In the fifteenth year of the Hongwu reign, Zhu Xiongying, the Ming dynasty’s eldest legitimate grandson, dies!
One line in the history books lays bare the regrets of his past life! A modern office drone is reborn as this eight-year-old imperial grandson, destined to die young. His mother died early? His father Zhu Biao worked himself to death? His fourth uncle launched the Jingnan Campaign? Lan Yu died horribly, and the Ming dynasty fell to the Qing? No! In this life, I decide my own fate!
A hellish start: Poisoned by his stepmother, Lady Lu? Watch me fake my death and escape, save myself with a “visit from an immortal in a dream,” and rise to power under Zhu Yuanzhang’s very nose!
Defy fate to save my father! Zhu Biao is at death’s door, and the Imperial Medical Academy is helpless? I use allicin and high-proof liquor to snatch him from the King of Hell! Zhu Yuanzhang is furious and wants to execute me? I throw myself to the ground and cry, “I’ll give my life in exchange for my father’s!” Zhu Biao returns to court, and history falls apart!
Outmaneuver them all: Civil officials won’t stop whining? The nobles are getting too powerful? The vassal princes are making trouble? I’ll crush them underfoot! Lady Lu poisoned me? I’ll grind her bones to dust!
Technological revolution: Young troops armed with flintlock rifles sweep the Mongol cavalry aside! Cement fortresses seal off the grasslands! Mo Jiu presents a steam engine, railways roar, ironclad ships rule the seas, and the fires of industry are lit! Arm the world: Open the seas! Steel warships cleave the waves, and mighty cannons thunder! Japanese pirates? Annihilated! Southeast Asia? Claimed! American silver? Mined! The Australian continent? Annexed! Lan Yu leads the vanguard, Zhu Di commands the armies, and every land touched by the sun and moon becomes Ming territory! From Lake Buyur to the Cape of Good Hope, wherever the dragon banner flies becomes our domain!
In this life, I, Zhu Xiongying, will right a collapsing empire and save my loved ones! I will annihilate Northern Yuan and conquer the four seas, becoming a mighty Khan of Heaven! I will launch an industrial age and lead the pursuit of natural philosophy, becoming a sagely emperor! I will forge an eternal empire on which the sun never sets, becoming an emperor for the ages! The regrets of history? The humiliation of China? Never again! Your Majesty, an urgent report from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau: Mars appears to have an iron bird flying past it? Witness how this short-lived imperial grandson reaches the top of the world and creates an eternal legend for China! An exhilarating thrill ride!
Lost Queen Ma?
The writing is very good, and it has written a glorious chapter of the Ming Dynasty.
I won't give it one star because one star is a malicious negative review.
Look! The intro frame is great too! It's just a little out of touch! Maybe it was written by a newbie! Very nice! I just wrote it, can you check it before sending it? Some mistakes can easily lower your score!
Author, you sometimes say that the queen calls herself Aijia, and sometimes you say that the imperial grandmother is the imperial grandmother for another life. Did you help the queen to die? Can I be more rigorous in writing articles?