Great Ming: I Lent Money for Three Years, and Now the Empire Is Mine?

Zhu Changqing transmigrates to the late Yuan dynasty as a child and binds himself to an investment System. The more he earns, the better the rewards.

So Zhu Changqing begins traveling throughout the Ming realm, investing, lending money, and amassing wealth at a frenzied pace.

Then he runs straight into Zhu Yuanzhang, who is in disguise.

Furious, Old Zhu threatens to wipe out Zhu Changqing's entire clan.

But to his surprise, Zhu Changqing turns out to be the legitimate son he and Empress Ma lost.

However,

Zhu Changqing has no idea and keeps urging Old Zhu to take out loans.

The emperor guards the borders, and the ruler dies for his country. Relocating the capital cannot be delayed any longer.

No money?

I've got some!

He talks Old Zhu into building the Great Ming Compendium, sending Xu Da on voyages to the Western Ocean, pursuing scientific research, creating a steam-powered Ming, establishing nine years of compulsory education...

Years later, when the Ming banners have been planted in every corner of the world, Old Zhu looks back and discovers, to his shock, that he owes billions.

Zhu Yuanzhang: Biao'er, I'm tired. You take the throne.

Zhu Biao: ? Father, stop joking. I don't want this debt-ridden Ming dynasty.

Zhu Changqing: How did I end up owning the whole Ming realm after only a few years of lending money?

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