Novels like Late Ming: Stop Rushing Me! This Governor Just Wants to Slack Off
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Late Ming: Stop Rushing Me! This Governor Just Wants to Slack Off, best match first.
- 1 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
- 2 The Biography of Wang Rende 王仁德传记 This is the story of a great minister’s rise, from a low-ranking officer to a renowned statesman. It is also the story of a passionate young man who devotes himself to serving the court and struggles to turn the tide, yet ultimately cannot save the day. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Prince of Yan's Diary 燕王日记 Lin Mu, a history graduate student, died suddenly and woke up as King Hui of Yan, the “big loser” who fell for a wedge strategy and drove Yue Yi away. As soon as he takes the throne, someone advises him to replace his general. His inner voice says: I know this script. Replace him, and next comes the Fire Ox Formation and the annihilation of the entire army. So he makes his decision on the spot: “Yue Yi stays. I trust him.” Qi's plot to sow discord is over before it even begins. Armed with a h 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 1577: Wanli Becomes a Wise Ruler Thanks to Me 1577，万历靠我成明君 [Transmigration + Ming Dynasty + court intrigue + civil and military examinations + unification] Zhou Huai'an has transmigrated! He discovers that he's only five years younger than the Wanli Emperor! Zhang Juzheng is still alive! The Single Whip Law is being implemented! They say the Ming Dynasty's downfall began in the Wanli era! How could he possibly live an unremarkable life in this dynasty? With his background, changing his fate against the odds means taking the imperial examinations! With t 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 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
- 6 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
- 7 The Vastness of the End Times 末明其渺 The late Ming era was rife with natural disasters, man-made calamities, schemes, and madness. To survive, you have to fully adapt to the times. The three-hundred-year-old Ming dynasty is teetering on the brink. See how Ye Ning stirs up the winds of change in this chaotic age. 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 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 1.5kReads8.1Score12614d adds
- 9 Late Ming: An Unemployed Courier Reclaims the Han Homeland 明末：失业驿卒，我重整汉家河山 What’s it like to lose your job alongside Li Zicheng? In the second year of Chongzhen’s reign, Yu Zhao transmigrated into a courier station worker in Yinchuan. His monthly wages were stolen, his severance pay withheld, and his late father’s five-tael debt had ballooned to twenty taels. And looming just ahead were rebel bands overrunning the land and the fall of the Great Ming. While everyone else just wanted to survive, Yu Zhao started by reclaiming those five taels. He took on the station head, 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Everlasting Harvest 永丰年 "Manjianghong: A World-Shaking Game of Go" In the Yongfeng era, fifty soldiers swept away the Japanese pirates. They burned the enemy's supplies, and their fame spread. A northern journey opened a new path through an alliance. A hundred cavalrymen broke through the rebel lines in a night raid, and three hundred cavalrymen blasted their way out of an encirclement. Their deeds were done, but their success came at a cost. We opened sea routes, sending our sails far away. We wove a hidden network 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 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
- 12 Awakening on Coal Hill: Zhu Yuanzhang's Soul Transmigrates into Chongzhen 煤山觉醒：朱元璋魂穿崇祯 Beneath the crooked-neck tree on Coal Hill, the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself. The next second, the man who opened his eyes on the dragon throne was the iron-fisted king who had risen from a beggar in Haozhou to become the Hongwu Emperor! The rebel army was at the gates, the court was full of spineless lackeys, the warlords sat on their armies and watched, and the Manchus eyed Liaodong hungrily. Zhu Yuanzhang sneered. “I’ve spent my whole life fighting wars. Should I be afraid of this bunch o 135Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Transmigrating to the Late Ming: A Campaign of Conquest 穿越之明末征途 When Fu Xing, a special-forces soldier, suddenly arrives in the final years of the Chongzhen reign, the beleaguered Ming dynasty is already burdened by deep-rooted problems, and the tragedy of dynastic collapse is about to unfold once more. The story opens against the grand backdrop of shifting global hegemony. Built on a grounded, realistic transmigration premise, it rejects extravagant fantasy in favor of a pragmatic, rigorous path of technological development. He has no intention of taking th 113Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 In the Great Ming, I Conquer the Nine Frontiers 人在大明，横推九边 [Rousing Action] [Political Intrigue] [Conquest] [Ensemble Cast] (The rating just came out and will rise later.) In the Tianqi era of the Ming Dynasty, the empire was beset by internal strife and external threats... Wang Ma transmigrated to this world and rose from a humiliated concubine-born son of a military officer to an unmatched God of War who struck fear into the Nine Frontiers. At the bloody Battle of Hun River, he fought alongside Qin Liangyu and dealt a crushing blow to Huang Taiji, Nur 35.5kReads8.3Score3.9k14d adds
- 15 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
- 16 Emperor Tianqi and the Eighteen Beauties of Yanyun 天启大帝之燕云十八姬 In the Tianqi era, he seldom stops to admire the flowers, seizing both the realm and its beauties in his hands. The warm waters of Nanyang nurture dragons and serpents; the lush grasslands of Mobei let cattle and horses roam. The western mountains teem with cinnabar mines; the eastern fields are planted far and wide with cotton and hemp. Who says borders divide the civilized from the barbarian? The peoples of every nation come dressed in their finest to honor Zhonghua. The story begins when Tian 51Reads—Score10214d adds
- 17 Zhu Cilang: My Southern Ming Will Not Retreat into a Corner 朱慈烺，朕的南明不偏安 [Not a wish-fulfillment story, slow burn, proceed with caution!] + [Purely intellectual] + [Political scheming] + [A contest for supremacy] + [Highly intelligent antagonists] In the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign, the calamity of 1644 struck. The capital fell, and the emperor died on Coal Hill. Zhu Cilang wakes up to find he has transmigrated into the last crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. He opens his eyes to a desperate situation: his country has fallen and his family is dead. The pal 2kReads—Score17214d adds
- 18 Ming Dynasty, 1641 大明1641 In 1641, the Battle of Songjin rages, and the Great Ming stands on the edge of ruin. After a crushing defeat at Songjin, the Ming armies retreat across the front, and the dynasty's fall seems inevitable. A soul from a later age transmigrates into Cao Bianjiao's body. Trapped in a desperate situation, he refuses to sit back and watch the realm collapse. He infiltrates Huang Taiji's camp at night and kills three princes and a duke in battle. Leading a lone army on a thousand-mile raid deep into L 88Reads—Score114d adds
- 19 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 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 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
- 21 The Ming Dynasty Beneath the Sun and Moon 大明之日月之下 In an age of chaos, the world is a furnace that burns away the dross and tempers what remains into steel. On the twelfth day of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, five shooting stars fell into the Forbidden City. That night, the emperor in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, the crown prince in the Palace of Gathered Elegance, the princess in the Palace of Longevity and Peace, Prince Ding in the Palace of Earthly Tranquility, and a hundred-household commander of the Embroidered Uni 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 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
- 23 Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty: Chongzhen Turns Defeat into Victory 穿越明朝，崇祯反败为胜 Transmigrated to the Ming dynasty: Chongzhen turns defeat into victory. Modern history teacher Zhu Yuliang transmigrates into the body of Chongzhen. Drawing on his knowledge of history and his concern for the people, he quickly puts down the rebellions. He sends the Ming dynasty's dream team of generals to expand the realm, civilize the people, and establish dominance in the East. Transmigrated to the Ming dynasty: Chongzhen turns defeat into victory —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 My Chief Councilor Father Is on His Last Legs, and the Whole Court Says I Bought the Top Scholar Title 首辅爹快挂了，满朝都说我买状元 Zhang Maoxiu woke up to find himself seated at a Qionglin Banquet in the imperial palace of the Great Ming, a large red flower pinned to his chest. He had become the top scorer in the imperial examinations. Before he could even celebrate, the second- and third-place graduates led the jeering. Officials of the upright faction pointed at him and called him an incompetent fool who had bought his title through shady dealings by his father, the Grand Secretary. Zhang Maoxiu was speechless. He and his 25Reads—Score114d adds
- 25 Late Ming: Five Potatoes from the Start, and the Crown Prince Wants to Flee 明末：开局五土豆，太子要跑路 Overworked office drone Zhu Ming transmigrates into Zhu Cilang, the Ming Dynasty crown prince. The good news: He’s the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, with a lofty status. The bad news: His father is the Chongzhen Emperor, and the capital will fall in just ten days. Other transmigrators: fighter jets, artillery, and mechanized infantry. Crown Prince Zhu: five potatoes. Fine, better make a run for it first. From Beijing to Dengzhou and Laizhou, from five potatoes to a yield of three thous 2.3kReads—Score21014d adds
- 26 Late Ming: This Crown Prince Plays by His Own Rules 明末：这个太子路子野 Modern-day street thug Zhu Liang unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Zhu Cilang, the crown prince at the end of the Ming dynasty, just as Li Zicheng breaks through the capital and the Chongzhen Emperor hangs himself. Relying on his street smarts, he escapes the capital with the old eunuch Wang Cheng'en and navigates between warlords and powerful nobles. He cheats, bluffs, and schemes, yet never forgets his country and its people. He persuades the bandit Li Dingguo to join his cause, puts 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 A Low-Ranking Official in a Late Ming County Town 明末县城小吏 [In the Seventh Year of Tianqi, I Rewrite My Fate by Becoming a Low-Ranking Clerk] In the seventh year of Tianqi, I transmigrated into the body of cannon fodder drafted in Liaodong. Refuse to go to Liaodong, and I die. Go to Liaodong, and death is almost certain. To stay alive, I took a desperate gamble and infiltrated the county yamen, starting out as the lowest-ranking clerk. No System, no golden finger, no memories from a past life to help me. I had only my own courage and an instinct for su 10.7kReads7.7Score90414d adds
- 28 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—14d adds
- 29 Border Fires of the Great Ming 大明边火 This is the turning point at which an empire began to decline, and the starting point of a warlord's rise. During the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, the seemingly powerful empire was already rotten to the core, plagued by factional strife and lax frontier defenses. Beyond the empire's gaze in Liaodong, among the Jurchen tribes, contemptuously called the “wild men of Jianzhou,” a man named Nurhaci raised an army with thirteen suits of ancestral armor, unified the Jurchen tribes, and founded the 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 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 521Reads7.3Score10014d adds
- 31 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
- 32 All Men Under Heaven Are Brothers: The Great Ming Empire 四海之内皆兄弟之大明帝国 (Entirely handwritten, with no AI. I aim to portray the realities of society in the late Ming. This is my first novel, and its rating only appeared after I finished it, so my score is just the baseline.) A reincarnation mishap on the Silver Bridge sends me to the late Ming, where I become the eldest legitimate son of the Tianqi Emperor. In the late Ming, the peasant rebels, the Ming army, and the Jianzhou Jurchens are three paupers robbing one another. So the disasters and chaos of the late Ming 1.9kReads8.0Score11314d adds
- 33 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
- 34 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 5kReads6.8Score45414d adds
- 35 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 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 My Uncle Is Wei Zhongxian 我伯父是魏忠贤 In the second year of Tianqi, Wei Zhongxian’s nephew Wei Liangqing arrives in the capital and establishes himself in the Southern Pacification Office. At the time, the Ming army has just suffered a crushing defeat at Guangning, the She and An rebellions are raging, the Wenxiang Sect is stirring in the shadows, the Jurchens are raiding the border, and refugees are rising up everywhere. The empire is in danger from within and without. He refuses to join the eunuch faction or side with the Donglin 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 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
- 38 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. 152Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 39 Late Ming: After I Expose Myself as a Transmigrator, Wei Zhongxian Breaks Down! 明末：自曝穿越后，魏忠贤哭了！ After transmigrating to the end of the Ming dynasty, Liu Yu becomes a seventh-rank censor. Looking at the Great Ming ship on the verge of sinking before him, he drops all pretenses! Liu Yu: “Zhu Youjian, do you believe me now when I say I’m a transmigrator?” Zhu Youjian: “I suppose I do... What do you think of Wei Zhongxian?” Liu Yu: “Wei Zhongxian is the most loyal subject in all of the Great Ming. You must not kill him, Your Majesty!” Wei Zhongxian: “If you don’t reject me, my lord, I’d be hon 36.6kReads8.5Score3.6k14d adds
- 40 Surviving the End of the Song Dynasty: From Frontier Soldier to Living Yama 苟在宋末：从边军活阎王开始 [No System + ruthless and bloodthirsty + farming + transmigration to the Song Dynasty + driving out the Mongols] I transmigrated to the end of the Song Dynasty. How did I end up becoming the biggest villain? Wasn't the idea to govern the military through civil officials? So how can a military commander like me carry a sword into the palace? The Mongol cavalry is sweeping across the world. Well, my lord, I'm here to raid them. I, no, this official, have come all this way. There's no way I'm going 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 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
- 42 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
- 43 Great Ming: Is My Son Yuanzhang Trying to Kill Me? 大明：吾儿元璋要杀我？ Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang always calls himself “your humble son” in my presence. The officials of the court all urge him, “Your Majesty, how can you remain beneath another for so long?” But he only looks at me and says respectfully, “Without my righteous adoptive father, how could I, Chongba, be where I am today?” What they don’t know is that beneath my pillow, I’ve kept the three cups of poisoned wine he gave me… 540Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Great Ming Without Colonies 大明不殖民 The Uncolonized Ming is an alternate-history novel that begins in the thirteenth year of the Yongle reign. Zheng He returns from his fourth voyage to the Western Ocean with the Map of the Myriad Countries. Military officials at court champion expansion by force, while Xu Hongyuan, a scholar at the Directorate of Astronomy, establishes the Four Seas Commercial Accounting Office with the Crown Prince’s support, hoping to replace traditional conquest with a new system. Xu Hongyuan pushes for the So 47Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 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 59Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 46 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
- 47 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—Score12514d adds
- 48 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 381Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 49 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 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Great Ming: This General Store Is Not Quite Right 大明：【这间杂货铺，不对劲】 Lin Bei transmigrated to the Hongwu era and opened a general store on Sanshan Street in Yingtian. The people here were nothing like the historical figures Lin Bei remembered. The stock characters enshrined in history had all been turned on their heads. The people of the Hongwu era were far more vivid and outrageous than the unofficial histories suggested. Everyone knew about the Jinyiwei's Southern and Northern Commands, but who had ever heard of the Bureau of Passage? The man in charge of the B 62Reads—Score11014d adds
