Yi Ming


 * This article is about the ancient Earth King who ordered creation of the Ba Sing Se Monorail. For other similar uses, see Earth King (disambiguation).

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- I want a faster traveling way! Make it so.

Yi Ming was an Earth King residing in Ba Sing Se who ruled in the distant past, likely as one of the first Earth Kings.

History


His reign is best remembered for the large-scale public works projects he instituted. He was a brilliant but impatient ruler who was tired of having to spend two full days traveling from one end of his city to the other. He tasked his royal engineers with finding a solution to his traveling woes: "I want a faster traveling way! Make it so." The result of this was the best mass-transit system in the entire world: Ba Sing Se's Grand Monorail. This invention remained in use for many lifetimes and remained in use during Avatar Aang's time.