In the eighth year of Kaibao's reign, when the warships of the Song Army blocked the mouth of the Qiantang River, King Qian Chu of Wu and Yue lit the bronze lamp left by his grandfather Qian Liu on the top floor of Leifeng Pagoda. The prophecy engraved on the stone box by the "Sea Dragon King" eighty years ago emerged in the shadow of the lamp: "Fourteen states are easy to defend, but three thousand tides are difficult to quell."
The monarch who had been in charge of Wu and Yue for thirty years was now facing a more dangerous game than the battlefield. Zhao Kuangyin in the north sent a gold-inlaid edict, and Chen Hongjin in Quanzhou in the south surrendered. The civil servants in the West Lake painting boat advocated sticking to it, but the eminent monks from Lingyin Temple handed over the verse "Sacrificing the country and the whole people". And his princess was secretly hiding the formula of secret color porcelain at the bottom of the dowry box.
From Baochu Pagoda to Fenghuang Mountain, from Yue kiln celadon to Luo Yin's poetry scrolls, Qian Chu's Jiangnan Paradise, which he has managed for twenty years, is standing at the crossroads of history. When the envoy of the Song Dynasty sent the seal and ribbon of the "Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses" for the first time, he remembered his grandfather's dying warning: "The ship of Wu and Yue will eventually sail to a bigger sea."
This is not the story of a conquered king, but an epic story of a wise man using three thousand miles of beautiful rivers and mountains to save millions of lives from the flames of war. When the court in Bianliang was shocked by the miracle of "conquering the fourteen states without blood", only the bright moon in the West Lake knew what kind of courage and wisdom the decision on the lonely mountain that night required.
