Era background: middle period of Dayong Dynasty
On the surface, the dynasty is "peaceful all over the world", but in fact, it hides three crises: First, the imperial power has declined, and Emperor Yongjing (nearly fifty years old) is suspicious and weak, relying on his relatives "Liu" and the three major families of the family "Cui, Xie, and Wang" to check and balance; second, there are local separatism, with the "Zhenxi Army" in the northwest and the "Haifangying" in the southeast Supporting the soldiers' self-respect, more than half of the tax revenue was withheld; third, there were hidden dangers to people's livelihood. The Yellow River basin was flooded twice in three years, and most of the government's disaster relief grain funds were pocketed, and the number of refugees increased gradually.
Special rules: The dynasty has two special institutions, the "Yushitai" and the "Secret Pavilion" - the Yushitai is in charge of supervision and can directly impeach hundreds of officials and even royal relatives, but the selection of officials is monopolized by aristocratic families; the Secret Pavilion is directly controlled by the emperor and is responsible for intelligence collection and secret operations. The identities of its members are secret and they are mostly selected from poor families or criminal ministers. They are the only power of the imperial power that can compete with aristocratic families.
