Great Ming: An Eight-Year-Old Sage, Forced by Old Zhu to Take the Throne

Born by transmigration into the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Bai becomes the emperor's twelfth son. To stay alive, he keeps stacking Scholar Buffs, and before he knows it, he is an eight-year-old sage.

He awakens a memory palace, gaining the ability to recreate in reality all the knowledge and memories of the modern world.

Zhu Di: Twelfth Brother, Big Brother will teach you to ride horses, shoot arrows, and fight in battle.

Zhu Bai: Hitting a target a hundred paces away? Like this, then this, then this. There, I've mastered it.

Zhu Biao: Twelfth Brother, Father says the prosperity of the Ming means giving every child who herds cattle a chance to read and write.

Zhu Bai: How about learning pinyin and simplified characters? What? How do we break the Confucian monopoly over the nation's culture and learning? Set up free schools and literacy classes. Any woman or soldier who can read more than three hundred characters will receive ten taels of silver.

Old Zhu watches his sons treat one another like brothers, then sees that, before his very eyes, the territory of the Ming has unknowingly surpassed that of the Mongol Yuan. "Twelfth Son, you are the only one worthy of becoming the Ming Taizong..."

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