Li Shimin and His Twenty-Four Ministers Transmigrate into Fusu [Qin Dynasty Transmigration]

[Text from a screenshot, April 2023, posted on Weibo] [Popular completed novel: The Eternal Emperor Is Awkward After History Spoilers. Welcome to read!] [Next novel: The Story of Zhu Di's Rebellion Being Praised by Zhu Yuanzhang] - After Li Shimin died, he opened his eyes to see a scruffy, bearded man. The two stared at each other. Just then, a messenger came to deliver an order: Fusu has been unfilial as a son. He is to be given a sword and ordered to take his own life! Having suddenly learned that he had transmigrated into Fusu and was about to be executed by a forged imperial edict, Li Shimin said, "??? Who do you think you are, telling me how to rule?" But Li Shimin soon discovered that he wasn't alone in the Qin Dynasty. All twenty-four heroes of the Lingyan Pavilion had come too! Reunited with his dead ministers, Emperor Li Er was moved to tears. "Jingde!" Yuchi Jingde was also in tears, but his stomach growled with hunger. "Your Majesty! Get us something to eat! This awful Qin Dynasty won't even give us enough food!" Emperor Li Er wiped away a tiny tear and declared, "Eat! Eat as much as you want! If there's not enough, I'll make more!" And so! With a grand wave of his hand, Li Shimin led three thousand Black Armored Cavalry to wipe out Zhao Gao and claim the throne! Find the ministers! Reform the bureaucracy! Grow food! Get the economy going! Years later, Li Shimin, dressed in a black imperial robe, pointed at a map of Great Qin, where the myriad nations paid homage and a golden age had dawned, and asked Hu Hai, hiding in a corner: "Brother Hu Hai, what does the territory of my Great Qin look like to you?" Hu Hai wanted to cry. He clung to Zhao Gao and trembled. "B-b-big brother, it looks like a divine deer..." - That year, his old friends had been reborn in the prime of their lives. Li Shimin took a sword from Guanyin Bi and pointed it toward Baiyue and the Xiongnu. He told his ministers, "Born in Qin, we must rebuild Lingyan Pavilion and create an age of peace and prosperity!" The people of Lingyan Pavilion all bowed together, just as they had sworn their loyalty and pledged to follow him to the death in the Tang Dynasty. - That year, Qin Shi Huang had sought immortality while alive, but failed. After his death, he unexpectedly became a System. He was glad. Otherwise, how could he have seen that man enact sweeping reforms in the Qin Dynasty? Expand the borders. Bring the myriad nations to pay homage. His Great Qin would prosper for ten thousand generations. [Come watch Taizong Li Shimin transmigrate to the Qin Dynasty, gradually reunite with his old father Qin Shi Huang, the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, and the many talented figures of the late Qin, and conquer Great Qin! Conquer the whole world!] Note: 1. The overall tone is ministers and ruler happily building a nation and creating a golden age for Great Qin. 2. Empress Zhangsun has her own exciting storyline and appears in the middle of the novel. 3. Er Feng has transmigrated into a Chu-Han contention novel. 4. This blurb was inspired by a joke posted on Weibo in April 2023. In April 2024, after notifying the editor and my writer friends, I started outlining and stockpiling chapters (proudly patting my belly full of finished chapters!). ---Pre-release 1: The Story of Zhu Di's Rebellion Being Praised by Zhu Yuanzhang--- Zhu Yuanzhang was heartbroken. His beloved eldest son, Zhu Biao, had died young, leaving the position of crown prince vacant. Zhu Yuanzhang was also overjoyed. Just as he was torn over whether to pass the throne to Zhu Yunwen, a sky screen suddenly appeared at the funeral... His Biao'er had appeared as a spirit! Countless rays of golden light blazed as the sky screen boomed: [The Ming Dynasty was not great only under Hongwu! The golden age created by his successors surpassed even the Han and Tang!] [The benevolent rule of Ren and Xuan, the Hongzhi Restoration... Golden ages succeeded one another! The emperor guarded the nation's gates, and the Ming stood firm, never yielding!] Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang wept tears of joy and slapped the table in delight: Yunwen has the spirit of Hongwu! His descendants have the bearing of Wenjing and Taizong! This line of descendants is full of winners! And then... The sky screen displayed bold, enlarged words: [The army rode into Jinling to quell the rebellion and made five northern campaigns that shook the world! The Yongle Encyclopedia gathered a thousand chapters!] [The eternal emperor Zhu Di teaches us through his own experience: When the emperor suspects you're going to rebel, you'd better really do it! :)] Zhu Yuanzhang's smile froze. Before long, he learned the truth... The Yongle Golden Age was created by his fourth son! The fourth son had won glory at home and abroad! The son had the bearing of Wenjing, and the grandson the stature of Taizong! Restoring order and prosperity, quietly amassing a fortune as silver piled up... It had all been accomplished by his fourth son's descendants! And the Yunwen he had chosen? Hah. What if he gave the throne to his fourth son instead? - At the Yongle court. After ascending the throne, Zhu Di worked tirelessly day and night for his country and people, never daring to relax for a moment.[1] Because what he feared was not death, but hearing his father and future generations call him "an illegitimate ruler" or "a usurper." Those words stuck in his throat, impossible to dislodge for the rest of his life. Until the sky screen, in front of his father, the sixteen Ming emperors, and all the people of the realm, awarded him a certificate of coronation: "Eternal Emperor" Zhu Di: Oh yeah! QVQ - More exciting episodes to come: [The Ming Dynasty had more bizarre emperors than any other dynasty in Chinese history!] [Some cultivated immortality, some slacked off, some worked as carpenters, some studied abroad and surrendered at the gates... some turned around and killed their meritorious officials...] [Among the sixteen Ming emperors, who was a winner and who was a loser?] [Whose reign brought the rise and fall of the nation's fortunes?] [Next, let's take a close look at the lives and deeds of the Ming emperors. Everyone can vote on who was a winner and who was a loser!] Zhu Yuanzhang (afraid to open his eyes, hoping it was just his imagination): Vote on what? On who's trash? The fifteen Ming emperors watching together across a century: Take a close look at what? My life? The nobles, ministers, and common people watching and discussing: What are we voting on about our emperor? Winner or loser? This is going to be interesting! Before they could calm down, the sky screen continued: [The Ming Dynasty's Little Ice Age: a uniquely beautiful experience of cold and drought!] [Don't know about these disaster-fighting wonders? Sweet potatoes and corn that grow anywhere, double-cropping rice that can be harvested twice a year, and cotton that can be harvested three times a year! Eunuch Sanbao: Did I sail the seas for nothing?] [The Yellow River flooding? Plague spreading? Here's a quick lesson in water management and public health!] [Firearms losing to foreign powers? Our experts in flintlock guns and granular gunpowder welcome you!] Ding! A strong desire to extend the dynasty's lifespan has been detected in the Host... The Great Ming Dynasty Fortune Revamp System has been activated! This novel is also known as: Zhu Yunwen: So My Father Appeared as a Spirit After His Death, Only for the Livestream to Reveal That My Fourth Uncle Was the True Son of Heaven! Hongwu and Yongle, Two Male Leads: Joining Forces to Reform the Family, Specializing in Dealing with Anyone Who Won't Cooperate! Theme: May the golden age of China last forever!