Embroidered Whale

The 31st year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1552). Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with Taoism and alchemy and did not go to court for more than 20 years. In the court, Yan Song and his son controlled the government and fought secretly with Xu Jie and other elites. The Tatar Anda Khan in the north repeatedly invaded the border, and Japanese pirates were rampant along the southeast coast. On the surface, foreign aggression is constant, but in fact, there is an undercurrent - a huge intelligence network spanning the grasslands, the Central Plains and the ocean is quietly tightening. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.