Great Ming: I Found the Grand Ancestor in a River and Ushered in a New Cabinet Era!

After transmigrating as a baby abandoned in a river in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Zhu Xuan was lucky enough to be fished out by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, who had just suffered the loss of his son. The old emperor thought the baby looked strikingly like Zhu Biao, and once he held him close, his grief was miraculously soothed. But the Embroidered Uniform Guard followed the clues back to the Eastern Palace: Crown Princess Lu had driven a pregnant palace maid out of the palace. The maid died in childbirth, and her baby was taken in by her brother and sister-in-law, only to be ordered thrown into the river after the Crown Prince's death.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, but kept his anger hidden. He secretly wiped out the entire Lu family, making sure his little grandson's blood debt was paid. For the next two years, he raised Zhu Xuan himself, naming him Zhu Yunxuan and keeping him by his side day and night. When two-year-old Zhu Xuan said in his childish voice,