The Ming Dynasty’s Expedition

Reborn as a down-and-out prince whom the emperor despises, Zhu Changluo can only struggle desperately in the whirlpool of the imperial palace. He schemes and plots to begin his studies outside the palace early; he takes risks to become Crown Prince ahead of schedule. But when he finally takes the seat that controls the fate of all under heaven, he discovers the stubbornness of the civil bureaucracy, the coming Little Ice Age, the rise of the northern nomads, and Europe's global colonization... With internal and external crises closing in, his only choices are to conquer or be conquered.