Great Ming: I Remonstrated to the Death Against the Fiefdom Cuts, and Old Zhu Begged Me to Stop Laying Low

A special forces soldier and military-industrial expert transmigrates into Zhu Li, Prince of Han of the Great Ming. From the start, he's in Gansu Guard, where he beheads a corrupt imperial envoy extorting military pay. Zhu Yuanzhang issues an order to arrest him and bring him to the capital for trial! Zhu Li plans to use his modern military-industrial and agricultural knowledge as a transmigrator, along with his elder brother Zhu Biao's plea for leniency, to voluntarily surrender his military authority and return to his northwestern fief to quietly build his fortune and create an empire beyond the frontier where the sun never sets. But in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Empress Ma falls critically ill, and the first signs of Zhu Biao's early death emerge. Within the court, remnants of Hu Weiyong's faction and Lan Yu's arrogant, battle-hardened troops remain. Beyond the borders, the Northern Yuan remnants watch hungrily! The imperial princes are either cruel and heartless or scheming for their own gain. Old Zhu secretly investigates the fief princes' confidential records through the night. When he opens the secret ledger for the Prince of Han, whose fief appears desolate but in reality hides one hundred thousand iron cavalrymen, steel firearms, and high-yield seeds capable of producing a thousand jin per acre, Old Zhu can no longer sit still: "The fourth son wants to launch a rebellion, the second is a blockhead, and only that scamp, the ninth son, can save our Great Ming empire!"

Zhu Li: "Father, your son really doesn't want to be Crown Prince. Please let me return to the northwest and farm!"