Novels like Late Ming: A Superhuman Descends on Yangzhou, Plays the Great Sage, and Destroys the Manchus
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- 151 Transmigrating to the End of the Ming Dynasty as a Refugee 穿越明末成难民 At the end of the Ming dynasty, the land was as beautiful as a painting, the setting sun as red as blood. Bandits ran rampant and the Central Plains lay in ruin, while the Manchus beyond the passes were at the height of their power. The protagonist, on the verge of entering the ranks of the elite, transmigrates into this turbulent era as a penniless refugee. Life is already a struggle, and then he gets caught up in a shocking secret between the Ming and Qing dynasties, making his fate even worse 619Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 152 A Bastard Lord in Another World Starts Collecting Red Alert Crates 异世界庶出领主开始红警捡箱子 A Red Alert addict accidentally transmigrates to another world. Can an overlooked illegitimate lord turn the tide? Dark elves? How about my snipers? An orc army? How about some Apocalypse Tanks with 1750 armor? You won’t come out to defend your city? A Kirov airship with V3 missiles will send you flying in no time! A multi-race fantasy world √ farming and conquest √ 177Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 153 Great Ming: The Wanli Era 大明之万历天下 The protagonist transmigrates into the body of the Wanli Emperor, Zhu Yijun. Using this identity, he sets out to restore the Ming Dynasty to greatness: lift the maritime ban, reform commercial taxes, equalize land allotments, root out abuses, conquer lands overseas, and spread Han culture around the globe. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 Apocalypse Catastrophe: I Stockpile Supplies and Become a Mogul 末世灾变：我在末世囤物资当大佬 (Shelter + natural disasters + factions + System + space + zero-cost shopping + stockpiling supplies + stockpiling weapons) Li Zhe gets a System from the start. He learns a month in advance that the apocalypse is coming, with one disaster after another striking in turn. Li Zhe spends that month frantically stockpiling supplies. Short on water? I’ll take Lake Baikal. Short on food? I’ll shoplift around the world. Short on weapons? I’ll pay a visit to every military base. The times make the hero. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Hold the City and Use the Yehe to Destroy Nurhaci 坚守城池并借叶赫部灭掉努尔哈赤 After the Battle of Fushun, I was appointed by the emperor to raise an army and attack Nurhaci. I decided to use the strategy of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di: “Divide his branches, weaken his strength, and let them fight and feud among themselves, so China may enjoy peace.” I held my ground and avoided battle, while vigorously supporting the Yehe tribe. This would take time, and along the way, both officials and the emperor had their doubts. But once the Yehe grew powerful, they completely wiped out Nurh 93Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Opening Red Alert Loot Boxes in the Apocalypse 我在末世开红警盲盒 In 2032, a global age of extreme cold began. To survive, I, Lin Longfeng, decided to leave home and search for supplies. But luck didn't seem to be on my side. In the basement garage beneath my apartment building, I was frozen by a sudden polar storm. Just before I lost consciousness, a Red Alert Blind Box System descended from the sky. In 2044, after being frozen for twelve years, I finally broke free when the System activated. But my luck was truly terrible. In 2040, the zombie crisis and the 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 Red Alert System: Helping Me Conquer the Heavens! 红警系统，助我纵横诸天！ After awakening the Red Alert System, I generated Red Alert soldiers from the start. Now that I have a System, why should I put up with you? I’ll transmigrate through the Myriad Worlds and teach anyone who refuses to submit a lesson! I swing my sword and charge ahead, smashing every enemy who dares to provoke me with overwhelming force. Their howls and despair are nothing more than a footnote to my glorious record. I am the master of this storm, writing my own legend in iron and blood. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Sage Emperor Zhengde: My Great Ming National Fate System 正德圣主：我的大明国运系统 The embers of the Hongzhi Restoration have yet to die out, but the Ming dynasty is already beset by internal and external troubles: land concentration is undermining the foundations of the state, the military garrisons are in disrepair and border threats persist, civil officials are growing ever more arrogant as imperial authority slips away, and the century-old dynasty is on the verge of collapse. A modern scholar of Ming history transmigrates into the body of the young emperor Zhu Houzhao and 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Great Ming! It’s Me, Zhu Chongba! I’m Back! 大明！咱朱重八！又回来了！ [Political intrigue] + [passion] + [conquest] + [ruthless battles] + [System] Late in life, Zhu Yuanzhang wakes to find himself reborn in the body of the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian. Looking at the declining Ming dynasty, he decides to do everything in his power to keep it alive! But as historical figures who should have been dead, including Xiang Yu, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin, and Lu Bu, arrive one after another and display powers comparable to those of gods, Zhu Yuanzhang realizes that this 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Emperor Zhu Shou 朱寿大帝 A battery factory explodes, and he transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty, becoming Zhu Houzhao, the short-lived, reckless young emperor. He refuses to accept his fate, so he reforms the court, overhauls the tax system, opens the seas, and expands trade. Just as the empire begins to prosper, he discovers that he is drawing ever closer to the death date recorded in the history books. Some people are helping him, while others want him dead. Which side will history take? 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Prince Su of the Great Ming 大明肃王爷 The first 100 chapters mainly introduce the historical background, customs, and the protagonist's circumstances. If you're looking for a power fantasy, skip ahead to Chapter 103, "Moving the Fief to Ganzhou." Zhu Yang, a modern doctoral student with degrees in both physics and chemistry, accidentally transmigrates more than 600 years into the past when his soul replaces Zhu Yuanzhang's fourteenth son, Zhu Yang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Having once casually come across informat 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 Ashes: The Sixteenth Year of Chongzhen 余烬录崇祯十六年 When I woke up, the beacon fires at Tongguan had been out for three hundred and eighty years. As a Ming history scholar, I knew the stories that might lie beneath every inch of its rammed-earth walls. In the autumn of the sixteenth year of the Chongzhen reign, Commander-in-Chief Sun Chuanting died here defending the country, Tongguan fell, and the last backbone of the Ming broke. I had read those lines in history books thousands of times. I could even recite the famous verdict in the History of 162Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 Ming Dynasty Partners: From the Start, I Find Zhu Chongba 大明合伙人：开局捡到朱重八 After transmigrating to the end of the Yuan dynasty, I became sworn siblings with Empress Ma, so I call Zhu Yuanzhang my brother-in-law! From the start, I gave Zhu Yuanzhang half a flatbread. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang cried, “Guards, feed the young master some flatbread!” Watch how I help him become emperor, and how I manage to protect myself... 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty as Zhu Yunwen 穿越大明之我是朱允文 My grandfather is Zhu Yuanzhang. I am the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty! My father is Zhu Biao, the strongest crown prince in history, and my grandfather personally chose me as his successor. Reborn in the Ming Dynasty, I had barely transmigrated when my fourth uncle, Zhu Di, launched a rebellion to put down the Jingnan Campaign. Let’s see how I resolve this crisis and lead the Ming Dynasty to prosperity. I’m not good at writing introductions, so please head straight to the story! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 Red Alert Player 1983 红警玩家1983 In 2023, Lin Feng is playing Red Alert when an ill-advised space experiment in a parallel world in 1983 sends him transmigrating back to that year. Fortunately, he gets a golden finger: his Red Alert base from the computer game has become real, and he can manufacture any military weapon from the game. When the Rabbit starts gobbling carrots in 1983, the other countries are in for a shock. The Bear: “Rabbit, where did you get your Su-27?” The Eagle: “Rabbit, why is the F-14 you built even better —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 National Fate: I Guard the Border with Libra 国运：我与天秤守国门 Luo Hao transmigrates to a parallel world plagued by scarce resources and obtains a Red Alert modifier. For now, though, he can only use equipment from Red Alert. He can't build structures or recruit soldiers. Fortunately, the equipment can be used an unlimited number of times. He can, however, randomly recruit one unit. The unit he gets is Libra, and he gains Yuri's abilities. Aside from Yuri, the attributes of unlocked heroes and infantry units from Red Alert can also be equipped on Luo Hao hi 5Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 167 I Urged the Wanli Emperor to Make the Jurchen, Mongols, and Japanese Slaughter One Another 劝谏万历让女真蒙古和日军残杀 I successfully persuaded the Wanli Emperor to voluntarily abandon Beijing and move the capital to Wuhan. I also manipulated the Japanese forces from the Imjin War, Nurhaci’s Jianzhou troops, and the Mongol armies into fighting one another, weakening Nurhaci and the Mongols. Once the Japanese, Mongols, Jianzhou forces, and Joseon armies had all been weakened, I let the country recover and grow stronger in Wuhan. Then I assembled a massive army and successfully brought Joseon, Mongolia, Jianzhou, 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 In the Ming Dynasty, I Just Want to Keep My Head Down, but the Law Enforcement Bureau Goes on a Killing Spree 大明本官只想苟活执律司却杀疯了 [Mastermind Behind the Scenes] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Building an Empire Through Farming] + [Extreme Contrast] The first year of the Chongzhen reign: a nightmare from the start! After transmigrating into the body of Lin Feng, county magistrate of Chengcheng County in Shaanxi, he faced almost certain death: Execution in three days, 30,000 taels in taxes, cannibalism across the city, powerful clans barricaded in their strongholds, and refugees surrounding the city! Lin Feng just wanted to —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Changing the Ming Dynasty Without Transmigration 不穿越也能改变大明 You don't have to transmigrate to change the fate of the Ming Dynasty's fall! A tiny gust of wind stirred by a fluttering moth accidentally lets an insignificant person survive, bringing about the tiniest, most imperceptible change in history. As the years pass, the historical divergence grows, and the clash of civilizations between the great maritime powers of the West and the Ming Dynasty finally rewrites history. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 The Imjin War 万历朝鲜抗日战争 The Imjin War —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 The Chongzhen Emperor: Restoring Order Amid Chaos 崇祯治乱 The Reign of Chongzhen: Order and Chaos —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Reborn at the End of the Yuan Dynasty: Helping Zhu Yuanzhang Build a Golden Age 重生元末：辅佐朱元璋开大明盛世 In the modern world, Zhu Yu was murdered by his wife, Li Rou, and his childhood friend, Zhao Qiang, who conspired against him. As he lay dying, a mysterious light flashed, and he transmigrated to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, taking over the body of an impoverished scholar who looked just like him. At the same time, Li Rou and Zhao Qiang transmigrated as well, carrying their grudges against Zhu Yu into the ancient world. After transmigrating into the body of a down-and-out scholar at the end of —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 In the Ming Dynasty, I Handed Over the Imperial Jade Seal from the Start 人在大明，开局上交传国玉玺 [Hongwu-era Ming Dynasty + System + Power fantasy + Contest for the Ming Dynasty + Technological superiority] Song Bai transmigrated into the body of a low-ranking clerk in Yingtian Prefecture during the tenth year of the Hongwu era. From the start, a corrupt official accused him of being a Northern Yuan spy, then drew his blade in broad daylight and tried to kill him! No need to panic. The System he bound himself to has arrived! By raising the nation's strength, he can earn national fortune poi 1.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 174 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
- 175 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
- 176 Getting By in the Late Ming Dynasty 我在明末混日子 Ancient history + late Ming + real historical figures + an underdog's rise + a struggle for supremacy Who says history can't be changed? Then I'll just have to give it a try. Even if everything ends up completely different, I won't let the sorrow of future generations come to pass again. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty 明实录 Want to explore the tumultuous history of the Ming Dynasty? Open the Veritable Records of the Ming, a vast annalistic work that stands as an encyclopedia of Ming history. It systematically records more than 290 years of the dynasty, covering every aspect of politics, economics, military affairs, culture, and foreign relations. From fierce power struggles at court and sweeping changes in imperial policy to subtle shifts in folk customs and vivid accounts of strange tales, it preserves the truth a 474Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 I Was Once the Ming’s God of War, Until My Secret Identity Was Exposed 朕曾是大明战神，直至马甲掉了 A historical farce sparked by two transmigrators is about to unfold in the Ming dynasty. On one side is a historically clueless emperor who blunders his way through life on luck; on the other is his scheming younger brother, who knows the script and bides his time. And so begins a hilarious transmigration story: “I just want to coast along and wait to die, but my little brother thinks I’m making some grand plan.” Where will this seemingly absurd journey lead? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Playing Red Alert in India 我在印度玩红警 The year is 1989. Construction has begun on New Mumbai Port, and India’s version of reform and opening up is less than two years away. The northern red giant, too, is nearing its end. Amid this turbulent era, a soul from the future transmigrates into the body of a high-caste Brahmin. Follow Kumar Wadwa as he uses a Red Alert Construction Yard to work miracles in this land. 264Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 180 Supreme Red Alert System 至尊红警系统 After drinking antidepressant medication, a young man toyed with by fate unexpectedly transmigrates to another world! At the same time, he unlocks the miraculous Supreme Red Alert System. “When you prosper, help the world prosper with you! Since I've come here with a System, I'll make the precepts of justice the foundation of this world's laws, and let the Red Alert emblem shine in a foreign land!” This book will take you along on Fang Wu's remarkable adventures in another world, and let you wit —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 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
- 182 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
- 183 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
- 184 The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: I Am the Great Ming’s Sagely Founder! 崇祯十七年：朕乃皇明圣祖！ He transmigrates back to New Year’s Eve in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. The Ming dynasty is on the verge of collapse, officials are corrupt, rebel armies press on, and the Manchus watch like tigers poised to pounce. In his previous life, he governed diligently for seventeen years, only to become the ruler who lost his country. In this life, Zhu Youjian will endure no more! Confiscate corrupt officials’ fortunes to raise a million soldiers’ pay; Take in the refugees outside the city and put —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Overthrow the Qing, Not Restore the Ming: The Gods Descend in a Golden Age of Abundance 反清不复明：神降糠稀盛世 Kill! Kill! Kill! Li Wei never expected that this time gate, truly his own, would lead straight to the sixteenth year of the Kangxi era. He had brought his brothers here to make a fortune, and the backer funding them was eager to see huge profits. But the sight of starving people strewn across the land filled him with uncontrollable fury. Upright official or corrupt official, if they served the Qing, they were all to be killed. Forced to take to the mountains and become bandits? If they caused t 177Reads—Score12414d adds
- 186 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
- 187 Back to 2020, I Shake Up the World with Red Alert 重回2020，我以红警搅动世界 [Chapters 1–50: business in China; chapters 51–116: Papua New Guinea; after chapter 116: Eastern Europe] Good news: I got the Red Alert System! Bad news: It’s peacetime, so all the tanks and artillery in the System are illegal weapons. Good news: I discovered how to extract platinum from mining waste and made 1.2 million in just two days! Bad news: There’s too much money and too much trading. I think the authorities have their eye on me. I just wanted to make money quietly, but the System gave m 8.2kReads7.2Score74914d adds
- 188 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
- 189 Great Ming: I've Lived for Six Hundred Years 大明：我活了六百年 Great Ming: I Lived for Six Hundred Years 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Great Ming: My System Is Invincible 大明：我的体系强无敌 Special forces king Wang Xiaowei transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty and becomes a low-ranking official in the Ministry of War, looked down on by everyone. While others rely on a System or their knowledge of poetry after transmigrating, he has a copy of Modern Military Organization and Management. Killing enemies? That’s far too basic. What he wants to do is perform a “system overhaul” on the decaying Ming dynasty. He replaces corruption with standardized procedures, uses a general staff to s 132Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 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
- 192 Chongzhen: I Am Heaven’s Mandate, and the Ming Dynasty Will Never Set 崇祯：朕即天命，大明日不落 A modern martial arts champion transmigrates into the body of Chongzhen on the eve of the apocalypse. On the very day he ascends the throne, he faces a hopeless situation: the Tianqi Emperor has just died, the Donglin faction is forcing its way into the palace, the treasury is empty, and the Later Jin army is at the gates. There is no meek endurance or nerve-racking struggle at every turn. This formidable emperor immediately shows off his overwhelming strength: he silences a weeping scholar-offi 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 Unfinished Business in the Year of Jiashen 甲申未竟 When people look back on the late Ming, they always lament that Zhu Yujian and Li Dingguo never stood together as ruler and subject. Why couldn’t Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong join forces? Why couldn’t Qu Shisi and He Tengjiao set aside their prejudice against the peasants? But even if history had unfolded just as you hoped, one person would still have appeared. This person would place great hopes in you, beckon you over, and say, “Little one, little one, don’t be afraid. Would you like to come 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 The Spy King of the Late Ming Saves the Empire 明末谍王挽天倾 I transmigrated to the first year of the Chongzhen reign and became the lowest-ranking banner officer in the Embroidered Uniform Guard. My predecessor was framed and killed for being too blunt. As for me, I came from the Night Owl unit of the National Security Bureau. At a glance, I could see that this imperial capital was riddled with vulnerabilities: The Shanxi merchants’ mule caravans were smuggling iron goods to Later Jin; The troupes in Jiangnan were hiding spies for the Donglin Party; Even —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 I, the Hongguang Emperor: From the Start, I Confiscate the Donglin Faction’s Estates 我，弘光帝，开局抄家东林党 [Late Ming, Southern Ming, Hongguang Emperor, Political Intrigue and Power Struggles, Decisive and Ruthless, Resistance Against the Qing, No System, Courtroom Maneuvering] Transmigrated into the body of the Hongguang Emperor, who has only seven months to live, Zhu Yousong must defy fate and change his destiny from the start. With dirt on every official at court, I first force Ma Shiying to “voluntarily” donate a hundred thousand taels, then expose the mask of Qian Qianyi, leader of the Donglin f 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 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
- 197 A Corpse from the Start, and You Want Me to Revive the Ming Dynasty? 开局一具尸体，你让我中兴大明？ He lived for a man who was about to die, and for a country that was about to perish. College student Zhu Yuanwu transmigrated from the start into the body of a corpse on its last breath: the Tianqi Emperor, Zhu Youxiao. No System, no golden finger, just a sickly body that should have been dead and a set of memories belonging to someone else that had appeared in his mind. Wei Zhongxian wept by his bedside. The court awaited his death, starving people in Shaanxi had already raised their banners, a 2Reads—Score19914d adds
- 198 Zhaowu Restoration: Prince Gui Saves the Ming 昭武中兴：桂王挽明 An epic of the late Ming, not a transmigration tale, and a stirring lament for the Southern Ming. This is not the story of a transmigrator. There is no System and no golden finger. There is only Zhu Youheng, the son of a prince, born in the last days of an empire and raised deep within the palace. He bore the destiny bound up in the name “Youheng,” bestowed upon him by his grandfather, the Wanli Emperor. When the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself at Coal Hill, the empire’s skies collapsed. Power, 47Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 The Invincible Soldier King of the Late Ming Saves the Empire 明末无敌兵王挽天倾 A modern strategic forces veteran codenamed “Dragon King” transmigrates into the body of the most formidable commander in the Ming dynasty, Xiong Tingbi’s own son! It is the first year of the Tianqi reign. Liaodong is in ruins, the court is riven by infighting, and the empire teeters on the brink of collapse. Other transmigrators get a hellish start, but I’m at my peak from the start! With command of Liaodong’s strongest army and military knowledge from centuries in the future, I’ll use flintloc 2Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 200 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 67Reads5.8Score—14d adds
