THE MING GOLDEN AGE - THE YONGLE EMPEROR'S LEGACY

Yongle: "Perpetual Happiness". During his 22 years on the throne, the Ming dynasty's 3rd emperor, son of its founder, would bring the empire to its golden age. Under the second half of his reign, Yongle would restore the Grand Canal, send his admiral Zheng He as far as modern-day Kenya, and more significantly, build the Forbidden City, making Beijing the Ming's new capital city. Yet, trouble would begin to appear in northern Vietnam, integrated as Jiaozhi province, and Mongolia, to which the emperor would personally lead 3 more campaigns, where he would ultimately meet his end... He would leave the Ming dynasty at the height of its might. PART 1 :    • PATH TO THE THRONE - THE YONGLE EMPEROR'S ...   PART 2 :    • AMBITIOUS MING EXPANSION: THE YONGLE EMPER...   ➤ Follow me on Twitter/X! https://x.com/History_ofChina ➤ If you would like to make a donation, you can do so with Super Thanks or via my paypal: https://paypal.me/historyofchina Many thanks! ♫ MUSIC ♫ TW Three Kingdoms - Wu Xing TW Three Kingdoms - Champion of the People TW Three Kingdoms - Good Fortune Ming Music Restoration Group - Realm of red pool TW Three Kingdoms - Metal TW Three Kingdoms - Oath to the Peach Garden TW Three Kingdoms - Stratagem Age of Empires 2 - Vietnamese theme Chinese Buddhist Music Age of Empires 2 - Shu theme Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger - Sao Meo Orchestral Mix Civilization V - Mongolia peace theme Civilization V - Mongolia war theme Daoist music TW Three Kingdoms - Harmony The Loyalist - Lotus Lane 🎬 VIDEO CREDITS 🎬 The Ming Dynasty (2019) Ghost Fleet: The Epic Voyage of Zheng He (2005) China's Forbidden City (2008) 📜 MAIN SOURCES 📜 The Cambridge History of China - Volume 7 (1988), Frederick W. Mote & Denis Twitchett Perpetual Happiness - The Ming Emperor Yongle (2011), Shih-shan Henry Tsai Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644 (1976), L. Carrington Goodrich & Chaoying Fang 🏷️ TAGS 🏷️ history of china ming dynasty yongle emperor zhu di ming chengzu ming invasion of vietnam zheng he treasure fleet yongle encyclopedia forbidden city yongle campaigns ming golden age Introduction: (0:00) Context: (00:33) The restoration of the Grand Canal: (01:07) Sailing to Africa: (02:32) The unruly prince: (05:01) The Lam Son uprising: (06:45) A new capital city: (08:34) The last campaigns: (11:30) Yongle's legacy: (16:59)