Great Ming: The Baguette Prince, Ruining Prince Fu from the Start

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In the tenth year of the Chongzhen era, Zhu Changyuan transmigrates into a collateral prince of the Ming dynasty in Nanyang, only to face a death countdown from the start: two years later, rebel forces will breach the city and his entire clan will be cooked alive.

While others fight for the realm by raising armies and banners, he relies on the Great Ming Code, which he knows by heart, to advance step by step within the rules and cut his way through the chaotic age.

Taking on the prefect? The ancestral laws are on his side. The corrupt official has to repay the stolen grain and admit his fault on the spot, his official hat tottering on his head.

Taking on the local gentry? He wields the law, exposing hidden landholdings and falsified accounts, and makes them give back tens of thousands of acres of fertile farmland.

Even his uncle, the Prince of Fu, the richest man under heaven, gets fleeced so badly under the banner of