"The dusk clouds have collected and overflowed with the cold, and the silver man turned the jade plate silently. This night in this life will not last long, and the bright moon will not be seen next year." This is "Yangguan Song·Mid-Autumn Moon" composed by Su Dongpo in the ninth year of Xining (1076) in the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, the Northern Song Dynasty was still the most prosperous place in the entire Eurasian continent and even the world. Bianliang, Tokyo, is said to be a place where gold falls on the ground but no one picks it up. Every day from early morning to night, it is brightly lit and crowded with people. On the sea and on the road, countless people come here to do business. Bianjing has undoubtedly become the center of the world economy.
However, it is this bustling city that makes people here forget to be prepared for danger in times of peace and indulge in fireworks, streets, streets, restaurants and teahouses all day long. Probably neither the rulers of Zhao and Song Dynasties nor the refugees in the streets expected that such a comfortable life would only last less than fifty years.
In 1127 AD, in April of the second year of Emperor Qinzong's reign in the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Zongwang, a general of the Jin army, led his troops to attack Bianjing and captured more than 3,000 people including Song Huizong, Song Qinzong and his son, as well as a large number of Zhao family members, concubines, nobles, and court officials, and escorted them northward. All public and private savings in the city of Tokyo were wiped out. Eighty-three concubines, twenty-four princesses, twenty-two emperors and princesses were selected. Each person was guaranteed one thousand ingots of gold, and he received 134,000 gold ingots. There were 1,314 singing girls, and each person was allowed two hundred ingots of silver, and he received 664,200 ingots of silver. There were 11,635 women of various types whose mortgages were discounted. And she is among these 11,635 people, and our story begins here.
