The Glory of Republic Shines in the Late Song Dynasty

In 1276 AD, as the capital Lin'an was captured by the Mongols, the Southern Song Dynasty was over. Although the small court in exile was still making its final resistance, and although there were rebels fighting bravely against the Mongolian army in various places, they still failed to save the Southern Song Dynasty in the end, and an era ended like this. Although the Southern Song Dynasty was located south of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains, it was a dynasty with a high degree of economic and cultural prosperity, scientific and technological progress, and a high degree of openness to the outside world in Chinese history. The nomadic people's devastating blow to the advanced production relations of the Song Dynasty caused the advanced Eastern civilization, which had been on the rise, to gradually decline. At this time in the West, Edward I of the Plantagenet Dynasty had legalized the "Magna Carta" signed by his father and the nobles, laying the foundation for the subsequent development of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. This also caused China, which was trapped in the reincarnation of feudal autocracy, to suffer a hundred years of humiliation and persecution in modern times. Is all this fate or chance? As Zhao Chen travels to the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, can history be rewritten...