Jingtai: Making the Ming Dynasty Great Again

In the fourteenth year of the Zhengtong reign, Zhu Qiyu listened to the news of the Tumu Crisis and sighed silently. After 21 years of forbearance, it was finally his turn to take charge. "Junior Protector Yu, the defense of Beijing is entirely in your hands." "Students studying abroad want to return home? Sure, watch out for the rivers along the way. What? They won't cross any rivers? Then watch out for flying sand and stones!" "The seas must be opened up; how can we make money without going to sea?" "The Jurchens are invading our Liaodong? Perfect timing, we have nowhere to spend the money we've earned over the past ten years. The name Jingtai Liting sounds good too; from now on, the Jurchens will be extinct!"... Many years later, the first line of the "Annals of Emperor Shizong" in the History of Ming states: "The Emperor rose from a time of peril, ushering in a golden age for the four seas and a prosperous future for ten thousand generations."