After transmigrating to the Hongwu era, I bound myself to the [System for Becoming the Greatest Emperor of All Time Through Rebellion], and was forced to raise the banner of revolt from the start! With the Embroidered Spring Sabers of the Imperial Guards before me and the System's heavenly punishment thunderbolts behind me, I was pushed to the brink of life and death. So I chose a path no one had ever taken before: I reported myself by name to my immediate superior, the Imperial Guard's Commandant!
"Sir, there's an evil spirit in my head insisting on giving me potatoes that yield thirty shi per mu and forcing me to overthrow the Great Ming. How about you arrest me?"
When this potato was delivered to Zhu Yuanzhang's desk that very night, I not only survived, but was promoted to Great Ming's "Chief Imperial Rebellion Specialist" and granted an iron death-exemption token!
From then on, the System was in for the worst luck of its life.
It told me to infiltrate the court and win over the ministers, so I turned around and led the Imperial Guards to raid the homes of corrupt officials and wipe out their families under the charge of "conspiring in treason," instantly filling the imperial treasury!
It told me to build a private navy, so Old Zhu secretly helped me "assassinate" the navy's commander, Li Jinglong. The whole fleet was outfitted with the improved gunpowder rewarded by the System, and the pirates of the East China Sea were blown to smithereens!
Seeing my "steady rise" to power, the System danced with joy, thinking I was about to seize the throne. It frantically handed me the [Transcendent Galleon Blueprint] and [High-Yield Corn Seeds].
But when the remnants of Hu Weiyong's faction came to join me, the "arch-rebel," full of hope and ready to achieve great things together,
I silently pulled out a mission list stamped with Zhu Yuanzhang's jade seal and smiled faintly.
"Sorry, everyone. I'm a cop... No, I'm an Imperial Guard. You're under arrest."
In this life, I'll use a Gatling gun to teach everyone who bullied and humiliated me in my previous life how to behave!