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- 101 The Great Song Bandit 大宋悍匪 The seventh year of the Xuanhe era, the thirteenth day of the seventh month. Less than four months remain before the Jurchens march south. The realm is on the brink of ruin, and the Nine Provinces are in turmoil. Liu Shuan, a low-ranking Imperial Guard officer in Daming Prefecture, has no desire to risk his life for the worthless emperor, much less flee south and live as someone’s underling. So he decisively heads for the mountains and becomes a proud bandit. Years later, before Chenqiao Station 103.9kReads8.5Score12.2k14d adds
- 102 The Rise of the Clans 阀明 During the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty, the empire teetered on the brink of collapse. In the heartland, rebels crossed south from Mianchi, sweeping across the land like a flood bursting through a dam, with starving people caught in the torrent. In Liaodong to the north, the Later Jin repeatedly broke through the frontier, crossing the Great Wall to plunder at will. Mighty China could not muster a single general able to stand against them. The vast realm was on the verge of ruin, and the he 15.4kReads8.7Score1.4k14d adds
- 103 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
- 104 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—14d adds
- 105 Blazing Flames Sweep the Plains: Whose Ming Dynasty Is Burning? 烈焰燎原，谁的大明在燃烧 [Historical Setting] [No System] [Transmigration] [Ensemble Cast] [Struggle for Supremacy] [A nation's fortunes at the bottleneck of civilization] [The budding of capitalism entangled with tradition] [Less court politics, more focus on ordinary people] History isn't about romance and beauty. It's where human nature collides. It's about surviving with no resignation, no surrender, and no regrets. In the Great Ming dynasty, wastrels, hypocrites, and selfish men held power. Nurgan, the Hetao r 15kReads8.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 106 The Iron Hoof's Lament 铁蹄哀明 [Hunted by the Tartars from the start, later I hunt them down] Han Lin transmigrates to the dying days of the Ming Dynasty, just as the Battle of Ningyuan takes place. Captured and made a booi, he spends six months building up his strength before leading a group of fellow booi in rebellion! But by a twist of fate, he ends up killing the chieftain and embarking on a completely different life. Nurhaci: “Who was the one who made him a booi in the first place?!” Hong Taiji: “Han Lin, you've brought 11.5kReads8.6Score93814d adds
- 107 My Days as a Bandit at the End of the Ming 我在明末当贼寇那些事儿 (Farming, contending for supremacy, slow burn, no System, not a single female lead.) Transmigrated into the body of an impoverished scholar in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Li Wendong faces a choice when bandits overrun his county: Die by the blade. Or join the bandits. In troubled times, it's better to be a bandit who holds territory than one who roams. Other rebel armies seize grain, money, and women, sweeping up starving peasants and using them to snowball their forces. Li Wendong does th 75.1kReads8.5Score9.2k14d adds
- 108 Late Ming: Chongzhen the Rebel 明末：造反者崇祯 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 31.8kReads8.3Score2.4k14d adds
- 109 The Iron Cavalry of Liaodong 辽东铁骑 In the winter of 1580, when Nurhaci scattered his grandfather’s ashes into the Hun River with his own hands, Li Chengliang was at a training ground a hundred miles away, shooting a rebel general through the throat with a single arrow. The frigid land of Liaodong had always believed in one law: the strong prey on the weak. Li Chengliang, a descendant of a military family who had yet to make his mark even as he approached forty, finally saw his fortunes turn while his wife and children went hungry 392Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 110 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
- 111 From the Start, I Take Yang Guifei by Force, Then Bring Peace to the Tang Dynasty 开局强纳杨贵妃，还给大唐太平年 No System. Real court intrigue. Meticulously researched. Faced with the three-way struggle between Li Longji, Li Heng, and Li Chu, and a value system already beginning to collapse, how will Li Tan, after transmigrating, restore the glory of the Tang Dynasty, step by step? In real history, no one was an NPC. Everyone chose the option that served their own interests best. A genuinely satisfying story told with historical realism. The Xuanwu Gate succession tradition has found its most outstanding 75.1kReads8.2Score9.5k14d adds
- 112 Five Dynasties: He Who Commands the Strongest Army Rules 五代：兵强马壮者为之尔 During the reign of Shi Jingtang of the Later Jin, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun had already been ceded to the Khitans. After transmigrating into the body of An Chongrong, military governor of Chengde in Zhenzhou, he has a famous line: “The strongest warrior should be emperor.” Sound familiar? The story begins just after he takes office as military governor: he resists foreign invasion, activates the System, is forced into rebellion, recovers Yanyun, and restores China. 2kReads—Score11714d adds
- 113 A Man's Journey 男儿行 “We may die, but before we do, we must live like human beings!” Set against the peasant uprisings at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, this novel tells the story of a group of ordinary, unremarkable men who rise up in rebellion and rebuild the Chinese nation from the ruins. The protagonist is an ordinary man. Though he transmigrates, like countless others of Chinese descent in that era, he fights with his blood and all his might for the right to “live like a human being”! This story is not about revi 527Reads7.3Score10014d adds
- 114 1620 America: The Whole Town Arrives in the New World 1620美洲：全镇降临新大陆 A county town is unexpectedly plunged into a strange new continent. Starting with farming, its people embark on a vast new frontier, preserving the roots of farming and learning while keeping the flame of Chinese civilization alive, until its spark spreads across this unfamiliar land like a prairie fire. 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Southern Ming, 1644: The Deposed Emperor Flees from the Start 南明1644：废帝开局就跑 [History + political intrigue + military + ensemble cast + not a power fantasy] In the ninth month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, I transmigrated into the deposed emperor Zhu Yousong. The countdown to the fall of the country had begun. The Jianlu were set on conquering all under heaven, while Nanjing still dreamed of “allying with the Later Jin to pacify the rebels”... Factional strife engulfed the court, and the Four Garrisons of Jiangbei held their troops for their own ends... No money, 407Reads—Score10514d adds
- 116 Late Ming: Stop Rushing Me! This Governor Just Wants to Slack Off 明末：别催了！我这巡抚只想摸鱼 Chen Du, a modern office drone, transmigrated into the late Ming Dynasty as the son of a Sichuan merchant. He spent all forty thousand taels of silver he had just to buy an easy government post in Zhejiang, where he could lie flat and stay alive. But Chongzhen issued an order transferring him straight to Shanxi, making him governor of the province: a northern frontier death trap that his predecessor had failed to escape despite submitting seventeen resignation letters. Beacon fires blazed acros 751Reads—Score12314d adds
- 117 A Bandit in Late Ming China: My First Heist Was Sun Chuanting 在明末当山贼第一次就抢了孙传庭 While traveling, Zhou Yan's mind wandered for a moment, and he found himself in the eighth year of the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty. Forced to become a bandit, he never expected the first person he robbed to be Sun Chuanting, the last pillar of the Ming Empire. With Zhou Yan's arrival, will the crumbling Han dynasty still fall? Will Sun Chuanting, whose death was said to mark the fall of the Ming, still die in battle at Tong Pass? Will Lu Xiangsheng, praised as a once-in-a-generation talent 69.2kReads8.6Score7.8k14d adds
- 118 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 699Reads—Score10414d adds
- 119 1772: My Father Is the Grand Commander of Lanfang 1772：我爹是兰芳大统领 Luo Zhenjun had just returned home after leaving the army when he transmigrated to Borneo in 1772, during the reign of the Qing Emperor Qianlong. He didn’t return to his homeland, though. Instead, he traveled there with his people. What? My dad is the future president of the Lanfang Republic? Damn it! In that case, I’ll have to take down Qianlong! [Anti-Qing, Not Pro-Ming] [Power Fantasy] [Farming] [Slow Burn] [No System, Slow-Burn Story] 1Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 120 In the First Year of Jingkang, He Survived the Flames of War 靖康元年，他从战火中活了下来 After an accident, Wang Xun is thrown into the most brutal meat grinder of the Northern Song: the siege of Bianjing. Outside the gates, a hundred thousand foreign troops seethe with bloodlust. Inside, the absurd court tries to defend the city with "magic spells." He has no System or cheat, knows no peerless martial arts, and can barely make sense of the local dialect. His only bargaining chip is the vivid memory in his mind of the cataclysm about to unfold. The day the city falls, wails fill 1.2kReads—Score13014d adds
- 121 The Glory of Southern Tang: I, Li Yu, Am More Than Just a Poet Emperor 南唐荣光：我李煜不止是词帝 I ask the heavens: What is the Great Way? I ask the earth: What is profound virtue? I ask humanity: What is the highest form of holiness? I ask the ghosts: What is base and contemptible? In a daze, Li Yu seemed to hold a brush in his hand, a brush as sharp as a blade. As it swept through the thick fog, human nature, heavenly principles, selfish desires, and public conscience all came clearly into view. The God of History whispered in his ear, “Who are you? Where did you come from? Where are you 1.1kReads7.3Score10214d adds
- 122 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 90Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 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
- 124 Ming Dynasty: Kill the Enemy to Restore the Ming, Defending Jiangyin from the Start 大明，杀敌复明，开局死守江阴 [Late Ming] + [Slay the Enemy] + [Restore the Ming] In the summer of 1645, the Hongguang regime fell, and the Southern Ming teetered on the brink of collapse. Zhou Qian, a history student, transmigrated into the body of the fugitive prince Zhu Cixuan. The isolated city of Jiangyin was trapped in a desperate situation. An eighty-one-day battle to the death was about to begin. In this desperate hour, he awakened the [Ten Thousand Horses Trample the Barbarians] System. Slay enemies to obtain elite 5.5kReads7.3Score48414d adds
- 125 I'm a Military Engineer, and You Want Me to Save the Ming? 我一搞军工的，你让我拯救大明？ [Traditional history] [Historical farming and development] [Survival in a chaotic age] [No System] [Military-industrial system] [Late Ming power struggle] Qin Feng, a technician at an arms manufacturing group and a major military history forum influencer, opens his eyes to find himself a low-ranking border officer in the second year of the Chongzhen reign, with only ten men under his command. Three days later, Hong Taiji’s fifty thousand Eight Banners troops breach the frontier. Historically, no 3kReads6.8Score19514d adds
- 126 The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: Saving This Ming Dynasty Is Impossible 崇祯十七年，这个大明真难救 Zhu Youzhe, a fourth-year history student, was sheltering from the rain beneath the crooked-neck tree on Longevity Hill when he was struck by lightning and transmigrated to the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign, alongside the soul of the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian. From mutual dislike to working together, the two hold back Li Zicheng’s advancing army and face Dorgon in a decisive battle near the capital, reshaping the Ming dynasty into something entirely different. In this life, the on 640Reads8.6Score11214d adds
- 127 If You Want Me to Hang Myself Like the Chongzhen Emperor, Then I'll Keep You Hanging 要我当崇祯上吊，那就吊着你们玩 [Political intrigue] + [Conquest] + [No System] + [High-Stakes Action] + [Ruthless Combat] I’ll use extreme micro-management to win a high-level game! On my second day after transmigrating, they’re already forcing me to hang myself? Bandit rebels besiege the city, the Jurchen are at the gates, and the generals in command refuse to come to the emperor’s aid! Lin Gufan, now Zhu Youjian, issues ten commands in a row! Can Chongzhen escape the capital alive with his entire family in tow? The Ming Dyn 2.3kReads8.9Score15614d adds
- 128 Great Ming: Why Has the Crown Prince Rebelled! 大明：太子何故造反！ He transmigrates as Zhu Cilang, the last Crown Prince of the Great Ming. But he arrives in the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign. In March of that year, Li Zicheng will enter Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor will hang himself, and Zhu Cilang, as Crown Prince, will be handed over to Li Zicheng by his own maternal grandfather before ultimately being executed. Unwilling to sit back and await his fate, Zhu Cilang turns to a scorched-earth approach and sets out to restore the Great Ming. He upend 2.9kReads8.5Score19814d adds
- 129 I, the Ming Dynasty’s Restorer: Emperor Shizu 我，再造大明，明世祖 Go ahead and stir things up. Keep at it until Tomato has no good stories left and historical fiction has fallen into decline, and then my masterpiece will make its debut. We’re the ones carrying the torch for historical fiction on Tomato. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Godhood! On the Eve of the Fall, I Lead Chongzhen in a Desperate Counterattack 封神！亡国前夜我带崇祯绝地反击 I transmigrated into the scene of Chongzhen’s suicide, with the Ming dynasty only an incense stick away from its fall! The [National Fortune System] bound itself to me, tying my fate to the Ming dynasty’s. If Chongzhen put a noose around his neck, I’d have to die alongside him! With no other choice, I tore down the white silk and blurted out a prophecy about Wu Sangui surrendering to the Qing, the Ten Days of Yangzhou, and the queue hairstyle and change of clothing. Chongzhen was stunned on the 105Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 131 While Chongzhen Hangs from a Tree, I Head South and Restore the Ming with My Roommates 崇祯挂树我南渡，带室友重振大明 [No System + multiple transmigrations + slow burn + drive out the northern barbarians + colonize the world] (This isn't a wish-fulfillment novel or pseudo-history. If you want wish fulfillment, look elsewhere. And to those who push pseudo-history, please use your brains and stop believing marketing accounts.) The sun and moon never lose their proper course, so though they may be obscured, they shine again! In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, and the Chongzhen Emper 129Reads—Score10414d adds
- 132 How Did You Transmigrate Too? 你怎么也穿越了？ Main characters: Two male leads. Jiang Tian, 27, a modern sports student and five-year veteran of the armed police who has retired, transmigrates into Jiang Tian, the 19-year-old legitimate son of Jiang Zhenyue, Marquis of Ningwu. Wang Yu, 27, a modern criminal investigator and liberal arts student, transmigrates into Wang Yu, the 19-year-old legitimate son of Wang Zheng, Marquis of Changqing. The setting is the second year of Chongzhen. For certain reasons, history before the first year of Chon 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Old Wei: Can You Still Shoulder the Blame? 老魏：这锅你还背的动吗？ You all want me dead? Then no one gets to live! I wield the eunuch faction as my blade and reform the Ming Dynasty. The eunuch faction holds sway across the court, while the Donglin Party has been beaten down to just a handful of stragglers. A god-tier start from the start. Doesn’t that mean I get the final say in court? Lift the maritime ban, reform commercial taxes, strip the nobles of their privileges, seize control of the military, redistribute land, clean up the bureaucracy, develop industr 355Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Late Ming: My KPIs Will Save the Great Ming 明末：我的KPI拯救大明 A top modern management consultant transmigrates to the turbulent final years of the Ming dynasty, becoming a disgraced county magistrate awaiting his death. He sees the crumbling Great Ming as a corporation on the brink of bankruptcy, and saving it as the ultimate KPI he must achieve. From then on, a barrage of modern management strategies, from audit crackdowns and KPI assessments to currency wars and state-owned enterprise reform, slams into the corrupt old world. He must not only keep the Gr 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Reborn as the Yongli Emperor at the End of the Ming, I'm Back Again 重生明末永历帝，朕又回来了 Only after dying once do you learn who would die for you, and who wants you dead. Only after being reborn do you understand that being emperor isn't about sitting on the dragon throne. It's about bearing the weight of an empire. On the first day of my reign, I issued these orders: Open the maritime trade ban and exchange with the red-haired barbarians for firearms. Put an end to empty talk. Add practical firearms examinations to the imperial civil service exams. Secretly order Li Dingguo to head 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 A Survival Guide to the Eastern Jin Dynasty 东晋求生记 After Liu Kun, who once drove back the enemy with a reed flute, was killed, and Zu Ti, who once swore to reclaim the north by striking the waves, died of illness, the lands of the north were utterly defiled by the stench of the Five Barbarians. Darkness blanketed the land. The fallen people were unwilling to give in, yet had no choice but to place their hopes in the Eastern Jin dynasty, which clung to a corner of the south. During the Rebellion of the Eight Princes, Prince Yan Sima Teng recruite 30.7kReads8.7Score3k14d adds
- 137 Reborn as the Chongzhen Emperor: I Won't Be the Ruler Who Loses His Empire 重生崇祯，不做亡国之君 Reborn in the Ming Dynasty, with the noose hanging from a crooked tree, I have only six minutes left! I may not be an emperor who brought down his country, but my ministers are ministers who brought down theirs! May the sun, moon, mountains, and rivers endure, and may the Ming realm stand forever! 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 I Was a Dog in My Previous Life 前世是一条狗 (Tales of the Ming Dynasty!) Huang Quan, a city boy crushed by his family of origin, the college entrance exam, and other pressures, goes through every day in a daze... When he sees pet dogs being cared for better than people, he really wishes he could be a pampered dog in his next life. But a freak lightning strike sends him back 580 years, into his past life during the Zhengtong era of the Ming Emperor Yingzong. And in that past life, he really was a dog: a Taihang hound belonging to a mil 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Back in the Late Ming Dynasty as a Warlord 回到明末当霸王 A nobody from the peaceful modern era: what would you do if you could travel back and forth between the end of the Ming Dynasty and the present day? Win beautiful women across the land... amass untold riches... or perhaps recreate Emperor Wu of Han’s glory, destroy the Manchu queue, and wage war in the South Seas? Write a Chinese dream of the ocean across the Seven Seas! 904Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 140 Late Ming: My Dad Won't Listen, So My Ancestors Will Step In! 明末：我爹不听话，祖宗会出手！ The Sixteen Ming Emperors, Nuclear-Harmonious Family, Old Zhu and His 1,382-Year-Old Rattan Cane, The Ming-Qing Showdown, Zhu Qizhen: Stay Away from Me!, and The Eternal Ming. Zhu Yong transmigrates into Zhu Cilang, the last Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, and gains the ability to travel between the sixteen Ming eras. At this point, the rebel bandit is closing in on the capital, with rebels inside the country, Jurchen invaders outside, and an unruly father at home. So he makes a decision that 374Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 141 The Great Ming’s Worst Emperor 明朝大昏君 A modern office drone wakes up to find himself as Zhu Houcong, the heir to the Prince of Xing of the Ming dynasty and the man about to ascend the throne. Powerful enemies surround the empire, while his widowed mother is consumed with worry. How will he put the household in order and stabilize the court, restoring the declining Ming dynasty to its former glory? 359Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 142 Common Knowledge Errors in Historical Transmigration Novels 那些历史穿越文中的常识性错误 Many people think that with the mindset of a modern person, they can transmigrate to ancient times and defy fate. In reality, it was far harder for ordinary people to break through the class barrier in feudal society. Also, many aristocratic clans weren’t nearly as stupid as you might think. In ancient times, a family that could afford to educate its children wasn’t an ordinary family. They were usually aristocrats or nobles. How bad could the people who wrote the Discourses on Salt and Iron, Th 363Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 143 Ming 1521: Dragon Abyss 大明1521：龙渊 Longyuan has three layers, and each one is an abyss. In the first month of the fourteenth year of Zhengde, Wu Jie, a physician of the Imperial Medical Academy, rested his fingers on the pulse of the Grand General and said two words: three years. The first layer cracked open, stretching outward from Xuanfu. The capital, Nanchang, and Anlu, the fissure ran beneath everyone’s feet. By lamplight, Yang Tinghe opened the imperial clan register, his brush pausing over the name of a thirteen-year-old bo 114Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 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—14d adds
- 145 With Me on the Throne, How Can You, Zhao, Claim the Throne? 有朕在，你赵大如何黄袍加身 Modern-day Guo Yi unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a nine-year-old boy with the same name in ancient China. It’s the chaotic era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, in the third year of Qianyou under the Later Han. This Guo Yi is the eldest legitimate son of Chai Rong, Guo Wei’s adopted son, who is still known as Guo Rong at this point. The boy is called Guo Yige. As a history buff, Guo Yi knows what happens to the young Yige: he will be one of the members of the Guo family condem 8kReads7.7Score70114d adds
- 146 Furious Chongzhen: Who Needs Scheming? Just Get It Done 暴躁崇祯：要什么权谋？干就完了 [I’ve already slaughtered every island in Japan, but Chongzhen still isn’t satisfied. He insists on digging up all the magma, too.] Just how thrilling can a hotheaded Chongzhen story be if it skips political maneuvering and internal affairs and focuses only on fighting? Civil officials, gentry, wealthy merchants, the Jianzhou Jurchens, the Tungusic peoples, generations of officials who submitted to foreign powers, Japanese pirates, white-skinned foreigners... If they’re people whose deaths leave 10.4kReads8.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 147 Transmigrate to Become Emperor, Save Great Ming and Lead It to the Peak 穿越做皇帝，救大明走向巅峰 A university student transmigrates into the Ming dynasty, where Zhu Qiyu lifts the ban on maritime trade. They drive the Japanese pirates east, campaign against the Oirat Mongols in the north, reach Europe in the west, and establish a modern Silk Road. They restore maritime trade supremacy and reestablish the financial dominance of Ming paper currency. Pure wish fulfillment. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Back to the End of the Ming Dynasty as a World Leader 回到明末当球长 Question: If you had a chance to go back to the Ming Dynasty, would you go? Answer: No. Question: Why not? Answer: I wouldn’t be able to use my phone or play games. No running water, no electricity, no internet. It’d be like going back to the dark ages. Only an idiot would go! Question: What if you got a System, too? Answer: What kind of System? Question: A trading System. You could use it to do business with people in the modern world, so you’d have everything you need. How about it? Answer: St 196Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 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 2.4kReads8.4Score17714d adds
- 150 Year Eleven of Chongzhen: From the Start, I Save Lu Xiangsheng 崇祯十一年：开局先救卢象昇 Strong logic + rigorous historical research + partly feel-good + political scheming + war + late Ming + late Ming + saving the country + vying for supremacy + no transmigration No System and no transmigration. Relying solely on historical knowledge and an understanding of human nature, he will forge a different realm, one step at a time. When he awoke from a dream, Chongzhen discovered that he could see the historical verdict above every person's head. [Lu Xiangsheng] - Died fighting at Jiazhuan 150.9kReads8.6Score26.7k14d adds
