In the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, the snow in Chang'an had not yet melted, and the hungry people in Longyou had chewed up the last piece of elm bark.
Zhou Minhao, the student in charge of the Imperial College, clutched the roll of land-equalization book stained with mud, his knuckles turned white - he had seen the tragic situation of Yinan Road and had to eat, and he had heard the folk song of Luoyangfang City, "The rich are connected to each other, and the poor have no standing cones." At this moment, he finally understood: the so-called prosperous times were actually gold foil covering the sores.
Starting from reassessing the land for the county magistrate, he broke through the secret file of the powerful official Li Linfu who changed his tax status privately. He was turned against by his friend Li Yan because of his family plan. He was also dragged into the palace whirlpool by the disaster relief grain case of Sinong Temple eunuch Cui Shouqian.
When the tip of the pen pierces the back of the paper, when the sincerity smashes the power and conspiracy, this scholar who once cried for starvation will finally use the "pros and cons of the world" to renew the vitality of the prosperous Tang Dynasty on the eve of the Anshi Rebellion.
