Great Ming: With Heaven-Defying Comprehension, I Teach Old Zhu to Govern from the Start

Li Erniu transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty with heaven-defying comprehension, but after getting caught up in the Hu Weiyong case, he is thrown into the Imperial Prison to await execution.

He plans to lie flat, but then he meets fellow prisoner Zhu Di. Even more unexpectedly, right next door are Zhu Yuanzhang and Crown Prince Zhu Biao, secretly listening in disguise!

"Your Majesty, within three generations, the Seven States Rebellion is sure to break out!"

"The greatest threat to the Ming Dynasty isn't beyond the frontier, but within the palace walls!"

"The Yuan Dynasty fell because of forced labor. If Your Majesty doesn't reform the system, the Ming Dynasty is bound to repeat its mistakes!"

"Ruling through harsh laws? Laws alone are not enough to enforce themselves!"

One astonishing revelation after another leaves Old Zhu, listening in secret, struck as if by lightning. His whole worldview is shattered!

Li Shanchang? Useless! Liu Bowen? A mediocrity!

Only Li Erniu is a genius capable of shaping the course of the world!

Use Semu people as artisan households to break the deadlock of forced labor!

Make officials and gentry pay grain taxes alike, cutting off the gentry's foundations!

Reform the salt administration and fill the imperial treasury!

End the maritime ban and dominate the Seven Seas!

Old Zhu: "Sir, teach me! The future of the Ming Dynasty depends entirely on you!"

Li Erniu: "Leave me alone. I just want to wait quietly for death..."

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