When I woke up, I, a high school dropout, became Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. Before I could be happy, I saw with my own eyes the miserable ending of hanging myself from the crooked neck tree while traveling in the Meishan Fugue.
Extreme fear kept me awake. Governing the country? I won't! Intrigue? I can't play!
But I have a way to survive - all the unofficial histories, novels and gossip I read at Internet cafes and stalls in my previous life!
Hong Chengchou has six toes? Catch him, he will surrender in the future!
Xu Guangqi had an affair with a foreigner? The house was searched, and all his books were evidence of incrimination!
Huang Taiji was cuckolded by Dorgon? Okay, okay, write it into an opera immediately and distribute it nationwide!
As a result, I became a mad emperor in the eyes of the ministers who believed in "the history of nature, man and nature". I messed up, I killed indiscriminately, and I used all unfair means, just to complete the most serious mission-to let myself live and let Ming live.
It wasn't until one day when I looked at the territory of the Ming Dynasty that had been pacified by the "Wild Historians" that I had created, and the faces of the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty that were in a state of collapse and awe, that I suddenly realized it.
It turns out that using unofficial history to save the country is the fastest way...
