In the 17th year of Chongzhen's reign, Zhu Youjian sacrificed his life for his country on a rope in Meishan.
When he opened his eyes again, he was back to the beginning of his ascension to the throne - everything had not collapsed yet, and there was still room for everything.
This time, he was no longer eager to liquidate the eunuchs, but retained Wei Zhongxian to use poison to counteract poison; he no longer believed in public opinion, but tried to mend this already riddled empire with iron blood and reality.
However, the natural disaster has not changed and the people's livelihood has not been restored. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River keeps money as their fate, and the ministers in the court have their own ambitions; the generals in Liaodong are alienated and the border defenses are secretly cracked; the hungry people in the northwest rise up, and a postman named "Li Zicheng" is slowly growing out of the soil of troubled times.
He sees all endings in advance——
But I discovered that no path is truly "right".
If we save Jiangnan, there will be no food in the northwest;
If Liaodong is stable, the court will be suspicious;
If old evils are cleared away, new ones will appear;
If you use one person, you will lose the hearts of the other party.
When power no longer means control, but just constantly choosing the price;
When "knowing the future", it still cannot change the collapse of people's hearts and systems——
Only then did he understand that the death of the Ming Dynasty was never the fault of one person, nor was it the failure of one day.
This is a story about a reborn person who tried to change his destiny against the will of nature, but was repeatedly crushed by the greater torrent of the times.
It is also a tragic song about how an emperor fought against fate until the last moment before he was destined to lose everything.
