his harem, surrounded by beautiful women, enjoying the hard-won fruits of victory. Li Jiancheng is busy consolidating his position as Crown Prince, while Li Shimin covets his elder brother’s throne. The generals are busy waging war, the ministers are busy governing the country, the merchants are busy trading with foreign merchants, and the farmers are busy reclaiming wasteland… Amid all this hustle and bustle, Li 0Votes329.5kRecs449.1kFans
- 3 The Great Idle Man of the Zhenguan Era 贞观大闲人 In the Zhenguan era of the Tang, the realm was at peace and the land was magnificent, all under the Li clan’s special favor. Li Jing struck north against the Turks, while Emperor Taizong campaigned east against Goguryeo. Their armies were so mighty that they commanded the respect of the four seas. Now, let us set out anew and restore the old realm. Before the portraits of the meritorious officials, Li Yuan plucked his pipa and sighed alone. In the towers of Lingyan Pavilion, Li Shimin, drunk, da 0Votes1.4MRecs787.4kFans
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A Great Landowner in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝好地主
Zhang Chao transmigrates to the fourth year of Wude and arrives at Bashang, outside Chang’an, where he becomes the son of a veteran soldier. But all he wants is to be a laid-back, prosperous landlord in the Tang Dynasty! (Recipient of the 2016 Xingchuang Award for Excellence in Historical Fiction!)
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The Young Marquis of the Tang Dynasty 大唐小侯爷
I can't make sense of it. I was just taking a trip, so how did I inexplicably transmigrate?! There was no going home, and somehow my phone had changed too. This hapless, furious soul had no choice but to make his way out of the Qinling Mountains, one step at a time. Who could have guessed that by the Wei River he'd run into the unlucky Li Er, who had just been robbed blind by the Turks? “Your Majesty, how about we study science?” “Impossible! My realm is unstable, our national strength is weak,
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The Generals of Great Song 大宋将门
No willows along the riverbank in the dawn breeze, no raising a cup to ask the blue heavens, no Along the River During the Qingming Festival... An unlucky writer suddenly realizes he seems to have landed in a fake Song dynasty... His family has fallen into decline, and human kindness is as thin as paper. Powerful Liao armies threaten from outside, while countless useless allies cause trouble within. The mighty Yellow River is in flood, and even Heaven seems to be piling on... No matter how many
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- 7 The Splendor of the Great Song 大宋风华 Standing at the crossroads of history, Zhou Quan’s gaze grew resolute. For the people of Huaxia, descendants of Yan and Huang, he would seize this opportunity. As the tide swept through time, he would outshine the entire Song Dynasty! 0Votes123.4kRecs85kFans
- 8 The Song Dynasty's Most Notorious Young Scion 大宋的最强纨绔子弟 Reborn as the son of Gao Taiwei, a treacherous minister. He thought the life he'd longed for was about to begin, but then he asked around and found out that Lin Chong from Water Margin had already been framed and thrown in prison. Besides that, there was a wastrel determined to turn over a new leaf, along with plenty of other catastrophes to deal with... The new novel, Back to Field: Reborn in 1993, is now out. 0Votes394.4kRecs403.1kFans
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Striving in Dream of the Red Chamber 奋斗在红楼
In the winter of the seventh year of the Yongzhi reign of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the beautiful, haughty little girl Lin Daiyu has just entered the Jia household. A modern science graduate transmigrates into the body of Jia Huan, a bastard son in the Jia household from Dream of the Red Chamber. If he doesn’t want to be dragged down by his useless Jia relatives and have his family confiscated and his head chopped off, he needs to prepare early. This is the story of a bastard son making a comeback
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- 10 The Commoner Chancellor 寒门首辅 (This book was shortlisted for the 2016 Xingchuang Award in the Historical Fiction category!) In the fifth year of Hongzhi, Xu Pu was riding high as chief grand secretary, while Li Dongyang had just begun his career as an examiner for the metropolitan examination. Liu Jian had risen to become a Grand Secretary of the Wenyuan Pavilion, while Xie Qian had yet to join the cabinet and earn a reputation as a worthy minister. Yang Tinghe was ordered to help compile the Veritable Records of Emperor Xia 0Votes229kRecs98.1kFans
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