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- 51 Sailing West: My Father Is Zheng He, and I Have an Immortal Body 下西洋：我爹郑和，我不死金身 Zheng Yi is here, armed with a System buff that lets him get away with anything. So he built a golden age for the Ming Dynasty, became ruler of the world, and founded the nation of Donghua. 238Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 52 Great Ming: Forced to Ascend the Throne 大明：被迫登基 I transmigrated through time and space into the Ming Dynasty and became the second son of Zhu Gaochi, named Zhu Zhanyong. Though I bore the noble title of prince, I seemed to have been born with a knack for courting death, charging headlong down a road of no return. The old man, Zhu Di, called me in for a talk. With a stern expression, he asked, “Boy, have you never thought about sitting on the throne?” I didn’t even raise my eyelids. “Not interested. My biggest dream in life is to wake up natur 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Reborn to Conquer the Ming Dynasty: I Am Zhu Xiongying 携手重生闯大明，我是朱雄英 This is a story about a police officer and a retired special forces soldier who transmigrate to the Ming Dynasty and make their way through its world. It's also the story of two passionate young men protecting one another and moving forward hand in hand. A tale of youth and passion, laughter and tears! Let's look forward to it together! 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Ming Dynasty: Emperor Shizong 大明明世宗 [From the start + Ming Dynasty + historical fanfiction + wild imagination + no transmigration] What were the regrets of the Ming Dynasty, which lasted 276 years? Was it the Hongwu Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, who lost his father and mother in his youth, his wife and grandson in middle age, and his son in his later years? Was it the death of Zhu Biao, history’s widely acclaimed strongest crown prince? Or the early death of Zhu Xiongying, the emperor’s eldest legitimate grandson? What if Zhu Xiongying 9Reads—Score114d adds
- 55 Hongwu Great Ming: I Become a Prince of a Different Surname by Farming Trait Entries 大明洪武，我靠刷词条成为异姓王 In the fifteenth year of the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, a boy in Yingtian Prefecture falls into the water and awakens memories of his past life, along with a Trait System. He uses The Saint Among Donkeys to give his family’s old donkey a second youth, evolving it into “Zhao Guangyi’s Donkey.” With The Meaning Reveals Itself boosting him, he faces no obstacles in his studies and becomes the first person in the Ming dynasty to earn top honors in all six levels of the imperial examinations. By —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Starting Out as a Company Commander in the Ming Dynasty 大明从总旗开始 In the winter of 1393, the Four Great Cases are finally settled, but they have also crippled half of the Ming dynasty's military leadership. At this time, a humble militia commander in Beiping Prefecture gradually begins to show his mettle. The aging Hongwu Emperor can only hope that Zhu Yunwen will be as decisive in battle and wise in retreat as he was in his youth. Little does he know that behind the Crown Prince's gentle nature lie a thirst for centralized power and a deep favor for civil off 2Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 57 Iron-Blooded Ming: The Exceptional Emperor Zhu Houzhao 铁血大明：极品皇帝朱厚照 [No System]+ [Court Politics]+ [Political Intrigue]+ [War]… Minister: “What? The emperor has gone on campaign in person again?” Mongol leader Dayan Khan: “Why was Zhu Houzhao born in the same age as me?” He was the last great ruler of the Ming dynasty, and its last emperor to lead troops on horseback. He had the political skill of the Ming dynasty’s founder, Taizu, and the decisiveness of Chengzu when it came to killing. The emperor most divisively judged in the history books: some c —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Dashing Ming Dynasty: I Love the Realm, but I Love Beauty More 风流大明：爱江山更爱美人 [Transmigrate to the Ming dynasty; no System, no golden finger, no mindless heroics, no invincibility, multiple female leads. Readers who might object, proceed with caution.] A car accident sends me from the start into the twenty-first year of the Yongle era of the Ming dynasty, where I become embroiled in an imperial examination fraud case. I can only struggle on the edge between political power and beautiful women... As the wheel of fate begins to turn, can I break free from the shackles of my —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 My Father Is Zhu Yuanzhang 家父朱元璋 My name is Zhu Qi, and I was born in the second year of Hongwu. The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, is my father. I originally wanted to compete for the throne, but when I thought of my older brother, Crown Prince Zhu Biao, still being alive, I gave up. I couldn't beat him. And I didn't dare try. So I made a decision: I would do everything in my power to help Zhu Biao weather his misfortunes, and become a benevolent emperor who cared for his people. As for me, I'd be a caref 2Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 60 Great Ming: From the Start, I Became a Prince and Grew Potatoes 大明：开局成王，在种土豆 Zhu Yuanzhang: “Miaoyun, I told your father that I wanted our families to become in-laws. What do you think of my fourth son, Zhu Di?” Xu Miaoyun: “This humble daughter only wishes to marry the Third Prince!” The Third Prince, Zhu Gang: “?” Fourth Brother, I really wasn't trying to steal your wife! 198Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 61 Great Ming: Starting by Treating Zhu Xiongying 大明：从医治朱雄英开始 The fifteenth year of the Hongwu reign. Su Xuan transmigrates into the body of a traveling doctor who wanders the streets and knows only mediocre medicine. He can't afford warm clothes or enough food. Then he awakens a Faith Points System. By earning Faith Points, he can obtain all sorts of rewards, including universal healing pills, pills that sharpen the senses, god-tier medical skills, a world map from the Hongwu era, modern glass cups, and more. Just then, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest legitimate g 299Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 62 Great Ming: I, Zhu Zhanqi, Am the True Worthy Grandson of the Emperor! 大明：我朱瞻圻才是好圣孙！ Reborn in the Ming Dynasty as Zhu Zhanqi, the second son of the Prince of Han. He gains the [Dreamweaver] skill. And launches a plan to save the barbecue-loving prince. He can freely manipulate anyone’s dreams and defy fate! He gives Zhu Di a dream: “The son of your beloved grandson actually became a student in Wala?” He gives Zhu Gaochi a dream: “I was emperor for ten months, then the Crown Prince had me killed?” Zhu Zhanji: “Grandfather, Father, I’m innocent!” He gives Zheng He a dream: “So th 33Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 63 Great Ming: The Zhu Family's Executive Vice Emperor 大明：老朱家的常务副皇帝 Better for one person to weep than for ten thousand to weep. Better for one family to weep than for ten thousand families to suffer. Better for officials to suffer than for the common people to suffer!!!! After dying unexpectedly, the soul of modern young man Zhu Biao is brought by the System to a parallel Ming Dynasty, where he becomes the Crown Prince, Zhu Biao!!!! But the useless System falls into a deep slumber. Relying on his own abilities, Zhu Biao transforms and builds the Ming Dynasty, l 3.1kReads6.9Score11214d adds
- 64 Great Ming: From the Start, I Extend Zhu Biao's Life 大明：开局给朱标续命 One day, he transmigrated to the Hongwu era and became Zhu Su, Prince of Zhou of the Ming Dynasty. To avoid being killed later by his adopted nephew, Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Su decided to prolong the life of his elder brother, Zhu Biao... And so Zhu Su became the Ming Dynasty's Sage of Medicine! He could restore life to the dying and cure all manner of difficult ailments. He could also stabilize the realm and govern a region. Even his elder brother Zhu Biao became Zhu Su's number-one fan. “Fifth Brother 148Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 65 Great Ming: My Dad Really Is Zhu Yuanzhang 大明：我老爹真的是朱元璋 As the Ming Dynasty’s first Prince of Zhao, he was also the first prince to ‘die.’ He ‘passed away’ at just one year old and was buried in the imperial mausoleum. But sixteen years later, a young man named Zhu Qi comes from Fengyang to Nanjing in search of his origins... Years later, the old man he knows says, “Qi’er, we can’t go on like this. Stop now! Our Ming territory has stretched all the way to the other side of the globe!” His elder brother Zhu Biao says, “Ninth Brother, I’m not your equa 23Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 66 Great Ming: I, Zhu Yuntong, Discuss the Poll Tax with Zhu Yuanzhang from the Start 大明：开局我跟朱元璋谈人丁税 He transmigrates into the body of Xu Da’s youngest son. While helping disaster victims, he runs into Zhu Yuanzhang and asks a question that leaves the emperor speechless: “Why must people without land pay taxes?” In the Ming dynasty, my fate is not my own. Sooner or later, I, Xu Ping’an, will cut off the emperor’s controlling hand, the one that dictates everyone’s fate. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Return to the Ming Dynasty and Become Emperor 回到大明当皇帝 I transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty and somehow became Zhu Di, Prince of Yan? The same Zhu Di who raised an army in Beiping, marched all the way to Nanjing, and defeated Zhu Yunwen? But this Prince of Yan seems to have died young, meeting a fate entirely different from the one history recorded! Cast aside by the court and reduced to a powerless vassal prince? Reborn for a second time, I'll reform taxes, build an iron army, overhaul the military and government, promote farming, and create the mos 18Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 68 Great Ming: The Peerless Imperial Prince, Old Zhu Begs Me to Succeed Him 大明：无双皇子，老朱求我继位 In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Crown Prince Zhu Biao died. To groom a new heir, Zhu Yuanzhang went incognito and traveled to Lingnan with Zhu Yunwen. There, he was astonished to find that the people of Lingnan, a land once considered uncivilized, lived in comfort and prosperity. The region was also full of things Zhu Yuanzhang had never even heard of. Looking at how Zhu Bai had made Lingnan so powerful, then at Zhu Yunwen, who was disappointing him more and more by the day, Zhu Yuanzhang de 323Reads7.1Score10414d adds
- 69 The Sun and Moon of Great Ming: Reborn as Zhu Xiongying, I Am Heaven's Will 大明日月：重生朱雄英，我即天命 Lin Mo, a 30-year-old historian and sanda champion, is reborn as Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest legitimate grandson, who died of illness in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu. He has a complete modern body of knowledge, foresight into the course of history, and an enhanced physique, while retaining his sanda skills. He transmigrates on the night before Zhu Xiongying's supposed death from illness, in the fifth lunar month of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu. A faked death marks the beginning o 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 In the Great Ming, I, Zhu Yingying, Am the True Emperor Taizong! 大明我朱雄英才是太宗皇帝！ Great-grandson of Emperor Chun, founder of the Great Ming Eldest legitimate grandson of the founding Hongwu Emperor Eldest legitimate son of the late Crown Prince Yiwen Zhu Xiongying! I bear the most honorable name in the world. I am the first in line to inherit the Great Ming! My second younger brother, Zhu Yunwen, was made Prince of Huai, and my third younger brother, Zhu Yuntong, was made Prince of Wu. Do you really think you have the strength to contend with me for this position? I, Zhu Xion 302Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 71 Great Ming: I Want to Slack Off, So Why Are You Making Me Emperor? 大明：我想摆烂，你却让我当皇帝？ I transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty. It would have been fine if I'd transmigrated as a famous historical figure, but I ended up as a nobody! Zhu Song, Zhu Yuanzhang's twentieth son, was beaten to death at a young age after the Jingnan Campaign, according to history. That won't do. I need to go to my fief, the poorest place in Liaodong. If I can't beat them, I can at least hide from them! What? Fourth Brother, the Prince of Yan, wants me to join his rebellion? Grandson of the emperor Zhu Yunwen w 207Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 72 Return to the Tang Dynasty 归唐 When a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, it can stir up a mighty gale in distant Texas. Everything and everyone here is utterly unfamiliar, yet somehow strangely familiar. Ancient and modern, contradiction and enlightenment: whether they are good or bad is anyone's guess. A speck of dust in a beam of light, or rather, a man, has fallen into the machinery of this vast nation. Though he does not belong to this age, what changes will he bring? This is an industrious age, a vast age, a turbulent 359Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 73 Great Ming: Rising to Power by Chewing Out Zhu Yuanzhang 大明：从怒怼朱元璋开始崛起 21Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 74 Sage Emperor Zhengde: My Great Ming National Fate System 正德圣主：我的大明国运系统 The embers of the Hongzhi Restoration have yet to die out, but the Ming dynasty is already beset by internal and external troubles: land concentration is undermining the foundations of the state, the military garrisons are in disrepair and border threats persist, civil officials are growing ever more arrogant as imperial authority slips away, and the century-old dynasty is on the verge of collapse. A modern scholar of Ming history transmigrates into the body of the young emperor Zhu Houzhao and 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 The Great Ming's First Imperial Grandson 大明第一皇太孙 After transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Xuan becomes Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest legitimate grandson, who had been lost outside the palace, and runs a small tavern. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang, feeling low, happens to visit the tavern and discovers that its owner is the late Crown Prince's son! “Biao'er?” Zhu Xuan is startled. “Second Cousin? Old man, you've got the wrong person!” “You look so much like him, exactly like him! You're the eldest grandson of our Zhu family, lost for all these years!” O 6Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 76 Great Ming: My Father Is Zhu Di 大明：我父王是朱棣 [Ming Dynasty Succession Struggles and the Jingnan Campaign] + [Farming, Business, and Development] + [Political Scheming, Military Affairs, and the Struggle for Hegemony] + [Court, Jianghu, and Common Life] [Humorous Writing] + [Vivid Characters] + [Foreshadowing That Pays Off Much Later] + [A Tightly Interwoven Plot] Zhu Gaosui, a hapless man from the twenty-first century, has a powerful trait: Not only is he unlucky himself, he also brings bad luck to everyone around him. Wouldn’t you know it —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 I Am Zhu Zhanji in Great Ming 人在大明，我是朱瞻基 As men, why not take up arms, ride across the battlefield, protect the people, and defend our homes and country? If Heaven grants me ten years to rule, I will make the people's hopes my own and their concerns my concerns. I will unite the Four Seas, joining them together as one. All beneath the Four Seas are brothers; all beneath the Four Seas hold the Ming Dynasty in their hearts. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 The Ming Emperor's Brother-in-Law: From Martial Champion to Guardian Martial Duke 大明国舅：从武状元到镇国武穆 He opens his eyes to find himself a young relative of the imperial family in the Jiajing era, born into wealth and blessed with a towering, powerfully built frame that could rival Xu Chu's. A life of luxury has not made him soft. He clenches his fists and vows that his martial arts will serve not to win favor, but to protect his family and his country. At court, officials refine elixirs in Taoist robes. At the border, the Tatars threaten the passes. The court is full of men who do nothing but b 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 From the Start, Zhu Gaoxu Has the City Surrounded, So I Talk Him Into Becoming Emperor 开局朱高煦围城，忽悠他当皇帝 “Imperial brother, I know I was wrong. I don’t want to sit on the throne anymore.” “I only want to stay alive and live comfortably as a wealthy man.” “But I know that if I rashly abdicate in favor of your father, I’ll probably end up like those puppet emperors in the history books.” “I could drop dead in bed any day.” “So I hope we can join forces. Keep me alive and on the throne, and after your father passes away, I’ll abdicate directly in your favor.” “What do you think?” The sixth month of th 109Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Great Ming: Three Sentences Send Ten Clans of Relatives and Friends to Their Doom 大明：三句话送十族亲友上天 One sentence wipes out three clans, two sentences wipe out nine, and three sentences get ten clans exterminated! Ji Bochang isn't worried in the slightest, because he has a trump card up his sleeve. The Ming Dynasty lasted 276 years. Not satisfied? No problem. I'll take you to transmigrate into the eras of the various Ming emperors, so you can correct the mistakes their descendants made one by one. 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Great Ming: Burying Zhu Yuanzhang Alive for Fourteen Years from the Start 大明：开局活埋朱元璋十四年 Lately, I’ve seen a lot of bizarre comments. I got the idea for this book from the TV drama Black Storm, where Sun Xing is utterly lawless and a lot like several of Zhu Yuanzhang’s sons. Sun Xing has an adoptive father, Gao Mingyuan, who shields him and acts as his accomplice. That’s a lot like the so-called good father Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao... so I made the stories intersect. There’s a character named Mai Zili in the show who is targeted for opposing the criminal forces... so I also made Z 185Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Empress Ma Dies from the Start, So I Ask Zhu Yuanzhang to Join Her in Death 开局马皇后崩，我请朱元璋殉葬 [Great Ming] [Time Gate] [Dual Transmigration] [Righting Regrets] [Military Expansion] [Building a Realm with Natural Borders] In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the empress passed away. The emperor wept bitterly and never appointed another empress. According to unofficial histories, when Empress Ma was being buried, someone petitioned Zhu Yuanzhang to be buried alive with her. That's right, that person was me. I opened a time gate and brought Empress Ma from the ninth year of Hongwu to the fiftee —Reads—Score114d adds
- 83 Great Ming: I Actually Became Zhu Silang 大明：我竟成了朱四郎 [Alternate History]+ [Great Ming]+ [No System] May the mountains, rivers, sun, and moon endure, and the Great Ming empire stand forever. My name is Zhu Di, and I have another identity: I am Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth son, the Prince of Yan, Zhu Di, also known as Fourth Brother Zhu. Why is that? That's right, I transmigrated. Lying on the bed, Zhu Di silently accepts his new identity, a flame burning fiercely in his heart. Since Heaven has brought him to this magnificent Great Ming, he must make the 105Reads6.4Score10214d adds
- 84 Old Zhu, Stop Fooling Around! I, Lan Yu, Will Be Loyal to the Crown Prince in This Life 老朱别闹我蓝玉这辈子只忠于太子 “Why do I have to be a Blue Knight after I transmigrate here?” “Why does my skin feel a little dry when I see Zhu Yuanzhang?” “If the Crown Prince lives, I live.” “I am a staunch Crown Prince loyalist!” “Your Highness! That old bastard is way out of line! Let's fight him!” “Your Highness! Don't work yourself so hard. You can leave this to someone else! What? You mean me? Of course, no problem!” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Great Ming: When It Comes to Being a Sneaky Trickster, No One Beats You, Grandpa! 大明：论老六，还得是爷爷您呐！ After transmigrating to the Ming dynasty, Zhu Shou gets a sign-in System and spends five years accumulating countless resources. He only wanted to live quietly as a wealthy landowner. Who could have guessed that one day his adoptive grandfather and adoptive father would suddenly show up? When he learns that his adoptive grandfather does business with Lan Yu and the others, Zhu Shou is scared out of his wits! “Grandpa, Zhu Biao is about to die, Zhu Yuanzhang is about to launch a bloody purge, and 6Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 86 Great Ming: I Became Heaven's Chosen Son from the Start! 大明：开局就成了天赐之子！ In the fifth year of Yongle, Zhu Zhanli was born, hailed as a child sent by Heaven! Watch how he uses ideas centuries ahead of his time to blaze a completely new trail in the Ming dynasty… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Great Ming: A Royal Relative from the Modern Era 大明：来自现代的皇室宗亲 When Zhu Youye discovered that he could travel through time, and that he could travel to the Ming dynasty, he was instantly thrilled. As the twentieth-generation descendant of the Yongle Emperor, his identity might be useless in modern society, but it was another matter in the Ming dynasty. Even if they were distant relatives, he was still a member of the imperial clan, after all. But if he wanted to claim his ancestry, he would need convincing proof. So, in pursuit of the aristocratic life he h 46Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 88 Great Ming: The Extraordinary Life of Duke Cao Li Jinglong 大明：曹国公李景隆的妖孽人生 [Ming Dynasty] [One Female Lead] [Li Jinglong] [Not a Brainless Story] A modern special forces soldier was reborn as Li Jinglong, the Ming Dynasty’s great general! What? I’ve been reborn in the third month of the seventeenth year of Hongwu. Doesn’t that mean my father, Li Wenzhong, is about to die? When I helped the Crown Prince, Zhu Biao, amass wealth with soap and sugar, Zhu Yuanzhang thought I was a loyal and worthy minister of the Ming. When I blasted open the Japanese pirates’ gates with ca 2.9kReads6.0Score12714d adds
- 89 My Father Is Zhu Yuanzhang 家父朱元璋 My name is Zhu Qi, the ninth prince of the Great Ming. The founding emperor of the Great Ming dynasty, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, is my father. Empress Ma is my mother. Since Heaven has brought me to the Great Ming, I will place my pieces on the board one by one and lead the dynasty to glory. Wherever the land stretches and the sun and moon shine, it shall all belong to the Great Ming. A Great Ming whose golden age shines forever. 35Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 90 Great Ming: I'll Come Clean, I'm the Chongzhen Emperor 大明：摊牌了，我是崇祯 In the seventh year of the Tianqi era, the Ming dynasty is on the brink of collapse. Zhou Meng, who transmigrated into this world, becomes the Chongzhen Emperor and finds himself facing a complete mess. At home, eunuch factions abuse their power, natural and man-made disasters abound, and refugees are everywhere. Beyond the borders, the Tatar cavalry watches hungrily, and even a barbarian kingdom in the far west dares to covet Ming islands off the coast! Well, then, there's nothing left to say. 273Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 91 Reborn as the Jing Tai Emperor 重生之景泰大帝 A modern soul takes over the body of the most tragic emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu. He has neither the domineering presence to tower over the masses nor the wisdom to outshine all his ministers. But he knows how to plan ahead and govern through the power of circumstance, which is the true way to rule the world. A logic-driven story, with no dumbing down and no golden finger. This is my first book, so it contains quite a few mistakes. Feel free to point them out. 513Reads6.2Score10114d adds
- 92 Guardian Qin King: I Share the Great Ming's Fate Until the End 镇国秦王，我和大明与国同休 He is reborn in the body of Zhu Shuang of the Ming dynasty. Given a second life, watch how Zhu Shuang saves the country from crisis, changes the face of the Great Ming, and establishes the Imperial Trading Company. He extends Zhu Biao's life and earns the title of Prince of Qin, Guardian of the State. Watching the world change day by day, I, Zhu Shuang, Prince of Qin and Guardian of the State, have lived too long. 5kReads7.5Score20114d adds
- 93 Great Ming: Son of the Taizu, I Become the Strongest by Slaying Enemies 大明：太祖之子，杀敌成最强 Reborn at the end of the Yuan dynasty, when the land was in chaos and warlords were rising everywhere, Zhu Ke enlisted in the army to revive China and fulfill the ambitions of the Han people. As luck would have it, he awakened the Ultimate Enemy-Slaying System. All he had to do was keep killing enemies to earn rewards. By slaying his foes, Zhu Ke rose step by step to become the army’s supreme commander. When he finally met Zhu Yuanzhang, he was stunned. Why did this man look so much like him? La 96Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 94 Great Ming: You Call That Maniac Who Chops People a Scholar? 大明：你管那砍人的疯批叫书生？ Zhu Chongba, you'll never guess: Zhu Shouye isn't just Ma Xiuying's adopted younger brother. He's also her biological younger brother, the one she accidentally threw into a mass grave with her own hands all those years ago! Ma Xiuying: “Chongba, why won't you acknowledge Shouye?” Zhu Chongba: “I'm afraid he'll do me in...” There is no System in this story. It follows Zhu Shouye, a frail scholar who transmigrates to the end of the Yuan dynasty and joins the army, only to be bullied by Chang Yuchu 2.3kReads—Score18114d adds
- 95 Great Ming: I Mistook My Real Father, and He Turned Out to Be Zhu Yuanzhang! 大明：认错亲爹，竟是朱元璋！ Zhu Lin transmigrates to the Ming dynasty. His deadbeat father flees to escape gambling debts. Ten years have passed, and at last he's coming home. It is the ninth year of Hongwu. The people are struggling, and even having enough to eat is a luxury. When Zhu Yuanzhang knocks on the Zhu family's door, the sight of a house full of grain leaves him stunned. The rice yields a thousand catties per mu, leaving him amazed. What he never expected was that the master of the house would call him “Dad”! 478Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Reborn in Great Ming: This Throne Is Mine by Right! 重生大明：这位子就该我来坐！ [Historical fiction + no saintly protagonist + reborn + farming + Age of Sail + Industrial Revolution.] Reborn as Zhu Biao, the Ming Dynasty’s crown prince, he wanted to open up maritime trade, but was denied! He wanted to fight the Japanese pirates, but was denied! He wanted to promote new learning, but was denied! He wanted to conquer the Western Regions, but was denied! Furious, Zhu Biao slammed his hand on the table and rose to his feet. “All matters under heaven are within my control. If I 86Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 97 Great Ming: Livestreaming the Fight for the Throne 大明：直播夺嫡 Who hasn't dreamed of becoming emperor? I woke up to find myself in the iron-willed Ming dynasty! My soul had transmigrated into Zhu Yuntong, the third generation of the Ming imperial family. And the strongest crown prince in history was gravely ill in bed. “Ding! Livestream System activated!” A mechanical voice rang out. At last, my golden finger had arrived. Save Zhu Biao and begin the real Ming life! “See? That's what the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty really looked like. Stop making thin 45Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 98 I, Zhu Yuntong, Rule the Empire. Fourth Uncle, Why Are You Kneeling? 我朱允熥监国，四叔你怎么就跪了 Some people have to die once before they can understand what they’ve lost, before they can understand what they still need. Zhu Yuntong will create another great age. Wherever the rivers and mountains reach, all shall be Ming territory. Wherever the sun and moon shine, all shall be Ming subjects. May all nations prosper together, and envoys come from every direction. May history have no regrets or shame. May the Great Ming’s golden age endure forever. May the people’s every grievance be avenged, 245Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 99 Great Ming: From the Start, I Sold Sesame Cakes, and Zhu Yuanzhang Begged Me to Become Emperor 大明：开局卖烧饼，朱元璋求我当皇帝 In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, I arrived in the Great Ming, a bold and martial age. Then I followed my adoptive father and sold flatbreads! And then my adoptive father starved to death in a famine! In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Crown Prince Zhu Biao died, shaking the court and the country. With the help of Old Huang, I opened a little tavern. “Old sir, I’ll take care of you in your old age and see you off when your time comes.” “I can brew Great Ming Yanghe strong-aroma liquor, make comp 33Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 100 The Invincible Imperial Grandson of Great Ming 大明无敌皇孙 I transmigrated as Zhu Yuntong, the biological grandson of Emperor Taizu of the Great Ming. At first, I escaped the palace just to become a carefree merchant. But my useless System led me step by step to the highest position of all. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, after the eight-year-old Crown Prince’s eldest son, Zhu Xiongying, died, Emperor Taizu took an unexpected interest in me and decided to groom me as his next heir. Inside the imperial palace that same year: “You useless lot! You can’t 1.3kReads7.3Score10214d adds
