Era: In March of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army besieged Beijing. Plague raged in the capital. There were only a few days left before Chongzhen Meishan hanged himself. Outside the customs, Houjin was waiting for an opportunity to plunder. The treasury was empty. Donglin civil servants, the distinguished family, and the eunuch factory guards were at odds with each other. The Ming Dynasty was on the verge of collapse.
Protagonist: Lin Fan (a top modern policy research student, proficient in public epidemic prevention, finance, and military and political system reform) has passed through Zhu Jue, a distant branch of the clan on the edge of the Ming Dynasty. He has no fiefdom, no military power, and no court backing. The original owner is impoverished and will die if the city is destroyed.
The core theme: relying on epidemic prevention and raising wages to gain an initial foothold → put forward a top-level institutional reform plan → deal with the suspicious emperor and all conservative forces in the court → pilot new policies to eradicate the long-standing ills of the late Ming Dynasty → quell the internal strife, defend against foreign affairs, and rewrite the fate of the country's subjugation.
