When the consciousness of a modern person falls into the Guangxu era, Chen Hengzhi finds that the faces he has only ever seen on the pages of books have suddenly taken on flesh and breath.
He moves quietly, but he goes far. He glimpses the future of technology amid the fires of war in Europe, and secretly lays the groundwork for change deep in the mountains of Shu. People call him “Duke Heng,” thinking only that he is the most inscrutable person at the leader’s side. They do not know that, with foresight beyond his era, he is setting up a game of strategy spanning past and future for a battle over the nation’s destiny that has yet to come.
When the bells of war finally ring, everything he has laid in place, from technology and equipment to a carefully cultivated “friendship,” will face its ultimate test. What he must answer is not merely who wins or loses, but whether an ancient people can reclaim the ultimate answer to their fate amid a flood of steel.
This is a secret epic of a soul crossing mountains and rivers, one person moving the pieces in silence and quietly rewriting the course of civilization.
The wind rises at the end of the day