In the fifth year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, the empress Cui Lanyun sat on the top of the Nine Layers, using power as a thread to weave the female ministers of the Qian Party, the male ministers of Qingliu and the eunuchs of the eunuchs into a web of checks and balances.
She is the one who enforces the game on the chessboard, and she is also the rebellious one known as "Chicken Si Chen" in the world——
"Little Ge Lao" Jiang Linrui relied on the power of Qian Ge Lao Qian Yifan to stir up the spring. Wu Tong, the second assistant to the cabinet, watched the fire from the other side with the method of moderation. Du Mo, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, used the pen of Xie Zhi to impeach the corrupt ink. The three giants of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, Zong Rui (handprint), Chen Defeng (Admiral of Dongchang) and Li Xingcheng (Suitang), each held their own and secretly communicated with foreign ministers during the voting process.
Cui Zheng, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was investigating the pay of the Liaodong army as an imperial envoy, but was involved in the Wala collusion case; Liu Boyan, a newly crowned female champion, brought "On the Female Monarch" to the imperial court, but the money party uncovered the old grudges of the "Monster Case".
Private sales of salt, grain subcontracting, secret letters to blame... Every ink is a bait, and every knock on the capital has a blade: Jiang Linrui's "Xiao Ge Lao" seal is stamped with a secret party agreement, Chen Defeng's Dongchang waist badge is stained with blood crystal sand and private salt, Zong Rui's dust whisk sweeps not only the imperial case, but also the scale of the emperor's mind.
When the Wala delegation came to Beijing with the iron ore account books, and when the Spring Debate Forum reenacted the "Chicken Si Chen" debate, Cui Lanyun lowered his eyes and looked at the group of kneeling chess pieces - Qian Yifan's white hair concealed the filial piety of the salt merchant, Wu Tong's court uniform was embroidered with the secret pattern of the faction, and Du Mo's admonishment seal concealed the future of the female family.
There is no distinction between men and women in this world, only the struggle between the chess player and the chess pieces: and on Cui Lanyun's chessboard, there are never permanent allies, only trade-offs that are never unbalanced.
