Prime Minister's Power Plan

In the winter of the 27th year of Da Yongjinghe, the execution ground in Xishi. Heavy snow buried the long street, and the people reviled it. Xu Yan was dressed in prison uniform, with heavy shackles on his neck and his hair on his temples was all white. He grew up as a commoner from a humble family in the south of the Yangtze River. He relied on his power and tactics to make his way step by step. He climbed up to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Crown Prince and Tutor, and gained power in both the government and the public. In the end, he took all the charges on his own initiative. He was executed in the city, his family property was confiscated, and his relatives were exiled. He had accurately calculated the emperor's intentions, the aristocratic family's backlash, and the strife in the court, but he had left all his options for survival to his only son, Shen Zhiheng. The world only knows that he is a treacherous prime minister, but no one knows that he used his own ruin and tragic death to give his son a path from the mire to the top of the prime minister.