In the first year of the Chongzhen reign, seventeen-year-old Zhu Youjian transmigrates into the body of the last emperor.
Before him lies a complete disaster: eunuch factions and the Donglin Party are fighting to the death at court, the treasury is two million short, a million refugees are on the move, the Later Jin are eyeing the empire hungrily, and bandits are setting the land ablaze. In seventeen years, the country will fall, the emperor will die for his realm, and Huaxia will become the slaves of barbarians!
No matter. I have seen history!
Wei Zhongxian? I'll use him as a blade to purge the Donglin Party, centralize power, and fill the treasury!
The Donglin Party? If they dare stand in my way, I'll crush them!
The bandits? I'll recruit them into a suicide battalion and have them conquer the realm for me!
The Later Jin? You dare invade my Great Ming? I'll raze your Shengjing and turn your Eight Banners into my vanguard!
Others call me a tyrant?
So what?
Killing a thousand to save ten million is the optimal solution!
I am order. I am the Way of Heaven!
Whoever stands in my way dies!
Sweet potatoes and potatoes will first end the famine. Glass and soap will earn my first fortune. With Portuguese cannons, flintlock guns, and steam engines, I'll transform Great Ming's mess into an industrial empire, one step at a time!
You refuse to submit? Then you'll be brought into the fold!
The Mongols are skilled horse archers? They'll be my cavalry vanguard!
The Koreans are good workers? Put them to work building railways!
Japanese ronin can fight? They'll be cannon fodder for my sieges!
This time, I will rewrite history!
There will be no more ten days of slaughter in Yangzhou, no more massacre at Jiading, and no more fall of Huaxia!
I will plant Great Ming's dragon banner across the whole world!
I will put Huaxia atop the world, eternal and undying!
It's rare to see a good piece of writing from the late Ming Dynasty that doesn't take shortcuts, has no outrageous systems, and no quick black technology. It relies on wisdom and iron blood to reorganize the government, eliminate civil strife, and develop military industry, gradually reversing the trend of national subjugation, and full of feelings for family and country.
Wei Zhongxian was ruthless and pragmatic in his work. He was not afraid of the gentry and powerful people in collecting taxes and devoted himself to helping the court gather money and food. Although there are many vicious and evil methods, they are more able to implement practical things than the civil servants who mislead the country with empty talk.
The writing is really spot-on. In the previous chapter, the emperor was carrying out reforms and food production in the capital. In this chapter, he went directly to the local land to check the land. The local gentry hid their fields one by one, evaded taxes, and colluded with petty officials to boycott the imperial government's new policies, clearly sucking the blood of the Ming Dynasty. The original Chongzhen would only compromise, but now the protagonist is merciless, arresting the big bosses who took the lead in making trouble, and dividing the remaining gentry, using simple methods. The civil servants in the court also helped the old squire speak up and made things difficult for the emperor with old rules. The confrontation between the emperor and his ministers looked particularly real. The author did not write about the ease with which the investigation could be completed, but wrote about the difficulties that hindered reform at every turn.
The more I read, the more I get hooked. The plot is compact, the characters are full-bodied, and updates are added quickly. I can't wait to see the subsequent development. I open it every morning to take a look at the updates.
Will they take the qualification certificate after studying?
In this chapter, Chongzhen's aura is full of aura, and he is full of toughness and toughness among the gentry of the court. Some people think it is cruel to rely on iron-blooded centralization to clean up the evils accumulated in the late Ming Dynasty, while others think it saves the country. Which side do you stand on?
"Kill a thousand people and save ten million, this is the optimal solution!" This sentence really shocked me. Others who traveled to Chongzhen were afraid of being scolded as a coward, but ours was better off and directly transformed into a "tyrant of order." Those who stand in the way will die, and those who refuse will be brought into the order! This ultimate pragmatic imperial mentality is so touching. Especially the sentence "Wei Zhongxian's my dog, if it dares to bark, I will chop off your dog's head", which is domineering and has the eunuchs and Donglin parties under control.
When I saw in the introduction that "There will never be another Ten Days in Yangzhou, there will never be another Three Massacres in Jiading, there will never be another fall in China", I instantly lost my guard. What moved me most about this book was not the coolness, but the obsession that belongs to the Chinese people. In the name of a tyrant, the protagonist reshapes the reality of China, transforming the Ming Dynasty into an industrial empire step by step, and wants the dragon flag to be planted all over the world. For this eternal ambition, why not bear the infamy of a tyrant? Highly recommend everyone to join in!
Five-star praise! "The Tyrant of Order: Chongzhen Rebuilds China" breaks out of the old routine of traditional Chongzhen literature talking about benevolent politics. The tyrant character of "I am order, and I kill a few worms to bring peace to millions of people" touches the pain point. From ascending the throne to clean up the chaos caused by the eunuchs in Donglin, promoting high-yielding crops to rescue refugees, and then developing self-developed flintlock guns and laying out modern industries, he gradually reversed the fate of the country's subjugation in the late Ming Dynasty. It is a solid and refreshing piece of research on historical details. It is a rare masterpiece of fictional writing about the late Ming Dynasty!
If the country can be stable, at least the people who stutter will be less rebellious.