Late Ming: The Qing Dynasty Has Just Been Founded, and It's Already Doomed?

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Ming lands were parched for thousands of miles. Corpses of the starving littered the roads, and the people were barely able to survive.

Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, Hong Taiji, and others had already risen to power, stirring up the world.

The Ming dynasty was tottering on the brink of collapse.

That year, Zhu Hao arrived and became a hundred-household commander in Fengyang Prefecture.

Two months later, he crushed Zhang Xianzhong and captured Li Dingguo, shaking the realm and beginning his rise to power.

Zhang Xianzhong: "Damn it, that kid Zhu Hao gets promoted and rich mostly by beating up my men."

Li Zicheng: "Damn, it's the Fengzhou Army again. Time to get out of here!"

Li Dingguo: "General Zhu cares about the people. He's a hero, and I'll be his right-hand man."

Zheng Chenggong: "Become the Pirate King? No future in that. I want to help General Zhu build a maritime empire on which the sun never sets."

Years later, Hong Taiji gazed at the densely packed Fengzhou Army outside the city, his face stricken. "Great Qing has been a country for less than ten years, and now it's going to fall?"

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