This story mainly covers the Jianwen Emperor’s campaign to curb the power of the princes, his defeat by Zhu Di’s army, and Zhu Di’s troops surrounding the capital. The Jianwen Emperor’s trusted eunuch puts on the emperor’s clothes and throws himself into a sea of flames, while the real Jianwen Emperor, Zhu Yunwen, disguises himself as a merchant and escapes Nanjing through a secret passage. Escorted by a Vietnamese merchant ship, he flees to Champa, then travels to Java, Sumatra, Ceylon, Calicut, Sofala, Mecca, and Mombasa. He later rounds the Cape of Good Hope and lands in France at Dover Harbor. The famous footballer Franck Ribery is said to have Jianwen Emperor’s blood in his veins.
