In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Empire was in turmoil.
There were rebel thieves Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong inside, while outside there were Manchu and Qing Tatars eyeing them, and Japanese pirates were rampant along the coast.
Tang Tong came through time,
How could the vastness of China and its thousands of miles of rivers and mountains be allowed to be occupied by the Manchu and Qing Tatars?
Facing the sea to the east, chasing the setting sun to the west,
I, Tang Tong, want to plant the flag of the Han people in every corner of the world.
Build a great empire on which the sun never sets!
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.