Daolujianghu

This novel is about the late Southern Song Dynasty. There are internal struggles within the imperial court, and undercurrents are raging in the rivers and lakes. The entire system is collapsing from top to bottom. The story revolves around three men: Zhao Chongyue, a branch of the royal family, who wanted to fix the loopholes within the system and become a clean reformer, but found that all information was blocked and was stabbed in the back by his own people; Lu Jinglan, the young master of the escort agency, who was determined after his family was wiped out. The rules of the rivers and lakes are used to re-establish order, but the boundaries of "fighting violence with violence" are becoming increasingly blurred; Chen Xiu, the son of a blacksmith, was forced to have his family destroyed by his subordinates, so he simply pulled up a team of refugees and resisted in the lowest level. However, as the scale became large, the inside began to corrode. There are also six female protagonists, not vases, each representing a kind of tearing of values ​​- the daughter of a wealthy businessman wants a stable family, the talented daughter of the clan is trapped in ethics, the traitor of the Netherworld pursues freedom, the eldest lady of Perak Hall believes in hierarchy, the daughter of Shuizhai advocates equality, and the daughter of a famous anti-Yuan general puts national hatred first. The love-hate entanglement between them and men is actually a concrete manifestation of the core proposition of "how should people live with dignity and how should they trust each other in a rotten world?" Therefore, this million-word novel has Jin Yong's sense of history and family and country at its heart, but it is dyed with Gulong's suspenseful atmosphere and artistic conception of fighting. It does not preach directly, but through the undercurrent of the plot, it naturally incorporates modern issues such as class solidification and information asymmetry, as well as the struggle of human nature from a psychological perspective. In the final analysis, it is a triple experiment of "failure-dignity-trust".