The Ming Dynasty Abandoned Its Chancellor, So I Helped Prince Yan Win the Civil War and Claim the Throne!

(The controversial parts have been revised!)

In the first year of the Jianwen reign, inside the Golden Hall.

Lu Yun, the emperor’s study companion, proposes the Favor-Enfeoffment Decree and a land survey to save the state. But Zhu Yunwen sees him as a grave threat, while corrupt Confucian scholars like Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai denounce him as a “traitorous minister who would throw the law into chaos”!

In the end, a single imperial edict strips me of my status and banishes me from the capital!

They celebrate, convinced they have rid themselves of a thorn in their side.

Zhu Yunwen believes his throne is secure at last.

But they don’t realize they have personally sent a box capable of bringing down the Great Ming Dynasty northward.

While sheltering from the snow in a ruined temple, I meet another man driven to the brink: Prince of Yan Zhu Di.

When a wise man cast aside by his age meets a powerful ruler with nowhere left to turn, it’s time for the realm to have a new master!

Zhu Yunwen, you say I’ve thrown the imperial court into chaos?

Fine. I’ll help the Prince of Yan “cleanse the court of traitors,” and show you what true thunderous force looks like!

Huang Zicheng, you say I’m all talk and no action?

Fine. I’ll use one astonishing victory after another to nail you to history’s pillar of shame!

From this day on, I am no longer Lu Yun, the kindhearted imperial companion.

I am Zhu Di’s chief strategist, the chief architect of the Jingnan Campaign, and the nightmare that haunts Jianwen’s court!

I’ll be the one to move the pieces in this game of the realm.

I’ll reshape the Great Ming Dynasty with my own hands!