I transmigrated into Zhu Qizhen, and I’m in the middle of calling on the enemy to open the gates. What do I do? Need an answer, and fast!
The good news: I have a System.
The bad news: the nation’s fortunes are in the negative, and the System is half-broken.
The even better news: I’ve got the entire Industrial Revolution in my head.
Yu Qian: “Your Majesty, the Oirat cavalry has reached Xuanfu!”
Me: “Right. Are the new troops equipped with flintlocks yet?”
Eunuch: “Your Majesty, Japanese pirates are running rampant in the southeast!”
Me: “It’s time for My ironclad fleet to take a spin around the Pacific.”
The cabinet: “The treasury… the treasury is empty…”
Me, tossing out a map of the American silver mines: “Go dig this entire continent up for Me!”
Many years later, Esen, whom I’d captured and put to work compiling history, asked through his tears, “You call yourself the ‘Emperor Who Opened the Gates’?”
Looking out over the empire on which the sun never set, I smiled faintly.
“What I opened was the gate to a new age.”
