Great Ming: I Keep Courting Death to Farm Rewards

[Ming Dynasty history + Embroidered Uniform Guard + exploiting System bugs + satisfying court intrigue] Su Chen transmigrates to the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty and inherits his father's post as a captain in the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Betrothed to a powerful family, he is dumped for offending the influential. He thinks he's starting in hell, but then binds to the [Great Villain Comeback System]. All he has to do is suppress and torment the era's “children of destiny” to earn money, food, soldiers, horses, and modern firearms! Su Chen opens the System panel and discovers that the child of destiny is... himself! Su Chen: “I can get stronger by suppressing myself? Someone, throw me into the Imperial Prison to spice things up!” [You have thrown Su Chen into the Imperial Prison, where he has endured every kind of torture!] [Reward: The Strength of a Conqueror, plans for a redcoat cannon!] [You impeached Su Chen for showing no respect to his emperor and father, and Zhu Yuanzhang had you beaten with fifty strokes of the court cane!] [Reward: Three thousand elite death soldiers, one box of antibiotics!] [You made Su Chen squander his entire fortune and end up homeless!] [Reward: High-yield potato seeds, five million taels of silver!] The entire court is left dumbfounded. Other officials tread on thin ice under the Hongwu Emperor. Su Chen begs His Majesty to cut off his head! Crown Prince Zhu Biao is baffled. “Father, no matter what punishment Su Chen suffers, he never complains. Instead, he only grows more determined. He's a truly loyal subject!” Zhu Yuanzhang is just as bewildered. “Is this kid made of iron? He took eighty strokes and still had enough energy to go fight the Northern Yuan!” Su Chen: “Your Majesty, please, give me another beating! I'm just a little short on experience points before I can redeem a steam engine!” Years later, the Ming cavalry sweeps across the globe. Standing before a world map, Su Chen sighs. “Truthfully, at the beginning, I only wanted to scam a few System rewards.”