This novel mainly describes the story of ten students, Li Jie, Zhao Yan, Wang Li, Yang Xue, Gao Caiyun, Liu Yujun, Sun Xinlan, Zhang Yuting, Jing Jiali, and Cao Yaqi, who passed the college entrance examination and walked out of the mountains, entered Peking University, Tsinghua University, and the University of Science and Technology of China, started large enterprises, participated in the national civil service examination, went to work, and finally entered the society, were promoted step by step on the political stage, and finally entered the national leadership and became senior officials. By reading this novel, readers understand: being an official is not easy, it is very hard; there is an invisible network in the officialdom, without this network of relationships, it is difficult to go further; promotion as an official comes at a price, and it requires a hundred times of effort to be promoted step by step; being an official is heritable, and I am a hero; being an official is addictive, and there is always endless work.
