Great Ming: Father, Stop Fooling Around. I’m the Legitimate Heir Now

Zhu Jianxi transmigrated to the Ming dynasty, becoming the secret eldest son of the Crown Prince, Zhu Qizhen, who would later become Emperor Yingzong.

Just as Zhu Qizhen led tens of thousands of elite Ming troops on a personal campaign against the Oirat, Zhu Jianxi made the acquaintance of the court minister Yu Qian.

Then the Ming suffered the Tumu Crisis. The expeditionary army was wiped out, Emperor Zhu Qizhen was captured, and the dynasty faced an unprecedented threat of annihilation.

Yu Qian took power in the face of crisis and, on Zhu Jianxi's advice, enacted a series of measures to rally the people and prepare for war.

The captured emperor, Zhu Qizhen, meanwhile, kept causing trouble for the Ming, going around knocking at border passes in his capacity as emperor and writing letters demanding huge ransoms...

To stabilize the people, Yu Qian, Empress Dowager Sun, and the others made Zhu Jianxi emperor without his knowledge, launching his career as a ruler.

Zhu Jianxi: One moment I was a commoner, the next I was emperor. Since that's how it is, then let me usher in a different kind of golden age for the Ming...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.