Apocalypse Edict

The gilt-copper box reappeared, and an apocalyptic edict that had been sealed in dust for four hundred years suddenly appeared. The advanced tax system of "all the gentry and gentry pay the grain, and ten acres of land are tax-free" contained in it is incompatible with the absurd image of the "Carpenter Emperor" in the history books. When the team of modern scholar Su Qing dusted off the historical data, a truth that had been deliberately erased gradually emerged: the names that overturned the country during the Chongzhen period—Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Mao Wenlong—actually appeared in Emperor Tianqi's reform team. If the imperial edict was true, and if the revolution had not failed, would the fate of the Ming Dynasty be completely rewritten? The balance of history was once so close to another fork in the road... (This is a tragic race against the inertia of history, an imaginary epic about possibility. Please do not contradict the official history.)