Dongchang counterattacked and united with the foreign court to impeach Yang Ling for being "authoritarian and domineering".
The wealthy gentry in the south of the Yangtze River colluded with the Japanese pirates and plotted rebellion, which led to the main line of "suppressing the Japanese".
Summoned by Emperor Zhengde, Yang Ling met Chen Ce and proposed the national policy of "opening sea bans and training new armies".
The secret war between the inner factory and the western factory escalated, with intelligence wars, assassinations, and counterinsurgency plots taking turns.
