Great Ming: I Lecture Chongzhen While Wanli Listens in Secret

Song Yu transmigrates and finds himself facing the mess that is the late Ming dynasty. The Great Ming's lazy emperor, Zhu Yijun, now old, still lives like a homebody, staying in his palace and never attending to business. It seems that if you want to be an emperor, you have to start with a child. Looking at the young Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian, who only reaches his shoulder, Song Yu smiles meaningfully... It's time to let you experience what a basic education is! "Your Highness, remember: the first step in making plans is figuring out who our friends are and who our enemies are." "Your Highness, remember this too: our Great Ming lacks silver, so we need to use silver to anchor the price of the silk we sell to the West. By raising and lowering interest rates, we can reap all the silver in the world. What's that called?" Little Chongzhen: "I know! That's called the silver tide!" Song Yu smiles. "That's right." Many years later, historians look back on the years from the Wanli reign to the Chongzhen reign, utterly astonished. Everyone says that from the forty-sixth year of Wanli onward, the Great Ming's fortunes took a sudden turn: the lazy dragon rose to govern the court, while its young grandson spoke in nothing but new ideas! The Five Years to Govern a Country, Three Years of Practice Exams, compiled by a mysterious man... is even hailed as the greatest imperial tutoring guide of all time!