Lin Yun wakes up as the useless young lord of Qi, a weak state in the Warring States period.
Outside the city, a hundred thousand cavalrymen are at the gates. The capital will fall in three days.
Inside the palace, the assembled officials either beg to fight to the death or plead to take their own lives. No one believes him.
That's because the plan he proposes to repel the enemy is utterly absurd:
“Father, please let me go and... reason with the commander of Xuan.”
He knows nothing about forging iron and is no expert in military strategy. He's just a modern teacher who leads the archery club at school.
His weapons aren't blades or swords, but ideas, rhetoric, and the hearts of the people.
His battlefield isn't the field of battle, but the royal court, academies, and public opinion across the warring states.
While others conquer land with swords and blades, he uses culture to shackle enemy states with the chain called “righteousness.”
While others break city walls with cavalry, he uses his ideals to build an invisible “beacon of culture.”
Everyone thinks he's mad, until...
He enters the enemy camp alone, carrying a bow.
With a silver tongue, he temporarily turns back a hundred thousand troops.
With his own strength, he transforms a barbarous frontier into a “land of benevolent rule” that scholars throughout the realm yearn to visit.
But when the image of the “nation of gentlemen” he has built with his own hands begins to backfire, and his ideals crash headfirst against the iron wall of reality...
Only then does he understand that a war fought with culture is far more perilous than one fought with real blades and guns.
Watch as a modern “publicity official” carries out the most revolutionary deeds in the most civilized way, in an age that does not belong to him!
Highly recommended, welcome to take a look