The Ming Dynasty Series Has No Bad Books. I Dare You to Disagree! 大明系列已无神作不服来辩！
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- 251 The Heavenly Kingdom: The Rise of an Imperial Dynasty 天国王朝：帝朝崛起 This is the legendary life of God's agent, entrusted with shepherding His flock! From a modern transmigrator to a medieval infant, he relied on the Mount & Blade System and his own strategic brilliance to break free from constraints, defend the Holy City, establish an empire, and change the course of history for both the Crusaders and the Islamic world. (Early game: using Mount & Blade to break through; mid-game: political scheming; late game: cyberpunk space opera) 79Reads—Score106Shelves
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Reborn as Prince Longwu, I’ll Save the Ming Dynasty from Ruin 重生隆武皇子，挽天再造大明
The Ming dynasty: the last realm under heaven ruled by the Han Chinese. For all its countless failings, it was still far better than letting barbarian invaders rule the Central Plains! Reborn, Ling Yun transmigrates as Zhu Linze, the illegitimate son of the Longwu Emperor. The Xianxia Pass has fallen open, Zheng Zhilong is secretly conspiring with the Qing court, and the Longwu dynasty is on the brink of collapse. He lies low in southern Fujian, meets Zheng Chenggong and becomes his sworn broth
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The Great Ming’s Netherworld Tribunal! Zhu Di: Who the Hell Started the Rumor That I’m Not the Legitimate Heir? 大明阴间会审！朱棣：谁他娘的造谣朕不是嫡子？
A Great Ming tribunal in the underworld! Zhu Di: Who the hell spread the rumor that I wasn’t the legitimate heir?
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The Great Ming Surveillance Court 大明道察院
[See the epic history of the Daoist sects in the early Ming through the eyes of a transmigrator] In the third year of Hongwu, the Hongwu Emperor established the mysterious Dao Investigation Bureau to rein in Daoist sorcerers who could turn the tide at will. There is no carefree Daoist life here, only the ironclad rule that “magic must be bounded by law, and the Dao restrained by regulations.” Even mighty cultivators who can fly through the skies and burrow through the earth must face execution i
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- 255 Peninsula: My Girl Group Exorcism Diary 半岛：我的女团驱魔日记 In a modern world where spiritual energy has run dry, Chen Ming, who has cultivated to the peak, goes on a trip to the peninsula, only to stumble into a story about a peninsula teeming with ghosts and monsters! Obsessions and starlight intertwine as he gently protects those around him! (This is a story about helping girl idols drive out evil spirits while falling in love with them! Multiple heroines! A harem novel!) 1.1kReads—Score131Shelves
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Ming Dynasty Overseas Soldier: Slapping Chongzhen from the Start 大明海外悍卒：开局掌掴崇祯
[Alternate History] + [Parallel World] + [Great Ming] + [System] + [Multiple Heroines] On the nineteenth day of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, a white silk noose atop Coal Hill was about to bring an era to an end. Just as Chongzhen kicked away the stone he was standing on, a lowly soldier from a Great Ming overseas garrison teleported back and slapped him across the face! “Die? Who gave you permission to die?!” “Dying is easy. The hard part is living to fight the Q
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A Great Warlord Builds a Mighty China, Starting as a Hundred-Household Officer at the End of the Ming Dynasty 大割据者从明末百户建设巍巍中华
Farming | Historical Accuracy | Solid Logic | Light System Elements | Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment | Overseas Expansion | Hegemony In the fourth year of the Chongzhen reign, the realm is in turmoil. Liaodong lies in ruins, bandit armies are everywhere, and the Great Ming dynasty faces its darkest hour. Three modern men, all alone in the world, transmigrate after an accident and become obscure company commanders in Aoshan Guard, Shandong. At the brink of life and death, the Great Warlord System
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- 258 Folk Customs Record: Chen the Paper Effigy Maker 民俗录：纸扎陈 There's an old saying in western Hunan: “Better to walk through a mass grave at night than cross the Paper Effigy Chen family.” When Chen Ming woke up, he found himself lying in a thin-walled coffin. Paper figures all around the room were smiling at him. He was the last living member of the Paper Effigy Chen family. For three generations, his ancestors had made paper effigies for a living, but the Chen family didn't just make paper people and horses... They shaped souls. They shaped rules. They 45Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: I Am the Great Ming’s Sagely Founder! 崇祯十七年：朕乃皇明圣祖！
He transmigrates back to New Year’s Eve in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. The Ming dynasty is on the verge of collapse, officials are corrupt, rebel armies press on, and the Manchus watch like tigers poised to pounce. In his previous life, he governed diligently for seventeen years, only to become the ruler who lost his country. In this life, Zhu Youjian will endure no more! Confiscate corrupt officials’ fortunes to raise a million soldiers’ pay; Take in the refugees outside the city and put
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The Great Ming Embroidered Guard: A Mirror of Three Generations 大明锦衣卫：三世山河鉴
A chronicle of three generations of the Shen clan's imperial guards. It begins in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu and ends in the ninth year of Jiajing, spanning 138 years and twelve reigns, from Hongwu to Jiajing. The founder, Shen Lie, rose from the ranks of the guards. His family motto was, “With a blade in hand, know whom to strike, and know when to sheath it.” He weathered the flames of the Jingnan Campaign and laid the foundations for the family's hereditary office. His son, Shen Chen, was
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- 262 The Embroidered Guards Protect the Realm: Smoke Rises Along the Nine Frontiers 锦衣护山河之九边狼烟靖 When Longqing ascended the throne, maritime trade opened in the southeast and the Japanese pirate threat gradually eased. But the northern frontier's nine garrisons remained engulfed in smoke and fire, with battles raging without end. Establishing tributary trade to bring an end to hostilities was an urgent necessity. Yet in Tumet, Zhao Quan and others from the White Lotus Society had established fortified settlements, and repeatedly sent spies into the Central Plains to sow chaos. The Ming cour 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 263 The Yin Within the Coffin 棺中太阴 When he woke up inside the coffin, the thing pressing down on its lid was poking its head over to sniff him. The spiritual energy in this world had been depleted for eight hundred years, and the Celestial Court and underworld had long since become legends. In their place stood a set of rules, cold to the core: The register is heaven's decree: every cultivator's rank, the prices in the ghost market, and the incense masters' standings in the White Lotus Sect are all recorded in an invisible ledger 15Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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Zhang Juzheng's Unusual Life 张居正的别样人生
Imperial examinations, a soul transmigration, and saving the Ming from collapse. Zhang Juzheng, the six-time examination laureate, will no longer keep his head down in this life. I’ll beat Yan Shifan to a pulp. I’ll raise Longqing well, so the Jiajing Emperor can devote himself to cultivating in peace.
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Chronicle of Zhang Xianzhong’s Capture of Luzhou 张献忠陷庐州纪
A Record of Zhang Xianzhong’s Capture of Luzhou is an important unofficial historical source written by Yu Ruizi, a firsthand witness from the late Ming dynasty. It recounts how Zhang Xianzhong, leader of a peasant rebel army, captured Luzhou, in the area of present-day Hefei, Anhui, in 1642, and the upheaval that followed. Yu Ruizi was a scholar trapped inside the city who witnessed the violence firsthand. He saw Luzhou fall, witnessed the suffering of its people amid the fighting, and observed
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- 267 The Veritable Records of the Chongzhen Emperor 崇祯实录 The Veritable Records of the Chongzhen Reign 86Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 268 Blood Runs Red: Zhang Xianzhong and the Great Western Army 血流红：张献忠与大西军 In June 1645, Zhang Xianzhong captured Chongqing. Sweeping westward with unstoppable momentum, his army left blazing fires and blood-soaked roads in its wake. On August 9, after taking Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong wasted no time in holding a founding ceremony and ascending the throne as emperor of the Great Western Kingdom. From the very first day Zhang Xianzhong took up residence in the Shu Prince's Palace in Chengdu, the country knew no peace. His forces were locked in repeated battles with Li Zic 239Reads9.4Score114Shelves
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Transmigrating to the Ruins of Time: I Became the Boss of Ten Emperors 穿越归墟：我给十个皇帝当老板
After transmigrating into the Guixu, Su Chen became the “boss” of ten defeated emperors. Xiang Yu, Yuan Shao, Yang Guang, Li Longji… Every one of them is arrogant and would love nothing more than to chop him to pieces. Su Chen opens the System interface: Want to change your fate? Do as I say. Turn the tide at Guandu, kill Liu Bang at Gaixia, decide the fate of the realm at Feishui… Ten emperors defeated through the ages go from prisoners to brothers, from pawns to players moving the pieces.
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- 270 A History of the Peasant War at the End of the Ming Dynasty 明末农民战争史 Sixteen years of unstoppable victories, followed by four hundred days to total collapse. Open this book and discover why Li Zicheng was defeated, and why his downfall came so quickly! In March 1644, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, bringing the Ming dynasty to an end. By then, he had fought for sixteen years. In April of that year, Li Zicheng was defeated at Shanhai Pass, and the Qing army entered the pass. In May of the following year, Li Zicheng died at Jiugong Mountain in Huguang, just four hundr 688Reads9.3Score149Shelves
- 271 History of the Southern Ming: 1644–1662 南明史：1644-1662 Within the court, civil officials were divided by factional strife. Beyond it, no military hero emerged. As warfare plunged the people into chaos, the political system turned inward and consumed itself, while the forces that might have helped from outside could not be brought to bear. The roots of the Southern Ming’s collapse can be traced to this predicament. The purpose of Southern Ming History: 1644–1662 is to answer the question, “Why did the Ming dynasty fall?” With this in mind, author Ly 76Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 272 The Peasant Wars of the Late Ming Dynasty (Revised Edition) 明末农民战争（修订版） The late Ming peasant wars of the 1630s through the 1670s were the longest-running and largest-scale peasant wars in ancient Chinese history. Drawing extensively on official and private writings as well as archival records, the author gives a meticulous account of their development and impact. Carefully reviewed and expanded by the author, this revised edition presents readers with a sweeping historical panorama. 30Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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Chronicles of the Yan Marches 大明燕行录
A modern soul accidentally falls into a parallel dynasty ruled by the Zhu family. He opens his eyes to find himself a helpless infant. Unable to bear the burden of vast amounts of knowledge, his memories fall dormant. Before he can figure out his situation, he and his maid are swept into a deadly chase and tumble into a freezing river! At death's door, they are rescued by a wealthy landowner in a remote county town. But when the maid wakes, she has lost her memory completely and believes he is h
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Transmigrated as Hu Hai: From the Start, I Kill Fu Su to Save Meng Tian 穿越胡亥：开局杀扶苏救蒙恬
The moment I opened my eyes, I had become Hu Hai. Qin Shi Huang had just breathed his last. Zhao Gao was smiling at me, Li Si was still hesitating, and Fusu was about to be sentenced to death. And I was the puppet who, according to history, would lose the empire in just three years. If I followed the script, I’d kill my own brother, trust Zhao Gao, rule as a tyrant, and eventually be forced to take my own life. I didn’t want to die. So I had to become emperor: a real emperor, not a marionette in
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The Buried Two Hundred Years: The Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty's European Province, Part One 被掩埋的两百年：明朝欧洲行省兴衰录（上）
Two Hundred Years Buried: The Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty’s European Provinces, Part One
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Tang Minghu's Battle at Hulao Pass 唐明虎牢关之战
Tang Ming: The Battle of Hulao Pass
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Reborn as Zhu Yuntong: I Absolutely Refuse to Be a Cannon-Fodder Prince 重生朱允熥我绝对不当炮灰王爷
A snail choked a modern man to death. When he opened his eyes again, he had transmigrated into the body of Zhu Yunton, the most unfortunate imperial grandson in the Ming Dynasty. From the start, he was caught in bed with someone, and the accusation reached the emperor's ears. His opponents were Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, and the whole court of scheming officials from the Jianwen era. The historical script: stripped of his status and imprisoned until death. My script: turn the tables against all
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- 278 Late Ming: The Homelander Rebuilds the Ming Dynasty 明末：祖国人重铸大明 [The latest masterpiece from the pioneering author of stories about transmigrating to ancient times with a Homelander System!!] Superpowers crushing all opposition + feel-good story + not mindless + historical farming + fixing the Great Ming’s regrets Can Homelander run wild in the late Ming? Can he save the Great Ming from ruin? So, what exactly were the Great Ming’s regrets? Peasant uprisings? Trouble in Liaodong? The fiscal burden of the princely clans? Civil officials controlling the court? 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 279 Transmigrated as Zheng Chenggong: Refusing to Surrender to the Qing from the Start 穿越郑成功：开局拒绝降清 I transmigrated into the body of 20-year-old Zheng Chenggong, and the moment I opened my eyes, I saw my father preparing to surrender to the Qing! The humiliation of the Southern Ming's fall in my previous life will never happen again! “Surrender to the Qing? Dream on!” I tore up the surrender document on the spot, arrested the traitors, and seized control of the naval forces! I improved the warships and wiped out pirates. With a vast stretch of the Fujian coast in my grasp, I had Chen Yonghua a 116Reads—Score—Shelves
- 280 Southern Ming: Rebuilding the Great Ming, Starting in Burma 南明：从缅甸开始再造大明 (Southern Ming) + (System) + (historical what-if) + (Ming dynasty) + (building a powerful nation through science and technology) He transmigrates into Zhu Cixuan, the last crown prince of the Southern Ming. His kingdom has fallen, and the court is in exile. The Burmese king Mang Bai plans to hand him and his father over to Wu Sangui. At this life-or-death moment, he awakens the Infinite Gift Pack System. “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've opened a Bronze Gift Pack and received five hundred Gua 852Reads6.9Score104Shelves
- 281 Late Ming: My Foolish Father, Mao Wenlong 明末：我的傻爹毛文龙 (Dark military industry + overwhelming intellectual advantage + wooing women) His soul enters the body of Mao Wenlong's nine-year-old son, a regional commander at the end of the Ming dynasty, and he uses trickery to save his father. After realizing that his father, Yuan Chonghuan, Emperor Chongzhen, Hong Taiji, and Lin Dan Khan are all complete fools, he poses as a spirit medium for the Bodhisattva and founds a modern arms industry. He crushes the Later Jin rebel army, inherits Lin Dan Khan's em 233Reads6.8Score111Shelves
- 282 Late Ming: Abyssal Feathers? I'll Cut Through the Jurchen Invaders as Li Dingguo 明末渊虚之羽？我李定国杀穿建奴 After transmigrating into the body of Li Dingguo, a Ming Dynasty hero who fought against the Qing, he vows to cut down the Manchu invaders. Armed with a meteorite-iron spear, he’ll pass judgment on every Han traitor listed in The Biographies of the Two Masters! Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, Zu Dale, Zu Hongze, Liu Liangchen, Liu Liangzuo, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming... See how Li Dingguo slaughters the traitors and turncoats! The Manchus’ foremost warrior, Aobai, will be the first to fal 1.7kReads6.9Score115Shelves
- 283 My Son Transmigrates to the Late Ming with a Phone, While I Supply the Goods 儿子带手机穿越明末，老爹供物资 Qin Tian, a special forces soldier, transmigrates to the end of the Ming dynasty with his phone and becomes a bandit at Laotieshan in Lüshun. He activates a phone-based teleportation System that lets him send anything back and forth with his father. From then on, his father supplies him with a steady stream of modern goods. This allows him to make his mark amid the turbulent end of the Ming dynasty. He trades the silver his father buys cheaply for huge quantities of gold bars, turning his ordina 2.9kReads8.6Score216Shelves
- 284 Ming Dynasty Embroidered Guards: Rewarded for Punishing Evil and Upholding Justice 大明锦衣卫：惩奸除恶奖励万物 I Slay Demons in the Great Ming Dynasty High Martial Arts Ming Dynasty: I Extract Cultivation Without Limit It was the Jiajing era. The emperor revered the immortals, treacherous villains threw the world into chaos, and ordinary people’s lives were worth less than grass. Su Yuan transmigrated to a high-martial-arts version of the Great Ming Dynasty with a Bi An waist token and joined the Imperial Brocade Guard. Dressed in a flying-fish robe and cloud-climbing boots, he wielded a Xiuchun saber, s 14.4kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
- 285 Zhao Gouzi's Struggles in Ancient Times 赵狗子的古代奋斗史 At the end of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Gouzi was born. The Ming was visibly in decline, while the world hurtled into the Age of Discovery, with wealth pouring in from across the seas. Zhao Gouzi lifted his chin and resolved to catch the last wave of the Age of Discovery, sending the peoples of Huaxia sailing across the seas to conquer new lands! 8.2kReads8.9Score707Shelves
- 286 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. 11.5kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
- 287 Before I Transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty, I Saved 10 TB of Data 穿越大明前：我存了10TB资料 When Gu Changge wakes up, he discovers that he can see a countdown to his transmigration. He has only two months left! What should he do now?! Enjoy himself to the fullest? Give up on life? Or struggle to accept it?! None of the above. He actually starts studying! Years after graduating, he finds his motivation again and starts learning the basics of everyday life! The common people of the Ming Dynasty can’t get enough to eat? Then he’ll research better grain seeds! They can’t afford cotton clot 75Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 288 Late Ming: Turning the Tide 明末之力挽狂澜 The protagonist is hit by a shell while saving someone and transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty, where he sets out to save the Great Ming. This is a historical strategy SLG game... No, wait, it's a transmigration novel. Starting out as a low-ranking scholar, the protagonist perseveres through hardship and ultimately turns the tide in this extraordinary story... 215Reads8.6Score137Shelves
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The Founding God of War of the Ming Dynasty: Xu Da 大明开国战神：徐达
Xu Da, the Ming Dynasty’s foremost founding general, Zhu Yuanzhang’s top commander, and the man who laid the foundations for the vast Ming Empire, fought countless battles and never suffered a defeat. Steady and wise, he wielded his forces like a master and excelled at directing campaigns and commanding vast armies in decisive battles. At Lake Poyang, he helped Zhu Yuanzhang crush Chen Youliang’s million-strong army and pacify the south. He then led the northern campaign, capturing the Yuan capi
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- 290 Great Ming: I'm Really Not the Longevity Emperor 大明：我真不是万寿帝君 The Emperor of Longevity was the Taoist title adopted by the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Lu Chen transmigrates to the seventeenth year of the Jiajing era, during the Ming Dynasty. Though his soul has crossed over into another body, its previous owner left behind no memories. Fortunately, Lu Chen has telekinetic powers to rely on. By chance, he passes himself off using travel papers that may have belonged to Lu Song, Lu Bing's father, and identify him as Lu Song's illegitimate son. More 356.3kReads7.7Score47kShelves
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The Hidden Actor of Lin'an 临安戏隐
[Me, a spoiled good-for-nothing: it’s all an act] After being reborn as the son of a Southern Song military officer, Zhang Ziyan decides to lie flat and make trouble for his father as a career. He raises fighting cocks, walks his dogs, and spends money like water. Lin’an City knows him as a complete waste of space. Everyone laughs at him: “Other than having a good father, what can you even do?” But they don’t know that... The imperial wine Jade Pot Spring is his creation, and its sky-high profit
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The Late Ming Is Rife with Infighting, and I, the Young Marquis, Keep Making a Run for It 残明总内讧，小侯爷我总跑路
Reborn at the end of the Ming dynasty, the protagonist lives through the rebel army's capture of the capital and the extortion of officials, then joins the rebels in the Battle of Shanhai Pass. After their defeat, he flees with them, but following the Battle of Qingdu Mountain, he leaves the Great Shun and escapes all the way to Jiangnan. He takes part in the Sui Prefecture upheaval, the defense of Yangzhou, the training of troops in Jiading, the battle to relieve Jiangyin, the recapture of Taiw
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A Nameless Death in the Ming Dynasty 明卒无名
In the third year of Chongzhen, a severe drought struck Shaanxi, and not a single grain was harvested. The government hounded the people for taxes like a tiger, while refugees were driven away like livestock. When Shen woke up, a knife was already at his throat. He was a transmigrator, and one of thirty-seven people waiting to die. With a single sentence, he escaped the blade and led the others into an abandoned village. No food? They would grow their own. No iron? They would smelt it themselves
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In the Great Ming, I Conquer the Nine Frontiers 人在大明，横推九边
[Rousing Action] [Political Intrigue] [Conquest] [Ensemble Cast] (The rating just came out and will rise later.) In the Tianqi era of the Ming Dynasty, the empire was beset by internal strife and external threats... Wang Ma transmigrated to this world and rose from a humiliated concubine-born son of a military officer to an unmatched God of War who struck fear into the Nine Frontiers. At the bloody Battle of Hun River, he fought alongside Qin Liangyu and dealt a crushing blow to Huang Taiji, Nur
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Great Ming: From the Start, I Snatched Da Yuer 大明：开局截胡大玉儿
In the first year of the Chongzhen era, Pi Island runs out of food, and 20,000 soldiers and civilians are on the brink of death. With worry turning his temples white, Mao Wenlong watches as his son Mao Chengzong awakens after a single dynasty. The fool who had played dumb for twelve years now possesses Li Cunxiao's peerless strength: he lifts a thousand-catty stone lock with one hand and sweeps the island's military bullies aside. The Later Jin ruler Hong Taiji sees Pi Island as a thorn in his s
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Late Ming, 1638: Crush the Later Jin, Then Conquer the World 明末1638，先砍后金再霸全球
A special forces soldier carries modern equipment back to the late Ming Dynasty. Only 210 rifle rounds? No problem. A miniature imaging device lets him sense everything for dozens of miles. Flintlock rifles, steam engines... The Ming Empire's dominion over a sun that never sets begins with the destruction of the Eight Banners!
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The Romance of Chenghua 成化演义
After the Tumu Crisis, Zhu Qizhen endured countless hardships and returned, only to be placed under house arrest by his younger brother, Zhu Qiyu, in the Southern Palace. Zhu Qiyu broke his promise to hand back the throne after taking the crown during the crisis. Not only did he refuse to return the throne, but he also sought to harm Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen. By order of Empress Dowager Sun, Wan Zhen'er protected Zhu Jianshen and helped him escape the palace to seek refuge. They vowed to love e
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The Yongle Mystery: Zheng He's Voyages in Search of the Jianwen Emperor 永乐迷踪：郑和下西洋寻建文
In the first year of the Yongle era, the Nanjing palace burns to the ground in a single night, and the Jianwen Emperor vanishes without a trace. Zhu Di seals off the entire city and tortures former officials and eunuchs, but all he finds in the ashes is a charred corpse whose identity cannot be confirmed. Years later, on Zheng He's second voyage to the Western Seas, he falls ill and lies unconscious for three days. When he wakes, he realizes that his dream of the night Nanjing burned was no nigh
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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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Late Ming: She Goes on a Killing Spree to Stay Alive 明末：她靠苟命杀疯了
Three Rugged Fathers + An Orphaned Girl | Historical Romance | Fleeing Famine | Everyone Dotes on Her | Political Intrigue | Rising from Adversity Read carefully!!! This is not a transmigration novel, and there is no golden finger. The story follows the course of real history, with careful research into clothing, food, and social conditions. It explores how ordinary people survived during the darkest years of the late Ming dynasty, including the grim realities of exchanging children for food and
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