During the last years of Dajing's reign, Jiangxi suffered a great calamity! War and plague followed droughts and floods, and tens of millions of people were reduced to less than 20 million. Landlords, officials and gentry hoarded grain and raised prices, and ordinary people gnawed on grass roots to escape famine. The piles of people starving to death on the edge of the Gan River were so large that they could block the water. Life was endlessly miserable!
Li Zheng, a scholar in Luling, fainted from hunger on the way to beg for food, and was saved by Chen Yue, a medical practitioner. Her father was originally a doctor in the Ganzhou Guard Army, but he disappeared during the war. The girl's family carried a medicine box on her back and traveled all over the country to save hungry people, and she did not complain when her hands were stained by medicine. Seeing the miserable situation of the villagers, Li Zheng smashed the leaky ancestral house on the spot to exchange for food. He set up a big pot in the Tutu Temple and shouted: "Jiangxi people help Jiangxi people! I will lead everyone to rob official warehouses and divide the fields. There will be fields and food to eat!"
The deserter Zhao Hu immediately joined the group, and Chen Yue also stayed to heal his injuries and keep accounts. Li Zheng set the rules: there is zero tolerance for corruption, and an iron-blooded team is trained to protect the Gan region; farmers, craftsmen, and officials receive the same rations and salaries; the Gan region has beautiful mountains and clear waters, so they grow green grains and protect the mountains and forests. Those who are seriously ill and cannot bear it are allowed euthanasia. The two of them overcame the difficulties together and became more and more attached to each other, and secretly agreed to stay together in Ganjiang if Jiangxi was stable.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.