Reincarnated as the Chongzhen Emperor: Founding an Empire for the Ages

"Are you kidding me? If I had to transmigrate, you could have sent me into the body of the Chenghua, Hongzhi, Jiajing, or Wanli Emperor. If nothing else, you could have made me a prince. But no, you had to send me into the body of this unfortunate emperor."

Beneath an ancient locust tree on Coal Hill, Ye Xuan spent half an hour doubting himself before finally accepting that he had transmigrated. Worse, it was the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, and he had only just ascended the throne.

The Chongzhen Emperor was unlucky because he wanted to restore the Ming, but lacked the power to do so.

With internal turmoil, external threats, corrupt officials, and one disaster after another, the Ming struggled for seventeen years before falling all the same. He, too, was hanged from a crooked locust tree on Coal Hill.

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