Chu Chengfeng unexpectedly gained the ability to travel between the Ming Dynasty and the modern world. After presenting the Tianqi Emperor with a music box as an auspicious gift, he became a black-market middleman between the two eras.
A decent young man backed by the modern world, an emperor who loved tinkering with carpentry, and a eunuch with a head full of schemes: could this unlikely trio save the crumbling Ming Dynasty?
The Tianqi Emperor praised him as a peerless pillar of the state, never realizing that Chu Chengfeng had even stolen his wife out from under him before he could marry her.
The Nine-Thousand-Year-Old Eunuch considered him a kindred spirit, but Chu Chengfeng's arrival marked the decline of both the Directorate of Ceremonial and the Eastern Depot.
The spiritual leader of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, commander of the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies, peerless marshal of the Capital Garrisons, and the “Shao Zhengmao reborn” denounced by the Donglin faction. The upright censorate called him “Chu the Threefold”...
Reformer of the imperial clan system, gravedigger of gentry self-rule, guiding light for industrial and commercial magnates, and savior of countless commoners...
Patron saint of craftsmen, pioneer of science, successor to Zheng He, architect of maritime law, and founder of the international order. Europe called him unbeatable...
The de facto emperor of the three Japanese islands, destroyer of the Mughal Empire...
The Americas and Australia were his private estates, Central and Western Asia his treasure troves. He soaked his feet in the Pacific and surfed the Atlantic...
The emperor bestowed upon him the title: Lord of the Antarctic and Arctic, Master of Both Poles!
