Great Ming: You Achieved Modernization in the 17th Century?

He transmigrates to the first year of the Chongzhen reign and becomes a young emperor.

The war in Liaodong has ground to a standstill, and the Eight Banners army with its braided queues has become a massive threat.

Rebels are springing up in the heartlands of Shaanxi and Gansu, draining the Ming Dynasty's strength.

The Age of Exploration has begun, and ships from Europe sail the world's sea lanes.

Zhu Youjian is shocked to discover that factional strife is growing ever more severe, while the emperor has become a liability.

If the empire is already rotten to the core, then let the flames of reform sweep across the land! Make it the first country in the world to enter the modern industrial age!

Found universities, build railways, issue bonds, and establish military industries!

Wipe out the Jurchen, pacify the Ming realm, subjugate the Japanese pirates, and forge an Eastern Empire on which the sun never sets!

While the Jurchen are still brandishing swords, they are astonished to find that their enemy already has mortar units, whose shells tear them to pieces.

As they gaze at the steel beasts on the ground and the giant birds overhead, the Japanese pirates who still want to swallow the Ming fall into panic.

Only when the British Navy sees the Ming fleet stretching beyond the horizon do they understand that, in the eyes of the Eastern Empire, their seafaring is a joke!

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