Li Jie always felt that he was dreaming. Although he had been traveling through the Ming Dynasty for three days, he still could not adapt to everything around him.

Didn’t you just go to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum? Didn’t you just brag in front of Zhu Yuanzhang’s tomb for a while? As for just taking him directly into this broken land and being a coolie?

At first, he always thought that he was dreaming, and ignored the palace maid and eunuch who was waiting beside him and continued to sleep. However, when he woke up again, he opened his eyes and was still the eunuch guarding him, looking worried.

He was finally sure that this was not a dream, because he obviously felt very hungry, which was simply terrible.

His identity is Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Empire. It was February of the seventh year of Chongzhen. It was converted according to the chronological method of later generations, that is, 1634 AD.

Although he was the emperor, Li Jie was not happy at all. As a postgraduate student in a history department of a university in Nanjing later generations, he knew the situation of the Ming Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, especially when Chongzhen was reigned.

Outside, there were Jianzhou Jurchens attacking each year, and there were peasant troops looting everywhere. At the same time, there were plague and drought. In addition, it happened to be in the Little Ice Age. The broken ship of the Ming Dynasty had already leaked winds everywhere, and it was still dancing wildly on the edge of sinking...

Li Jie has also read many online novels. Although he envied those time travelers who lived happily in ancient times, he never thought that one day this kind of thing would happen to him.

There are no mobile phones, computers, Internet, and electronic games and the bright nightlife of later generations. It is dark except for a few candles.

He was very curious about the adaptability of the male protagonists, as if he could adapt to the huge difference between ancient and modern times through time. However, he had been traveling for three days, but he still felt like he was dreaming.

Since the major was in the history of the Ming Dynasty, he knew all the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty. All of these emperors had special hobbies, including those who liked to fight crickets, those who liked to refine elixirs, and those who liked to play with women and carpenters, but they did not surrender.

Even if the emperor was captured by the Tartars and the capital was surrounded by the Tartars, the old Zhu family never thought of surrendering. Not only that, for three hundred years since the Ming Dynasty, they have always adhered to the ancestral teachings of not being in harmony, not paying tribute, not submitting to the emperor, guarding the country's borders, and the king's country's death.

It was at the time of life and death in 1644 that Emperor Chongzhen simply hung up a crooked tree in order not to be a prisoner.

It was a sad history, and Li Jie was depressed whenever he saw that history. The country of tens of millions of subjects was defeated by a tribe with only 400,000 or 500,000 people in total. It was really a big deal!

If we say that Emperor Chongzhen is really a well-known figure, the people who criticize him say he is stubborn and mean, while those who praise him say he is hardworking and diligent.

Since the emperor inherited the great cause at the age of seventeen, he has made up his mind to revive the Ming Dynasty. He has gotten up earlier than a chicken and slept later than a dog. He has worked in patched imperial robes for seventeen years. It is beyond doubt that he is diligent.

But Chongzhen was also a rare emperor who messed up the "relationship with the people" and "relationship with the bureaucracy" and is even worse than his brother, the Emperor of Heaven.

There was no way. Their father Zhu Changluo was the crown prince for twenty years and died just one month after he ascended the throne. This made the two brothers no chance to receive systematic imperial education at all.

Emperor Tianqi was fine, so he had a conspiracy with Wei Zhongxian to compete with the civil servant group. Emperor Chongzhen was extremely frustrated in checks and balances, which led to the last out of control of the Donglin Party.

As for his suspicious personality, Li Jie believes it is inappropriate. According to his research, Chongzhen is not a suspicious person, at least not at the beginning.

Governor Yuan promised that when the Liao Dynasty was pacified in the fifth year, the young Emperor Chongzhen believed it, tightened his belt and asked for power to give power, silver and food and grass. Even if Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong due to personal grudges, Chongzhen did not blame him too much.

You should know that Mao Wenlong was a chief rank of the general, but Chongzhen stubbornly believed that Yuan Chonghuan put the overall situation first and had to do it in order to pacify the Liaodong camp for the court. It can be said that he has no doubt about using people.

There are so many such things. Every time the imperial court goes to war, Emperor Chongzhen will personally go to Andingmen to send him off. He will not miss the same thing as he should. In the first few years, he trusted these ministers almost 1,000 percent, but what was the exchange?

In exchange for repeated defeats, the bandits in the north became more and more intense, civil officials were greedy for money, military generals were afraid of death, and the nobles and civil officials in the court joined forces to fool him. Who would dare to believe these officials easily?

After Li Zicheng's 200,000 army captured Beijing, he hanged himself in Meishan with no minister calling him when the Jingyang bell was ringing.

The dragon robe he wore after his death was left with a letter of death: "I will die without a face to see my ancestors underground, and I will take my crown to cover my face. Let the thief split my body and do not hurt the people alone!"

The seventeen-year history of struggle was also the last struggle of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Chongzhen's resolute suicide made a tragic life and won the sympathy of later generations.

Therefore, if Li Jie really wanted to evaluate the emperor, objectively speaking, it can be summarized in twelve words - working hard for the rest of his life, but his ability is not good - he perfectly missed every opportunity to save the Ming Dynasty.

In the past two days, he has been staying in the Qianqing Palace for reasons of being unwell. Since he can no longer go back, he can only force himself to adapt to everything now.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the internal strife in the court was extremely serious, and even the emperor was not spared. As far as he knew, two young emperors in the Ming Dynasty actually died of frightened death after falling into the water.

A young man in his early twenties followed a large group of eunuchs at any time and caught a cold after falling into the water. Smart people know that there must be hidden information.

So the first thing Li Jie thought of was self-protection. It is now the seventh year of Chongzhen, and there are still ten years before the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Logically speaking, even if he follows the original historical trajectory, he will have no worries about his life for at least ten years.

But now Chongzhen is no longer the original Chongzhen. His arrival was a huge change, and since he was an emperor, he would definitely not be able to stand idly by the current situation.

It is not easy to travel through time, and you cannot lose the face of the time travelers. The Ming Dynasty has so many regrets. Since God has sent him, he naturally has to try to change all this.

Establishing a mind for the heaven and earth, establishing a destiny for the people, inheriting unique knowledge for the past sages, and opening up peace for future generations, is not something that can be achieved casually.

To turn the tide and to kill the Jianzhou Jurchens, which created humiliating modern history, into the cradle, he must first break the current situation of court officials and nobles being corrupt and corrupt.

But he knew more deeply that once a change was made, he would inevitably be regarded as an enemy by most noble court officials. If he did not want to fall into the water inexplicably like his two brothers before, he would have to cultivate his own team.

From this history he had studied and studied before, he thought of those loyal ministers who were truly willing to die for the court, and spent more than two days thinking about it to get the list in his hand now.
Chapter completed!