Novels like Stealing the Heavens, Changing the Sun: They Stole Chinese Civilization
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Stealing the Heavens, Changing the Sun: They Stole Chinese Civilization, best match first.
- 1 The Yongle Archives: Unlocking Ancient Technological Secrets 永乐典库：我解锁古代科技秘藏 The Yongle Encyclopedia was lost for a hundred years. The world knew it only as an unparalleled compendium, unaware that its pages concealed secret archives of Chinese technology spanning a thousand years. Chen Fan unexpectedly inherited the mantle of Guardian of the Encyclopedia and unlocked its hidden maps. Only then did he learn that, from the pre-Qin era through the Song and Yuan dynasties, successive imperial courts had sealed their most important records of crafts, institutions, and cultur —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Live from the Dream of the Red Chamber: I Guarded the Ming Dynasty for Three Hundred Years 直播红楼，我守了大明三百年 “Lin Daiyu was not burying flowers. She was burying the Ming Dynasty's last court historian.” When Gu Meng said this during a livestream, the entire internet mocked her for doing anything to chase traffic. She is the youngest ancient-book conservator in the Forbidden City, and the last in a family line that has served as the Ming Dynasty's guardian of the dead for three hundred years. She has kept watch for three hundred years, waiting for this very day. A bloodstained fragment of The Story of t 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Fifth Book by Zuoshoujianshashan 左手剑沙山的第5本书 My new work is out! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Female Physician of the Ming Dynasty: Hunted as a Witch by the West 大明女医官:被西方当做女巫猎杀 A Ming Dynasty Woman Physician: Hunted as a Witch by the West 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Were the Witches Burned at the Stake in Europe Actually Female Physicians from the Ming Dynasty? 1 那些死在欧洲火刑架上的女巫，竟是大明女医官？一 Were the witches who died at the European stake actually female physicians from the Great Ming? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty: My Days as a Female Physician in Europe 穿越大明，我在欧洲做女医官的那些日子 I Transmigrated to the Great Ming and Became a Female Physician in Europe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Three Thousand Heavy Armors a Month: How Could the Ming Dynasty Lose? 每月3000重甲，大明怎么输 On the twelfth day of the third month in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, I transmigrated into the body of Crown Prince Zhu Cilang. My father would hang himself at Coal Hill in five days. Li Zicheng’s million-strong army had already breached Juyong Pass. At court, the Grand Secretary presented a memorial requesting that the Crown Prince be sent to negotiate peace, while the Directorate of Ceremonial had prepared ropes to bind me. Was the nation’s fate sealed, with all hope lost? No! I had thre 334Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 8 The Qing Dynasty: The Hanlin Academy's Forbidden Archives 大清：翰林院的禁忌档案 The tenth year of Xianfeng, the Gengshen year. Chen Yiren, a Hanlin Academy scholar awaiting appointment, finds a fragment that should not exist, tucked into the lining of an Atlas of the Imperial Territories and Lands of the World that is about to be destroyed. On it, in plain sight, are the words: “Ming Protectorate of the Far West.” Why does a foreign envoy look exactly like a renowned minister of the current dynasty? Why are there gears buried beneath the Old Summer Palace, dating back three —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Qing Invasion and Its Tyranny 满清入关暴政 [The Qing Invasion and Its Tyranny (Complete Modern Standard Chinese Translation)] A complete plain-language translation of a classic Qing historical source! Han Tan’s The Qing Invasion and Its Tyranny breaks free from the obscurity of classical texts and takes readers straight into the turbulent years following the Qing army’s entry into China. It vividly reconstructs key historical scenes, including forced haircuts and clothing changes, massacres, and the seizure of land and property. It also 16Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 10 How the Qing Dynasty Kept the Han Weak for 300 Years 满清防汉弱国300年 For three hundred years, the Qing dynasty made “keeping the Han in check” the cornerstone of its policies. To preserve the ruling privileges of the Manchus, it suppressed technology, shackled thought, and closed the country off from the world, trading national decline for the dynasty's temporary survival. It was a tragic chapter in which selfish ambitions for power crushed the future of an entire people. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Surviving the Late Ming: My Rebellion Plays Dirty 明末求生：我的造反不讲武德 After transmigrating to the end of the Ming dynasty, Chen Nuo became a hereditary company commander, only to discover that the military settlement was already strewn with the corpses of the starved. By the third day, he was nearly starving to death himself. When his deputy provoked and harassed him, he knocked him into submission with one punch. “In troubled times, might makes right!” As Chongzhen hanged himself at Coal Hill, Li Zicheng’s forces pillaged and slaughtered, and the Qing army marche 68Reads6.7Score113Shelves
- 12 Awakening in 1930: Raging Against Westernizers from the Start 觉醒1930开局怒怼公知西化派 [Transmigrate + Republican era + System + Patriotic power fantasy + Strengthening the nation through science and technology + Exposing distortions of Western history + Face-slapping + One heroine + Spy warfare] Admirers of the West are not welcome in this book. If you're here to speak up for the West, you can leave! Peking, 1930. The academic giant Hu Shizhi loudly proclaims, “We must Westernize completely,” while the elite campus beauty Meng Qingjia regards this as the cure for saving the natio 845Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 13 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 73Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 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. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 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 962Reads—Score136Shelves
- 16 Chongzhen: Can the Son of Heaven of the Great Ming Save America? 崇祯：大明天子拯救美利坚？ [Fun Read] [System-Assisted Nation-Building] [Heavy-Handed Tactics] [Cross-World Trading] [War] [Ensemble Cast] Unlike the usual old-fashioned historical novels, this one takes a wild approach and goes all in on brute force. It's the ultimate power fantasy! Please leave a review for my new book. Don't just sit there in silence! 194Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Tyranny of the Qing Conquest (Free Public-Domain Book) 满清入关暴政（免费公版书） This book gives a relatively detailed account of the slaughter and devastation inflicted on the Jiangnan region after the Qing army entered the passes. It states that its contents were “all personally experienced and witnessed... hearsay from distant places has not been included,” which gives it considerable historical value. The details of the book’s editions are unknown. In the early years of the Republic of China, it was included in Five Collections of Unofficial History of the Manchu Qing un 114Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 18 My Uncle Is Zhu Chongba 家叔朱重八 [Setting the history section straight] + [Top-tier historical prose] + [All original] + [Political intrigue + no System + the most authentic historical fiction...] My name is Zhu Wenzheng, Zhu Yuanzhang’s nephew and Zhu Biao’s eldest brother. I am the great Ming’s God of War, who held Hongdu against Chen Youliang’s six hundred thousand troops, and the dynasty’s greatest hero since its founding... By all rights, I should have become a peerless prince of the Ming. But history played a cruel joke o 1.4kReads8.7Score110Shelves
- 19 Heaven's Rebellion: From the Start, I Slay Generals and Seize Their Banners 天国逆命：开局即斩将夺旗 In 1854, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Northern Expeditionary Army was trapped in Gaotang, Shandong. Cut off from food and reinforcements, the entire army was on the verge of annihilation! Modern student Li Feng transmigrates into a cavalry squad leader in the Taiping Army and opens his eyes to a hopeless situation: no food within the city, no reinforcements outside, and Sengge Rinchen's Eight Banners cavalry closing in from every direction! Historical records say this isolated army was wiped o 6.7kReads8.5Score203Shelves
- 20 Late Ming: Laying Low in the Mountains as a Rebel King 明末：苟在山里当反王 “Jiexi Province, Baliu Prefecture, Xuelin District, Chiban County: in Shangbao stands a Golden Throne Hall...” This folk song has been passed down for more than four hundred years in the remote mountains of Suining, Hunan, and the ruins of the ancient Shangbao Kingdom are still there today. This story grew out of that real folk song. A fake jade pendant bought for ten yuan, a faulty outlet, and when Wang Dabao opens his eyes again, 108 gaunt refugees have pinned him to a heated earthen bed and a 16Reads—Score125Shelves
- 21 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 1.7kReads8.1Score146Shelves
- 22 Transmigrated as the Crown Prince at the End of the Ming Dynasty: I’m Starting a Rebellion 穿越明末太子，我要造反 A university student from a later age transmigrates into the body of Zhu Cilang in a parallel world at the end of the Ming dynasty, just as Li Zicheng suffers a decisive defeat and the Southern Ming Hongguang court is on the verge of collapse. Drawing on his knowledge of the future, he takes Gao Guiying as his adoptive mother and gathers the remnants of the Dashun army. He rescues Huang Degong, preserves the best of the Ming navy, and unites forces determined to resist the Qing, struggling to st 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 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 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Why Did the Ming Dynasty Collapse So Suddenly? 明朝为何说亡就亡 Explore the real reasons behind the Ming dynasty’s sudden collapse through ten perspectives, including factional strife, finances, refugees, and foreign enemies! Did the Ming fall under the Wanli Emperor or the Chongzhen Emperor? To the Donglin faction or the eunuch faction? ... This book covers the Wanli and Chongzhen emperors, the Donglin and eunuch factions, Li Zicheng and Nurhaci, Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Chonghuan, and more. Sort fact from fiction among the many theories and examine from all a 445Reads9.0Score104Shelves
- 25 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—Shelves
- 26 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.” 179Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 When Did My Bookstore Turn into a Weapons Shop? 我的书店什么时候改行做武器行了 A rift in time and space lies hidden in the Floating World Bookshop, connecting it to the Ming dynasty a thousand years ago. A pastry and a cup of cola spark a bond that spans two worlds. Time never flows the same way in either realm. Hongxi moves the capital, Zhu Biao is assassinated, and turmoil engulfs the court. Fifteen-year-old Zhu Xiongying arrives clutching a jade clasp, with the fate of his country weighing on him. In a sorry state, he stumbles into her bookshop. She is Ye Zijin, owner 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 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 431Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 29 Sky Screen: From the Start, Explaining the Four Great Cases of the Ming Dynasty and the Early Ming 天幕：开局说明朝四大案外加明初 The good news: Zhu Dijun has become a top-tier star across the internet, with a sky screen that connects all the worlds. The bad news: After exposing too many historical conspiracies, he's been blacklisted across the internet by powerful corporate interests. But in the eyes of emperors throughout history, this descendant from the future is an unfathomable god from a higher dimension! To Zhu Yuanzhang, he's a prophet who sees through past and present, and who exposed the deadly trap of the Blank 588Reads7.8Score100Shelves
- 30 Great Ming: I Become Emperor After Jiajing 大明：嘉靖之后我为帝 My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Great Ming: Your Majesty, Kneel Down. I Have a Favor to Ask 大明：皇上快跪下，臣求你一件事 (Power fantasy, not your thing? Keep out.) During the Wanli era of the Great Ming, every official spoke up for justice, impeaching Sun Jiye, the only son of the Earl of Yingcheng, for bullying and dominating the market, throwing his weight around, committing every kind of evil, disgracing the scholar's name, and running amok. His crimes were unforgivable. He deserved to be torn apart by five horses, with his entire clan exterminated. What? Oh, your uncle is the Wanli Emperor... In that case, nev 155.6kReads8.9Score19.7kShelves
- 32 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 73Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 33 The Chongzhen Emperor of the Great Ming: I Don't Want to Hang Myself 大明崇祯：朕不想上吊 Conquer the land of the Japanese pirates, push all the way to the Arctic Circle, seize Antarctica, and advance into the Atlantic. Wherever the sun and moon shine shall be Ming territory. The Chongzhen Emperor is a ruler who has no intention of hanging himself. With his iron-willed ministers, surrendered warlords, and brilliant practical scholars, he carves out the revival of an empire from the ruins. Zhu Youjian tosses his edict aside. “I received the Mandate of Heaven. How could I hang myself a 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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 333.7kReads7.7Score43.7kShelves
- 35 Lives Across Time 古今人生 Ning Xia, a modern security guard, accidentally transmigrates into the turbulent history of the Ming Dynasty during the Zhengde era. A bronze mirror reveals the mystery of his own origins, while the gentle comforts of a beautiful woman at his side threaten to vanish beneath the fangs of eunuch officials and powerful ministers. He must tread carefully through the folds of history. Every choice to support loyal officials and every scheme against corrupt eunuchs is like walking on thin ice, lest he 431Reads—Score105Shelves
- 36 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—Shelves
- 37 Transmigrate to the Ming Dynasty as Emperor Taizong Wen 穿越大明之大明太宗文皇帝 In the twenty-fifth year of the Hongwu era, Crown Prince Zhu Biao died in Yingtian. The succession was left unsettled, shaking the court and the country. Reborn as Zhu Yunton, the legitimate second son of Zhu Biao of the Ming dynasty, he has no System, no golden finger, and no tiresome romantic entanglements. He has no interest in romance. He’s fighting for the slimmest chance of survival. He promotes farming and builds up grain reserves in the fields, easing the people’s hardships and securing 2.1kReads8.8Score111Shelves
- 38 Reborn in the Great Ming, with My Eldest Brother Dead from the Start 魂穿大明，开局大哥陨落 An accident sends his soul back a hundred years. After another mishap, he becomes Mu Sheng, the son of Mu Ying. To everyone else, Zhu Yuanzhang is a ruthless, cold-blooded emperor. But in Mu Sheng's eyes, this supreme ruler has a tenderness and vulnerability that history never recorded. He saves the emperor's eldest grandson, Zhu Xiongying, protects Empress Ma, and turns the tide as a young man, earning a title of nobility in a single battle! From then on, the course of Ming history is utterly 712Reads—Score104Shelves
- 39 Two Deserters and a Widow 两个逃兵和寡妇 [Meticulously researched historical fiction] [Smuggling] [Two male leads] [No System] Don’t let the title fool you. There’s no romance, just the passage of time! Set six hundred years ago, during the Jingtai era, after the Tumu Crisis. A group of ordinary people, forgotten by the history books, struggle to survive in a turbulent age, quietly carrying on the legacy of Chinese civilization. 144Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 40 I Pulled Chongzhen Down from the Noose Mid-Hanging 崇祯上吊到一半，被我薅下来了 [No System · Gritty late Ming setting · Redemption between ruler and subject · Not a power fantasy] On Coal Hill, Chongzhen has just put his neck in the noose. A pair of hands grabs him by the collar. “Come with me. No arguments.” A battered frontier soldier. A fallen emperor. As for saving the empire, wiping out the rebels, and repelling the Manchus, those are pretty words for the history books. I’m no hero. I’ve got nothing but this worthless life. In a world that turns people into beasts, som 34.5kReads8.6Score3.6kShelves
- 41 Chongzhen: I Bloodbath the Donglin Party from the Start 崇祯：开局血洗东林党 A special forces soldier transmigrates into Chongzhen. He hasn’t even warmed the dragon throne before petitions demanding donations pile up like a mountain. The treasury is so empty even rats have run off, the soldiers guarding the nine frontiers are starved to skin and bone, and the whole Donglin faction knows only how to kowtow and plead poverty. Looking at these “loyal ministers,” all fat and soft, Lu Feng laughs. He draws the emperor’s sword. “Fine, if none of you have money, then I’ll start 16Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 42 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...? 259Reads—Score111Shelves
- 43 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 2.5kReads8.4Score194Shelves
- 44 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 4.6kReads6.8Score418Shelves
- 45 Great Ming: I Protest to the Death from the Start, and Zhu Yuanzhang Begs Me to Stop 大明：开局死谏，朱元璋求我别送 After transmigrating into the Hongwu Emperor game scenario, he gains the talents [Loyal Soul Through a Hundred Lifetimes] and [Pain Suppression]. He gives his all and dies without regret, possessing puppets to deliver remonstrance after remonstrance, until he becomes “the Ming dynasty’s toughest thorn in the side”! Every death only makes him more impossible to erase. Instead, his righteous spirit spreads throughout the Ming court. The officials tremble: “How is this remonstrance? He’s practicall 1.6kReads8.3Score187Shelves
- 46 Reforging the Realm: Diary of the Great Ming's Ying Emperor 重铸山河，大明瀛帝日记 The twenty-fifth year of the Wanli reign, the year of the Fire Rooster. That night, Consort Li Jing gave birth to the emperor’s seventh son. Ten days later, consumed by grief, she departed this world, her youth fading at the age of twenty-one. She was murdered, yet no one spoke up for her. On the night she died, someone cried out for her, but his voice was barely louder than a mosquito’s buzz. I am the newborn child whom Consort Li Jing never stopped thinking of as she lay dying, the one who cri 733Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 47 Oh No! His Majesty Is Leading the Peasant Army in Rebellion! 不好啦！陛下率领农民军造反啦！ In the final months of the tenth year of the Chongzhen reign of the Ming dynasty, the capital fell. A million peasant rebels surged into the imperial palace like a flood and stood at attention, saluting Emperor Chongzhen as one. "Comrade Emperor! We have completed the task of liberating the capital. Awaiting your instructions!" Under the bewildered gazes of the entire court, Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "You've all worked hard, comrades!" Yes, even though he had transmigrated into this life as a 116.3kReads9.4Score14.4kShelves
- 48 Transmigrating to the Great Ming to Become an Emperor Who Runs a Business 穿越大明当个老板皇帝 In the ninth month of the forty-eighth year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty welcomed an emperor who ran the country like a business: Zhu Youxiao. (This book has no internet conspiracy theories.) But this boss had a bit of a temper. As soon as he transmigrated, Li Xuanshi tried to stop him from meeting his ministers? He personally smashed a eunuch to death, walked out of the Qianqing Palace, and put an end to the Palace Transfer Case. He didn’t know how to be an emperor on his first day on the throne? 21.3kReads8.4Score2kShelves
- 49 The Cunning Chongzhen: Extending the Ming Dynasty by Three Hundred Years 腹黑崇祯：再续大明三百年 Transmigrated into the ruler of a collapsing empire? No way am I hanging myself! I won't be a sage emperor. I'll become the sole major shareholder of the Ming dynasty's trade empire! The Donglin Party wants credit? I'll arrange a marriage to ruin your career, then use alliances between Shanxi merchants to sideline the Jiangnan gentry and turn your factions against each other! Bandits everywhere? I won't suppress them or appease them. I'll drive them beyond the passes to graze on the steppe. Li 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Fourth Uncle, Are You Going to Pacify the Rebellion in Feng Tian Too? 四叔，你也要奉天靖难？ In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the Eastern Palace falls into disarray, and the position of Crown Prince remains undecided. Zhu Yuntong, the legitimate grandson of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, watches helplessly as his grandfather favors the refined and gentle Zhu Yunwen. He knows that, as a “hardheaded sort,” he has no chance of becoming heir. Rather than let himself be manipulated at court in Nanjing, he decides to request a fief in distant, remote Little Ryukyu. Claiming that he “wishes to d 136Reads—Score104Shelves
