I Am Not Yao or Shun

A modern man transmigrates into Chongzhen’s late Ming Dynasty. He reforms the capital’s army, confiscates the eight great imperial merchants’ fortunes, wages war against the Later Jin, destroys Japan, colonizes the Southern Seas, invades the Americas, makes flintlock rifles, and plants potatoes to settle refugees. Hong Taiji and Li Zicheng are both my tools. I will save the Ming Dynasty and conquer the world. Amid a sprawling cast in the late Ming, I, Zhu Youjian, will not be Yao or Shun. I will rewrite the tragedy of the Ming Dynasty’s fall, pursuing court intrigue and global conquest in parallel.