Unfinished Mountains and Rivers

"Unfinished Mountains and Rivers" is a political epic set in the Wei Dynasty, intertwined with court games, undercurrents in the rivers and lakes, and the fate of the family and country. The story begins with King Xuan Zhao Xuan being ordered to investigate the disaster, but in Guangtong Canal, the shocking secret of Li Deming, the head of the Ministry of Industry, was revealed, and he was responsible for disregarding human life. He single-handedly killed corrupt officials and touched the dragon's face, but he got caught up in a dispute between the prince and the king of Jin. He was also quietly involved in a revenge chess game laid out for fifteen years by the mysterious organization "Yunshen Pavilion". The master of Yunshen Pavilion, "Bai Xiaosheng" Yun Mubai, is actually Lin Zhao, the commander of the Lin family army who died unjustly in the bloody battle of Fenghua Valley. He lurked under a pseudonym, used his frail body to lay a revenge net of "Kilin lying on the ice platform", and used Zhao Xuan's hands to tear apart the illusion of a prosperous age, and pointed at the root of corruption in the court. As the Guangtong Canal case deepens, corruption in the household department, national treasury deficit, and old injustices emerge one by one. Zhao Xuan transforms from an upright prince into a man of power and strategy, and starts a life-and-death game with Prime Minister Shen Ru in the position of imperial supervisor. The novel uses two parallel lines to describe the tacit cooperation between Zhao Xuan and Yun Mubai "both inside and outside the chess game": the former shakes the iron wall with his blood, while the latter controls the overall situation with his wisdom. When the truth of the old case in Fenghua Valley is about to be revealed, when imperial power and people's destiny, loyalty and power collide fiercely, a storm is sweeping with the world as a chessboard and the common people as bets. The whole story is set in the bleak autumn city of Luoyang, playing a tragic song of "I'd rather have jade in pieces", and asking who is the true "Holy Lord and Mingjun" in troubled times.