Li Mo, a modern man, was reborn as Emperor Chongzhen at the beginning of his accession to the throne. He faced the fate of Meishan to hang himself and the crisis of the collapse of the empire: the remaining eunuchs, the Liaodong cavalry, the northwest bandits, the empty treasury and the strife in the court.
Not willing to be beaten to death, he used modern thinking as an edge to launch a desperate counterattack. On the first day after he ascended the throne, he took advantage of celestial phenomena to break the situation and expel the traitor Wei Zhongxian. However, he was attacked by a poisonous murder plot in the palace and a raid by the Shaanxi Beacon Fire. Internal and external troubles, killing every step of the way.
He secretly formed the "New Fire Guards" and used talents and craftsmen from poor families in an unusual way. They used the Huangzhuang bidding trial to break corruption, reorganized the army with an iron fist, and even attacked the salt policy interest groups that were destroying the country's foundation! Use the prophets of history to thwart the intensified changes in Jisi, and use improved firearms to severely damage Houjin; resist the pressure of "violating the ancestral system" to promote new crops and reform the imperial examination; and use both suppression and appeasement on the two-front battlefield of rogue bandits and sea bandits.
It's a race against time and the whole old era. Every step of reform is stained with blood, and every victory brings new dangers. When the artillery fire of the new army tore through the sky in the decisive battle of Liaoshen, the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty was finally reborn from the ashes.
He is no longer the sad soul of Meishan, but the Qiming Emperor who ignited the "new fire". However, the future of the empire is uncertain. Can the spark of the Gewuyuan, the sharp edge of the Lecture Hall, and the shadow of the sails in the ocean really light up the new sky of this ancient dynasty?
