(The work is slow to develop, and the follow-up is high-energy. It is flesh and blood. One country challenges the whole world. Chapters are subject to major revisions. Please wait patiently.) If Zhu Biao and Zhu Xiongying had not passed away early and their direct descendants had inherited the great power, there would have been no troubles in peace, no castration disasters, no Manchus, and no modern humiliation. However, every step of the Ming Dynasty from an agricultural dynasty to a maritime empire, an industrial power, and a modern constitutional country was full of corpses, seas of blood, and internal and external troubles.
