In the forty-sixth year of Wanli, it rained heavily in late autumn.
Chen Fan, a graduate student in the history department of Peking University, accidentally passed through his soul to a down-and-out scholar in Lanxi County, Yuezhou Prefecture, in the late Ming Dynasty.
The family is surrounded by walls, mother and sister depend on each other, and the days of being unable to uncover the truth have just begun.
He knew about the defeat of Sarhu, the disaster of the eunuchs, the hangings at Meishan in Chongzhen, the Qing army's ten-day march south to Yangzhou, and the three massacres in Jiading...
The Ming Dynasty, a huge ship riddled with holes, is leaking and will capsize.
Others traveled through systems, spaces, and memory palaces. He only had knowledge of Ming history and an obsession that he didn't want to sit back and watch the mountains and rivers fall apart.
Starting from a small mountain village in Lanxi, he worked as a scholar, passed the imperial examinations, and won the imperial examination, and gradually entered the official career.
Clear the land, build water conservancy projects, practice rural bravery, and forge cannons.
He bowed his head in the whirlpool of party struggle, fought bloody battles in the flames of Liaodong, and fought every inch of the mountains and rivers on the Jiangnan defense line.
He couldn't save the entire Ming Dynasty, but he had to protect his mother and sister from starving to death, freezing to death, or dying from weapons.
He could not save the loyal ministers of the dynasty, but he wanted to leave an ember for this land.
This is a journey without golden fingers,
A modern man, in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty,
Use caution, use layout, and use a little bit of modern wisdom,
Desperately holding on to——
Don't give up an inch of your heart and give up an inch of ground.
The embers of the late Ming Dynasty are passed down from generation to generation.
