Great Ming: I Reincarnated as the Chongzhen Emperor and Started by Confiscating Estates

Modern-day office drone Zhu Fugui stayed up late studying historical records from the end of the Ming dynasty. When he woke, he had transmigrated into Zhu Youjian in the fifteenth year of the Chongzhen reign. The Ming empire was already in ruins. The disastrous defeat at Songjin had driven Hong Chengchou to surrender to the Qing, while Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong swept across the Central Plains. The Donglin faction fought endlessly at court, the nobility drained the treasury, and the land was overrun with refugees and battered by natural disasters. Zhu Youjian had only two years left before he would hang himself at Coal Hill. Zhu Fugui knew every twist in the late Ming crisis, but had no System or cheat abilities. He set aside the original emperor’s stubborn, paranoid nature and used practical, ruthless methods to turn the tide. He purged the court, seized illicit wealth, reformed the capital garrisons, and recruited renowned generals. He secured the borders and restored order at home, dismantling the deadly impasse between the Qing, the rebels, and the landed gentry. In a world on the brink of collapse, he turned the tide, repaired the shattered realm, brought a century of chaos to an end, restored the Ming to greatness, and rewrote the ultimate fate of the Han dynasty. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.