Era background: In the first year of the Zhengde reign of the Ming Dynasty (1506), the new emperor Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne for the first time. He was young and playful, and lost power. The Eight Tigers led by the eunuch Liu Jin were in chaos, the civil servant group in the court was in fierce confrontation with the eunuchs, the armaments were in decline, the government was corrupt, the Japanese pirates were intruding from the southeast, and the northern Tatars frequently invaded the border. Land annexation was serious, and the people were displaced. Under the seemingly prosperous Ming Dynasty, there was a hidden crisis of collapse...
