- Part 1: Blue Sky, Red Turban, White Lotus, Black Death
As the Mongol lords of the faltering Yuan Dynasty continue to bicker and war amongst one another, climate change and a global pandemic spark uprisings, rebellions, and predictions that the end of the world is at hand!
- Part 2: The Lords of Light
Between peasant uprisings and catastrophic diseases, a curious movement picks up steam professing that a new Buddha is going to change the entire fundament of the world, and only the righteous shall be spared! Join up now, while supplies last! Meanwhile, a destitute orphan will join a monastery, beginning a whirlwind adventure of a life…
- Part 3: Battle Royale
A young Zhu Yuanzhang proves his mettle as a commander of the Red Turban armies south of the Yangtze River. He’ll quickly come to find out, however, that power breeds rival… even among supposed allies…
- Part 4: On the Waterfront
Zhu Yuanzhang confronts his two prime rivals in the south – the warlords Zhang Shicheng of Wu, and Cheng Youliang of Han – culminating in a lake-top faceoff so titanic, its sheer scale has never been replicated.
- Part 5: Overflowing Martial Accomplishment
With the south untied until his Ming banners, Zhu Yuanzhang turns his attention to the north – and the sputtering last gasps of the Mongol Yuan regime ensconced at Dadu. With this final push, he will do what no Chinese from the south has ever done before: reunite All Under Heaven.
- Part 6: Winning Was Easy, Young Ming, Governing Is Harder
Once the pomp and ceremony of the first Ming Emperor’s enthronement have worn off, it’s time for the Hongwu Emperor to get to work with the nitty-gritty of actually administrating the vast realm he’s cobbled together.
- Part 7: I Think I’m Paranoid
Zhu Yuanzhang was never the most trusting of individuals. But as time goes on, he begins to jump more and more at shadows… and by “jump,” I mean “brutally execute” … and by “shadows,” I mean “darn near everyone around him.”
- Part 8: To Pick at the Dragon’s Scales
Abroad, the great armies of Ming continue to advance and conquer.
At home, the Hongwu Emperor rules through fear and death – prompting some of the bravest of his officials to dare his wrath by pointing out that he might be off his rocker.
- Part 9: The Problem With Princes
As the Hongwu Emperor enters the twilight of his life, a decision that had seemed like a good idea at the time – making his sons insanely powerful feudal military warlords in their own rights – actually turns out to have *unanticipated consequences* when his eldest son and imperial heir prematurely dies.
The History of China 