Great Ming: Tyrant Chongzhen, Your Majesty, Please Don't Kill Me!

I wake up as Zhu Youjian, the Chongzhen Emperor.

Zhu Youjian has no intention of hanging himself from that old crooked-neck tree on Coal Hill seventeen years from now!

The eunuch Wei Zhongxian wields tremendous power and is known as the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old? He's nothing but one of my vicious dogs!

The Donglin Party wants a court filled with upright officials, while the gentry control most of the empire's wealth? They're nothing but my leeks, ripe for harvesting!

The Manchu Eight Banners in Liaodong are invincible in the field? I have a fear of insufficient firepower!

The imperial princes and clansmen have so many children? Spreading across the globe and expanding the empire is our duty!

Foreign barbarians dominate the seas? The Ming navy is the best in the world!

Beneath the heavens, all land belongs to the emperor; foreign tribes and distant states are all his subjects!

First, I'll execute the corrupt officials and bury them beneath that old crooked-neck tree!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.