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- 51 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
- 52 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 889Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 53 Beneath Mount Gaomei Is My Home 高嵋山下是侬家 A true-to-life portrayal of history: one country scholar from a mountain village extends the Qing Empire’s fortunes by half a century. The plot is authentic and the details are subtle, unfolding like a television drama before your eyes. Based on private materials provided by descendants of the Zeng family and on the Draft History of Qing, this novel neither praises nor condemns. It faithfully depicts the humble beginnings of Zeng Guofan, the last great Confucian scholar of China, along with the 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 The Great Ming Administrator 大明执政官 In the Great Ming, who wants the posthumous title “Ming Wuzong”? Whoever wants it can take it! I absolutely refuse to have it. No one can talk me into it! If those scholar-officials want to smear me, I'll start a capital gazette! If those Qing apologists want to smear me, I'll follow in the footsteps of my grandpa, Emperor Xianzong, and wipe them out, ending the Qing! All I want is a posthumous title that sounds good! Of course, I'll have to wait until I die and the true dragon ascends to heaven 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 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
- 56 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 85Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 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
- 58 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! 897Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 59 Late Ming: The Iron-Blooded Revival of the Soldier King Prince 明末：兵王太子的铁血中兴 As the last bullet pierces the smoke, the consciousness of Zhu Zheng, a special forces commander, plunges into the blood-red sunset of three hundred years ago. He opens his eyes to find the bloodstained Chongzhen Emperor holding out an empire reduced to scorched earth. Li Zicheng’s cavalry is already thundering at the gates, while the Eight Banners beyond the passes shake the pillars of the Forbidden City with their iron hooves. No System, no golden finger, only two decades of battle-hardened st 4.3kReads8.0Score32614d adds
- 60 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. 168Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Shining Across the Globe: The Imperial Legend of Zhu Youxiao 明耀全球：朱由校的帝国传奇 “I am the Son of Heaven. It is only right that I lay the unshakable foundations of the Ming for all eternity!” Zhu Youxiao stood in the great hall of the Forbidden City, his gaze steadfast and profound. The Ming dynasty, an empire on which the sun would never set, was rising. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 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
- 63 The Great Ming’s Great Rebel 明朝大反贼 Zhao Fei, a petty thug from the 21st century, transmigrates, and becomes the emperor's only son, the crown prince of the realm. It should have been cause for celebration, but the miserable truth is, he is actually the son of a bandit chieftain. And worse still, his father, a Daoist priest named Duan Chang who changed his name to “Zhao Wanxing,” has established the “Great Shun Pacification” regime at a temple in Bazhou, Hebei. He later “moves the capital” to the area around Yunfeng Mountain and L 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Unifying the Six Kingdoms in One Lifetime: A Master Plan for the World 一世统六国：计定天下 Modern-day PhD Liu Jiang dies in an accidental lab explosion and wakes up in the body of Ying Qu Liang, Duke Xiao of Qin! Qin is weak, and its reforms have yet to begin. He recruits Shang Yang and Sun Bin as his right-hand men, uses a lunar eclipse to establish his authority, smelts refined steel, builds counterweighted catapults, and forms a new army that communicates with signal flags. He first repels the raids by the Yiqu, then ambushes Pang Juan’s vanguard, captures the three cities of Shaol 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 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
- 66 I Pursue Sea Power in the Late Ming Dynasty 我在明末搞海权 He wakes up to find himself a poor thousand-household commander in southern Liaodong on the eve of the Battle of Sarhu, with the military garrison so rotten that only a list of phantom soldiers remains. Lin Yi just laughs. First, he cleans out the corrupt officials and introduces “performance reviews,” then wins over the eunuch inspector with seafood hot pot. The Later Jin cavalry are fierce? He’ll use coastal artillery and economic warfare to fleece Huang Taiji until he’s bankrupt. Who says the 171Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 The English Prince and the Ming Empire: A History of Colonial Expansion 英皇子与明帝国：殖民开拓史 [Global colonization + changing history] [Political intrigue] [Passionate] [Struggle for supremacy] [Blood and iron] [No System] A modern man with a background in science and engineering transmigrates and opens his eyes to find himself a British prince, in control of two major colonial estates in North America, yet his heart aches for the declining Ming Dynasty! In the waning years of the Wanli Emperor's reign, factional strife plagues the court, the Later Jin watches from the shadows, and Japan 41Reads—Score214d adds
- 68 I Transmigrate into Chongzhen, Beginning with the Ji-Si Crisis 穿越崇祯，从己巳之变开始 Ming history + no mindless heroics In 1629, the year of the Jisi cycle, the eunuch faction was finally purged. That was also the year Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong and the Qing army crossed the Ningjin Defense Line and attacked the capital. Transmigrated into the body of Zhu Youjian, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he faced an increasingly chaotic court and a scholar-official faction already prepared to change masters. Reborn as Zhu Youjian, he was in for a hard time! “I will resist th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Great Ming: Five Dragons at Court 大明：五龙同朝 A harrowing transmigration, a desperate fight to survive! [Early Ming Dynasty] + [Five Dragons Reign at Once] Tang Yun, an ICU programmer, dies suddenly after working through the night. When he opens his eyes, he's lying in a thatched hut even shabbier than an ICU. His home is bare, he's starving and freezing, and all he has is a packet of mysterious tobacco seeds. Hell mode from the start? He turns his fate around with a water purifier and mugwort soup. Then he rescues an amnesiac wife who turn 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 The Apocalypse Hunts the Bright 天启狩明 Ming history + no brainless plotting + no System + political scheming After his soul transmigrates into Zhu Youxiao, he faces fierce enemies ravaging the borders and endless factional strife among the civil officials at home. With his father dead early and himself still a child, how will the fifteen-year-old emperor untangle the threads of a treacherous court and finally break through the deadlock...? 698Reads6.9Score10714d adds
- 71 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 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 A Grand History of the Ming Dynasty 明朝大历史 This book is the culmination of Mr. Meng Sen's research on Qing history. It is also a representative and foundational work on the subject. Drawing on the Veritable Records of the Qing, the Draft History of the Qing, archival records of the Qing court, and rarely used sources such as the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty, Meng Sen reveals and analyzes many of the central issues in Qing history. He offers a comprehensive account and assessment of more than two hundred years of Qing politics, 8Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 73 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 136Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 74 In the Daye Era, I Stand Up to Er Feng and Found a Han Dynasty 人在大业，硬刚二凤立个汉 In the fourth year of the Daye era, the Grand Canal connected north and south. Luoyang, the eastern capital, flourished like never before, and the myriad nations of the Western Regions came to pay tribute. The current emperor was even revered as a sage khagan, and the empire’s power had reached unprecedented heights. A young man from Jiangnan, known as Jinu, left his small town and saw the heroes and great men of the world, the mighty clans across the realm, and the countless common folk swept a 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 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 414Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 76 Ruling the Four Seas: The Emperor's Dashing Ways 君临四海：吾皇风流 [Great Ming] [Chongzhen] [Transmigration] [Court Intrigue] [Struggle for Supremacy] [Dynasty-Building] [An Emperor's Making] [Alternate History] [Ensemble Cast Power Fantasy] After his Transmigration into Great Ming, Zhu Youjian thinks his luck couldn't get any worse. Fortunately, he has a good imperial sister-in-law. Determined to escape the fate of becoming the ruler who loses his country, Zhu Youjian decides to rebel against the corrupt Great Ming. The imperial estates become his base, and h 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 The Ming Dynasty's Junior Banner Officer 大明小旗官 The first day of the seventh month, in the fourteenth year of the Zhengtong reign. Xuanfu Garrison. A battlefield surgeon transmigrates into the lowest-ranking Ming Dynasty officer, a squad leader with ten soldiers under him, a monthly salary of two and a half qian, and a life hanging by a thread. He knows all too well that in forty-five days, at Tumu Fortress, half a million Ming troops will be wiped out in a single night. He also knows that in one hundred and ninety-five years, the Ming Dynast 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Ming Secrets: The Worthless Rule the Land 大明秘闻，刍狗当道 [Schemes and Intrigue] [Dark Power Struggles] [Imperial Palace Secrets] [The Shifting Nature of Humanity] [No System, Not Pure Wish Fulfillment] [No Idiots, No Dumbing Down] The Zhu Ming Dynasty was once the world's wealthiest, strongest, and most populous feudal dynasty, ruled by absolute imperial authority with power balanced to perfection. But the Zhu Ming Dynasty also bore every sign of an impending dynastic collapse: land seized into the hands of a few, the treasury in ruins, border threats 2.1kReads8.8Score18414d adds
- 79 Great Ming: Bandit General, Sage of War, Great Rebel 大明，山贼大将军，兵圣大反贼 [No mindless characters, no pure power fantasy] [The dark side of human nature in the halls of power] [The truth behind the Ming emperors' frequent untimely deaths] [Monsters and demons at the end of a dynasty] [Cunning] [Scheming for the realm] The Ming Dynasty is incredibly unlucky: internal strife, foreign threats, natural disasters, man-made calamities, fiscal collapse, factional infighting... every condition for a dynasty's fall has come together. In the first year of the Taichang reign, a 2.3kReads8.4Score17914d adds
- 80 Late Ming Chongzhen: I Deserve the Temple Name Shengzu 明末崇祯，朕当得起圣祖庙号 Zhu Bao'an is reborn. He never expected to become the Chongzhen Emperor. He's doomed now. Fortunately, it's the first year of the Chongzhen reign, so there's still hope. Watch him rebuild the Embroidered Uniform Guard and Eastern Depot, killing not a single loyal minister and sparing not one treacherous official. He takes charge of the economy, politics, and military, and makes sure all three are strong. Hong Taiji: "That brat Zhu Youjian fights dirty, always going for my kidneys. And now he has 958Reads7.2Score10514d adds
- 81 The Ming Chronicles: Emperor Hongzhi 大明录之弘治大帝 [Transmigration] [Decisive and ruthless] [Expanding the realm] [Wuxia] [Uncovering historical secrets] Protagonist: Zhu Youji He transmigrates into the grandson of the Ming dynasty's God of War. The Crown Prince of the Chenghua era is the eldest son of the Chenghua Emperor and the son of Consort Wan. This story sets history's regrets right, features brain-teasing political intrigue, and is a contest for supremacy. If you can figure out who the final villain is, the author concedes defeat. The Gr 136Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 82 Chongzhen, Father, Call Me Your Majesty: An Emperor for the Ages 崇祯，父皇请叫我陛下：千古一帝 I'm the Fourth Prince, Zhu Cizhao? And it's still the fifteenth year of Chongzhen... “Li Zicheng, I don't care if you take the south, but if you cross Kaifeng, don't blame me for making sure your own family won't know where you are!” I'm out here fighting for my life, while you, Zhu Youjian, and your court officials keep wavering and scheming against one another. Then don't blame me for marching into the palace in armor and forcing your hand with tens of thousands of refugees outside the capital 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Transmigration: The Jiashen Upheaval, Carrying the Revolution Through to the End 穿越：甲申之变，将革命进行到底 Li Baoguo, a soldier in the revolutionary army, has an unwavering faith. He isn't afraid of grueling training or of bleeding and dying in battle. Danger lurks at every turn during a rescue mission. When he wakes after an aftershock, he finds himself in another time and place. What should he do? Can he hold fast to his beliefs and carry the revolution through to the end...? 346Reads—Score11114d adds
- 84 The Iron-Blooded Bandit King 铁血闯王 He was once the most ordinary stable hand at Yinchuan Post Station, spending every day among relay horses and official documents. Then, in the first year of the Chongzhen reign, the order to abolish the post stations took away his last means of putting food on the table. He remembered the torn straw mat beneath his mother when she starved to death. He remembered the landlord's cruel face as he demanded payment. He remembered the numbing shock in his palm when he raised his hoe and smashed it aga 683Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 The Most Authentic Ming Dynasty Imperial Exams 明朝最真实科举 A novel with one female lead, no System, no storage space, and no special powers. A grounded story with consistent logic and intelligent characters, set in the Ming dynasty and following a path from the imperial exams to officialdom. Discover a different Great Ming! A blue steed prances up the palace steps, beneath the imperial standards and the raised cup of a long life. Sun and moon shine upon the jade trees, while clouds and rosy hues reflect in the Jasper Pool. Double pennants descend early 56Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 86 Chongzhen's Revolution 崇祯要革命 (The only book online that saves the Ming dynasty through revolutionary ideas.) I am Chongzhen: “Rather than have the peasants liberate themselves from the bottom up, I’d rather liberate them from the top down.” I won’t just take the lives of corrupt officials. I’ll take the lives of the scholar-officials, the imperial clan, and the unscrupulous merchants too... Whoever dares obstruct my new policies, I’ll take their life. I am benevolent. I only take the lives of the parasites of China. 42Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 87 Jingtai of Great Ming: I Am the Tyrant 大明景泰：朕就是暴君 On the night of the Coup at the Gate, Emperor Jingtai held an AK-47 in both hands. “Zhu Qimen, get out here and eat a whole magazine!” A hot-tempered young man from the twentieth century transmigrates into Emperor Jingtai on the eve of the Coup at the Gate. Watch as he punches the Oirat exchange student Zhu Qimen, kicks the various Oirat tribes into submission, and turns the Japanese pirates into fish food! 121Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 88 Spring Peak, Jade Dew 春峰玉露 Welcome, everyone, to my story. Wang Chunfeng transmigrates to an unfamiliar world after an accident. Court intrigue, martial world rivalries, everyday life, love and hatred, and wars between nations! There is no such thing as too over-the-top, only more over-the-top. 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Blood Banquet: The Cannibal Files 血宴：食人档案 “In the shadows of a golden age, a ghostly yellow carriage carries the empire’s secrets deep within the Forbidden City. Join Liu Yong, the prefect of Shuntian, as he uncovers the Forbidden City’s greatest mystery, one that has remained unsolved for a century.” 166Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 The Great Ming Dynasty: If Wei Zhongxian Lives, the Ming Will Never Fall 大明王朝：魏忠贤不死，明朝不灭 Transmigration is not about a System, but political intrigue; Transmigration is not a mindless power fantasy, but a tale of decisive action and bloodshed; There is no golden finger in transmigration. An all-knowing perspective is a golden finger in itself. Some say the Ming dynasty fell because Chongzhen was headstrong, impatient, and suspicious, and lacked the skills of an emperor. Some say the Tianqi Emperor was a useless ruler. Some say that if Wei Zhongxian had not died, the Ming dynasty wo 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Great Sui: Li Shimin and I Fight for the World 大隋，我和李世民争天下 [Conquest of the Central Plains] [The Sage of War] [Rising to Power by Fighting the Turks] [A Career-Focused Story] [Conquest at the End of the Sui Dynasty] Li Ce, a modern military strategist, finds his soul transported into the chaotic final years of the Sui dynasty. Armed with the ultimate wisdom of The Art of War and On Protracted War, he raises the banner of "win before fighting" and practices the art of "subduing others through diplomacy and strategy." Rising from humble beginnings, he rec 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 The Ironclad Remnants of the Ming 铁甲残明 [Rousing War] [Intense Battles] [No Golden Finger] [Ensemble Cast, Power Struggles] In the forty-seventh year of the Wanli era, at Sarhu. The Ming Dynasty has twenty-nine years left before its fall. That winter, while Beijing's officials and gentry are still basking in the fading glow of a golden age, the Later Jin army clashes with the Ming forces in the northeast of the empire. Thirty thousand Ming soldiers are wiped out in a single day. Corpses cover the hills, and the Hun River runs red with 46.7kReads8.5Score4.2k14d adds
- 93 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 172Reads5.7Score10014d adds
- 94 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 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Your Majesty, Why Are You Plotting a Rebellion? 陛下，何故谋反？ [Alternate history + political intrigue + scheming protagonist + transmigration + no System] In the fifth year of Chuyuan, Wang Yu is named Magistrate of Daxing for helping the emperor secure the throne. That year, Wang Yu is twenty and just beginning to show his talent. In the second year of Huanglong, Wang Yu suppresses a rebellion in Yan and is named Governor of Youzhou. That year, Wang Yu is twenty-two and rules as a regional warlord. In the fifth year of Huanglong, Wang Yu purges the empero —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 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 597Reads8.6Score11214d adds
- 97 I Vie with Jiajing for the Throne 我与嘉靖争皇位 He gets into a car accident on his way to the graduate school entrance exam interview and transmigrates back to the Ming Dynasty, only to find himself in the body of a seven-year-old cowherd from a remote village, the son of a landlord. He's all alone, with no one to rely on. He thinks this is how his life will be, until he discovers that his previous self was the illegitimate son of the Zhengde Emperor! After Zhengde dies, Zhang Yong, one of the “Eight Tigers,” comes to take him back to inherit 2.6kReads8.4Score15214d adds
- 98 Reborn in the Ming Dynasty, I Become the Emperor Everyone Calls a Tyrant! 魂穿大明，天下成我为昏君！ (The Spirit of the Ming Dynasty) No System, no golden finger. Everyone says I am a foolish, reckless emperor who indulges in pleasure. But who knows that beneath this body's surface lies a soul from the modern world? I feign madness to fool the court, while secretly making plans, reforming the government, opening up the seas, and expanding the realm. When the day comes for sails to stretch across thousands of miles, the whole world will kneel at the feet of the Ming Dynasty! 982Reads—Score10114d adds
- 99 The Struggle for Supremacy at the End of the Ming Dynasty 明末逐鹿 Reborn in the final years of the Ming dynasty, he takes the imperial exams, enters government service, quells the Prince of Yan’s rebellion, wipes out the Jurchens, and rises step by step to contend for the realm. 1.4kReads8.5Score11214d adds
- 100 A Transmigrator’s Struggle in Hami Guard at the End of the Ming Dynasty 穿越明末哈密卫奋斗史 In his previous life, he started from nothing and built a team of several hundred people, carving out a path to success in the business world. In this life, armed with knowledge and methods centuries ahead of his time, is he really going to die in misery in this godforsaken, ramshackle military fortress? “Let’s start with a modest goal…” “Take Hami City.” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
