In the seventeenth year of Yongchang, Lu Gushan, the number one scholar from a poor family, spoke out about the shortcomings of water transportation in the palace examination, which angered the powerful ministers and was "rewarded" to a bitter county on the border.
He was assassinated three times on the way to his post. After he arrived, he learned that the sky was high and the emperor was far away, salt and iron smuggling was common, and border troops and wealthy families colluded rampantly.
In order to break the deadlock, he poisoned the son of his mentor who collaborated with the enemy, acquiesced in the extermination of his wife's family, and used his stigma to build a barrier to protect the country.
From the county magistrate to the chief minister, he climbed to the top of power by stepping on the bones of his close relatives, and suffered five hundred years of infamy, all in exchange for his safety. History books call him a "treacherous prime minister", but there is no word on his grave, he only watches the wind and snow in the world.
