Great Ming: Starting with Replacing Rice with Mulberries to Rule the Realm

His soul travels back to the thirty-ninth year of the Jiajing reign. A successful candidate in the imperial examinations with a promising career ahead, he discovers that his father is named Zheng Bichang, and that looming over him is Yan Shifan, the Ming dynasty's runner-up in weightlifting.

“What have I done to deserve this? How did I end up in the treacherous faction too!”

A blood-red “DANGER” is stamped on Zheng Rong's forehead, and he begins to panic.

Within, the Yan faction is full of men whose heads are stuffed with money. Without, the upright officials are watching like tigers, waiting for a chance to strike. And then there's the ultimate master of dodging responsibility, the Jiajing Emperor, practicing Daoism at Yuxi Palace in the Western Park.

How can anyone govern well when surrounded by these worms?!

In the mid-sixteenth century, undercurrents are stirring. The Sultan's horns ring across the Western Regions, while European ships fill the oceans.

The curtain of history is slowly rising. What path lies ahead for Zheng Rong, swept upstream from the twenty-first century?

First, he has to survive the deadly challenge of replacing rice paddies with mulberry fields!