Iron-Blooded Chongzhen: Dragon Soul Reborn

In the autumn of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Lin Xiao, a modern special forces soldier, died in a mission to recover a national treasure. When he opened his eyes again, he became the sixteen-year-old Chongzhen who had just ascended the throne. Under the dragon robe, he had a different soul. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was in critical condition: Wei Zhongxian controlled the government, the Donglin Party was ready to move, the golden tigers outside the pass were eyeing, and the treasury could starve rats to death. The entire court was waiting to see how the young emperor would be manipulated, but little did they know that the new emperor's first edict had already been written in the dark. Lin Xiao is not in a hurry to kill people. He used modern intelligence thinking to maintain a delicate balance between the eunuchs and the Qingliu, squeezed the first military expenditure from the pockets of the emperor's relatives, rectified the Beijing camp, supported the navy, and promoted the integration of officials and gentry into paying food. Every step of reform is tempered in blood and fire, and every victory comes at a heavy price. When the internal affairs were stable, he looked beyond the Great Wall and the sea. After twenty years of conquests from east to west, the flag of the Great Ming Dynasty was planted in a land that has never been reached. In the last ten years of his life, the white-haired Lin Xiao went to Europe as the emperor, sat across from Louis XIV, and signed the first international treaty of equality in Chinese history. In the forty-seventh year of Chongzhen, 63-year-old Lin Xiao passed away peacefully in his sleep. What he left behind was a surviving Ming Dynasty—and a nation that dared to look at the world head-on.