Rebuilding the Ming Dynasty: Starting from the End of Wanli

In the forty-fourth year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty was experiencing internal and external troubles, and its decline was gradually becoming apparent. Modern historians accidentally traveled through time and became the 12-year-old King Hui Zhu Youxu, the sixth son of Emperor Taichang. Facing the torrent of history, he knew that if he did not take action, the Ming Dynasty would reach the tragic ending of Emperor Chongzhen hanging himself on Meishan Mountain seventeen years later. Deep in the palace, Zhu Youxu used his "initial recovery from illness" to hide his edge, and used his identity as a child as a shield to secretly observe the turbulent situation in the court: Emperor Wanli's neglect of government, fierce party disputes, the rise of Nurhachi in Liaodong, the beginning of clues about Shanxi businessmen's collaboration with the enemy, and the undercurrent of palace conspiracy. With the help of modern knowledge, he cleverly approached Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of Tianqi who was obsessed with carpentry. He used craftsman skills as a bond to build trust, but this aroused the vigilance of Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family. In order to reverse the national destiny, Zhu Youxu made a secret plan. He rescued the famous general Cao Wenzhao, subdued the scientist Xu Guangqi, and established a secret intelligence network; he set up a research workshop in Xiyuan, improved firearms, and promoted sweet potatoes and potatoes to cope with the famine of the Little Ice Age; he experimented with agricultural reforms in Huangzhuang and accumulated popular support. However, the Shanxi merchants' conspiracy to collude with Hou Jin, Zheng Guifei's poisoning plan, and the mysterious assassin's serial attacks all came one after another because he was involved in the interest network. With three cubic meters of portable space and future knowledge in hand, Zhu Youxu navigated the whirlpool of power in the changing dynasties of Wanli, Taichang and Tianqi. He not only wanted to prevent historical tragedies such as the "Red Pill Case" and the "Wang Gong Factory Explosion", but he also needed to open up a way for the Ming Dynasty to survive in the cracks between the Eunuch Party, the Donglin Party, and the harem forces.