Great Ming: I Sent You to Suppress the Pirates, So Why Is Your Fleet Ruling the Seven Seas?

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Japanese pirates invaded Shandong, and Zhu Yuanzhang urgently summoned his officials to discuss the matter.

Prince Qi, Zhu Fu, zoned out before the throne. Zhu Yuanzhang scolded him and asked for his strategy to defeat the pirates.

Zhu Fu offered three plans: establish more coastal garrisons and have soldiers farm in peacetime; improve firearms and cannons to kill enemies from a hundred paces away; build warships and form a navy to keep the pirates out at sea!

Zhu Yuanzhang admired Zhu Fu's courage, but not his empty boasting, so he sent him straight to his fief.

He thought that once Zhu Fu reached his fief and fought a few battles against the pirates, he would understand how difficult it was to pacify them and start acting with his feet on the ground...

But Zhu Fu took his fleet to Kyushu Island, intent on conquering Japan!

Zhu Yuanzhang: