Great Ming: The Short-Lived Emperor Turns the Tide

The first late-Ming novel online to best reflect the latest historical consensus. It tackles the late-Ming crisis through institutional reform, not a System or cheat powers. The protagonist transmigrates into the body of Zhu Changluo, the Taichang Emperor of the Ming, who ruled for just one month. Using his intelligence and political cunning, he unravels the conspiracy behind the Red Pills Case, then reforms the Ming cabinet system, devises a competitive appointment system with fixed terms for cabinet members, advances technology based on the Yongle Encyclopedia, trains a new army, eliminates the Shanxi Jin merchants and Jiangnan financial dynasties, resolves the Liaodong crisis, and leads the people of the Ming to turn their attention to the vast lands beyond the empire, ultimately establishing a new world order centered on the Chinese people.

An excerpt from an exciting chapter: 1. If you are the successor to a company or family, you may also need to safeguard its continued legacy through an institutional framework. Entrust your company or family to a system, not to one person. Those who hold power in the company or family must also have term limits and age restrictions, to prevent someone from occupying a position indefinitely and forming a new vested-interest group, or from becoming senile in old age.

2. Never believe that your own wisdom, or that of your descendants, can necessarily surpass the finest members of the human race, those who have risen above countless competitors. No matter how well you educate them, what prestigious schools they attend, how good an education they receive, or how widely they study abroad, intelligence can certainly be improved through education, but innate talent and heredity remain the prerequisites and fundamental guarantees of a person's high intelligence.