"Three thousand years of reading history is nothing more than fame and wealth; eighty thousand miles of enlightenment is nothing more than firewood, rice, oil and salt."
This is not a simple history of the advancement of power, but a story about "obsession" - the protagonist Qi Huaiyuan's obsession is to make the words "firewood, rice, oil and salt" fall on the heads of every common people under his rule. From being a township clerk to a feudal official, every step he took was to compete with this obsession.
