At the end of the Dasheng Dynasty, the imperial power was weakened, Prime Minister Cui Dang controlled the government, and the nomadic cavalry from the north invaded the south every year, causing chaos in the world.
Liu Shuo, a mud-legged man from the east bank of Fucheng, joined the army at the age of thirteen and spent fifteen years in the army, rising from a small soldier to a commander in charge of three thousand troops. Three months ago, when the Beirong invaded the south, he fought with 3,000 remaining soldiers in a bloody battle at Mangdang Pass for seven days, and forcibly drove back 40,000 cavalry.
The battle was won, the credit was robbed, the heads of the seventy-two brothers were placed on the execution ground, and he himself was tied up and kneeled in the loess. The crime was four words - collaboration with the enemy and treason.
Before the knife fell, the prince's handwriting saved his life.
Some want him dead, some want him alive. The person who wanted him dead was named Cui, and the person who wanted him alive was named Xiao.
The Xiao family - a prominent family in Fucheng for thousands of years, descendants of Xiao He, has half the world's money and food. Xiao Ning, the legitimate daughter of the Xiao family, found him and gave him a choice: work for the Xiao family and find a new way of living.
Liu Shuo agreed. Not because he was grateful, but because he discovered that the Cui party who framed him was not just trying to grab credit - they were selling the city. Smuggling grain and horses to Beirong was just an appetizer, and giving up the gate of Fucheng was the main meal.
A man with nothing wants to overthrow the prime minister of the dynasty.
He has no soldiers, no power, no backing, only a brain colder than a knife, and a group of people who are willing to fight him to the death.
From the mud on the east bank to the court on the west bank, from chess pieces to chess players, from Fucheng to the world——
In troubled times, is the knife used to kill people or to establish rules?
He spent his life answering this question.
