Modern historian Zhao Chen's soul traveled through Tianqi seven years ago and became the newly crowned Emperor Chongzhen. Facing the doomed situation of the late Ming Dynasty due to internal and external troubles, he abandoned the established trajectory of the history books: temporarily leaving Wei Zhongxian as his sword to check and balance the civil servant group that was harming the country with empty talk; he subtly served in Shaanxi and discovered Li Zicheng who had not yet emerged during the dispute at the post station. He used the ideal of "equalizing the land" to take the future King of Chu for his own use and turned it into a strong shield to appease the bottom; he also understood Wu Sangui's wolf ambitions and laid out strategies to eliminate trouble step by step.
He used the help of the Wei party to re-levy industrial and commercial taxes, used Li Zicheng's power to promote military settlements, and relied on the strength of the new army to rebuild border defenses. He tore a way out between the gentry's abuse and the rebels' blades. When the Donglin Party members' desks were filled with memorials, when Hou Jin's cavalry knocked at the border, when Li Zicheng's refugee army stood side by side with Sun Chuanting's new army, this "fate-defying" Chongzhen knew very well: It is easy to kill one person, but difficult to bring down tens of thousands of people; it is difficult to change the system of one dynasty, but it is difficult to change the mentality of the ages. His imperial path is to use power and benevolence to continue an unfinished legend for the great Ming Dynasty.
