This is not a legend, it is the pulse of a civilization. **
In the fourth year of Guangxu's reign, Yang Shoujing traveled east to Japan in order to recover ancient Chinese books that had been lost overseas. He didn't know that he would uncover a secret that had been buried for thousands of years - what was hidden in Li Daoyuan's "Shui Jing Zhu" was not the direction of the river, but the lifeblood of civilization.
When he was attacked late at night in Tokyo, he found that his hand-drawn map had been stolen;
When the ancient stone carvings at the mouth of the Qingjiang River surfaced, the insect and bird seals recorded the truth about Dayu's sinking of the jade;
When the copper plate chess record in the Yellow Crane Tower Underground Palace points to 361 secret treasures scattered in East Asia——
Yang Shoujing realized that what he found was not an antique, but a key.
A key that may unlock China's geological mineral deposits, ancient sea territory maps, and even the remains of Ice Age civilization.
The British explorers, the Japanese Genyo Society, and the German military have all reached out to grab it.
From the Qingjiang Estuary of the Yangtze River to Mount Fuji in Japan, from the Riguan Peak of Mount Tai to Putuo Island in the East China Sea,
A secret battle across mountains and rivers for the memory of civilization quietly unfolds.
Yang Shoujing, an unarmed scholar,
There is only one volume of "Shui Jing Zhu", one hundred thousand ancient books, and a sincere heart to inherit the unique knowledge for the saints.
What he wants to do is not to hide the treasure, but to make the treasure no longer a secret.
It is not to guard the fire, but to let the sparks burn across the mountains and rivers.
[This book is based on the real historical figure Yang Shoujing, and integrates research on "Shui Jing Zhu", the legend of Dishu chess, and the history of overseas book searches in the late Qing Dynasty to weave an epic about the inheritance of civilization, geographical discovery, and the character of scholars.
