I open my eyes and find myself as Wanli, the Ming dynasty's greatest emperor when it comes to slacking off! Other people who transmigrate get a golden finger and beautiful women flocking around them. I get a complete mess instead: the treasury is so empty even the rats have run off, the civil officials are all drama queens, and the borders are ablaze. The story is on the verge of hurtling toward the disastrous finale of the Jiashen year!
What should I do? Keep lying flat and wait for my grandson to hang himself at Coal Hill?
No! I'll come clean! I'm done pretending!
You think I skipped court for twenty-eight years because I was lazy? Wrong! I was forging a blade sharp enough to cut down the entire old world!
Land annexation? How about “officials and gentry paying grain taxes just like everyone else”? Let's let those scholars who pay no taxes feel the iron fist of imperial power! An empty treasury? Open a royal bank and issue government bonds, so the empire's war machine can roar like Wall Street! A neglected military? Establish the Xishan Industrial Zone and churn out flintlock rifles, breech-loading cannons, and steam engines! When line infantry's volley fire meets the charge of Jurchen cavalry, the facts prove that in the face of overwhelming industrial might, every nomadic tactic is a paper tiger!
From the bloody battles on the Korean Peninsula to the decisive clash on the Liaodong plains, I use victory after victory to tell the world: the Ming dynasty is back!
But when I've subdued the lands in every direction and become sovereign of all beneath heaven, I discover that the real challenge has only just begun. The “capitalists” I raised with my own hands actually want to talk to me about “power”?
Fine, you want to play? Then let's play for high stakes!
A carefully engineered “constitutional crisis,” a “national grand bargain” with the entire empire at stake, and I personally finalize the Ming Constitution, becoming China's first emperor under a constitutional monarchy!
I am Wanli, and I conquered the whole world
Very good. There are not many good books like this. I hope they won't stop updating. (The king of Joseon is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The king should be called His Highness like the king of the Ming Dynasty. His Majesty is the title of the great emperor of the Central Plains. If the details are changed, it will be more perfect. The story is still very good👍)
It is very well written, and it is about the constitutional monarchy that I like very much. It is very well written, and it is about the constitutional monarchy that I like very much. I feel like I am watching the rise of the German Empire.