Chongzhen and I Became Business Partners

I skip over any modern-day scenes, guys, am I doing the right thing? |ω･)و ̑̑༉

I strongly recommend that the protagonist quit his job and take the entrance exam for a history graduate program, preferably at a reputable university. Although it's a computer science major switching to history, it's not entirely impossible.

Like this post if you don't want to watch modern-day scenes.

The Manchus were able to win primarily because their system was centralized, oppressive, and brutal. The Ming Dynasty, though vast, lacked a central ruling body; it was like a giant using each of his individual body parts to fight a single, complete dwarf.

After reading the part where the protagonist persuades Emperor Chongzhen not to kill Hong Chengchou and stays in Bengbu, I abandoned the book and blocked the author.

A train? Holy crap, they can't even make a single bearing? What kind of train is this?

What kind of partners are they? The main character is just a tool.

They always say they're broke, but what about the land at the train station, Tianjin Port, and Tongzhou Port? Isn't that money? Developing industrial zones, building shops to sell or rent—that's money too! What's the easiest money to make? Businessmen's money. And then they actually went to sell lottery tickets? I'm speechless. They chose the most detrimental industry to the country for making money. Lotteries are gambling.

Actually, this could have been a collaboration with the government. After all, all we could do was make a phone call; collaboration would have been far more beneficial to both ourselves and the Ming Dynasty. Frankly, collaboration wouldn't have affected our interests. We can't time travel, we don't have superpowers, and we can't cultivate immortality—it's just money left, right? Money?

Women's freedom stems from the fact that in industrial society they can earn money to support themselves, not from the protagonist saying: "We need gender equality," and then gender equality is achieved. The three-year lifespan of a primitive textile factory, the five-year leukemia crisis of a modern shoe factory, the scalps being shredded into machines during the steam age, and the labor replacing men filling trenches during world wars—these are the reasons they stood up. @Reader