Seven Years of Chongzhen's Reign

Chai Xingge, a graduate student in the Department of History, died suddenly and unexpectedly when he was at the deepest level of his research on Ming history. His soul actually traveled back to the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634) and possessed the body of a poor supervisor of the same name in Nanjing Imperial College. He was not a simple soul traveler, but a "reborn person" with complete memories of his previous life and endless regrets - in the chaos of consciousness, he witnessed another "future": Although he tried to turn the tide with historical knowledge, he underestimated the complexity of the politics of the late Ming Dynasty and the dangers of the human heart. Now, he has returned with this memory of blood and fire, and the time is exactly the starting point of the tragedy in his previous life. Chai Xingge, who is fully aware of the direction of history and his personal destiny, is determined not to repeat the same mistakes. Relying on his thorough understanding of the political situation, characters, economy, and military in the late Ming Dynasty, he wanted to be a chess player in this life, not a chess piece. He skillfully took advantage of the imperial examination and shocked Nanjing with his shocking policies. He was ranked second in high school, but he took the initiative to go to border towns or famine-stricken areas to avoid the whirlpool of early party strife in the capital and accumulate real strength and popularity through local practice. He made friends with the hard-working officials who were excluded by Donglin, secretly supported Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and other good generals, trained the new army with a vision beyond the times, promoted sweet potato drought resistance, and rectified the salt tax and commercial tax. However, the road to changing one's destiny is full of thorns. Qingliu, represented by Wen Tiren (Villain 1), a disciple of Donglin Party leader Qian Qianyi, regarded him as a heretic intent on destroying the "ancestral system" and the interests of the literati group, and constantly impeached and criticized him in the court. Yi Si Li Jian Bing Bi eunuch**