For twenty years, Emperor Jiajing did not go to court and only made elixirs.
Until a young eunuch overheard a sentence: "Tomorrow morning, Mr. Yan Ge coughed three times, that's what he meant."
The emperor began to pay attention, and then discovered a shocking secret:
Yan Song is playing him, Xu Jie is playing him, and all the civil and military officials in the dynasty are playing him.
Even his most trusted disciple, Jinyiwei commander Lu Bing, was helping him hide it.
He thought he was in control of the country, but in fact, he was the one being controlled.
The Tatar army is about to move south, and wealthy businessmen in the capital begin to flee.
The emperor had only two choices before him:
Continue to pretend to be confused and wait for death; or break up and survive.
——But he doesn't even know who the "face" is.
