Zhu Youxiao: “My younger brother should be a sage like Yao and Shun. The Ming is yours...”
Zhu Youjian: “What the heck? I just transmigrated, and now I'm stuck cleaning up this mess? My dear brother, how could you just die like that?”
The good news: Zhu Youjian has become the supreme emperor.
The bad news: the Ming Dynasty is no longer in its early glory, when envoys from every kingdom filled the court and the people were prosperous.
Instead, the Eight Banners of the Jianzhou Jurchens threaten the borders, treacherous ministers corrupt the court, the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants collude with the Jurchens, natural disasters strike one after another, and peasant rebellions keep breaking out.
The empire is beset by troubles at home and abroad!
Maybe I should just go to bed and lie flat for good...
But is there really no way to change things?
I can't stand by while hundreds of millions of my countrymen are forced by the Jurchens to shave their heads and live as slaves, while thousands upon thousands of commoners are slaughtered, and in a few years the Central Plains are reduced to a tragedy of bones exposed in the wilderness and not a rooster crowing for a thousand miles...
I, Zhu Youjian, the last helmsman of the Ming Empire,
will restore the Ming to its former glory! The Ming Empire's iron cavalry will cross Shanhai Pass, destroy every enemy that could threaten the empire, crush the domestic rebels, put an end to factional strife, build a powerful army, destroy the Qing, fight the Eight Banners, restore the treasury, lift the maritime ban, plot against Japan, and establish a prosperous sphere in East Asia.
After unifying the Ming, Zhu Youjian turns his gaze to the map of the world.
“So much land has been bestowed upon us by our ancestors. Step up migration, and let every corner of the world resound with a single voice: the voice of the Ming!”
The London, England, Gazette reports: “According to reports, the Ming have landed on the subcontinent for the first time. The first battle has begun!”
May the sun and moon shine on these mountains and rivers forever. May the Ming endure forever!
Boring! At the beginning, it is said that it is the seventh year of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen has just ascended the throne. How come it's two years after Chongzhen in Chapter 15? Who ate the almost three years in between 🤔. I don't know how much food I can get from raiding the prince's house. Kill decisively and give it to three stars! Let's forget the rest.