Reborn as Zhu Shuang, the tyrannical Prince of Qin in the Hongwu era, he starts by stuffing Zhu Yuanzhang into a sack and beating him until his face is black and blue!
Empress Ma pleads for mercy, and Zhu Biao steps in to protect his father. This prince heads straight for his fief in the northwest, activates the System, trades ore for AK-47s, and summons three master schemers, Jia Xu, Li Ru, and Chen Ping, along with two mighty generals, Xu Chu and Dian Wei!
Wei Zhongxian brings 3,000 Eastern Depot guards and calls me his lord!
“Mine ore! Expand the borders! Trade for AKs!”
Jia Xu: “My lord, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate has rich mineral veins. I volunteer to lead an AK squad and flatten them!”
Li Ru: “My lord, the Northern Yuan dared to steal our ore, so I've already poisoned and burned their provisions!”
Wei Zhongxian: “My lord, the Embroidered Uniform Guard has been beaten flat by your servant. We seized all their mineral samples!”
Zhu Yuanzhang: “You unfilial brat! I'll lead a hundred thousand troops to crush you!”
Zhu Shuang: “Heh. Let me show you something nice: ever heard of a full-auto AK-47?”
The Ming dynasty versus the Ming Empire!
With a hundred AKs at my side and the mines of the Western Regions in my grasp, I establish the Ming Empire and stand toe-to-toe with Old Zhu's Ming dynasty!
The Embroidered Uniform Guard? Beaten to their knees by the Eastern Depot, begging them to be their dad! Xu Da and Lan Yu? Captured and force-fed drugs, then ransomed in exchange for the three Xu family beauties!
Old Zhu wants to seize the grassland mines?
Sorry, the grasslands are already my hunting grounds, and every foreign tribe is prey!
Empress Ma rebels against Old Zhu overnight and elopes to join me. Zhu Biao plays the middleman and pockets the difference. All the princes and ministers betray the country. In the end, Old Zhu begs me through tears:
“Father, either betray the country and join me, or get blasted by AKs!”
Zhu Yuanzhang: “You unfilial brat! I... I'll surrender! I, your subject Zhu Yuanzhang, bring my wife Ma Xiuying and my good-for-nothing son Zhu Biao to pay my respects to the AK Emperor!”
Two dynasties vie for supremacy, trading ore for guns. I trample the Hongwu era underfoot and kick the Yongle era aside.
In this Ming dynasty, what I say goes!
Looks good, speeds up progress
Worth a look, very good idea.
It's interesting. It's the first time I read such a funny Hong Wu Dynasty novel.