Great Ming: From the Start, I Take Control of Wei Zhongxian and Begin the Confiscations

Chu Sheng, a modern office drone, transmigrates to the end of the Ming dynasty and becomes the young Chongzhen Emperor, newly enthroned and trapped in a desperate situation. The imperial treasury is empty, the frontier troops have gone unpaid for years, the Donglin Faction controls the government and has drained the state, and the Later Jin cavalry watches hungrily from beyond the passes. The dynasty’s decline seems inevitable. Knowing how the Ming dynasty will end, Chu Sheng defies fate and changes its course. He rejects the previous emperor’s inept policies and spares the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian. Instead, he uses decisive measures to seize Wei’s authority and bring the entire eunuch faction to heel. From the start, he strikes hard, investigating Wei Zhongxian and his followers’ enormous ill-gotten wealth and confiscating hundreds of millions of taels of silver to replenish the empty treasury. He breaks the deadlock by confiscating estates and amassing wealth, and checks the civil officials with the eunuch faction. He reforms government, strengthens the military, revives industry and commerce, and removes threats beyond the borders. Step by step, Chu Sheng tears apart the rotten shackles of the late Ming, crushes the Donglin cliques, destroys the barbarians beyond the passes, and puts down rebellions across the realm. With an emperor’s iron-fisted resolve, he reverses the fate of the Ming dynasty and builds an age of prosperity to last for all time! This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.