The Land Reborn in Glory

In the sixteenth year of the Chongzhen reign, Li Zicheng captured Tong Pass, and the Ming dynasty was nearing its end. Chen Luo, a chemistry graduate student, transmigrated into the body of a down-and-out scholar in Dantu County. He had no System, no golden finger, just a head full of knowledge from three centuries in the future. When a clan elder tried to use a forged IOU to drive someone to their death, Chen Luo exposed it in court. When a clerk accused him of secretly making gunpowder, he sent the man straight to prison. When a local magnate hoarded goods to drive up prices, Chen Luo used work-relief projects to empty his grain stores. Making saltpeter, inoculating against smallpox, training a new army: by the time Li Zicheng declared himself emperor in Xi'an and the flames in the north began sweeping south, the scholar in this small Jiangnan town had already sharpened his blade. In this life, he would give a dynasty of four hundred years a different ending.