Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire
By New Sea Moon, 新海月1
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60 Chapters
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A book about Austria’s recovery to mightiness!!! A history about House of Habsburg’s struggles and successes!!! The Holy Roman Empire — which was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire — now came back!!!
5/5, the best nation-building/political novel on this site.
An excellent historical novel, yes, it's a reincarnation story ((You do not get to hear or learn about who he was before that much, I hardly recall what his name was because he became Franz)). Still, honestly, the MC rarely uses any, and the gain is not that great because the historical facts start to diverge quickly from real history. Furthermore, the MC does not bring modern technology and breaks the historical immersion; he is not a scientist. The MC is not a brute; you're not going to see him fight, nor shall he lead armies he leaves that to real generals and marshals of his Empire i. You're going to hear war and see the war-room tactics and some combat snippets, but overall you won't see it from a soldier's perspective but from a generals eye-view.
This novel mostly involves nation-building, diplomacy, intrigue, politics - "A LOT", and the economy.
The MC is smart, cautious, and cunning. He does not transform his nation into a superpower overnight, in fact, his nation is already in of the top 4 (Historically accurate) the balance is kept between the top four (UK, France, Austria and Russia) he does though bring back his nation from going into a decaying spiral back into striving for the top power.
Also, none of the nonsense about bringing liberal ideas from the future, he does not do that, in fact, he does the opposite and goes with current lifestyle, the MC really immerses himself into who he is currently.
His enemies are really smart, there are no stumbling idiots here plus his enemies sometimes become his allies the current era is the manifestation of "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual." You do get to see the perspective of all the governments and most of their plans, some secrets are kept out of the picture until there is reveal.
It is excellently written the author has the correct facts and seems to know a lot about the current era.
The MTL is fine, but the translation is excellent, and I wish there were more!
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2023-07-17
Chapter 1
MTL to the end and I was not disappointed. It was a wonderful portrayal of the 19th century and very informative about history, economy and politics. It spurred me to read up on various things while going through the novel and I can confidently say that I'm no longer so clueless when it comes to matters of economics and some government policies. Weirdly enough something so educational can be so entertaining. Don't expect MC to be OP. He can't even describe the operation of a refrigerator beyond the concept of "it keeps food cold" so don't expect him to be bringing in modern technology and breaking the technology tree. At most the emergence of certain technology is advanced by a few decades because he provides direction.
It's a testament to the author's talent that this is kept entertaining and interesting.
5/5 would read again (if not so long!)
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2023-07-17
It was a bit boring at first due to the info dumps (or execution of it I guess?) in the beginning but once you get past that, its all good and it becomes enjoyable to read. It's not perfect but it's by far the best kingdom building novel that I have ever read so I'm giving it five stars. I really like the pov changes that give us insights to the thoughts and decisions of each government and ordinary people in response to the changes done by MC.
While the MC is a bit too hyper competent in statesmanship (Semi-plausible so I'll just think that the reincarnated MC is a genius historian with high EQ and considerable experience with management as it is shown with his actions in the novel and how he interacts with people), he still feels human with his own distinctive personality and hobbies. At the very least he's doesn't have the skills of a war god, wikipedia scientist/engineer tech god, doesn't think with his lower head unlike most novels in this genre. What he is good at is delegation, taking advantage of his future knowledge and getting people to do what he wants them to do (combined carrot/stick approach and timing).
My favorite interactions in the novel is with his own family and his ministers (especially with his sons Frederick and Peter). Edit: I can also vouch that MTL is of good quality. The translated chapters are still better but the quality of MTL for this novel is still amazing. I was very pleasantly surprised. It's easy to understand and not the usual brain bleach I encounter there with other novels.
The minor translating issues that stand out to me the most is that China is sometimes mentioned instead of the actual country being addressed. The same goes with Russia and Prussia. Prussia is often translated as Russia.
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2023-07-17
It was a bit boring at first due to the info dumps (or execution of it I guess?) in the beginning but once you get past that, its all good and it becomes enjoyable to read. It's not perfect but it's by far the best kingdom building novel that I have ever read so I'm giving it five stars. I really like the pov changes that give us insights to the thoughts and decisions of each government and ordinary people in response to the changes done by MC.
While the MC is a bit too hyper competent in statesmanship (Semi-plausible so I'll just think that the reincarnated MC is a genius historian with high EQ and considerable experience with management as it is shown with his actions in the novel and how he interacts with people), he still feels human with his own distinctive personality and hobbies. At the very least he's doesn't have the skills of a war god, wikipedia scientist/engineer tech god, doesn't think with his lower head unlike most novels in this genre. What he is good at is delegation, taking advantage of his future knowledge and getting people to do what he wants them to do (combined carrot/stick approach and timing).
My favorite interactions in the novel is with his own family and his ministers (especially with his sons Frederick and Peter). Edit: I can also vouch that MTL is of good quality. The translated chapters are still better but the quality of MTL for this novel is still amazing. I was very pleasantly surprised. It's easy to understand and not the usual brain bleach I encounter there with other novels.
The minor translating issues that stand out to me the most is that China is sometimes mentioned instead of the actual country being addressed. The same goes with Russia and Prussia. Prussia is often translated as Russia.
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2023-08-03
Chapter 60
I don't get how people can rate this so high considering the political and economic building of the setting operates on magic and authorial fiats.
Let us then list the s*upidity that I saw that should have held back the Austrian Empire that the protagonist seems to think would make them a great power.
  1. Keeping the whole agriculture industry primitive, that should have held back a lot of free hands that would help industrializing, the army and other industry. But somehow the economy does not stagnate with such policy and instead stonk goes up. Why? Because author say the main character is super smart.
  2. Military enlistment based voting. I don't know how the protagonist even been able to pushed that law! Other group of interest beside the military would have Epstein's him if he tried to implement such policy that hurt a lot of group interest. And let's not even get started how such policy would have turn the whole society unto militarism like Japan, and we all know what happened to Japan. But through authorial fiats the protagonist magically still hold control of the government firmly instead of turning him into a rubber stamp by the junta.
  3. F*cking over the whole private economy and free market by plunging straight into command economy. How in the cavernous backside can*l is he still able to uplift his economy with the amount of private people he had screwed over because of his Chinese socialist political leaning? I can't even count the amount of times I've face palmed because of the author unconvincingly trying to show that State Owned Enterprise as somehow capable of competing with the free market and more well run than privately owned enterprises, the fact that the author try to show that somehow an Enterprise subsidized by the government and held by political environment instead of trying to maximize profit is healthy for the economy, instead of hurting the private economy trying to compete with an Enterprise getting unlimited funds from the government.
  4. Infamy, the whole series involves a lot of genocides through mass ethnic expulsion to push for a German ethnostate. But somehow despite keeping on doing that with the Hungarians, Romanians, Croatians, Bosnians, Albanians, other more Balkan groups, Greeks, Turks and other Islamic ethnic group, there is zero consequences with such horrific actions.
  5. Don't get me even started with America, this also ties to infamy. Somehow the protagonist has magic power to convince most of Europe to support the s*ave state with him in the American civil war and even the magic power to convince the southern union to abandon s*avery, the whole reason they're going to war against the North. There is even zero consequences of a European catholic monarch supporting a s*ave state. Despite the North part of America would never accept the south going independence because that would leave them being Sandwiched by British Canada on the North and a new hostile state in the south, they just magically accept surrender and letting the south go independence.
The whole world building relies magic and author constantly telling you it all just works because the protagonist is a smart person
10
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2024-02-14
Chapter 60
I don't get how people can rate this so high considering the political and economic building of the setting operates on magic and authorial fiats.
Let us then list the s*upidity that I saw that should have held back the Austrian Empire that the protagonist seems to think would make them a great power.
  1. Keeping the whole agriculture industry primitive, that should have held back a lot of free hands that would help industrializing, the army and other industry. But somehow the economy does not stagnate with such policy and instead stonk goes up. Why? Because author say the main character is super smart.
  2. Military enlistment based voting. I don't know how the protagonist even been able to pushed that law! Other group of interest beside the military would have Epstein's him if he tried to implement such policy that hurt a lot of group interest. And let's not even get started how such policy would have turn the whole society unto militarism like Japan, and we all know what happened to Japan. But through authorial fiats the protagonist magically still hold control of the government firmly instead of turning him into a rubber stamp by the junta.
  3. F*cking over the whole private economy and free market by plunging straight into command economy. How in the cavernous backside can*l is he still able to uplift his economy with the amount of private people he had screwed over because of his Chinese socialist political leaning? I can't even count the amount of times I've face palmed because of the author unconvincingly trying to show that State Owned Enterprise as somehow capable of competing with the free market and more well run than privately owned enterprises, the fact that the author try to show that somehow an Enterprise subsidized by the government and held by political environment instead of trying to maximize profit is healthy for the economy, instead of hurting the private economy trying to compete with an Enterprise getting unlimited funds from the government.
  4. Infamy, the whole series involves a lot of genocides through mass ethnic expulsion to push for a German ethnostate. But somehow despite keeping on doing that with the Hungarians, Romanians, Croatians, Bosnians, Albanians, other more Balkan groups, Greeks, Turks and other Islamic ethnic group, there is zero consequences with such horrific actions.
  5. Don't get me even started with America, this also ties to infamy. Somehow the protagonist has magic power to convince most of Europe to support the s*ave state with him in the American civil war and even the magic power to convince the southern union to abandon s*avery, the whole reason they're going to war against the North. There is even zero consequences of a European catholic monarch supporting a s*ave state. Despite the North part of America would never accept the south going independence because that would leave them being Sandwiched by British Canada on the North and a new hostile state in the south, they just magically accept surrender and letting the south go independence.
The whole world building relies magic and author constantly telling you it all just works because the protagonist is a smart person
10
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2024-02-15
Absolutely marvellous and I am not talking about the story. Don't get me wrong the story is good. But a good story differs from person to person.
Why I think it's marvellous is because of how educational it is. It involves a lot of real world politics and policies that are hidden from the public. National goals and objectives that are followed no matter the government change.
How two seemingly best allies work behind the scenes to pit one another. How important the foreign ministry is which is somewhat overlooked by the general public. How businessmen and government clash. Why first world countries help third world countries develope?
So if you find (some will say its a fanfic boring) then read it to get a realistic behind the scenes look to modern politics.
8
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2023-07-17
Thus is a pretty good kingdom building novel. Its has a believable plot and the MTL is of a very good quality.
6
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2023-07-17
Its not perfect but its close enough (a little bit too much plot armor but who cares). Just the fact people are willing to read its MTL says a lot about its quality. The best Kingdom building and historical novel for me so far, not only interesting but enlightening, the XIX century is so well and deeply portrayed, that I can say that one can learn more history/economy/sociology with this novel than with a normal class in a university.
6
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2023-07-17
Great novel. One of my favorite alt-history/political reads. It's a pity it isn't translated past ch 60. (MTL gives me an aneurysm) : (
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2023-07-17


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