Dream of the Red Chamber: The Mad Prince Has His Imperial Brother's Support

Zhu Jianshuye was born as the younger full brother of Emperor Yanjing. He awakened memories of a past life and held in his palm the Spiritual Jade that should have belonged to Jia Baoyu!

Faced with the retired emperor's deadly scheme to force him into marriage, the four great clans' greedy exploitation, and the deadly countdown to the Industrial Revolution in the West...

Zhu Jianshuye sneered. "Playing political games? You think you can out-scheme a modern man?"

The retired emperor wanted him to marry Xue Baochai and use the old aristocracy to keep him in check?

He flipped the table on the spot. "A merchant's daughter joining the royal family? Imperial Brother, the Xue family is corrupt. I request permission to raid their estate tonight!"

The Bald Monk came to peddle Cold Fragrance Pills, hoping to control the workings of fate?

Zhu Jianshuye kicked him hard enough to end his bloodline. "Quit your hocus-pocus! I just got this flintlock, and I need a target!"

The officials of the entire court knelt outside the Forbidden City, wailing. "Your Majesty, Prince Qin has broken another nobleman's legs in the street!"

Emperor Yanjing clutched a specially made hollow paperweight, veins bulging as he put on a show. "Rebellion! Once I catch that treacherous younger brother, I'll beat his backside black and blue!"

Turning around, Emperor Yanjing looked at the ten million taels of silver seized and deposited in the imperial treasury, grinning from ear to ear. "Jianshuye, keep raiding estates tomorrow!"

When Daiyu no longer weeps blood, Baochai takes charge of the world's maritime trade, and the Ming's ironclad warships sail into the Thames...

The world finally realizes that the Ming's universally reviled mad prince has already planted the flag of the empire on which the sun never sets across the globe!