From the Start, I Was Asked to Compile the Hongwu Canon, and the Emperor Could Not Be More Delighted

The writing is good, but it portrays Zhu Yuanzhang as too cold-blooded. While Zhu Yuanzhang did kill many meritorious officials in his later years, this was mainly because Zhu Biao had died and Zhu Yunwen was too young to control the elders. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was genuinely good to his sons and adopted sons; none of them were killed for their high merits. Mu Ying is the most realistic example.

Many outdated customs were exacerbated by Zhu Yuanzhang. He himself was very unfriendly to ordinary women, advocating female chastity, foot binding, early marriage and childbirth, and consanguineous marriage. These basic common sense practices should at least be changed. There are even more outdated customs among the people. After being here for so long, I should at least say something about them.

What terrible habits authors have these days! There are exclamation marks everywhere! Use an exclamation mark at the end of every chapter! Use an exclamation mark at the end of short sentences! The entire second chapter has very few periods! They're all like that! Doesn't it get noisy? Or do I genuinely feel that what I wrote is particularly moving?

Before the protagonist dies, there's a tear-jerking moment, then it switches to narration, showing how his thoughts influence the Ming Dynasty, and how Zhu Biao and his son Zhu Xiongxing implement the protagonist's ideas. With your body so weak, forcing him to recover would truly make him too powerful and threaten the master's authority. Write something different. Narrative first, tear-jerking second. Directly deify the protagonist.

I really enjoyed the beginning, but I'm curious how the protagonist manages to both protect himself and participate in politics. They can't really make the book-writing the main plot, can they?

The Book of Rites, Quji states: "When the emperor dies, it is called 'collapse'; when a feudal lord dies, it is called 'demise'; when a high official dies, it is called 'death'; when a scholar dies, it is called 'no salary'; and when a commoner dies, it is called 'death'." That's hilarious! Does it mean you'll die after laughing three times? Since you're writing historical articles, you can't possibly get common words wrong, right?

Having read too many online novels in the past two years, I feel that Xiao Han should practice Dou Qi.

No wonder the protagonist has such a glorious moment right from the start, and then it's been many years since then. The writing style is indeed lacking. I originally thought this work could rival "The First Minister of the Ming Dynasty," but it seems it still needs more polishing.

😅It feels like I've traveled through time but not quite. The setting is the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, where I'm fighting alongside Zhu Yuanzhang to establish the dynasty, but nothing seems to have changed. It was still the same group: Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, and Yang Xian. By this time, a cabinet system should have been established, right?

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