In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, the empire was in danger - the Houjin Iron Cavalry was watching closely outside the Pass, the Central Plains bandits were wreaking havoc, the factions in the court were depleting the country's destiny, and the hungry people were covered in bones. Modern scholar Zhang Yunyi traveled through time and became the great-grandson of Zhang Juzheng. Armed with four hundred years of historical insights, he presented "Eight Strategies for the Restoration" to the young and suspicious Emperor Chongzhen as a Hanlin compiler.
This is a desperate race against time:
The counterattack of the old nobles, the fall of the Donglin Party, the traitorous chain of Shanxi merchants, Huang Taiji's southern invasion... Zhang Yunyi is walking on thin ice amid numerous murderous opportunities. While playing a fatal game with Emperor Chongzhen in which the king and his ministers are jealous of each other, he is training a new generation of officer corps in the blood and fire. When he finally discovered that the only way to survive was to destroy the old order he was loyal to with his own hands, a steel storm sweeping across East Asia was inevitable - this was not a person's change of destiny, but a desperate self-rescue of a civilization on the verge of collapse.
