Great Ning Dynasty 1782

"Ship-mounted coordinated assaults, enriching the nation through maritime trade" — King Yongping Wu.

"Punish Luzon, protect overseas Chinese" — King Yongping Wen.

"Pacify Malang, expand the territory by a thousand li" — King Yongping Cheng.

"Three expeditions to Sulu, extending the nation's reach" — King Yongping Kang.

"Drive out the red-haired barbarians, unify the South Seas" — Emperor Taizu of the Dayning Dynasty.

"Damn it, where the hell did they send me? Am I still in the country?"

— Deputy Officer Zheng from the Escort Corps, upper-class student of the Luzon Shipbuilding Academy, the only son of the former Zhao King, the eighteenth grandson of Emperor Taizu of the Dayning Dynasty, and a cadet officer who has trained for two and a half years aboard the second battleship division of the Western Fleet, stared blankly at the two parallel lines of warships fiercely trading broadsides on the ocean. The thunderous cannon fire completely drowned out his complaint.

When he looked through the smoke and saw the towering hull on the opposite side, along with the densely packed gun ports and the flickering flames, he finally understood that this Dayning he had arrived in was not peaceful at all!

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(Also known as Ship Voyages to the West, The Third Southward Migration of the Crown and Cap, and Spreading the Light of Civilization to the South Seas.)