Tianheng

It took Shen Mo twenty years to go from an unknown scholar to the youngest cabinet minister in the Jiajing Dynasty. In the past twenty years, he has experienced—— From the county examination to the general examination, he passed all the tests, used the logic of later generations to dismantle the eight-legged essay, and turned the imperial examination into an intellectual competition; When he first entered the Hanlin Academy and was transferred to the Ministry of Accounts, a foolish young man who "didn't understand silver" used modern financial thinking to shake up the salt policy that had been suffering for centuries; There was a storm of ceremony, and the emperor and his ministers faced each other head-on. If he stood on the wrong side, he would be doomed. If he stood on the right side, how could he preserve his integrity? During the Japanese invasion in the southeast, he fought side by side with Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang. While fighting the Japanese, he built coastal defense infrastructure and turned the war into a systematic project; On the path of a powerful minister, from being the envoy to the cabinet, he faced not the enemy, but the entire old order - Yan Song, Yan Shifan, and the increasingly paranoid Emperor Jiajing. . . . This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.