Great Ming: Comparing the Two Imperial Grandsons, Zhu Yuanzhang Gets Jealous!

In the twenty-fifth year of the Hongwu era of the Great Ming, Crown Prince Yiwen died. A sky screen showing comparisons between parallel worlds descended, revealing the two entirely different lives of Zhu Yunwen.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the Zhu Yunwen on the sky screen, who had achieved more than the Han and Tang dynasties, earned the praise of the people, and was hailed as an emperor for the ages: Emperor Taizong of Ming.

Then he glanced at the Crown Prince’s eldest grandson Zhu Yunwen beside him, who had been sent to study overseas in Nanyang after the campaign to reduce the fiefs, and began wondering whether he could trade him for a different grandson.

Lan Yu looked at the sky screen on the left, where Zhu Yuanzhang had exterminated his entire family because of Zhu Yunwen’s incompetence.

Then he turned to the sky screen on the right, where Taizong Yunwen addressed him as Great General, sent him on five campaigns against the Jurchens in Liaodong, allowed him to live out his days in peace, and even posthumously enfeoffed him as Prince of Nanyang and granted him a place in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

A thought arose in his heart as well: Could he go and serve Emperor Taizong Zhu Yunwen?

Zhu Di, Zhu Quan, Zhu Su, and the other princes watched Taizong Zhu Yunwen give them the chance to use their talents and bring their lives to a peaceful close.

They all had the same thought: They wanted to follow an Emperor Taizong of Ming like that, too!

Only the Crown Prince’s eldest grandson, Zhu Yunwen, fell into self-doubt: Was I really that useless?

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