Sorry, I sent the wrong comment, please don't subscribe.
[Send red envelopes] Reading benefits are here! You have up to 888 cash red envelopes to be drawn! Follow the weixin official account [Book Friends Base Camp] to draw red envelopes!
1. The author does have an appreciation for Zhao Kuangyin. As the founding monarch who ranks high in history, even Mao Zedong cited Emperor Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Tang Zong as the founder of Song Dynasty. There is no reason to deliberately belittle and smear him.
The successor is unworthy. Many people blame Zhao Kuangyin for the subsequent development of the Song Dynasty. This is not objective and fair.
Anyone who has read that period of historical materials should be aware of what kind of era the Five Dynasties was and how cruel the disasters of the feudal towns were. Zhao Kuangyin was able to eliminate old disadvantages and flatten all the countries. His historical status and achievements cannot be erased.
Taking away military power and centralizing power is also the right direction. There is nothing wrong in doing so. As for overcorrecting, isn't it the right thing to do?
As for the army of the Song Dynasty, during the Zhao Kuangyin dynasty and even in the early days of Zhao Guangyi, they could be described as strong troops. Otherwise, how could some weak brigades conquer the world? In the early Song Dynasty, were there any shortage of famous generals?
Although some causes of trouble have been laid since the beginning of Zhao Kuangyin, I personally think that the flaws cannot outweigh the flaws.
Oppressing orphans and widowed mothers, and gaining the country unfairly may be a black spot, but being on the cusp of history, there is nothing wrong with Dai Zhou's choice.
Personally, I think that so many people despise this point, not because they sympathize with the orphan and the widowed mother, but because they feel pity for Chai Rong. After all, many people say what would have happened if Chai Rong had lived a few more years. This shows that he was early
Regret to pass away.
But there are no ifs in history. The author wrote this book to make up for his regrets about this period of history through imagination. Let me reveal that at first, I wanted to write about Chai Rong, and I also felt that Chai Rong died early, which was a pity.
.
2. Some readers feel that the progress of this book is too slow. It has already reached 2 million words and has not yet dominated the world. This is a problem with the pace of the book. I filled in too much other content and lost a lot of words.
However, according to the timeline in the book, in the 11 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the process of unifying the world and reaching the point of destroying Shu was really not slow, and even a little fast.
You know, with the foundation laid in the ten years of the later Zhou Dynasty, it took Zhao Kuangyin 13 years to basically pacify the south.
Some people compare the protagonist with Chai Rong. I can only say that Chai Rong can be called a wise king and a heroic hero. But is it unfair to compare his achievements with the author's "son" Liu Chengyou?
Moreover, have you really carefully compared the historical development in the book with the official history?
Chai Rong was able to conquer Jinyang in the north, capture Qin and Feng in the west, pacify Huainan in the south, and then attack Youzhou in the north within a few years. Guo Wei's three years of foundation building were very important.
If in the novel's perspective, Liu Zhiyuan could lay a three-year foundation for Liu Chengyou, would it be similar to the current development? It's just that in the book, the protagonist spends his own time on development and reform.
As for following the historical development path, aren’t the tested choices worth learning from?
The deduction of history has its inevitability and contingency, and the choice of strategy also has its commonality. The strategy of first south and then north is determined, combined with the national conditions and situations in the book, from Huainan, to Qinfeng, and then to Jinghu.
There are traces to follow.
If, in order to be surprising and not to be similar to history, we change the order of fighting, for example, take Jiangnan first, then Jinghu, and then Sichuan and Shu, wouldn't you think it's awkward?
Of course, it would not necessarily be impossible if I invented some historical circumstances, such as civil strife in the Southern Tang Dynasty, peasant uprisings, etc., to create opportunities for the protagonist to destroy the Tang Dynasty.
That would be a different approach, but it is not what I want to write, it is based on the imagination and deduction of official history.
Well, that's all for now. As the saying goes, benevolent people have different opinions and wise people have different opinions. No matter how you look at it, just keep your opinions.