In the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan, a stupid peasant boy with dull qualifications, was burdened with the important task of changing his family's destiny. After seven times of failure and humiliation, he infiltrated the officialdom of the capital by relying on "die hard" and "clumsy sincerity". In his middle age, he encountered the Taiping Rebellion and the Qing Dynasty was about to fall. As a scholar, he was forced to return to his hometown, brainwashed the peasants with "Confucianism" and formed a private army, the "Hunan Army". In the desperate situation of being jealous of the court, ostracized by his colleagues, having his brothers killed in battle, and attempting suicide many times, he relied on the clumsy method of "building a stronghold and fighting to the death" to defeat his talented opponents and conquer Tianjing. When his achievements shocked his master, he abolished his martial arts and dismantled the Hunan Army, retreated from the sword of power, started Westernization, and became the so-called "eternal perfect man."
