In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, the Yangzhou city was destroyed and the fire reflected the water of the Yangtze River red.
"Wenyuan Pavilion" Apprentice Li Mo climbed out of the mountain of corpses and sea of fire, holding in his arms a copy of "The Complete Map of Kunyu and Ten Thousand Kingdoms of the Ming Dynasty" that his master Jiang Shouren paid for with his life. It is not an ordinary map, but the "lifeline of the country" that three generations of craftsmen measured the mountains and rivers with their feet and guarded them with their lives - every ink mark on the map hides the code of the dangerous mountains and rivers; every mark is engraved with the roots of the Han family.
On the way to escape, he saw numerous bones broken under the iron hooves of the Qing soldiers, heard the numb wailing of refugees, and encountered heroes like Zheng Zhilong who were both good and evil. The hand that used to hold a pen and draw had to pick up a knife and ax to survive; the precise longitude and latitude in the eyes gradually reflected the ferocity of the troubled times. He once wanted to be a surviving weed, but during the ferry turmoil, in order to save Zhongliang's daughter, he used the hydrological code on the map to narrowly escape the bandits; in the secret room of Guazhou, he used the mountains and rivers as bait to persuade the maritime overlords to fight against foreign enemies.
