## Myriad Frontiers: From Black-Robed Chancellor to Founder of an Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets
> When Yi Hao woke up, he had become Yao Guangxiao, the demonic monk in black robes from the Jianwen era of the Ming dynasty.
> Facing the Prince of Yan, Zhu Di, who was about to be driven to his death by the campaign to strip the fiefs, he smiled faintly. “Your Highness, stripping the fiefs? You’re thinking too small!”
> While Zhu Di was still fretting over his three thousand household troops, Yi Hao had already presented him with The Exploitation of the Works of Nature and The Theory of Sea Power.
> Yi Hao’s firearms tore through the Southern Army’s cavalry, steam-powered ironclad ships crushed the Japanese pirates’ vessels, and corn and potatoes filled the Ming granaries to the brim.
> On the day Zhu Di ascended the throne, Yi Hao instead sailed across the seas. “Your Majesty, the Forbidden City is too small to contain an empire on which the sun never sets.”
> When Zheng He’s fleet returned with American gold and Australian giants, the Forbidden City received a gold-embossed letter of state:
> “Yi Hao, Emperor of the New Ming, invites the Yongle Emperor to divide the world between them!”
