Great Ming: My Father Is the Top Scholar, and He’s Being Exiled

Wu Xingbang has transmigrated! Good news: His father is the top scholar! Bad news: His father is being exiled! Wu Xingbang transmigrates to the seventeenth year of the Hongwu era and becomes the only son of Wu Bozong, the Ming Dynasty’s first top scholar. But when Wu Xingbang wakes up, he discovers that his father has already set out for Yunnan. Though officially a demotion, it is no different from exile. Worse still, Wu Bozong will die of illness on the journey! There have always been few who lend a hand in times of need, and many who kick you when you’re down. If his father really dies, the Wu family will never be able to rise again, and Hu Weiyong’s faction will surely hound them to death! For his own sake, and for the sake of the parents who love him unconditionally, Wu Xingbang has no choice but to force his sick body onward and plead with the Crown Prince in the Eastern Palace. At first, all he wanted was a secure government job and a nine-to-five schedule. But as Japanese pirates invade and northern nomads repeatedly raid the border, Wu Xingbang sees the Ming Dynasty’s unwavering resolve to resist, from top to bottom. It reminds him of a saying: No ceding land, no marriage alliances, no reparations, no tribute. The emperor guards the nation’s gates, and the ruler dies for the state. Zhu Yuanzhang: “Young man, what did the Jurchens ever do to you? Why do you want to wipe them out?” Zhu Biao: “There’s gold and silver on the Japanese islands? I’ll go conquer them with you!”