Late Ming: From the Start, I Have a Demon-Revealing Mirror, and Killing Corrupt Officials Makes Me Stronger

When the demon-revealing mirror exposes the prefect for embezzling disaster-relief funds, he is still boasting over drinks about his incorruptible reputation.

Retired special forces soldier Chen Yan transmigrates to 1645 and takes over the body of 21-year-old Zheng Chenggong. The title of Koxinga carries great prestige, but he has only a few hundred personal guards. His father, Zheng Zhilong, is the real power in Fujian, and is secretly negotiating with the Qing.

Fortunately, he gains a demon-revealing mirror System. Corrupt official? Expose him in public and unlock flintlock blueprints. Traitor? Turn the people around him against him and have them testify, tripling the reward and unlocking a production line for cased ammunition. The entire Ming court is red as a row of Spring Festival couplets. The System quips: Host, you've taken the prime spot among those planning to surrender to the Qing.

Dorgon personally leads an army of 200,000, while he has only 80,000. On the eve of the decisive battle at the Huai River, the System says: Kill him, and the entire steam age will be unlocked.

From a fifty-man musketeer squad to proclaiming himself emperor in Jinling, then leading a Pacific fleet on an expedition to the Americas.

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