Longqing: Crowned at the Start, I Toppled the Yan Faction

The thirty-first year of the Jiajing reign of the Great Ming. Japanese pirates ravage the southeast, while Anda raids the northern frontier. The Taoist-obsessed Jiajing Emperor is still busy building palaces and temples. Yan Song has driven out all his political rivals and holds all the power at court. The one-eyed deputy grand secretary Yan Shifan is smugly gathering every rare treasure in the land for his own household. At court, sycophancy and corruption run rampant. In the countryside, people are destitute, with every household stripped bare. Beneath the palace roofs, a soul from a later age has become Zhu Zaihou, the newly adult Prince of Yu. Looking at the officials, civil and military, kneeling before him to offer their congratulations, he let out a deep sigh inwardly. "First, I need to work my way up to acting emperor!" "The Great Ming can't do without me, its patchwork repairman!"