Great Ming: From the Start, I Stage Chongzhen's Hanging at Coal Hill

In the Western calendar year 1840, the twenty-fifth year of the Ming Empire's Jingyun era, third month,

Ming Empire Daily News:

Napoleon honors communications experts for a technological breakthrough that overcomes the Ming Empire's stranglehold on technology.

The Ming Bank raises interest rates, roiling the world economy. Is it good or bad that all the world's wealth is flowing into the Ming Empire?

The Anti-Ming Alliance issues a statement demanding that Ming troops stop their military exercises near the Mediterranean.

Experts comment: The Ming Empire taking on the entire world single-handedly is a foolish move.

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

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

That year, the Ming Empire destroyed the Qing.

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

That year, the Ming fleet set sail across the world and became the ruler of the seas.

That year, the Ming Bank monopolized global finance.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.