In the third year of the Chongzhen reign, locusts and drought ravaged the northern lands for thousands of miles, leaving the countryside strewn with the dead.
Chu Sheng, an ordinary man from the modern world, found his soul thrown into an age of chaos. Reduced to a starving family’s bondsman, he witnessed gentry exploitation, corrupt officials, and marauding bandits firsthand.
“Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born to their stations? A beggar can become a bandit, a soldier can become a rebel. Why shouldn’t a bondsman take charge of the realm?”
From the brink of despair, he gathered the displaced, founded the People’s Welfare Society, distributed land equally, and drilled his troops with strict discipline.
He raised an army in a remote corner of the wilderness, then carved out a domain in Jiangnan, challenging the rotten Ming court and holding back the iron cavalry from beyond the passes.
He crushed the powerful, cleaned up officialdom, reformed taxes, established workshops, and opened the seas to expansion.
From a lowly bondsman struggling simply to stay alive, he rose step by step to pacify the realm, overthrow the old dynasty, and establish a new one, restoring China’s fortune atop a shattered land.
It looks great. It was originally a great power in the upper realm, but unfortunately it only survived with a ray of remnant soul. It's very beautiful. I look forward to returning to the upper realm!