Jinyiwei

During the Jingnan Campaign, the reduction of princely fiefs, the relocation of the capital and compilation of the classics, the conquest of the Mongols, and voyages to the South Seas—wherever there was trouble, I was there, yet no one knew I was the one behind it.

All the world in my sleeve, strolling through the night in brocade robes, keeping a low profile! Staying low is the true kingly way.

A tortuous inheritance of life, a passive fate that kept on continuing, brought about his rise and counterattack.

Seemingly a counterfeit with no initiative, he turned the passive situation of his life trajectory around and opened up an entirely new situation for the whole surrounding environment!

The stormy struggle for the throne, the step-by-step reform of reducing princely fiefs, the glorious moment of the Yongle Encyclopedia, the all-encompassing manipulation behind the great move of relocating the capital, pacifying the interior and subduing external threats—through every major event, in all the brilliance, his shadow could not be erased and his footsteps could not be hidden!

Early Ming history was full of upheaval. It was an era nearing the end of turmoil, yet heroes and powerbrokers stirred history and pushed the rule of the Great Ming to its first peak!

In such history, how does a small modern-day nobody turn the tides and intervene in such turmoil to create his own low-key brilliance?!