Great Ming: I Threaten to Die in Protest, and Zhu Yuanzhang Makes Me Chancellor

Zhou Ren opens his eyes and discovers that he's transmigrated into the Hongwu era as a seventh-rank censor!

Worse, the old Zhu has branded him a member of Hu Weiyong's faction!

At this critical moment, he awakens a System: if he risks his life to remonstrate, he can draw skills, status, technology, and more...

The starter gift pack gives him the skill Demagoguery: whenever he speaks, everyone present will focus on him. The more he says, and the more impassioned his words, the greater their effect on the minds of those around him!

And so Zhou Ren openly berates Zhu Yuanzhang in court!

"Your Majesty! Hu Weiyong is dead. Killing all of us may look like a matter of punishing far-reaching connections and numerous followers, but in truth, it is nothing more than slaughtering innocents!"

"Your Majesty, you must not let your selfish desires bring centuries of calamity upon our Ming dynasty!"

Zhu Yuanzhang flies into a rage and insists that Zhou Ren be executed!

Zhou Ren: "If Your Majesty kills me, my name will go down in history, while Your Majesty will bear the blame for all eternity!"

Zhu Yuanzhang explodes: "I'm not killing you. I'll let you rot in the imperial prison!"

But once Zhou Ren gets there, he draws another prize.

He wins the status of chancellor.

The next day, after dreaming all night of the future, when Yan Song wields immense power and Wei Zhongxian rules as regent, Zhu Yuanzhang says, "Someone... appoint Zhou Ren chancellor!"

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