When the spring thunder of the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu cracked the eaves of Fengtian Palace, I became the most useless time traveler in history - Zhu Yunwen, who was being canonized as the emperor's grandson.
The tragedies of vassal reduction recorded in history books surged through his mind, and the touch of the steering wheel from the car accident in his previous life still lingered on his palms. Suddenly, the clanging armor of the Jinwu Guards was heard outside the Fengtian Palace, and memories of the original owner who was described as "benevolent and weak" by historians came flooding back: five days ago, the prince Zhu Biao died of vomiting blood, and three days ago, King Yan's secret envoy sneaked into Yingtian. At this moment, the cold light flashed on the Fengtian Palace, and the dragon-slaying knife of his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang was hanging above the edict of passing the throne.
"Ding! The fate-defying system is activated——"
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I kicked the case aside and grabbed Shang Fang's horse-killing sword, and the gilded palace door suddenly opened behind me. The sword edge cut through the twelve-crown bead curtain and pointed directly at the Hongwu Emperor on the dragon throne who had been killing for half his life:
"Grandfather, do you want to use Ming Dynasty's Guo Zuo to train Zhu Di's troops?"
Amid the exclamations of the nobles in the court, I split open the edict and scattered the gold foil all over the sky. From then on, I embarked on a heaven-defying road that danced between the emperor's will and the industrial revolution.
A hundred years later, when the sun, moon and dragon flags fly over the Suez Canal and the Cape of Good Hope, and the Forbidden City Observatory receives radio waves from the moon, the cowardly grandson of the emperor who once knelt and trembled in the Fengtian Palace finally became the most dazzling golden prophecy on the title page of "The Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers of All Nations" written by the co-owner of the world:
"I am destiny!"
