Great Ming: Defiant to the Core, Yet the Old Zhu Calls Me a Fine Grandson

Also known as: Zhu Biao, you can govern the country. I'll follow my eldest grandson into rebellion!

He transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and becomes Zhu Yuntong.

In the twenty-first year of the Hongwu era, with Lady Lu in charge of the Eastern Palace, ten-year-old Zhu Yuntong asks to move out of the palace.

He builds a fleet, improves gunpowder, gathers talented people, and develops flintlock rifles and steam engines. Ahem... It's not for rebellion, just self-defense.

One day, a merchant surnamed Li who looks just like his grandfather comes to sell newly developed glass beads and mirrors.

Merchant Li: "The Crown Prince has been seriously ill lately. Your Highness, why haven't you visited him?"

"I've sent medicine several times. Maybe someone threw it away? Otherwise my father would have recovered by now!"

"Then why are you making this unusual weapon? A flintlock rifle?"

"Ahem... My territory is rather remote, so bandits are a risk. It's for self-defense!"

"And why are you building a large ship?"

"To transport our goods overseas..."

Just then, a black-robed monk walks over and looks at the merchant surnamed Li. "Your Highness is a brilliant leader and the rightful heir. Lord Li, are you willing to follow him?"

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