Zhang Juzheng has just died, and the civil officials are sharpening their knives, ready to purge the reformers?
Nurhaci is stirring in Liaodong, planting the seeds of the dynasty's downfall?
With a blink, Zhu Ming, a modern history student who barely scraped by, becomes the 18-year-old Wanli Emperor.
Watching the officials before him weep and plead for the abolition of the Single Whip Law, and thinking of the dreadful future when Li Zicheng breaks into Beijing, he grabs the paperweight from the throne and smashes it to the ground.
"Want to abolish the new policies? Ask the firearms in My hands first!"
At court, he takes down the Donglin faction and promotes practical-minded officials, turning the performance evaluation system into KPI assessments.
Beyond Liaodong, he lays plans for Sarhu in advance and sends Nurhaci a "grand gift pack of explosive shells."
In Jiangnan, he promotes sweet potatoes and corn so displaced people have food, while secretly developing a prototype steam engine...
The officials curse him for not acting like an emperor. Zhu Ming sneers.
"I don't care whether I act like one. I want the Great Ming to last another three hundred years!"
It's well written, but not exciting enough. Qingtian is a big event, and it is difficult to succeed without establishing prestige. There must be military support, and anyone who stands in the way should be arrested, and the two big families should be captured first to establish their authority. When multiple lines of light and dark are going on at the same time, you should be more generous with those who cooperate and accept punishment, and you should be tougher with those who play hard. This emperor is just like that. It can only be said to be slightly better than history. It is estimated that the Ming Dynasty will die if it should.
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