The beacon fire in Cangzhou illuminates the two extremes of human nature. In the eyes of Emperor Li Su, the invasion of Beidi was a golden opportunity - he secretly ordered the border troops to "restrain reinforcements" and allowed Cangzhou to be on the verge of collapse. Are Jianghu forces growing like weeds? Just what I wanted! After both he and Beidi were defeated, Master Wang once again harvested the mountains and rivers as a savior, uprooted the grass that "did not accept the king's change", and built an altar of iron-fisted centralization. The people of Cangzhou were struggling in purgatory: food relief from the imperial court was cut off, the defenders collapsed, and only the righteous warriors built walls with their flesh and blood. When the knights were bleeding on the streets to protect the isolated city, the imperial court newspaper called them "bandit trouble"; when the mother knelt down to beg for military rations but was whipped, the half piece of bran cake handed over by the Jianghu people became a life-saving charm. In the chess game of the emperor's strategy, the common people and knights are disposable chess pieces - but these chess pieces will eventually ignite a prairie fire!
The height of the temple:
Li Su put a cinnabar mark on the report "The Jianghu forces have become powerful". The wailing of the people in Cangzhou? Just in time to temper his authority. He laid a dragnet: let the blood of chivalry extinguish the fierce flames of Beidi, and then used the law as a blade to show his saviors to the public. In this game of chess, he wants the rivers and lakes to dry up, all the people to surrender, and achieve eternal imperial status.
Jianghu is far away:
Between the broken walls of Cangzhou, a hungry child licked the blood on the blade to satisfy his hunger. There was no trace of the imperial court's "reinforcements", only the remains of the Jianghu Yishi Gate. The people have seen the truth clearly: the temples treat the people like rotten dogs, and the rivers and lakes give life to them as glimmers of light. The betrayal of the people's hearts pierces the emperor's heart more than Beidi's scimitar!
