During the Zhengyuan period, the emperor was young and only cared about playing and ignoring political affairs. The government was controlled by greedy ministers headed by Taishi Wang Huade. The whole country is in a state of chaos, and the power-seeking trend is prevalent.
Lin Hao, the imperial censor, was an upright man and not afraid of power. He held a memorial in the court and argued hard. The memorial eloquently listed the ten major crimes of Taishi Wang Huade, including corruption, perversion of the law, and murder. Unexpectedly, he was wrongly accused by Wang Huade for falsely accusing a court official. The emperor was deceived by him and ordered Lin Hao to have his house confiscated and beheaded. His wife and son Lin Feiran were exiled outside the Great Wall.