"When Emperor Wanli's neglect of government first emerged, when Zhang Juzheng's New Deal was gradually fading, when Nurhachi sharpened his sword in Liaodong—who could save the Ming Dynasty from collapse?"
Zhao Chen woke up from the words of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" and found that he had become a down-and-out scholar in Shuntian Mansion in the fifteenth year of Wanli. His family was impoverished and the imperial examination was about to take place. While others were trapped in the Four Books and Five Classics, he held the code for the rise and fall of the entire Wanli Dynasty: he knew where the hidden dangers of imperial examination fraud were, how to unravel the knot in the dispute over the appointment of the crown prince, where the Japanese troops in the Korean battlefield would land, and he also knew the real cause of the Ming Dynasty's fall a hundred years later.
From a humble scholar to the chief minister of the cabinet, he has made progress step by step in five years. In the struggle between the country and the country, he balanced the emperor's heart and the opinions of scholars with one word; in the Korean battlefield, he controlled the victory from a thousand miles away; in the party struggle in the court, he eliminated internal and external hidden dangers with an iron fist. Pushing the "land equalization tax" to fill the national treasury, building the "Guanning Brocade Defense Line" to deter the Jurchens, and imposing a sea ban to revive the Maritime Silk Road, this rebellious minister with a "God's perspective" is rewriting history.
But when Emperor Wanli completely delegated power, when Nurhaci surrendered, and when the dawn of "Wanli ZTE 2.0" Emerged, Zhao Chen stood in the Wenhua Palace and fell into deep thought——
