A crowd had already surged forward, surrounding him and shaking his slender arms with force.,Lin Zhaoran watched the fading figure, his face etched with a mixture of helplessness and resignation.,However, this was also an era of serious social problems. In the south, there was the threat of Japanese pirates, in the north, the Mongol invasion, and natural and man-made disasters plagued the land. Although Emperor Jiajing was a wise ruler, he squandered the national treasury on Taoist practices, leaving the country in a precarious state.。