Novels like The Rise of a Great Nation in the Late Ming
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- 101 Great Ming: Why Has the Crown Prince Rebelled! 大明：太子何故造反！ He transmigrates as Zhu Cilang, the last Crown Prince of the Great Ming. But he arrives in the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign. In March of that year, Li Zicheng will enter Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor will hang himself, and Zhu Cilang, as Crown Prince, will be handed over to Li Zicheng by his own maternal grandfather before ultimately being executed. Unwilling to sit back and await his fate, Zhu Cilang turns to a scorched-earth approach and sets out to restore the Great Ming. He upend 2.9kReads8.5Score19814d adds
- 102 Transmigrated to the Late Ming to Destroy the Treacherous Qing 穿越明末灭苟清 [Transmigration + Late Ming Dynasty + Rise to Power + Strategy + Destroying the Qing + System] Transmigrating into the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty, history PhD Li Rui rises from a small frontier post to contend for the Central Plains, destroy the treacherous Qing, and rebuild China. 441Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 Reborn as Zhu Youjiao, Building an Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets 重生朱由校，打造日不落大明帝国 In the sixteenth century, as the great Age of Exploration swept the world and Western nations eagerly expanded their horizons, the Ming Empire in the East quietly crumbled under natural disasters and human calamities. Zhu Xiao, a Ming history enthusiast from a later age, is reborn as the Tianqi Emperor, Zhu Youxiao. Watch as he ushers in reform, strengthens the army, leads the Ming Empire to the pinnacle of the world, and launches an Age of Exploration unlike any other for the Great Ming... 2.4kReads8.6Score11414d adds
- 104 Back in the Late Ming Dynasty as a Warlord 回到明末当霸王 A nobody from the peaceful modern era: what would you do if you could travel back and forth between the end of the Ming Dynasty and the present day? Win beautiful women across the land... amass untold riches... or perhaps recreate Emperor Wu of Han’s glory, destroy the Manchu queue, and wage war in the South Seas? Write a Chinese dream of the ocean across the Seven Seas! 904Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 105 The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: I’m Back, and This Is No Joke! 崇祯十七年：朕回来不是搞笑的！ After transmigrating to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, he finds bandits rising on all sides, the Tartars eyeing the border passes, corrupt officials running rampant at court, and the Ming dynasty teetering in the storm. He wakes to find that Zhu Youjian has turned the tide of despair. In his previous life, he worked tirelessly as a diligent ruler, only to see his country fall and himself die. This time, he has finally let go of that burden and refuses to repeat the same tragic path! 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 The Martial Emperor of Great Ming: Conquering Langjuxu Mountain 大明武帝：封狼居胥 After drowning, Zhu Houzhao is reborn in the days when he was still crown prince. This time, he is determined not to be a mere figurehead at court. He plans to reclaim his power step by step and breathe new life into the Ming Dynasty, which has gradually grown corrupt. 184Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 A Ming History Professor Transmigrates: I Am the Chongzhen Emperor 明史教授穿越之我是崇祯帝 When a professor of Ming history transmigrates back to the late Ming dynasty, can a young emperor turn the tide when all seems lost, save a collapsing empire, and extend the Ming dynasty’s life by 200 years? Faced with foreign invasions, political infighting, a financial collapse, natural disasters, and man-made calamities, what skills and strategies will he bring to this catastrophic start? Let’s wait and see. 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 The Diary of Prince Su Zhu Yang 肃王朱楧日记 Also known as The Prince of Su Builds Up and Grows Strong in the Early Ming Dynasty! and How Su Lian Was Built In an alternate timeline, it is 1393, the twenty-sixth year of the Hongwu era under the Ming dynasty. Zhu Yang, newly appointed Prince of Su and assigned to take up his post in Ganzhou, first settles in Pingliang Prefecture because his princely residence in Ganzhou is unfinished and not all three of his personal guard units have arrived. Just then, the fabric of time and space is thrown 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 The New Great Ming in North America 北美新大明 In 1622, the Ming suffered defeat at Guangning, Zhu Youjian was invested as Prince of Xin, and the Ming Dynasty’s days were already numbered. On the other side of the world, countries like the Netherlands and Spain rose to prominence, ushering in the age of global colonization. Then an airplane from the 21st century unexpectedly entered this world… [A group-transmigration story, with a nation as the protagonist] 867Reads7.3Score10514d adds
- 110 Rebuilding China in North America 北美洲再造中华 The magnificent lands of North America: the undeserving Anglo-Saxon whites built an empire there. Why, then, should the descendants of Yan and Huang not be able to build a new China on this land? Dr. Zheng Keyin, a Stanford University expert on Native American studies, transmigrates to the late seventeenth century, only to discover that the descendants of the national hero Zheng Chenggong have already carved out a foothold in this “Fusang,” which is in fact California, pioneering the wilderness 642Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 A Superpower at the End of the Ming Dynasty 明末超级强国 I came, I saw, I conquered. What would a new-generation soldier do if he went back to the late Ming? “Still using matchlocks? Flintlocks? Do you think I’m an idiot? Are you kidding me? Bronze cannons? Muzzle-loaders? Are you kidding me? I’m a modern internet guy. Are you telling me I can’t even build a mortar? Who says we can’t make bullets? Who says we can’t cut rifling? Do me a favor and take a good look around a machine shop.” Li Yi stood in his vast arsenal. Li Yi fought his way out of the B 3.8kReads8.5Score27214d adds
- 112 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! 342Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 113 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 114Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Swallowing the Ming 吞明 A portal connecting the modern era to the final years of the Ming Dynasty, and an orphan who grew up in the mountains. He decides to save the hundreds of millions of people living through the Ming Dynasty's collapse and build an unprecedented empire! 31Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 115 Great Ming: I Am Xu Da's Fifteenth-Generation Descendant 大明：我是徐达的十五世孙 Xu Tianjue’s soul returns to the Ming dynasty, where he becomes the legitimate son of the Duke of Wei’s household and the fifteenth-generation descendant of Xu Da, Prince of Zhongshan. Faced with a dynasty beset by troubles at home and abroad, he wields the power accumulated by the Xu family over a century and vows to rewrite the fate of the Ming. At court, his family background lets him crush petty schemers; on the battlefield, he leads the Ming army to victory in every direction. This time, th 113Reads7.5Score12514d adds
- 116 Great Ming: I Help Brother Zhu Zhanji Ascend from the Start 大明：开局送瞻基皇兄升天 I am Zhu Zhanshan, the greatest royal uncle in the Ming dynasty. I lived through seven reigns, served as regent twice, missed out on the throne three times, and am the younger brother of that pathetic emperor, Zhu Zhanji. Did China’s decline begin with Zhu Zhanji, a supposedly great Ming emperor? Then I’ll start by taking his throne. Isolation from the world, falling behind the rest of the globe? Then I’ll send fleets west again and colonize the world. Japanese pirates harassing us for three hun 899Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 117 This Is Our Great Ming's God of War? That's Ridiculous! 这就是咱大明的战神？太离谱了！ [Transmigration] [Great Ming] [Zhu Yuanzhang] [Imperial tutor] [Feel-good power fantasy] Lu Ning unexpectedly obtains a Transmigration Ring. He travels back to the early years of the Great Ming and becomes close friends with Zhu Yuanzhang. What Zhu Yuanzhang worries about most is that his descendants will live miserable lives and the Great Ming won't endure. “You spent so much money on your descendants, and the Great Ming lasted for so many years. If you really want to know what happened, I can 86Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 118 Rising from Wuchang at the End of the Ming Dynasty 明末从武昌开始崛起 Being thrown into a time of chaos wasn’t my fault. Why does everyone misunderstand me like this? Wang Guozhi looks curiously at his trembling opponents. Zhang Xianzhong: You occupied Wuchang and refused to leave, then attacked while I was halfway across the river. I, the Great Eight Kings, nearly became the Great Eight Turtles. Damn you, you villain! Zuo Liangyu: You blocked the road and stopped me from heading north, costing me four of my Five Outer Camps. Damn you, you scoundrel! Chongzhen: Yo 135Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 119 Southern Ming: I Am the Hongguang Emperor 南明之我是弘光帝 As the realm fell apart, old grudges led the Donglin faction and the so-called upright officials to refuse to recommend him as emperor. To dress up their own regime as legitimate, the new dynasty attacked him as incompetent and lecherous, accusing him of employing treacherous ministers. But was the truth really as the history books recorded it? If one day a transmigrator were to replace this unfortunate man's soul, would history unfold differently from then on? 454Reads7.2Score10214d adds
- 120 The Sun Rises in the West 日出西明 How can a minor prince of the late Ming, with the weakest claim to inherit the throne, turn the tide? A border-defense university student from the twenty-first century transmigrates into the body of Zhu Hengjia, Prince of Jingjiang, and establishes a Presidential Palace to govern the realm. He lightens taxes and labor burdens, and the common people say, “We could never repay the President’s kindness!” He cracks down on powerful clans’ monopolies, and small and medium-sized merchants say, “We cou 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 The Asura King of the Ming Dynasty 大明修罗王 In the late Ming, the land of China is strewn with corpses and rivers run red with blood. The once-mighty Ming Empire is on the brink of collapse. An ancient people is about to shed its splendid robes beneath the blades of foreign horsemen, its hair unbound from its high topknots... At this moment of life and death, Yan Zhen, a reconnaissance soldier from a later age, accidentally transmigrates into the body of a descendant of a Ming military household. From then on, he secures the northern fron —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 The Southern Ming: Sweeping Across the Realm from Yunnan 南明之从云南席卷天下 As Emperor Yongli flees to Burma, Wu Sangui leads his army to threaten the Burmese king and escort him back to Kunming. Along the way, Zhu Cixuan transmigrates into the body of his namesake, the Southern Ming crown prince Zhu Cixuan. The Guanning cavalry is invincible? Watch my black-armored heavy cavalry reclaim the empire and slaughter you like dogs. Wu Sangui plans to hold Kunming to the death? My Great Ming army will blast through his lines with a thunderous barrage of cannons. The scattered 384Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 123 Great Ming: I, Zhu Changhuan, Rebel in the Founder’s Footsteps! 大明：我朱常换，仿祖造反！ No System, no golden finger. Zhu Changhuan has an impressive lineage: his ancestor is Zhu Yuanzhang, and he comes from the branch descended from Zhu Gaosui, Prince of Zhao, the third son of Zhu Di. Since his is a distant offshoot of a collateral branch, by the time of his father, the family had long since lost all its fiefs and stipends. They had only a few acres of poor farmland, and now, with disaster caused by other people, they can barely survive. Thinking of his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang's upr 306Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Great Ming: Are You Crazy? The Old Zhu Is Talking Me Into Rebellion 大明：疯了吧！老朱忽悠我造反 After transmigrating to the Ming dynasty, I spent ten years biding my time, waiting for the day I could restore the empire. But I failed to save Zhu Biao from the start, and Zhu Yunwen was about to take the throne. Zhu Ying was at his wits' end. He just wanted to take his benefactor, Old Huang, and leave the capital, then figure out what to do next. “Old Huang, if we don't leave now, it'll be too late once the Jingnan Campaign begins!” “I crawled out of a tomb in Zijin Mountain. If Zhu Di shows 66Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 125 Great Ming: The Zhu Family's Executive Vice Emperor 大明：老朱家的常务副皇帝 Better for one person to weep than for ten thousand to weep. Better for one family to weep than for ten thousand families to suffer. Better for officials to suffer than for the common people to suffer!!!! After dying unexpectedly, the soul of modern young man Zhu Biao is brought by the System to a parallel Ming Dynasty, where he becomes the Crown Prince, Zhu Biao!!!! But the useless System falls into a deep slumber. Relying on his own abilities, Zhu Biao transforms and builds the Ming Dynasty, l 3.1kReads6.9Score11214d adds
- 126 Reborn as Zhu Gaochi, the Sun of the Great Ming! 重生朱高炽，做大明的太阳！ Whoa, whoa, whoa~ I transmigrated! To the Ming dynasty! And I’m the eldest prince, no less! Looks like I won’t have to work hard anymore! But damn it, I’m Zhu Gaochi, the eldest son of the Prince of Yan! The guy whose father lived so long that he spent twenty years as crown prince but only one year as emperor, and whose descendants later kicked him out of the Imperial Ancestral Temple! The guy his younger brothers bullied constantly when he was crown prince! No, no, no~ Sure, being crown prince 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 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 177Reads5.7Score10014d adds
- 128 Great Ming: I Just Reincarnated, and You’ve Already Transmigrated? 大明：咱刚重生，你就穿越了？ In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang died of illness in the Fengtian Hall. In the blink of an eye, he was reborn! Given a second life, Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to make up for his regrets. But then he realized there was something off about his sixth son. Developing vaccines, defeating smallpox, cutting down Hu Weiyong with a sword, and kicking Li Shanchang aside. Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his head and leaned closer. “Lao Liu, come on, tell me. Were you reborn too?” Zhu Zhen 12Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 129 Great Ming: I Commanded One Hundred Thousand Mercenaries from the Start, and They Suspected Me of Rebellion 大明：开局佣兵十万，被怀疑造反 After transmigrating to the Ming dynasty, Cheng Xuan becomes Zhu Zhanyong, Prince of Yue. From the start, he commands an army of one hundred thousand mercenaries, leaving his adoptive father, Zhu Gaochi, utterly aghast. “One hundred thousand? Son, are you planning a rebellion?” Cheng Xuan replied, “I trained these hundred thousand new troops with great effort, spending both money and time. Now that they're ready, I'm handing them over to the state. That counts as a contribution to the court!” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 The Great Ming Sage Emperor 大明圣皇 After transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty, he lies low for two years, then launches his late-Ming career with a major case. On land, he is invincible. He builds a Ming navy and drives off armed merchant ships, becoming unstoppable at sea. This is my Ming Dynasty, and I am its Holy Emperor. 163Reads8.1Score4014d adds
- 131 The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: Saving This Ming Dynasty Is Impossible 崇祯十七年，这个大明真难救 Zhu Youzhe, a fourth-year history student, was sheltering from the rain beneath the crooked-neck tree on Longevity Hill when he was struck by lightning and transmigrated to the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign, alongside the soul of the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian. From mutual dislike to working together, the two hold back Li Zicheng’s advancing army and face Dorgon in a decisive battle near the capital, reshaping the Ming dynasty into something entirely different. In this life, the on 640Reads8.6Score11214d adds
- 132 Ming Dynasty: Kill the Enemy to Restore the Ming, Defending Jiangyin from the Start 大明，杀敌复明，开局死守江阴 [Late Ming] + [Slay the Enemy] + [Restore the Ming] In the summer of 1645, the Hongguang regime fell, and the Southern Ming teetered on the brink of collapse. Zhou Qian, a history student, transmigrated into the body of the fugitive prince Zhu Cixuan. The isolated city of Jiangyin was trapped in a desperate situation. An eighty-one-day battle to the death was about to begin. In this desperate hour, he awakened the [Ten Thousand Horses Trample the Barbarians] System. Slay enemies to obtain elite 5.5kReads7.3Score48414d adds
- 133 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... 216Reads8.6Score5214d adds
- 134 Late Ming: Your Majesty, the Crown Prince Has Rebelled 明末：陛下，太子殿下造反了 No System + a transmigrator in the late Ming + rebellion from the start + killing corrupt officials + wiping out the Manchu A 21st-century overworked office drone transmigrates into the body of Zhu Cilang, the Crown Prince at the end of the Ming dynasty. After transmigrating, he tries to talk Emperor Chongzhen into seeing reason, but the emperor refuses to listen and instead punishes him by ordering him to reflect behind closed doors and forbidding him to leave. His reputation is ruined, too, an 4.9kReads7.9Score27514d adds
- 135 A New Era of Splendor 再启风华 Zhu Youjun was a history buff, and an unshakable Ming loyalist to boot. Time and again, he tried to tell the Ming’s detractors online about the dynasty he saw in his heart. Unfortunately, he wasn’t the sort to trade insults, so to some people, all his efforts were nothing but a joke. Then, after one particularly heated and decidedly unfriendly online debate, he reached out with a sweat-soaked hand to switch off his computer, and something unexpected happened... When he opened his eyes again, eve 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Great Ming: I Sent You to Rule Your Fief, So Why Are You Uniting the World? 大明：让你就藩，你统一全球？ [Agriculture]+ [Power Fantasy]+ [Conquest]+ [Mass Recruitment]+ [Unifying the World] In the twenty-second year of the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the seas closed. Zhu Gui, a prince of the dynasty who had awakened the wisdom of his past life and the knowledge of a colonial empire, knew that the Ming would miss the Age of Exploration by shutting itself off from the world. He therefore submitted a memorial urging the court to reopen the seas and asked to be granted Qiong 46Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 137 War Flames over the Ming: A Special Forces King Rebuilds the Tang Dynasty 大明烽烟：特种兵王再造大唐 Li Mo, a modern special forces commander, had his soul transported into the body of Li Mo, a poor scholar and distant clan relative from Dacun Village, Shiqiao Township, Jiahe County, Guiyang Prefecture, in the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637). Although the original owner’s family had fallen into decline, the clan genealogy clearly recorded his descent from Li Sheng, a famous general of the mid-Tang dynasty. This became an important source of inspiration for the protagonist’s rise. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 Dreaming Back to Southern Ming: A Han Man Is No Slave 梦回南明，汉儿不称奴 Lin Yan, a construction contractor, unexpectedly transmigrates to the Southern Ming dynasty and meets Li Dingguo, who has twice defeated the Ming princes. Watch me help Prince Jin Li defeat them a third time! Knowing that the Manchu queue hairstyle marked nearly three hundred years of oppression for China, he resolves to fight the Qing and restore Han clothing and customs with the knowledge he has brought from modern times. 1.4kReads8.0Score14914d adds
- 139 Plunderer at the End of the Ming 明末劫掠者 [No System + Special Forces + Invincible + play the pig to eat the tiger + Building a Faction + Rebellion + Conquering the World] The sky suddenly changes, and paratrooper Zhao Jinnan drops from above, only to find that time has reversed and he has returned to the waning years of the Ming dynasty. Once he accepts the truth, he cannot help recalling the saying: Better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in an age of chaos. Zhao Jinnan: The Emperor of Japan? The shogun? Take them away and castrat 962Reads6.9Score10414d adds
- 140 Southern Ming: The Sun Never Sets on the Empire Rising from the Frontier 南明：从边境崛起的日不落帝国 On February 21, 1659 (the thirteenth year of the Yongli era of the Southern Ming, the sixteenth year of the Shunzhi era of the Qing), Qing forces crossed the Nu River and approached Tengyue Prefecture. General Li Dingguo decided to use the terrain to ambush them, and the bloody Battle of Mopanshan was about to begin. The Southern Ming crown prince, Zhu Cixuan, had been gravely ill and unconscious for days when he suddenly awoke, his eyes opening to a world beyond anything people could imagine. W 989Reads7.5Score10014d adds
- 141 Chinese Merchants in the Late Ming: The South China Sea Frontier Company 明末华商之南海边地公司 Modern-day overworked wage slave Li Hongji dozes off and wakes up to find he’s transmigrated into the body of Li Guozhu, son of Li Dan, a great maritime merchant at the end of the Ming dynasty. Other transmigrators get a System. He gets a head full of spoilers like “The Later Jin of this era is no good” and “European ships are slow as snails.” When he’s five, he sets his sights on the English navigator Miura Anjin. “Master, could I borrow your galleon blueprints to copy? And while you’re at it, 375Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 142 Great Ming: My Choices Summon the Greatest Ministers in History 大明：朕的抉择召唤千古名臣 On a snowy night in the first year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian transmigrates and jolts awake before the empire falls. Beneath the Dragon Throne lies a land strewn with corpses, its people starving for miles. At court, the Donglin faction and the eunuchs endlessly brawl for power. Beyond the passes, the Jianzhou Jurchens sharpen their blades. At his waist hangs the white silk sash with which he will hang himself on Coal Hill seventeen years later. At this desperate moment, the Mandate of Heave 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Great Ming: The Strongest Emperor in History 大明：史上最强皇帝 In a single moment, he transmigrated and became the Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty! The empire's rule was on the verge of collapse, while natural and man-made disasters came one after another! Faced with the crisis, Zhu Youjian had just one thing to say: My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's! I will become the greatest emperor in history! Train a new army, revive the Western Depot, lift the ban on maritime trade, open trade routes, crush the rebels, and pacify the realm! Every regret w 367Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 144 Reborn as a Duke of the Ming Dynasty 重生之大明国公 An accident transmigrates Zhang Fan, a top economics student, to the Ming dynasty. A different identity, a different environment, a different life. How will he make his way through it? The path already laid out for him draws him into the heart of the Ming regime, step by step toward the pinnacle of the dynasty! 1.5kReads7.3Score10514d adds
- 145 The Cruelest Chongzhen of the Great Ming 大明最狠崇祯 He transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and becomes the Chongzhen Emperor. Faced with the crisis at the end of the Ming Dynasty, what's the best solution? Of course: kill. With a blade in hand, follow me. We'll fight our way to a brighter world. 428Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 146 Haunted by the Late Ming: The Rise of a Thousand-Household Officer 魂牵明末之千户崛起 The Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty brings endless disasters. Rebel armies rise, the Manchus run rampant, the southwest erupts in rebellion, and western and southeastern pirates covet China. The Ming Empire teeters on the brink. See how a low-ranking military officer from Qiongzhou rises from humble beginnings to turn the tide! 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 My Father Is the Yongle Emperor 我爹是永乐大帝 Shameless scholars say Zhu Di succeeded through luck, thanks to a freak gust of wind on the battlefield. They say Jianwen ordered, “Do not let me incur the crime of killing my uncle.” They say Li Jinglong was the first great war god of the Da Ming. They say that if Lan Yu had not died, Zhu Di would never have dared to rebel. They say Tie Xuan beat Zhu Di badly, they say Ping An beat Zhu Di badly, and they say Zhu Di only made it into Nanjing because he kept losing but was lucky... They say Zhu D 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Ming Dynasty's Destiny: Hongwu's Legacy 大明国运之洪武遗策 As a descendant of Zhu Sheng, I transmigrated into the first year of the Chongzhen era. Before me lay famine-stricken northern Shaanxi. Behind me stood an empire on the verge of collapse. Zhu Qiming had bound the Kindling System and gained access to a technological tree far ahead of its time. But the System gave a chilling warning: every exchange would bring a backlash. I rescued Lu Xiangsheng, and a plague of rats broke out in Xuanfu. I built a steam engine, and the craftsmen were blown to piec 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Late Ming: My Dad Won't Listen, So My Ancestors Will Step In! 明末：我爹不听话，祖宗会出手！ The Sixteen Ming Emperors, Nuclear-Harmonious Family, Old Zhu and His 1,382-Year-Old Rattan Cane, The Ming-Qing Showdown, Zhu Qizhen: Stay Away from Me!, and The Eternal Ming. Zhu Yong transmigrates into Zhu Cilang, the last Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, and gains the ability to travel between the sixteen Ming eras. At this point, the rebel bandit is closing in on the capital, with rebels inside the country, Jurchen invaders outside, and an unruly father at home. So he makes a decision that 374Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 150 Late Ming: Flames Across the City 明末之烽火连城 The rebel army rises against the Ming! Kill the gentry and seize their silver! Kill the Manchus! Wipe out the Mongols! Only in his old age does Zhao Chengwu realize that his enemies' bones have already piled up like mountains! [This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.] [Upright moralists, move along.] 220Reads6.1Score—14d adds
