In the year of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's final tour, Shang Commandery had been without grain supplies for three months.
The Xiongnu watched from beyond the Great Wall, the commandery governor schemed within his offices, and the military marquises lined their pockets in the granaries.
Only Hei Fu, an ordinary frontier soldier, was thinking about how to stay alive.
To keep from starving, he and his comrades started a “military-run trade” operation, risking their lives to smuggle goods on both sides of the Great Wall.
To keep his head, he had to make everyone, from generals to county clerks, climb aboard his bandwagon without committing any crime punishable by death under Qin law.
This is the story of an ordinary man in a momentous age.
When the empire fell, they thought it was just a riot. Little did they know it was the beginning of a transformation that would reshape the world for a thousand years.
Is this a narrative novel? Is the protagonist going through the ups and downs of history and witnessing history?