The soul of Li Ming, a graduate student in the Department of History, traveled to the first year of Chongzhen and became the Chongzhen Emperor who was diligent in his work but lost his country in history. At that time, the Apocalypse had just collapsed, Wei Zhongxian was in power, the drought in Shaanxi had created refugees, the Liaodong defense line was crumbling, and the Ming Dynasty was hanging on the precipice of subjugation.
As a prophet of national subjugation, he had to disguise himself as a sensitive and suspicious persona to survive in the whirlpool of party strife. It's easy to kill Wei Zhongxian, but it's hard to balance the court; it's easy to bring chaos to the common people, it's hard to solve the system's shortcomings; it's easy to resist the imperialist invasion, but it's hard to overcome the financial difficulties.
He abandoned the empty talk of "pacifying the Liao in five years" and made a treaty of "defending the Liao in three years", exchanging food, grass and military power for Yuan Chonghuan's loyalty, and using the system to resolve the suspicion of the emperor and his ministers; he did not carry out comprehensive reforms, but used the eunuch party to check and balance Donglin, relied on "relief for work" to relieve the plight of the refugees, and rectified the salt tax to make up for the emptiness of the national treasury; following the inertia of history, he only tried to turn the tide at key nodes - Avoid the self-destruction of the Great Wall due to the changes in Jisi, suppress the potential of peasant uprisings and start a prairie fire, and strengthen the iron wall of Liaodong's defense line.
The dragon robe is a heavy burden, and the prophet of history is a double-edged sword. Faced with the obstructions of the eunuchs, Donglin, and powerful men, Zhu Youjian (Li Ming) used paranoia to hide pragmatism and forbearance to trade opportunities. This is not a cool story about Goldfinger changing his life against the odds, but a history of dancing in shackles to extend his life. When the fate of Meishan is rewritten and the Ming Dynasty finds its way out again, he will eventually prove that although history is difficult to reverse, destiny can be fought for.
