Late Ming: This Chongzhen Wants to Be a Tyrant!

In the year 1627, only 17 years remain until the fall of the Ming dynasty and the Chongzhen Emperor's suicide by hanging at Coal Hill. The Ming faces troubles at home and abroad. Factional strife at court grows ever fiercer, the fighting in Liaodong has ground to a stalemate, peasant uprisings have broken out in Shaanxi, Sichuan, and elsewhere, the treasury is empty and the government is running a deficit. The Little Ice Age continues to take its toll, with frequent droughts and locust plagues in the north, shrinking harvests, and a surge in refugees. In the blood-red sunset, the magnificent Forbidden City teeters on the brink of collapse. That same year, a soul from the future replaces the Chongzhen Emperor. Faced with such a mess, Liu Xiao, a transmigrator, is at his wit's end. By this point, no one person can save the Ming. Should he just give up? Thinking of the Qing barbarians pouring through the passes, the Jiading massacre, and the three days of slaughter in Yangzhou, he decides he might as well become a tyrant!