The Flourishing Longqing-Wanli Era

You can tell from the title: this is a story about transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty. Eighty days of loyalty with unshorn hair, a roll call of figures from the seventeen reigns of the Ming Dynasty. A hundred thousand people united in death for their cause, preserving three hundred li of Ming territory. The Ming Dynasty lasted 276 years. Countless remarkable figures wrote their own chapters in the empire’s rise, yet even they could not withstand the dynasty’s decline. When Zhang Juzheng died, the decades-long reforms of the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli eras came to an end, and the death knell of the Ming Dynasty began to toll. The Han people are hardworking, kind, and eager to learn. They say a sea accepts all rivers because it is vast. Must they really be unable to escape the trials of history? When the soul of a modern-day academic underachiever unexpectedly arrives in the Ming Dynasty, born into a hereditary family of low-ranking military officers, what can he do? Can his arrival breathe new life into a dynasty already on its deathbed?