Recaps

Zhu Ying reclaimed his place in the imperial family and pressed Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao to curb the vassal princes, land annexation, and tax exemptions. The court began dismantling the princes’ military power and adopting Zhu Ying’s land-tax reforms, while he prepared further measures against those who had seized commoners’ land.

• Zhu Biao brought Zhu Ying into the Eastern Palace, where Zhu Yunteng welcomed him as an elder brother, and Zhu Ying paid respects at his childhood residence.
• Zhu Biao stripped Zhu Yunwen and his brothers of their imperial status and exiled them, while Zhu Ying and Zhu Yunteng prepared to witness the Lü Family’s execution.
• Zhu Ying set the palace examination question, helped select Xia Yuanji, Xie Jin, and Yang Shiqi as the top candidates, and argued that the examinations needed to recruit technological talent.
• Zhu Ying pressed Zhu Yuanzhang to curb the vassal princes and abolish tax exemptions, and Zhu Yuanzhang authorized him to pursue policies that benefited Great Ming.
• Zhu Biao began taking military authority from the princes and organizing court-appointed officials for their fiefs, while Zhu Ying enlisted Huai West generals to support the reforms and report improperly acquired land.
• The imperial envoy ordered Zhu Di to surrender command of the Northern Peace Army and attend Zhu Xiongying’s ceremony, and Tang Shengzong took over the army.
• Zhu Ying showed Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao a world map, declared his intention to unify the world, and urged them to protect their health and live longer.
• After Zhao Mian reported extensive land annexation, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished tax exemptions and replaced population-based taxation with land-acreage taxation, while Zhu Ying began addressing officials who had seized commoners’ land.

Zhu Ying transformed Ming taxation, currency, the imperial clan, and the princes’ authority while exposing and punishing Zhu Di’s treason. After returning to the imperial lineage as heir apparent and commander-in-chief, he launched the Royal Bank and Royal Industry and began planning further reforms and expansion.

• Zhu Ying secured support for land taxation and state ownership, then proclaimed the Tanding Rumou policy, which taxed landowners and exempted people without land.
• Zhu Ying established the Royal Bank and ordered the Royal Guards to take over two treasuries as he prepared to replace the Ministry of Revenue’s control over currency.
• Zhu Ying exposed Zhu Di’s secret army and collusion with Northern Yuan, and Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to strip Zhu Di and his descendants of imperial status and imprison him for life.
• When princes gathered guards and attacked commoners outside Zhu Ying’s residence, Zhu Ying’s forces subdued them, and Zhu Ying punished the princes according to their crimes.
• Zhu Ying recruited Yao Guangxiao as his strategist and showed him a world map as he planned to expand Huaxia’s territory.
• Zhu Ying and his family completed the clan-return ceremony, and Zhu Yuanzhang named Zhu Ying Imperial Grandson, fixed him as heir apparent, and granted him command of Ming armies.
• Zhu Ying opened the Royal Bank and Royal Industry, restored his memories of his mother and grandmother, and began restructuring salaries, imperial clan stipends, and banking oversight.
• After Liu Yu'er gave birth to Zhu Wenzhan, Zhu Ying advanced plans for tax and commercial reforms, technical recruitment, military development, roads, education, and territorial expansion.

Zhu Ying built up Ming institutions and weapons in Beiping, then defeated the Tatar armies and killed Banyashili and Arutai. The Ming began securing the Northern Frontier with prisoners, settlers, and concrete strongholds while Joseon marched against the Jianzhou Jurchens.

• Zhu Ying appointed Zhu Bai and Zhu Quan to oversee the Royal Bank and Armaments Workshop, developed new weapons, and began expanding Ming industry and infrastructure in Beiping.
• Zhu Ying reorganized the northern army and led 200,000 troops against the Tatars and their Jianzhou allies, who split their forces to attack Daning and Liaodong.
• Zhu Ying defended Daning with artillery, then led the cavalry in pursuit and killed Banyashili after routing the Tatar army.
• Zhu Ying challenged Arutai to battle, completed his cultivation breakthrough, and led Ming forces to devastate the Yuan army with cannons, Explosive Shells, and Fire Chariots.
• Zhu Ying pursued Arutai and beheaded him, then ordered the capture of prisoners and planned strongholds and settlements across the frontier.
• Zhu Ying reunited with Zhu Yunteng, learned that Yun Yu had given birth to their son, and promoted Zhu Yunteng for his battlefield service.
• Zhu Ying ordered Joseon to attack the Jianzhou Jurchens and began the Northern Expedition, while Zhu Yuanzhang prepared supplies and approved moving landless Han people north.
• Yi Seong-gye sent 80,000 Korean troops against the Jurchens as Ming officials registered Tatar prisoners and built concrete strongholds across the steppe.

Zhu Ying expanded Ming rule across the Northern Frontier, introduced major reforms, and opened a portal to a prehistoric world where he built a dinosaur army. He brought the new forces to Northern State as the Oirats gathered to attack.

• Zhu Ying conquered Tatar territory, forced its nobles and chiefs to submit, and secured the Northern Frontier while Ming officials organized its administration and defenses.
• Zhu Ying returned to Ying Tian and advanced reforms including new examinations, anti-corruption laws, expanded trade, public education, and the lifting of the Maritime Ban.
• Zhu Ying opened a portal to the Prehistoric World, explored it with Liu Lei and the Wang Guards, and began capturing dinosaurs for the Ming army.
• The steam engine succeeded, and Zhu Ying and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered its development and mass production while the Ming expanded its prehistoric stronghold.
• Zhu Ying implanted a Heart-Eating Gu in a Pterosaur, made it obey, and rode it above Ying Tian City before ordering the formation of an aerial army.
• Zhu Ying prepared Pterosaur and Velociraptor forces for a campaign against the Oirats, while Choros and Mahammu urged the Oirat tribes to attack Ming territory.
• Zhu Ying arrived at Northern State with three thousand tamed pterosaurs and five thousand Velociraptor Army soldiers, astonishing Fu Youde and the other generals.