In 1640, when I woke up from the shipwreck in 2025, I had become the second daughter of the Sun family, a southern maritime merchant.
The imperial court is crumbling, the north is at war, pirates, tax collectors, and the Dutch East India Company are all around - the Ming Dynasty is heading towards the abyss of destruction.
What's worse is that I have been promised to a concubine of the clan who is in a miserable situation.
Everyone says that his status is meager and his future is bleak, but as a researcher of Ming history, I know better than anyone else:
Three years later, Beijing fell, more than ten years later, Yongli was hanged, and Nanming was completely destroyed——
And if I don't do anything, as a clan wife, I will die more miserably than anyone else.
So, I grabbed the young man who was despised by everyone.
His surname is Zhu and his given name is Cixuan. Although he is a concubine, he is sober, calm and caring about the world.
I told him that the Ming Dynasty's sky is falling, and no one can survive if they don't save themselves first.
Since then, in the name of "disaster relief, farmland, and maritime protection," we have secretly taken in refugees, recruited fleets, and accumulated food and silver;
Based on the principle of "reorganizing the army, opening up wasteland, and building warehouses", we established military camps, firearms bureaus, and intelligence departments;
In the end, they quietly moved south to Hainan Island with thousands of refugees, avoiding the sharp edge of the Manchu cavalry, and quietly developed in this forgotten land.
Many years later, Emperor Yongli was hanged to death by Wu Sangui, and the whole world mourned "Zhu's ultimate sacrifice".
And we already have tens of thousands of elite soldiers, a prototype navy, financial resources for maritime trade, and millions of acres of farmland.
That day, he held my hand and stood under the sea breeze and the flag:
"The Ming Dynasty is not dead, I am here;
The fire is not extinguished, you are here;
Since this person is the Zhu family, it is time to raise the flag to regain his sight. "
From an isolated island in the South China Sea to a new dynasty in the sea country.
My concubine, my husband, and I started as a refugee army to usher in a new era for this mountain and river.
