Late Ming Construction: Farming, Casting Cannons, Destroying the Qing, and Reviving the Han

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the third year of Qing Chongde.

Zhang Xianzhong has submitted to the Ming, Li Zicheng has been defeated and gone into hiding in the mountains, and the court and the people alike believe the Ming dynasty is enjoying a revival.

But an explosion at the Anmin Factory and Qing raids across the border reveal that beneath its prosperous facade, the dynasty is already on the brink of collapse.

Beyond the passes, Hong Taiji has founded the Great Qing. With Mongolia and Korea conquered, its elite soldiers and mighty generals gather, watching hungrily and waiting to march south and seize the Central Plains.

Carrying the Civilization Ascension System, Li Ye transmigrates into Jinzhou Guard in Liaodong, where he becomes a young farm slave exploited by the Manchus.

A Han slave's life is worth less than grass. He is bullied at every turn, with the shadow of his country's destruction looming before him!

Unwilling to kneel and live as a slave, he defiantly raises the banner of rebellion!

He reclaims wasteland, farms, fishes and makes salt, mines and smelts iron, forges steel and casts cannons, steadily building his strength and raising troops at a furious pace.

No hiding and waiting for the enemy to march south. He takes aim at the Manchus from the start!

Using Liaodong as his base, he harnesses the System to unlock the technologies of civilization. First he destroys Jianzhou, then marches through the passes and pacifies the turmoil in the Central Plains.

He clears the smoke of war from China, restores the backbone of the Huaxia, and sweeps across the four corners of the world with a brilliant civilization, waging war for thousands of miles.