Great Ming: The Emperor Impostors’ Power Struggle Ushers in an Open-Minded Golden Age

The Jianwen Emperor, Zhu Yunwen, was a fascinating ruler: benevolent, intelligent, handsome, and yet beset by misfortune. Countless writers in later generations have told his story.

This novel follows a small-time streamer who transmigrates into the body of the Jianwen Emperor, changes history, and ushers in an enlightened golden age.

Since childhood, the Jianwen Emperor had practiced a powerful protective martial art. At twenty-two, he finally mastered it and attained an indestructible body. By then, he had been emperor for over a year.

After learning this divine art, the emperor wanted to travel the world. He no longer wanted the throne, either. To ensure a smooth transfer of power, he introduced new policies, established elections for the emperor, instituted judicial trials, and formed a parliament. He hoped to bring about a bourgeois revolution two hundred years before Britain did.

An emperor with peerless martial arts skills really could accomplish many great things and enjoy himself in all sorts of ways.

But the emperor had a weakness, too. Like the Sunflower Manual, which required castration, the protective martial art he had learned was incomplete: “To master the art, one must preserve one’s virginity. Once that is lost, all martial arts are lost.”

To keep practicing, he could not touch any of the many beautiful women in the imperial palace. He could not bear to let them down, either, so he arranged for an impostor emperor to fool his concubines. As a result, the empress was unfaithful. Even the crown prince was not his biological son.

He had created all these troubles and dilemmas himself, and in the end, he had to solve them one by one.

When the streamer from a later generation transmigrates, a peerlessly beautiful female assassin is trying to kill the emperor. He falls for her and does many things for her, including signing a peace treaty with Zhu Di and giving up the throne...