Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors-Chapter 534 - 274 Rankings

Seeing the final evaluation, Zhao Haiping felt satisfied.

"Totally worth it!

"Becoming Emperor Taizu is not a waste of all my efforts."

Reflecting on his portrayal of General Han Fuyue in the second stage, Zhao Haiping had exerted great effort, finally making up for one of his regrets.

In fact, when facing the second stage, Zhao Haiping had noticed a detail: he was initially playing a common main general at the start of the troop training, not General Han Fuyue; but after he won a grand victory at Yan City, and decided to defy the imperial edict to establish the Zhao Yi Army, his identity in the game automatically transitioned to that of General Han Fuyue.

This was actually because, the person who trained troops and won at Yan City was following the script of General Han Fuyue’s life trajectory.

He was following behind General Han Fuyue, trying to imitate and learn, striving to become this renowned general of the era.

But after refusing the imperial edict, he embarked on a completely different path from General Han Fuyue, an alternative possibility and extension of General Han Fuyue’s life.

It was akin to inheriting the will of the unjustly killed General Han Fuyue, exploring another possibility.

So his identity turned into General Han Fuyue.

And the final evaluation also depicted what kind of life trajectory General Han Fuyue might have had if he had established himself as emperor.

Perhaps this is what makes "Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon," this instance, different from previous ones.

Being a combined instance, its content is more complex, and it offers players more freedom to express themselves.

Reflecting on his own playthrough, Zhao Haiping still felt somewhat dissatisfied with General Han Fuyue.

Some say General Han Fuyue was overhyped.

They say his military achievements were not as exaggerated as rumored, merely because he embodied the unrealistic dreams of the people at the time to expel foreign tribes, thus intentionally magnified his military successes and even upgraded him into a kind of symbolic figure, exaggerating the truth.

Such opinions, to put it mildly, are laughable.

Having truly stepped into the shoes of General Han Fuyue, Zhao Haiping knew all the more how absurd these claims were. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Because Zhao Haiping knew how difficult it was for General Han Fuyue to train a strong army under those conditions and how admirable it was to hard-headedly win directly against Jin’s elite soldiers in the field.

General Han Fuyue was like a massive weapon of strategy, single-handedly reversing the military power between the two nations. If such a man isn’t considered a great general, then who is?

As for the claims that General Han Fuyue’s military achievements were exaggerated...

Actually, one doesn’t need to consult historical records, just consider a few logical issues from different aspects, and everything becomes clear.

If General Han Fuyue’s deeds were overblown, why would the Jin people specifically demand "General Han Fuyue must be killed for peace" in their negotiations?

If his deeds were exaggerated, why would the Jin people turn pale when he was mentioned, even feeling that defeating General Han Fuyue would be harder than "moving mountains"?

If his deeds were exaggerated, why would Empress Dowager Wei of Jin Country also have heard of the "general with mismatched eyes" and be furious upon hearing "he is dead"?

If his deeds were exaggerated, from the end of the Liang Dynasty until Emperor Taizu of Sheng emerged suddenly, with so many heroic figures appearing, why exaggerate only General Han Fuyue?

If his deeds were exaggerated, why would the Jin people curse the Qi Dynasty emperor in their court because the Qi killed General Han Fuyue?

Clearly, those who claim General Han Fuyue’s achievements were exaggerated are only of two types.

One is malicious, deliberately slandering a national hero, yet judging the so-called "heroes" of other ethnic groups by another set of criteria. Countless massacres by other ethnicities are deemed true nature, yet General Han Fuyue’s "not dismantling houses in the cold or looting in famine" must be fabrications of historical texts.

The second type is foolish, historic nihilists who, facing aspects of history recognized by mainstream perspectives, choose to be contrarian merely to display their own uniqueness.

And precisely because General Han Fuyue’s achievements and character were so formidable, and he was unjustly killed, his case became one of the greatest shames in Huaxia’s history, making it so that even if Qin Huizhi knelt for hundreds, thousands of years, it wouldn’t be enough.

Many feel that General Han Fuyue’s tragedy was unavoidable; on one hand, precisely because his unblemished character made him a pillar of spirit for the people, commanding troops wasn’t in his nature; on the other hand, his army wasn’t his private force but still depended on the Qi Dynasty’s provisions. Once the court’s support was gone, regardless of whether he personally returned, the northern campaign couldn’t continue.

Regarding this viewpoint, Zhao Haiping somewhat agreed, as it was concluded based on the historical conditions of the time.

Yet even so, he remained unsettled, still desiring to explore another potential historical pathway.

If the Jin could rise with just 2,500 cavalry, swallowing the Liao and annihilating the Qi, facing two behemoths that once had millions in armor and swiftly crushing them in just a few years, why couldn’t General Han Fuyue?

Even if General Han Fuyue only led his personal troops, maneuvering through the Northern Land, amidst the tripartite attack from Jin, pseudo-Chu, and Qi, relying on his military talent and the passionate support of the Northern people, he could potentially hold his ground.

Perhaps he would have died in battle, perhaps he would have been vilified as a traitor in history books.