[Ten Thousand Dynasties Vie for Supremacy] [Great Ming War God] [Alternate History]
On the first day after transmigrating, he finds himself at Tumu Fortress.
Twenty thousand cavalry under Esen surround him like an iron barrel.
Behind him are forty thousand remnants of an army, with no food or water.
The history books say that the Ming emperor will soon squander the empire's last reserves here.
He'll also earn an infamous name for all eternity: the Emperor Who Called at the Gates.
Zhu Qizheng was an explosives engineer at a military factory in his previous life. In this life, he's the emperor of the Great Ming.
Seeing that infamous title, he laughs.
Not a bad nickname. I'll take it.
[Ding! The Myriad Dynasties Knock-at-the-Gate System has been successfully bound.]
[Knock on a gate, grow stronger once.]
[Enemy camp gate: +200. Improved matchlock acquired!]
[Enemy city gate: +800. Field cannon blueprints acquired!]
[Knock down a nation's gates: destroy a country, +10,000!]
From then on, the Great Ming has an emperor who knocks at every gate he sees.
So what if countless dynasties stand side by side?
Tang, Han, Qin, Song...
I'll knock on every one of their gates.
Years later, the historian's hand trembles as he writes:
"Every time Emperor Zhu Qizhen, the Gate-Knocking Emperor, knocked open a gate, a dynasty heard its death knell."
It's not a historical novel; it's okay as a light novel.