Great Ming: Others Teach Confucianism, You Teach the Art of Dragon-Slaying?

In the tenth year of the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang orders his officials to establish Confucian schools throughout the land.

Everywhere responds, but the entire county of Yi rejects the order.

So Zhu Yuanzhang disguises himself and travels to Yi County.

There, he discovers that the people live in peace and prosperity.

They have all kinds of things he has never even heard of.

Zhu Yuanzhang is delighted, believing the place blessed with remarkable people and a propitious landscape, a great fortune for the Ming Dynasty.

But he never expected this:

Everyone here rejects Confucianism, defies the classics, and studies something called science.

Even more terrifying,

people here seem to talk about the art of slaying dragons all the time.

Zhu Yuanzhang is furious. "I can't take this anymore! Send in the army and raze Yi County to the ground. Wipe out these ** rebels!"

Empress Ma: "You can't kill them! If you do, you'll become a tyrant in the history books. We need to find the person behind all this."

As they investigate step by step,

they finally discover the source of everything:

an academy.

A modern academy that teaches its students the art of slaying dragons.

And the academy's dean...

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