Synopsis
Zhao Su appeared in the 35th year of the Jiajing reign. His first and only wish was a decent meal. This is the story of a boy climbing from the lowest rung — a concubine's son with nothing — all the way up to Grand Secretary of the Great Ming. It's also a bitter story of a man who poured everything into shaping a spoiled child into a worthy emperor, only to be crushed by that same child in the end. The era had its giants: the Jiajing Emperor, Zhang Juzheng, Xu Jie, Yan Song — a rare gathering of…
