How Can I Be Chongzhen Without Money?

I believe that apart from showing more integrity in his final death than Zhao Gou, Chongzhen was inferior to Zhao Gou in every other aspect. These two men faced very similar situations: their fathers and brothers became emperors, and they were not groomed as heirs but were temporarily chosen as replacements due to their lack of experience.

Chongzhen was an emperor who managed to bring down a unified empire without any regional separatists. He had no powerful ministers within the country and no strong regional warlords without—conditions that would have made the last emperors of the Han and Tang dynasties green with envy.

No matter who was in charge at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they couldn't have saved the situation.

I don't know if it's because the author is from China, but the writing style still reveals a sense of inferiority, as if China is inferior to foreign countries.

Big bastard! How could you do this to me, after following your updates for ten years and developing these eye bags?! I watched you subscribe to the official version of "Burying the Qing Dynasty Alive" from a pirated copy (yes, I confess!), And you've been anti-Qing for over a decade—all for nothing!

There's a question: what gave Emperor Chongzhen, at the end of the dynasty, the right to combat corruption and confiscate property? Don't assume that an emperor can do whatever he wants; if he angers a powerful family, he can simply purge their inner circle the next day. So how did the author resolve this logical problem?

It's widely acknowledged that corruption was rampant within the Ming Dynasty's bureaucracy. I'd like to know, compared to the wealth possessed by the princes of the Ming Dynasty, how much more money did the officials embezzle? Some might argue that the Ming Dynasty was the private property of the Zhu family, and had nothing to do with others.

The late Ming Dynasty was an era where a single elite armored cavalry archer could easily suppress 100 infantrymen before running out of arrows, and 50 elite cavalrymen could easily overwhelm thousands of infantrymen. The only way to counter cavalry in open field battles was to have more and better cavalry than the enemy.

1. The text mentions that the Imperial Guard's new-style bronze cannon, made by Johann Adam Schall von Bell, was equipped with 4.5-Jin (approximately 2.75 Kg) solid cannonballs made in the Ming Dynasty. One jin in the Ming Dynasty was approximately equal to 600 grams today.

Indeed, the author has written very well in a certain respect. At least he found a solution to the problems of the late Ming Dynasty and also identified the basic prerequisites for implementing that solution. Authors who can write historical political intrigue novels to this level are extremely rare.