Daming Global Development Agency

After the Tumubao Incident, the Manchu Dynasty persuaded him to move south. When he became emperor, his first order was: Anyone who talks about moving south will be killed. The second order is: Tongzhou has three million stones of grain, which cannot be moved in seven days, so they will be burned. The third order was a line of handwriting: "During the Zha Yongle period, the family of old soldiers, sailors, helmsmen, fire chiefs, and general managers who went to the West. If their descendants are seen, the department will investigate and report them as soon as possible." The ministers thought he was crazy. Little did they know that in forty years there would be Portuguese ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope. In another forty-three years, someone will see the New World from the sea. He wanted to take this country's first voyage before that.