Great Ming: I Scavenge Scrap in the Ministry of Works and Scare Old Zhu to Tears

In the thirteenth year of the Hongwu reign, Li Chang'an, the lowliest clerk in the Ministry of Works, is forced by his corrupt superior to sign a life-and-death pledge: if he can’t make a hundred thousand high-grade steel arrowheads in three days, his entire family will be executed!

Just as he despairs, he binds to a “Space-Time Junkyard.” All he has to do is collect “shock points” from the locals of the Ming dynasty, and he can keep pulling treasures out of modern-day garbage dumps!

A damaged middle-school chemistry textbook? He turns around and builds a crude blast furnace, dazzling his superior with high-grade steel and sending him straight to the death cell!

A defective glass cup that cost two yuan in Yiwu? The richest man in the capital bids for it like a madman, catching the attention of Zhu Yuanzhang, who is traveling incognito!

To trade for the “scrapped tractor engine” and “incomplete World War II nautical chart” buried deep in the junkyard, Li Chang'an has no choice but to keep coming up with new ways to scare Old Zhu.

Then one day, he casually pulls out an old, battered globe.

Old Zhu stares at the tiny map of the Ming Empire on it, his eyes reddening. “My dear subject, this place called America, we’re taking all of it!”