Great Ming: Dad! Stop Pretending to Be Mad, It's Your Turn to Take the Throne!

Reborn as Zhu Di's second son, Zhu Gaoxu!

Remembering the words, "The heir is often ill. You should do your best!"

Zhu Gaoxu decides he has to do something!

So he opens brothels, runs gambling dens, and buys and sells goods!

He becomes the biggest capitalist in the land.

And, knowing history, he realizes his hapless father is going to rebel.

So he secretly manufactures firearms and takes in orphans and refugees!

He builds a private army under the guise of bandits.

Then comes the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, and Crown Prince Zhu Biao dies.

Only then do Zhu Gaoxu's fangs begin to show, little by little!

General of the Northern Expedition Zhu Di: Gaoxu, give your father an elite force. I want to water my horses in the Han Sea!

Chief Minister Zhu Gaochi: Second Brother, leave the barbarians some room to live! We can't fit any more things in the treasury!

Yu Qian: Your Majesty, our Great Ming is rich and powerful now. I recommend expanding the army by another million!

Zhu Gaoxu gazes at the world map before him. Every mountain, river, and moon shines beneath his gaze!

I am the ruler, the third emperor of Great Ming!

My reign era: Tiansheng!

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