On the tenth day of the fifth month of the 31st year of Hongwu (1398 AD), Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the Forbidden City......

The setting sun casts golden light from the sky, silently illuminating the walls of the Forbidden City.

The shadow of the city wall was stretched long, and it pressed heavily on the entire Forbidden City, the palace with carved railings and eaves, the brilliant glazed tiles, the vermilion wall, and the golden dragon flag...... It made the entire imperial official lose its color. Even the palace road paved with blue bricks was even darker by this black shadow, showing a patch of green mulberry and forest.

At this moment, the Forbidden City is filled with a sad atmosphere, which radiates out from the Forbidden City, covering the entire capital, and then radiating to every inch of land under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason is simple......

The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the majestic Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, has reached the end of his life......

In the Qianqing official, the seventy-one-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang was lying on the dragon bed on his back, surrounded by a group of eunuchs, and kneeling beside the bed was the prince Zhu Yunwen whom he had appointed.

"Good grandson...... You are gentle, kind, and shy...... He is a good man, but he is not the ideal person to be emperor...... I'll hand over the Ming Dynasty to you...... I'm really worried. Zhu Yuanzhang has already returned to the light, he said with difficulty: "However, your father is the eldest son born to me and Queen Ma, and the eldest son inherits the country, which is the best way to maintain the orthodox inheritance of a country...... You...... Don't let me down...... It is necessary to make the Ming Dynasty established by the United States stable and the descendants ...... for thousands of years"

"Yes......" Zhu Yunwen knelt down and answered, quietly listening to his grandfather's last words, but he knelt for a long time, and he didn't hear Zhu Yuanzhang say a word again......

"The emperor is dead,......" the eunuch's crying voice spread far away.

Within a few days, this sentence spread all over the Ming Dynasty...... The whole country was shaken......

People can't help but think: Without that wise and great emperor and without that pair of firm and calm helmsmen, can the Ming Dynasty really be stable and descendant for thousands of years?

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In the dark, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was floating in mid-air, he died, but his soul did not fly to become a Buddha, nor did he fall into the underworld, he relied on his deep love for the Ming Dynasty, and left his soul behind. Unfortunately, he couldn't do anything but float in mid-air, quietly watching the passage of time......

It didn't take long for him to see the "Jianwen Reform", and Zhu Yunwen relaxed the harsh punishment law he formulated a lot. He was angry at first, and I just died, and my children and grandchildren actually changed the laws I made? This simply makes no sense! However, with the passage of time, he found that the "proposed restructuring" had achieved good results, and the people benefited a lot.

He couldn't help but ponder in the sky: Is it really better to have harsh laws than lenient laws? Will I get it wrong?

A year later, the vigorous Battle of Jingyan began, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, rebelled, and the troops were directed at Nanjing......

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious again, damn Zhu Di, I have only been dead for a year, and you have begun to rebel in the nest, completely ignoring the primogeniture inheritance system I set, and endangering the inheritance of Jiangshan Sheji! You're a bastard, and you won't be able to sit still even if you let someone like you win the world.

Four years later, the Battle of Jingyan ended, Zhu Yunwen was defeated, Zhu Di became the emperor, he from a mutineer, transformed into a generation of heroes, five times to conquer Mongolia, sent Zheng He to the West, edited the "Yongle Canon", dredged the Grand Canal, moved the capital to Yanjing...... Everything he did, the results proved his talent, the martial arts were great, and the majesty was slightly not inferior to his father's time.

Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked again, and he couldn't help but think again: Can the primogeniture inheritance system really make the country stable? Not necessarily.

Floating in the sky to watch the worldly sayings made his vision wider than when he was an emperor. Slowly, Zhu Yuanzhang's mentality began to be peaceful, no longer angry about trivial things, and no longer insisted on his own opinions, he began to quietly watch the development and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, appreciate the prosperity of the country he created, and he began to be a bystander, a thinker, and a learner......

He saw a lot of things......

Because the wages set by themselves for officials are too low, the officials are full of corruption, and even the torture of peeling and stuffing grass cannot be stopped; He also saw that the military household system he invented was called Yi [***], millions of Ming heroes, who had planted fields for hundreds of years, and all of them became farmers; He saw that Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Xichang and other spy organizations were rampant and made the Ming Dynasty into a miasma; He also saw that because of the sea ban, Zheng He's achievements in the West had disappeared, and Westerners drove large ships that could sail thousands of miles to bring wealth back to Europe in a steady stream......

He saw the peasant uprising in all directions, and also saw the Manchurian iron cavalry eyeing the tiger; He also saw the strange emperors of the Ming Dynasty playing crickets, learning carpenters, not going to court for decades, fighting for their parents' fame and fighting with ministers, making themselves generals, wearing Taoist robes in Taoism, and dying of overdose on aphrodisiacs......

Those ridiculous, weird, stupid, all sorts of reasons...... The Ming Empire, which he single-handedly established, collapsed in March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644 AD)! Turned into ashes!

Seeing the destruction of the dynasty he had worked so hard to establish, Zhu Yuanzhang's emotions that he had not been angry for many years were excited again: Don't be complacent! Manchu Tartars, you will be driven back to the grassland in just a dozen years, just like Meng Yuan! You see, how many righteous people are there on the land of Shenzhou who oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty? My Ming Dynasty would never have fallen like this......

He sneered in the sky as the Manchus entered the Central Plains, watched the Manchus manage the country with trepidation, and feared that they might be driven back to the Guanwai at any time, but ...... What he hoped for and what the Manchurians feared never happened. Three hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye...... The anti-Qing and Ming aspirants have died, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty began to stabilize, and then began to experience the same process from prosperity, to corruption, to degeneration as the Ming Dynasty...... Then the Western powers came, and the entire Chinese nation trembled under the guns of the aliens, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had stood firm for three hundred years, collapsed overnight, ending a new round of dynastic changes......

I see......

"I've come to my senses!" Zhu Yuanzhang looked up to the sky and sighed: "I don't want to be a bystander anymore, God, please let me become a Buddha!" ”

"Buddhahood? How can it be so easy, since you don't want to be a bystander anymore, then go to the prosperous world and walk again...... How about being a trendsetter in history? ”

A white light lit up in the sky and shone on Zhu Yuanzhang's body, turning his soul into a meteor, going against the track of time, and receding backwards rapidly......

The clock was turning back so fast, page after page of the calendar, 1900...... 1850...... 1700...... 1627...... At this point in time, the meteor suddenly stopped shuttling and jumped under the blue sky.

In 1627? Zhu Yuanzhang still remembers this era vividly, the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao died violently in this year, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, and the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty will break out in full swing next year......

Meteors fly over a mountainous area with complex terrain, Zhu Yuanzhang recognizes this mountainous area, this is Baishui County, Shaanxi, when he was floating in the sky, he had been here more than once, the land here is relatively barren land compared to other places, the landform is complex, the terrain is broken, the three mountains (Yanmen Mountain, Huanglong Mountain, Wulong Mountain) are entrenched, the five mountains (Dayang Plateau, Shiguan Plateau, Yaohe Plateau, Beijing Tou Plateau, Lei Cun Plateau) are undulating, two rivers (Baishui River, Kongdong River) pass along the boundary, 1,178 ravines crisscross and crisscross……

In this county, there are no large tracts of fertile land, only rolling ravines, the people are poor, the people are poor, and the people are not able to make a living, but they encountered a great drought at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Under these circumstances, the imperial court did not reduce taxes for the local people, but instead intensified and increased taxes, which caused public resentment to boil, and eventually led to the outbreak of peasant uprisings.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little strange in his heart, what did the meteor bring me here for? Do you want me to witness the outbreak of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty? What's so nice about this, I've seen it once, and although I can't remember the details very clearly, the general development is known.

As soon as he thought of this, the meteor suddenly fell rapidly, and he crashed into the ground with Zhu Yuanzhang......

The ground is a small hillside, the slope is overgrown with grass, wildflowers are slightly blooming, an old cow is leisurely eating grass, a ten-year-old cattle herding baby fell on the edge of the stone near the old cow, he is skinny, some malnutrition, a hole in the head, is bleeding on the ground, it seems that when he was herding cattle near here, he suddenly fell, broke his head on the stone and passed out.

He had already shed a lot of blood, and it seemed that he would not survive...... There was no one in a radius of one or two, and no one found that he had broken his head, so he was not treated by others. In fact, even if someone finds him, with his poverty, he will not be able to afford enough medical expenses, and he will die after all.

At the moment when the cow baby lost her breath, Zhu Yuanzhang's soul turned into a meteor fell from the sky, and poured into it from the young man's heavenly spirit cover.

"Ming Dynasty, I'm back!" The young man opened his mouth and sighed: "It's a cowherd baby again!" In my previous life, I was a cowherd baby, but I didn't expect to be reincarnated and devoted, and I was still a cowherd baby...... Maybe I was able to start from scratch as a cowherd baby at the beginning, and I built a big country, so what's the harm if I fight again? ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the spring of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627 AD), Baishui County, Shaanxi, herding cattle baby Zhu Chongba...... Reincarnation Comes!;