Great Ming: Xu Da’s Personal Guard from the Start, Made a Marquis in One Battle

Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was utterly incompetent at governing. A modern person would likely be far better at it. Furthermore, his ruthless extermination of entire clans to eliminate obstacles squandered the dynasty's fortune, leaving the Ming Dynasty without capable generals and unable to defeat the Qing Dynasty's top commanders.

Everyone says that if you travel back to the Qing Dynasty, you won't eat breakfast and your anus will be drilled. I think if you travel back to the Ming Dynasty and aren't royalty, you should rebel. No modern person could tolerate Zhu Yuanzhang's way of thinking.

... With such a great achievement, if you didn't fawn over Zhu Yunwen, would Zhu Yuanzhang have let you live? Oh, no, even if you groveled before Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Yuanzhang would still worry about not being able to control you and wouldn't let you live. Old Zhu wouldn't even take an official position, do you think this is a joke?

Traveling back to the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, unless you were Zhu Biao, Zhu Xiong Ying, or Zhu Yunwen who had lost his father and brother, rebellion would be the best option. Zhu Yuanzhang was undeniably a good emperor, but modern thinking makes it difficult to accept a ruler who restricted the lives of everyone from princes to ordinary people.

This brain is a good thing. To follow Zhu Yuanzhang (the Hongwu Emperor) in the early Ming Dynasty—how foolish! Without a foolproof means of survival, I admire your willingness to work like a slave. You've got more than enough of the real world's pie to eat, but reading novels from the early Ming Dynasty just tastes like being fleeced from the start.

It's not difficult to live to old age under Zhu's rule. All you need to do is keep yourself clean and honest, be wary of lies and betrayals from those around you, take on great responsibilities without showing off, and remain humble, open, pragmatic, and cautious.

Good, good, good! The Japanese deserve to be destroyed and their race exterminated!

If you traveled back to the Ming Dynasty and didn't rebel, with Zhu Yuanzhang's (Emperor Hongwu's) ideology, you'd be doing him a disservice if you didn't rebel.

One battle and you're made a marquis, then your entire family is wiped out (laughs).

During the Hongwu era, if you weren't Zhu Yuanzhang's son, you'd be dead if you stood out.