I Am the Apocalypse: Recasting the Ming Dynasty

The sixth day of May in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Xiyuan. Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty fell into the water while boating and almost died. No one knew that the moment he was picked up from the water, the person who opened his eyes on the dragon bed was already a different person. A soul from four hundred years later became the famous "Carpenter Emperor" in history. The first thing he saw when he woke up was Wei Zhongxian kneeling beside the bed crying. The second time he saw it, all the civil and military officials in the dynasty were waiting for him to die. The third glance was of his seventeen-year-old brother Xinwang Zhu Youjian, standing in the crowd with his eyes lowered, wondering what he was thinking. There were only 80,000 taels of silver left in Taicang, Liaodong was in arrears with wages for three months, refugees from Shaanxi began to gather in the mountains and forests, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River controlled the tax revenue, and Huang Taiji of the Later Jin Dynasty was sharpening his sword and waiting for the Ming Dynasty to cause chaos. Everyone thought the ship was going to sink. But Zhu Youxiao refused to accept his fate. No money? Then turn Huangzhuang into an experimental field and let Xu Guangqi grow sweet potatoes. No one is fighting? Then dig out the worms in the capital camp and use the money copied from Wei Zhongxian to train the new army. Do civil servants fight fiercely? Then let them fight. He sat on it and watched, and he saw clearly who was a human and who was a ghost. Some people say that he is a tyrant, and his raids on homes have made people in Jiangnan panic. Some people say that he is a wise king, and the soldiers in Liaodong can finally have enough to eat. Others say he is a lunatic - a good carpenter does not work, he spends all his time thinking about flintlock guns, red-coated cannons, and steam engines, and he also lets those blond and blue-eyed Thais come into the palace to give lectures. Zhu Youxiao doesn't care about this. In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he would personally take the helm of the broken ship of the Ming Dynasty. As for how far it can be driven... Give it a try.