Great Ming: I, Zhu Di, Return from Studying Abroad in the Modern Era!

After studying abroad in the modern era, Zhu Di returns to the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty, able to travel between the two worlds.

In the eleventh year of Hongwu, he takes up his post in Beiping ahead of schedule and begins laying the groundwork.

A thousand years is too long. Seize the moment.

Zhu Di collects commercial taxes in his fief, implements the policy of taxing households by land rather than people, makes the gentry pay grain taxes alongside everyone else, develops industry, and builds the strongest modern army!

He wipes out the Northern Yuan, takes Korea, and exterminates the Japanese pirates! His navy colonizes the world!

Zhu Di's name becomes famous on the banks of the Seine. The red-haired barbarians call him the Sword of God! From then on, they kneel and sing their surrender!

Women throughout the realm are brought into the imperial palace.

As Zhu Di makes his moves, more and more officials in the court at Yingtianfu impeach him.

Hu Weiyong: Your Majesty! The Prince of Yan is recklessly collecting commercial taxes and competing with the people for profit. He must be punished!

Zhu Yuanzhang: What? There's such a great way to make money?

Wang Guangyang: Your Majesty! The Prince of Yan's tax-by-land policy is actually undermining the foundations of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Yuanzhang: There's a state policy like that? I'll take it!

Li Shanchang: Your Majesty! The Prince of Yan has conquered Japan!

Zhu Yuanzhang: He must be rewarded! Lavishly!

Xu Da: Your Majesty, this is bad! The Prince of Yan is holding a Gatling gun and demanding that you call him the Yongle Emperor!

Zhu Yuanzhang: ???

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