Ming Dynasty: 1840

In 1644, Nanming made a comeback, and Ming Dynasty lived an extra two hundred years. In 1840, the British fleet arrived in Guangzhou. They didn't know that the second largest navy in the world stood across from them. Zhu Qiming, the youngest naval admiral of the Ming Dynasty, shattered the dream of an empire on which the sun never sets with one cannon. The whole country was rejoicing, but he couldn't laugh— Opium dens were blooming everywhere, princes were still fighting crickets, and there was a failed scholar named Hong Xiuquan in Guangxi who was writing a fatal pamphlet. "Winning against a foreign enemy is not considered a victory," he looked back at the sluggish empire, "the next battle will be fought by our own people." From the Opium War to the disastrous defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, from the Reform and Reform to the end of a three-hundred-year-old dynasty—— Zhu Qiming stayed with Ming Dynasty for the last thirty years, and then buried it with his own hands.