Great Ming: The Capital Beneath the Gaslights

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, grain prices soar and taxes skyrocket! Factions scheme against each other, and the scholar-officials are rotten to the core! The people turn away, and order collapses!

Just as everyone believes the Ming dynasty's fate is sealed, the Chongzhen Emperor suddenly undergoes a drastic change in character!

First, against the opposition of his court ministers, he insists on moving the capital to Southern Zhili, ceding half the empire without a fight!

Then he eliminates corrupt officials, executes the gentry, seizes their money and grain, builds a new army, reforms the bureaucracy, and develops the economy!

The seventeenth year of Chongzhen!

The Ming dynasty rises again! It marches north, crushes the rebels, destroys the Qing, and makes the Ming Empire one on which the sun never sets!

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