In the fourth year of Hongwu, as Zhu Yuanzhang hosted a grand banquet for his ministers in the Fengtian Hall, a bizarre curtain of light suddenly appeared across the sky.
The scenes within were horrifying: famine across the land, bodies piled high, and even a glimpse of the future’s brutal Jingnan Campaign!
The Prince of Yan, Zhu Di, raises an army and captures Jinling. The Jianwen Emperor, Zhu Yunwen, kneels before the ancestral temple in tears, crying, “I regret not listening to Ye Kang!”
Zhu Yuanzhang slams the table and leaps to his feet!
Fourth Son! Stop eating that chicken leg and get on your knees in the ancestral temple!
As for Ye Kang?
The Hongwu Emperor orders an immediate search for a man named Ye Kang!
Meanwhile, Ye Kang, future president of the Ming Bank, president of the Ming Maritime Trade Company, commander of the Ming Pacific Fleet, marshal of the Ming Caucasus Army Group, grand secretary of the cabinet, tutor to the Crown Prince, Duke of Ningguo, and commander-in-chief of the Southern Australia, Japan, and North America Pacification Commission, is still taking it easy at his little country estate…
