Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty

A true account of the events from Zhu Yuanzhang’s reign to the fall of the Ming dynasty. From the iron-fisted rule of the Hongwu Emperor to the glory of the Yongle Emperor’s move of the capital to Beijing and Zheng He’s voyages to the Western Ocean; from the national crisis of the Tumu Crisis to the undercurrents of the Jiajing Emperor’s alchemy-obsessed court and the Wanli Emperor’s thirty years of neglecting state affairs, and finally the Chongzhen Emperor’s loss of the empire, followed by the true history of the dynasty’s fall after thirty-nine years of Southern Ming rule.