In the 21st year of Jiajing's reign, the imperial court sent a new salt inspector.
The abandoned son of the Xu family, who was regarded as a joke by everyone in the capital, fell into the tiger's den of Lianghuai alone.
Three months later, the largest private salt dealer in Lianghuai was arrested and 140,000 taels of silver were confiscated.
Half a year later, three important officials from the Salt Transportation Department were imprisoned, leading to a silver road to the capital.
No one can figure out how a dandy loser did it. He Ming still drinks and has fun every day, still goes in and out of the hook fence, and still has a moral character that cannot be supported by mud.
But those who fell could not figure out how they fell until they died.
Some people say that he has an expert behind him, some say that he has incredible luck, and some say that he has a secret decree left by the late emperor.
Only one person knows the truth.
What was in his mind was more terrifying than any secret decree - it was a book called "History of the Ming Dynasty" that took four hundred years to write.
He has walked this path for ten years, from being a seventh-rank imperial censor to becoming the most powerful person in the world.
But the first step has been taken from the moment he stepped out of the capital city gate.
