Great Ming: This Prince Has a Conscience! Well, Sort Of!

In the second year of Hongwu, the Huai River burst its banks.

In an instant, the land was ravaged and the people of Great Ming were plunged into misery.

Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang ventured out in disguise to investigate the people's lives, and met a young refugee.

Zhu Yuanzhang: Child, take this money and buy grain to keep yourself alive.

Zhu Tong: I don't want it! This is only enough to save me. I still have my whole family behind me.

Zhu Yuanzhang: Your filial heart moves the heavens. Take all of it.

The concerned emperor protected him along the way, and following Zhu Tong, he discovered that...

He really had used the money to buy grain, but he bought coarse scraps for other people while treating himself to a feast.

Zhu Yuanzhang: You can't say he has no conscience. He really does think of others.

"But you can't say he has a conscience either. He feasts all by himself!"

"Hmm... This child has a little conscience, but not much."

P.S. Also known as Zhu Yuanzhang: How Did I End Up with a Little Rascal for a Son?

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