The Situation in the Late Ming Dynasty: the First Assistant of a Poor Family

Yu Mo (a graduate student/engineer in the Department of Modern History) traveled to Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, South Zhili (today's Songjiang, Shanghai), where a poor scholar (named Yu Mo) failed in many exams and his family fell into decline. In the autumn of the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1556). Yan Song was powerful but began to show signs of decline. Japanese pirates were raging in the southeast, Mongolian Anda in the north repeatedly invaded the border. The Ming Dynasty suffered from internal and external troubles, the treasury was empty, and party disputes were fierce. Survive and rise in troubled times, use modern wisdom to save the fate of the Ming Dynasty (or at least delay its collapse), and finally become the "important minister" (chief minister) of the country who truly controls the destiny of the country and realizes his ambitions, reaching the pinnacle of "below one person and above ten thousand people".