In the tenth year of the Liang Wu era, the emperor is incompetent, his ministers harbor their own ambitions, and foreign tribes threaten to invade. The people live in misery while the court remains consumed by power struggles. The land is filled with suffering, and cases of parents exchanging children for food are everywhere. Let’s see how Xu Yan, a commoner, stirs up the whole realm, cries out, “Are kings and nobles born to their station?” and leads a rebel army to restore peace to the land of the Han people.
