I Boosted the Ming Dynasty’s GDP

Born in a time of chaos, with no food to fill their stomachs, Zhu Jinyu's parents both starved to death, leaving her with only her three-year-old younger brother. With nowhere else to turn, she took a keepsake and went to seek help from a distant relative: the cousin of her grandfather's half-brother, the newly enthroned Zhu Yuanzhang.

They were related by a connection eight generations removed... Risking the extermination of her entire clan, Zhu Jinyu trembled as she knelt before Zhu Yuanzhang, who could barely be called her great-cousin-granduncle.

Fortunately, though her great-cousin-granduncle was infamous throughout the land, he valued family ties. He welcomed them with a feast and gave her a job managing the imperial vegetable garden.

But the old Zhu family's idle assets were simply too vast...

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Her father loved going to war. The Ming Dynasty had only just been founded, and the treasury was still empty.

Crown Prince Zhu Biao looked at the stacks of funding requests his father had sent at breakneck speed and felt like crying.

Zhu Jinyu said, "Don't cry, Crown Prince. GDP will take a hit!"

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Theme: Raise the banner of GDP!