In the winter of the twelfth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jin traveled to a poor Confucian boy in Shangrao County, Jiangxi Province. In this year, Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was visiting Xuanfu in the border town. Preparing to rebel. This year, Xu Jin, who was completely destitute, sought a way out, and finally chose to take the imperial examination. From the county examination, the government examination, the hospital examination, and then to the township examination, he passed all the way, but was involved step by step in the vortex of Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao's rebellion...