When modern historian Zhao Yan denounced Qin Hui in front of Yue Fei's tomb, he was accidentally struck by lightning and traveled back to the sixth year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (1124). At this time, there were only three years left before the "Shame of Jingkang". Song Huizong was obsessed with calligraphy and painting, Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other treacherous ministers controlled the government, and the future traitor Qin Hui was only studying in Taixue and had not yet revealed his true face.
Zhao Yan, who had just arrived in Bianjing, relied on his familiarity with Song history to use the law to punish evil and promote good on the streets, attracting the attention of Li Gang, the war minister. He entered the Taixue debate, refuted Qin Hui's surrender remarks, and proposed "alliance with Liao to resist Jin", which shocked both the government and the public. With his extraordinary knowledge, he was recommended to the Privy Council and began to secretly investigate the collusion between Qin Hui and the eunuch Liang Shicheng. At the same time, he met the yet-to-be-famous Yue Fei and helped him form a volunteer army.
In the first year of Jingkang, the Jin army went south. Zhao Yan urged Huizong to pass the throne to Qinzong, and assisted Li Gang in defending the city. He used modern military knowledge to improve the city defense and repeatedly defeated the Jin army. However, the foolish king and the treacherous ministers ultimately ruined the good situation, Bianjing fell, and the two emperors were captured. Zhao Yan risked his life to rescue part of the royal family and assisted King Kang Zhao Jian in establishing the Southern Song Dynasty.
In ten years, Zhao Yan was promoted from a minor official in the Privy Council to the Prime Minister of the Right, secretly arranging, cultivating Qingliu, and supporting Yue Fei's Northern Expedition. Qin Hui also climbed to the position of left prime minister and advocated peace. When Zhao Yan finally gathered the irrefutable evidence that Qin Hui collaborated with the enemy and betrayed his country, his best friend Zhang Yuan was killed as a result of the investigation. In grief, he exposed Qin Hui's twenty major crimes in public in the court, had him executed, and helped Yue Fei regain the Central Plains, eventually becoming a famous official of the ZTE.
