[No System + reform + Paradox Interactive gamer + transmigration + Great Ming + farming + court intrigue + Industrial Revolution]
Li Wei transmigrated into the body of the Great Ming’s last emperor: Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian.
Looking at the noose on the crooked tree atop Coal Hill, he gave a cold laugh. “Hang myself? That’s what the weak do.”
As a veteran Paradox Interactive gamer, Li Wei didn’t see the Great Ming as a country, but as a multinational corporation with a disastrous balance sheet and bankruptcy looming.
Budget deficits, an empty treasury?
From the start, establish “honorary noble titles” and precisely fleece the wealthy merchants of Jiangnan, turning their vanity into piles of silver!
Eunuchs wielding unchecked power, civil officials ruining the country?
Wei Zhongxian is the dirty blade in my hand, and the Donglin faction is the crop I’m waiting to harvest. They won’t listen? Then send them to open up the South Seas!
Rebel bands everywhere, flames of war on every horizon?
One decree, the “Order Requiring the Imperial Clans to Defend Their Territories,” forces the princes to sell off their estates and become “defense contractors.” Making pigs pay to have dogs guard the house: now that’s management!
When the imperial estates are reorganized into military-industrial conglomerates and steam-powered smokestacks rise across the Forbidden City,
the Jurchen Eight Banners cavalry will crash into ranks of standardized flintlock muskets;
Western powers will find their Age of Discovery thwarted by a Ming navy monopolizing global trade.
Standing in the dawn of the Industrial Age, Li Wei looks down on the world with cold indifference:
“I don’t care what you think of me! I care about efficiency. Those who follow me prosper. Those who oppose me... get sent to the mines.”
I’ll take over this Great Ming, and the sun will never set on this world!
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