A Man in the Great Ming: I Turned the Fight to Restore the Ming into a Game

[Fourth Calamity + Hilarious Power Fantasy + Historical Conquest + Loving Father and Dutiful Son] I transmigrated to the second year of the Longwu era and became the last great general of the Southern Ming. The Qing court smeared me as “I succeed,” but the Ming imperial surname is no stain you barbarian invaders can smear at will. My name is Zhu Chenggong! It’s hell difficulty from the start: Qing cavalry are watering their horses in the Yangtze, the Longwu Emperor is about to starve himself to death for his country, and my own father, Zheng Zhilong, has lost his mind. He plans to meet a Qing envoy in his study, hoping to sell out the country and become king of three provinces. Faced with a situation falling apart at the seams, I turn around and launch the holographic game server [Great Ming: Lord of the Imperial Surname], sending beta-test invitations to online users in the twenty-first century. And so, the Great Ming’s whole vibe goes completely off the rails. Faced with the steel blades of elite guards, the players don’t dodge. They eagerly take the hits to the face just to test the pain system. Qing cavalrymen are stripped down to their underwear by the players, who even pry the horseshoes off their mounts to sell for cash; The renowned scholar Qian Qianyi has barely struck a lofty pose before the players crowd around to mock him for thinking the water was too cold; My uncle Zheng Zhibao, a turncoat, lays out a feast worthy of a Hongmen Banquet, only to be forced by the players to listen to a whole night of rap mocking traitors. From burning clothes at the Confucius Temple in Nan’an to building a concrete fortress on Gulangyu, From a five-man special operations squad to a steel tide of tens of thousands in iron armor, armed with rifled guns, Qing commander Bolo breaks down: “These definitely aren’t Ming troops! Why do they turn into white light when they die? Why do they come charging back at full health fifteen minutes later?” Zhu Chenggong stands atop the high command platform, with an army of countless green-eyed players behind him. “Men, the Eight Banners of the Great Qing are right ahead.” “Their health bars are showing! Charge!”