The protagonist Lin Ye, a graduate student who served in the army for 12 years and returned from demobilization, unexpectedly traveled to a 100-household settlement in Beiping during the last years of Hongwu. At the beginning, he had to call the police to arrest his father. He faced a situation where the 100-household settlement had little land and little food, deserters were everywhere, and the officers were lining their pockets. Lin Ye was not discouraged and started his history of struggle, killing Tatars to protect the country, training elite soldiers to suppress bandits, and experienced "Zhu Yuanzhang's death", "Zhu Yunwen proclaimed himself emperor", and "Zhu Di's ascension to the throne" step by step from a boy in a hundred households to a general on the edge of a town, and then became famous.
Zhu Di grabbed the protagonist's wrist, his knuckles turned white: Ye, after I leave, Northern Xinjiang will be handed over to you, don't let the Ming Dynasty go down.
Lin Ye: Your Majesty, there is the Great Wall in northern Xinjiang, and I want to go to the sea to see it...
"Traveling through the last years of Hongwu, from a boy in Baihusuo to a general on the edge of town" is a historical novel that combines farming style + military style.