Transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty to Become a Tyrant

The decree for developing Taiwan first exiled criminals, thieves, and lowly people from within the country to develop the land. It would save trouble if they died. Then, Korea would pay tribute in people, and the Ming Dynasty would help them resolve land annexation. Once Taiwan's raw land was transformed into developed land, troops would be dispatched to clear the area.

A significant portion of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal expenditure was allocated to supplying the northern frontier regions to defend against invasions by nomadic tribes north of the Great Wall. During the Yongle era, proactive offensives were frequently employed, but this approach often consumed excessive manpower and resources.

Fighting with your own son? How embarrassing. Couldn't you just call your sons to your side and explain your actions to them? Explain the limitations and benefits of each policy clearly. What's the point of public opinion then? If a leader's ideas don't resonate with the people, is the leader just a figurehead? Watching his sons fight each other like princes in the Qing Dynasty, he was speechless.

We need to train a new army, develop a flintlock musket assembly line, and implement quality control. If we have the capability, we should conquer Annam, distribute land to the refugees for free, promise no taxes for 10 years, and sell them matchlock guns. Refugees with land will dare to fight anyone, and those without land will rob others. All the Annamese will be exiled to Borneo, and once the island is developed, they will all be killed.

Another person is obsessed with opposing civil service officials. I said, "Don't you have some misunderstanding about the civil service? Do they really have that much power? That they can make the emperor drown so easily?" Zhang Juzheng's Single Whip Law was so harsh that it made civil officials and gentry cry out in pain. But did Zhang Juzheng actually drown?

The more it's written, the stranger it gets. People from both the court and the public are brazenly defying the emperor, even going so far as to massacre civilians with firearms near the emperor's residence. They even say the Ming Dynasty will one day perish, so it's better to enjoy life sooner rather than later.

After reading over 260 chapters, it keeps repeating the same thing: the protagonist wants to do something, someone jumps in, and the protagonist kills. (This is repeated 6 times in the original text.) Were there really any people in the late Ming Dynasty who weren't afraid of death? The plot keeps repeating itself, over and over again...

Too mediocre, not even worthy of being called a wish-fulfillment novel. It only involves beheading or wiping out nine generations of one's family. In feudal society, the scholar-official class was similar to the modern middle class; no emperor would ever exterminate the entire scholar-official class! Too much fantasy.

It's getting a bit tiresome to see Zhang Zhang constantly battling wits with the Donglin Party. And the Donglin Party is just too stubborn. Wouldn't it be more logical for them to join a corrupt feudal bureaucracy if they can't win? Besides, sacrificing their own interests for the benefit of merchants, and prioritizing their own and their family's advancement, is more in line with their thinking. At the very least, they'd hedge their bets.

I want to say that everyone knows the Donglin Party was the worst, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty was basically their fault. Why then did Jin Yong criticize the Ming Dynasty so much, for example, Zhu Yuanzhang in *The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber* and the courtesan in *Dragon Inn*, while praising the Qing Dynasty?