Southern Ming: The Sun Never Sets on the Han Dragon Banner Across the Globe

(No support for the Ming, carving out realms and declaring oneself king, destroying the Qing, wiping out the Japanese dogs, Southeast Asia and Asia incorporated into the realm, maritime supremacy, an empire on which the sun never sets, colonizing the world, industrial development, the thirteenth year of the Yongli reign of the Southern Ming)

In the twelfth year of the Yongli reign, the emperor of the Southern Ming court enters Yunnan under Li Dingguo’s protection. The smoke of war has yet to clear from Kunming’s walls when a secret letter arrives in Wu Sangui’s tent, bearing news that the remnants of Sun Kewang’s forces have surrendered to the Qing. On the southeastern coast, Zheng Chenggong strikes a blow against the Qing at Quanzhou Bay, but regrets missing his chance beneath the walls of Nanjing. On the banks of the Rhine, Hobbes writes Leviathan, while the sparks of new ideas smolder amid the smoke of the Thirty Years’ War. Inside Fort Zeelandia in Taiwan, the Dutch East India Company’s newly appointed governor, Coyett, studies a sea chart as Zheng Chenggong’s fleet cuts through the morning mist and draws near. The winds of change are stirring in both hemispheres.

See how, amid the surging tides of this chaotic age, a force that begins with a ragtag hundred-strong band of defeated soldiers can gradually push China back to the summit of world civilization, looking down upon all the barbarians.