Late Ming: My Super-Empire, Zhu Cilang’s Great Ming

Name: Late Ming: My Super-Empire, Zhu Cilang’s Great Ming
Author: Little Wu Nai

明末，我朱慈烺的大明超级帝国

by Little Wu Nai (小小无耐)

Status: Completed
Length: 865k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical High-Concept
Updated: 3mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

The Chongzhen emperor's crown prince flees to Australia. He starts with a thousand refugees, builds an ironclad fleet in three years, sweeps across Southeast Asia in five, and reaches Europe in ten.

His name is Zhu Cilang, the lost crown prince of a fallen dynasty. But within him now dwells a soul from 2026.

[System + Farming + Naval Warfare + Revenge + Empire]

On the eve of the dynasty's fall, the Chongzhen emperor shoves the last sea chart into his arms and kicks him out of the capital. Leading more than a thousand refugees across the ocean, he arrives in the wilds of Australia.

No food? The System lets him trade for high-yield seeds, producing three harvests a year until the granaries overflow. No guns? He gets steam-powered machine tools, Type Zero rifles, and water-cooled heavy machine guns, leaving his enemies generations behind. No ships? Ironclads roll off the production lines. Ten-thousand-ton warships cut through the waves, while Western wooden ships sink with a single shot.

The barbarians resist? One volley, and they raise the white flag. They bully the Chinese? The New Ming fleet arrives at their doorstep. They push south? Then the ironclads sail into the mouth of the Pearl River.

This isn't a desperate escape, it's a crushing technological advantage. This isn't farming, it's industrialization steamrolling the seventeenth century.

Southeast Asia becomes an inland sea, and the great powers tremble. Zheng Chenggong submits, and Prince Lu pays homage from afar. The millennia-old evil lurking in the shadows finally makes its move, only to find New Ming's tide of steel unstoppable.

“As far as the eye can see, it is Ming territory. Wherever our troops march, we claim as our frontier.”

See how Zhu Cilang rises from a tent on the beach to build a new capital, forge ironclads, unite Southeast Asia, reclaim his homeland, and rule the West, planting the sun-and-moon banner across the whole world.

[History has been changed; this doesn't follow the historical record. Pure power fantasy, so jump right in.]

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