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The Wise Emperor of the Wanli Era 万历明君
In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending
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I’m Really Not Doing My Job as Emperor 朕真的不务正业
On the nineteenth day of the first month of the first year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli, Zhu Yijun, sized up the Iron Triangle before him. His first ally looked rather kind. She was the Empress Dowager of the Ming. His second ally was just a eunuch whose job was to kowtow. His third ally was a powerful minister who practically radiated authority. At last, everyone turned their eyes to Us and asked what role We were playing. We looked at Our identity and said: We are The Great Emperor Who Neglects His
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The Heroic Ming Dynasty 大明豪雄
During the Wanli reign, the land was at peace. Liu Jin, a young man from the countryside of western Henan, had a touch of ambition. The curiosity, arrogance, and obsessions of a modern person had brought him to this era. “Anping Liu Jin delights in chaos and takes pleasure in disaster.”, Ming dynasty, Anonymous
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Wanli! 万历！
In the first year of the Wanli era of the Great Ming, the realm had enjoyed peace for a long time. But beneath that peace, the empire was already riddled with cracks. Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars threatened the northern passes, land was being consolidated into fewer hands, the people lived in hardship, the imperial clan's population was exploding, and the beginnings of a Little Ice Age were already showing. At that moment, Zhu Yi transmigrated into the Great Ming and
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A New Ming Dynasty Under Wanli 万历新明
Is it great to transmigrate and become an emperor? Honestly, not at all. You have more responsibilities and more obstacles to overcome than even someone who starts from nothing. It’s hard to repaint a ruined canvas already covered in garish colors. Zhu Yijun says, “If Heaven gave me another chance, I’d want to do this for another five hundred years!” Book group: Thanks to Xiao Long V for their support. QQ group: 962358765
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From Outlaw to Official 落草为官
In the forty-seventh year of the Wanli reign, I became an outlaw in Shandong. Others take to the hills and hide in the forests. I took to the county yamen. The rules of a bandit stronghold are simple: rob the rich, not the poor; take their money, not their lives. And the rules at the county yamen? Leave the rich alone and bleed the poor dry. As a bandit, you rob one household at a time. As an official, you rob thousands. So damn it, who’s the real bandit here? In the forty-seventh year of the Wa
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The Ming Dynasty Under Wanli 万历靖明
In the year 1572, forty-seven years remained until the Ming army's crushing defeat at Sarhu, and seventy-two years until the Central Plains fell and the Ming dynasty perished. The Ming dynasty had already begun to decline. Within its borders, official corruption, a crumbling military system, empty coffers, and a rash of wrongful convictions plagued the realm. Beyond them, the Tartars harassed the northwest, Japanese pirates menaced the southeast, and the Jurchens in the northeast were steadily r
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Great Ming Literary Master, 1556 大明文豪1556
In the bitter winter of 1534, Lu Qinhui opens his eyes to the freezing wind. Years later... Yan Shifan: “Go ahead, stir things up! I’ll gladly risk my life playing along with you!” Yan Maoqing: “The emperor gets a million, we get a million, and the other two million go back to his hometown!” Gao Gong: “Who are you calling Gao the Cannon? Lu Qinhui is the real cannon!” Xu Jie: “He’s as cunning as a fox. Is the position of Grand Secretary of the Cabinet destined to elude me?” Yan Song: “In court,
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The Great Ming Dynasty, 1566: Power Over All Under Heaven 大明王朝1566：权倾天下
Yan Shaoqing, exiled to the library to watch the stars, unexpectedly transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty of 1566 and becomes the grandson of Yan Song. He arrives in the Ming Dynasty with a mighty purpose: to save a collapsing world and prop up a crumbling empire. He sets the court in order, governs the officials, abolishes the princely fiefs, expands the military, promotes farming and commerce, opens maritime trade, and introduces new reforms. In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Yan Shaoqing is grante
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The Great Ming Dynasty's Emperor Wanli 大明世祖万历帝君
In 1572, Emperor Muzong of the Great Ming entrusted his ten-year-old heir, Zhu Yijun, to his ministers before his death. The young crown prince ascended the throne. In 1572, Gao Gong, the Grand Secretary, staunchly advocated abolishing the Directorate of Ceremonial, hoping to give the Grand Secretariat sole control of the government. Feng Bao, a eunuch of the Directorate, secretly altered the late emperor's edict, using his appointment as a regent to legally interfere in state affairs. Zhang Juz
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Late Ming: From Jinzhou Garrison Commander to Lord of Liaodong 明末：从金州千户，到辽东之王
After transmigrating to the late Ming Dynasty, Zhang Qi became the son of a thousand-household commander stationed in Lüshun under the Jinzhou Guard. From the start, the Battle of Sarhu had just ended, marking the beginning of the Ming Dynasty’s collapse. His father, Zhang Zhenshan, and more than a thousand elite soldiers from their commandery had died on the battlefield at Sarhu, leaving Zhang Qi with a few hundred old and frail survivors and a hollow, weakened mess. The Jurchens pressed in rel
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Late Ming: Building a Golden Age Again 明末，再创盛世
Transmigrated to the second year of Wanli, near the end of the Ming dynasty. The fool Li Sui rises from obscurity overnight, going from grinning at everyone he meets to becoming the top scorer in the palace examinations. He had planned to coast through government service, living off the knowledge he'd accumulated in his previous life. But his good friend Li Rusong sent in a glowing recommendation that landed him right in front of Zhang Juzheng, the grand secretary. Forced into the job, Li Sui wa
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I Am No Prime Minister, but a Regent 吾非相，乃摄也
He transmigrates to the eighth year of the Wanli reign as Zhang Juzheng’s third son, and has just come first in the imperial examination for the Gengchen year. Zhang Maoxiu can only cry out that this is bad news. He must not become the chief grand secretary’s son, must not become a top-ranked scholar, and absolutely must not become an official of the Great Ming! As the dynasty undergoes upheaval, Zhang Maoxiu walks on eggshells. But when he looks back thirty years later, he discovers that the
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Trade with All Nations: I Propelled the Great Ming to the Top of the World 商通万国：我推大明上日不落神坛
A bankrupt CEO jumps into a river, only to become a condemned prisoner in the Ming Dynasty of 1572. He saves his life with glass buttons and stays alive by melting silver bricks. In just 60 days, he stakes 50,000 taels of silver on the frozen Forbidden City, and turns “sugar, rice, silk, and iron” into global hard currency. From Yuegang to Amsterdam, he uses data to outclass Western fleets, uses bonds to disperse mutinous troops and stop the skinning alive of prisoners, and, in the vacuum left b
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Reborn as Wanli: Rising from Beggar to Emperor 重生万历：从底层乞丐逆袭
During the Wanli era, the imperial city rises in grandeur and the streets bustle with noise. Amid the music at Mingke Pavilion, schemes of romance and desire unfold; beneath the bridges, cold rain bears witness to desperate struggles. Chen Ye, who transmigrates from the modern world, starts with a bowl to his name and ends up a beggar, but hardship cannot blunt his edge. He happens upon the lovesick Li Jia and sees through Du Shiniang's ploy to drive others away. Under the guise of a "loyal serv
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I Became Wanli of the Ming Dynasty 我成了明朝的万历
The year was 1580, the eighth year of the Wanli reign, sixty-four years before the land would be lost and the Ming dynasty fall. That same year, a soul from the modern world replaced the Wanli Emperor and took the helm of this vast empire. But the Ming was already beset by storms: political corruption, worsening land concentration, a budget deficit, intensifying social tensions, and a feeble military. In the blood-red sunset, the magnificent Forbidden City seemed ready to topple. More importantl
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Great Ming 1582: I Transmigrate as the Wanli Emperor 大明1582：穿越万历皇帝
On the twentieth day of the sixth month of the tenth year of the Wanli era, Zhang Juzheng died. Lu Ze, a man from a later age, transmigrated into the Wanli Emperor. Would he be doomed to repeat the past? Or could he defy fate and change it? From this moment on, the wheels of history began to turn in a different direction…
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Power Behind the Throne in the Great Ming: My Uncle Is Hai Rui 权倾大明：我的叔父是海瑞
My name is Hai Xing. I passed the county-level imperial examination at twelve and know a little about swords and bows. At fifteen, I went to stay with my uncle, the Beijing official Hai Rui, also known as Hai Gangfeng. Who would have thought that by day I’d have to pore over the Great Ming Code and help my uncle write a memorial denouncing the Jiajing Emperor, while at night I’d carry a matchlock and persuade people with virtue? It was during all those days and nights that I discovered Elder Xu
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The Sagacious Emperor Wanli 万历圣君
The history books call him a foolish ruler who neglected state affairs for thirty years, and the chief culprit behind the fall of the Ming Dynasty. But who has heard that when ten-year-old Wanli first took the throne, the Grand Secretary tried to force his hand? With a memory package in his mind, Zhu Yijun looked at the ambitious ministers surrounding him and could only say, “Whoever wants to be emperor can have the job!” The instincts of his ten-year-old body clashed constantly with the memorie
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Grand Secretary of the Great Ming, 1582 大明首辅1582
The twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, the greatest imperial examination list in history. The future Grand Secretaries Li Chunfang and Zhang Juzheng are already emerging as brilliant talents. Chen Yuting, who transmigrated here, is busy keeping out of factional strife... Longqing ascends the throne, and Chen Yiqin and Zhao Zhenji enter the cabinet one after another. Chen Yuting has a place at court, yet he’s still busy avoiding factional strife... Yan Song falls, and no one even claims his remai
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Late Ming: From the Start, I Conquered Nurhaci 明末：开局收服努尔哈赤
The moment Li Ruhe opens his eyes, he discovers he's transmigrated to the Wanli era, in Ming Liaodong, home to a hundred thousand military households. “I am Li Chengliang's sixth son, Li Ruhe!” Then he sees his father, Li Chengliang, return from battle with several young Jurchen children in tow, whom he has adopted. Li Ruhe suddenly realizes that one of them is Nurhaci, the man who will found the Later Jin and deal a devastating blow to the Ming decades later! “People in later generations all sa
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Zhang Juzheng’s Soul Enters the Wanli Emperor: Rebuilding the Ming Dynasty 张居正魂入万历帝：重构大明
In the tenth year of the Wanli era, in the sixth month, Zhang Juzheng suddenly passed away. With the powerful minister no longer holding them in check, undercurrents began to swirl through the imperial court. The opposition, led by Zhang Siwei, saw an opportunity to overturn every reform that had come before. The local gentry across the country were just as quick to sense it. They planned to join forces with officials in the capital to eliminate all of Zhang Juzheng's remaining supporters an
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Great Ming: Transmigrating to the Wanli Era, I Outwork the Civil Officials 大明：穿越万历，卷死文官
Xu Lai, a modern programmer and overwork addict trapped in the 996 grind, woke up to find that he had transmigrated into the body of the Wanli Emperor, Zhu Yijun. The moment he opened his eyes, he found himself in court, where officials bickered endlessly and memorials piled up like mountains. The former Wanli was about to begin his thirty-year reign of doing nothing, leaving the government in disarray and the treasury empty. This was the result of both his compromise with the officials and his
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Transmigrated to Ming China to Become a Pirate 穿越大明做大海盗
Wang Chi arrives in the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty, in the midst of the Korean campaign. He has a sailing warship, and not just any warship: it was built in the late nineteenth century. With a technological advantage spanning several centuries, Wang Chi rules the seas and finds few worthy opponents. He repeatedly strikes at Japan's naval forces and raids its army, helping the Ming forces defeat the Japanese. When the Japanese withdraw from Korea and the Ming army prepares to pull out as well,
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My Eunuch Godfather 我的太监干爹
How can you make a name for yourself after transmigrating to the late Ming? You can't write or fight, and you have no capital to trade. Find yourself a eunuch godfather. Become the king of the dung trade, take on construction projects, grow tobacco, make black tea, blow glass, build seagoing ships, promote sweet potatoes… Translate Western learning, cast cannons, build blast furnaces, construct public toilets, print newspapers, establish banks, sell government bonds… Reform grain trans
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In the Sixth Year of Wanli: I Really Want to Be a Wise Emperor 万历六年：朕真的想做明君
In 1577, Zhang Wenming, father of Zhang Juzheng, died of illness in Jiangling, Huguang. With Empress Dowager Li's support, the Wanli Emperor issued an edict retaining Zhang Juzheng in office, citing "the heavy burden of state affairs." The decision caused an uproar throughout the court and the country. Hanlin Academy editors Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian, and others submitted memorials opposing his exemption from mourning. They were beaten with the court staff and dismissed from office. March 1578
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Reborn as the Wanli Emperor: I Only Want to Stay Alive and Take the Empire for Myself 重生万历：我只想保命撬江山
The lingering scent of sandalwood ash and the musty smell of rotting fabric still clung to Zhu Yijun's nostrils. His heavy mourning robes weighed down his young frame, nearly suffocating him. Before him loomed the shadowy contours of Fengxian Hall, with ministers in robes white as snow kneeling below. Yet amid this grim scene, no one truly looked up at the nine-year-old child on the dragon throne. He had become the Wanli Emperor. The "shut-in" who, according to the history books, had gone thirty
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History Park: Starting with the Wanli Aid to Korea 历史乐园：从万历援朝开始
Others grind dungeons. He creates a new era in the pages of history.
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The Spring of the Tenth Year of Wanli 万历十年春
The tenth year of the Wanli era, standing at the crossroads of history. Zhang Juzheng, who should have died suddenly, leaving both himself and his political reforms in ruin, was given a chance to live. Hai Gangfeng, who should have died in silence, wasting away in despair, was also given a new mission! The Qi Family Army, framed by others and brutally slaughtered on the training grounds, was given a new future as well! And all these changes stemmed from a man named Zhu Yijun! A man who had hit t
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Spring in the Great Ming 大明春
For thirty years, dukes and marquises held their sway; Even in dreams, one lived a life of style. Now fallen on hard times on Handan Road, I turn to you, sir, and ask to borrow your pillow. This is the story of a homebody who transmigrates to the Ming dynasty during the Wanli era and makes his mark.
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The Wanli Emperor Has Arrived 万历驾到
You transmigrate into the body of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, and you'll hear a voice announce: “Emperor Wanli has arrived!” I'm no good at writing introductions. It's simply a story about transmigrating into Wanli's body and becoming emperor.
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Great Ming: From the Start, I Became a Brocade Guard 大明：开局成为锦衣卫
A flying-fish uniform, an embroidered spring knife. When the Brocade-Clad Guard appears, evil spirits retreat! It is the Wanli era. Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng has passed away, Qi Jiguang has been transferred elsewhere, and the rebellious Zhu Yijun is forcibly levying mining taxes and abolishing the new policies. The Three Great Campaigns are about to begin... Lin Mang transmigrates into this world and inherits a hereditary position in the Brocade-Clad Guard, but after being framed by treacher
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Great Ming: From Slave to Rising Star 大明：从奴隶开始逆袭
In the thirty-fourth year of the Wanli reign, Qin Sheng transmigrated to Liaodong, where he was captured and taken to the heart of Jianzhou to become a Jurchen manor slave. From then on, he began his rise from the bottom to turn his fortunes around. Some said, “Without him, the battles of Sarhu and Hun River would certainly have ended very differently.” Others said, “He was the Marquis Champion of the Great Ming, the true Great Wall of the empire. His army was invincible, and wherever his banner
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Great Ming: My Teacher Is Zhang Juzheng 大明：家师张居正
The good news: I've transmigrated to the Ming dynasty, and I've got everything going for me: I'm a top scholar who earned the top honor in all six imperial examinations, and a favored student of Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng. It's a perfect start. But there's bad news too. My top scholar title was stripped from me two days ago for opposing Zhang Juzheng's decision to observe mourning leave, and my former teacher has thrown me into the imperial prison. Shen Xiuji, who spent eighteen years trapped
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I Am the Wanli Emperor 朕就是万历帝
Traveling back in time as the great grandson of Emperor Jiajing, he took advantage of Zhu Yijun's trap in advance, managed step by step, and became the Wanli Emperor who was completely different from the one in history, creating a completely different new Ming Dynasty. The new book "I Will Not Be the Emperor" is set in the tenth year of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty. Troubled times have come and the Central Plains is fertile with blood. I want to live, I want to lead a group of people
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I Served as Zhang Juzheng's Deputy in the Cabinet 我在内阁给张居正当次辅
Standing before you is Zhang Juzheng, the twelve-year-old child prodigy who passed the Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi examinations, served as a Shujishi, a Hanlin Compiler, a Right Attendant Gentleman in the Right Spring Chamber, an Assistant Director of the Directorate of Education, a Right Admonisher in the Right Spring Chamber, a Hanlin Academician, a Vice Minister of Rites, an Assistant Grand Secretary, a Vice Minister of Personnel, a Grand Academician of the East Pavilion, the Minister of Rites,
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Great Ming: Wanli Wants Me to Succeed Him 大明：万历求我继位
In 1596, Japan was preparing to invade Joseon once again. The following year, the Ming would commit its full strength to aid Joseon against the Japanese, while the Bozhou Tusi would seize the chance to rebel with 200,000 troops, exploiting the empire's internal weakness. The three great campaigns of a decade had drained the Ming's strength and emptied its treasury. Liaodong was steadily falling into ruin, while the Jurchens grew stronger by the day... The officials at court turned a blind eye an
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Great Ming: Did I Become Wanli’s Grandpa in His Pocket? 大明：我成万历随身老爷爷了？
In the first year of the Wanli reign, an engineer and historian from five hundred years in the future awoke in the dreams of a nine-year-old emperor. He had only one question: If he did something, could he save the Great Ming from its fall?
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The Sixth Year of Wanli: Saving the Empire from Collapse 万历六年挽天倾
If, after Zhang Juzheng's death, the Wanli reforms that cleansed the world of corruption had continued, and even gone deeper by tempering away the dross to refine what was pure and bring peace to the realm, would the Jia Shen upheaval still have occurred? In the fifth month of the sixth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng left the capital to bury his father. The Great Ming's New Policies suddenly hung in limbo, while undercurrents surged throughout the court and the realm. Li Li, a low-ranking cle
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Spring of the Fourteenth Year of Wanli 万历十四年春
In the spring of the fourteenth year of Wanli, a great fire broke out at the Qianqing Palace. Inside the young emperor’s body now lived an old soul. Zhu Ping’an, an assistant research fellow in the Budget Division of the Provincial Department of Finance, had spent his life working with numbers. He had never solved a sensational case or pocketed ill-gotten gains, and he had died peacefully of old age. When he opened his eyes again, he had become the twenty-three-year-old Wanli Emperor, Zhu Yijun.
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