Late Ming: Age of Empires

Hong Taiji: “The Great Qing will surely enter the Central Plains and rule the Imperial Throne!”

Liu Pu: “Heh...”

“Your fourteenth brother has rebelled!”

A month later, Hong Taiji burns himself to death in Shengjing, and Da Yuer and Xiao Yuer fall into Dorgon’s hands.

Dorgon: “Faster, faster! That tyrant from the north is coming after us!”

Liu Pu draws a long line on the map, from Liaodong to southern Mongolia, from southern Mongolia to Central Asia, from Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent...

Chongzhen: “Thanks to Heaven's blessings, the northern Manchu barbarians have been wiped out. This is an omen of the Ming restoration!”

The Donglin faction: “Your Majesty, the Han rebels are barbarians who disregard proper etiquette and know nothing of the way of a benevolent ruler. We must attack...”

“Uh, maybe we should just surrender...”

Chongzhen: “I am no ruler who brought about the fall of a dynasty. You are all ministers who brought about its fall!”

Tokugawa Iemitsu: “Under the might of the Han emperor, how could any usurper dare to defy him?”

Empress Meisho dies!

Tsar Alexei: “The Han emperor...”

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.