On the day he wore the red robe, he said he wanted to abolish the imperial examination.
Overnight, the new top scholar Shen Hexuan went from being the most glorious in the world to being the most traitor in the world. He was hunted, reviled, and fled to the south of the Yangtze River. There, he saw towering chimneys and weavers dying of starvation. There was also a child worker who had two broken fingers and drew a circle on the ground - that was the "Utopia" he wrote in the book.
When the child laborer died, he crawled two miles and returned a piece of paper with bloody handprints.
Later, someone asked Shen Hexuan: What is the Utopia?
He pointed to those who survived.
They are.
