Looking for Books Set in the Early or Late Ming Dynasty, Preferably Without a System 求关于大明明初或明末的书 最好不要系统
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Even Bandits Can Set the World Ablaze 流贼也可以燎原
The suffering of the people at the end of the Ming dynasty was caused by more than just the rise of the Later Jin. It stemmed from many factors: the brutality of corrupt officials in the dynasty’s final years, the court’s exploitation of disaster victims, and more. You could even say the Later Jin had the least impact. To save the people, both sides must be brought down. It’s not as if everything will be over once the Later Jin is finished. Readers, the punctuation in the first dozen or twenty
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Transmigrate to Become Emperor, Save Great Ming and Lead It to the Peak 穿越做皇帝，救大明走向巅峰
A university student transmigrates into the Ming dynasty, where Zhu Qiyu lifts the ban on maritime trade. They drive the Japanese pirates east, campaign against the Oirat Mongols in the north, reach Europe in the west, and establish a modern Silk Road. They restore maritime trade supremacy and reestablish the financial dominance of Ming paper currency. Pure wish fulfillment.
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The Heavenly Khan, Beginning with Study Abroad in Oirat 天可汗，从留学瓦剌开始
Political intrigue + colonization + pioneering + expansion + war + the struggle for supremacy! No System! No dumbed-down characters! Decisive and ruthless! The Tumu Crisis: an axe is at his throat! Zhu Qizhen opens his eyes to find himself a prisoner of the Oirats, with the throne about to pass into someone else's hands. With no golden finger to bail him out, he can only rely on his learning to “study abroad” on the steppe... Tame the unruly tribes and become lord of the steppe; lead an elite ca
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Lives Across Time 古今人生
Ning Xia, a modern security guard, accidentally transmigrates into the turbulent history of the Ming Dynasty during the Zhengde era. A bronze mirror reveals the mystery of his own origins, while the gentle comforts of a beautiful woman at his side threaten to vanish beneath the fangs of eunuch officials and powerful ministers. He must tread carefully through the folds of history. Every choice to support loyal officials and every scheme against corrupt eunuchs is like walking on thin ice, lest he
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Reviving the Great Ming: A Lone Minister Founds Constitutional Rule 中兴大明，我以孤臣开宪政
The protagonist, Su Ran, transmigrates into another world when the Tianqi Great Explosion occurs. Through a stroke of fortune, he takes over the original owner’s body and enters the chaotic final years of the Ming Dynasty. See: A modern transmigrator versus the chosen one of the age. Heaven itself seems determined to help the Qing, the chosen ones of this world, sending one disaster after another: droughts, locust plagues, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis... A whole new game of political intrigue,
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Southern Ming, 1644: The Deposed Emperor Flees from the Start 南明1644：废帝开局就跑
[History + political intrigue + military + ensemble cast + not a power fantasy] In the ninth month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, I transmigrated into the deposed emperor Zhu Yousong. The countdown to the fall of the country had begun. The Jianlu were set on conquering all under heaven, while Nanjing still dreamed of “allying with the Later Jin to pacify the rebels”... Factional strife engulfed the court, and the Four Garrisons of Jiangbei held their troops for their own ends... No money,
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Chongzhen, Father, Call Me Your Majesty: An Emperor for the Ages 崇祯，父皇请叫我陛下：千古一帝
I'm the Fourth Prince, Zhu Cizhao? And it's still the fifteenth year of Chongzhen... “Li Zicheng, I don't care if you take the south, but if you cross Kaifeng, don't blame me for making sure your own family won't know where you are!” I'm out here fighting for my life, while you, Zhu Youjian, and your court officials keep wavering and scheming against one another. Then don't blame me for marching into the palace in armor and forcing your hand with tens of thousands of refugees outside the capital
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Tales from the End of the Ming 明末那些事
History is too ugly to examine closely. Look at it under a magnifying glass, like a beautiful woman, and everywhere your gaze falls, you’ll find ugliness and schemes… Did the Tianqi Emperor really drown? Was his name Hong Taiji or Huang Taiji? No, you’re all wrong. His name was Heihai… Was Cao Huachun loyal or treacherous? Is Xu Guangqi the man you think he is? … The Little Ice Age. The Great Ming stands at the end of its days, battered by wind and rain. Crises erupt, one after another, while ot
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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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Chongzhen: This Great Ming Is Surprisingly Powerful 崇祯：这个大明有点强
[Ming Dynasty + satisfying power fantasy + mass troop recruitment + System + wild imagination] In the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign, Zhu Youjian begins by drawing a Shenying Battalion. He rebuilds the Ming Dynasty, expands its military, purges treacherous officials, subdues Jiangnan, cuts down the powerful clans, and wins the people's hearts. He launches an eastern campaign against Japanese pirates, presses the Russians in the north, wages war across the southern seas, and conquers Per
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Ming Dynasty Coroner: The Forbidden Records 大明仵作：禁忌录
[Historical Transmigration, Mind-Bending Mystery] A graduate student in forensic medicine transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and becomes a coroner in a small county town. He discovers that the murders in this world aren’t all committed by people; many are connected to local folk “taboos.” Those who break them meet their end in an extraordinarily bizarre manner, as if they had “killed themselves.” Using modern forensic knowledge and his ability to unravel folk taboos, he must solve strange cases a
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Colonizing the Ming Dynasty 殖民大明
Wang Ding obtains a magical piece of jade that can open a spatial rift, creating a gateway to the Ming dynasty. There, Wang Ding finds wealth and glory in a new world. This is the story of how he saves people and kills them.
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Yang Tinghe on the Keyboard 键盘上的杨廷和
[Yang Tinghe | Male-Centered Lead | Historical Epic | Romance and Marriage | Political Intrigue] Yang Tinghe, grand secretary of the Ming dynasty, recounts his romantic and political adventures in modern language, with a playful take on his own life. [Matchmaking Trip to Yunnan] Help Mu Cong put down the Xundian rebellion and bring the region under direct administration. [Wedding Night] My concubine climbed into my bed... [The Truth About Grain Transport] Men and women alike are beheaded. [The
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Zhi Long in the Late Ming Dynasty 明末芝龙
Zhang Xianzhong? He’s a defeated opponent of mine. Li Zicheng? He raises my men for me. Zhu Cilang? He’s my pet canary. Who am I? Zheng Zhilong, ruler of the Ming dynasty’s southeast. I reign over the seas, and half the Ming realm trembles beneath my iron hooves. What does it matter if I’m richer than a nation? What does it matter if I hold power over the court? Ming dynasty, call me Grand Marshal of All the Armies!
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My Days as Chongzhen 我是崇桢的那些事儿
No System, no romance, but plenty of palace intrigue, factional strife, schemes, politics, and military affairs. The protagonist knows nothing about history, yet transmigrates into a chaotic era and faces deadly dangers at every turn...
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The Hakka Army of the Late Ming 明末客家军
This novel is entirely original. The protagonist transmigrates to southern Jiangxi at the end of the Ming dynasty, into the family of a kind Hakka landowner. The family starts by expanding the twenty-person patrol station, then takes up farming and develops its resources, raises an army to quell unrest, suppresses pirates in the Guangdong Sea, resists the Dutch in the Fujian Sea, fights the British at Humen, recovers Taiwan, and engages in the naval battles of Hailingyang, Nan'ao, Luowan Bay, an
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Transmigrating to the Great Ming, I Become Hongwu's Only Younger Brother 穿越大明，成为洪武爷唯一的弟弟
[Court Intrigue + No System + Zhu Yuanzhang's Favorite + Hongwu's First Prince + Technological Revolution] On a barren hillside, two frail figures support each other. With a solitary grave behind them, they walk until their bodies merge into one. Zhu Yi: Fourth Brother, I'll listen to you from now on. We'll make soap, perfume, and alcohol. I'll give you all the money we earn, so we won't have to suffer anymore. On a battlefield, smoke billows everywhere. Suddenly, a blade comes flying. Zhu Yi h
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The Reversal That Began at Prince Fu's Mansion in the Late Ming 明末从福王府开始的逆袭
After transmigrating to the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihua became the most unfortunate eldest grandson of the Prince of Fu in history. His grandfather was a notorious miser, his father did nothing but listen to music, and his two uncles were waiting eagerly for him to fall out of favor. Worse still, he remembered history: ten years later, Li Zicheng would capture Luoyang, and the whole family would become part of a “Fu-Lu Feast.” Rather than wait to die... So eleven-year-old Zhu Cihua start
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The Art of Imperial Politics: The Jiajing Era 帝王心术：嘉靖时代
This novel offers a profound look at Jiajing’s transformation from an energetic reformer into an emperor obsessed with Daoism. Daoist priests such as Shao Yuanjie and Tao Zhongwen used mysticism to manipulate his inner world; Yan Song and his son won favor with Daoist prayers and monopolized power for twenty years; Xu Jie bided his time before finally bringing down the treacherous ministers; and Hai Rui risked his life to submit a memorial condemning the ills of the age. Together, these vivid ch
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A Soldier King Transmigrates to Sarhu: Crush the Eight Banners and Save the Ming 兵王穿越萨尔浒：踏碎八旗救大明
The story of Wang Xiaowei, an invincible modern soldier who transmigrates into the body of an ordinary soldier on the Sarhu battlefield during the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty. Using his formidable martial arts and modern knowledge, he crushes the Later Jin, defeats enemies with a single move, slaughters his way across the battlefield, and defends his country. A tale of ironclad patriotism, grand battles, and stirring heroism!!!
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The Soldier King Defends the Nation 兵王镇国
Wang Junjie, a modern-day all-around soldier king, transmigrates to the ordinary ranks of the Beijing garrison when the Qing army invades and attacks Beijing in the second year of the Chongzhen reign. He helps the Chongzhen Emperor resist the Qing, suppress bandits, protect the people, and defend the nation. My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Resent That He Didn't 恨其不为
Two modern people enter the Ming Dynasty for unknown reasons. They only wanted to live honestly and with dignity, but the Ming court's rulers disappoint them too deeply. If you cannot protect your suffering countrymen, then let us take your place. They thought they were invincible, only to discover that there were other transmigrators in this world.
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The Iron Cavalry of Liaodong 辽东铁骑
In the winter of 1580, when Nurhaci scattered his grandfather’s ashes into the Hun River with his own hands, Li Chengliang was at a training ground a hundred miles away, shooting a rebel general through the throat with a single arrow. The frigid land of Liaodong had always believed in one law: the strong prey on the weak. Li Chengliang, a descendant of a military family who had yet to make his mark even as he approached forty, finally saw his fortunes turn while his wife and children went hungry
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I Went to the Late Ming to Save the Righteous 我去明末救义士
Entirely handmade, absolutely no AI, so updates are slow! Read at your own risk, and don’t rush me. In 1642, the Ming dynasty’s final struggle had already failed, and the darkest hour in Chinese history was about to arrive. To prevent three hundred years of national collapse from repeating itself, countless people transmigrated into the past. Could the Chongzhen Emperor have died so easily without someone guiding him? As the Jiashen Catastrophe looms, see how Tian Youjia and his three brothers f
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The Ming Dynasty’s Special Reconnaissance Troops: The Night Watchmen 明朝特种侦察兵夜不收
A battle of wits between elite scouts, a shadow war of espionage full of twists, and a poignant romance between two people caught in forces beyond their control: all this awaits in the legendary tale of the Ming Dynasty’s Night-Rejecting scouts! During the Jiajing era, unrest flares along the frontier as the Mongols and Jurchens watch hungrily from the shadows. An elite reconnaissance unit known as the Night-Rejectors becomes the sharpest hidden blade guarding the Ming border. Shen Yan, the son
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The Martial Emperor Comes to Qing: Wielding Dream of the Red Chamber to Restore the Ming 武皇临清：手执红楼复大明
“My empire! Who’s kneeling down and handing it over to someone else?!” Outraged by the late Qing’s incompetence and treachery, Wu Zetian and Zhu Di rise from the dead and travel through time in a fury. With the cipher key to Dream of the Red Chamber in hand, they restore the Ming dynasty…
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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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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.
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The Pinnacle of the Noble Consort 贵妃之巅
“A twisted romance” + “palace intrigue” + “a tragedy of the age.” During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, palace maid Wan Zhen'er spent ten years bringing Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, confined in the Cold Palace, back from hell to the world of the living. What began as a desperate act of protection warped, under the influence of power, into a twisted symbiosis. Seventeen years older than him, she was his nursemaid and elder sister, and eventually became his only Noble Consort, as well as hi
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Don't Panic, Great Ming, I'm Here to Save You! 大明别慌，我来救你！
This is a race against the inertia of history. With plans far ahead of his time, a modern soul changes the course of an empire's collapse. Watch as he transmigrates into the Chongzhen era, revives Huaxia, and ensures the lands of the Great Ming endure forever!
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The Smoke of War Rises: The Dragon Roars Across the World 烽烟起之龙啸天下
Heaven is not benevolent; all things are but straw dogs. War fires rage across the land, and heroes rise in droves. The king is weak, while treacherous ministers hold power. Flames fill the skies, and the capital falls. Warlords scheme against one another. The emperor rises up, his roar shaking the realm. A seal of office in his left hand, a beauty leaning against him. A sword in his right, as he sweeps across the six directions. An eastern emperor, a western sovereign, and a central royal cou
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Dragon God Continent: I Know This World Inside Out 神龙大陆，这个世界我熟
[Passionate Legend + Game Enters Reality + Races Vie for Supremacy] In the year 3000 of the Blue Star calendar, a huge black rift appears in the sky above Blue Star. Hoping to discover why the black hole has appeared, countries across Blue Star send representatives inside. But they vanish without a trace, like stones sinking into the sea. Not until a year later, when Lin Changqing returns to Blue Star from the black hole with two babies, do people learn that a strange world lies within. But no o
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From Hostage to Emperor for the Ages 从质子到千古一帝
Wei Huan, the ninth prince of Great Wei, was overlooked by his father. He volunteered to become a hostage in the state of Jin. After surviving countless life-and-death trials and experiencing one romance after another, he ultimately returned to Wei with the support of his many confidantes, brilliant strategists, and valiant generals. He ascended the throne, unified the realm, and became an emperor for the ages. This is not only a deeply moving, earth-shaking tale of love and passion, but also an
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The Huiyuan Technique 会元功
Due to copyright issues, start reading from Volume Two! Start reading from Volume Two! Start reading from Volume Two! [Workplace Wuxia + A Pragmatic Jianghu + Fictional Ming Dynasty + Light Transmigration + Light Sci-Fi: No cultivation, no tribulations, no melodrama, no Wudang, Shaolin, or Emei, no monks, Taoist priests, or nuns. No harem, no System. Inspired by true events + not a power fantasy.] The protagonist is a lowly escort bodyguard, a “corporate drone” of the martial world. One choice i
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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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I Transmigrated into an Invincible Ming Dynasty Emperor 穿越成无敌的明朝皇帝
A thrilling historical tale, with no frustrating setbacks, beautiful women, and a hero who plays the pig to eat the tiger... Zhu Shaolong, a college student with a day job and an invincible Celestial Venerable, carries the memories of his previous life as an Immortal Venerable into the body of Zhu Youxiao, the carpenter emperor of the late Ming! Six hidden treacherous ministers scheme in secret, laying traps at every turn. The Tianqi Explosion is imminent, factional infighting is tearing apart t
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Late Ming: Reshaping China's Future 明末：重塑华夏未来
The Ming dynasty was an era that left people sighing with regret. If someone possessed vision and power beyond their time, could they turn the tide when all seemed lost? Chen Shenghua, a modern young man, is reborn as the son of a landlord in South Zhili at the end of the Ming dynasty. Faced with a catastrophe that seems inevitable, he chooses the hardest path: starting from nothing and laying the foundations of a new world with his own hands. He opens a school at ten, takes in refugees at thirt
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Great Ming: The Strongest War King Starts at the Border 大明：最强兵王从边关开始
This novel tells the story of Wang Xiaowei, a modern-day all-around warrior king who transmigrates into the body of an ordinary soldier stationed at a beacon tower in Xuanfu in the first year of the Chongzhen era. Watch as he defends his country, vanquishes his foes, destroys the Later Jin, suppresses bandits, brings peace to the people, and establishes a new dynasty in this thrilling tale.
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Reborn as Zhu Xiongying, I Can Let Grandpa Hear My Thoughts 胎穿朱雄英，爷爷能听到我的心声
Zhang Wei, a young man from modern times, transmigrates into the early Ming dynasty and is born as Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest legitimate grandson. Zhu Yuanzhang can hear his grandson's thoughts. Using those insights, Zhang Wei cracks the Hu Weiyong case and changes the fates of Chang Shi, Empress Ma, and Zhu Biao. He drives technological innovation, builds a navy to expand maritime influence, defeats the Japanese pirates and conquers Japan, establishes provinces to secure Liaodong, and ushers in an
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Ming Dynasty Natives Versus Transmigrators 皇明土著大战穿越众
Current plot: A newcomer to officialdom enters the inner circle as a pawn, but refuses to settle for mediocrity and wants to break free of his constraints. By chance, he gets caught up in turmoil on the frontier, where three hundred battered soldiers rout thirty thousand northern invaders. Zheng Zhi, a household retainer of the Zhen Ding Guard under the Ming rear army's Governor's Office, dreams of himself sixty years in the future. From then on, the Ming Dynasty gains a peerless talent in both
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The Sorrows of the Ming: Joking About Li Zicheng 明殇之笑侃李自成
The completed historical novel set in the late Ming, Ming Tragedy: Laughing About Li Zicheng, focuses on the rebel king Li Zicheng and the chaos of Chongzhen’s final years, recounting the entire course of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming dynasty. From Chongzhen’s abolishing of the courier stations and the severe drought in northern Shaanxi, to loan sharks driving people to desperation, Li Zicheng’s uprising, the Battle of Luoyang, Sun Chuanting’s defeat, the fall of Beijing, Chongzhen
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Reborn as Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty, I Rely on Feng Shui to Conquer the World 穿成大明刘伯温我靠风水稳赢天下
[Ensemble Cast + Conquest + Political Intrigue + Feng Shui and Face Reading + No System] Liu Abao, a legendary modern master of feng shui, woke up in another body as Liu Bowen, the Ming Dynasty's foremost strategist. Using feng shui as his game and the world as his board, he commands the dragon veins and breaks deadly formations, directing the realm with a smile and crushing every rival in his path. Zhu Yuanzhang: “We’ll all listen to our lord. My lord, please hurry up and pass the throne to me!
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Reborn in the World of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer 重生笑傲江湖世界
The protagonist is reborn in the world of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. What are the Five Mountains Sword Alliance, the Sunflower Manual, or the Dugu Nine Swords compared to doing whatever you please? The martial world is simply a place where people clash with one another.
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Competing for Supremacy from 1644 从1644年开始争霸
Synopsis: A wealthy young man from the late Ming Dynasty, transported into another body, originally only wanted to keep his head down and live in peace. But the knockoff phone he brought along mutated and gained access to an arsenal. From then on, he embarked on a path to conquer the land on his own terms.
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The Hongwu Secret Files: The Untold History of Zhu Yuanzhang 洪武密档：朱元璋不为人知的历史
🔥 Tomato’s masterpiece of mystery and investigation, Hongwu Secret Files: The Untold History of Zhu Yuanzhang, unveils the forbidden secrets of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Great Ming! 📜 Born into abject poverty, the cowherd Zhu Chongba went from begging as a monk at Huangjue Temple to becoming a warlord of the Red Turban Army. In the end, he climbed to the throne over the corpses of Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng. Yet behind this legendary rise lurk bloody mysteries that officia
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Late Ming: Capturing a Jurchen Cavalry Banner from the Start 明末：开局俘虏一牛录建奴骑兵
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Transmigrating to the Late Ming Dynasty: Starting Out in the Martial World 穿越明末从江湖开始
[Transmigration + Martial World + Underworld + History + Court Politics + Scheming + War] The martial world and the imperial court have never been entirely separate. They are two opposing sides of the same coin. Some people live in the martial world but yearn for the court, while others serve at court yet dream of the martial world. The court isn't the only force driving the wheels of history. The martial world also plays its part in shaping the course of events. My name is Zhang Hanyu. I'm a hi
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Livestreaming Chongzhen: Rebooting the Ming Dynasty 直播崇祯：重开大明
No golden finger. The onscreen comments only explain the plot. No female lead. He became the ruler of a fallen kingdom, hanging from a crooked tree on Coal Hill, with only one loyal servant by his side. When he opened his eyes again, a different soul awoke on the dragon throne. This time, he would no longer be stubborn and self-willed. Instead, he would hone the blade of imperial statecraft. See how Emperor Chongzhen walks a tightrope above an abyss, starts from the start, and defies fate to sav
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Reborn: I Fight for Emperor Wanli 重生之我为万历爷打天下
Tang Song is reborn as a Ming general, taking part in the Wanli campaigns and witnessing the last glory of an ancient empire. By a twist of fate, he becomes good friends with the Wanli Emperor...
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The Invincible Soldier King of the Late Ming Saves the Empire 明末无敌兵王挽天倾
A modern strategic forces veteran codenamed “Dragon King” transmigrates into the body of the most formidable commander in the Ming dynasty, Xiong Tingbi’s own son! It is the first year of the Tianqi reign. Liaodong is in ruins, the court is riven by infighting, and the empire teeters on the brink of collapse. Other transmigrators get a hellish start, but I’m at my peak from the start! With command of Liaodong’s strongest army and military knowledge from centuries in the future, I’ll use flintloc
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