Great Ming: The Carpenter Emperor Rebuilds the Realm

A corporate drone transmigrates into the body of the “Carpenter Emperor” and turns the Ming court upside down with political cunning! With the death of the Taichang Emperor, Lady Li takes control of the palace and meddles in politics, the Donglin faction storms the palace, and the flames of war in Liaodong have reached Fushun. He establishes a cabinet accountable for its actions; abolishes the privileges of imperial clansmen, nobles, and civil officials; ends hereditary low-status occupations like musicians and artisans, granting ordinary people freedom as well; and reforms the old system of hereditary military households. He unties, one strand at a time, the ancestral rules Zhu Yuanzhang bound around the Ming; he cures, step by step, the deep-rooted ills that have plagued the dynasty in its final years. Who says an emperor must rule as an autocrat and hoard all power? I only wish for every child of Huaxia to live a happy life.