Zhu Youjian, a graduate student in the Department of Modern History, accidentally traveled to a parallel world and became the newly crowned Emperor Chongzhen of the late Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty in front of us is a mess that is very similar to the history books: the Donglin Party controls the government, the frontier troops mutiny due to lack of pay, refugees are everywhere in Shaanxi, the Later Jin Dynasty is eyeing Liaodong, and there are successive years of famine that gnaw at the foundation of the dynasty.
Fortunately, he was bound to the "Da Ming ZTE System". To identify loyalties and investigate corruption, he used his system skills to clear up the fog in the court and promoted capable officials such as Lu Xiangsheng and Xu Guangqi. He improved firearms and trained new troops. He used the exchanged tactical maps to build strong border defenses and thwarted Hou Jin's attack. He promoted sweet potatoes and opened sea restrictions. He used system materials to revitalize the economy and revive the northwest, which was full of starvation.
Party strife, mutiny, civil unrest, foreign invasion... He worked step by step, turning with difficulty under the wheel of historical inertia. When Yuan Chonghuan no longer held his grievances, Li Zicheng became a rogue, when reformed artillery roared in Liaodong, and merchant ships shuttled through Yuegang, the Ming Dynasty in this parallel world was following the trajectory he laid out, breaking away from the fate of destruction and heading towards a prosperous era that belonged to Chongzhen.
