In the winter of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), there were only three months left before Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Ling Chi.
Time travel opportunity:
Zhou Yan, a modern history scholar, died suddenly in an accident. His soul traveled into the body of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian and awakened when the edict to execute Yuan Chonghuan was being drafted. In order to rewrite the historical tragedy of "self-destruction of the Great Wall", he decided to reshape the Ming Dynasty with modern strategic thinking and historical knowledge, focusing on military politics, economy, officialdom, and modern technology to gradually save the crisis.