In the winter of the thirty-third year of Jiajing, the tide of Hangzhou Bay rolled up the iron hooves of the Japanese pirates and crushed the city wall of Sanjiangwei.
The life of Shen Yan, a son of a military family, was completely rewritten on this day. His father died in the war and his family was destroyed. At the age of seventeen, he carried his nine-year-old sister on his back and escaped from the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, and then entered the precarious Ming Dynasty.
This is the best of times and the worst of times.
Here is the passionate pride of Hu Zongxian, Qi Jiguang, and Yu Dayou in eradicating the Japanese invasion, Xu Wei's wildness and frustration, the silver wave brought by the Longqing switch, and the Wanli ZTE created by Zhang Juzheng's reforms;
There is also the fight to the death between the strict party and Qingliu, the swords and swords of the cabinet, the people's livelihood due to land annexation, the decay of the border defenses, the coldness and ruthlessness of the emperor's mind, and the helplessness of the building that is about to collapse.
From the young man who became famous for killing the Japanese under the city of Shaoxing, to the strategizing staff in the Governor's Mansion; from the local capable minister who opened the sea in Yuegang, to the leader of the New Deal at the center of the cabinet. Shen Yan stepped on blood and fire and went through thirty years of ups and downs, always guarding the sword passed down by his father and his original intention of "making a living for the people."
He has seen the ebb and flow of the southeastern sea, seen the people coming and going in the court, seen the fire cooking oil in the prosperous era of Zhongxing, and also seen the undercurrents in the afterglow of the setting sun.
He knew that he couldn't do anything, so he tried to save the collapse of the building by himself, but in the end he could only watch the Ming Dynasty that he had guarded his entire life disappear into the tide of history.
The sword buries injustice, and the loyal soul surrounds the white clouds.
The ebb and flow are all Ming Dynasties.
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It's beautiful. I watched so much in one go. It's not enough. Please update soon.
It's beautiful. I watched so much in one go. It's not enough. Please update soon.