Call Me Emperor Recruitment Guide: Best First Emperor to Unlock

Recruit Kangxi first when spending your initial Emperor recruitment tokens in Call Me Emperor. After unlocking Kangxi, your next action is to recruit the remaining four Qing Emperors—Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Shunzhi—before spending any tokens on individual aura level upgrades.

Unlocking the full set activates and stacks shared synergy auras across your entire lineup, giving your empire passive percentage attribute multipliers while establishing a versatile roster for the Arena, Feast, and Hunting grounds.

Why Kangxi Is the Best First Unlock

Early progression bottlenecks center on campaign troop losses and boss burst damage. Kangxi directly addresses these bottlenecks by pairing high base military aptitude with strong secondary political growth. High military reduces the soldiers required to clear campaign stages, while political strength stabilizes your silver income to fund roster leveling.

Yongzheng is an acceptable secondary alternative if your account already has sufficient commercial and political income but lacks battle power. However, starting with economic specialists like Qianlong or Jiaqing slows stage progression, as non-combat attributes do not help you defeat higher campaign waves or secure better daily stage rewards.

Token Strategy: Unlocks vs. Aura Upgrades

Recruitment tokens are scarce resources earned through cross-server rush events, limited-time ranking rewards, and exchange stores. Because tokens accumulate slowly, spend them strictly according to this priority order:

1. Save for full unlocks: Never spend recruitment tokens on piecemeal upgrade items if you are short of the total required to recruit a new Emperor. Wait until you have enough tokens to claim a sovereign outright.
2. Complete the five-minister Qing roster: Each recruited Qing Emperor activates a shared synergy aura that adds a flat percentage boost to the attributes of every Qing sovereign in your court. Unlocking all five ministers stacks this multiplier across the entire group.
3. Delay individual aura breakthroughs: Upgrading Kangxi's standalone aura with duplicate tokens before recruiting the other four emperors sacrifices widespread percentage gains. You gain far more total empire power by acquiring the full team first.

How to Allocate Books and Talent Scrolls

Once you assemble your Qing ministers, concentrate your high-value growth materials onto one carry rather than distributing them evenly:

• Primary Carry (Kangxi): Assign the vast majority of your Military Talent Scrolls, Military Books, and rare skill points to Kangxi. Arena matchups favor one dominant champion over an evenly leveled team.
• Secondary Ministers: Treat the remaining emperors as attribute anchors. Assign them books that match their specific strengths—give commercial manuals to Qianlong, agricultural manuals to Shunzhi, and political manuals to Jiaqing.
• Academy and Elixirs: Reserve high-tier elixir packages and primary academy study slots for Kangxi to push his single-minister combat scaling as high as possible.

Next Step: Transitioning to Higher Tiers

After assembling the full Qing lineup and establishing Kangxi as your primary fighter, continue saving recruitment tokens from event stores to prepare for Sage Emperors and Female Sovereigns.

These advanced tiers offer higher baseline growth rates and their own cross-synergy auras. Do not abandon your Qing lineup prematurely: a complete five-emperor Qing court backed by stacked auras will outperform a single, unsupported higher-tier sovereign. Maintain your focus on Kangxi until you save enough tokens to recruit and support the baseline requirements of the next group synergy.