In 1648 AD, Zhu Youlang, the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, was on the verge of despair. Under the iron hooves of the Qing army, he was no longer a great figure, but an exile who lived in fear all day long. In Guilin, the last fortress, he made a desperate and crazy decision: sending an envoy to ask for help from the Pope, who was thousands of miles away and had never met him.
This is a huge gamble that uses the soul of Chinese civilization as a bet. He never thought that this letter for help would not bring him a crusade from the Pope, but would instead cause unexpected ripples like a stone thrown into the deadlock of European power.
In distant Germany, the genius scholar Leibniz saw in this final sound from the East the ultimate chess piece to break the deadlock in Europe. A shocking conspiracy began: Why not support this Eastern emperor who had converted to Catholicism to become the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?
As a result, the direction of world history is completely skewed here. The exiled Chinese emperor was unexpectedly crowned the Roman Caesar; the consul from the East used the iron fist of "reforming the land and returning the country" to reshape the feudal country of Germany; Confucian classics and Roman jurisprudence collided and merged in Main Mansion; and the Forbidden City in Nanjing was about to become the new Vatican...
From Guilin to Rome, from Nanjing to Vienna, this is an epic of intrigue, faith and iron-blood across Europe and Asia. See how the Emperor of China, in the darkest moment of civilization, took control of the world and established an unprecedented dual empire on the ruins of the old world.
