In the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong's reign, the so-called prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong had long been reduced to a hollow shell, and the inside was rotten to the core:
The national treasury is empty, the Eight Banners are eroded, and the armaments are useless;
Literary prison has locked up the mouthpieces of all the people, corruption in the water transportation and salt administration is rampant, people in Sichuan and Chu are everywhere, and people are dying of hunger everywhere. The iron hoof of the feudal Manchu Qing Dynasty is crushing the last hope of survival for the people.
Shen Yanzhi, a modern man, accidentally transformed his soul into a bannerman of the Han army stationed in Suzhou. He held the double-edged sword of the Eight Banners identity. He should have enjoyed his salary and survived the troubled times, but he decided to go against his fate.
He did not act like an old-style reckless man who fought against the Qing Dynasty, nor did he play tricks to support the bandits. Instead, he took the Three People's Principles as his banner and the red revolutionary theory as his foundation to quietly ignite the spark of national salvation in his isolated and ignorant feudal homeland.
Break down the barriers between Manchu and Han, awaken the people at the bottom, unite the refugees, instigate rebellion against the Green Camp, and twist the suffering people squeezed by the Qing government into a sharp blade to resist autocracy.
Using his status as the Eight Banners, he secretly raised funds, resold armaments, intercepted stolen money, and kept no penny for himself, turning everything into revolutionary fodder and ideological fire;
He worked step by step to disintegrate the Qing court's military power and stir up the chaos of the apocalypse, just to smash the shackles of feudal autocracy.
"I sink inkstones and support the Eight Banners, not for glory and wealth, but just to be the gravedigger of the Qing Dynasty! Burn away the corruption with the fire of revolution, awaken 40 million people with the truth, overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and rebuild China!"
When revolution sparks a prairie fire, the decadent dynasty will eventually collapse. From the ashes of troubled times, a new China belonging to the people is emerging.
