AD 1589, the seventeenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty.
The authoritarian Zhang Juzheng died, the war-loving Qi Jiguang died, and the Hai Rui who loved to cause trouble for the powerful died. Emperor Wanli got tired of quarreling with his courtiers, and stayed in the 11th century and stopped going to court, which ushered in a strange era of "those who do not live in the countryside or go to the countryside and do not go to court for 30 years" began.
Time is still passing, the streets are prosperous and peaceful, and ordinary people are keen on talking about comedy, listening to music, traveling, gambling, prostitutes, collecting, flowers, insects, fish and birds...
In the hustle and bustle, no one knew that at the other end of the continent, Europeans were sailing out to explore the world; in the midst of the banquet, no one paid attention to the fact that in the far north, the Jurchen leader of Jianzhou, Nurhaci, was building up his army and coveting the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty.
Su Hao, a geologist from later generations, traveled back in time to a farmer scholar from Fengcheng County, Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province.
Let's see how I, the Ming Dynasty Master, dominate the situation and create a new era in which the people are prosperous and the country is strong.
