Great Ming: My Emperor Students and I Slaughter Our Way Through

History professor Zhang Panpan and her student Jin Feng accidentally transmigrate to the late Ming dynasty, becoming Empress Zhang Yan, known as Empress Yi'an, and the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian. Faced with a disastrous start from the start, with eunuch factions disrupting the government, rebel forces rising everywhere, and the Jurchens threatening the frontier, the two recognize each other in the inner palace through modern code words and form an alliance to live or die together. Zhang Panpan works behind the scenes, devising a century-long plan of "technological advancement, institutional reform, and global expansion." Jin Feng acts decisively in the public eye, eliminating Wei Zhongxian and purging the old bureaucracy. Using modern knowledge, the two build flintlock guns by hand, establish an academy of natural philosophy, require officials and gentry alike to pay taxes in grain, and launch maritime trade. They win an economic war against a group of transmigrators in Jiangnan and successfully bring the Ming dynasty into the steam age. After resolving the crisis over the old line of succession centered on Crown Prince Zhu Cilang and crushing the "marriage alliance" plot of his maternal uncle Zhou Kui's faction, they promulgate a constitution and establish a constitutional monarchy. In parliamentary debates, they decisively defeat the old age's final counterattack, entrusting the flame of civilization to the successor they personally trained. Thus unfolds an imperial saga of two people who go from teacher and student to soulmates, and rebuild a civilization.