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Beijing was extremely cold in the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign. It was not only the weather that was cold, but also the people's hearts. The life of the Ming Dynasty had entered the final countdown. In the south, Li Zicheng was high-spirited and the sun was at its peak; in the northeast, tigers peered at the Central Plains; in the southeast, the scholar-bureaucrats were drunk and dreaming, giving guidance to the country; in the southwest, the Toungu dynasty silently licked its wounds and waited for the opportunity; further to the northwest, the Cossack cavalry continued to march eastward. Overseas, the Age of Discovery has begun, the Thirty Years War is about to come to an end, the confrontation of nations, the collision of ideas, the great development of science, and the eve of the arrival of industrial civilization, what kind of sparks will a modern man create here?

In 1642, the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil internally, and the external slaves were eyeing it. Thousands of sails were racing on the sea thousands of miles away. In the land of the Eastern and Southern Kingdoms, a new morning star is rising. The old order is dying, and the new order will be immortalized under the gaze of the morning star!