I Become a Warlord in the Great Ming

Chen Mingyu unexpectedly acquires a spirit snake watch, which also gives him the ability to transmigrate to the Ming Dynasty.

He plans to quietly become a merchant between two eras, making a little money on the side in each.

An impromptu attempt at something new leads Chen Mingyu to meet Wang Wei, a Daoist nun in plain clothes as famous as the Qinhuai Eight Beauties, but he never expects to get caught up in a turbulent affair.

This is the chaotic end of the Ming Dynasty: natural disasters, man-made calamities, banditry, plague, famine, and tyranny. It is paradise for powerful clans and aristocratic families, but hell for ordinary, decent people…

Yet to Chen Mingyu, who has known poverty all his life, this place is brimming with opportunity. Who would believe that a twenty-yuan antique-style bronze mirror could fetch fifty taels of silver? A glass ornament costing less than a hundred yuan can be traded for an authentic work by Dong Qichang worth tens of millions. That's a hundred-thousand-fold profit.

What? He's been promoted to commander of the Suiyang Guard?

What? Li Zicheng's fifty thousand elite troops are attacking? Whatever. Pour me a Molotov cocktail. The road to the underworld will be covered in ashes…