The Tide Rises in the Late Ming Dynasty

An investment manager worked overtime in an office building in Lujiazui until late at night. When he woke up, he found that he had become Wang Zhengyang, a fifteen-year-old wealthy man from Shanghai County. The family owns five sand ships, is a scholar and has a great reputation. His mother is still alive, and his father is still alive. Sounds good? But he knew one thing clearly: there were still seventeen years left in the Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen struggled blindly for seventeen years and finally hanged himself on a coal mountain. The script of the time traveler should have been simple: stock up on food, money, and guns. When Li Zicheng comes to Beijing, he will run south and find a place to survive until the end of time. But he just didn't want to be stubborn. He will use these sixteen years, in this chaotic world of heroes, to go from a declining merchant to a figure who stirs up the situation - donating to Jinshan Guards, developing Zhoushan, aiding Mao Wenlong, subduing Zheng Zhilong, suppressing bandits and rising to the rank of general. He will take advantage of the Qing army's march south to unite with the Southern Ming rebels to complete the modern military counterattack, and finally regain the border, control Malacca, and control the maritime power in Southeast Asia. Do you think this is a cool article? No. Every step is a game on the edge of a cliff, and every choice may bring the entire plan to collapse. What he had to deal with was not only the peasant army and the Qing army, but also the court that was rotten to the core, the greedy government, and the last emperor whose ability could not support his ambition. He knows the direction of history, but history never follows the script. Sixteen years, not much time left for time travellers.