Aliu was destined to be immortal, but he wandered around in the mortal world. He experienced scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and interacted with emperors and generals, traffickers and pawns, literati, and foreign scholars. He witnessed the maritime ambitions of Yongle's prosperous era, the twists and turns of the national revolution in the civil revolution, the ideological stirrings of Yangming's philosophy, and the prosperity and crisis of Wanli's resurgence.
