Reborn as the Chongzhen Emperor: Restoring the Great Ming to Glory

I open my eyes to find myself at the end of the eleventh year of the Chongzhen reign. Beset by turmoil within and enemies without, the Great Ming stands on the brink of collapse!

I, the emperor, look desperately about me. Where among the imperial court are the ministers loyal to their sovereign? Before the throne, I see only groveling faces and servile souls!

I see wine and meat rotting behind vermilion gates, while the bones of those frozen to death litter the roads.

Night after night, music and revelry fill the mansions of the rich, while the Central Plains lie barren for a thousand miles, the land strewn with the starved dead!

Bandit rebels run rampant, and the Jurchen foe eyes our realm with greed. What have the common people done to deserve this?

With gleaming spears and armored steeds, let my keen blade cleave the heavens!

I am Zhu Youjian, and I swear to restore the Great Ming and raise it once more to the pinnacle of glory!