“We cannot abandon our duties. We are professional fighters, and we must resist the emperor to the very end.” The professional cockfighting squad—the Ming civil official group—spat as they spoke.

“These idiots, I could crush them with two fingers. Leave them to me. You all just focus on fighting the external enemies.” With high morale and a fighting spirit that soared to the heavens, the Ming Emperor said this to the military group, who could only respond with exasperated expressions.

He is the most accomplished monarch of our Great Ming Empire, an emperor whose achievements outshine countless rulers of China. Without him, there would be no such powerful and magnificent Ming Empire. This is what the teachers told their students.

“Although he tried his utmost to conceal the truth of history, to beautify and whitewash those bloody scenes, time will eventually tear off his mask of disguise and reveal his true face. He was an evil dictator, and even more so, a terrifying thinker, orator, and politician who understood the weaknesses of human nature. Under his sway, the ancient civilization that had endured for thousands of years with virtue, sincerity, and the moral standards of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness, was transformed into a fearsome empire that knew nothing of mercy or shame, that saw only naked national and imperial interests, and was filled with aggression and hostility...”