Late Ming Dynasty Shop: From Defeated Squad Leader to Ruler of the Realm

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, heaven and earth collapsed.

Li Zicheng was defeated at Shanhai Pass, and the Qing army's iron hooves trampled across the Central Plains. Amid this blood-soaked land, a modern soul transmigrated into Li Yan, a junior squad leader in the defeated army.

On the brink of death, he bound himself to the Myriad Worlds Marketplace System.

Out of food? Trade for compressed rations!

Short on weapons? Buy fine steel blades and spears!

Wounded soldiers crying out? Bring out penicillin and bandages!

Starting with seventeen surviving soldiers at Chang'an Post Station, Li Yan took his wife, children, and brothers-in-arms to Laojun Ridge and drove in the first stake. He gathered refugees, trained a new army, carved terraced fields, and built firearms. Using knowledge and supplies from a different age, he created a paradise amid the ruins of the late Ming.

When the Qing army marched south, he held the mountain passes, teaching the Eight Banners what modern warfare meant with flintlock rifles and homemade grenades.

When the Southern Ming factions turned on one another, he welcomed talent from all quarters and saved a million starving people with sweet potatoes and corn.

When the realm fell into chaos, he raised the banner of revolt and rallied the people with ideas far ahead of their time.

From Shaanxi to Huguang, from Sichuan to Jiangnan, Li Yan crossed the broken landscape. He sought not only to drive out the northern invaders, but also to end this brutal age of chaos.

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