Great Ming: You Asked Me to Build Roads in My Fief, but I Made More Than the Imperial Treasury

In the twelfth year of Hongwu, the Ming dynasty was recovering and rebuilding, yet the treasury was empty, leaving Zhu Yuanzhang too worried to sleep. The court officials were at a loss, when the most useless of the seven princes, Zhu Fu, made a startling pronouncement: “If you want to get rich, build roads first!” No one believed him. Then Zhu Yuanzhang visited Qi in person and was utterly stunned: impregnable concrete walls, luxurious restaurants brimming with mouthwatering aromas, and rows of tall apartment buildings for ordinary people… Worst of all, his son’s private stash was even fuller than the imperial treasury! This wasn’t a fiefdom, it was a little paradise! The old Zhu’s eyes turned green with envy. “You little rascal, your private fortune is even bigger than mine? How about we trade capitals?” Zhu Fu, who had transmigrated here, only smiled in silence. Father, why are you drooling? Watch as this infrastructure-obsessed prince uses concrete and highways from the Great Empire System to shake up the Ming dynasty, making his father love him and hate him in equal measure!