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When the Lisbon royal family's secret order passed through the Cape of Good Hope storm, when the Ming Dynasty's sea ban policy hit the French gunboat - the world was reshaping order in the huge waves! Portugal is tearing apart the Arabian Maritime Network, the Dutch East India Company is eyeing it, and England is late but ambitious... And the eye of the storm in all this is actually Haojingao on the border of the South China Sea!

"Sea King Zheng" - This novel will rewrite all your imaginations about China's maritime history! When the "national hero" in the textbook takes off the label-- You will see a complex soul burning life between the rift between Eastern and Western civilizations. In the 17th century, the East in the Age of Discovery. At the end of the sea map is the struggle between power and civilization. A fleet flying the "Zheng" flag is cutting through the waves and sailing towards the center of the whirlpool of history. This is not the Zheng Chenggong you remember. This is not a pale epic simply summarized as "revolting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty." Are we being deceived by textbooks? The dust-laden truth is about to break out of the sea! In 1624, the fate of the East and the West met here: A Fujian merchant ship quietly docked in Macau, and a young man with sharp eyes jumped out of the ship - Zheng Zhilong. He would not have thought that he would complete a fatal transformation here: From an outcast from the bottom, to an international adventurer who is proficient in Portuguese, converted to God, and masters Western firearms. This is just the prologue. When his mixed-race son Zheng Chenggong was born in Hirado, Japan, the gears of fate began to turn crazily: ? "Macau" gives this family global vision and firearms technology ? "Japan" gives the warrior spirit and maternal blood ? The "Dutch East India Company" became the most dangerous opponent and ally ? The black mercenary "Black Ghost Team" swore allegiance to the death and became the most terrifying combat force on the sea. And all of this is waiting for a moment that will explode history-- When the land bows its proud head to the ocean, who is the real "King of the Sea"?

In the 29th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Matteo Ricci dedicated a self-ringing bell to the Forbidden City. That epoch-making bell not only told the time, but also signaled the start of a huge "civilization contract." Four hundred years later, Lu Jianwei, the Forbidden City's top cultural relic restorer, discovered that the collection of Western clocks and watches in the museum had strange anomalies. At the same time, Lin Yilan, the guardian of Macau's mixed-race cultural heritage, deciphered the civilization code left by Matteo Ricci in the ancient clock left by his grandmother. One north and one south, one palace and one city. Lu Jianwei, who originally believed in "returning cultural relics to their proper place", and Lin Yilan, who insisted on "sharing civilizations", were forced to join forces. They followed the clues laid down by Matteo Ricci, Xu Guangqi, Nan Huairen and other sages, from the star coordinates of the ancient observatory in Beijing to the inscriptions on the ruins of Ruins of St. Paul's in Macau; from the ancient churches in Lisbon to the mysterious underground palace in Goa... They discovered that this dialogue across oceans and continents was far from a simple "spreading of Western learning to the east" or "spreading of middle school to the west." It is an unparalleled game with countless magnificent cultural relics as chess pieces and the entire Eastern and Western civilizations as the chessboard. Behind the scenes, there is a capital giant who intends to monopolize the power of civilized interpretation, and an extremist organization that believes in "purity" and vows to cut off all dialogue channels... When the truth of history becomes a bargaining chip for power, and when the blending of civilizations is regarded as original sin, how can two young people protect the memory that has been deliberately forgotten in a global pursuit and obstruction? And how will the artifact that ultimately points to the destiny of mankind, the "Seven Political Instruments of Glazed Glass," see the light of day again and ask questions about the future?