Zhu Youjian's Sixty Years: the Road to the Ming Dynasty's Revival

With rigorous historical logic, this book describes in detail how Zhu Youjian implemented changes within the realistic framework of the seventeenth century with scalpel-like precision: from secretly investigating chronic social diseases and the dilemma of technological improvement, to the historic reconciliation with Li Zicheng and others, and finally completed the "golden cicada's escape from the shell", abandoned the throne, and established a new regime in Nanjing. The subsequent volumes profoundly show the complete process of the new civilization from taking root, to labor pains to blossoming and bearing fruit, until hundreds of years after his death, how the institutional and ideological fire he sown was passed on, reshaping a completely different modern China. This is not only a fantasy that changes history, but also a profound work about the nirvana of civilization, system construction and cost trade-offs. It explores the limitations and infinities of individuals in the torrent of history, and how true greatness lies in making creation a daily routine that future generations will take for granted.