Under the River Scale

The vast water of the Yangtze River can swallow the golden powder of the Six Dynasties, but it cannot dissolve the eight years of the Republic of China, which was boiled with iron and fire. Cheng Yanqiu, a doctor of geology who returned from studying abroad, was forced to take over his father's death on the night of the sinking of the Taikoo Ship - the secret hydrographic file of the Yangtze River that the former governor of Qinghe Road guarded with his life was actually the river dragon vein map drawn by Zhang Zhidong before his death. The thousand-year flood control book contains the armory that the Westernization Party had been preparing for for thirty years. German Krupp steel cannons were mixed with bronze crossbows imitated by Suzhou craftsmen. Amidst the roar of steam turbines, they shattered the last dignity of the old mountains and rivers. When the British gunboat's searchlight crossed the cliffs of Jiuqu Bay and illuminated the bullet holes on the back of the Ming Dynasty's cast-iron rhino; when the cryptologists in long gowns used the Suzhou Pingtan Gong ruler to decipher the secret messages of the U. S. Military Intelligence; when Chu Huaisha, a student cadet studying in Japan, took the Prussian military map and knelt in the Wusheng Temple for divination - five thousand years of civilization was torn into a sky full of paper money, which fell into blood-stained sails on the Yangtze River. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.