The Great Ming: A Rise from Humble Beginnings

Open the history books, and all you find are the glorious achievements of emperors and ministers.

Yet what truly flows between the lines is the blood and tears of countless common people.

Look back over five thousand years, dynasty after dynasty. Which one was not just a ramshackle outfit?

One group of rent-seekers merely replaced another, taking turns leeching the people dry.

When a dynasty flourishes, the people suffer; when it falls, the people suffer too.

How many readers of history have wondered: if I had lived back then, could I have turned the tide

and made up for history's regrets?

The protagonist, Tian Youlu, transmigrates and becomes an ordinary assistant county magistrate in Chun'an County, Zhejiang, in the fortieth year of the Jiajing reign.

Floodwaters rage before him, and factional struggles cut like knives behind him.

He must survive caught between the upright officials and Yan Song's faction, while also navigating the power struggle between the emperor and the bureaucracy.

Starting from a single county, he builds a network amid the people's misery, in the late Jiajing era, where every step could bring death.

Can he forge his own path and ultimately make his way into the heart of power?

For the full story, read on.