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The eleventh year of Hongzhi, that is, 1498 AD. At this time, within the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Houzhao went out to study, and his little tiger teeth showed their sharpness and began to step onto the stage of history. Wang Shouren and Tang Bohu were gearing up and preparing for the imperial examination. The Little Ice Age has arrived, and the cold winter is ravaging the earth, dealing a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty, which is increasingly annexing land. No matter how hard Zhu Youtang works, the Hongzhi ZTE has reached its peak and is turning from prosperity to decline. ... At this time, outside the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The young Tatar prince Dayan Khan was ambitious and constantly harassed the Ming border. Ten years have passed since Dias discovered the Cape of Good Hope. More than five years have passed since Columbus discovered the New World. Vasco da Gama is about to arrive at the port where Zheng He stopped half a century ago - Calicut, a city on the southwest coast of India. Copernicus was still studying in Italy, the birthplace of the Renaissance, and it was still fifteen years before he published the heliocentric theory. Magellan was also still learning, and there were still twenty-one years before he would embark on mankind's first voyage around the world. ... This is a great era of great changes and great talents emerging in large numbers. At this time, in a charcoal shop in the corridor outside Chongwenmen in the capital, a young man dressed as a scholar lit the Four Books and Five Classics and began his deviant and wanton life.