The Ming Dynasty's Young Emperor

A Little Ice Age strikes, bringing the harshest drought and cold in history and causing a massive drop in food production.

Li Zicheng, a courier from Shaanxi, leads starving commoners in rebellion and eventually storms into Beijing.

Nurhaci, Hong Taiji, and other barbarians of the Later Jin in Liaodong send troops to conduct armed patrols through the Great Ming from time to time.

On top of that, there are the overbearing eunuch faction, the treasonous Donglin Party, the shameless locust merchants, and a court perpetually short on funds...

After transmigrating as the Tianqi Emperor, Zhu Youxiao, the young sovereign takes on the burden of saving the Great Ming with the aid of a National Fortune System...

For three hundred years, the Great Ming never became a vassal, paid tribute, offered reparations, or arranged royal marriages for peace.

For three hundred years, the Great Ming truly upheld the principle that the emperor guards the nation’s gates and dies with his realm.

For three hundred years, the Great Ming had all kinds of eccentric emperors, but not a single spineless one!

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