The Prince's Counterattack in the Final Years of the Ming Dynasty

In the chaotic final years of the Ming Dynasty, with roving bandits everywhere, Tartars at the gates, and court factional strife, the tottering dynasty has only seven years left. Chen Mo starts by reorganizing a hundred remnant soldiers: managing officers with performance assessments, training new troops with standardized procedures, building cement walls to defend against bandits, and stabilizing the people with work-relief programs. Once one county is secure, he plans for one prefecture; once one prefecture is stable, he aims for the whole realm. While others kneel to survive, he stands and fights his way out. From Nanyang to the capital, from a centurion to a duke—the gates the emperor cannot defend, he will defend; the fate the Ming cannot reverse, he will reverse.