Late Ming: I Pose as a Descendant of the Jianwen Emperor

Impersonating Jianwen. People impersonate others to gain influence; what influence would you have if you impersonated Jianwen during the Chongzhen era? Who would want to follow the descendants of someone who could drive even his own uncle to self-immolation?

Frankly, I don't understand the author's thinking about defending Huguang. This was only the mid-Chongzhen period. Unless you could conquer it in three months and immediately establish a stronghold, it was impossible. I'm not looking down on Zhang Xianzhong, but at this time, the rebel army's fighting strength was truly weak. They couldn't handle a large number of regular troops.

In the later years of the Chongzhen Emperor's reign, this title was essentially meaningless; frankly, it served no practical purpose. At that point, the people no longer cared which prince the emperor was.

Before Zhu Di entered the palace, he was in charge of "purifying the palace," and only then did the story of Emperor Jianwen's self-immolation come about. Interestingly, the person in charge of "purifying the palace" was a Jurchen eunuch. The descendants of Zhu Biao, namely the commoner Jian and the commoner Wu, disappeared after the Chenghua era.

The descendants of Jianwen are not even as good as Liu Bei's Han imperial relatives. I really can't think of anyone who would respond to this call. If you're going to rebel against the Ming dynasty, why are you attacking the descendants of Emperor Ming? If you want to restore the Ming dynasty, who would respond to Jianwen?

He's already the emperor. He still goes to brothels to find women and even makes prostitutes his concubines. He wants women, but instead of holding a selection of concubines, he goes to brothels. What a madman!

"" (Bēizhí): Commonly used by subordinates to address superiors in the Qing Dynasty, but rarely used in the Ming Dynasty. "" (Xiǎoxiù nǚ): This term was exclusive to the Eight Banners system in the Qing Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the selection of concubines and palace maids was called "" (cǎixuǎn), not "", and the rules were completely different.

Having read up to chapter 98, seeing this chapter, I knew I should give up. To think I could use outsourcing to build ancient infrastructure is utterly naive. I'm not even familiar with Capital, let alone its famous quotes—"A businessman with profits exceeding 300% dares to sell the rope that hanged him."

At this point, who would care about Zhu Yunwen's descendants? There were royals everywhere, and Zhang Xianzhong's army had many royals in it, so they had no appeal whatsoever.

Li Zicheng didn't impersonate anyone's descendant. The late Ming Dynasty was different from the late Han Dynasty; the late Ming Dynasty didn't value lineage or anything like that. If you had ability, you could succeed; there was no need to pretend to be someone's descendant.