In the third year of Qingli, there was a great famine in Guanzhong, and people ate each other.
Zhao Qiyuan traveled through time and became a farmer in Longxi. He was thirteen years old, hungry, and his sister was about to be sold. He has seen the hunger of this era - eating elm coins in the spring, grass roots in the summer, and Guanyin soil in the autumn. He also knew that in this dynasty of "ruling the world with scholar-bureaucrats", only reading can help people climb from the heap of hungry people to the Zichen Palace.
From a child to a scholar, from a scholar to a scholar. He organized the whole village to collect herbs, braise meat, provide for him to study, and staked his family's life on the imperial examination.
From Hanlin to Yushi, from Zhizhou to Prime Minister. He refused to take sides, walked a tightrope in the meat grinder of the struggle between the old and new parties, and used the knowledge of a thousand years later to improve the malaise of this era.
He foresaw history, but he had to personally promote Su Shi's demotion in the Wutai Poetry Case.
He served the people, but found that the source of the people's suffering was the imperial power he wanted to serve.
This is the biggest dilemma for time travellers: carrying thousands of years of knowledge, but unable to change the fundamentals of the times.
Zhao Qiyuan spent his life proving that change is not about overthrowing and starting over, but about planting flowers in the cracks.
