The Great Ming's Second Prince: The Peerless Worthy Prince

This Second Prince does everything except become emperor: he builds irrigation works and farms, opens theaters and creates stars, mines ore and builds factories, and, short on money for a railway, even robs the imperial mausoleum. To Zhu Xuan, aristocratic clans and powerful nobles, royal doctrines, political factions, foreign peoples, and anyone else who stands in the way of making money and building the country will be ruthlessly crushed. His goal is simple: a fair society, prosperous people, and a revitalized China, so it will never again suffer the humiliation of being colonized by foreign powers for centuries, as it did in his previous life.