During the Qianfu period of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty (an imaginary setting), the government was corrupt and the vassal towns were divided. Although the Huangchao Rebellion was over, its embers have not been extinguished. There are thirty-eight towns in the world, each of which is in charge of its own affairs. The emperor is trapped in Chang'an and cannot give orders beyond a hundred miles.
The protagonist Ji Yunzheng was born in Caizhou. His father was accused of rebellion and died. He fled to Huainan with his mother and was taken under his father's old army. At the age of fourteen, he joined the Huainan Army as a scout. In the next ten years, he rose from the bottom of the military ranks step by step. After experiencing internal fighting in Huainan, bloody battles in Xuanzhou, and the annexation of Jiangdong, he gradually grew into a prince.
However, the real test has just begun - when Zhu Wen of the Central Plains usurps the Tang Dynasty and proclaims himself emperor, when Li Ke rides the Shatuo cavalry to the south, when Yang Xingmi dies of illness and Huainan is in chaos, how will Ji Yunzheng transform from a chess piece to a chess player in this troubled world, and finally stand on behalf of the Tang Dynasty?
