Novels like The Iron Hoof's Lament
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- 1 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. 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 A City of Iron and Bone: Yan Yingyuan and the Eighty-One Days of Jiangyin 铁骨孤城：阎应元与江阴八十一日 Iron-Boned Fortress: Yan Yingyuan and the Eighty-One Days of Jiangyin 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Chongzhen Is Reborn, and I've Become Li Zicheng? 崇祯重生，朕成了李自成？ [No System] [Wits and Courage] [Not Mindless] [Revenge] [Villains with Brains] [Restore the Ming, Defeat the Qing] I am the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian! I hanged myself at Coal Hill, all hope lost. When I opened my eyes again, I had become Li Zicheng?! The throne is the same, but the realm is no longer the one I knew. In my previous life, I worked tirelessly day and night, yet ended up betrayed by everyone, with my country destroyed and my family dead. In this life, my soul inhabits a rebel. 25Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 4 Transmigrate to the Ming Dynasty: The Struggles of a Night Patrolman 穿越大明：夜不收的奋斗 Liu Ji died while carrying out an undercover mission. When he awoke, he had transmigrated to the first year of the Tianqi reign (1621). He had become a night scout in the Liaodong border army. Amid wind and snow, Liu Ji once again escaped death. He and four companions fought back and prevailed, and the five decided to become sworn brothers. United in heart, brothers can break gold. Gold, as in Later Jin. The people of Liao guard Liao land; the Han die on Han soil! Not for the Zhu family, not for 34.9kReads8.3Score3.8k14d adds
- 5 Great Ming: Defying Fate at Sarhu 大明：从萨尔浒开始逆天改命 Wang Wei, a postdoctoral researcher in campaign studies at the National Defense University, opens his eyes ten days before the Battle of Sarhu, in the body of Yang Zhao, son of the doomed Liaodong military governor. Four armies advancing from different directions to encircle the enemy? To him, that’s just lining up to die! With unparalleled strategic insight, he calculates the course of the battle; with unmatched strength, he subdues the entire army. He means to enter the fray himself, turn the 126Reads6.8Score11714d adds
- 6 Great Ming: Bound by Twin Bandit Sisters and Dragged Up the Mountain from the Start! 大明，开局被双胞胎女匪绑上山！ [No System + Rise from humble beginnings + political intrigue and conquest + multiple heroines + beating the Qing dynasty senseless in the late Ming] In the seventh year of the Chongzhen reign, the land was in chaos. Drought and locusts ravaged the northwest, bandits roamed everywhere, and the Ming dynasty teetered on the brink of collapse. The impoverished scholar Zhu Shaoyou was a distant, penniless relative of the Prince of Qin. With nowhere else to turn, he headed to the Qin Prince's residen 4.7kReads—Score54414d adds
- 7 Tyrant Chongzhen: Extending the Ming Dynasty's Fate by 300 Years 暴君崇祯，续运大明三百年 He opens his eyes to the sixteenth day of the third month of the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign! Three days until Li Zicheng breaches the city, and seventy-two hours until Chongzhen hangs himself on Coal Hill! A modern man transmigrates into Zhu Youjian. Looking at the officials throughout the court, all ready to surrender, he draws the Son of Heaven's sword: "Want to surrender? First ask whether my blade agrees!" Day One: Bloodily purge Qianqing Palace, hang the chief minister, execu 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Everlasting Harvest 永丰年 "Manjianghong: A World-Shaking Game of Go" In the Yongfeng era, fifty soldiers swept away the Japanese pirates. They burned the enemy's supplies, and their fame spread. A northern journey opened a new path through an alliance. A hundred cavalrymen broke through the rebel lines in a night raid, and three hundred cavalrymen blasted their way out of an encirclement. Their deeds were done, but their success came at a cost. We opened sea routes, sending our sails far away. We wove a hidden network 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Great Ming: Chongzhen Hangs Himself, So I Weld the Shanhai Pass Shut 大明：崇祯自缢，我焊死山海关 [Late Ming power struggle + transmigration and farming + a wife from the start + hard-core troop building + political intrigue + multiple heroines + no System] Transmigrated to the late Ming, and no System would be bad enough, but he was on the verge of starving to death from the start? Staring at the recruitment notice on the wall that read “Earn merit and get a wife,” Qin Huairong grabbed the clerk by the collar: “Sir, can I pick my own wife? And if she's too ugly, can I return her?” He though 124Reads—Score11614d adds
- 10 Dorgon of the Tartars: The Southern Ming Emperor Is Terrifyingly Steady! 鞑清多尔衮：南明皇帝稳得可怕！ [No System, no cheats, a slow-burn, steady-paced story] He transmigrates into the body of Zhu Cilang, Crown Prince of the Ming. In 1644, the game begins in hell: his father, the Chongzhen Emperor, hangs himself at Coal Hill, while Li Zicheng storms the capital, plundering the wealthy to fund his army. Zhu Cilang: “It’s fine. As long as the green hills remain, there’ll be no shortage of firewood!” As the ministers in Nanjing welcome their new emperor, everyone waits to see how this young ruler wi 12.3kReads6.8Score1k14d adds
- 11 Transmigrate as Chongzhen and Rebuild the Great Ming 穿越崇祯再造大明 At 80 years old, Zhu Qiming transmigrates into Zhu Youjian. Armed with modern knowledge and well-versed in Chinese classics, he fights magic with magic. The ministers fear nothing more than debating the classics with the emperor. When the emperor issues an edict blaming himself, the ministers are all terrified! A Ming Dynasty Renaissance, with steam engines born from bellows? A heart of compassion, with the methods of a devil? This is an age of saving the Ming Dynasty through intellect, military 643Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Chongzhen Has Three Days Left Before He Hangs Himself, and All I Can Do Is Read People 崇祯还有三天上吊，而我只会看人 He spent eight years tightening screws on an assembly line, then dropped dead at his station. When he opened his eyes again, a gazette lay spread across the table, dated the sixteenth day of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. Three days later, Li Zicheng would breach Beijing. Seven days later, the Chongzhen Emperor would hang himself on Coal Hill. And his new identity was Zheng Sen, Zheng Zhilong’s son, a Fujianese provincial graduate in the capital to sit the metropolitan exa 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Great Ming Inspector 大明巡检 This is a slow-paced farming story. If that’s not your thing, feel free to skip it. The protagonist, Li Zheng, farms, trains troops, and builds up his strength. The story spans from the Chongzhen era to the Southern Ming. He won’t fawn over Zhu or rebel. He’ll watch dynasties rise and fall, then ultimately claim the Central Plains. 102Reads6.9Score10014d adds
- 14 Late Ming: A Chinese-Style Succubus 明末：中式魅魔 The sky is high and the clouds are pale; I gaze until the wild geese flying south disappear. One who has never reached the Great Wall is no true hero; I count the miles of the journey, twenty thousand. On the peaks of Liupan Mountain, red banners unfurl in the western wind. Today I hold the long spear in my hands; when will I bind the Azure Dragon? A modern university student transmigrates to the final years of the Ming dynasty. He sees the dead strewn across the land from famine, and people tra 83Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Day 83 of the Jiangyin Siege: Late Ming God of Slaughter System 江阴第83天，明末杀神系统 Killing Tartars makes you stronger. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill! Level One Enemies: Manchu Tartars Level Two Enemies: Mongol Vassals Level Three Enemies: Han Traitors and Lackeys Level Four Enemies: Rebel Bandits and Thieves Strike without hesitation. Take only their heads. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Great Ming: In the Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen, I Will Not Move South 大明：崇祯十七年，朕不南迁 [No System, respect for the historical record. This is a story about Chongzhen not fleeing, and the regret that the Ming could have been saved. No transmigration: Chongzhen saves himself. I don't believe a transmigrator would be all that much better than Chongzhen. Early in the book, Chongzhen sends the Crown Prince away on the tenth day of the first lunar month, gets the capital's armed forces in order, then, fifteen days later, slaughters the father-in-law who sold out his son, Zhu Guogong, an 331Reads—Score10514d adds
- 17 Ming Dynasty Tutor: The Answers My Director and I Found in Troubled Times 大明辅导员：我和主任的乱世答卷 Setting: Mizhi, in the fourth year of the Chongzhen reign at the end of the Ming dynasty. Both the male and female leads transmigrate. No harem or womanizing; the heroine is no mere ornament, and the romance develops naturally. There is no System, and the golden finger is restrained. The protagonist struggles at every step. The story has over a hundred chapters so far: the protagonists have just broken out of Mizhi County, defeated Buzhan Ni, and become a local power entrenched around Mizhi, Jia 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Late Ming: From Hunting to Conquering the World 明末：从打猎开始逐鹿天下 In the first year of the Chongzhen reign, Shaanxi suffered a drought, and the sky was red as blood. Chen Hu, who could take down a wild boar in the mountains and bandits in the lowlands, was still congratulating himself. But Chen Yong, who had just awakened, let out a despairing cry. "Chongzhen... A Shaanxi accent... Born a farmer... This is a truly disastrous start!" Transmigration | Late Ming Dynasty | Farming | Struggle for Supremacy | Rebellion | Realism | Hunting 541Reads—Score13614d adds
- 19 My Soul Transmigrated into the Jiajing Emperor, Starting with the Bombardment of Sage Confucius's Mansion 魂穿嘉靖帝，从炮轰圣人孔府开始 Political intrigue | Passion | Decisive and ruthless | Innovation | War at the heart of the story | Little romance | No System-based progression As the Jiajing Emperor, I will purge the cabinet, wield imperial power, take on the civil officials, pacify the northern tribes, suppress the Japanese pirates, lift the maritime bans, promote commerce and industry, establish new schools, and train a new army. I will completely turn around the Ming era under the Jiajing Emperor, who was consumed by the p 82Reads—Score10314d adds
- 20 Late Ming: Muscular Chongzhen Beats Up Huang Taiji 明末：肌肉崇祯暴打皇太极 [Late Ming + Comedy + Power Fantasy + Transmigrate + Light System + Fantasy] I’ll shoulder this Ming dynasty with my pecs! In the fifteenth year of the Chongzhen reign, Liaodong is in crisis and the court is in despair. Zhu Youjian wakes up to find that the world has changed. The dragon throne is uncomfortable, his imperial robes are tight, and when he looks down, instead of a skinny collarbone, he sees two massive pectorals capable of crushing boulders. The officials are arguing themselves hoar 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Campaign to Destroy the Qing: From the White Lotus Rebellion to Hegemony Over the Great Powers 伐清：从白莲起义到列强霸主 Zhang Yuzhi transmigrates on the eve of the White Lotus Rebellion, into the body of a landlord's son. The trouble is, his cheap father is actually backing the rebel army. According to the historical records, the Zhang family is about to be wiped out. If that's how it is, then let's do this! → While Qianlong is still stamping documents, sending the value of antiques plunging, Zhang establishes the Hanyang Arsenal. → While Qing troops still wield broadswords and matchlock guns, his Survival Army f 51Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 22 A Minor Tax Clerk in the Late Ming Dynasty 明末小税吏 Zhong Qiren, a “professional” from the tax bureau, transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty, where his approach to work is a little different from everyone else's. Has anyone ever seen an industrial park? No? Well, then, let's build one. Attracting investment is a must. There'll be no exorbitant taxes and levies in our “high-tech industrial park.” In fact, I'll even offer tax rebates. The court asks me how we can increase state revenue. There's no need for military levies to suppress bandits, trai 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Sun and Moon Begin Anew: Chronicles of War Across the Nine Provinces 日月重开：九州烽烟录 An ordinary person like you or me transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty. The Ming empire is already on its last legs. The Jianzhou Jurchens in the northeast are marching straight toward Beijing, peasant armies are sweeping through the Central Plains, and drought, locusts, and plague repeatedly ravage the people. The Qingliu faction, nobles, Donglin scholars, eunuchs, salt merchants, Shanxi merchants, rebels, Jianzhou forces, river pirates, salt merchants, Mongols, and all kinds of other powers 1.6kReads8.1Score13614d adds
- 24 The Tale of a Sword 一柄剑的故事 Yin Lian takes the only sword his father left behind and tries to sell it for some money. Unfortunately, it is so rusty and looks so much like a modern replica that no antique shop is willing to buy it. After a car accident, the sword soaks up blood, and its rusty exterior transforms into its original appearance. The sword cuts through time and space. On the other side, the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644 has just taken place, and the Qing army is sweeping across the land. To stop them, Yin Lia 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Transmigrated as Zhu Yuanzhang: Rebuilding the Hongwu Dynasty 穿成朱元璋：重铸洪武 Programmer Zhang Ziyang was pressed against the wall of his rented apartment, eavesdropping on the couple next door. His hand trembled, his vision went black, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself before a dragon throne, dressed in a dragon robe, with Ming officials kneeling all around him. He had become Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, the Son of Heaven of the Great Ming. Before he could even celebrate, he learned something even more terrifying: it was the fifteenth year of Hon 34Reads—Score14814d adds
- 26 Late Ming: Five Potatoes from the Start, and the Crown Prince Wants to Flee 明末：开局五土豆，太子要跑路 Overworked office drone Zhu Ming transmigrates into Zhu Cilang, the Ming Dynasty crown prince. The good news: He’s the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, with a lofty status. The bad news: His father is the Chongzhen Emperor, and the capital will fall in just ten days. Other transmigrators: fighter jets, artillery, and mechanized infantry. Crown Prince Zhu: five potatoes. Fine, better make a run for it first. From Beijing to Dengzhou and Laizhou, from five potatoes to a yield of three thous 2.3kReads—Score20614d adds
- 27 All Men Under Heaven Are Brothers: The Great Ming Empire 四海之内皆兄弟之大明帝国 (Entirely handwritten, with no AI. I aim to portray the realities of society in the late Ming. This is my first novel, and its rating only appeared after I finished it, so my score is just the baseline.) A reincarnation mishap on the Silver Bridge sends me to the late Ming, where I become the eldest legitimate son of the Tianqi Emperor. In the late Ming, the peasant rebels, the Ming army, and the Jianzhou Jurchens are three paupers robbing one another. So the disasters and chaos of the late Ming 2kReads8.0Score11914d adds
- 28 Zhang Xianzhong Sacks the City from the Start, So I Defend Taihu Lake 开局遇张献忠屠城，我守太湖 In the spring of the eighth year of Chongzhen’s reign, thirteen bands of rebels join forces and march south. Zhang Xianzhong’s army of one hundred thousand troops lays siege to Taihu. Fang Che, a scholar who transmigrated here, stands atop the crumbling rammed-earth city wall. The granary is empty except for mice, and the arsenal holds nothing but rusted iron. The county magistrate only wants to die for his principles and leave a name behind, while the local gentry secretly abandon the city to p 27Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 29 I Transmigrated to the Northern and Southern Dynasties as the Deposed Emperor Gao Yin 穿越南北朝我是废帝高殷 He transmigrated on the eve of the Qianming coup and became Gao Yin, the deposed emperor of Northern Qi. The two princes were sharpening their knives, while Lou Zhaojun secretly backed him. The genius Yang Yin even showed up with his whole crew. With danger closing in from every side, he must fight with all his might to win a slim chance of survival. 63Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Late Ming! I Raise a Rebellion in the Mountains of Hunan, Jiangxi, and Hubei 明末！我在湘赣鄂山区造反 [Entirely human-written + completely original + rebellion at the end of the Ming dynasty + farming + not mindless wish fulfillment + logical + advancing the tech tree + slaughtering Ming-era gentry and powerful families + colonizing the globe + satire of the present day] Yan Yu transmigrates unexpectedly to Ningzhou at the end of the Ming dynasty, carrying nothing but a lighter. Facing a time when people eat one another, see how Yan Yu uses common knowledge from the future and little tricks for 674Reads6.6Score10114d adds
- 31 Save the Great Ming: It All Starts with Printing One Hundred Thousand Copies of the Sunflower Manual 救大明：从印十万份葵花宝典开始 [Sunflower Manual] + [100,000 Adopted Sons] + [100,000 Years of Cultivation] Using 100,000 eunuchs as pawns, he trains 100,000 Dongfang Bubais, rebuilds the Ming dynasty, and points his sword at the whole world! 1.2kReads6.0Score—14d adds
- 32 Late Ming: I, Li Tianyun, Am the Sun God of the Sun God Cult 明末之本座乃太阳神教李添澐是也 A bandit-rebel novel with the authentic feel of a peasant uprising. The rebellion begins from the start of the late Ming. The protagonist is not someone who transmigrated. There are no absurdly overpowered army drills, no three ranks of riflemen firing wildly to conquer the world, and no cannons casually blasting through ancient city walls several meters thick. The plot is fairly realistic, portraying the many sides of bandit rebels: how they coerce people into joining them and loot homes, as 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Chongzhen Emperor Dies for His Country? I Start as a Feudal Prince and Rebuild the Great Ming 崇祯殉国？我，藩王开局再造大明 Reincarnated as Zhu Yousong, the most unfortunate puppet emperor of the Southern Ming. Hell mode from the start! The Qing army watched from the north, the rebel army carved out its own territory in the west, and within the court, the Four Garrisons warlords ran rampant while Donglin officials ruined the nation. His destined fate: captured and killed a year after ascending the throne, with the empire changing hands. Fortunately, I returned with four centuries of historical knowledge! I lay low in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 When Mountains and Rivers Fall Into Night: Ming Dynasty, 1644 山河入夜：大明1644 In 1644, the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign, Beijing fell. The great edifice crumbled, officials fled, the rebel army closed in on the city's nine gates, and the cavalry beyond the passes watched like tigers ready to pounce. Everyone said the Ming Dynasty had reached the end of its days. Yet the sun and moon remain unchanged in their course: though they may be obscured, they can shine again. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Mastering the Ming 控明 In the turbulent final years of the Ming, there are always heroes who turn the tide and tales that stir the soul. In this age of blood and fire, an ordinary man takes the stage, and an epic drama of empire and beauty begins… 525Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 36 Late Ming: A Catastrophic Start, and Chongzhen Begs Me to Save His Life! 明末：天崩开局，崇祯求我救命！ In the sixth year of Chongzhen's reign, border dust billowed, the garrisons had fallen into disrepair, and the Ming dynasty's crisis was beginning to emerge. Jiang Xiang transmigrates into the body of a border garrison commander. He inherits a force of barely a hundred old and wounded soldiers, military farmland being devoured by local magnates, and a desperate situation beset by trouble from within and without. To the north, the Tatars batter at the passes. To the south, refugees rise up everyw 856Reads7.3Score15014d adds
- 37 Awakening on Coal Hill: Zhu Yuanzhang's Soul Transmigrates into Chongzhen 煤山觉醒：朱元璋魂穿崇祯 Beneath the crooked-neck tree on Coal Hill, the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself. The next second, the man who opened his eyes on the dragon throne was the iron-fisted king who had risen from a beggar in Haozhou to become the Hongwu Emperor! The rebel army was at the gates, the court was full of spineless lackeys, the warlords sat on their armies and watched, and the Manchus eyed Liaodong hungrily. Zhu Yuanzhang sneered. “I’ve spent my whole life fighting wars. Should I be afraid of this bunch o 142Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 I Told You to Transmigrate and Save Chongzhen, Not Become His Teacher 让你穿越救崇祯，没让你当他老师 [No System + Hard-Core Survival + Meticulous Historical Detail + Political Intrigue + Imperial Tutor + Changing History] In the fourth month of the sixteenth year of the Chongzhen reign, during the night shift at the Hall of Literary Glory, an order for execution by slicing lay ready to be delivered. Lu Mingyuan, a middle school history teacher from the early twenty-first century, dropped the stack of exam papers in his arms. On the back of every sheet were the names of those who would open th 164Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Transmigrating to the Late Ming: A Campaign of Conquest 穿越之明末征途 When Fu Xing, a special-forces soldier, suddenly arrives in the final years of the Chongzhen reign, the beleaguered Ming dynasty is already burdened by deep-rooted problems, and the tragedy of dynastic collapse is about to unfold once more. The story opens against the grand backdrop of shifting global hegemony. Built on a grounded, realistic transmigration premise, it rejects extravagant fantasy in favor of a pragmatic, rigorous path of technological development. He has no intention of taking th 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 The Last Ruthless Man of Southern Ming 南明最后一个狠人 [No System + political intrigue + ruthless decisiveness + conquest and colonization + defying fate] Reborn at the end of the Ming, I became Wu Yingxiong, the ill-fated man destined to die in history? The most miserable Prince Consort of the Qing ever? No. I'm going to be the ruthless man who topples the Qing dynasty! In this chaotic age, I deserve to rule! Wu Chenxuan, a graduate student in Ming history, is struck by lightning and reborn as Wu Yingxiong, the Prince of Pingxi's heir who is about 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 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—14d adds
- 42 Emperor Tianqi and the Eighteen Beauties of Yanyun 天启大帝之燕云十八姬 In the Tianqi era, he seldom stops to admire the flowers, seizing both the realm and its beauties in his hands. The warm waters of Nanyang nurture dragons and serpents; the lush grasslands of Mobei let cattle and horses roam. The western mountains teem with cinnabar mines; the eastern fields are planted far and wide with cotton and hemp. Who says borders divide the civilized from the barbarian? The peoples of every nation come dressed in their finest to honor Zhonghua. The story begins when Tian 48Reads—Score10214d adds
- 43 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 80Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Biding My Time in the Late Ming: Lying Flat Makes Me Invincible 苟在明末，躺平即无敌 The late Ming is in chaos. Bones stretch for miles, and the dynasty is on the verge of collapse. Ambitious warlords fight for their lives everywhere, and everyone is struggling to survive. But the System keeps me, a transmigrator among the refugees, on a tight leash: No striving, no raising an army, no standing out. I’m only allowed to lie flat and slack off. The more I keep my head down, the stronger I get. The lazier I am, the more invincible I become. While the world risks everything to save 420Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 45 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
- 46 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
- 47 The Ming Dynasty Beneath the Sun and Moon 大明之日月之下 In an age of chaos, the world is a furnace that burns away the dross and tempers what remains into steel. On the twelfth day of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, five shooting stars fell into the Forbidden City. That night, the emperor in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, the crown prince in the Palace of Gathered Elegance, the princess in the Palace of Longevity and Peace, Prince Ding in the Palace of Earthly Tranquility, and a hundred-household commander of the Embroidered Uni 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Biography of Wang Rende 王仁德传记 This is the story of a great minister’s rise, from a low-ranking officer to a renowned statesman. It is also the story of a passionate young man who devotes himself to serving the court and struggles to turn the tide, yet ultimately cannot save the day. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Reborn at the End of the Ming Dynasty: First, Save the Nine Thousand Years 重生明末，开局先救九千岁 After transmigrating as the Chongzhen Emperor, he saves the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old from the start. Seizing the wealth is better than seizing the family. The eunuch faction is the emperor's faction. Government orders don't reach beyond the imperial city? No problem, I'll replace the officials! The Ministry of Revenue can't raise money? No problem, I'll replace them! The Beijing garrison can't fight? No problem, I'll replace them! ...No problem, I'll replace them! Starting with the people in power —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Bright-Eyed Tyrant 明枭 Yu Feng, a modern man, transmigrated to ancient times in his sleep. He found himself in the late Ming dynasty, a period of turmoil, and had become a penniless scholar in Shandong. How will he build a life for himself in the chaos that is about to come? How will he wield power over the realm by day and sleep in a beauty’s arms by night, becoming a force to be reckoned with in his age? Read on as the author tells you the story... 911Reads8.2Score10014d adds
