New Life in Wine Country

Zhou Mo, a professor of modern literature, was unexpectedly reborn as Kong Yiji, a down-and-out scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. When he opened his eyes, he saw the turbulent era of the Reform Movement of 1898 in 1898. Full of modern knowledge, he is determined to wash away the humiliation of his original life and change the tragedy of the times. Starting from the Xianheng Hotel, he improved the rice wine recipe and opened a night school for civilians. However, he touched the interests of the gentry and was falsely accused and imprisoned. He met revolutionary patriots in prison. After he was released from prison, he used the printing office as a cover to secretly support the reform movement. When Qiu Jin invited him to travel east to Japan, when Xu Runsheng brought the truth about his family's injustice, and when the Shaoxing prefect's butcher's knife hung above his head - Zhou Mo had to make a choice between industrial salvation and revolutionary bloodshed. This is a game between knowledge and destiny, a "loser"'s desperate counterattack caught in the cracks of history. From being the butt of laughter to being the driving force behind the changes of the times, he wants to use modern wisdom to rewrite the predicament of the late Qing Dynasty, and brew a pot of new wine in the blood and fire of the Year of 1898 that will wake up the thousand-year dream. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.