Historical researcher Lu Wenyuan traveled through time and became a failed scholar in the late Southern Song Dynasty. In the shadow of the Mongolian cavalry going south, he relied on his advanced historical knowledge and "accurate predictions" to enter the power field of Lin'an, and stepped up from a teahouse storyteller to the Privy Council side office.
He foresaw that Xiangyang would fall and predicted the fate of Yashan, but he could not reverse the decay of the court. Jia Sidao was greedy for military pay, Wen Tianxiang was loyal and died for his country, Zhang Jue defended the isolated city... When the torrent of history was unstoppable, Lu Wenyuan made a painful decision: to give up saving the doomed Southern Song Dynasty and instead preserve the fire of civilization.
He united with the East Zhejiang School and wealthy maritime merchants to establish the overseas base "Minghua Island" in Ryukyu. The fall of Xiangyang, the surrender of Lin'an, the bloody battle at Yashan - the motherland collapsed behind them, and civilization was reborn on the sea. From 300 survivors to 30,000 islanders, from the colonization of desert islands to the Nanyang Civilization Circle, Lu Wenyuan spent his life practicing a belief: a country can perish, but civilization cannot be destroyed.
This is not a cool story about a time traveler changing the world, but a heavy epic about an idealist looking for a third way for Chinese civilization in a desperate situation. When the echo of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians throwing themselves into the sea resounded from the cliff of history, on a remote island, children were reciting in Chinese: "Since ancient times, no one has died, and his loyalty will be remembered by history."
Civilization is like the sea, it is big if it has capacity; it is passed down from generation to generation and continues to thrive.
