Great Ming: I Was Appointed to Office from the Start, and Old Zhu Is Fuming

Shen Rong transmigrates to the early Hongwu era and becomes Shen Wansan's eldest legitimate son!

From the start, Zhu Yuanzhang is already coming to confiscate his family's estate!

His family's vast fortune is about to be seized by Zhu Yuanzhang!

Thinking quickly, Shen Rong offers Zhu Yuanzhang a host of money-making strategies. Zhu Yuanzhang sees that they could work and demands that Shen Rong become a court official and make money for the dynasty.

Well-versed in history, Shen Rong knows that anyone Zhu Yuanzhang orders to become an official must accept, or risk having their entire family wiped out!

With no other choice, and determined to preserve his life of extravagant luxury, Shen Rong decides to enter the court and become a pioneering force for reform!

At court, he reforms the three taxes and boosts state revenues.

He establishes a high-salary system to encourage integrity and sets up an anti-corruption bureau.

He opens the Great Ming Bank and issues government bonds.

He reforms the imperial examinations and promotes education.

He develops firearms, so that the brothers on the plains can sing and dance to their hearts' content from then on.

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