A Reading List for a 12-Year Veteran Reader: Solid Picks and Better 十二年老书虫，粮草以上水平书单。
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- 1 Sun and Moon: Yongli 1656 日月：永历1656 [The author has already completed two acclaimed novels, each over two million words. Read with confidence.] Late Ming, the tenth year of the Yongli reign. Li Dingguo escorted the emperor into Yunnan, enraging Sun Kewang. Liu Wenxiu raised an army in response, and the court moved to Kunming. The Three Princes' infighting is just around the corner, while the Qing court watches hungrily from the sidelines. The last remaining territory of the Southern Ming is about to become the battleground for a n 0Votes38.7kRecs42.6kFans
- 2 Han Descendants of the Jin Court 晋庭汉裔 The mountains we look back on again and again, the sea we never forget. On the day Jiang Wei died in the flames at Chengdu, the last light of the Han Empire vanished for good. The men of Jin stood beside his corpse and picked up a gallbladder as big as a bucket. They stared at one another in bewilderment. The Western Jin Empire was founded on this victory, but the answer to where the future would lead was a terrible one. Forty years later, mourners would fill the land, the Nine Provinces would l 301Votes131.5kRecs144kFans
- 3 The Great Ming of the Taichang Era 泰昌大明 In the forty-eighth year of the Wanli reign, the Great Ming dynasty had endured for 252 years. Those 252 years marked not only the empire's lifespan, but also the duration of systemic land enclosures. Emperor Shenzong began with the “Down with Zhang, Down with Feng” campaigns, followed them with the “Three Great Controversies,” and ended with the “Demon Book” and “Club Strikes,” single-handedly creating the two-party rivalry of the late Ming. After consolidating power in his own hands, he neglec 1Votes61kRecs120.5kFans
- 4 Starting a Business in Late Tang 创业在晚唐 Two hundred and fifty-seven years after the Mandate of Heaven passed to the Li clan. The once-glorious Great Tang, to which all nations had paid homage, stumbled into the winter of the first year of the Qianfu era. That winter, only three months remained before Wang and Huang raised their banners, and just thirty-three years before the fall of the Tang. That same winter, Chang’an’s nobles remained lost in the fading glow of a golden age, while in the southwest of the empire, the petty kingdom of 697Votes162.9kRecs411.9kFans
- 5 The Child Emperor 孺子帝 Three emperors died one after another, and a prince whom no one had ever paid any attention to inexplicably ascended the throne, finding himself surrounded by danger. The Empress Dowager disliked him and was always looking for a younger, more obedient boy to install as the new emperor. His half-brothers disliked him, believing he had stolen the throne that belonged to them. The eunuchs and palace maids disliked him too, thinking he didn’t seem like a real emperor… The Young Emperor could only sa 18Votes972.1kRecs607.7kFans
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Scripture of the Dead 死人经
A book of the dead, half a scripture without the Dao. I have severed a thousand heads and devoured the bones of a hundred bodies.
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