Zhu Yuanzhang Is About to Name an Heir, and I Bring a Sky Screen to the Hongwu Era

Zhang Ziyang binds himself to the Sky Screen System.

He can transmigrate through history and create sky-screen videos to broadcast to the past. If he changes the course of history, he can return to life and clear his debts.

He can choose any dynasty, guided by the regrets he holds closest to his heart.

He runs through them in his mind: the Qin, iron-willed and proud, yet gone by the second generation; the mighty Han, whose power shook foreign lands, only to collapse in its final years; the Jin, all talk, yet it dragged China into a century of darkness; the Sui, whose cavalry swept across the borders, only for the dynasty to vanish in an instant; the glorious Tang, with envoys from every land at court, which declined after reaching its peak; the Song, whose boasts rang loud, yet whose preference for civil officials over the military led to its downfall.

The Ming: the emperor guards the nation's gates, and the ruler dies with his realm. No marriage alliances, no reparations, no ceding land, no annual tribute.

Even when their realm lay in ruins, the descendants of the Zhu family never knelt.

And then there was the Qing... Never mind. I won't look.

“Ming Dynasty,” Zhang Ziyang says without hesitation.

The sky screen descends in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu. Zhu Yuanzhang is about to appoint Zhu Yunwen as Crown Prince's heir, and civil and military officials kneel, crying out that it is the will of Heaven.

Zhang Ziyang taps the screen to begin the broadcast. The title of the first video makes the whole court erupt: [The Ten Astonishing Achievements of Emperor Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen].

That is only the first blow. More videos are lined up, including [The Ten Major Mistakes of Zhu Yuanzhang] and [The Ten Great Accomplishments of the Yongle Emperor]...

The real show is just getting started.