I Founded a Heavy Industry Group in the Late Ming

To put it simply, solving the problems of the late Ming Dynasty meant dealing with the scholar-officials. The simplest solution was that scholar-officials who passed the imperial examinations were automatically exempt from taxes. They could engage in commerce and agriculture, naturally becoming local powerful figures.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was not addressed as "Huangshang" (). During the Song Dynasty, he was often called "Guanjia" (), and in other dynasties, he was usually addressed as "Bixia" (). Starting in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was occasionally addressed as "Huangshang," but most of the time he was addressed as "Bixia."

The Ming Dynasty, established by Zhu Yuanzhang, reshaped the land, rebuilt China, and restored the Han Chinese empire. It recovered the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun, lost for 430 years. These territories, lost from the Tang Dynasty and longed for by both the Song and Western Song Dynasties, returned to the Ming Dynasty.

This is outrageous! The Ming Dynasty fell because it treated its people too well 😄, and the Ming people were never satisfied.

The synopsis says the protagonist marries into Song Xianze's sister—the Song family has a son, Song Xianze, and they need you to marry into their family? So you can compete with Song Xianze for the Song family's inheritance? Only families with only daughters and no sons need a son-in-law to marry into their family so they can inherit the surname—the author doesn't even have common sense!

The protagonist invents an iron mortar and presents it to the county magistrate. The magistrate then presents it to Emperor Tianqi, who rewards the protagonist with a hereditary title of centurion. Is this plot development really reasonable? If the Ming Dynasty truly possessed such organizational efficiency, it wouldn't have fallen.

This kind of novel is disgusting. It glorifies the Ming Dynasty? Looking at the history from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Qing dynasty, wasn't the Ming emperor the only one whose imperial estates exceeded 50,000 hectares? If we only consider the princes and not others, the total area at the end of the Ming dynasty was even more exaggerated, exceeding 500,000 hectares!

Okay, I scrolled through the comments section and checked the author's profile. Rural romance novels, female-oriented political intrigue stories, and the link—it really is Freljord! I knew chapter 18-something was strange; they're even talking about clans exploiting those who have died out. Can't they understand the political climate before writing a novel?

Was Wei Zhongxian considered a tyrant? What about the Donglin Party then? From a national perspective, Ming Dynasty eunuchs were more like a profession, existing to balance the increasingly capitalist-dominated civil service. Unable to tax these officials, the Ming Dynasty had to find alternative methods: the scholar-officials relentlessly exploited the people and colluded with foreign enemies.

Just by reading the synopsis, you can tell that the author's historical perspective is flawed.