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- 1 Memoirs of the Heavenly Khan 天可汗回忆录 “How should we fight this battle?” “This time, the Heavenly Khan is on our side.” “Then we’ve got this in the bag!” A report from the Chang’an Dance King Association’s working-group discussion 17Votes76.6kRecs198kFans
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The Byzantine Empire of Greece 希腊的拜占庭帝国
The story of a small Balkan nation fighting to make its way! The road to a comeback for Otto I, the first king of Greece after its independence!
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- 3 The Crown Prince of Mexico 墨西哥皇太子 I’m Tang Yi, a gaming enthusiast. I was just visiting Mexico, and now you’re telling me that chatting with an old man made me transmigrate?! Could this get any more ridiculous? I’ve even become the eldest son of the king of Mexico, a country on the verge of collapse. What happened to the System every transmigrator is supposed to get? Are you kidding me? Whatever, since I’m already here, let me, Tang Yi, change the course of history and make up for past regrets. 0Votes1.6kRecs6.5kFans
- 4 Overthrow the Ming! 覆明！ A rebellion only counts as a rebellion if it fails! If it succeeds, that’s called restoring the dynasty! In the second year of Chongzhen’s reign, disasters sweep across the Ming Empire, while the Later Jin army marches through the passes. Within the borders, the post-station courier in Yinchuan is itching to make a move; beyond them, the Tatars of Liaodong watch like hawks. The once-mighty empire that pursued its enemies across the land teeters on the brink of collapse. Amid the devastation of t 44Votes53.1kRecs332.4kFans
- 5 The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑 As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b 123Votes2MRecs2.1MFans
- 6 The Great Ming 皇明 [Over 8,000 premium subscribers] [10,000 words updated daily] [Pure power fantasy] [Decisive and ruthless] A little over a month after ascending the throne, Emperor Taichang Zhu Changluo died under mysterious circumstances. The Red Pill Case had yet to die down when the Palace Transfer Case erupted! As the empire's eldest prince, Zhu Youxiao looked at the mess his father had left behind, with factions at each other's throats and the realm falling apart. He could only sigh: How can we govern 89Votes36.1kRecs154.7kFans
- 7 Is the Son of Heaven Born to Rule? 天子宁有种 Questioning Zhao Kuangyin: “No matter how many problems Zhao the Elder caused, it can never erase the fact that he bullied a widow and her orphaned son!” Understanding Zhao Kuangyin: “You can’t really blame Zhao the Elder. In those chaotic times, a widow and her orphaned son couldn’t hold on to an empire.” Becoming Zhao Kuangyin: “Is the Son of Heaven born to the throne? No, it goes to whoever has the strongest army and finest horses!” Li Yi’s soul transmigrated into the body of a junior officer 90Votes23.5kRecs118.1kFans
- 8 Laying Low as a Ming Imperial Clansman 苟在明末当宗室 Zhu Shenzhui arrives in the Ming dynasty as a member of the imperial clan. Life in the clan is a struggle: his stipend is cut and delayed, and there's barely enough food at home to last from one meal to the next. Worse still, the Ming army has suffered a crushing defeat at Sarhu, and Wanli doesn't have much time left. A chaotic age is coming, and lying flat means death. He might as well take a chance, right? 0Votes27.9kRecs64.6kFans
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Northern Qi: My Father Is Emperor Wenxuan 北齐：家父文宣帝
Northern Qi was terribly unlucky. It once had a chance to end the age of chaos, but one after another it got stuck with emperors who were absolute lunatics, and eventually became a stepping stone for Northern Zhou. Northern Qi was also lucky. In the ninth year of Tianbao, the dazed crown prince Gao Yin opened his eyes again. Emperor Wenxuan, Gao Yang, was his father. When this “heroic Son of Heaven,” who made pipa instruments from human bones and drank and killed without restraint, died, Empress
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- 10 I Am the Great Powers 我就是列强 Li Shimin: Eight hundred it is, then. See you at Xuanwu Gate. Zhu Di: Eight hundred it is, then. I’ll launch my Jingnan campaign from Fengtiandian. Xu Wei: Eight hundred it is, then. I’ll build a nation in Nanyang and make it a world power. In 1856, as the Tianjing Incident erupts, Xu Wei leads eight hundred young men to Borneo in Nanyang. There, he embarks on a journey to restore the glory of the Chinese people in the South Seas. First, a modest goal: become a world power. 93Votes52.8kRecs123.3kFans
- 11 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
- 12 Battling for Supremacy in the Sixteen Kingdoms 争雄十六国 In 382 CE, on the eve of the Battle of Fei River. Fu Jian, Heavenly King of Great Qin, boasted that his army could “cast whips into the river and halt its flow,” while 870,000 Qin soldiers sharpened their weapons. Xie An, Eastern Jin's statesman and a legendary braggart, lounged on Mount Dong and claimed he could turn the Qin army back with a few words and a laugh. Yao Chang, chieftain of the Qiang, and Murong Chui, the Xianbei prodigy, kept their ambitions hidden and waited for their chance. In 0Votes21.1kRecs58.4kFans
- 13 Han Officials 汉官 The late Eastern Han dynasty was plunged into chaos. Though the emperor was supreme in name, he had no real power to govern. Authority was split among many, and the state had lost control. Eunuchs corrupted the government, aristocratic clans seized the nation, powerful warlords rose everywhere, and factional strife raged without end. Beyond the borders, barbarians and foreign tribes watched hungrily. Within them, natural disasters and deadly epidemics ran rampant. What had the common people done 0Votes29.1kRecs61.3kFans
- 14 Returning to Righteousness, Not to Tang 归义非唐 In the fourth year of the Dazhong era, the Niu-Li factional struggle came to a complete end, and the Dazhong reign entered a period of vigorous prosperity. In Hexi and Longyou, rival peoples fought for supremacy. The victors became kings, and the losers were forgotten. Wang Xianzhi in Qilu was still trafficking in illicit salt, while Huang Chao was still proving how easy it was to pass the exams and make it to Chang'an. That year, in the forgotten lands of the far west, an army seized its chance 1Votes75.5kRecs861.9kFans
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