Author's words
This is a work that reviews history from the perspective of "Li Shimin" or "Zhu Youzhen". Pen ~ fun ~ cabinet www.biquge.info history of rulers, the history of critical moments of the country, and the history of decision-makers.
I've read a lot of historical novels or movies, some of which are really historical, and some of them close the page after reading the synopsis. The most impressive thing is that in the Sino-Japanese co-production film "Dunhuang" in the last century, the rebel generals of the Western Xia army shouted "The time to decide history has come, and we will be recorded in history", and his subordinates immediately rushed to kill. On the other side, the Western Xia Emperor Li Yuanhao said contemptuously before standing proudly, "It will definitely not be you who will decide history." "Li Yuanhao won.
The same thing was said by Li Shimin to Hou Junji, and he may have said it to Li Jiancheng. Yuan Shikai also politely expressed a similar meaning in his telegram conversation with Sun Wen.
History has always been determined by the strong, or the strongest of the strong. It has always been all kinds of Li Shimin, Yuan Shikai, etc., who have always determined the direction of history, as well as all kinds of "Emperor Yang of Sui", "Tang Xizong", and "Chongzhen" who sang against them. This is the truth of all history since the beginning of history.
There is no protagonist throughout the book in this work, and the characters are only various "Li Shimin" and "Zhu Youzhen". The book features the leaders and political leaders of many superpowers at the time and the leaders and political leaders of five former powers or even superpowers as the main characters in the novel. There are absolutely no characters in the whole book who "came up by helicopter" and "promoted by rocket", similar to the absurd years when the soldiers of the Zhenbao Island Border Guards became the deputy commander of the Shenyang Military Region in just a few years.
The style of the book: the illusion of realism, there is no trace of soothing and deceptive illusion, only brutal truth and real cruelty. Even the rules of the international community in the work - natural selection, survival of the fittest, the winner takes everything and has all the benefits; The loser, loses everything, and even himself is in ashes. All the important people who appeared on the scene, as well as the dignitaries of all countries, are the first to be sharp, fully demonstrating the reality of the moment.
The book is divided into five parts, and the titles of the volumes are tentatively set as the following five volumes, "Gold and Steel", "Rotten Wood Monument", "Wang Yang Sigh", "Burning Moon", and "Silicon", each volume is independent of each other and related to each other.
These five volumes respectively record the five former powers wrestling with their respective opponents and struggling with internal difficulties against the backdrop of the impact and blow of many external factors, such as the industrial revolution, technological progress, new technology, various arms races, new monetary models, new economic concepts, economic crises, confrontations with foreign enemies, and military conflicts. Each country has adopted different countermeasures and ways of dealing with it according to its own conditions, either right or wrong, or crooked. Some broke out of the cocoon and became butterflies, went to development and prosperity until they dominated the world, and some lost their original advantages and declined step by step until they perished.
Multiple superpowers appear throughout the five volumes, either as the protagonist country, or as a trading partner or ally of the protagonist country, as a conflict hostile or strategic adversary. The politicians of the superpowers, out of their own interests, drink afternoon tea to decide the fate of other countries. Throughout the work, the leaders and political leaders of the superpowers at the time are rivals and accomplices of each other, using various means to send multiple target countries on the road to ruin and decay out of their own national interests.
The same subject matter, observing history from a perspective other than history, making history, feeling history in the muddy trenches or being by history, the taste of the two is absolutely different. I hope you enjoy this taste of history.
The history of the panorama may be dirty, maybe hopeless, but this is the truth of history.