Great Ming: I’m a Ruthless Warlord Who Holds All the Power

Zhao Tianyou transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty, during the reign of the Chongzhen Emperor, and awakens the Iron-Blooded Military Merit System.

The court is plagued by corrupt officials and bitter factional infighting. Rebel bands rise everywhere, while the people flee in anguish and fields are strewn with bones.

The Ming dynasty is beset on all sides. First, Later Jin watches like a hungry tiger; then the great powers, including Russia and Holland, circle like wolves, sharpening their blades.

Zhao Tianyou wants only one thing: to make a new dawn rise over this fading empire!

When Later Jin’s forces advance aggressively and everyone else is too afraid to fight, Zhao Tianyou risks his life alone. From the start, he captures two cities, then kills Prince Amin on the battlefield, becoming Hong Taiji’s lifelong nemesis.

What? The Dutch have occupied Taiwan and built Fort Zeelandia?

Get lost! That’s Ming territory!!!

Lord of the Imperial Surname, I took care of your business thirty years early. No need to thank me!

I hear the silver mines on Iwami Island are famous?

Well, they belong to the Ming too!

And Siberia, Southeast Asia, and everywhere else, they all belong to the Ming...

Note: There is no difference in equipment or weapons between the sides in this novel. If you enjoy battles and power struggles set in the late Ming era, this is for you.