Perhaps as some readers said, it is better to leave blank space, so I will not continue the story because now my mind is on the new book.
In the new book voting, the two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties had an overwhelming majority...
This is actually a very long historical period, several hundred years, which is equivalent to the life span of an orthodox dynasty, but there were dozens of emperors during this period, maybe seventy or eighty - if I remember correctly.
This extremely chaotic historical era is also a period that readers pay relatively little attention to.
Especially in the period from the early Western Jin Dynasty to the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, when Hou Zhao, Former Qin and Northern Wei were unified and split three times in the north, even fewer people were willing to understand.
Personally, it seems to be less popular than Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
For example, when Zhao Shihu unified the north, did anyone care? It seems not.
Former Qin Fu Jian, well...
Then to the Northern Wei Dynasty.
After all, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms still had some embellishments like Zhou Empress and Lady Huarui. The Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms were really a chaotic and murderous time, even more cruel than the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
I thought about it carefully and realized that unification in this era can be very fast or very slow.
If you do it quickly, you can be like the late Zhao Shihu, who cooperated with the powerful nobles, and people listened to you. If you defeat a few major enemies, then they will be unified.
But this unity is also very unstable. Once the hero dies or suffers a major defeat, the world will immediately fall into chaos.
For example, after Zhao basically unified the north, once Shi Hu died, the princes attacked each other and soon fell apart.
Fu Jian suffered a defeat at Feishui, the former Qin Dynasty immediately collapsed, and rebels were everywhere.
The Northern Wei Dynasty was better because the country was long and it learned the lessons of the Later Zhao and the Former Qin. However, after the Six Towns Uprising, it was still divided into the Eastern Wei and the Western Wei.
The aristocratic family controls the local state and county government, has vast stretches of land, owns a large number of serfs, and is financially self-sufficient. There are also sons and daughters of the central government serving as officials. It would be really difficult to train some private soldiers by yourself.
I have said before that each generation has its own ethos.
The versions of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were different from those of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the values and political ethics of the common people and nobles were also different from those of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Things that people in the Tang Dynasty found difficult to understand may have been taken for granted by people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and they felt that this was how they should be.
This is why the three views are different.
To be honest, if a time traveler does not have a good family background, it will be really difficult for him to survive in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, and the Western Jin Dynasty, and he will never get ahead in his life.
For example, if you are an official, you don't have a family background, and you have no role at all.
What about joining the army? All middle and senior officers are descendants of aristocratic families.
In the late Tang Dynasty, ordinary people served as soldiers and achieved meritorious service. If the superior dared to embezzle your military exploits, his head would be removed that night.
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, ordinary people made military exploits. It’s hard to say.
This is an era of despair for people at the bottom.
It may be better in the north, because a lot of aristocratic families have moved south, and the barbarians have far-fetched family backgrounds. The shackles of birth still exist, but they have been broken a lot.
In the south, the social order is stable, aristocratic families are rampant, and their control over ordinary people is ridiculously strong. All social resources are occupied by the clans, and the opportunities left to you are pitifully few, or not seen at all. It is much more difficult than in the north.
Already.
But there are frequent wars in the north, and this is another fucked up thing...
It's difficult to do anyway.
I also don’t want to give the protagonist an identity of a royal family, a noble family, a minor surname or a Han Su, just an ordinary person.
Let me deduce it for the time being, so that everyone can have fun.
Perhaps until the day the protagonist dies, they still cannot be unified.
Perhaps the protagonist is building a country like Later Zhao, Former Qin, and Northern Wei.
I don’t have an outline, so I’ll just follow the deduction.
Whispering, rough deduction to the end, there is a dead end, grandma's fault.
I was a little hesitant and considered whether to open a cheat and let Shao Thief travel through it to see where he would end up.
Shao Thief has been fighting all his life and has outstanding martial arts skills. He can march and fight with ease, and he can marry wives - well, the last one doesn't count.
If he is still willing to cheer up, his chances may be greater.
In short, in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, where class was solidified to an outrageous degree, it was really difficult to start from scratch. You need to accurately seize the fleeting opportunities and make less or no mistakes.
This is actually very difficult for the indigenous people. Can the authorities really avoid making mistakes?
It is also difficult for time travellers, because you have seen some historical events, but when you participate, you need personal quality and ability. This is very important - I tell you that there is fruit here, but it cannot be done casually.
Picking it requires skill.
Anyway, I'll think about it again.
The new book is already being prepared. I wrote the beginning of a chapter, but I deleted it. I felt that the time period (Hou Yan, that is, the Fu family sisters spent time) was not a good entry point, and the timeline had to be advanced significantly.
In any case, the protagonist should be living in the north. In the south, it would be too difficult without a suitable family background.
There was only one Liu Yu, and it was fate. But this man, at the age when he first became successful (38 years old), was so desperate that it made people cry. His youth is gone. Brothers, he spent his good years working for aristocratic families.
That’s it for now. I’m going to research the plot of Married Women and prepare for it. I’ll probably release a new book in late October or early November.