Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 - 2 | Page 18

‘I also went to India and exchanged goods with them. They greeted us with such friendship. Also, we built
monuments with some local countries and brought technologies for them...’ Zheng knelt in the palace,
representing his great adventure.
‘OK,’ said the emperor. ‘It was a great adventure I believe. How about the secret mission?’
‘I had found him, my emperor,’ said Zheng. The emperor was shocked at his words. Then the emperor
asked in such a great worry, ‘What did you do to him?’
‘We also went to Java and they were having a fierce civil war. I asked them to stop but they told me that I
brought force to them by force, which was not convincing. Actually, I thought of the event for such a long
time and couldn’t answer them. Could you please answer it, my emperor?’
The secret mission was to find Zhu Yunwen, the previous emperor of Ming, who had disappeared after the
civil war. Zhu Di was afraid that he would have a bad influence on his domination and wanted Zheng to
find him and kill him.
Zhu was lost in thought.
Zheng went down in history, for his seven voyages, bringing peace and technologies selflessly to the
countries he passed by.
Zhu didn’t concern him with the previous emperor any more.