After the Jingkang disaster brought down the empire, the deposed Crown Prince Zhao Yuan was exiled to the barren lands of the southwest. Armed with knowledge far ahead of his time, he transformed the frontier wilderness into a new bastion of order, wealthy beyond compare and bristling with iron-armored troops. At last, with granaries as his foundation and the people’s support as his blade, he launched a crushing revenge against the corrupt Lin’an court and the Jin Kingdom, his age-old enemy.
