Rule with an Iron Fist: Give the Ming Dynasty Another Hundred Years

Modern-day Huang Ming transmigrates into Chongzhen just as he ascends the throne, inheriting a crumbling Ming Dynasty beset by internal strife and external threats. Factional strife in the court is ruining the country, the army is rotten to the core, and the Later Jin and rebel forces are watching like hawks. He cuts off the fate of national ruin and casts aside the corrupt, misguided policy of benevolent rule, patiently plotting with an iron-fisted emperor's methods. He puts the peerlessly loyal and courageous Fang Zhenghua in high office, secretly summons Qin Liangyu's elite White-Pole troops, seizes the officials' weaknesses, and balances the factions in court. He systematically roots out the eunuch faction and the Donglin parasites, vowing to turn around the crisis at Jingshan and restore the vast lands of the Ming Dynasty.