He once wanted to be a paper framer and mend the Ming Dynasty, a broken ship riddled with holes. When the first cannon shot from the capital city was a cold arrow fired at him from the court, he finally understood that only complete destruction can usher in true rebirth! Abandoning his fame and escaping overseas, when he returned with his steel fleet and line of infantry, all the kings in the world fell into disgrace!
Chen Ye, a 21st century graduate student in the Department of History, majoring in economic history in the late Ming Dynasty. An accident made him live in Chongzhen for two years, and he became a little-known official in the capital.
With the ideal of saving this troubled nation, and relying on knowledge that transcended the times, he proposed the "New Deal" - using new bonds to revitalize finances, clearing land by apportioning people into acres, and recasting weapons with assembly lines. Emperor Chongzhen regarded him as his only hope and promoted him to Zuo Shilang, with whom he had overwhelming power.
But his reforms touched the cakes of all the scholar-bureaucrats and vested interests in the world. Conspiracies, assassinations, and mutinies followed one after another. In the end, at the critical moment of the decisive battle with Hou Jin, what he was waiting for was not the food and fodder from the court, but the artillery fired at his handsome tent!
The heart is dead and the blood is cold. Under the desperate cover of his subordinates, he faked his death and escaped. Looking in the direction of the capital, he swore a blood oath: You are not worthy of owning this country, so let me take it!
A few years later, when Li Zicheng came to Beijing and Dorgon set his sights on Shanhaiguan, an invincible new army armed with Miner rifles and steam ironclads emerged from the fog of the South China Sea and officially announced to this decadent world: A new era has begun!
