In the 42nd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun, the Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, found Zhang Yanran, the 5-year-old granddaughter of the loyal minister Zhang Juzheng, in the remote Ninggu Pagoda thousands of miles away from Beijing.
What was imprinted on this child's mind was what he heard from his father about the spread of plagues among the people, the wailing of famines, and the nuisance of bandits. In the Forbidden City, someone wrote in a memorial, "Yanran is also the beloved of my brother." In the Jurchen camp, two men said to her: "Either obey me, or watch with your own eyes the collapse of your Ming Dynasty under the Jurchen cavalry!"
Everyone regarded her as a pawn on the road to becoming emperor. Sometimes I think about it, the chess pieces are also tired of this kind of life and want to control the chess players.