The Ming Dynasty's National Teacher: Tutoring the Future Emperor While His Father Eavesdrops

Chen Ping awakens in the brutal Hongwu era with a twisted system—die by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's hand to inherit a fortune back home. But the notoriously ruthless "Butcher Emperor" refuses to execute him! Stuck in the imperial dungeon, Chen brings modern economic wisdom to Prince Zhu Di, the future Yongle Emperor. "Ming's treasury empty? I'll teach you market economics and international trade!" As Chen revolutionizes governance with knowledge of high-yield crops from across the seas and financial systems centuries ahead, he doesn't realize the paranoid Emperor himself is listening through the p…