Great Ming: Awaiting Death in Prison, While the Crown Prince Secretly Listens to My Lectures

The good news: Hu Ke transmigrates into the nephew of the current dynasty's chancellor. The bad news: that chancellor is Hu Weiyong.

His entire family is implicated, and he is thrown in prison. With execution set for ten days later, the countdown to his death begins once more.

With no way to survive, Hu Ke simply lets loose and starts telling the jailers outrageous things.

"The vassal princes of the Great Ming will one day bring disaster. The one most likely to rebel is the Prince of Yan."

He never imagined that the jailer standing before him was Zhu Di, while Crown Prince Zhu Biao stood on the other side of the cell.

"The Great Ming's maritime ban is a dead end? That's because you haven't sorted out the interests involved.

The Great Ming's paper money is worthless? That's because you're incompetent and too ambitious.

The Great Ming's vassal princes are a burden? That's because you've put them to the wrong use.

The Great Ming's territory is already large enough? Bullshit. Wherever the sun and moon shine should all belong to the Great Ming!"

When the day came for him to be dragged to the execution grounds, the desperate Hu Ke was already wondering whether he should copy someone else's farewell poem to leave behind some trace that he had once lived.

Just then, the walls of the imperial prison came crashing down, and a dignified voice rang out.

"I am Zhu Yuanzhang. I have decided to give you a chance."