[Historical What-If] [Two-World Trading] [Power Fantasy] [Late Ming] [Chongzhen]
In 1628, the Ming dynasty was beset by internal strife and external threats, with disasters both natural and man-made striking one after another.
The Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian, inherited a dynasty rotten to the core.
Just as he was preparing to execute Wei Zhongxian and personally begin the countdown to the dynasty’s demise, a time portal connecting to the Hengdian World Studios of 2026 unexpectedly awakened!
By a twist of fate, Chongzhen was recruited by a film crew to play himself. When he saw the script ending with him hanging himself on Coal Hill, Zhu Youjian was utterly dumbfounded!
My brother said I had the makings of a great emperor, and you’re telling me I brought the Ming dynasty to ruin?!!
To defy fate and change his destiny, Zhu Youjian becomes a background actor in modern times, playing himself, and accidentally wins Best Actor! Meanwhile, he uses the time portal to trade Ming antiques for modern steel and life-saving supplies, embarking on the greatest cross-world trading venture in history!
Wei Zhongxian? You’re in luck, boy! You don’t have to die! Be my blade!
The Donglin Party? Kill them!
The Shanxi merchants? Seize their wealth!
Hong Taiji? You’re the one who claims that even ten thousand Eight Banners troops are invincible?
Before My Gatling gun, the Eight Banners cavalry is a joke!
This time, I will not only save the Ming dynasty, but make every land beneath the sun part of its realm, forging an unprecedented empire on which the sun never sets!
The first few chapters were okay, but when I started working on it with Wei Zhongxian in Chapter 8, I felt that my intelligence had been severely reduced. An emperor should not be like this, like a family member. The next one probably won't be much better either.
As the subjugated king of the Ming Dynasty, he had history in hand after time travel. He only cared about confiscation of the Donglin Party members' homes to get money, instead of immediately deploying troops to control the capital's absolute military power to ensure his own safety and purge the inner court. He had to dance on the knife's edge of cooperation between civil servants and eunuchs. The emperor has been concentrating power for thousands of years but now he is not in charge of the gun. Is he planning to be killed?
Not bad, quite novel