Great Ming: Grandfather Makes One Move, and a Commoner Becomes an Imperial Grandson!

"I think... my adoptive grandfather, Zhu Yuanzhang, wants to get rid of me."

Zhu Ke murmured.

"Successful lives are always alike. Ke'er, your temperament is a lot like your grandfather's. You have the First Emperor's Imperial Seal in your hands, don't you?" Remembering his adoptive grandfather's meaningful words and piercing gaze when he had appeared at the palace, he couldn't help shivering.

The Imperial Seal?

He couldn't help thinking back to the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, when the Crown Prince died and he transmigrated into the commoner Zhu Ke. His adoptive grandfather had come looking for him in disguise, accompanied by the princes and imperial grandsons.

Then his adoptive grandfather took a liking to him and appointed him Deputy Commissioner of the Patrol Office in Yingtian Prefecture's southern slums, Prefect of Yingtian, the Emperor's adoptive grandson, and Prince General.

He personally raised the curtain on the reforms of the late Hongwu era.

A toilet revolution, ending foot binding, merchant colonies, opening the seas, turning Ming paper money into a global currency, rebuilding the military, and restoring the Hexi Corridor section of the Silk Road...

The scholars of the realm called him a wicked minister who would destroy the country, while his adoptive grandfather treated him just as Duke Xiao of Qin had treated Shang Yang...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.