Transmigrated to the Hongwu Era: I Save the Ming Dynasty Through Reform

Lin Chen, a graduate student specializing in both modern Ming history and modern agriculture, accidentally transmigrates to the twenty-eighth year of the Hongwu era and becomes a low-ranking ninth-grade clerk in Fengyang Prefecture. He faces a desperate situation from the start! After openly criticizing local farming practices and proposing ways to improve people's livelihoods, he threatens the interests of local magnates and corrupt officials. They maliciously frame him, sentence him to death by exile to Liaodong, and leave his family helpless and in dire straits.

Lin Chen knows that beneath the prosperity of the Hongwu era, the grassroots are rotting: land grabs run rampant, taxes and labor burdens are unfairly distributed, water conservancy has fallen into ruin, and food shortages strike frequently. The court's sound policies for reassuring the people are twisted and corrupted by local greed. In this desperate situation, Lin Chen awakens his unique trump card: a complete knowledge of the Ming dynasty's three-hundred-year rise and fall, along with practical techniques tailored to ancient levels of production, covering high-yield crop cultivation, waterworks repair, and agricultural reform. With no supernatural cheats, he relies solely on hard work and real expertise to turn the impossible around.

He cultivates high-yield potatoes, making grain grow on barren slopes and disproving the magnates' rumors. He builds simple irrigation works, benefiting the people and winning their support. He gathers irrefutable evidence to crack down on corruption and evil, uprooting the entrenched local scourge. He does not overturn ancestral institutions or reject national policy. Instead, he corrects mistakes through reform, enriches the people, strengthens the foundations, and repairs the flaws in Ming governance.

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