There's trouble brewing in the south. A minor prince with delusions of grandeur gets a bit too big for his britches. Portuguese Pirates plunder peninsular ports before coming to call on Canton. This sounds like a job for the great General Zhu Shou, Heroic Defender of the Realm and Ultimate Party-Boat Enjoyer.



Time Period Covered:
~1514-1521 CE

Major Historical Figures:
The Zhengde Emperor (Zhu Houzhao) [r. 1505-1521]
The Prince of Ning (Zhu Chenhao) [1477-1520]
Jiang Pin
Qian Ning [d. 1520]
Grand Secretary Fei Heng
Sun Sui, Governor of Jiangxi [d. 1519]
General Wang Yangming [1472-1529]
General Zhu Shou, Heroic Defender of the Realm, Duke of Zhenguo [?? -??]
Tomé Pires, Portuguese explorer and ambassador [c. 1465-1524? or 40?]

Major Works Cited:
Brook, Timothy. The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.
Geiss, James. “The Cheng-te reign, 1506-1521” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part I.”
Keevak, Michael. Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking.
Pires, Tomé, Armando Cortesão & Francisco Rodrigues. The Suma oriental of Tome Pires; and account of the East, from the Red Sea to China, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515; and, The book of Franciso Rodrigues: Pilot-Major of the armada that discovered Banda and the Moluccas: rutter of a voyage in the red sea, nautical rules, almanack, vol. 1.

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