Great Ming: Laying It All Bare from the Start

When Zhang Yi'an took part in a street quiz and was asked to choose between ten years of freedom and unlimited money, he jokingly chose option B.

When he woke up, he found himself trapped on a remote mountain.

Here, he can use the phone in his hand to buy anything he wants, and whatever he buys appears in his courtyard the next day.

As time passed and the end of his ten years drew near, three “tourists” named Old Zhu, Little Zhu, and Old Xu arrived at the mountain where Zhang Yi'an lived.

The only problem was that they had an awful lot of questions.

Old Zhu liked asking about the emperors of the Ming Dynasty and all sorts of things about them.

Little Zhu was very fond of asking him to talk about things like The Influence of Sea Power.

Old Xu was a weapons nut, the sort who'd get misty-eyed at the mention of an AK!

On top of all that, what gave Zhang Yi'an the biggest headache was that the three of them loved playing some kind of “coming clean” game with him.

Old Zhu: “Young man, I'll come clean. I'm Zhu Yuanzhang!”

Little Zhu: “Sir, I'll come clean too. Please stop calling me Little Judy. I am Prince of Yan Zhu Di of the Great Ming!”

Old Xu: “Well... I suppose I'll come clean too. The truth is, I'm Xu Da!”

Zhang Yi'an: “Pfft. You believe the signal bars on my phone are full, don't you...?”

Two months later, the mist disappeared...

Zhang Yi'an looked at the Sun-and-Moon Golden Dragon banners covering the mountains, then at the world map in his hand, and fell into deep thought... Maybe... starting today, I should make the whole world learn Chinese!