Rule with an Iron Fist: Give the Ming Dynasty Another Hundred Years

Huang Ming, a modern man, transmigrates into the newly enthroned Chongzhen Emperor and inherits a crumbling Ming Dynasty beset by troubles within and threats without. He watches as factional strife at court endangers the realm, the military rots from within, and the Later Jin and rebel forces circle hungrily. He breaks free of the dynasty's doomed fate, casts aside rigid benevolent rule, and patiently lays his plans with the iron-fisted methods of an emperor. He appoints the peerless, loyal and upright Fang Zhenghua to high office, secretly mobilizes Qin Liangyu's crack white-pole troops, keeps the officials in check with their own secrets, balances the forces at court, and methodically purges the eunuch faction and the Donglin faction's parasites. He vows to turn around the crisis at Jingshan and restore the Ming Dynasty's vast domain.