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- 1 A Handbook for Getting By in the Ming Dynasty 明朝谋生手册 With over a hundred mu of good farmland, the family is comfortably well-off by small landowner standards. But at just fourteen, he suddenly finds himself being called “Father.” The title of Xiucai he has only just earned looks set to slip away again, and young scholar Wang Fulin is feeling the pressure. The first rule of the Wang family teachings: “Of all evils, lust is the worst; of all virtues, filial piety comes first.” In the years between the Longqing and Wanli reigns, society is extravagan 0Votes528.7kRecs122kFans
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Disciplining the Song Dynasty 调教大宋
In the sixth year of Qingli, the Zhao Song dynasty was awash in song and dance. Then a madman arrived… He saw with his own eyes the Great Song's splendor, grace, and warmth. At first, Tang Yi just wanted to enjoy this era. The Jingkang Incident, the Mongol cavalry, none of it had anything to do with him. History would follow its own course, no matter how much he meddled. A thousand years later, China would still be China! It couldn't fall! But when an old man, worried for his country and its
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- 3 The Ming Dynasty's Literary Champion 大明文魁 Before the Forbidden City stand nine gates in succession. Officials in their caps and finery arrive from the southern gate. With palace flowers tucked in their hats, they face the emperor; in the Golden Hall, their names are announced for all to hear. They ride through the imperial avenue for ten miles, hailed as the Ming dynasty’s top scholar. 10Votes1.6MRecs544.3kFans
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The Great Song Dynasty 鼎宋
Love him? Send him to the Song Dynasty, where there are benevolent rulers and worthy ministers, a prosperous golden age, elegant scholars, and a legacy that will endure for a thousand years. Hate him? Send him to the Song Dynasty, where there are foolish rulers and treacherous ministers, sycophants running rampant, the Jingkang humiliation, and endless lingering resentment. Wang Chong returned to the Great Song of nine hundred years ago. A perfectly good child prodigy was ruined by his transmigr
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The Rise of Song 兴宋
This is the best of times; this is the worst of times. This is the age of wisdom; this is the age of foolishness. This is the era of creation; this is the era of destruction. This is the season of light; this is the season of darkness... But all in all, it’s still the best of times. Living in this brilliant age, making money happily, pursuing your dreams, falling in love with abandon, and enjoying life: it’s as simple as that.
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Reborn in the Late Kangxi Era 重生于康熙末年
Xiao Jiu's new book, My Father-in-Law Is Called Kangxi, launches on Qidian on May 1, 2022. He woke from a dream to find himself in the Cao family's Jiangning Weaving Bureau residence, three hundred years in the past. Kangxi was growing old, and great changes were on the horizon. The Nine Princes were watching, ready to make their move. Some families were flourishing, others were on the brink of collapse. The Cao family of Jiangnan was at the height
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Drifting with the Tide: A Great Military Strategist 随波逐流之一代军师
I have long since hidden away the gold at my waist; such matters are nothing unusual. If the world wishes to know the guest of the humble garden, he is merely a scholar from Jiangnan. Jiang Zhe, courtesy name Suiyun, was born poor. After ten years of arduous study, he finally passed the imperial examinations and entered the Hanlin Academy. But by chance, he was drawn into the struggle over the crown prince of the Great Yong dynasty. Faced with schemes and machinations, he had to match wits and p
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Lost in 1629 迷失在一六二九
You! Yes, you. Take a look at yourself. What can you do? What do you know how to do? If you were dropped into the year 1629, the second year of the Chongzhen reign in the Ming dynasty, in the age of Li Zicheng and Hong Taiji, could you survive? Without a golden finger, without a protagonist’s destiny, relying entirely on your own skills and knowledge, could you survive? The one stroke of luck is that you wouldn’t be fighting alone. Behind you would be a group, a community of modern people. Come
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