Great Ming: A Sage Confucian with a Demonic Physique, My Son Zhu Chongba

In the fourth year of the Zhizheng era under the Yuan dynasty, Zhu Chongba's father died.

A strange sight appeared in the sky: nine dragons came pulling a coffin, and his father's corpse vanished along with it.

In the fifteenth year of the Hongwu era, Empress Ma passed away. The nine-dragons-pulled coffin appeared once more, and her corpse vanished with it.

No one knew that someone had climbed out of the coffin and opened a grain shop. People called him Fifth Master Zhu.

Zhu Yuanzhang, traveling incognito, was stunned. "Isn't that my father?"

Taking the alias Zhu Rui, he approached Fifth Master Zhu and discovered that the old man was a formidable character: horses could run across his arms and people could stand on his fists. He was an expert at using violence to persuade people to behave virtuously.

Fifth Master Zhu opened an academy with three thousand disciples who acted above the law. He also controlled a commercial empire and launched great voyages across the seas.

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Old man, I'm the emperor of the Ming dynasty."

Fifth Master Zhu: "Your wife is in my hands."

Zhu Yuanzhang: "My wife is alive too? Father, you're actually my father! Hurry and let my wife come see me."

Fifth Master Zhu: "Just to see your wife, you'll throw away every last scrap of dignity."

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