Chapter 204: Let me talk about the recent situation

Let me talk about the recent situation.

First, about the updates you ministers care most about—I was on a business trip recently, so updates were unstable. There was nothing I could do about that, but now I'm back at the company working normally, and I'll try to restore the regular schedule of 8 AM to 6 PM updates, with occasional bonus chapters.

Next, about the Donglin Faction problem—these people are nothing but a bunch of useless talkers. I don't need to say more about that, but recently I've turned toward internal governance, and some people say I've gone soft.

Me:???

Me, going soft? That will never exist. In the eyes of the current protagonist, the Donglin Faction is nothing but a bunch of baby monkeys who've lost their mother—whenever he feels like grabbing a few to kill and make an example of them, he'll kill them. There's no question of being soft or not.

This is a power-fantasy novel, but it's also a normal novel. Is killing all day every day interesting? Killing is necessary, but it's not mandatory. The protagonist of this book will later take advantage of Europe's Thirty Years' War to grab territory, will go have a close encounter with the Russian bears, and will go mine in Brazil and Africa. There's all kinds of things to write about—how boring would it be to just write about killing Donglin members?

Some say they still want to see the decisive, ruthless Chongzhen from the early chapters, but I'm telling you, the current one is still the same decisive, ruthless Chongzhen. It's just that at the very beginning the Ming Dynasty was about to collapse and he was about to hang himself from a southeastern branch—now that threat is gone, so naturally he thinks long-term.

Some people ask about this book's first-day subscriptions. I've said it more than once: The Mightiest Chongzhen had 1,600 first-day subscriptions, so I can still keep writing, and I'm writing with great care.

Finally, let me emphasize one more point: I won't go soft. Whoever goes soft is the grandson!