Late Ming: Rising from the Margins and Creating My Own Future!!! 明末：崛起与微末，创造自己的未来！！！
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A Bandit in Late Ming China: My First Heist Was Sun Chuanting 在明末当山贼第一次就抢了孙传庭
While traveling, Zhou Yan's mind wandered for a moment, and he found himself in the eighth year of the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty. Forced to become a bandit, he never expected the first person he robbed to be Sun Chuanting, the last pillar of the Ming Empire. With Zhou Yan's arrival, will the crumbling Han dynasty still fall? Will Sun Chuanting, whose death was said to mark the fall of the Ming, still die in battle at Tong Pass? Will Lu Xiangsheng, praised as a once-in-a-generation talent
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Starting Out in a Ming Dynasty Garrison 明末从卫所开始
Was the late Ming truly beyond saving? Was the Ming Dynasty really worthless? Was the Great Ming truly so easy to defeat? Join me as we explore this era. The seventh year of the Chongzhen reign, late spring. Farther north than northern Shaanxi, beyond the frontier, watch as a hereditary soldier from a military garrison rises step by step and changes everything along the way. This book has no golden finger, only one heroine, no runaway tech tree, and no high-yielding corn or sweet potatoes. A new
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- 3 Hahaha, Great Ming 哈哈哈，大明 In an age when everyone is rebelling, to survive, you have to be more ruthless than every rebel king. You have to become the greatest rebel king of all. Take down Gao Yingxiang first, then Zhang Xianzhong, then Li Zicheng, and after that, go straight for the Eight Banners. You Manchus, your emperor is back. 460.1kReads9.4Score66.8kShelves
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Great Ming: I Transmigrate as the Chongzhen Emperor, Starting with a Rope 大明：穿越崇祯帝，开局一根绳
[No System + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + Ruthless Combat + War] Good news: Zhu Lian transmigrated and became Zhu Youjian, the Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming dynasty. Bad news: It was the tenth day of the third month of Chongzhen’s seventeenth year, just seven days before Li Zicheng’s rebels stormed the outer city. The Ming dynasty was already on the brink of collapse, in grave danger. The Jurchens threatened from the north, rebels from the west, with one natural disaster after another an
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- 5 Reborn as the Ming Emperor, but the Ming Dynasty Is Already Gone 重生明帝，但大明已经没了 Li Yan is reborn. The good news: he’s the emperor of the Great Ming. The bad news: the Great Ming is already gone. The Southern Ming court is on the verge of collapse, the Qing troops are pursuing them south, and the court keeps fleeing south… Li Yan: “I’m done running! I’ll fight the northern barbarians to the death!” Factional infighting? Kill them! We’ll fight our way from Guangdong back to Beijing! Li Dingguo, Zheng Chenggong, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi. This time, they won’t be disappointed! 33kReads9.3Score3kShelves
- 6 Ironblooded Late Ming 铁血残明 In the late Ming dynasty, Spain and Japan gradually restricted the outflow of silver, reversing the capital inflow that the Ming had enjoyed since the early sixteenth century. The commercial and smallholder economies that coexisted under the Ming were both hit by deflation. Combined with the effects of the Little Ice Age, one domino after another fell, plunging the realm into chaos. In the eleventh month of the sixth year of the Chongzhen reign, the roving rebels crossed the river south of Mianc 105kReads9.4Score11.1kShelves
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Chongzhen: My Life Has Been on Thin Ice 崇祯：我这一生如履薄冰
(An immersive experience of Zhu Youjian's life and the true nature of the chaos at the end of the Ming dynasty! Not a power fantasy!) At the end of the thirty-eighth year of the Wanli reign, a report that Liaodong postal couriers had frozen to death was being used by a eunuch to prop up a table leg. The rice wasted at banquets by wealthy gentry in Jiangnan was worth more than three years of disaster relief in Shaanxi. Nanmu timber for the construction of the three great halls in the Forbidden Ci
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- 8 The Descendants of the Hongwu Emperor 洪武朝的子孙们 After an accident, his soul travels a century into the past. On an ordinary day in the seventh year of Hongwu, he is born in the imperial palace of Yingtian Prefecture. He is the most honored child in all of the Ming dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang’s beloved grandson. Zhu Biao’s eldest legitimate son. And yet, in the history books, he is merely a passing mention: Prince Yu Huai. Looking at the still-healthy Crown Prince Zhu Biao, at Hu Weiyong and the Blue Jade case, which have yet to unleash their blood 104.5kReads8.3Score7.5kShelves
- 9 Great Ming: Zhu Biao Turns Evil, and the Jingnan Campaign Is No More 大明：朱标黑化，靖难没了 History records that Crown Prince Zhu Biao died of illness in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu. What history does not record: he died once, then came back to life. His soul wandered for three days, and he saw the entire fate of the Ming dynasty over the next 276 years: The Jingnan Campaign, the burning palace, Tumu Fortress, and the strip of white silk hanging from a tree on Coal Hill. When he opened his eyes again, he was in his sickbed in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu. The charcoal fire blaz 50.3kReads8.8Score4.2kShelves
- 10 Great Ming: If the Tianqi Emperor Lives, Great Ming Will Never Fall 大明：天启不死，大明不灭 [Rating just released, and it’ll rise later] [Handcrafted] + [No System] + [No mindless protagonist] + [Power struggles] + [Imperial court] + [Battle for supremacy] The soul of the Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming dynasty drifted through four hundred years before he was reborn on the eleventh day of the eighth month of the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, just eleven days before his historical death. At this point, the Ming dynasty had just won the Battle of Ningjin. The Mongol tribes had 98.7kReads9.0Score13.2kShelves
- 11 I Woke Up to Find That My Great Ming Had Only Ten Days Left? 一觉醒来，朕的大明只剩十天了？ Original title: I Woke Up, and My Great Ming Has Only Ten Days Left? In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the countdown to the fall of the Great Ming begins. (No System) While lying unconscious on the dragon throne, Zhu Youjian had a long, vivid dream. In the dream, he became a child and studied centuries in the future. He opened The History of Ming, a book filled with the humiliating end that awaited him. In the end, he became a hardened soldier, tempered by modern military training. After twe 282.6kReads9.0Score39.8kShelves
- 12 Chongzhen! Reclaim the Throne! 崇祯！重征！ After Zhu Youjian hanged himself at Coal Hill, his soul returned to the day his elder brother, the Tianqi Emperor, died in the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, just as Zhu Youjian was about to ascend the throne. He is not a transmigrator with modern knowledge. His only golden finger is the memory of the seventeen years he spent as emperor in his previous life: he knows which decisions led to the fall of the dynasty, whom he can trust, and whom he must not put to use. Every memory was bought wit 3.5kReads6.3Score276Shelves
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Arriving in Southern Ming, an Engineering Student Crushes the Qing and Restores China 来到南明，工科生横扫满清复华夏
In the first year of the Hongguang reign, Jiangnan is on the verge of falling. The realm is shattered, and the people are displaced. A modern engineering expert unexpectedly arrives in the storm-tossed chaos of the Southern Ming. The land is divided among warlords, powerful enemies press at its borders, and the old and new dynasties take turns on the stage. He has no peerless martial arts, but he possesses engineering, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge far ahead of his time. He gathers dis
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- 14 An Engineering Student Ventures into the Late Ming 工科小伙闯明末 A middle-aged bachelor, beaten down by society and thwarted at every turn in the modern world, with no connections to his name but plenty of knowledge and ability, is accidentally transported to the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty. Relying on his modern knowledge while adapting to the era’s actual technological and industrial capabilities, he works hard to quietly change history and prevent China’s decline. 2.9kReads7.8Score197Shelves
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General Zuo Menggeng, the Pacifier of the Rebels: I'm Really a Good Person! 平贼将军左梦庚，我真的是好人啊
[Late Ming + transmigration + no System + feel-good power fantasy + lighthearted comedy + loyalty + reviving the Han] After transmigrating into the body of Zuo Menggeng, a pacification general of the Southern Ming, he starts off defeated at Tongling and retreating to Jiujiang in 1645. Zuo Menggeng was born in 1624, the fourth year of the Tianqi reign. His father was Zuo Liangyu, a pacification general of the Ming dynasty. When I was a general, I was the sun in the sky, and our slogan was “Loyalt
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A Ming Dynasty Soldier Rises to Power 明末小兵崛起
“What? Liu Boyuan has taken another Tartar head!” Li Yao, the Thousand-Man Commander of Weiwu Fort, exclaimed in astonishment. Chen Qiyu, the Governor of Yansui: “Thousand-Man Commander Liu, I hope you’ll lend us your full support in this campaign against the rebels!” The Qing army has entered the pass. “Quick, summon the Duke Who Guards the Nation to the capital to defend the emperor!” Chongzhen cried from his throne.
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- 17 A Professional Rebel at the End of the Ming Dynasty 明末造反专业户 [No System + No Cheat Powers + Late Ming Dynasty + Rebellion] Wu Cheng, a newly graduated college student working as a village official, transmigrates to the second year of the Chongzhen reign in the late Ming Dynasty and becomes a military household member of the Great Ming. A corrupt court, an incompetent emperor, greedy officials and gentry, and commoners treated as less than human push Wu Cheng step by step toward rebellion. Watch as he takes on the local tyrants, fights the Great Ming, dest 14.4kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
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Late Ming: Becoming Emperor Was Never My Wish 明末：称帝非我愿
[No System + No Cheat Abilities + Ming Dynasty + Rebellion] Wang San, worn down by society and working grueling 24/7 shifts, becomes another Wang San, a villager in Baishui County, Shaanxi, near the end of the Ming dynasty. A terrible famine strikes, and people resort to eating one another. Wang San is frail and sickly, on the verge of becoming someone else’s meal, when his brother Wang Er comes charging back and saves him. As Wang San leaves with Wang Er, he discovers that his brother is well-c
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- 19 Forward, Ming Battle-Line Infantry! 大明战列线步兵前进 [An original story about the Imjin War, exclusive to Tomato] In the twentieth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1592 by the Western calendar), Peng transmigrates into the past. Among the routed soldiers, he's nothing more than a low-ranking scout captain. Facing the utterly rampant Japanese pirates, and a Ming Dynasty that has effectively fallen under the Wanli Emperor's rule, Peng throws back his head and roars, “I'll make them submit through virtue!” The gear strapped across my shou 6.9kReads9.1Score633Shelves
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The Great Qi Marquis of One Step 大齐一步侯
[Alternate history, airtight logic, a treat to listen to, multiple heroines, lighthearted daily life, the jianghu and court politics, love and hate, national and family vendettas...] A modern-day criminal investigator transmigrates into the body of a minor official in the State of Qi. At first, his only dream is to stay alive. But when foreign barbarians invade the Central Plains, slaughtering and pillaging until the kingdom falls and families are torn apart, he has no choice but to enter the fr
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- 21 The Rise of the Clans 阀明 During the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty, the empire teetered on the brink of collapse. In the heartland, rebels crossed south from Mianchi, sweeping across the land like a flood bursting through a dam, with starving people caught in the torrent. In Liaodong to the north, the Later Jin repeatedly broke through the frontier, crossing the Great Wall to plunder at will. Mighty China could not muster a single general able to stand against them. The vast realm was on the verge of ruin, and the he 15.6kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
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The Vastness of the End Times 末明其渺
The late Ming era was rife with natural disasters, man-made calamities, schemes, and madness. To survive, you have to fully adapt to the times. The three-hundred-year-old Ming dynasty is teetering on the brink. See how Ye Ning stirs up the winds of change in this chaotic age.
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- 23 At the End of the Ming Dynasty, Singing Through Turbulent Times 明末，乱世高歌行 In the summer of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the two capitals and Shandong suffered a severe drought and locusts. Famine ravaged the land, and people ate one another. Yu Mu opened his eyes and found himself in an era when people casually roasted human flesh over a fire. Ahead, corrupt officials cracked their whips like wolves. Behind him, Qing soldiers and rebel bandits stood ready with blades and axes. As a refugee, what was he supposed to do? Should he grovel and die like a blade of grass, 12.8kReads8.5Score1kShelves
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A Late Ming Revolutionary Reorganizes the Ranks and Handcrafts a Mortar 明末觉醒分子重组，手搓迫击炮
History's unluckiest transmigrator starts out as a refugee in northern Shaanxi at the end of the Ming dynasty. Just as he thinks he's about to die on arrival, his “molecular restructuring” cheat comes online! Any substance can be rewritten; any structure can be rearranged! Hungry? Restructure cellulose into glucose and turn weeds into porridge! The original grain seeds yield too little? Induce genetic mutations in the seeds and harvest three thousand jin per mu! The Tartar cavalry is formidable?
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The Great Ming's Last Backbone: Beheading Shi Lang from the Start 大明最后脊梁：开局斩首施琅
[Pirates] [Rebuilding the Ming Dynasty] [Adventure] [Naval Warfare] In 1683, after the Battle of Penghu, a defeated Zheng army rebuilds the Ming Dynasty into an empire on which the sun never sets. When Chen Meng transmigrated as the captain of a Zheng naval gunboat, he turned the tide of the rout and killed Shi Lang. Right under Yao Qisheng's nose, he abducted Consort Rong and Princess Lanqi. Fujian Governor-General Yao Qisheng went mad, and an imperial edict from Kangxi soon followed: “As long
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The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: The Empire's Collapse 崇祯十七年：帝国的崩塌
The Great Ming was at the height of its power and prosperity, yet collapsed overnight. What happened? This book is not a simple account of a dynasty's decline. It is a panoramic dissection of how a complex civilizational system crashed completely. Through the interwoven fates of more than twenty central figures, including the Chongzhen Emperor, Li Zicheng, Yuan Chonghuan, Wu Sangui, and Johann Adam Schall von Bell, we are drawn into the scene of an irreversible collapse. You will witness with yo
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- 27 Border Fires of the Great Ming 大明边火 This is the turning point at which an empire began to decline, and the starting point of a warlord's rise. During the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, the seemingly powerful empire was already rotten to the core, plagued by factional strife and lax frontier defenses. Beyond the empire's gaze in Liaodong, among the Jurchen tribes, contemptuously called the “wild men of Jianzhou,” a man named Nurhaci raised an army with thirteen suits of ancestral armor, unified the Jurchen tribes, and founded the 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Great Ming Without Colonies 大明不殖民 The Uncolonized Ming is an alternate-history novel that begins in the thirteenth year of the Yongle reign. Zheng He returns from his fourth voyage to the Western Ocean with the Map of the Myriad Countries. Military officials at court champion expansion by force, while Xu Hongyuan, a scholar at the Directorate of Astronomy, establishes the Four Seas Commercial Accounting Office with the Crown Prince’s support, hoping to replace traditional conquest with a new system. Xu Hongyuan pushes for the So 40Reads—Score—Shelves
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The End of Dayan: Winds Rise in Hanzhou 大衍末路：邯州风起
[Transmigrate to the Late Ming] [Imperial Son-in-Law] [Not Mindless] [Not a Power Fantasy] [No System] [New Book] In the first year of the Chongzhen reign, at the end of the Ming dynasty, there are no golden fingers, no System, and the story unfolds at a measured pace. Zhao Yanzhi, a modern office worker, transmigrates by accident and becomes the illegitimate son of a landowning family in Handan during the early years of the Chongzhen reign. The realm is on the verge of chaos, bandits roam every
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Late Ming: The Steel Tide Rolls On 明末，钢铁的洪流滚滚向前
[No Romance + No System + Has a Golden Finger (Does an armory count?) + Invincible + Farming and Development + Slow-Burn but Packed with Conflict] Ammunition-disassembly expert Zhong Qing survives an explosion by sheer luck, only to be transported with his warehouse to the third year of the Tianqi era, at the end of the Ming dynasty. When he opens his eyes, he sees no beautiful women in his harem, only dust kicked up by Mongol cavalry. His System? Doesn’t exist. His golden finger is the clas
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Late Ming: A Superhuman Descends on Yangzhou, Plays the Great Sage, and Destroys the Manchus 明末：超人降临扬州扮大圣灭满清
The rating has only just appeared, so it’ll rise soon! (The Myriad Worlds + late Ming setting from the start + defending Yangzhou during the ten-day massacre + wiping out the Jurchen Eight Banners + a Superman-like hero arrives + the Great Sage Equal to Heaven) Modern college student Sun Hao transmigrates bodily to Yangzhou at the end of the Ming dynasty. At this point, a hundred thousand troops of the Jurchen Eight Banners are attacking the city. As Yangzhou is about to fall, sunlight empowers
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Late Ming: From Bandit to God’s Whip 明末：从马匪到上帝之鞭
[Late Ming power struggle + cavalry battles + ruthless decisiveness + becoming emperor] When civilization meets barbarism, you have to become even more barbaric than they are. Zhou Ming transmigrates back to the great northwest, where it is now the first year of the Chongzhen reign. Drought and looting plague the entire region. If we can’t settle down and farm in peace, then nobody gets to farm. When the entire Han people overturn the table and grow barbaric, it will be a nightmare for the wh
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The Late Ming Trilogy 明末三部曲
This is a late-Ming historical epic told primarily from the perspective of the Daxi Army and the peasant rebels. The general approach is seventy percent fact and thirty percent fiction: the main characters and major events are real, but some real historical figures’ personalities, backgrounds, and experiences have been fictionalized. The trilogy’s central themes trace a path from the ensemble cast’s “instinct to survive and ideal of universal harmony” in the Survival arc, to “destruction, plunde
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From the Start, I Live-Stream the Great Ming, and Huaxia Civilization Leads by Ages 开局直播大明，华夏文明断层领先
(This book is not intended to disparage the present or glorify the past. The world I've created is fictional, so please don't conflate it with reality. My goal is to work toward China's rise! Nothing else is intended!) My name is Han Bixing, and I transmigrated into the Ming Dynasty as a fool. Everyone calls me crazy and pelts me with stones because I hold up a battered bronze mirror and talk to the air. They don't know that the other side of the mirror is connected to more than six hundred year
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Ming Dynasty Tutor: The Answers My Director and I Found in Troubled Times 大明辅导员：我和主任的乱世答卷
Setting: Mizhi, in the fourth year of the Chongzhen reign at the end of the Ming dynasty. Both the male and female leads transmigrate. No harem or womanizing; the heroine is no mere ornament, and the romance develops naturally. There is no System, and the golden finger is restrained. The protagonist struggles at every step. The story has over a hundred chapters so far: the protagonists have just broken out of Mizhi County, defeated Buzhan Ni, and become a local power entrenched around Mizhi, Jia
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A Ming-Era Deserter: I Wanted to Lie Low, but the Turbulent Times Forced Me to Draw My Blade 明末逃卒：想苟，乱世却逼我拔刀
[No System + Hardcore Survival + Internally Consistent Logic + Meticulous Details + No Mindless Power Fantasy + Relentless Bloodshed] A dung fork from the start, and everything else has to be looted? Wang Feng, an engineering guy who moonlights as a martial arts stuntman, gets knocked unconscious with a club and wakes up in the chaotic final years of the Ming dynasty! There’s no overpowered System, and he has no kingly aura. All he has is a group of ragged, starving deserters. At his side ar
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Back to the End of the Ming Dynasty as a World Leader 回到明末当球长
Question: If you had a chance to go back to the Ming Dynasty, would you go? Answer: No. Question: Why not? Answer: I wouldn’t be able to use my phone or play games. No running water, no electricity, no internet. It’d be like going back to the dark ages. Only an idiot would go! Question: What if you got a System, too? Answer: What kind of System? Question: A trading System. You could use it to do business with people in the modern world, so you’d have everything you need. How about it? Answer: St
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Impersonating a Post Station Chief, I Give the Great Ming 300 More Years 冒名驿丞，我为大明续命三百年
[No System + traditional history + ordinary protagonist + political intrigue + famine + no harem] Chen Yuan, a PhD in Ming history, opens his eyes and finds himself in Shaanxi in the third year of Chongzhen. The land is barren for miles, corpses lie everywhere, and people are eating one another. The good news: Chen Yuan has acquired the identity of a post-station supervisor. The bad news: The court has already shut down every post station, making him the last post-station supervisor in the Great
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The Ming Dynasty at Sunset 大明日落
The Ming Dynasty! The end of the Ming! Chen Feng establishes a power base between two mountains, keeping a low profile as he develops. When he runs out of money, he raids the Tartars! He grows stronger little by little, waiting for the day he can soar to greatness and build a prosperous dynasty where everyone has enough to eat! The Ming Dynasty! The Ming era! The end of the Ming!
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- 40 I’m a Ming Imperial Clansman, Not a Bandit 我，大明宗室，不想当流贼 In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the splendor of “the Great Ming, whose dominion encompassed the seas and lands, surpassing the Three Dynasties and eclipsing Han and Tang, whose subjects filled all beneath the heavens...” had quietly faded away. The realm was in turmoil and the great edifice on the verge of collapse. Barbarians ran rampant, rebels wreaked havoc, natural and man-made disasters abounded, and the starving dead lay everywhere. Amidst the smoke of war that now blanketed the land, 38.3kReads8.7Score3kShelves
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The English Prince and the Ming Empire: A History of Colonial Expansion 英皇子与明帝国：殖民开拓史
[Global colonization + changing history] [Political intrigue] [Passionate] [Struggle for supremacy] [Blood and iron] [No System] A modern man with a background in science and engineering transmigrates and opens his eyes to find himself a British prince, in control of two major colonial estates in North America, yet his heart aches for the declining Ming Dynasty! In the waning years of the Wanli Emperor's reign, factional strife plagues the court, the Later Jin watches from the shadows, and Japan
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Whether the Ming Dynasty Falls Is Up to Me, Mu Tianbo 大明亡不亡是我沐天波说了算
The Ming Dynasty: I don’t know whether this was a good dynasty! But I do know that no matter how bad the Ming was, it was still better than being forced to shave my head! I am Mu Tianbo, and I am not Mu Tianbo! The last Duke of Qian in the late Ming: this is my story, and the story of reconquering the realm! The Ming will not fall, not while I, Mu Tianbo, am here!
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Biding My Time in the Late Ming: Lying Flat Makes Me Invincible 苟在明末，躺平即无敌
The late Ming is in chaos. Bones stretch for miles, and the dynasty is on the verge of collapse. Ambitious warlords fight for their lives everywhere, and everyone is struggling to survive. But the System keeps me, a transmigrator among the refugees, on a tight leash: No striving, no raising an army, no standing out. I’m only allowed to lie flat and slack off. The more I keep my head down, the stronger I get. The lazier I am, the more invincible I become. While the world risks everything to save
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Late Ming: Exiled to Daguang Island, the Civilization System Activates 明末：流放大光岛，文明系统启动
In the winter of the fourth year of the Tianqi era, Lu Yuan is implicated in the Yang Lian case and exiled to serve in the military on Dagong Island. After a storm, all he has left are twenty-seven exiles, half a wrecked ship, and a chaotic island nearly twenty thousand square kilometers in size. The good news is that the Civilization System has activated. Technology trees, civic development, military systems, urban wonders... From an exile camp to a trading port, from a woodworking shop to an i
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The Great Warlord of the Late Ming 晚明大军阀
Advance notice: Farming-focused story. Anti-Ming and anti-Qing. Firearms. Conquest. Advancing technology. No System, and there is a female lead, but she gets very little page time. After a stroke of incredible luck, the protagonist wakes up to discover he has become a bandit chief. He has just settled an internal dispute in the stronghold when government troops arrive to surround and suppress them. To avoid being wiped out by the authorities, the protagonist can only use what he has at hand to
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- 46 Transmigrating to the Late Ming: From Tightening Screws to Farming 穿越明末：从打螺丝到种田 Transmigration to the late Ming dynasty + Peasant Rebellion + Resistance against the Ming and Qing! (Respecting history + No cheats + No System + Slow-paced + Not a power fantasy!!) Wang Tie is an ordinary man with no particular skills. By a twist of fate, he transmigrates to the late Ming and early Qing, a chaotic era that is practically a living hell. How will he find a way to survive in this turbulent age?! And once he reaches the pinnacle of power, where will he lead this people and nat 17.2kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
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One Tael of Silver a Day for Everyone: Restoring the Ming in Yangzhou 每人每天一两银，我在扬州复大明
Territory and Population System + military affairs + political intrigue + wish fulfillment + decisive action + fast pace The sun and moon never lose their nature, so though obscured, they shine again. The Yangtze and Han rivers never lose their source, so though blocked, they flow once more. The people of Xia never lose their spirit, so though fallen, they rise again. In 1645, 100,000 Qing troops surround Yangzhou. Shi Kefa has burned five letters of surrender, and the people of the city are pre
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Late Ming: Stop Rushing Me! This Governor Just Wants to Slack Off 明末：别催了！我这巡抚只想摸鱼
Chen Du, a modern office drone, transmigrated into the late Ming Dynasty as the son of a Sichuan merchant. He spent all forty thousand taels of silver he had just to buy an easy government post in Zhejiang, where he could lie flat and stay alive. But Chongzhen issued an order transferring him straight to Shanxi, making him governor of the province: a northern frontier death trap that his predecessor had failed to escape despite submitting seventeen resignation letters. Beacon fires blazed acros
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The Hakka Army of the Late Ming 明末客家军
This book is entirely original. The protagonist transmigrates into a kind, ordinary Hakka family in southern Jiangxi at the end of the Ming dynasty. The family starts by expanding the patrol office from 20 people, then takes up farming and development, quells rebellions and builds an army, suppresses pirates in the Guangdong Sea, resists the Dutch in the Fujian Sea, fights the British at Humen, and recovers Taiwan. There are naval battles at Hailingyang, Nan'ao, Luoliowan, Humen, and Meizhou Isl
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Zhaowu Restoration: Prince Gui Saves the Ming 昭武中兴：桂王挽明
An epic of the late Ming, not a transmigration tale, and a stirring lament for the Southern Ming. This is not the story of a transmigrator. There is no System and no golden finger. There is only Zhu Youheng, the son of a prince, born in the last days of an empire and raised deep within the palace. He bore the destiny bound up in the name “Youheng,” bestowed upon him by his grandfather, the Wanli Emperor. When the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself at Coal Hill, the empire’s skies collapsed. Power,
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