The Great Ming Is in Peril? I’ll Secure the Realm With a Wave of My Hand!

Modern college student Zhu Lian gets the unexpected chance to transmigrate into the body of the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian, in 1629.

By then, the Great Ming dynasty is nearing its end, and the realm is on the brink of collapse.

The times are dire: during the Little Ice Age, natural disasters strike across Ming territory. Shaanxi suffers drought and locust plagues, leaving almost no crops to harvest. The Yellow River bursts its banks, floods devastate parts of Henan, and refugees are everywhere.

The terrain is against them: during the Jisi Incident, Huang Taiji leads the Qing army and Mongol tribes around Mongolia, breaking through Longjing Pass, Hongshan Pass, and Da'an Pass. They besiege Zunhua, their forces pointing straight toward the capital. The capital is in peril.

The people are divided: factional struggles rage within the Ming court. Rebellions also erupt across Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, Gansu, and elsewhere. The insurgent forces have become an unstoppable blaze, and the dynasty is on shaky ground.

Zhu Lian transmigrates into a catastrophe from the start, but he refuses to give up. Remembering the atrocities committed after the Later Jin entered the passes, and how the original Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Great Ming, ended up hanging himself at Coal Hill, he resolves to change everything.

Famine after famine, rebellions without end, an empty treasury, and court factionalism... No matter how many obstacles lie ahead, he will press forward and do everything in his power to change the tragic fate of the Great Ming.