For well over a decade, perhaps even two, the Ming Dynasty had been waging a civil war. And through it all, the Reich had been funding and supplying the loyalist faction with the tools they needed to win.
Of course, this was easier said than done, and due to both infighting and corruption. Not only had the Ming Dynasty suffered repeated setbacks, but several of the succeeding emperors had met their untimely demise. By now, only a distant relative of the once mighty Emperor Zhu Wudi sat upon the throne, and he was a young boy no older than eight.
Perhaps out of the wisdom of his advisors, or simply intelligence beyond his years, Zhu Feng designed that he would accept international aid in this dispute, and turned to his long-time allies of the Joseon Dynasty for their military prowess.