Records of Kunyu of All Nations in the Ming Dynasty

Time span: Yongle 19th year (1421) to Wanli 3rd year (1575), and later discoveries to 2026 ·Total number of chapters: approximately 336 chapters ·Estimated total word count: 4-5 million words ·Core setting: The Ming Dynasty was actually a global super empire in the 15th century, with health centers, bases, and shipping banks all over the continents. The Qing Dynasty completely erased this period of history by systematically tampering with place names and destroying documents. The protagonist Lin Yuan travels back in time to Chen Henian, an official in the imperial court. He lived to about 178 years old because of taking life-extending pills, and witnessed with his own eyes the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty's global empire.