Transmigrating to the Late Ming, I Become One of the Starving Dead

In 2025, Li Ming, a graduate student in mathematics, was studying materials on the Goldbach conjecture when the world suddenly spun around him, and he transmigrated into the body of a starving beggar in Shaanxi in the second year of Chongzhen's reign. He had barely arrived before facing extreme hunger and brutal living conditions, surrounded by bodies strewn across the land and crowds of refugees. To stay alive, he had to find his way through this dark age step by step, beginning a rebellion by gathering followers in search of a way to survive... The protagonist isn't all-powerful from birth. Early on, the old society of the late Ming will beat him down again and again, and his companions will keep dying, some in truly tragic ways. The story aims for realism.