[Red ideology, political maneuvering, no System] An engineering prodigy transmigrates as the young Ming crown prince Zhu Jianshen. With no family by his side, he is fortunate to have his good brother, who has transmigrated as the eunuch Wang Zhi.
It is the year of the Tumu Crisis. The Ming Emperor Yingzong, Zhu Qizhen, has been defeated and captured, and the capital is in turmoil. Zhu Jianshen had planned to follow the course of history, defeat the Oirat army, lie flat, and enjoy this hard-won life of luxury.
But an upheaval from the start leaves Zhu Jianshen as crown prince regent.
With the realm in ruins, Oirat cavalry running rampant, and the people displaced, Zhu Jianshen, who had wanted nothing more than to enjoy himself, can no longer sit by.
With enemies ravaging the land from without and the civil official faction obstructing him from within, Zhu Jianshen has no System or golden finger. Overcoming this crisis seems like a fool’s dream.
Yet red ideology opens his mind, and the plan to transform the Red Ming begins amid the flames of war.
He steadfastly follows the mass line, mobilizes the people for a people’s war, and drives the Oirats back to the northern steppe.
The civil officials try their old tricks, hoping to turn Zhu Jianshen into a puppet.
But a red emperor cannot be pushed around at will. He clashes head-on with the Grand Secretariat and the Six Ministries, and the great struggle against the civil official faction officially begins.
He develops technology, sends fleets on voyages to the West, and gives equal weight to scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants. The potential of the people, armed with red ideology, is boundless. He reforms education, spreads learning, liberates the productive forces, and brings the Industrial Revolution forward by a full three hundred years.
He tramples the corrupt, degenerate, selfish civil officials and gentry underfoot. The people are the true makers of history.
The northern barbarians are just an appetizer. Zhu Jianshen’s ultimate dream is to establish protectorates and pacification offices across the entire world, planting the red flag on all seven continents and across all four oceans!
