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- 1 Great Ming: I, Li Jinglong, Am Truly the God of War 大明：我李景隆真是大明战神 (No System + war + transmigration) Transmigrate and become the Ming dynasty's God of War? Then I'll make that title live up to its name. What? I'm just a playboy? Then I'll make sure there's no one in Yingtian City more debauched than me. What? Zhu Xiongying has already taken the throne, and Zhu Di still dares to launch the Jingnan Campaign? Why would we need an army of five hundred thousand? Your Majesty, give me five hundred men, and I'll capture the Prince of Yan alive and bring him back! I a 919Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 2 I'm Zhu Yuntong, and I'm Playing You at Your Own Game 我朱允熥就是跟你玩明谋 Could the reborn legitimate son change the fate that befell him in his previous life, when his weak-willed nature led to ten years in captivity? Could he turn the tide and make his name live on in the history books? 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Arrived in the Ming Dynasty with a Trickster System 来到大明我有一个系统老六 In a rental apartment in the twenty-first century, a disheveled powerhouse from the Funeral of Love Empire is bewildered! What the heck is going on? A System? And you’re giving me unlimited funds to buy everything money can buy over the next three months, then transmigrating me bodily to the historical Ming Dynasty? Me? All by myself? I’m not going. System, you can leave. Just remember to leave the money behind before you go. System: “You good-for-nothing human trash from the fallen Funeral of L 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Duke Who Pacified the Great Ming 大明安国公 Sixty-seven turbulent years, yet who could ever surpass you? From Haozhou to Yingtian, following Zhu Yuanzhang from rebel leader to Duke of Anguo: was it luck or ability? What does it feel like to unwittingly save the future Hongwu Emperor? Do you cling to his coattails, or keep yourself out of trouble? When two people who never existed in history meet, what will become of history? Will they clash blades, or work together for mutual gain? Where will the realm, its people, and its very foundation 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Great Ming: Starting by Curing Wanli’s Leg Ailment 大明：从治好万历腿疾开始 After transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty, he becomes Zhu Changluo, the eldest son and least favorite child of the Wanli Emperor, and binds himself to a life-simulation System. Through one life simulation after another, Zhu Changluo gains all kinds of life experience. Wanli: Changluo, do you know why I don’t attend court? It’s because the pain in my legs is unbearable! [Simulation initiated] [Congratulations, Host. You have successfully developed a highly effective rheumatism medicine.] Zhu Chang —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Great Ming Under Chongzhen 崇祯大明 He was originally a man of the back hills, but once in a while he would play the guest in the front hall. Chongzhen's life was one of being pushed into things before he was ready, and one of endless misfortune. The late Ming is called a troubled age, yet it has no heroes of its own. Even a single famous figure from the Qin and Han dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, or the Sui and Tang could crush every oddball who dared defy them in this bizarre era. So what kind of eventful life will Chongzhen lead 1Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 7 Great Ming: I Run Away with the Emperor Grandpa from the Start! 大明：开局带着皇帝爷爷跑路！ Zhu Ye wakes up and finds himself in the Ming Dynasty, with a new, conveniently acquired grandpa! “Grandpa, Zhu Biao is about to die, and Zhu Yuanzhang is about to start a killing spree. We should grab our things and run!” Those words leave his grandfather dumbfounded. So, from the start, Zhu Ye builds a steel mill, manufactures Frankish cannons, and recruits talented people, preparing for his own father’s rebellion in the future! Just as Zhu Ye has recruited troops and gathered everything he ne —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Great Ming: Reclaiming Eagleland with My Ancestors 大明：带着祖宗收复鹰酱 Zhu Yu, a direct descendant of Zhu Gaosui, the third son of Zhu Di, bonded with a System created by the ancient Huaxia civilization and transmigrated straight to his ancestor Zhu Di's side. Taking up the great mission of restoring civilization, he set out to rule the Great Ming and conquer multiple universes. Beneath the Great Ming's iron tide, the Qing, the Japanese pirates, and others were left in devastation. Aisin-Gioro Hongli: “How did the Great Ming come back to life? Don't come near me!” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Great Ming: I Was About to Be Executed, but the People Sent a Petition to Save Me from Zhu Yuanzhang 大明：刚要处斩，万民血书告老朱 Di Yun transmigrates to the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty and becomes a county magistrate in a border town. If Zhu Yuanzhang names him for execution, he can return to the modern world and reach the pinnacle of success! Three years later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally has him thrown into death row. He is just about to go home when a commoner comes forward to lodge a complaint: “This humble citizen brings a blood petition signed by ten thousand people, accusing His Majesty of condemning an upright offici 7Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 10 Rebuilding the Great Ming: From Rebellion to Ruling the World! 重铸大明：从造反开始君临天下！ [Late Ming] + [Zhu Cilang] + [System] + [Rebellion] + [Multiple Storylines] Zhu Cilang transmigrates and becomes the Crown Prince at the end of the Ming Dynasty, with only a year left before the dynasty falls. The first mission from the System: seize the throne or the power to act as regent. After thinking it over, he decides to bring troops and have a serious talk with his father on New Year's Eve. Zhu Cilang: "Father, after making such a mess of the Great Ming, don't you think it's time to abd 11.9kReads—Score1.3kShelves
- 11 Great Ming, Here I Come! 大明，我来了！ A gifted student of physical chemistry is left in a vegetative state after a car accident leaves him brain-damaged and a hospital power outage cuts off his oxygen supply. When he wakes up again, he has transmigrated back to the Ming Dynasty as Zhu Qizhen, son of the Xuande Emperor. Watch as he uses his time in the past to change the fate of this magnificent dynasty, leading the Ming to become the world’s hegemon! 720Reads7.5Score110Shelves
- 12 Great Ming: I Refuse to Be the Emperor Who Loses the Empire 大明：我不做亡国之君 The empire is on the brink of collapse, and the realm is about to fall. A doomed start, with a 365-day countdown to fate. He awakens in the depths of despair as the last Chongzhen Emperor. The ending has long been written in the history books: a fallen dynasty, a suicide, total ruin. But what if it could all be rewritten from the start? When an emperor who refuses to accept his fate meets a Great Ming already condemned to die, can history begin anew? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Great Ming: The Ultimate Nepotist Rises from Nothing 大明：最强关系户从微末崛起 With the Ming Dynasty on the verge of being founded, Zhu Han and his family, hiding in Qingxi Village, had planned to muddle through the rest of their second lives. On Zhu Han’s birthday, bandits raided the village, and his family was soon facing a food shortage. He obtained the Carpenter profession through a System, but after carving a statue of a god, he caught the eye of local thugs in the county town. With no other choice, Zhu Han was forced to leave the small mountain village and flee to Yi 721Reads7.0Score102Shelves
- 14 My Father Is Zhu Yuanzhang, So It's Only Right That I Inherit the Throne! 家父朱元璋，我继承皇位很合理吧！ His soul transmigrated to the twentieth year of Hongwu and into the body of Zhu Zhi, the fourteenth son of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang! After obtaining a System, Zhu Zhi began his path to supremacy! “What? You say Liaodong is a war-torn land?” “No matter. I will lead my troops and crush every obstacle!” “What? Liaodong is bitterly cold, and the people are struggling to get by?” “I've recently discovered a grain crop that yields two thousand jin per mu!” “...” Several years later, under Zhu Zhi's leade 110Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 15 My Father Is the Duke of Liang 家父梁国公 In modern society, programmer Lan Bin is trapped in the grueling 996 work schedule, utterly exhausted. He spends night after night battling away to make sure the program goes live on time. At two in the morning on a Saturday, he is still wrestling with a stubborn bug when, in an instant, his vision goes black and he plunges into endless chaos. When he wakes again, he is shocked to discover that he has transmigrated into Lan Bin, the only son of Lan Yu: the notorious number-one playboy of the Hon 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 My Father Is Zhu Yuanzhang: I Get the National Fate System from the Start 家父朱元璋，开局获得国运系统 The thirteenth year of Hongwu. Zhu Yuanzhang unexpectedly obtained a National Destiny Simulation System. It revealed the Jingnan Campaign, the Tumu Crisis, the three great campaigns of the Wanli era, the rise of the Later Jin, the Little Ice Age, rampant plagues, peasant uprisings, and the Manchus' entry into the pass... Zhu Yuanzhang was furious. “Is this really how my Great Ming comes to an end?” “Prince Zhou invented penicillin, wiped out disease, and the people all praise it.” “Prince Zhou d 71Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 17 My Father Is Zhu Yuanzhang: I Can Hear His Thoughts 家父朱元璋：我能窃听洪武心声 [No System] [Lighthearted and Funny] Reborn as Crown Prince Zhu Biao, he can also hear the thoughts of the Hongwu Emperor, leaving the Grand Ancestor utterly flabbergasted. “How come Biao'er knows every little scheme in my head?” Zhu Yuanzhang: “Guards! Execute this man and wipe out his entire clan!” Zhu Biao: “Father, wiping out nine generations is too cruel. Three generations will do.” The ministers: “The Crown Prince is damn benevolent.” Years later, Zhu Yuanzhang holds his hand. “You can hea —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Strongest Imperial Grandson of the Ming Dynasty 大明之最强皇孙 After transmigrating as Zhu Biao’s third son, Wang Xi had hoped to become a carefree prince. But his eldest brother, Zhu Yunwen, was weak and treacherous, while his fourth uncle, Zhu Di, was ambitious. With wolves on both sides, he had no choice but to reveal his true abilities! He protected Lan Yu, forged alliances with Xu Da and Tang He, and came up with brilliant stratagems, bringing the monk-turned-chancellor Yao Guangxiao into his service early. Then he headed south to bring Southeast Asia 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Made a Marquis from the Start: Saving Crown Prince Zhu Biao 开局封侯：拯救太子朱标 Physical transmigration, no System, no golden fingers, no harem: just an ordinary person's journey to another time. Lan Bin, son of Lan Yu, travels alone in the flesh six hundred years into the past. With the one remaining cefixime capsule he brought along, he saves the ailing Ming Crown Prince Zhu Biao! If Zhu Biao survives, will Lan Yu still die? If Zhu Biao survives, will Zhu Di still rebel? If Zhu Biao survives, will the Tumu Crisis still happen? As the wheel of history rolls onward, how can 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Great Ming: This Mother and Daughter Have Eight Hundred Schemes Between Them 大明：这对母女俩，八百个心眼子 [Comedy + Scheming + Dotting Dad + Romantic Tension + Lighthearted + History + Passion] Li Chengyang transmigrates into the Ming Dynasty. He had planned to accept his fate, but unexpectedly meets the singer Liu Rushi before she becomes famous. They meet, fall in love, and marry. They also have an adorable daughter. But… With the rebel army and the Qing forces bearing down, Li Chengyang resolves to use his modern knowledge to protect his wife and daughter, help the Chongzhen Emperor turn the 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Great Ming: My Adoptive Father Is the Hongwu Emperor 大明：义父明太祖 Lin Yao unexpectedly transmigrates to the end of the Yuan dynasty, becoming an abandoned baby with no one in the world to care for him! At the time, uprisings are breaking out everywhere, factions are carving up the realm, and both north and south are in chaos. Late in the nineteenth year of the Zhizheng era, Zhu Yuanzhang is being given a headache by his formidable rival Chen Youliang when he finds Lin Yao, a baby. He assumes the child is just an ordinary abandoned infant, but little does he kn 79Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Great Ming Reborn: Reshaping the Land 大明涅槃：重塑河山 After transmigrating into the Ming dynasty as an imperial prince, he expects to enjoy a life of wealth and comfort, but a sudden attack jolts him awake. In a desperate world of blood and fire, he lights the first spark of industry. But a decaying behemoth opens its jaws, ready to devour him along with every last hope. If the times will not tolerate ideals, then he will reshape the world! He establishes Di Ting to uncover the world’s hidden intrigues; forms the Phoenix Battalion to forge an undef 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Great Ming: Saving Zhu Biao from the Start 大明：开局救活朱标 (This isn’t orthodox history, and it deviates from the historical record. It’s a lightly fictionalized setting, so please don’t read if that’s not your thing!!!) He transmigrates into the Ming dynasty, only to be kidnapped right away. Little does he know his identity is tied to the fate of the Great Ming! It takes ten years before he finally gets a System that’s more trouble than it’s worth! If he doesn’t save Zhu Biao, he dies? What a mess! And just when his identity is exposed, he gets caught —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 I Transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty and Became Zhu Yuanzhang's Son! 穿越大明我成了老朱儿子！ By a twist of fate, he transmigrated once more to the height of the Ming dynasty and became Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma’s fifth son, Zhu Su, Prince of Zhou. He had once thought the System that transmigrators relied on had vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a diary recording the past. Zhu Biao was still alive. Since he had no chance of becoming Crown Prince, why not enjoy life as a carefree prince? In his spare time, he wrote down his passing thoughts about Old Zhu in his diary. Old Z —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Great Ming: After Making a Sudden Entrance, I Just Want to Make Money 大明：横空出世后我只想搞钱 After transmigrating to the Great Ming, Ning Yuan finds himself stuck with a spendthrift father. With no other choice, he embarks on the path to making money, and there's no stopping him from then on. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Great Ming: I Reveal the Future During the Hongwu Reign 大明：我在洪武朝曝光未来 In the fifteenth year of the Hongwu reign, an accident transmigrates Han Cheng onto the bed of Princess Ningguo, where they inexplicably spend the night together. But Princess Ningguo is Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest legitimate daughter, and the founding emperor dotes on her. When Zhu Yuanzhang hears the news, he flies into a rage and vows to have Han Cheng skinned alive to vent his fury. With his life on the line, Han Cheng has no choice but to reveal that he is a transmigrator to save himself. Zhu Yu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Great Ming: I Turned Out to Be the God of War, Zhu Qizhen 大明：我竟是大明战神朱祁镇 I am Zhu Qizhen, the Great Ming’s God of War! Zhu Zhen transmigrated into the body of the Ming emperor Yingzong, Zhu Qizhen, who was being held as a student in Wala. Just as the Tumu Crisis broke out, Zhu Zhen began to fight back so he wouldn’t have to remain in Wala. He refused to sit around and wait for death. He would become the Ming’s true God of War and usher in another Yongle golden age... 14Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 28 Great Ming: After the False Accusations Came True, Old Zhu Exploded! 大明：诬陷成真后，老朱气炸了！ Zhu Sen unexpectedly becomes the Ming dynasty’s first top scorer in the imperial examinations and earns Zhu Yuanzhang’s deep trust! A few years later, he rises to become the Provincial Administration Commissioner of Jiangzhe, a powerful official governing a vast territory! But to keep him from entering the imperial court, the Huaxi Group frames him for embezzlement, forming cliques for personal gain, raising private troops, secretly manufacturing weapons, and plotting rebellion... Zhu Yuanzhang —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Great Ming: An Everlasting Realm 大明：山河永固 When a transmigrator refuses to follow the script and hang himself at Coal Hill Modern mechanical engineer Li Zhe opens his eyes and finds himself as the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian. From the start, it’s a living hell: drought and cannibalism in Shaanxi, the Eight Banners eyeing the northeast, endless factional strife at court, and an imperial treasury so empty even rats could run through it. But Li Zhe smiles. Because he has a copy of The Exploitation of the Works of Nature in his hands. “Yo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Great Ming: Zhu Xiong’s Rise and Journey 大明：朱雄的崛起与征途 When Zhu Xiong, a modern soul, unexpectedly transmigrates through time and is reborn in a remote town on the northern border of Beiping in the early Ming Dynasty, an epic historical tale slowly unfolds. That year, the founding emperor of the Ming, Zhu Yuanzhang, was full of ambition. With his eldest legitimate son, Zhu Biao, at his side, he set about reforming the government and securing the empire's borders. That year, Zhu Xiong and Xu Jin'er, the woman he had rescued, had already spent two pea —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Soul of Xuanyuan 轩辕魂 Across the four oceans and seven continents stand hundreds of countries, with thousands upon thousands of ethnic groups, languages, and written scripts. Who will rise and who will fall? Standing, lying down. Cry, laugh. One, two, three, or yi, er, san, or... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 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—Shelves
- 33 Great Ming: From the Start, Teaching Zhu Di in the Imperial Prison 大明：开局在诏狱给朱棣讲课 Good news: Hu Ke transmigrated as the nephew of the current chancellor. Bad news: That chancellor is Hu Weiyong. His whole family has been implicated and imprisoned, and he'll be executed in ten days. His life is once again counting down. With no way to escape, Hu Ke lets himself go and starts telling the guards outrageous things. "The vassal princes of the Great Ming will bring disaster one day. The Prince of Yan is the most likely to rebel." He never imagined that the guard before him was Zhu 3.2kReads5.4Score273Shelves
- 34 Zhu Yuanzhang: Prepare an Imperial Robe for My Grandson 朱元璋：给咱大孙准备皇袍 [Ming Dynasty] + [Transmigration] + [No System] + [Historical] Pacify Goryeo, destroy Japan, ride across North America, and water the horses in the Rhine. I was reborn as Zhu Xiongying, the eldest grandson of the Great Ming. Crown Prince Zhu Biao is my father, the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang is my grandfather, and the Yongle Emperor is my fourth uncle. The rites and righteousness of the world stand behind me, while the Huai-Xi nobles kneel before me. Reborn for a second life, I will lead the mo 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Chongzhen: From the Start, Armed with Just a Rope 崇祯开局一根绳 [Fighting the Qing at the end of the Ming, no System, no overpowered golden finger, rising step by step, Chongzhen's comeback] I transmigrate into Chongzhen as he hangs himself on Coal Hill. Watch how I return as a king from the depths of despair! I'll kick the Shun rebels into submission, tear the Qing apart, and while I'm at it, deal with those useless cowards of the Southern Ming. 6Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 36 Great Ming: The Princess Who Coasts to Victory, and the Empress Begs Me to Be Her Son-in-Law 大明：躺赢公主，皇后求我做驸马 Luo Qing transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the bed of Zhu Yuanzhang's most beloved daughter, Princess Runing. When Zhu Yuanzhang hears about it, he flies into a rage and is about to have Luo Qing cut into a thousand pieces. Luckily, Crown Prince Zhu Biao considers Luo Qing's unusual identity and decides to keep him alive for now. At the critical moment, Luo Qing binds himself to a Trust System. By earning the trust of people from the Ming Dynasty, he can ga 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Emperor Zhu Shou 朱寿大帝 A battery factory explodes, and he transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty, becoming Zhu Houzhao, the short-lived, reckless young emperor. He refuses to accept his fate, so he reforms the court, overhauls the tax system, opens the seas, and expands trade. Just as the empire begins to prosper, he discovers that he is drawing ever closer to the death date recorded in the history books. Some people are helping him, while others want him dead. Which side will history take? 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Ming Dynasty Partners: From the Start, I Find Zhu Chongba 大明合伙人：开局捡到朱重八 After transmigrating to the end of the Yuan dynasty, I became sworn siblings with Empress Ma, so I call Zhu Yuanzhang my brother-in-law! From the start, I gave Zhu Yuanzhang half a flatbread. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang cried, “Guards, feed the young master some flatbread!” Watch how I help him become emperor, and how I manage to protect myself... 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 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—Shelves
- 40 Great Ming: I Am Zhu Yuanzhang’s Eldest Imperial Grandson 大明：我，朱元璋的皇长孙 Zhu Yonggang opened his eyes and discovered that he had transmigrated to the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty. A wastrel with a fortune at his disposal, and a grandfather who spoiled him rotten. “Grandson, let me tell you, even the great general Lan Yu is a relative of ours!” his grandfather said. “Old man, listen to me: we need to get out of here, fast. Lan Yu is about to be beheaded!” The Crown Prince, Zhu Biao, was gravely ill, and Zhu Yuanzhang was about to wipe out Lan Yu and the other Huai-X 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Great Ming: Taking Liu Bowen as My Master from the Start 大明：开局拜师刘伯温 [Great Ming + Zhu Yuanzhang + prince + no System] The fifteenth year of Zhizheng. It was an ordinary year, and yet an extraordinary one. That year, Zhu Yuanzhang, the future emperor of the Great Ming, was still only a deputy commander under Guo Zixing. But that year, Zhu Yuanzhang welcomed a child who had never existed in history. And that year, the Great Ming saw the birth of a Prince of Qin. (This blurb doesn’t do it justice. Please read the novel itself.) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Great Ming: The Barbecue Prince Takes on the Cricket Emperor Again 大明：烤肉王爷再战蛐蛐天子 He wakes up as the Prince of Han in the Yongle era of the Ming dynasty. For a moment, he can't tell whether to be happy or worried. He's transmigrated to ancient times, where human life is cheap, and he holds a position of great power. But ten years from now, his nephew, Emperor Zhu Zhanji, will burn him alive. He'll become the first prince in history to be roasted to perfection. But... What? Zhu Zhanji got spoilers? What? I extended the Ming dynasty's fortune by a thousand years? What? My name 47Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 43 Peerless Beauty of the Great Ming: This Dashing Young Master Is Way Too Arrogant 绝色大明：风流公子哥，也太狂了 He transmigrated to the Ming dynasty and became Lan Yu's legitimate eldest son. With only four years left before Zhu Laoba would gift his entire clan a special execution package, Lan Zhao knew he had no power to fight back, so he chose to lie flat and give up. If he was going to die anyway, why work hard as hell? He might as well enjoy everything he hadn't gotten to experience in his previous life. And so he went full throttle down the road to an early grave. One moment he was cuddled up in a ma 34Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 44 I, the Chongzhen Emperor of the Great Ming: Both Debonair and Domineering 朕！大明暴君崇祯，既风流也霸道 Ming dynasty + political intrigue + passionate action + ruthless killing + struggle for supremacy + romance + no System. “Chongzhen, off you go. I'll take care of your wife, children, and sisters-in-law. I'll quell the internal rebellion and crush our foreign enemies. I will make the Ming dynasty stand tall atop the world...” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 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—Shelves
- 46 Empress Ma Can Hear My Thoughts 马皇后能偷听我的心声 After transmigrating as Zhu Yunxi, a grandson of the emperor, Empress Ma heard his inner thoughts. What was I, a guy determined to lie flat, supposed to do? A System? There really is one. It detects which side is grinding harder, then sends me to the other side. That counts? Watch me turn trash into treasure, travel between two worlds, and become the Ming dynasty's greatest carefree prince! 97Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 47 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—Score—Shelves
- 48 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 2.9kReads6.0Score127Shelves
- 49 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—Shelves
- 50 Great Ming at Its Peak: Starting with the Rebirth of the God of War at Tumu Fortress 巅峰大明，从土木堡战神重生开始 [Ming dynasty + no System + reform + political intrigue + conquest] A high-IQ, hard-hitting historical political novel dressed up as a rebirth story. This isn't a beginner-friendly wish-fulfillment tale: the thrills feel startlingly real. The Ming dynasty's infamous "Fortress Sect Emperor," Zhu Qizhen, has been given a chance to be reborn. A towering palace rises from level ground, and one's fortunes are one's own to make. Armed with memories of his past life, Zhu Qizhen can deal with Luchuan, t 85Reads6.9Score—Shelves
