A Thousand Households in the South China Sea at the End of the Ming Dynasty

In 1640, the thirteenth year of the Chongzhen reign of the Great Ming, the dynasty was beset by internal strife and external threats. To the northeast, the Manchus watched like tigers, while peasant uprisings surged across the country. The regions around the capital, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi were all ravaged by natural disasters. The people ate dirt and wild vegetables, and even resorted to exchanging children for food. The Great Ming Empire was hurtling toward the abyss of destruction! At this critical moment, a soul from more than three hundred years in the future arrived in the Ming dynasty, taking over the body of Zhang Pengfei, commander of the Dapeng Garrison’s Thousand-Household Office in Nanhai Guard. The course of history quietly changed. See how Zhang Pengfei makes his mark in the waning years of the Ming, carving a path to a brighter future for the Chinese people through mountains of corpses and seas of blood...