Bringing Glory to the Ming Dynasty

The author mentions the Wanli Emperor's fiscal and mining tax issues, which makes me highly recommend Professor Fang Xing's paper, "Mining Tax Silver, Regular Taxes, and Late Ming Dynasty Finance." It contains a lot of detailed discussions and specific data, which should be helpful to the author's plot design. Some excerpts are as follows:

These novels that supposedly lack cheat codes and systems, relying entirely on the protagonist's own strategies, actually have the author as their biggest cheat code. No matter how incompetent the protagonist is, the author can't possibly kill them off.

Implementing a constitutional monarchy in China? It would be immediately sidelined by the civil service, then the emperor would drown, becoming a mere figurehead, military generals would be subservient, and the civil service would hold absolute power, with the head of the civil service becoming the de facto emperor. There is no vacuum of power. Author, are you even aware of the implications of implementing a constitutional monarchy in China?

Honestly, make money. Without money, where will you get the funds for reform? Without money, how can you buy off soldiers? Without soldiers, who will listen to your reforms, the scholar-officials and gentry?

The fall of the Ming Dynasty under Emperor Wanli refers to the purging of Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang by the Wanli Emperor. Zhang Juzheng's reforms failed, not the Wanli Emperor's succession struggle, the Three Great Campaigns, or the defeat at Sarhu. The latter are all consequences, while Zhang Juzheng's purging was the cause.

Slaughtering the gentry of Jiangnan will prolong the Ming Dynasty for at least another 100 years.

You received a reward of 1,000,000 Qidian coins from Taibai Cat.

Given Emperor Wanli's procrastination issues, how could he possibly be so easily swayed by the news that the Ming Dynasty could live for another fifty years? He might even have been a little pleased, thinking that the dynasty could continue its decadent existence for a few more decades, since it wouldn't fall on his own.

Write more about the imperial court and less about war. Judging from Jingming, the Empress is not good at writing about war scenes.

The protagonist of this book is too arrogant, always thinking he's omnipotent, looking down on everyone. He thinks everyone who can become the Grand Secretary is a talented individual, but he looks down on none of them.