Transmigrating into Chongzhen's Reign: Three Months Left for the Dynasty? I Can Still Turn the Tide!

Zhu Youjian, a modern physics researcher, opens his eyes and finds himself Emperor Chongzhen. Li Zicheng's forces are at the gates, the imperial treasury holds just eighty thousand taels, the court is crawling with parasites, and the Ming dynasty has only three months left.

Other people transmigrate to become emperors and live in luxury. He transmigrates to become the ruler of a doomed dynasty? Fortunately, he has studied Ming history inside out, knows who is loyal and who is treacherous, and possesses modern physics knowledge that gives him an overwhelming technological edge.

His first move: confiscate the wealth of his father-in-law, Zhou Kui, and seize five hundred thousand taels of silver. His second: execute Grand Secretary Chen Yan and gain another forty thousand taels of gold. The grain transport network in Nanjing, the field guns beyond the passes, and the Jiangnan weaving workshops all become pieces on his board, ready to be rearranged.

When his ministers slander him, he takes it in stride. As Li Zicheng's army bears down on the capital, he presents them with firearms and city walls built from concrete. When the Manchu cavalry knocks at the gates, he unveils improved flintlock rifles and genuine Ningyuan cannons.

The gentry of Jiangnan point at him and call him a fool of an emperor, while the people in the city begin to hail him as the true Son of Heaven.

"I am not merely the Son of Heaven of the Great Ming. I am Heaven itself!"