The Ming Dynasty's Child Tutor: A Ten-Year-Old Master Educates Zhu Yuanzhang

In the ninth year of the Hongwu reign, ten-year-old Shen Xuan pointed at Zhu Yuanzhang and berated him: "By killing your meritorious officials, you're destroying your own Great Wall!"

After transmigrating as Shen Wansan's illegitimate son, he awakens the Hongwu Correction System: the harsher his insults, the more explosive his rewards! He berates Li Shanchang until he cries and earns five years' worth of imperial exam practice tests. He riles Hu Weiyong into fainting and gets a book on caring for sows after they give birth. Then he publicly scolds Zhu Yuanzhang, saying, "Your maritime ban is dumber than a donkey rolling around," before pulling out a world map. "Your Majesty, Australia's mines are worth ten Lanyu's lives!"

He kicks Lanyu, punches the vassal princes, and insults the court officials until they're all too mortified to speak, yet they still have to kneel and thank him: "Lord Shen is right to teach us a lesson."

Zhu Di: "I want to rebel..." Shen Xuan tosses him a deed to land in the Americas. "Think bigger. Go become the ruler of the world!"

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Please, Master Shen, insult Biao awake!"

Shen Xuan grins. "Easy. First, call me Teacher!"

Watch as this ten-year-old master of persuasion verbally steamrolls the Hongwu court, talks Zhu Di into sailing west, trades flintlock guns for immunity from execution, and turns the Great Ming into an empire on which the sun never sets.

"Your Majesty, isn't becoming an emperor of an empire on which the sun never sets more satisfying than killing your meritorious officials?"

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