Great Ming: Five Dragons at Court

A harrowing transmigration, a desperate fight to survive! [Early Ming Dynasty] + [Five Dragons Reign at Once]

Tang Yun, an ICU programmer, dies suddenly after working through the night. When he opens his eyes, he's lying in a thatched hut even shabbier than an ICU. His home is bare, he's starving and freezing, and all he has is a packet of mysterious tobacco seeds. Hell mode from the start? He turns his fate around with a water purifier and mugwort soup. Then he rescues an amnesiac wife who turns out to be a princess on the run! His life as a farmer in the wilderness suddenly becomes a royal battlefield, with Zhu Yuanzhang's blade already at his throat…

Wild inventions turn the Ming Dynasty upside down!

To stay alive, Tang Yun turns the imperial study into a science lab. His homemade pipe makes Zhu Yuanzhang cough until tears stream down his face, yet he can't help saying, “That's the stuff!” Steam engines roar through the Forbidden City, while concrete roads render the ancient post roads obsolete! Officials call his inventions “useless novelties,” so he uses telegraphs to relay military intelligence and firearms to blast the Northern Yuan. The nobles mock him for “sullying the royal family,” so he and the princess raise their daughter and grow potatoes and corn that yield a thousand catties per acre. From “village charlatan” to “Prince of Science,” he drives the entire court mad with his outrageous inventions: “That smell of smoke… it's the smell of a new dynasty!”

Five Dragons rule together, and the sun never sets!

Zhu Di commands the seas with his ironclad ships, while Zheng He's fleet trains its cannons on the American continent. The cabinet takes shape under Tang Yun's hand, and a constitution is born in the Hongxi era! When the first plume of industrial smoke rises over the Forbidden City, the world is turned upside down:

Hardcore farming: water purifiers save a village stricken with malaria, and mugwort soup shocks the Imperial Medical Academy.

Political machinations: he wins Zhu Yuanzhang over with tobacco and sidelines imperial power through a committee.

Epic ambition: railways span the Silk Road, and steamships crush Portugal's ambitions.

“Old Zhu, have a smoke. Let's keep the fires of the Ming burning!”