Chen Ping's Notes

The protagonist is reborn as the son of a tenant farmer in eastern Zhejiang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and relies on historical knowledge to make plans in advance. Before the nursery rhyme "The Stone Man with One Eye" spread, he had secretly contacted maritime merchants to stock up on food; when the Red Scarf Army swept across the Yangtze River, he chose to form Xiangyong along the coast of Taizhou, where the Japanese pirates were most intrusive - because he knew that this chaotic place would be the cradle of the future Ming Navy. While Zhu Yuanzhang was still drinking porridge at Huangjue Temple, his fleet had already sailed to Ryukyu carrying improved gunpowder formula.