This is a fantastic medieval age kingdom building novel with plenty of war, politics and economics, plus a little cheat via system improved experience points for everyone under the MC that allowed for fast growth. It’s great, and set in absolutely fictional setting, not just fake names but using current countries so I’m not sure where the outrage of low ratings comes from. The “black” barbarians aren’t referring to Africans any way you cut it, it’s just a an easy descriptor for one of the foreign tribes they conquer, and not treated any better or worse than all other conquered tribes, MC aims to rule all and progress society overall so that’s honestly great. Ppl shouldn’t attach real world issues just because of the word ‘black’, author did a good job making everything fictional, I didn’t feel any Chinese ppl is better theme at all, its been a fee hundred chapters and the main theme is how ‘nobility and God’ is superior to all, same as medieval times, with the MC screwing a lot of those nobles and clergies to promote ‘common blood’ as a new power backing him up. If you like realistic fights, political backstabbing like in olden Europe, I highly recommend giving this a try!