Ming Dynasty: From Refugee to Peerless Statesman

In the second year of the Zhengde reign, a severe drought struck Hebei, and refugees flooded the roads. Chen Xu opened his eyes and went from an office building in the twenty-first century straight to a refugee trail in the Ming dynasty’s Zhengde era. As a refugee, everything he did at first was really about one thing: staying alive. So he worked to control floods and prevent epidemics, and taught the entire Ming dynasty to copy his homework. But as he watched the battered and broken Ming dynasty, he gradually felt that the world was not supposed to be this way. And so, at some point, the whole Ming dynasty began to take on an increasingly absurd air. First, the people cheered, “Chen Xu is here, and the Ming is at peace!” Then the eunuch faction declared, “Chen Xu is here, and at last we have an upright official!” Next, the upright scholars praised him: “Chen Xu is truly a peerless pillar of the state!” Finally, Zhengde sighed in frustration: “Why do I feel like he knows the Leopard House better than I do, and even knows more about role-play? Forget it... I’ll just promote him!” Also known as: The Ming: A Peerless Pillar of the State, The Ming: I’m Really Not the Savior, The Ming: A Refugee from the Start, Taking the Zhengde Reign by Storm