He was admitted to the imperial examination at the age of ten and passed the first place in the imperial examination. However, the civil and military officials of the entire court knelt down and begged the emperor to kill him. Qi Yanshu held the gold seal bestowed by the emperor and recounted ten years of bad debts from the household department in front of the court. The emperor's face was ashen and the officials' calves were trembling. He just wanted to resign and go home to be with his blind old lady, but the emperor tore up his resignation: "If you leave, who will count my country?" - No one knew that every time he turned a page of the "Mountain and River Strategy" in his mind, he would lose one day of his life.
