Rewriting Ming History: I Refuse to Wear a Queue

In 2025, Han Qian is a Grade 8 fitter at Jiangnan Shipyard. In his spare time, he enjoys studying Ming dynasty history. He thinks the Ming emperors all had distinctive personalities and a strong backbone. Then an accident sends him transmigrating to the seventh year of the Chongzhen reign. He's transmigrated?

The bitter wind whipped sand and grit across his face like countless tiny knives. Han Qian's eyes flew open, and a rusty, metallic sweetness filled his throat. He found himself lying on a hard mound of yellow earth, wearing a ragged cotton-padded coat, frozen stiff, its coarse stitching chafing his skin. His ears were filled with the howling wind and, in the distance, a few plaintive cries that could have been wolves or something else.

"Awake? This kid's one tough bastard!" a hoarse voice said beside him, thick with a Shaanxi accent.