Thoughts on Volume Three + Performance Report + A Plea for Monthly Votes at the Start of the Month

Let's talk about Volume Three.

Volume Three was finished: sixty-five chapters, close to 700,000 Chinese characters.

The heart of Volume Three was its title, "Capital Storms." You could probably all see what this volume was about.

[Setup]

Setting up the big picture and the world. I, Qi Yue, didn't introduce the power systems, because a struggle at court didn't need them.

What did we need more systems for? The Martial Dao and the Confucian Dao were enough.

But if Volume Three had been nothing but dry setup, no one would have read it, so I roughly structured it like this.

[Setup]-[Showing off]-[Setup]-[Showing off]-[Setup]-[Showing off]

Set up the Six Ministries, bring out the Ministry of Punishment, and have the protagonist raise hell there, delivering one resounding slap in the face after another.

Set up the prince, bring out his son, invoke Sage Intent to kill the prince, and show off while slapping faces.

Set up the Ministry of Revenue: the national treasury was empty, so kill the foreign merchants and get some money first.

Set up Great Wei's central problem-poverty-then introduce the waterwheel and deliver one resounding slap in the face after another.

Set up the Great Wei Literary Palace and the Peaceful Age Poetry Gathering, prove for himself whether it was an unorthodox art, and deliver one resounding slap in the face after another.

Once all the setup was finally complete, Capital Storms truly began.

What was the force behind Prince Huaining? Why did he dare hand over his military authority? What made him so fearless?

What was the Great Wei Literary Palace planning? Why did they want to break away from Great Wei? How would the protagonist strike back?

What other troubles would the Great Wei Dynasty face? How would the protagonist lead Great Wei to prosperity?

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