What Do You Mean, Commoner? He’s a Ten-Dynasty Veteran of the Great Ming

[Struggle for supremacy + maritime expansion + transmigration]

Jiang Nan is appointed in a moment of crisis as Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian’s favorite minister. Using a combination of strategies, he resolves internal and external threats, develops firearms and shipbuilding, and vies for supremacy on sea and land to restore the Ming Dynasty to glory.

Two hundred years later, Jiang Nan returns to the Forbidden City. A prince points at him and asks the old emperor beside him, “Huh, Father, where did this commoner come from? How dare he trespass into the palace?”

Seeing the jade pendant at Jiang Nan’s waist, the old emperor delivers a blow of fatherly love and scolds him: “What commoner? That’s a ten-reign veteran of the Ming Dynasty!”