What if Chongzhen, who hanged himself in Meishan, was replaced by a postdoctoral fellow who had studied Ming history for fifteen years?
Zhao Yi, the youngest postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Ming History of the Academy of Social Sciences, woke up and became Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian who had just ascended the throne seven years after the Apocalypse.
At this time, Wei Zhongxian's resignation was being delivered to the imperial court, the General Affairs Department was covered with bullets from the Donglin Party, the Tatars outside the customs were sharpening their knives, and the refugees in Shaanxi were about to revolt. The money in the treasury is not enough to pay the soldiers of Jiubian for a month.
He knows everyone's fate and holds the answers to all questions.
But the biggest problem he faced was not how to kill Wei Zhongxian, but what to do after killing him.
So, in this mess, an unprecedented "national operation" quietly began.
He said: The eunuch is a vicious dog, but for the time being he can still look after the house and the home;
He said: It's not called donation, it's called borrowing - issuing war bonds, guaranteed by customs tax revenue, with an annual interest of 5%;
He said: The Donglin Party's clean stream should be used to do things, not to worship.
He used the most Ming Dynasty method to fight the most modern turnaround.
When the Tartar cavalry were defeated by firearms, when the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River lined up to subscribe for the "Pingliao Bonds", when American crops took root on the loess slopes of Shaanxi -
The civil and military talents of the entire dynasty realized belatedly that the young emperor was no longer a king they could predict.
And he just wanted to lift the broken sun and moon back to the sky.
