I Became a Refugee in the Late Ming Dynasty

While others transmigrate as nobles or wealthy merchants, Yang Zhiheng awakens as a starving refugee in 1632—the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, when drought has turned Henan into a hellscape of cannibalism and despair. Sold to a brothel after reaching the city, he faces a brutal choice: accept his fate in a crumbling empire, or rise from the ashes of the dying Ming Dynasty. If this empire cannot shelter him, then he'll tear it down and build his own.