Beginning as Regent of the Southern Ming

On the eighteenth day of the third month in the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign of the Ming Dynasty (1644), Li Zicheng captured Beijing. The following day, Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian, hanged himself on Coal Hill inside the imperial city, and the Ming regime in Beijing fell. The Qing army then entered the pass, but the Ming Dynasty still controlled half the territory in the south. On the fifteenth day of the fifth month that year, Zhu Yousong, Prince of Fu, proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing and adopted the reign title Hongguang, establishing the Hongguang regime. In the fifth month of the following year, the Qing army marched south and captured Yangzhou, then took Nanjing. The Hongguang Emperor was captured, taken to Beijing, and executed, and his regime fell. Watch as the protagonist turns the tide and saves a collapsing empire against this historical backdrop.