In the seventh year of the great cause, the chaos of the late Sui Dynasty began to appear, with tyranny like a tiger and starvation everywhere. Zhang Shi, a modern social animal, accidentally traveled through time and became Zhang Shitou, a refugee in Qinghe County. He witnessed his relatives starving to death, being exploited by the gentry, and being oppressed by the government. Following his ruthless uncle Zhang Jin, who claimed to kill officials to rebel against the Sui Dynasty, he embarked on the road of survival by licking blood.
From the creation of Hetun Water Village, to the political confrontation in Gaojibo, to the desperate fight with the army, powerful people, Zhang Shi lost his modern youth and rose up in the blood sea of corpses. He not only has to deal with Zhang Jincheng's ruthlessness, Yang Shanhui's calculations, and the Feng family's military advances, but he also has to hold on to the bottom line in troubled times - not to massacre innocent people, not to plunder the people, to gather people's hearts with rules, and to protect the refugees with benevolence.
When his ideals conflicted with his uncle-nephew relationship, he resolutely parted ways and took two hundred brothers north to find a way. Along the way, he collected refugees, fought against local soldiers, seized Wubao, gathered grain and grass, and met the orphan of the Bohai Gao family on the banks of the Zhang River. Using force as a shield and faith as the basis, in the chess game of the war between heroes at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he fought for a place for thousands of people under his command to settle down.
This is a record of survival in troubled times: the collision of iron and blood, the strategic and moral choices, and the struggle and perseverance of small people in the big era, neither becoming wolves nor being slaughtered by others. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the war started, and under the sky, could Zhang Shi and his brothers find a way out in this troubled world?
