I, Emperor Hongwu, Use Modern Knowledge to Reform the Great Ming

In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang takes his last breath. But his soul does not disperse. Instead, it awakens in the body of a ten-year-old boy in the modern world, who grows up to become Zhu Jianjun, an associate professor of history at a prestigious university. Fifteen years later, he weeps until he faints in front of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. When he opens his eyes again, he has returned to the eighth year of Hongwu!

After repeatedly confirming that this isn't a dream, Zhu Yuanzhang grips the imperial sword at his waist and slowly rises. This time, he has returned with six hundred years of historical knowledge and modern expertise. Zhongdu is still under construction, Li Shanchang is still deceiving him, and the Huai-Xi nobility are still seizing land and harming the people. But he is no longer the Hongwu Emperor who could be so easily misled.

He knows who will rebel, who will embezzle, and who will bring the country to ruin. He knows that the future Ming dynasty will fall to the Mongols. He knows that the Shanxi merchants will betray the country, that firearms are the way forward, and that the institutions and technologies of later generations will enable China to stand tall.

Biao is still alive, and so is his beloved wife. There's still time to change everything. Zhu Yuanzhang smiles, with a blade in that smile.

When the emperor of the Ming dynasty begins governing with a modern mindset, the entire course of Chinese history is rewritten from this moment onward!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.