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- 151 Transmigrated to the Great Ming: This Is the Real Zhu Family 穿越大明，这才是最真实的老朱家 [Ming Dynasty + Political Intrigue + War] You’re a beast, you’re shameless! You just want her body… After transmigrating into the chaos of the late Yuan dynasty, I end up as a spoiled rich kid who makes advances on Empress Ma! A fresh and unconventional perspective takes you through the tangled love and hate between a transmigrator and the Zhu family. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 An Assassination in Xianyang 咸阳一刺 The tragedy of an individual's will standing against the tide of history; the heroism of doing what you know cannot be done; the Six Kingdoms fell because of their own failings, and because of the greater forces at play. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 There's a System in the Old Well Back Home 老家古井有系统 Transmigration + alternate history + multiple dynasties. One lifetime of experience, one lifetime of reincarnation. In each life, two people belong together, yet on the road, I am always alone. Other people's lives become my own path. Too many things witnessed, too many helpless moments. And still, I can never escape regret. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 From Knight to Great Ming 从骑士到大明 Liang Yewen transmigrates. Not to ancient China, but to sixteenth-century Spain. He saves a princess from her pursuers, helps her put down a rebellion, then sails across the ocean with her fleet and returns to the Ming. He thinks the story ends there. He’ll serve as a young prince’s tutor, teach him a few things, and live out his days in peace. Until one day, he realizes he was wrong. The nomads in the north have suddenly learned to fire volleys of muskets. The Japanese pirates in the east a 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 A Heavenly Vision: The Carpenter Emperor Defies Fate 天启奇梦：木匠皇帝的逆天改命 In the early years of Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youjiao's reign, he was deeply obsessed with carpentry. One night, while concentrating intently on crafting an intricate wooden object, he unexpectedly entered a state of “entering the realm through woodwork.” He began dreaming of all kinds of things that would happen in society over the next 500 years, and his life began to change… 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Late Ming Chongzhen: I Deserve the Temple Name Shengzu 明末崇祯，朕当得起圣祖庙号 Zhu Bao'an is reborn. He never expected to become the Chongzhen Emperor. He's doomed now. Fortunately, it's the first year of the Chongzhen reign, so there's still hope. Watch him rebuild the Embroidered Uniform Guard and Eastern Depot, killing not a single loyal minister and sparing not one treacherous official. He takes charge of the economy, politics, and military, and makes sure all three are strong. Hong Taiji: "That brat Zhu Youjian fights dirty, always going for my kidneys. And now he has 958Reads7.2Score10514d adds
- 157 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 10.7kReads8.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 158 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
- 159 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
- 160 Great Ming: The First Emperor of Qin Lives in My Head! 大明：我的脑子里住了个秦始皇！ [Great Ming]+ [Princes]+ [Political Scheming]+ [Battle for Supremacy]+ [One Female Lead] Consort Yang gave birth to a son, the seventeenth prince. Born clutching a jade, he was greeted by purple light filling the city. Heavenly omens marked him as extraordinary from birth! The officials looked on in astonishment! The palace was in uproar! But... if the prince is extraordinary, where does that leave the Crown Prince? After all, Zhu Biao, history's greatest crown prince, is still alive! His virtue 337Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 161 Late Ming: I Told You to Pass on the Throne, Not Revive the Ming Dynasty 晚明：让你传位，没让你中兴大明 The sun and moon do not lose their true forms, so though they may be obscured, they shine again. The Jiang and Han rivers do not lose their sources, so though their courses may run dry, they flow again. Zhu Fuming transmigrated into the body of the Tianqi Emperor, Zhu Youxiao, and had only half a life left when he opened his eyes. At court and beyond, the eunuch faction, the civil officials, and the imperial clan all hoped he would die soon, waiting for him to pass the throne to his younger brot 28.3kReads8.6Score2.4k14d adds
- 162 Great Ming: From the Start, I Extend Zhu Biao's Life 大明：开局给朱标续命 One day, he transmigrated to the Hongwu era and became Zhu Su, Prince of Zhou of the Ming Dynasty. To avoid being killed later by his adopted nephew, Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Su decided to prolong the life of his elder brother, Zhu Biao... And so Zhu Su became the Ming Dynasty's Sage of Medicine! He could restore life to the dying and cure all manner of difficult ailments. He could also stabilize the realm and govern a region. Even his elder brother Zhu Biao became Zhu Su's number-one fan. “Fifth Brother 150Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 163 The Great Ming Empire: A Flourishing Realm 大明帝国之盛世江山 This book recounts the glory of the Ming dynasty, from Zheng He’s seven voyages to the Western Seas during the Yongle era and the Ren and Xuan reigns to the upheavals of the Zhengtong and Jingtai years. It follows the fortunes of five emperors, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Qiyu, and depicts the thrilling history of the voyages to the Western Seas. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Reborn as the Jianwen Emperor, I Become a Master Craftsman on the Construction Site 穿成建文，我在工地苟成国匠 When the Jingnan Palace went up in flames, the Jianwen Emperor, Zhu Yunwen, escaped with his life. Zhu Di laid a vast net and hunted for him everywhere, so Zhu Yunwen simply assumed the name Chen Buqi and hid out doing construction work to make ends meet. He repaired dams, built grain bridges, dredged canals, and helped construct the imperial capital. His footsteps carried him across the length and breadth of the Great Ming. Everyone at court and across the land was convinced that the fugitive J —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 Late Ming: Your Majesty, the Crown Prince Has Rebelled 明末：陛下，太子殿下造反了 No System + a transmigrator in the late Ming + rebellion from the start + killing corrupt officials + wiping out the Manchu A 21st-century overworked office drone transmigrates into the body of Zhu Cilang, the Crown Prince at the end of the Ming dynasty. After transmigrating, he tries to talk Emperor Chongzhen into seeing reason, but the emperor refuses to listen and instead punishes him by ordering him to reflect behind closed doors and forbidding him to leave. His reputation is ruined, too, an 4.9kReads7.9Score27714d adds
- 166 Don't Panic, Great Ming, I'm Here to Save You! 大明别慌，我来救你！ This is a race against the inertia of history. With plans far ahead of his time, a modern soul changes the course of an empire's collapse. Watch as he transmigrates into the Chongzhen era, revives Huaxia, and ensures the lands of the Great Ming endure forever! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 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
- 168 Splendid Tang Dynasty 锦绣圣唐 In the dream, all was confusion... As the sole heir to the throne, I stubbornly went my own way. I disappointed my stern father and harmed my brothers. I trusted treacherous officials and even plotted to kill my own kin. My wickedness was exposed, and everyone turned against me. My imperial father bowed his head and wept as he pleaded with the ministers; my own brother wept blood, his bones broken and sinews torn! When I awoke from the dream... I resolved to strive for strength, hold myself to s 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 As an Envoy of Han, My Goal Is to Die in Every Way Imaginable 身为汉使，我的目标是花样作死 Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever rivers and streams reach, all is Han territory. To seal the wolf's retreat at Mount Langjuxu and carve an inscription on Mount Yanran: those are the ultimate achievements and glory of a military general. To open the Silk Road and spread our influence to distant lands: that is the ultimate goal and romance of people like us. 995Reads—Score12814d adds
- 170 Zhu Yuanzhang: Sun and Moon Shine Over the Land 朱元璋：日月照山河 The sun and moon retain their nature, so though they are obscured, they shine again. The Yangtze and Han rivers retain their source, so though they run dry, they flow again. The Sun and Moon Shine on the Rivers and Mountains: an epic that captures Zhu Yuanzhang and the Ming dynasty In Chinese history, only one person ever unified the realm from south to north: Zhu Yuanzhang. No one had done it before him. Under the banner of “Drive out the barbarians and restore China,” he drove the Mongols back 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 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 14.7kReads8.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 172 Emperor Yongle Is My Brother-in-Law! Let’s Play It Safe! 永乐大帝我姐夫！苟苟苟出发咯！ Authors interested in adapting this novel can search for "My Brother-in-Law, Emperor Yongle" to apply. All authors are welcome to adapt it! By a stroke of luck, I transmigrated and became Xu Huizu, eldest son of Xu Da, Duke of Wei of the Ming dynasty. What? My brother-in-law is the future Emperor Yongle, Zhu Di? Then all I have to do is keep my head down, right? And so... During the Hongwu reign, I kept an extremely low profile! During the Yongle reign, my brother-in-law was Zhu Di! During the H 5.2kReads8.1Score31714d adds
- 173 The Ming Dynasty: A Picturesque Realm 大明之江山如画 Flying-fish robes, embroidered-spring sabers. Those who betray the country: kill! Those who embezzle and take bribes: kill! Those who disrupt the court: kill! Those who form factions for personal gain: kill! The splendor of a flourishing age is like willow fluff drifting in the wind. Currents churn beneath the court, treacherous officials lie in wait, and threats loom at the borders. Clad in a flying-fish robe and armed with an embroidered-spring saber, Xue Zhenyue serves as a Jinyiwei guard, w 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 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
- 175 Great Ming: I, Chongzhen, Will Never Hang Myself! 大明：朕，崇祯，绝不上吊！ [Reborn + hard-edged history + decisive and ruthless + naval hegemon + no System, but with memories of a past life] On Coal Hill, a strip of white silk brought an end to the Ming Dynasty's last shred of dignity. When Zhu Youjian opened his eyes again, he had returned to the seventh year of the Tianqi era. That year, he was still only the sixteen-year-old Prince of Xin. His imperial brother was gravely ill. Wei Zhongxian wielded power across the court, the eunuch faction controlled the government 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Great Ming: From Humble Beginnings to Duke of the Highest Rank 大明：从寒门到超品公爵 Lin Wenyuan, a modern scholar of Ming history, died suddenly and awoke in Suzhou in the fifth year of Hongzhi, inhabiting Shen Yan, a penniless orphan whose parents were dead and who was near death with a raging fever. From the start, he was caught in the great Su-Song flood recorded in the history books. He used a dream from his “father” to report the disaster, traded his mother’s keepsakes for food, and plugged the walls with plant ash. Even in desperate straits, his talent began to shine. At 60Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Great Ming: My Father Is Zhu Biao, So Make Me Emperor! 大明，家父朱标，求我当皇帝！ In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Ma, the love of Zhu Yuanzhang's life, suddenly passed away! Zhu Yuntong, the second legitimate son of Zhu Biao, had been raised by Empress Ma herself. Now he had lost the last person protecting him in the palace... Knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang would soon unleash years of bloodshed across the Ming Dynasty without Empress Ma to restrain him, Zhu Yuntong cried out the first words he had spoken since arriving in the Ming: "Grandpa Emperor!" From then on, Zhu Yuanzhang 296Reads6.6Score10014d adds
- 178 Back in the Late Ming Dynasty as a Warlord 回到明末当霸王 A nobody from the peaceful modern era: what would you do if you could travel back and forth between the end of the Ming Dynasty and the present day? Win beautiful women across the land... amass untold riches... or perhaps recreate Emperor Wu of Han’s glory, destroy the Manchu queue, and wage war in the South Seas? Write a Chinese dream of the ocean across the Seven Seas! 897Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 179 The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: I’m Back, and This Is No Joke! 崇祯十七年：朕回来不是搞笑的！ After transmigrating to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, he finds bandits rising on all sides, the Tartars eyeing the border passes, corrupt officials running rampant at court, and the Ming dynasty teetering in the storm. He wakes to find that Zhu Youjian has turned the tide of despair. In his previous life, he worked tirelessly as a diligent ruler, only to see his country fall and himself die. This time, he has finally let go of that burden and refuses to repeat the same tragic path! 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 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 337Reads8.0Score4814d adds
- 181 A Quest for Survival at the End of the Ming 明末求生记 By chance, Zhang Xuan found himself in the late Ming, and all he wanted was to survive. But for himself, for his wife and daughter, and for the people of the realm, he took one step after another on the road to seizing the throne! The land lay shattered, its mountains and rivers adrift like willow catkins in the wind. All under heaven looked to Lord Zhang. 64Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 182 The Winds of Change in Great Ming: This Guy Has Stopped Acting Human! 风起大明，这货不做人了！ [Steal Jade and Savor Fragrance] [Scheming Power Plays] [Bloody Wars] [Partly Feel-Good] The Four Great Beauties: Xi Li, Zhang Yan, Hailanzhu, and Chen Yuanyuan. Fierce! Fierce! Fierce! The intensity never lets up! The Stick-Striking Case, the Red Pills Case, the Palace Relocation Case, the Fall-Into-the-Water Case, the Battle of Guangning, the Battle of Liuhe, the Battle of Ningyuan, the Wang Gongchang Explosion, Wei Zhongxian's living shrine... One astonishing historical truth after another, e 1.6kReads7.0Score11814d adds
- 183 Romance of the Three Jin States 三晋演义 Goujian endured hardship and humiliation until he could destroy Wu and establish his hegemony, bringing an end to the Jin state's century-long dominance and shocking the entire kingdom. As Duke Jizao and chief minister Zhiyao desperately sought a way to restore Jin, Zhao Wuxu proposed reclaiming the lands of the Fan and Zhonghang clans to strengthen the ducal house. This triggered a fierce struggle over land among the four families of Zhi, Zhao, Wei, and Han, plunging the Jin dukes into decline 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Great Ming: I Am Zhu Yuntong, the Imperial Grandson 大明，我是太孙朱允熥 (Political intrigue + no System) Zhu Yuntong's path to becoming Crown Prince takes a turn from the traditional filial and fraternal route. How will he use political maneuvering to get what he wants? Lin Mo, a student at Yanjing University, transmigrates into Zhu Yuntong. In his first life, he lives through the Jingnan Campaign and is imprisoned in Fengyang until his death. Reborn for a second time in the twenty-fifth year of the Hongwu era, he holds a history book that lets him see the future an 1.3kReads7.3Score10114d adds
- 185 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 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Undercover in the Jin Court After My Kingdom Fell: Liu Shan's Master Plan 亡国后卧底晋廷：刘禅的幕后操盘 Introduction: [Late Three Kingdoms period, ensemble cast, political machinations, behind-the-scenes scheming, not a power fantasy, playing the fool to catch the tiger] After transmigrating into the doomed kingdom’s Adou, he knew the key to restoring his country was to make the Sima clan “destroy itself.” So on the surface, he got drunk and consorted with prostitutes every day, earning the scorn of Luoyang’s people as a “useless ruler who lost his kingdom.” In secret, he pretended to throw in his 18Reads8.4Score114d adds
- 187 Join the Army, Get a Wife? I'm Definitely Saving This Ming Dynasty! 当兵送老婆？这大明我救定了！ [Ming dynasty + special forces soldier transmigrates into another body + conquest + multiple heroines + seizing money, food, and women + no System] Transmigrating into the late Ming dynasty, he starts off so hungry he has to chew tree bark! Just as despair sets in, he hears the authorities are recruiting soldiers, offering full meals and even wives! Long Aotian, the special forces king from his previous life, lights up and rushes over to grab the recruitment clerk. “Sir, let me ask you first: ar 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Great Ming's First Female Marshal 大明第一女军侯 She was the peerless woman warrior of the Great Ming, riding a thousand miles along the road of loyal souls. Standing six feet one inch tall, she defeated the Qing armies and crushed the bandit rebels, earning great renown for her loyalty and courage to the Wei family and the state. She was the only woman in history to be honored with a separate biography as a celebrated general of a dynasty in the official histories. She humbled Dorgon and fought bloody battles against Hong Taiji. Her beauty wa 287Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Great Ming: Bandit General, Sage of War, Great Rebel 大明，山贼大将军，兵圣大反贼 [No mindless characters, no pure power fantasy] [The dark side of human nature in the halls of power] [The truth behind the Ming emperors' frequent untimely deaths] [Monsters and demons at the end of a dynasty] [Cunning] [Scheming for the realm] The Ming Dynasty is incredibly unlucky: internal strife, foreign threats, natural disasters, man-made calamities, fiscal collapse, factional infighting... every condition for a dynasty's fall has come together. In the first year of the Taichang reign, a 2.3kReads8.4Score17914d adds
- 190 Chongzhen, Is My Dragon Throne Comfortable? 崇祯，朕的龙椅坐着舒服吗？ (No cheap melodrama, no brainless characters, no System, no invincible protagonist, and not a wish-fulfillment power fantasy. Qing loyalists and those who may be offended, proceed with caution.) On the twenty-fourth day of the eighth month of the seventh year of Tianqi, Chongzhen sat high upon the dragon throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, receiving the court officials’ homage as he prepared to ascend the throne. A thunderclap jolted the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao awake in his coffin. Look 8Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 191 Late Ming: My Escape Begins with the Songjin Campaign 明末：从松锦大战首逃开始 [No System] + [Passionate] + [Conquest] + [Late Ming] In 1641, the fourteenth year of the Chongzhen reign, the Battle of Songjin, the Ming dynasty's final struggle for the fate of the nation, ended in a crushing defeat. Wang Chen, son of the first general to flee, refused to be made the scapegoat. Leading the remaining troops, he set out to change history and defy fate. Watch as he turns the tide, saves a collapsing empire from ruin, rescues the realm from disaster, repels the rebels within, and 10.8kReads8.5Score96914d adds
- 192 Modern Cadre: I Play Power Politics in the Ming Dynasty 现代干部：朕在明朝玩权斗 The Hongzhi Restoration left problems piling up. The treasury was in the red, with deficits year after year! Land was swallowed up by the powerful, and displaced people rose in rebellion! The military was weak, and the Tartars threatened the border! Civil officials grew too powerful and challenged imperial authority. With troubles at home and abroad and the dynasty on the brink of collapse, Zhu Shou became the Ming emperor Zhu Houzhao. To struggle against Heaven is a joy without end. To strugg 5.5kReads7.4Score38214d adds
- 193 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
- 194 The Ghost Zhao Gao Overthrows the Qin Empire 幽灵赵高颠覆秦帝国 Zhao Gao, the son of a convict, was born in a hidden palace of the Qin dynasty. His mother was a relative of a convicted criminal from Zhao. From childhood, he endured the cruelty of Qin law and the pain of his homeland’s defeat. From the moment he was born, hatred of Qin and a desire to restore Zhao took root in his heart... He entered Xianyang alone and lay low... Convicted for his private dealings with the remnants of the Six States, he was sentenced to death by Meng Yi. Qin Shi Huang valued 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 The Ming Dynasty: The Tianqi Empire 大明之天启帝国 Glorious Ming, ruler of all nations; may our mountains and rivers stand forever, guarding our borders. Lofty China, its light reaching the four corners; may sun and moon shine forever, blessing our emperor. By a twist of fate, the protagonist transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty and becomes the Tianqi Emperor. The Ming has just won a great victory at Ningyuan, but the Later Jin have already grown into a tiger poised to devour the realm. Meanwhile, a Shaanxi uprising that will sweep across the 12Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 196 Reborn for a New Life, Tyrant Chongzhen Kills! Kills! Kills! 重活一世，暴君崇祯杀！杀！杀！ The seventh year of the Tianqi reign, eighth month. Zhu Youjian knelt before the imperial bed in the Qianqing Palace, his knees aching against the floor. He did the math in his head: seven years ago, on a late night working overtime, he had died suddenly at his computer. When he awoke, he had become Zhu Youjian, the Prince of Xing. Seven years. For seven whole years, he had stayed in his manor, pretending to be ill, pretending to be a fool, pretending to be invisible. In secret, he had trained e 11kReads7.1Score1k14d adds
- 197 The Young Overlord of the Late Ming 明末小霸王 All proceeds from this book will go to charity. I transmigrated to the Ming dynasty? Where’s my golden finger? Where’s my System? At the very least, couldn’t I have transmigrated as the Chongzhen Emperor? But no, you send me to some remote backwater. Let’s see how Wang Jingyue rises to power amid the chaos of the late Ming dynasty! Genghis Khan: Where have all my warriors of the steppe gone? Li Zicheng: Where has my rebel army gone? Hong Taiji: Bandits, thieves, they even snatched women! My belo 12Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 198 The Tenth Year of Wanli: Taking Up My Post in Liaodong 万历十年：就藩辽东 The tenth year of the Wanli reign was a watershed moment for the Ming Empire. A host of upheavals converged that year, sending the dynasty down a path wholly different from the one laid out by history. Zhang Juzheng, the “Duke of Jiangling,” passed away. With the reformer who had upheld the “Wanli Renaissance” gone, a pillar of the empire collapsed. His unfinished reforms came to an abrupt halt, and old abuses in the bureaucracy returned. Ma Fang, a renowned general on the northern frontier, die 3kReads7.5Score19014d adds
- 199 What If the Ming Dynasty Had Taken the Qing Dynasty's Place 把明朝放在清朝位置上的那些事儿 [The main story is complete. Extra chapters are updated on the last Friday of every month.] What would happen if the Ming Dynasty were pushed back 276 years and placed where the Qing Dynasty once stood? Xu Da facing off against Dorgon, Zhu Di leading a personal campaign against Galdan, Zheng He reaching Europe... Qi Jiguang battling British colonists, Zhang Juzheng launching modernization reforms, Xu Xiake traveling across the globe... (This book doesn't create history. It just carries history t 143Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 200 Great Ming: I Reform the Law with the Clan Genealogy 大明，我以族谱变法 During the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Shi transmigrates into the body of a scholar. He would never have believed that one day he would be bundled off to the Imperial Prison along with chickens and dogs. P.S. One female lead [a plot device, no romance]. No dumbing down, no System. 496Reads9.2Score10214d adds
