Ming Dynasty: My Father Is Wei Zhongxian, I Teach Chongzhen to Seize Assets

Wei Qiang, a third-year philosophy major, wakes up to find himself transmigrated into the body of the beloved son of Wei Zhongxian, the all-powerful eunuch dictator of the Tianqi era in the Ming Dynasty. His new reality is a ticking time bomb: he knows that within a few years, the future emperor Chongzhen will make the Wei family his first target—execution, confiscation, and annihilation. Worse, Chongzhen will then be misled by the Donglin faction, dismantle the secret police and mining supervisors, bankrupt the treasury, and doom the empire to ruin. While other transmigrators start with a dog, Wei Qiang starts with a death sentence. When his new father gleefully announces that he has been granted the title "Nine-Thousand-Year-Old," Wei Qiang explodes, pointing at the most powerful man in the realm and shouting, "Are you an idiot? This is a trap!" His analysis terrifies Wei Zhongxian so much that he has the official who proposed the title thrown into the Eastern Factory dungeons—where the man indeed proves to be a spy. Rolling up his sleeves, Wei Qiang puts the fearsome Eastern Factory agents to work making honeycomb briquettes, opening coal stations, and raking in cash. While building his business empire, he schemes: Emperor Chongzhen is desperate for money. Instead of waiting to be destroyed, why not teach him how to confiscate the fortunes of corrupt civil officials instead? Follow the transmigrator Wei Qiang as he trains his notorious father, mentors the emperor in asset seizure, and drags the collapsing Ming Dynasty back from the brink. A lighthearted father-son comedy, a fiery fiscal war, and a history rewritten by coal briquettes—this late Ming is now his to command.