During the Jiajing period, Yan Song was in power, the government was corrupt, and the people were displaced. {Zhang Juzheng} As a scholar from a poor family, he passed the imperial examination and entered the Hanlin Academy. With his modern historical knowledge, he had an insight into the direction of the court situation, and he attracted the attention of Jiajing when he first proposed the strategy of "rectifying the administration of officials". Shen Qinglan, the general's daughter, secretly collected evidence of Yan Shifan's corruption in order to clear her father's wrongdoing, and formed an alliance with Zhang Juzheng for a common goal. The two circled between the court and the market. Zhang Juzheng used the prototype of the "One Whip Method" to improve people's livelihood and accumulate political achievements. Shen Qinglan helped him obtain evidence of Yan Song's crimes. Finally, he teamed up with the upright minister to expose the crimes of Yan Song and his son, brought down Yan Dang, and paved the way for the reform of the Ming Dynasty.
