The Young Chancellor of the Great Ming

Man Chaojian is a remarkable figure widely known in folk tales from western Hunan. One day, the Golden Throne Hall began to tremble and looked ready to collapse, leaving the emperor unable to sit still. A divine being told him that in a certain place in Hunan there was a cowherd who could stabilize the throne. The emperor dispatched a search party, and they found the boy in Santangyi, in the upper reaches of Hunan. They brought him back to the court, and the Golden Throne Hall indeed became stable. The civil and military officials then jointly recommended the cowherd as chancellor, and the emperor bestowed upon him the name Man Chaojian. Based on folk legends and expanded with bold imagination, this book creates an extraordinary high-ranking official, a chancellor beloved by ordinary people.