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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
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Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty with an Imperial Era System 穿越大明之朕有帝国时代系统
Synopsis: Great Ming + Emperor + Political Intrigue + Age of Empires System [At its peak, this novel had 600,000 readers. Its comic-drama adaptation, The Carpenter's Empire, is now updating on multiple platforms. Read with confidence!] The Taichang Emperor is on his deathbed. The Great Ming court is in turmoil, three major cases have erupted at once, treacherous ministers are plotting to force a palace move, vassal states are turning away, the borders are in revolt, and powerful nations are clos
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Great Ming: I Have a Spirit-Spring Space 大明：我有灵泉空间
From the start, he was born into the womb as Zhu Xiongying, the eldest son of Zhu Biao, the eldest legitimate grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang. While Zhu Xiongying was still in the womb: Zhu Xiongying: Dad, you’re nothing like Grandpa! Zhu Biao: ?? Zhu Xiongying: Why don’t you stand up to him? Why don’t you fight him? Zhu Biao: Good grief, that’s my father. Led astray by his own son, Zhu Biao went around shouting that he wanted to lead an army to sweep across the northern deserts and become the first c
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- 4 Great Ming: Zhu Biao's Little Sidekick 大明：我是朱标的小跟班 Zhu Qi arrived in the second year of the Hongwu era, becoming Zhu Yuanzhang's ninth son, who had died young. Most people who transmigrate at least become princes capable of protecting themselves. He had to save himself the moment he arrived. Luckily, he had an elder brother. Seeing how frail Zhu Qi was, Zhu Biao took him under his wing. From then on, Zhu Qi changed Zhu Biao's way of thinking. Until one day... Zhu Yuanzhang: "Biao, you've changed!" Zhu Biao: "Father, you've changed too. Your blad 4.9kReads6.4Score254Shelves
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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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- 6 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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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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I Am the Way of Heaven: The Great Ming Sun-and-Moon Banner Shall Fly Across the World 朕即天道：大明日月旗，插遍寰宇
The blood-red setting sun shines over the land, and three centuries of humiliation are carved into our bones! Unwilling to let China sink into ruin, the will of Heaven tears through time at the empire’s final hour, possessing the drowning, dying Tianqi Emperor, Zhu Youxiao! Inside the court, the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian holds sway. Outside, the Later Jin cavalry watches like a tiger waiting to pounce! Factional strife among the Donglin scholars drains the empire’s strength, while corrupt Sh
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- 9 Great Ming: Zhu Xiongying, Grandpa Emperor, Don't Steal My Heroic Spirit! 大明朱雄英皇爷爷不要抢我英灵啊 In the tenth year of Hongwu, three-year-old Zhu Yingying, the emperor’s eldest grandson, falls from a horse and lies on the brink of death. When he opens his eyes again, golden pupils blaze with the power of the Heavenly Dao. The will of Huaxia has descended, and the fierce young grandson has awakened! In this life, he will defy fate, protect his loved ones, and cut down his enemies, so the sun and moon of the Ming dynasty shine forever! A devious plot? He summons Jia Xu, the poison strategist 332Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Was Already Eight When Grandpa Finally Passed the Provincial Exam 我都八岁了爷爷才中举
The transmigrator has a smaller role in the early chapters. The protagonists are Liu Lin and the transmigrator Liu An. I, Liu An, have been transmigrated for eight years, and only now has Grandpa passed the provincial civil service examination! In the thirteenth year of the Wanli era of the Great Ming, forty-two-year-old Liu Lin passes the provincial examination. Years later, Liu Lin gazes at the plaque reading “Four Jinshi from One Family” and falls into deep thought. Follow the protagonist’s g
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Transmigrated as Zhu Biao: Only Yun Tong Is My Legitimate Son 穿越朱标：孤的嫡子唯有允熥
After staying up all night writing a thesis, my vision went black. When I opened my eyes again, I had become Zhu Biao, the Crown Prince of Great Ming. My name is Wei Yunshu. Zhu Biao didn't live past the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu. I was determined to survive. My own son had been confined to a side courtyard by his stepmother, Consort Lu. The first thing I did after waking up was kick open the doors to the main hall. "I'm not dead yet. You don't get to call the shots in the Eastern Palace."
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The Great Ming's Lord of the Seas 大明镇海王
[Ming dynasty, soul transmigration, saving the Crown Princess, saving Zhu Ying, saving Zhu Biao, saving Empress Ma, saving Xu Da, saving Lan Yu] Zhang Wuxian transmigrates to the eleventh year of Hongwu. He plans to lie flat and do nothing, but his severe obsessive-compulsive disorder won’t let him tolerate anything “illogical,” so he has to fix it all. Even more absurdly, he has a System in his head that automatically provides solutions and supplies every time his compulsions flare up, and it d
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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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Saving the Dynasty from Ruin: The Revival of the Southern Ming 挽天倾之南明复兴
Zhu Cibi, a second-year history student at Jiangling Yangtze University in the twenty-first century, accidentally falls into the water while out for a stroll and transmigrates, reborn as Zhu Cixi, crown prince of the Southern Ming's Hongguang Emperor. With the Southern Ming facing ruin, its fortunes in decline and its country on the brink of destruction, and the first wave of colonization following the West's imminent Age of Exploration looming, how will he save the nation, restore the Ming, and
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The Ming Dynasty's Revival: Starting at Ningwu Pass 大明中兴：从宁武关开始
In the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign, Li Zicheng's 200,000-strong army surrounds Ningwu Pass. General Zhou Yujie, commander of the Three Passes, is supposed to set himself and his household on fire! When engineering PhD Li Jian opens his eyes, he has become this unlucky man. He doesn't want to die! He draws designs for firearms, drafts water conservancy projects, and calculates supply accounts. This engineer's golden finger is maxed out. Improved crouching tiger cannons smash the enem
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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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- 17 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
- 18 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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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.
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- 20 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 3.4kReads7.4Score251Shelves
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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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- 22 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 59.6kReads9.3Score6.2kShelves
- 23 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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Great Ming: Sailing a Battleship to Become a Foreign Power 大明：开着战舰当列强
Ming Dynasty + System + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Political Intrigue + Ruthless Warfare + Conquest The bad news: I transmigrated into the Ming Dynasty as Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian. The moment I opened my eyes, I was swinging from a white silk noose around my neck, one step from dying. I had become the most miserable transmigrator ever. The good news: I brought along the legacy of a strategy game, complete with Black-Armored Cavalry, the Beiwei Army, the Tianxiong Army, and the Qi Family Army
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- 25 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 2kReads7.7Score149Shelves
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The Carpenter Returns to Make Great Ming Great Again 木匠回归，让大明再次伟大
My name is Cheng Ping’an. Well, I’ll come clean: I’m the reincarnation of the Carpenter Emperor. What? Chongzhen, you want me to help you restore the Ming dynasty to its former glory? That’s not out of the question, but first, drop that hypocritical act of yours. And you’d better put aside that idea of making the common people suffer a little more. Because your big brother here is one of the common people, and I’ve suffered more than enough already. I didn’t come to the Ming dynasty just to suff
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A Coward's Guide to Surviving the Late Ming: Volume One 明末怂人求生录第一卷
Reborn in the late Ming, I became Liu Hongqi, a warlord during the catastrophe of 1644. After a string of spectacular blunders, I was successfully hanged from a flagpole by the Qing army and died in agony. When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the ninth year of the Chongzhen reign. My family was on the brink of ruin, I was unarmed, and all I had left was a bone-deep fear of death. In this life, all I wanted was to make money, run away, and live out my days as a wealthy man overseas, u
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The Hongwu Survivor: I Just Want to Live Until Yongle Hands Out a Billion 洪武苟神：我只想活到永乐拿十亿
My soul transmigrated to the first year of the Hongwu era, and I have only one goal: lie low until the first year of the Yongle era, then take a billion yuan in cash back home! From the start, I caught a fellow transmigrator openly debating the succession, only to be executed on the spot by Old Zhu. Scared out of my wits, I laid down my ironclad rules for staying alive: never pick sides, never speak out of turn, never claim credit, and always follow the rules! I only wanted to hide away at the C
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In the Late Ming, I Redeem the Celestial Globe and Become Earth's Supreme Ruler 明末兑换天日之表，登顶地球球长
The uprising at Suanzao: five hundred rebel bandits march a thousand miles, conquer Guangdong, swallow Guangxi, and set their sights on Hunan, while Yunnan and Guizhou fall into their grasp. Li Siyan, governor-general of five provinces. Call me the King of the Southwest. [Not mindless wish fulfillment] [Realistic tone] [Not chasing the rankings] [No spawning endless troops out of thin air] [No going all in] [Gets better as it goes] [God-tier ending] [The System provides support, then fades into
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Reborn in the Great Ming, with My Eldest Brother Dead from the Start 魂穿大明，开局大哥陨落
An accident sends his soul back a hundred years. After another mishap, he becomes Mu Sheng, the son of Mu Ying. To everyone else, Zhu Yuanzhang is a ruthless, cold-blooded emperor. But in Mu Sheng's eyes, this supreme ruler has a tenderness and vulnerability that history never recorded. He saves the emperor's eldest grandson, Zhu Xiongying, protects Empress Ma, and turns the tide as a young man, earning a title of nobility in a single battle! From then on, the course of Ming history is utterly
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The Tumultuous End of the Ming: From the Start, I Sell the City of Liaoyang 明末风云：开局卖掉辽阳城
Mao Chengjie somehow transmigrates to the turbulent Liaodong region in the late Ming dynasty, where he unlocks a System shop that lets him buy and sell anything. With a cheat like that, all sorts of ideas come to mind. The Jurchen in Liaodong, the Mongol invaders, the She and An rebellions in the southwest, Japanese pirates in the southeast, Fujianese sea raiders, the Shaanxi rebellion, red-haired foreign invaders, bitter cold, and unending natural disasters: can this Ming dynasty, whose destruc
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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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- 33 Red Alert: My Conscripts Are the Fourth Calamity 红色警戒：我的动员兵是第四天灾 Bai Haoqing never dreamed that playing Red Alert would get him struck by lightning and sent to a parallel world. This was the Qing Dynasty in the parallel world of Longguo. The Taiping Rebellion had just begun, and though the Qing court was rotten to the core, it remained a formidable force. Bai Haoqing transmigrated right into a Qing army village massacre and had no choice but to grit his teeth and activate the System. [Host in a desperate situation detected. Emergency activation of the Newcome 881Reads6.4Score108Shelves
- 34 War of Resistance: I Merged With a Red Alert Template and Grow Stronger With Every Kill 抗战：融合红警模板，杀敌就变强 Tang Hao was playing Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge at home when a freight truck sent him crashing into the northeastern battlefield of 1931. But after awakening a Red Alert interface, he could unlock new units and stack their abilities by killing the Japanese invaders. From Chinese infantry to Chrono Legionnaires, from an 81 rifle to a mobile military base. While others were still risking their lives over a few Type 38 rifles, he had already surrounded an entire Japanese regiment by himself. 1.7kReads—Score116Shelves
- 35 War of Resistance: I'm Invincible, Killing Japanese Soldiers on the Road as I Flee the Famine 抗战：逃荒路上杀鬼子的我无敌了 [Fleeing famine and fighting to survive] [Physical transmigration] [System space] [Ruthless and decisive] [Slay the devils] [Kill and loot the bodies] Yang Jian transmigrates to an era of famine with a 125-cubic-meter storage space, and goes on a rampage. From the start, he wins over Shunliu and his younger sibling with a single multigrain flatbread, then seizes the little devils’ equipment! After capturing a county seat, the System runs off, and he wins a System gift pack in a lottery. He fight 579Reads6.4Score108Shelves
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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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Chongzhen Must Not Die: I Lead the Great Ming to Global Dominance 崇祯不亡：朕带大明称霸全球
A university history student falls off a cliff and opens his eyes to find himself Emperor Chongzhen! By now, Li Zicheng's forces have surrounded Beijing, and the crooked tree on Coal Hill stands right before him. I refuse to hang myself! Abandon the capital and head south, establish my rule over Jiangnan, train a modern army, develop seafaring, crush Japan, and launch a northern campaign to reclaim our lands. Watch me save the dynasty from collapse and reshape the Ming, until all nations come to
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- 38 The Mad Dragon of Liaodong 辽东狂龙 On that rainy night on Shuangdao, Mao Wenlong, a wronged soul who had lingered for fifteen years, was reborn. When he used the imperial sword in his hand to cut off Yuan Chonghuan's head, he knew that nothing would ever be the same again... 146Reads9.4Score105Shelves
- 39 The Southern Ming Righteous Army 南明义军 In 1645, the Yiyou Year of the lunar calendar, the Year of the Rooster, the first year of the Hongguang era of the Ming and the first year of the Longwu era; the second year of the Shunzhi era of the Qing; the second year of the Dashun era of the Great Xi; and the second year of the Yongchang era of the Great Shun, Shi Kefa died alongside Yangzhou, Nanjing fell, and Li Zicheng died at Jiugong Mountain. The Qing court surveyed the realm and found no one who could stand against it. The Eight Banne 18.3kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
- 40 Ming Dynasty Tyrant: I’ll Extend the Dynasty’s Reign by 300 Years 大明暴君，我为大明续运三百年 [Political intrigue]+ [Passionate]+ [Struggle for supremacy]+ [Ruthless]+ [No System] “Zhu Youjian, go in peace. Everything you had will be inherited by me, Ye Xuan. From this day on, I am the sixteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen. I swear here: Those you, Zhu Youjian, could not kill, I, Chongzhen, will kill. What you, Zhu Youjian, could not accomplish, I, Chongzhen, will accomplish. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are rebelling? Then it depends on whether I give them the chance! The J 98.6kReads9.2Score11.8kShelves
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Transmigrating to the Great Ming: One Book Is All I Need to Conquer the World 穿越大明之一本书打天下
My name is Zhu Shouming. I am the twenty-sixth-generation descendant of Zhu Shouqian, Prince of Jingjiang in Guilin. In the twenty-first century, that identity is worth nothing more than a joke about how my ancestors used to be rich. Apart from the founding ancestor, every other name in the family genealogy has been ground to dust by history. The boat lurched on the Li River, and I tumbled into the water with my backpack. When I woke, there was no ambulance, only the smoke of war in the fiftee
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Ming Prince: I’ll Found a Nation Overseas 大明藩王：我要海外建国
He transmigrates into Zhu Yiliu, Prince Lu during the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty. Empress Dowager Li has just rebuked the Wanli Emperor and demanded that Prince Lu be made the new ruler. Zhu Yiliu falls from his horse and lapses into a coma. After waking, he can't shake the feeling that the Wanli Emperor wants him dead, so he plans to build a ship and take a group of people to hide in the Nanyang, putting some distance between himself and the Manchu barbarians, who will arrive before long. Bu
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Great Ming: The New Son of Heaven of the Zhengtong Era 大明：正统新天子
Also known as I, Zhu Qizhen, Refuse to Let the Tumu Fortress Fall The moment Zhu Qizhen opened his eyes, he had become the young Son of Heaven of the Great Ming. The good news: the Tumu Fortress disaster was still fourteen years away. The bad news: not a single official at court truly treated him as the emperor. The Tumu Fortress Crisis: the finest troops of the Great Ming wiped out, the emperor captured. That was history’s verdict. But when Zhu Qizhen awoke, the calamity was still fourteen year
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- 44 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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A Hundred-Household Officer’s Quest for Imperial Power in the Late Ming 百户闯明末帝业征程
Lin Fanyu transmigrates and, good news, becomes a low-ranking officer in the Shandong Regional Military Commission of the Great Ming. The bad news is that he’s back in the tenth year of the Chongzhen reign. He plans to simply survive, brew liquor, build waterworks, make soap... but soon discovers that events are slipping out of his control, step by step.
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- 46 The Great Upheaval of the Late Ming 明末大洗牌 [Transmigration + merchant between worlds + multiple heroines + conquest + unification] Transmigrating without starting a rebellion means ending up with a short, plain, and chubby wife. Bury the heavens, bury the earth, bury all living beings. Break the rules and start everything over. Chongzhen: “This man is the undertaker of my Great Ming.” Dorgon: “The traitor Yang is invincible.” The people: “He is the savior of all the people.” 2Reads6.3Score—Shelves
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Late Ming: I Cleave Chongzhen with My Blade 明末：刀劈崇祯
In the final years of the Tianqi era of the Ming dynasty, a transmigrator born into a family of loyal ministers rises amid chaos and turns the tide when all seems lost. Then he personally brings down this rotten dynasty, corrupt to its very roots.
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The Longqing Restoration 隆庆中兴
I transmigrate as Zhu Zaihou, but I won’t be a little sycophant. For the sake of tribute and trade, I dare to wage righteous war. I open the passes and command the four seas, my proclamations reaching the eight directions. The people receive sweet rain, and the dynasty flourishes forever. Alas! I would rather be a man of the Longqing era than aspire to rule like Yao and Shun.
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- 49 The Great Ming Empire: A Flourishing Realm 大明帝国之盛世江山 This book recounts the glory of the Ming dynasty, from Zheng He’s seven voyages to the Western Seas during the Yongle era and the Ren and Xuan reigns to the upheavals of the Zhengtong and Jingtai years. It follows the fortunes of five emperors, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Qiyu, and depicts the thrilling history of the voyages to the Western Seas. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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