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A crowd had already surged forward, surrounding him and shaking his slender arms with force.,"This scholar just wants to save face, how could he not see that",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.。