Great Ming: From the Start, I Told the Chongzhen Emperor About His Hanging at Coal Hill

In the year 1840 of the Western calendar, the third month of the 25th year of the Jingyun Era of the Great Ming.

Great Ming National News:

Napoleon praises a communications expert for technological innovation, breaking through the Great Ming's technological bottleneck.

The Great Ming Bank raises interest rates, roiling the global economy. Is it good or bad that all the wealth under heaven is concentrated in the Great Ming?

The Anti-Ming Alliance issues a statement: It demands that Great Ming troops halt military operations near the Mediterranean.

Experts comment: The Great Ming is taking on the entire world single-handedly. This is truly unwise.

How did this parallel world come to look like this? It all began when Zhu Cilang transmigrated that year.

That day, Zhu Cilang, the crown prince of the late Ming, told Chongzhen a story about hanging himself on Coal Hill. From then on, the second half of Great Ming history began.

That year, the Great Ming destroyed the Manchu Qing.

That year, the rebellions of Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang were put down.

That year, the Great Ming fleet sailed across the world and became the ruler of the seas.

That year, the Great Ming Bank monopolized global finance.

That year...

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