The Ming Dynasty: Starting with the Carpenter Prince!

In 1620 AD, twenty-four years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, factional strife was raging, eunuchs were vying for power, and the Jurchens in Liaodong were growing increasingly powerful. The court and the country were in a state of disarray. The protagonist, Zhu Youxiao, transmigrated into the body of the eldest prince. The good news was that the second pill hadn't been taken yet; he had stopped it. The bad news was that his father's health was a bottomless pit. His foster mother, Consort Li, held the door of the Qianqing Palace, and even officials had to be mindful of her displeasure when meeting the emperor. The senior official of the Directorate of Ceremonial, Wang An, was more loyal than assertive. The Grand Secretary, Fang Congzhe, was adept at mediating disputes and didn't want to offend anyone. In court, the Donglin and Qi-Chu-Zhe factions were ruthless, and no one cared what the eldest prince, who couldn't concentrate on his studies, was thinking. His only support was the basic skills he had honed in his previous life editing documents in an office. ...The pill hadn't been taken, and the palace relocation was imminent. Whether the Jia Shen Incident, which would occur twenty-four years later, could be averted depended entirely on how this situation unfolded. His father was still alive, and the empire hadn't fallen. As both a son and the crown prince—if I don't clean up this mess, who will?