In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, while on death row, Zhao Chengyu, a graduate student in the history department, passed through his soul to a young man in the late Ming Dynasty.
Outside, Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was knocking on the border. Inside, corrupt officials were rampant, people died of hunger everywhere, and the mainland of China was about to sink.
Others are waiting for death in troubled times, but he relies on the perspective of three hundred years of history to make progress step by step.
Escape from prison to survive, build strongholds with cattle, open up wasteland to train troops, gather refugees, and build a strong army.
Defeat the bandits, defeat the army, reject the Manchus, and secure the Central Plains.
I will not support the decay of the Ming Dynasty, nor will I be a bandit in troubled times. I will only use my body as a commoner to rebuild the mountains and rivers, create a new dynasty, protect my clothes, and save my life!
From a prisoner on death row to a founding emperor - I, Zhao Chengyu, deserve to sit in this world!
The plot of the story has ups and downs,