A modern history researcher, proficient in the history and political economy of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, was unexpectedly reborn in an accident in 2025. When he woke up, he found that he was Chongzhen on March 19, 1644 - just before Li Zicheng invaded Beijing.
He possesses the knowledge system, political vision and crisis judgment of modern people, but he is facing an empire that is already crumbling, a regime that does not trust its subordinates, has financial collapse, and is troubled internally and externally.