Great Ming: I Asked You to Relieve the Disaster, Not Mix Sand into the Pot!

In the fourth year of Hongwu, the realm was in ruins.

Yangzhou was especially devastated, with starvation everywhere and people even resorting to exchanging children to eat.

To learn about the people's hardships, Zhu Yuanzhang traveled incognito to Shanghu County.

There, he seemed to have stumbled into a paradise beyond the mortal world, complete with highways, skyscrapers, and every worldly pleasure imaginable!

The elderly were cared for, children received an education, and especially when he saw Shanghu County Experimental Primary School, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that this place was heaven.

But once he looked more closely into Shanghu County, he discovered that half the bowls of disaster-relief porridge served there were full of fools.

Then Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that the county magistrate was also trafficking people, embezzling public funds, taking bribes, smuggling, secretly manufacturing weapons, and recruiting troops...

This man wasn't some talent. He was a thoroughly corrupt official.

And yet this very corrupt official led the Ming Dynasty to prosperity, ultimately bringing it to the pinnacle of the world.