"Those who excel in learning become officials; those who excel as officials become chancellors; those who excel as chancellors serve the great nation."

The Chinese nation shares a common dream of becoming a great power. Whether in the past, present, or future, it is a dream worth striving for. This is the story of the man who forged the world’s greatest nation in the 16th century.

In the spring of the 36th year of the Jiajing reign, a modern man who had failed to carry the mission of China in his original life is reborn into the body of a poor scholar in a remote mountain village in western Guangdong. He later passes the imperial exams and enters the bureaucracy, quickly finding a new direction for his life’s purpose. From that moment, the history of the Chinese nation begins to be rewritten...

Zhu Youtang, who had just traveled through time and had not had time to adapt to the identity of the prince, had to take over the responsibility of China in a hurry. Facing all the forces that were eyeing him, it was like a game of Schrödinger's cat.

Merciful? It is not good to violate the ancestral rules and go to hell for eight hundred words! Appoint an honest and clean minister? Minister Qingliu may not necessarily be able to do things and may not be honest. Well, this is actually an excuse. It's just that you civil servants have the final say on things. So what do you want me, the emperor, to do? Ruling the world with scholar-bureaucrats? My words mean that the world's laws are not favourable?

Let’s take a look at the story of how a modern man’s soul penetrated the virtuous emperor Zhu Youtang and transformed into a tyrant, and how he led China to the top of the world.