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This book tells the story of the controversial and tumultuous final days of the Ming Dynasty. Starting from the fall of the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, it describes the ups and downs of the general Yuan Chonghuan, the treacherous minister Wen Tiren's dominance of the government and the public, the peasant uprisings in the mountains and plains, the dilemma of internal and external troubles, the sacrifice of the famous generals Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting for the country, and finally the end of the Ming Dynasty in 1644 when Chongzhen hanged himself. This book focuses on the bloody last seventeen years of the Ming Dynasty from 1628 to 1644, telling the story of the controversial and turbulent last days of the Ming Dynasty. The seventeen-year historical scroll began with the annihilation of the eunuchs and the restoration of chaos, and slowly unfolded with the conflict between ministers, border crises, the collapse of the Central Plains, the loss of the capital, and the change of political power. In the end, the dynasty overthrew, and the prosperous Ming Dynasty came to an end. The ending was written by the suicide of a generation of emperor Meishan. The river goes eastward, and beyond the white clouds of right and wrong, success or failure, the wheel of history is still rolling forward mightily...