In the eleventh year of Jianxing's reign, Liu Chan, the empress of the Shu Han Dynasty, drank the poisonous wine given by Sima Zhao and died with hatred. When he opened his eyes again, he turned out to be Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty three hundred years later - a ten-year-old boy who had just fallen from his horse and fell into coma, a puppet who was firmly pressed on the throne by the Queen Mother and the Chief Assistant.
Zhang Juzheng, the young emperor's master and chief minister of the dynasty, is confidently pursuing his iron-fisted reforms. He thought that what he was holding on to was a blank piece of paper on which he could write whatever he wanted. But he didn't know that under this piece of white paper, there were the painful lessons learned by the king who had lost his country for sixty-five years, the desolate back of Zhuge Liang who had to do everything but was exhausted on the Northern Expedition, and the sobriety and compassion that had been hidden for most of his life by an "Adou who couldn't help him."
This is the story of a "Mediocre Lord" who has been ridiculed by the world for thousands of years, and walks into the life of the most stubborn reformer in the Ming Dynasty. Liu Chan had seen the pain of a loyal minister dying of exhaustion, tasted the pain of subjugating his country and destroying his family, and he had also developed the ability to pretend to be confused while still understanding. When Zhang Juzheng tried to use a steel knife to remove the carrion of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Chan protected the trembling people under the blade; when Zhang Juzheng was seriously ill and was about to collapse, Liu Chan knelt in front of his bed and refused to allow him to fall.
They used each other, were wary of each other, disappointed each other, and ultimately fulfilled each other.
One uses "benevolence" to heal "hardness", and the other uses "hardness" to support "benevolence". In the blood and fire of reform and the struggle of power, the monarchs and ministers jointly embarked on a different path to the Wanli Renaissance.
Liu Chan finally no longer has to play "Happy to Miss Shu" anymore. In this life, he wants to protect the person who carries the country for him, and also wants to protect the lights of thousands of families that he failed to protect in his previous life.
