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Eighty-seven years before Columbus took three ships and ninety men across the Atlantic, a Chinese fleet of sixty-two treasure ships and 27,800 men was already crossing the Indian Ocean. Seven times. The man commanding it was not a king or a general. He was a prisoner of war — a boy taken in the conquest of Yunnan, castrated at ten, handed to a prince as a servant. He grew up to capture a king, execute a pirate lord who had held the Strait of Malacca for a decade, and put up a stone in Ceylon thanking three different gods in three different languages, because the empire he served did not care which one was listening. He sailed to Arabia. To the coast of Africa. He brought back a giraffe, and a court that decided it was a unicorn. Then a new emperor came to the throne, the ledgers were opened, and someone worked out what the ocean had cost. The fleet was ordered to stop. The dry docks emptied. And forty years later, when an emperor asked to see the charts of those voyages again, the records could not be found. Today the proof that he ever lived comes down to four things: two stones, an empty tomb, and a painting of a giraffe. Part 5 of the Ming founding series — THE DRAGON FILES. 0:00 27,800 Men 0:50 The Boy From Yunnan 4:50 The Treasure Ships 10:07 Two Thousand Against Fifty Thousand 14:10 The Gifts That Did Not Arrive 16:54 A Hundred Thousand Li of Ocean 21:12 The Ledger 24:50 The Records Nobody Could Find SOURCES • History of Ming (Mingshi 明史), Zhang Tingyu et al., 1739 — Biography of Zheng He • Veritable Records of the Ming (Ming Shilu 明實錄), compiled by the Ming court — Taizong Shilu • Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores (Yingya Shenglan 瀛涯勝覽), Ma Huan, 1433 — eyewitness on the voyages • Xingcha Shenglan (星槎勝覽), Fei Xin, 1436 — eyewitness on the voyages #ZhengHe #ChengHo #ZhuDi #YongleEmperor #ChenZuyi #MaHuan #LiuDaxia #MingDynasty #TreasureFleet #Malacca #Galle #ChineseHistory #History #AncientChina #Documentary #TheDragonFiles

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