Transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty: I Am the Regent

Ye Qing transmigrates into the Ming Dynasty as Zhu Di, the fourth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and successfully saves Zhu Xiongying and Empress Ma. After exposing Lady Lü’s plot, he asks Zhu Yuanzhang to establish the “Great Ming Royal Academy of Sciences” and a “New Army Camp,” ostensibly to “build an empire that will last for generations for his nephew Xiongying.” Thus begins a comprehensive revolution in technology and institutions. He opens factories producing cement and glass and operating blast furnaces for steelmaking, establishes modern schools that teach mathematics and the sciences, improves agriculture by promoting new tools and developing better fertilizers, and forms a new army equipped with early firearms and artillery.

He also pitches the slogan “The world is so big, let’s go take a look” to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao…

In the end, with Zhu Di’s guidance and education, Zhu Xiongying grows into a great ruler of his age, leading the Ming Dynasty toward its goal of global supremacy. He promotes the development and use of the steam engine and establishes a global communications network using wired telegraphy, officially setting his sights on ruling the entire world…