In the fourteenth year of the Chongzhen reign of the Great Ming, the Little Ice Age had reached its most brutal stage. A plague sweeping the capital was brewing, Luoyang had already fallen, and the emperor was still fretting over the crisis in Liaodong. It was amid this turmoil that Chen Ye, a lucky employee at a spacetime trading shop, was matched with the Chongzhen Emperor.
Chongzhen: Buy grain, buy radios, buy guidance from immortals. Sell gold, sell mineral resources, sell anything the Great Ming can sell.
I want all the lands beneath the heavens, wherever sunlight shines, to be Ming territory.
With the immortals' guidance and a sound body of knowledge, I will build a new Great Ming with distinctly Ming characteristics.
Chen Ye: Stop asking. This Yongle Encyclopedia, these ancient medical secrets, and this zoo of extinct animals from around the world really did grow out of the ground.
