"His Majesty the Pope! People in China require us to read the Four Books and Five Classics!"
"Your Majesty the Queen is in trouble! The Chinese people are coming to us again to ask for land!"
"Oh! My dear Eastern friends! France and China have been good partners since ancient times!"
"Oh! We in Germany are willing to unite with the Celestial Empire with our steely faith! We have long been Chinese people!"
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In 1800, the sun of the Ming Empire rose as usual. The time traveler Zhu Linyu inherited the legacy of his father and vowed to erase all the misfortunes of the flower growers in modern times and let the sun of the empire shine on the entire continent.
Enlighten ideas, open schools, manufacture industries, dominate East Asia, point your sword at Europe, and the "Whip of God" will sweep across Europe again!
Great Britain, Tsarist Russia, Ottoman, France... Imperial power, maritime charts, and ambitions are intertwined. What trajectory will the wheels of history make on the unknown continent?
A conquest and counter-conquest across land and sea, a true "age of empires"! A century-long struggle for global hegemony!