Zhu Xiao, a graduate student in the Department of History, traveled through time and became Zhu Xiongying, the grandson of the Ming Dynasty. When he opened his eyes, he saw the beginning of hell: he died at the age of eight, his biological mother Chang's life was hanging by a thread, his father Zhu Biao was overworked, and his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang was sharpening his sword in preparation for the great purge.
In order to survive, Zhu Xiao decided to arm himself with academic spirit. He regarded the Ming Dynasty as a graduation thesis in urgent need of revision, and used data and logic to quietly adjust the direction of history:
When the imperial doctor prescribed heavy metals, he used his "blood vessel congestion theory" and modern nutrition knowledge to save his mother from danger;
When Qin Tianjian used the stars to predict disasters, he presented meteorological statistics and advised his grandfather to "treat the root cause rather than the symptoms";
When corruption was rampant in Jiangnan, he designed a transparent disaster relief process and used auditing to make it impossible for the moths to escape;
When the Sapphire case was about to break out, he wrote the "Famous General Risk Assessment Report" to preserve the sharpest sword for the empire.
From the sick grandson of the emperor to the supervising grandson of the country, Zhu Xiao always insisted on using knowledge instead of power to solve problems. He built an archive to sort out the world's taxes, introduced a new academic system to cultivate practical talents, and used "Tianfa Order 2.0" To resolve conflicts between feudal lords, and finally created a "Zhaowu Prosperity" with budding science and technology, prosperous maritime trade, and customers from all over the world.
Many years later, Zhu Xiongying, who had become Emperor Zhaowu, was reviewing the drawings of a new spinning machine in the imperial study. He smiled at the prince beside him and said: "Governing a big country is like doing research. It is nothing more than discovering problems, analyzing data, and proposing plans - the only difference is that our experimental sample is the entire world."
This is a story about a modern soul using knowledge, rationality and a little trick to gently but firmly reshape the destiny of the Ming Dynasty.
