In 1627 AD, Zhu Youxiao, the carpenter emperor, died suddenly, and Zhu Youjian, the king of Xin, ascended the throne hastily. What he inherited was a mess with eunuchs and chaotic government, endless party disputes, Hou Jin's pressure on the country, and refugees everywhere. Historically, he worked diligently for seventeen years, but finally hanged himself in Meishan, and the Ming Dynasty suddenly collapsed. When a modern soul travels through time and becomes Emperor Chongzhen who has just ascended the throne, is familiar with the trajectory of the dynasty's downfall, and has knowledge of the future, can everything be rewritten? No longer eager to punish Wei Zhongxian to intensify the situation in the court, no more blindly dismantling post stations to force the rebels to rebel, no more indiscriminate supervising of wars and self-destruction of the Great Wall. He wanted to balance the power in the court, purge the officials, stabilize the morale of the army at the border, forge cannons and train troops, do light corvees and low taxes among the people, provide disaster relief and comfort the people, and carve out a way to continue the dying Ming Dynasty in the cracks of internal and external troubles. This is a fateful reversal of three hundred years of national destiny with one person's power. Let's see how the new Chongzhen can turn the tide and rebuild the Ming Dynasty.
