Ming Dynasty Elegy: Tianxiong

Name: Ming Dynasty Elegy: Tianxiong
Author: Cangyuan 1

by Cangyuan 1

completed History Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties Male Lead

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About This Novel

During the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty was slipping into the abyss of eternal destruction under the double stranglehold of successive natural disasters (thousands of miles of drought, rampant plague, and the shocking explosion of Wang Gong Factory) and endless man-made disasters (party strife, eunuchs in government, and the extortion of wages). This book uses the perspective of Chen Mo, the captain of Lu Xiangsheng's personal army - a book boy who survived the floods in the south of the Yangtze River and was sold into slavery - to tear apart the picture of this apocalyptic purgatory. Chen Mo witnessed the tragedy and tearing of Lu Xiangsheng, the "White-robed King of Hell": when suppressing the bandits, he hung his head in the dry forest with thunderous means, but he was loyal to the court until death as if he were waiting for his first love; he held the iron sword that symbolized the backbone of the Ming Dynasty, but it could not stop the embezzlement and conspiracy of the eunuch Gao Qiqian behind him and the cold imperial decree of Emperor Chongzhen's suspicion. He carried a "Record of Experiences" written in neat regular script and graffitied with blood and tears. It recorded the numbness of "the price of meat at the market for five cents" and also engraved the glimmer of the old farmer crying and burying the unknown soldier. From the Jiangnan Study Room to the bloody battle in Yunyang, from blocking arrows as a savior to flogging military tents, the friendship between Chen Mo and Lu Xiangsheng was forged in the furnace of troubled times into a father-son bond of life and death. He personally experienced the sadness of the Tianxiong army singing war hymns even as the Tianxiong army starved to death all over the land. He also used his broken arm to protect Lu Xiangsheng's final dignity at the Shura Field in Julujiazhuang, "with four arrows and three knives in his body and he could not fall down despite the flag." When the white robe that symbolized loyalty was completely dyed brown by blood, and when the court's pursuit of titles turned into an absurd drama, Chen Mo transformed into the "Ember of Heavenly Heroes" and burned the Qing army's granary with guerrilla fire. In the abyss of twisted human nature (hungry people changed their sons, frontier troops rebelled for food, officials and gentry drank human blood soup with laughter), he stubbornly guarded the Chinese spirit of "holding a sword like a pen, and a righteous heart is straight".